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Say it loud!

Jim Brown “Tells It Like It Is”   Main Line Records Jim Brown Tells It Like It Is   This album was produced and written by Jeff Baxter and includes Jim Brown Farewell Day Speech * Press Interview: How The Negro Industrial and Economic Union (N.I.E.U.) Works * Comments On Black Nationalism * Comments On Racial Violence * Jim Brown Interviewing New N.E.I.U. Member * Negro Pride And Heritage * Comments On Black Muslems *Comments on Cassius Clay (Mohammed Ali)

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Tammy can you hear me?

“Tammy Tammy Tammy”   Tammy Faye before all the eye shadow, Jim Bakker and tears.   Hymntone Records

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Music for clearing the room

Murray the K’s   GOLDEN GASSERS   Chess Records   Songs include:   “Blowin’ in the Wind”; “The Wind Cries Mary”; “Summer Wind”; “Wind Beneath My Wings”; “Prairie Wind”; “Colors of the Wind”; “Dust in the Wind”   (Need I go on?)

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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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