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Bee’s wax

“Bumble-Boogie”   By B. Bumble & The Stingers   Top Rank Records

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Heroes

“Songs and Stories About the Justice League of America” starring The Flash, Plastic Man, Metamorpho (The Element Man), Wonder Woman and Aquaman!   And the villians!   Fumo, The Fire Giant; The Plastic Men; Brunhilde; Mr. Big and, my favorite, The Dehydrator (naturally Aquaman hates him).   This is an LP from 1975 on POWER Records, a division of Peter Pan Records.

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HELL

James Brown “Hell”   Polydor Records (1974) Includes updated versions of “Lost Someone” “Please Please Please” “I Can’t Stand It” plus “A Man Has To Go Back To The Cross Road Before He Finds Himself” “Sayin’ It And Doin’ It” “These Foolish Things Remind Me of You” “Sometime” and “Coldblooded” Check out James (and a funky little girl) performing the title song on Soul Train.

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Say it loud!

Jim Brown “Tells It Like It Is”   Main Line Records Jim Brown Tells It Like It Is   This album was produced and written by Jeff Baxter and includes Jim Brown Farewell Day Speech * Press Interview: How The Negro Industrial and Economic Union (N.I.E.U.) Works * Comments On Black Nationalism * Comments On Racial Violence * Jim Brown Interviewing New N.E.I.U. Member * Negro Pride And Heritage * Comments On Black Muslems *Comments on Cassius Clay (Mohammed Ali)

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Salvation army brats

Favorite Hymns for Children   Robin Hood Records

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Songs for groovy gringos

“A Record of Your Trip to Mexico”   This was put out by the Mexican Dept. of Tourism

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Who’s tripping now?

Estoria de 4 Bichinhos   (A Story of 4 Bitchin’ Ho’s” ?)   Rita Amaral

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Ain’t nothin’ but a houseparty

Sylvio Mazzucca e sua orquestra   “Chegou a Musica!”   Copacabana Records

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No dogs allowed

This one’s for Tito: “All the Cats Join In”   A Buck Clayton Jam Session   Columbia Records   1956.   All of the Buck Clayton Jam Sessions were swinging affairs of the highest order!   These were some of the best musicians in the land, many having served Count Basie for many years.   Included with Trumpeter Buck Clayton are stalwart swing soloists Joe Newman, Joe Thomas, Billy Butterfield, and Ruby Braff on trumpets; trombonists Urbie Green, Benny Powell, Henderson Chambers, Trummy Young, Bennie Green, Dicky Harris, J.C. Higginbotham, and Tyree Glenn; altoist Lem Davis; tenors Coleman Hawkins, Al Cohn, and Buddy Tate; Julian Dash doubling on tenor and alto; baritonist Charlie Fowlkes; several rhythm sections with pianists Sir Charles Thompson, Jimmy Jones, Billy Kyle, Ken Kersey, and the forgotten Al Waslohn.

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Needlemania

Los Cactus Twist

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