A challah of a good time!
“Bei Mir TWIST Du Schon” The Temples Ad Lib Records.
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Native dancer
Thunderbird Records Present “Indian Songs of the Southwest” (Gems for Collectors) Includes a paste on cover of native American art by Gerald Nailor from 1948. Interesting liner notes too.
Indian giver
Jim Flora illustrates the cover of “Redskin Romp” by Charlie Barnet and his Orchestra. RCA Victor. (1954)
“Take your stinking paws off me you damn dirty ape!”
Front and back of “Planet of the Apes” including 4 Stories “Planet of the Apes”, “Escape From the Planet of the Apes”, “Battle for the Planet of the Apes”, “Beneath the Planet of the Apes”. On POWER Records. From 1974. Man these movies blew my adolescent mind! And there’s a fifth — “Conquest of the Planet of the Apes,” the fourth in the movie series from 1972.
It’s Classic But It’s Good
Robert Russell Bennett and the RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra. Illustration by R. Taylor
The comedy of errors
The Best of Kermit Shafer “For Those Who Have Everything” on Jubilee Records. Gatefold. With a nice illustration of Alfred E. Neuman on the cover. From the guy who gave us all those “Pardon My Blooper” records.
Shafer was the first to transform other people’s flustered speaking, slips of the tongue, and inadvertent solecisms from television and radio broadcasts into gold. In his hands, a blooper wasn’t just a mistake. It was a noteworthy event, a slice of everyday media life, otherwise evanescent, that he shined up for display. There was the Vick’s 44 Cough Syrup commercial that guaranteed “You’ll never get any better!” Or as the stumbling newscaster said, “Also keeping an eye on the Woodstock Rock Festival was New York’s governor Rockin Nelsenfeller.” — Fritinancy on the meaning of word “blooper”
Almost flameless
Peter the Flameless Dragon and Other Dragon and Dinosaur Songs. The Rocking Horse Players and Orchestra.
