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Spanish fly girl

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Tesoro de Exitos (Treasure of Hits)  Volume 1  Spanoramic Records  The cover model is none other than Miss High Fidelity 1959!  Another girl on pillows with records on the ground.

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Put your records on

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“Habit of Loving You” and “One Fine Day”  Two compilation EP’s from Sweden on Juke Box Records.  A series that featured comely ladies with their portable players.

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I spy a 45

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CBS Special Products (UK)  Specially created for Carr’s “Sports” biscuits (?)  “Themes from James Bond Films”

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Dese bones gonna rise again

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Little Gerhard  “Rockin’ Ghosts”  Karusell Records (Sweden) (1956)

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8 on the floor

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Pladetoppen Snurrer!   1959 pop compilation on Odeon Records (Denmark)

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I like it like that

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“As You Like It”  Decca Records (UK)  (1957) Mantovani:  Around the world / Mandolin Serenade; The Beverley Sisters:  Mr. Wonderful; Frank Chacksfield:  Your Love is My Love; Winifred Atwell:  Streets of Sorrento; Cyril Stapleton:  Forgotten Dreams; Vera Lynn:  The Faithful Hussar: Edmundo Ros: Go Home Baby, Go Home

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Soft rock

IMG_9319Alrededor del Mundo  Violines de Ensueno

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Jump street

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“Bepi Vous Fait Danser”  Vega Records (France)

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Rock me to sleep

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Two of our favorite cover subjects wonderfully displayed here.  A real rarity from Sweden on RCA.  Borja Dagen “Med en Schlager”

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Me at work

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Pedago Scolavox  (France)

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