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“Let’s not talk about money”

101 Strings “After A Hard Day – Music To Relax By”   The Martini as foreplay.

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Clean up woman

“Whistle While You Work”   A collection of songs with a lilt to lighten your housework.   Somerset Records

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It’s Classic But It’s Good

Robert Russell Bennett and the RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra. Illustration by R. Taylor

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Jazz for People Who Hate Jazz

RCA Victor

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The comedy of errors

The Best of Kermit Shafer “For Those Who Have Everything” on Jubilee Records. Gatefold. With a nice illustration of Alfred E. Neuman on the cover. From the guy who gave us all those “Pardon My Blooper” records.

Shafer was the first to transform other people’s flustered speaking, slips of the tongue, and inadvertent solecisms from television and radio broadcasts into gold. In his hands, a blooper wasn’t just a mistake. It was a noteworthy event, a slice of everyday media life, otherwise evanescent, that he shined up for display. There was the Vick’s 44 Cough Syrup commercial that guaranteed “You’ll never get any better!” Or as the stumbling newscaster said, “Also keeping an eye on the Woodstock Rock Festival was New York’s governor Rockin Nelsenfeller.” — Fritinancy on the meaning of word “blooper”

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A grill’s best friend

It’s July 19th and hot as hell in New York City.   Everyone is in the park with their little grills, bags of coal and coolers of beer.   I’m inside listening to “Music to Barbecue By” and dreaming of fat, juicy T-Bones and Porterhouse steaks, corn on the cob and baked potatoes.   This Lp was put out by Monitor Records and Adolph’s steak sauce and tenderizer “For your personal enjoyment all summer long”.

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Little folkers

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Music for Little Folk Singers in Hi-Fi.   Merry Go Round Records.

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Music for Wild Angels

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A cool compilation of sixties covers and instrumentals for the biker crowd.

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King me

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“Music To Play Checkers By”   Era Records.

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Girls who twirl

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United States TWIRLING Association presents music to twirl to.   Music by the Purdue University Band.

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