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Christmas combs but once a year

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“Yulesville”  Edd “Kookie” Byrnes with Warren Barker & His Orchestra   Actor played “Kookie” on TV’s “77 Sunset Strip”

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Fausto, pussy cat!

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Ann-Margret strikes a stunning pose on the cover of this lost gem from Japan.  Faust(o) Papetti  “Alto Sax Screen Time”  Globe Records

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Rebel rebel

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Tribute to James Dean on Philips   He only made three movies!

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Whiskey visions

Walter “Ever been stung by a dead bee” Brennan sings “Space Mice” b/w “The Thievin’ Stranger”  Orchestra and Chorus Conducted by Billy Vaughn.  Dot Records.

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I see little people

“Hallowe’en” Composed and Narrated by Lionel Barrymore Story and Lyrics by Dailey Paskman. MGM Records

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Audazious!

Exitos De EL-AUDAZ Luchador, Cantante y Actor. On Audaz Records. Audaz was the 1976 Universal Wrestling Association Champion and an early star of Lucha Libra

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Sweet Jayne

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An Evening with Jayne Mansfield  Music performed by Kurt Jensen and his Orchestra.  Hollywood Records  (Photograph of Miss Jayne Mansfield by J. Julius Fanta.  This is just one of many great covers with bombshell Jayne Mansfield, perhaps the greatest album cover model of all time!

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Arthur

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Arthur Mullard of London.  “Arthur was a fifties and sixties British actor (he usually played the heavy) and sort of comedian…well known for his gravelly, cockney voice and boyish good looks.  His album, a collection of strange cockney monologues and painfully rendered songs (he sings the Beatles “Yesterday” as “Yus-today”) is a masterwork of dreadfulness.  The cover says it all.”  (Contributed by LP cover lover, Jay Strange)

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Dr. Phibes rises again and now he’s a docent

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Vincent Price Presents Great Paintings in Musical Impressions by Ned Freeman and Performed by the Orchestra dei Concerti di Roma, Paul Baron Conducting. Dot Records.

In 1951, Price donated some 90 pieces from his own collection to East Los Angeles College in Monterey Park, California, thus establishing the first “teaching art collection” owned by a community college in the U.S. Today, the Vincent Price Art Gallery continues to present world-class exhibitions, and remains one of the actor’s most enduring legacies. The collection contains over 2,000 pieces and has been valued in excess of five million dollars. – Wikipedia

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Blues and Haikus

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Jack Kerouac with jazz greats Zoot Sims and Al Cohn. (1958). His second album on Hanover after “Poems for a Beat Generation” on which he was accompanied by TV talk show host Steve Allen. Produced by Bob Thiele. Click on the back cover here and hopefully you can read the liner notes by Gilbert Millstein. Kerouac calls Zoot and Al “Holy Blakean babies” and says “Zoot and Al blow thoughtful, sweet metaphysical sorrows.” Kerouac actually sings on one cut with Zoot playing piano for the first time on record. Here’s one of the haikus: “In my winter cabinet/the fly has/died of old age” Beat that.

Track listing: American Haikus; Hard Hearted Old Farmer; The Last Hotel & Some Of The Dharma; Poems from the Unpublished Book of The Blues; Old Western Movies; Conclusion Of The Railroad Earth.

Hear some of this record HERE.

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