“Fill Your Head With Jazz”  25 All-Time Giants of Jazz   A groovy, two-record compilation from the vaults of Columbia Records.  I had this as a kid and it introduced me to a lot of these cats.  I pulled it out this past winter to play the Lambert, Hendricks and Ross vocal of “Moanin'” for my friend.  Sadly, in my excitement, I laid it on the radiator and the remaining disk got baked and warped into an ashtray.  And I don’t smoke.  Now I’m really moanin’!

(39 votes, average: 3.62 out of 5)

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“Tequila” and “Popcorn” by   Eddie Platt and his Orchestra B/W “Short Shorts” and “Planet Rock” by  The Royal Teens   ABC Paramount Records (France)

(40 votes, average: 3.63 out of 5)

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“Buonamore e Canzoni”  Gino Maringola    PhonoType Records (Italy)

(33 votes, average: 2.67 out of 5)

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“Don’t Let the Devil Blow Your Mind!!”  Elder Marshall Taylor, of the Zion Apostolic Christian Memorial Church and Day Card Center, Detroit, Michigan

“Money Buys Everything” / “I Need a Fix” / “Only a Man Can Satisfy Me” / “There is No God!”

(40 votes, average: 3.38 out of 5)

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A rare one on the Kubaney label  Manuel Caballero’s “Gigantes y Cabezudos”  Many Spanish festivals include costumed figures known as gigantes y cabezudos, roughly, “Giants and Big-Heads” . The main feature of these figures is typically their papier mache heads; bodies are covered in clothing matching the costume’s theme.  These figures are particularly common in festivals of Basque Country or Catalonia, where many cities and towns have their own figures.  FREAKY great cover.

Bonus pic:

(40 votes, average: 3.85 out of 5)

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The Lions (“Os Inigualaveis”)  Farroupilha Records (Brazil)  Sixties guitar rock from Sao Paulo with covers of “The Lion Sleeps Tonight”, “Tequila” and Ray Charles’ “Mary Ann”.

(34 votes, average: 3.24 out of 5)

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“Just Too Much”  The Progressive Piano of Hal Schaefer with Joe Mondragon on Bass Fiddle and Alvin Stoller on Drums   RCA Victor Records   (1955) ALBUM COVER ART: Nicholas Gibson

(37 votes, average: 3.41 out of 5)

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“Modern Brass”  Milt Bernhart Brass Ensemble  RCA Victor Records  (1955)   Design: Bob Jones

(42 votes, average: 3.67 out of 5)

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This one’s for LP cover lover, Red Baron.  The Royal Guardsmen  “The Story of Snoopy and the Red Baron”  Laurie Records   I had this one back in 1967.

(65 votes, average: 3.63 out of 5)

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“Peter Cottontail with many other children’s tales and songs”  The Tiny Town Orchestra  Moppet Records

(34 votes, average: 2.79 out of 5)

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