I love this guy. So happy. With his hookah pipe, round belly, turban and upturned moostache. Sweet dreams Mustafa.
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The Happy Sound of the Ocean County String Band.
“Music for Happy Occassions” Paul Pincus and his Orchestra in High Fidelity. Mercury Records.
“The Happy Bachelor” Gary Crosby Verve Records.
“Music for Happy People” By the Albimoor Orchestra on Jubilee Records.
“Music for Pleasure Time” Allegro. Royale Concert Orchestra. Another budget label release of forgettable background music - aural wallpaper, sonic pablum, muzak - saved from the landfill because of a cover with a strange hook and a simple transcendent beauty.
12 side-splitting his by Hattie Noel and Billy Mitchell. Dootone Novelty Series. I don’t know Billy’s work, but I’d like to learn more based on this photo.
Larry Corner & Sis. A brother-sister act out of Pennsylvania. He plays the accordian.
Ace recording artist Huey “Piano” Smith hit the top of the R&B charts with the classic “Rockin’ Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu.” A double sided classic “Don’t You Just Know It” b/w “High Blood Pressure” was released the following year.
“The Happiest Man in the World”
It’s all relative I guess. He’s laughing on the inside.
Hard bop trombonist Al Grey session on Argo records. Recorded in 1963 at Van Gelder’s, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Cover photo by Jim Marshall. Cover Design by Don Bronstein. This record includes the killer cut “Something’s Got a Hold on Me.”
With David Burns on Trumpet; Hugh Lawson on Piano; Calvin Newborne, Guitar; Herman Wright on Bass; Otis Finch on Drums and Robert J. Hutcherson on Vibes.
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