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At home with Billy Taylor

Billy Taylor “Cross Section”   Prestige Records. (1954)   Check out the nice old tube amp.

Eight songs with his trio of 1954 (which included bassist Earl May and drummer Percy Brice); the four originals (which alternate with standards) were all dedicated to disc jockeys of the time.   The remaining four numbers match Taylor and May with what was dubbed “Machito’s Rhythm Section”: Charlie Smith on conga, Joe Mangual on bongos, Uba Nieto playing timbales and Machito himself on maracas.     Another Rudy Van Gelder session.   Ira Gitler handles the liner notes.

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Johnny bee good

“Teaching Johnny How to Become a Better Reader and S-P-E-L-L-E-R”

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Needles and spins

San Francisco Record Tid-bits

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Tasty grooves

“The Long Playing Tongue of Dave Ketchum”   Sheraton Records

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Hip hop

Decca’s Record Hop “All-time Dance Favorites”

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The wax of Max

Max

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On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me…

What do YOU want for Christmas?

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The first cut is the deepest

“A Child’s First Record”   Naturally on the Happy Time label.   Today perhaps it would be “a child’s first download”. Maybe I’m overthinking this, but what’s a song called “Do My Dolly” doing on this?

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“Lp Cover Lover was here”

Eddie Heywood “O Homem Do Piano”   Decca Brazil.

I don’t know what the hell is going on here so I’ll send a free LPCOVERLOVER t-shirt to the best title submitted by end of day Friday.

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Lord have mercy

“Genuss im Stil der neuen Zeit” A record from Lord Extra cigarettes.

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