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Cocktail shaker

“It’s Party Time”   Featuring Jim Watson with Guest Star Joel Cowan.   Spicy Records.   Here’s a gem of a cover.   Looks like something Crumb might have seen (He did a series of similar illustrations and covers depicting great jazz and blues musicians for Yazoo! Records, etc.)

(51 votes, average: 3.67 out of 5)

Roll um easy

“Loaded”   A 1945 Savoy Records jazz session date with West Coasters Vido Musso, Kai Winding, Eddie Safranski, Boots Mussulli, Stan Getz, Shorty Rogers and Shelly Manne.

(52 votes, average: 3.35 out of 5)

Aces over

“Jalaito Sabroson”   Los Ases del Ritmo   Tropical Records

(48 votes, average: 3.63 out of 5)

Papa Joe’s A Go-Go

“Live! At Papa Joe’s Northern A Go-Go”   The Starliners

(59 votes, average: 3.32 out of 5)

Hats off

Dr. Seuss’ “The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins”   Paul Wing with Music and Sound Effects.   RCA Victor EP.   Only $.79 for “up to 16 minutes”.   A rare Jim Flora picture sleeve.

(52 votes, average: 2.94 out of 5)

The music machine

“Kiddin’ on the Keys”   Bengt Hallberg Trio   Karusel Records   Swedish jazz.

(56 votes, average: 3.91 out of 5)

Surfing bird

“Surf Ride”   Savoy   Featuring Art Pepper and an all-star west coast jazz band.   (1954)   Another example of incongruous cover art.

(52 votes, average: 3.58 out of 5)

Martial art

“Kendo” b/w “Tiger Mask”

(51 votes, average: 3.45 out of 5)

Sam the man

Sammy Davis Jr.   “Sale e Pepe”   “SUPER-SPIE HIPPY!”   United Artists.   An Italian picture sleeve for the soundtrack to the movie “Salt and Pepper” from 1968.   Sammy co-stars with Peter Lawford.   Directed by Richard Donner (who went on to make bigger action adventure movies like   “Lethal Weapon” and “Superman” and “Sara T. Portrait of a Teenage Alchoholic”).   The movie’s tag line:   ” They held the fate of the world in their hands — and dropped it!”   (Sounds promising — it’s not,   But the illustration is straight outta ’68 and the Italian subtitle pretty much says it all.)

(48 votes, average: 3.29 out of 5)

On congas

Sonus Records.   Meregue vs. Charanga   Sonora de Lucho Macedo

(67 votes, average: 4.45 out of 5)