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The Hi-Lo’s “On Hand” Starlite Records. Cover by Frank Werber.
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(17 votes, average: 2.47 out of 5) Loading ...Pimpin’ with Prima
Louis Prima’s “Just a Gigolo” on his own Prima One label. Of course with Sam Butera and the Witnesses. This one’s from the early Seventies I’m sure. Here’s a great clip of the song with Louis, his wife Keely Smith and the boys back in the late Fifties.
(21 votes, average: 3.81 out of 5) Loading ...Jackie and Roy
Storyville presents Jackie and Roy. Burt Goldblatt design. (1955)
It’s hard to go wrong with the jazz vocals of husband and wife team Jackie & Roy. After joining forces in 1946, they joined Charlie Ventura a couple years later. Shortly after leaving Ventura in June 1949, they were married and worked together on a regular basis for the next fifty years. Jackie and Roy had their own television show in Chicago in the fifties, worked in Las Vegas during 1957-1960, and settled in New York in 1963. Working in a mode that was deeply informed by bop, Jackie and Roy hit vocal lines that only the hippest of the fifties singers could match. Some cuts on this Storyville 10″ feature scatting, others vocalese, and still others just great straight-up readings of the lyrics. The small combo features Roy on piano, Barry Galbraith on guitar, Bill Crow on bass, and Joe Morello on drums. Titles include “Slowly”, “Thou Swell”, “I Didn’t Know What Time It Was”, “Cheerful Little Earful”, “Hook Line & Sinker”, and “Yesterdays”.
Having raided and fully absorbed my step-father’s one cabinet of records as a kid, I was familiar with a couple Jackie and Roy records growing up. Listening to songs like “Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most,” “Let’s Take a Walk Around the Block” and “You Smell So Good” didn’t win me any friends and fewer dates.
(26 votes, average: 4.35 out of 5) Loading ...“There Never Was a Woman Like Guilda”
French Canadian transvestite Guilda – “Une femme pas comme les autres…?”
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The Original Blind Boys of Alabama on Savoy Records. (1961)
(21 votes, average: 3.90 out of 5) Loading ...Chocolate cheesecake
Jennell Hawkins “Moments to Remember” On Amazon Records.
(28 votes, average: 2.54 out of 5) Loading ...The blues at three in the morning
Sonny King. “For Losers Only” Colpix.
(18 votes, average: 4.56 out of 5) Loading ...Lp chubby lover
Stubby Kaye. “Music for Chubby Lovers” Seeco. Occasionally you’ll see — as I do now pulling records off the shelf to post here — how I used to insert myself into various cover scenes. This was pre-photoshop obviously.
(21 votes, average: 2.10 out of 5) Loading ...Sinner man
Johnny Ray “A Sinner Am I” with Jack Parnell and his Orchestra. This is on the Australian Philips Label. (Perhaps not by chance my reflection is in the glass of this one.)
(17 votes, average: 3.06 out of 5) Loading ...Johnny be good
“We Like Johnny” Johnny Dorelli that is. Italian Crepax label from the Sixties.
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