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Off the wall

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“Music to Sell Weyerhaeuser Hardwood Paneling By”

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For the newly unemployed

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“Music for Courage and Confidence”  The Melachrino Strings  RCA Victor

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (26 votes, average: 3.08 out of 5)
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Home alone

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“Music to Make Housework Easier”  Sinfonieta de Milano Under the Direction of William Gunther  Request Records

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Smokestack lighting

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“Music for the Night”  “Une Heure de Slow”  Ducretet -  Thomson  A nice French record of jazz with players including Lucky Thomson,  Zoot Sims, Guy Lefitte, etc.

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (26 votes, average: 3.19 out of 5)
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Family feud

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“Karate for the Family”  An instructional record for the family that wants to learn to defend itself … from each other.  (Strangely on the great Latin Boogaloo label Cotique.)

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (29 votes, average: 4 out of 5)
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Storm chasers

“Childrens Stories for a Rainy Day”  Robin Hood Records

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (27 votes, average: 2.96 out of 5)
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Good naked

“Jazz for Relaxation”  Full Range High Fidelity  Tampa Records  Marty Paich, Larry Bunker, Joe Mondragon.  Courtesy Lp cover lover, Retrohound.

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (54 votes, average: 4.46 out of 5)
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Who’s imagining whom?

“The Esquire Album of Music for the Continental Host”  Guy Lupar and his Orchestra  RCA Victor

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Father Goose

Max Bygraves “Nursery Rhymes For Grown-Ups.  Decca (Australia)  Forgive me these other title considerations from a list of classic nursery rhymes:

All Around the Mulberry Bush / Bum, Bum, Baily O! / Dickery Dickery Dare / Diddle, Diddle, Dumpling / Hart He Loves the High Wood / Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush / Hey Diddle Diddle /Hokey Pokey / Hot Cross Buns / Humpty Dumpty / I Had a Little Nut Tree / I Love Little Pussy / Peter, Peter, Pumkin Eater / Peter Piper / POP! Goes the Weasel / Ride a Cock Horse / There Was A Crooked Man / This Little Piggy Went To Bed / Wee Willie Winkie or maybe Where is Thumbkin?

1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars (24 votes, average: 3.08 out of 5)
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Lower. Harder. Deeper.

“Music to Massage Your Mate By”   With this “explicitly illustrated” “instruction” booklet!  Thinly discussed soft porn, smuggled into the house in a record sleeve.  (Funny, I used to have to smuggle records in!)  Doesn’t she looked thrilled.

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