Nymphonomaniac
Sweet hi-fi cover from France with very cool portable turntable! “Technique Spatio-dynamic”
(25 votes, average: 4.12 out of 5)
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(25 votes, average: 4.12 out of 5) Loading ...Funky Monk
The Thelonious Monk Quintet. A Prestige EP. Designed and Produced by Don Schlitten. With Sonny Rollins, Tenor; Julius Watkins, French Horn; Percy Heath, Bass; and Willie Jones, Drums.
(42 votes, average: 4.38 out of 5) Loading ...“Just take a left at the oak tree and then the first right after the bridge”
“Le Petit Chaperon Rouge” Vogue Stereo. Read by Jean Chevrier.
(19 votes, average: 2.74 out of 5) Loading ...Oh, Snaps!
The only LP by the mysterious funk group the Skull Snaps on the GSF Label (1973) They were in fact the group originally known as The Diplomats who had released numerous singles between 1963 and 1970 with middling success. Following this Skull Snaps session the group recorded a cover version of the underground hit “Soul Makossa” using the name All Dyrections, for the Buddah label. Two years later they recorded one final single under the Skull Snaps name, ‘Ain’t that lovin’ you’ b/w ‘Al’s razor blade’, for Grill records. Soul Snaps drum breaks have been sampled by rap and hip-hop artists including Ol’ Dirty Bastard and The Prodigy.
(27 votes, average: 2.81 out of 5) Loading ...“Blow me”
Tito Sotelo Su Armonica y Su Ritmo “Armonica Danzarina”
(22 votes, average: 4.32 out of 5) Loading ...Lord Melody Calypso
Lord Melody say “Mas is Devil Power” Strakers Records.
(46 votes, average: 3.07 out of 5) Loading ...Piano man
“Ellington Uptown” Duke Ellington and his Orchestra. Philips.
(23 votes, average: 4.17 out of 5) Loading ...One thing leads to another
The great Rube Goldberg illustrated this otherwise forgettable barber shop quartet record “Barber Shop in Hi-Fi” Harmonized by The Play-Tonics. Goldberg became synonymous with fantastically imaginative machines set in motion by a series of comical (and at times complicated) reactions and effects. Here for example a mechanical barber is powered by the quartet’s sad song provoking the parrot’s tears; the plumbers response triggering the mouse, the cat lifting the candle to ignite the rocket, etc… Good fun always. There are books of this stuff and there are several contests around the world known as Rube Goldberg contests which challenge high school students to make a complex machine to perform a simple task. According to Wikipedia, the term “Rube Goldberg machine” first appeared in Webster’s Dictionary with the definition “accomplishing, by extremely complex roundabout means, what actually or seemingly could be done simply.”
(23 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5) Loading ...Peggy Sue
George Petty illustration on this early rock and roll compilation from Brazil on Decca Records. “Ele Gosta de Rock ‘N Roll”
(28 votes, average: 4.50 out of 5) Loading ...Batteries not included
A nice Brazilian record put out by the Ray-O-Vac Battery Co. Lovely pin-up, pony-tail girl illustration.
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