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Storm chasers

“Childrens Stories for a Rainy Day”  Robin Hood Records

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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.

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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?

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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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Undress for success

“Music to Strip For Your Man By”  Original Music By Teddy Philips & His Orchestra.  With a fully illustrated instruction booklet by professional stripper Honey West.  AA Records.

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Music? for Screaming!!!

Jerry Colonna At His Best.  Decca Records (1954)  Hear it here.

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Lounge music

“Music to Recline By (In a Berkline Chair!)  Music by Richard Maltby and his Orchestra

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Mexico, we have a problem

Los 4 Amigos en el Espacio  Columbia

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Rolling thunder

“Music for Swingin’ Bowlers”  Don Carter  Ebonite sponsored.  Mark 84 Records.

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