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.

(15 votes, average: 3.60 out of 5)

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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.”)

(30 votes, average: 2.70 out of 5)

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

(25 votes, average: 3.72 out of 5)

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

(25 votes, average: 2.92 out of 5)

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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.

(28 votes, average: 3.68 out of 5)

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

(20 votes, average: 2.40 out of 5)

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Lamento Negro  Nelson Ferraz  Continental Records Brazil

(20 votes, average: 3.40 out of 5)

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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.

(26 votes, average: 3.54 out of 5)

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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!

(31 votes, average: 4.06 out of 5)

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“Panic  The Son of Shock”  The Creed Taylor Orchestra (1959)  The follow up to “Shock” (1958) also by big screen composer Kenyon Hopkins.  A series of short stories with weird music, scarey sound effects and a jazzy beat including “Out of this World”, “The Prison Break,” “Rain,” “The Operation.”

According to an interview with record collector Mickey McGowan for Re/Search Magazine’s Incredibly Strange Music issue, Volume 1, “The Creed Taylor Orchestra made SHOCK Music in Hi-Fi, which bore a warning, “Don’t dare listen to his music alone!” It’s a masterpiece from the beginning, starting with loud heartbeats. “The Crank” effectively conveys the fear which a crank phone call can inspire. “The Secret” features a man and a woman laughing conspiratorily, and raises the question: “Is a secret still a secret once it’s told.” Creed Taylor’s follow-up album was Panic: the Son of Shock. Both of these LPs should also be credited to the film composer KENYON HOPKINS….You hear heavy breathing, whispering, clapping, heartbeats, shudders, screams – a whole gamut of effects. – From a neat site called Movie Morlocks.

(24 votes, average: 3.96 out of 5)

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