“I Get Around”   TeeVee Records   Released in 1978, this is actually a cheesey, exploito compilation of early 1960’s AM hits from the first wave of skate boarding (or “sidewalk surfing” as they used to say).   Willie & The Wheels “Skateboard Craze” is probably the most curious thing on this album: It’s a complete rip-off of the Beach Boys’ “Surfin’ U.S.A.” (which is itself a ripoff of Chuck Berry’s “Sweet Little Sixteen”), but with lyrics about the joys of skateboarding.   Listen Up:   “Skateboard Craze” Check out the glossary terms!   Priceless.   (Courtesy of lp cover lover, Kilwag at SkateAndAnnoy.com)

(38 votes, average: 3.05 out of 5)

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Discos Picaros   “Colorin Colorao! por La Palanca”   Chistes Solo para Adultos     (Seems silly to be peeking through the keyhole when there’s a giant window right there.)

(175 votes, average: 3.94 out of 5)

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Thanks to lp cover lover Jim Henderson for sharing his Tiny Tim album “With Love and Kisses From Tiny Tim” (Editor’s note: eeewwww!) “Concert in Fairyland”.   On Bouquet Records

(28 votes, average: 3.32 out of 5)

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“Cuba e Brasil”   Bienvenido Granda

(48 votes, average: 3.56 out of 5)

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“Carrera Al Exito”   Orq. Guantanamera   Dir. Rolando Candia

(16 votes, average: 3.50 out of 5)

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“Cowboy and Indians” By Cowboy Joe

(35 votes, average: 3.60 out of 5)

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“Distracao”   Com a Orquestra Fantasia

(44 votes, average: 4.34 out of 5)

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The Recorded Detailman.. When YOU are really free to listen…

So there’s more to this than meets the eye (or ear).     Like Jackie Gleason famously tapping Salvador Dali for the cover of his easy listening pablum, this use of de Chirico-like artwork, is the inconcrous cover of a promotional record put out by ENZYPAN – an antacid and the “first thought in digestive disturbances”   From the back cover:   “Whether dyspepsia of functional, secretory or nervous origin; whether manifest by nausea and regurgitation, or by flatulence, gas pressure, irritable colon; whether accompanied by fermentative or putrefactive processes”

The music is “Le Tableau de L’Operation de la Taille”   (“The Table of a Bladder Operation” ) by French composer, Marin Marais (1656-1728).   The only musical description of a surgical operation.   This record,circa 1950, offers the first modern performance and first recording of this unusual composition.   It includes the recorded commentary of the composer’s original annotations announcing the phases of the progressing operation.   The performance is by the Dutch viola da gamba player, Carel Boomkamp, accompanied by the French harpsichordist, Denyse Gouarne.     One final note, this odd piece of medical and advertising history is a 10″ 78 RPM pressing on deep red vinyl.

(49 votes, average: 4.18 out of 5)

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“You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns, when they all did tricks for you”

(35 votes, average: 3.31 out of 5)

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Peter and Penelope Poof Have A Party “The Brightest, Most Hilarious and Sophisticated Album Ever Produced”   RIC Records   “Over 100 funny stories and jokes.   Over 30 limericks and wildly amusing naughty songs by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein III, by Noel Coward and Cole Porter, by Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz, by Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock, Irving Berlin and by Jim Lowe too!”   Cover art by Wally Wood.

(43 votes, average: 4.02 out of 5)

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