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You Go To My Head

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DRUNKS “Hilarious off-guard encounters with inebriates”!  Collected by Sheldon Allman.  Del-Fi Records.  Actual man-in-the-street type recordings of drinkers gone too far.  Sheldon is the guy behind a couple of LP Cover Lover hall of famers – the outer space classic “Folk Songs For The 21st Century” and the 1961 monster spoof record “Sing Along With Drac” (also on Del-Fi).

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Walking My Baby Back Home

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“We Come Too Far To Look Back”    The Danny Turner Singers.  Perfection Gospel Sound Records (Hogansville, Georgia)

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So many questions!

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“How Big Is God?”   Songs of Worship by Yvonne Nelson   Polbeson Records (Tennessee)

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Happiness is a thing call Joel

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Joel Stafford and The Starlighters  on Joel Records!  Looks like Joel ate the Starlighters for lunch.

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Esme moves in to pick up the party

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“Balliamo con le Canzoni di Adamo”  Georges Jouvin, Yvette Horner, Oscar Saintal and others on this Pathe EMI Records compilation from France.

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Dwarf star

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Venus and Larry “Comedy Jackpot”  Here’s a super rarity.  No liner notes or bios, label info, dates or any information found online.  Does anyone know this one?

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Hay girl!

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Lonnie & Lottie  “Just Between the Two of Us”  The Sound of Country Music on Marathon Records (Canada)  “Good things come in small packages” says the line notes on the back cover.  A brother and sister act from Quebec pictured here in a barn on this 1972 release.  Tony’s been looking for this one for years and finally copped one for the collection last month.

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An Irish sitter (and his lab)

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Ross McGregor at the “Fun Maker” Wurlitzer (with his seeing eye dog and best friend).  Homespun Records (Australia)

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Toulouse booty

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“Paris Swings”  Elmer Bernstein and the Swinging Bon Vivants  Capitol Records  (1960)  Ted Nash: reeds, Andre Previn: piano, Barney Kessel: guitar, Red Mitchell: bass, Shelly Manne: drums, Larry Bunker: vibraphone.

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Rip Van Winckler?

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“Old Man Boogie”  Gunnar Winckler  Sonet Records (Germany)

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