We’re off to the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival – we’ll be back next week (maybe)!

New Orleans Jazz Festival   Turk Murphy Columbia Records   THE New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival started in 1970 with performances by Mahalia Jackson and Duke Ellington, Pete Fountain, Al Hirt, Clifton Chenier, Fats Domino, The Meters, The Preservation Hall Band and included parades every day with The Olympia Brass Band and Mardi Gras Indians.   I’ve been to “JazzFest” six times since 1990 and plan on returning this year in April.   I’ve seen everyone from Stevie Ray Vaughan and Bob Dylan to countless blues, soul, gospel and zydeco acts over the years.   It’s a music and food and good time orgy of non-stop fun.

Peter and Penelope Poof Have A Party “The Brightest, Most Hilarious and Sophisticated Album Ever Produced”   RIC Records   “Over 100 funny stories and jokes.   Over 30 limericks and wildly amusing naughty songs by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein III, by Noel Coward and Cole Porter, by Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz, by Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock, Irving Berlin and by Jim Lowe too!”   Cover art by Wally Wood.

Here’s a rare one for sure.   This is Jayne Mansfield in fine form on the cover of a British compilation called “5 Star Party”   featuring cuts by Cliff Richard and the Shadows, Eddie Calvert, Russ Corway, The Dave Clark Five and Victor Silvester.   Columbia EMI Records.

“Party Time” with Jak Parti   “Sophisticate Nonsense for the ‘Spice’ of the Party!”   Rivoli Records   Racey songs and blue humor for adults only.

“It’s Party Time”   Featuring Jim Watson with Guest Star Joel Cowan.   Spicy Records.   Here’s a gem of a cover.   Looks like something Crumb might have seen (He did a series of similar illustrations and covers depicting great jazz and blues musicians for Yazoo! Records, etc.)

“Rock the Blues!”   Count Basie and his Orchestra   Epic Records

“Samba de Montao”   Gravado ao Vivo em Quadra de Emsajo

A kid’s record from Israel.

*Something taboo.

“Riot In The Rumpus Room” Party Songs Sung by Cliff Steward and his boys. Coral. The sub-heading of this site might just be “riot in the rumpus room.”