“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.