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Futurama

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“O Robo Zequinha”   “No Planeta Das Cores”   Odeon Records.

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When pigs fly

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Annie Mae

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Old school jazz

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“Jazz at the College of the Pacific” Dave Brubeck Quartet featuring Paul Desmond, with Ron Crotty and Joe Dodge. Fantasy Records. 1955. Red Vinyl. Illustration by “AR”. (Thanks to S.B. Whitehead for identifying the illustrator as Arnold Roth)

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Tales for Males

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“Reddy Teddy’s Rowdy Roundup” TFM-100. Crazy titles here like “When the Iron in Your Blood Turns to Lead in Your Pencil”! Cool illustration with that leopard skin bikini bottom and tail! Unlikely you’ll ever see this record again and I’m guessing there never was a TFM-101.

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Fawning over Flora

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Everyone loves Jim Flora’s covers. Here’s a nice little 45 picture sleeve for a smile. “The War of the Bands Concert” The combined orchestras of Ralph Flanagan and Buddy Morrow. RCA-Victor 3211.

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Somebody’s watching you

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“Way Out…Far”   The Lewis Sisters   Liberty Records. (1960)   Helen and Kaye went on to record as “the Singing School Teachers” and recorded and wrote for Motown Records!   Equally odd is this cover which is dark and creepy (in a peeping tom kinda way) on one hand and squeeky clean on the other.

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Face the music

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A cool jazz compilation on UK Philips. “This is Jazz No. 1” Early sixties.

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“What a life of luxury to be like an ape man”

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“The Dance of the Pithecanthrope” Gerard Calvi on the French Vogue label

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Doctor Love

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Penaranda “La Inyeccion” on Fuentes Records.

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