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Cool down with an Arctic Buddha Blast!!!

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Thai pop by Kwan Jit Sriprajan “Panatibat”  On the BANGKOK AMPLIFY Label (Early 1970’s)

Congratulations to Caption Contest Winner: Atomicj and thanks to all who played along!

(Every once and a while LPCoverLover offers readers the chance to win one of the official T-Shirts so nicely modeled for us by Tiffany, Courtney, Andrea and Lindsey. And since we can’t always find the right caption for our posts, here’s your chance to tell us what you see.  Leave your best headline in the comments section here.  We’ll pick our favorite and you’ll be the envy of your friends, family and neighbors.)

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He’s clean

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Randy Weston Trio with Cecil Payne  “With These Hands…”  Riverside Records  (1956)  Standards from Downbeat’s 1955 New Star Pianist including “I Can’t Get Started”, “The Man I Love”, “These Foolish Things” and “This Can’t Be Love”.  Also includes his original “Little Niles,” the title of his 1958 LP and a song associated with Weston throughout his long career.  Randy Weston, Piano; Cecil Payne, Baritone Sax;  Ahmed-Abdul Malik, Bass; Wilbert G.T. Hogan, Drums.

Bill Grauer, Producer;  Orrin Keepnews, Producer, Liner Notes;  Rudy Van Gelder Engineer; Hank Parker, Photography.

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Hands touching hands

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“US”  A self-help album for married couples from the “Family Enrichment Bureau”.  Lectures by author (“The Male Mystique”) and Bureau Director Urban Steinmetz

Side 1:  “Married Life”  ( Marriage has five stages.  The honeymoon stage; disillusionment; misery; the time of awakening; and the time of love.)

Side 2:  “The Many Meanings of Sexual Intercourse”  (“Sex is never the problem in a marriage.  It’s just the experience where all our other problems seem to come into focus.”)

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Black cats

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The Soulful Dynamics “Wildcats” London Records  (1972) The Soulful Dynamics from Liberia.

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And go-cart Mozart was checkin’ out the weather chart

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“Regalame esta Noche”  Mozart Brandao e suo Orquestra  RCA Victor (Brazil)

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Tiny dancers

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“Today’s Top Hits” by the HOMESTEAD (?) on Homestead Records (of course) 1979  Featuring bad recreations of chart toppers of the day, like Randy Newman’s “Short People,” one of the greatest politically incorrect songs of all time.

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By the light of the silvery moon

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“Ternura”  Phil Green and his Orchestra  Coral Records   (Her hand looks messed up and she has bad skin)

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Black and blue

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Lamento Negro  Nelson Ferraz  Continental Records Brazil

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“I’ve told you this 100 times, never, never put daddy’s records in the EZ-Bake Oven!”

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ExSqueeze me?!?   Our Send in the Caption Contest Winner is….drumroll please….is Calzone!  (Calzone! also contributed a runner-up caption – “Baby’s First Broken Sternum LP”)   There are some sick, but very funny, (or funny, but very sick), people out there.  Good to know.   Thanks to everyone who played along.

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Pain or pleasure?

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Luis Alberto del Parana and His Trio Los Paraguayos  “Mood for Romance”  Philips Records  She’s either in a state of pure ecstasy or can’t believe this guy won’t go to another table!

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