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Gunn swinger

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Shelly Manne & His Men Play More Music From Peter Gunn – Son Of Gunn !!  Contemporary Records (1959)

Joe Gordon (tp) Richie Kamuca (ts) Victor Feldman (vib,mar) Russ Freeman (p) Monty Budwig (b) Shelly Manne (d)

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Pimp daddy

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“The Mack” Original Blacksploitation Soundtrack on American Artists Records.  Starying Richard Pryor, Roger Mosley and Max Juien.   1973  Great soul by Willie Hutch and Vocalist Eugene McDaniels.

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Themes like just yesterday

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“Big Terror Movie Themes”  Geoff Love and his Orchestra  MFP Records (UK) (That’s Music For Pleasure)  A surprisingly funky budget bin disk.

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“I hate those meeces to pieces!”

Mr. Jinks, Pixie and Dixie  Colpix Records.  Hanna Barbera  A regular segment of the television series The Huckleberry Hound Show from 1958 to 1962.  Starring the Voices of Daws Butler and Don Messick.

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Sam the man

Sammy Davis Jr.  “Sale e Pepe”  “SUPER-SPIE HIPPY!”  United Artists.  An Italian picture sleeve for the soundtrack to the movie “Salt and Pepper” from 1968.  Sammy co-stars with Peter Lawford.  Directed by Richard Donner (who went on to make bigger action adventure movies like  “Lethal Weapon” and “Superman” and “Sara T. Portrait of a Teenage Alchoholic”).  The movie’s tag line:  ” They held the fate of the world in their hands — and dropped it!”  (Sounds promising — it’s not,  But the illustration is straight outta ‘68 and the Italian subtitle pretty much says it all.)

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Ready to go trick or treating

From Lp cover lover possiblyj:  “The Shortest Day”  A soundtrack featuring the “Chosen Few Players.”  Award Records

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The Devil’s Hand

The Theme from “The Devil’s Hand” Original Soundtrack on Chess Records.  (1962)

A beside-the-point Batman connection:  Neil Hamilton (the ironic police commissioner in the BATMAN TV show) is highly amusing here as Mr. Lamont, a bloodthirsty devil figure extraordinaire. He runs a creepy doll shop during the day, but holds satanic blood rituals in the back room at night!

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Will the real Gore Gabor please stand up?

Gore Gabor  A Hungarian Soundtrack.

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Hector Heathcote

The Hector Heathcote Show.  “The Original Sound Track of TV’s Colorful Cartoon Program with the complete Cast in 6 Entertaining Stories Starring Hector Heathcote ‘The Minute-and-a-Half Man”, Hashimoto-San and Sidney the Elephant”  From Terrytoons.  RCA Camden Records.  1964.

Hector Heathcote first appeared in The Minute and a Half Man in July 1959.  Hector started out as a scientist who invented a time machine to take him back to America’s War for Independence.  He built the boat that enabled Washington to cross the Delaware, prepared the horse to enable Paul Revere to make his famous ride, and was similarly instrumental in setting the stage for any number of other notable events. Somehow, tho, posterity neglected to note his many pivotal roles, and he remained unknown to students of history — except, of course, those who saw his cartoons.

He got his own TV show, which debuted October 5, 1963, on NBC. The show’s back segments were occupied by a couple of other minor Terrytoons characters, Hashimoto-San (a martial arts mouse) and Silly Sidney (a neurotic elephant). The show ran two seasons, but hasn’t had much of an afterlife in reruns.

While the show was running, Hector was merchandised on lunch boxes, toys and elsewhere.  Gold Key published him in comic book form, but only one issue (dated March, 1964) came out

Hector’s creation is attributed to writer Eli Bauer.  The director was Dave Tendlar, a veteran animator whose work went back to the Max Fleisher days. His voice was done by John Myhers, who had many live-action credits as an actor, writer, producer and director, but did very little other voice work.  – Toonpedia

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He’s our man!

Roger Ramjet and The American Eagles “Amazing Exploits of a Space-Age Hero” RCA Camden (1966) This TV cartoon series ran from 1965 -1968. Famous California radio personality Gary Owens (the original voice of Space Ghost and the announcer on Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In) provided the voice of Roger Ramjet. The series was written by Gene Moss and Jim Thurman. These liner notes above are great and tell the tale! (Check out the show intro here).

Roger Ramjet and his Eagles

Fighting for our freedom

Fly through and in outer space

Not to join him but to beat him.

Roger Ramjet he’s our man

Hero of our nation

For his adventure just be sure

And stay tuned to this station.

Come and join us all you kids

For lots of fun and laughter

As Roger Ramjet and his men

Get all the crooks they’re after.

Roger Ramjet he’s our man

Hero of our nation

For his adventure just be sure

And stay tuned to this station.

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