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Swedish fishin’

Lil Malmkvist (“great fishin’ “)  Fina Fisken  (circa early sixties)  ScanDisc Records (Sweden)  She looks like Lucy, no?  (Thanks for sending Ulf!)

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He comes out swinging!

“Count ‘Em”  Quincy Jones with Harry Arnold and his Swedish Radio Studio Orch.  Recorded in Stockholm for Metronome Records (1958)  A three-song EP with “Count ‘Em”, “Meet Benny Bailey” (featuring the added trumpet of … Benny Bailey) and “Cherokee”  These tracks are also on the LP “Quincy’s Home Again”.  Q writes in the notes, “The atmosphere, the warmth, the musicianship and the understanding I found in Sweden certainly make me consider it my spiritual home”  Consider in contrast what blacks, including many brilliant jazz artists, were experiencing in their native home America in 1958 and why so many became expatriates in Europe for years.  Thanks to Lp cover lover, ULF for another fine contribution.

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One for the gipper

“Rah! Rah! Rah! Instant Sports Sounds”   SESAC Records

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Sweet hearts

Oswald D’Andrea et le 4 de Coeur   Polydor EP (France)

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“Pick yourself up”

“Histoires de Neige par Claude Vanony   “Le Ski”   Festival Records France   Here are Anita O’day’s thoughts on being down:

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Say it loud!

Jim Brown “Tells It Like It Is”   Main Line Records Jim Brown Tells It Like It Is   This album was produced and written by Jeff Baxter and includes Jim Brown Farewell Day Speech * Press Interview: How The Negro Industrial and Economic Union (N.I.E.U.) Works * Comments On Black Nationalism * Comments On Racial Violence * Jim Brown Interviewing New N.E.I.U. Member * Negro Pride And Heritage * Comments On Black Muslems *Comments on Cassius Clay (Mohammed Ali)

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String theory

“Vidas”   Som Livre

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Even a full house ain’t a home

“Cartas Marcadas”   Duo Bowen – Villafuerte   Fuentes Records

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Blur

Jokamiehen Suosikit 5   M&T Records   Roller skates, short shorts, knee socks and knee pads on this shakey, Finnish blonde.

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Ice, ice baby

skater

The Skater’s Waltz   Westminster Records     (Ulf sent in this upskirt cover – you be the judge.)

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