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Kiddies

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Where there’s smoke

“The Story of Fire”   AGOO – The Hunter     A Listen and Learn Record       (1964)   Tells the history and story of man’s first use of fire and teaches the child the safety rules to prevent fire, and not to play with matches, etc.

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Nice and greasy

Pianist Harold Mabern “Greasy Kid Stuff”   Prestige Records Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, January 26, 1970

Lee Morgan (tp) Hubert Laws (fl, ts) Harold Mabern (p) Ivan “Boogaloo Joe” Jones (g -1) Buster Williams (b, el-b) Idris Muhammad (d)

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Elephant’s memory

“Barbaridade”   Dupla Mirim     Sabia Records

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“Rise and shine”!

A cute cover for a compilation of artists on the Brazilian RGE Records label.     “Mamae…Presente!”

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Twist It, Baby*

“Twisting” with Henri Leca et son Ensemble   RCA Victor EP (France)

*Not on this record, but for the record, here’s Bo Carter’s “Twist It, Baby” from 1931:

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Bee’s wax

“Bumble-Boogie”   By B. Bumble & The Stingers   Top Rank Records

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Heroes

“Songs and Stories About the Justice League of America” starring The Flash, Plastic Man, Metamorpho (The Element Man), Wonder Woman and Aquaman!   And the villians!   Fumo, The Fire Giant; The Plastic Men; Brunhilde; Mr. Big and, my favorite, The Dehydrator (naturally Aquaman hates him).   This is an LP from 1975 on POWER Records, a division of Peter Pan Records.

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Cuckoo!

“A Visit With Uncle Al at His Happy Farm & Castle with Mike Tangi & Larry Smith     Jubilee Records

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Crouching tiger

Japanese animation soundtrack on King Records

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Salvation army brats

Favorite Hymns for Children   Robin Hood Records

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