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Julia, Julia

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LP cover lover Ruben, writes us:  “Hello LP COVER LOVERS!  I love this cover – maybe it is in your collection, maybe not.  Great site you have.  Regards.”

“Porgy and Bess”  Dianne Carroll and The Andre Previn Trio  United Artists Records

I don’t think of Ms. Carroll so much for her jazz vocal chops as much as her beauty and  the TV show she starred in – Julia.  I think she broke the color barrier as a black woman starring in her own series (and she was a single mom on the show), but that didn’t mean much to me.  At 8, she just seemed cool and I was in love with her.   Thanks for reminding me Ruben.

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“MOM! Please! I’m rehearsing down here!!”

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Emil Nargi IS Elvis  “It’s Now or Never”  There are so many records by Elvis impersonators you can’t imagine.  Each one stranger than the last.  Emil looks like he could be one of the little dolls or porceline statuettes that my Grandma Loretta kept in a glass case.

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Mouth to mouth

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Sonia y Myriam  Voces de Ensueno  Musart Records label

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Marie Conti lets her hair down

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“I Got It… Bad”  The Two Moods of Marie Conti  Albatross Record Company

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Duet (til you’re satisfied)

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The Gorden Jenkins Voices & Orchestra  “Let*s Duet”  Warner Bros. Records  Courtesy of lp cover lover Joe Harrington.

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How can you mend a broken heart?

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“When Your Lover Has Gone”  Pat O’Day  Golden Crest Records

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A big squeeze fan

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Janis Martin “Just Squeeze Me”  RCA Victor   Thanks to lp cover lover, Joan for sending this in!

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Helen Merrill

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Helen Merrill  Emarcy Records  (1954) With Clifford Brown and Oscar Pettiford.  Produced and Arranged by (21 year-old) Quincy Jones.  Merrill’s first and greatest.

Don’t Explain / You’d Be Nice To Come Home To / What’s New / Falling In Love With Love

Yesterday’s / Born To Be Blue / ‘S Wonderful

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Pain in my heart

Angela Maria “A Rainha Canta”  Copacabana Records

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Satelite dish

“Out There with Betty Carter”  Peacock’s Progressive Jazz  (1958)  Featuring: Kenny Dorham, Ray Copeland (tp), Melba Liston (tb), Tommy Gryce, Jimmy Powell (as), Benny Golston, Jerome Richardson (ts), Sahib Shihab (bars), Wynton Kelly (p), Sam Jones, Peck Morrison (b), Specs Wright (d), Betty Carter (vcl)

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