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Bardot, boy!?

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Looks like Bridgette Bardot?  Coros Vallenatos. Made in Bogota Colombia.

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Bedazzled

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Original movie soundtrack to “Bedazzled” written by and starring Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. Produced and Directed by Stanley Donen. Also featuring Raquel Welch “as Lust”.

One of the grooviest soundtracks of the late 60s! The film Bedazzled’s gotten a lot of attention in recent years — thanks to a so-so remake — but the original film’s far far better, if only for this fab soundtrack! The music was handled by Dudley Moore, one of the stars of the film — and it’s a great mix of jazzy numbers, groovier tunes, and a few wild vocal tracks with a mad mad sound! Among these are the fuzzy-breakbeat classic “Bedazzled” and Peter Cook’s mad rocker “Love Me”. Other tracks are a perfect blend of styles that recall the best of Henry Mancini or Neal Hefti from the same time — and titles include “The Millionaire”, “Moon Time”, “Strip Club”, “Sweet Mouth”, and “Cornfield”, a lively jazzy groover!  - Dusty Groove

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A pair of queens

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A soundtrack double feature with two-sided front cover featuring two of the world’s sexiest woman circa 1960!  Bridgette Bardot and the music from “Love is My Profession and Gina Lollobrigida and the music from “Where the Hot Wind Blows”.  Stereo Everest label.

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Annette sings for dancers

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In the early sixties young boys were “shakin’ all over” for Annette, so when she said dance, they danced.

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Elizabeth Taylor-Made in Cuba

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Cover Girl: Candice Bergen

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Man was Candice Bergen beautiful. Here she is as a model on the cover of a corny Skitch Henderson e-z listening lp.

Candice Bergen was the daughter of ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and his wife Frances, a former Chesterfield girl. When Candice was born, many news stories noted that Bergen’s dummy Charlie McCarthy now had a sister. She displayed a gift early on for comedy when as a child she was a guest on her father’s radio show. She grew up privileged and was childhood friends with Gregory Peck’s and Judy Garland’s children and often spent time amusing herself at family friend Walt Disney’s home. She briefly attended the University of Pennsylvania in the mid 1960’s. She was named homecoming queen in her freshman year, but left to begin a career as a Ford model. Her earnings allowed her to indulge in her passion for photography; later shooting photographs for Life, Esquire and Playboy.

Throughout the 1960’s, she would attend lavish parties thrown by the likes of CBS president William Paley, but also hung out with the Black Panthers and got arrested for lying down on the floor of the U.S. Senate. Candice indulged in writing (her works appeared in Playboy and she also wrote a play titled “The Freezer”), photojournalism, and acting.

Candice was asked by director Sidney Lumet to play Lakey, an icy lesbian in “The Group”  Then she was cast as a missionary opposite Steve McQueen in Robert Wise’s “The Sand Pebbles”.  In 1971, she starred in Mike Nichols’ “Carnal Knowledge” with Jack Nicholson and Art Garfunkel. She was the first woman to host “Saturday Night Live”, and also contributed news stories for NBC news. All before Murphy Brown!

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Desert island disk

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Another Tina Louise cheesecake cover. (You know, Ginger on “Gilligan’s Island”.)

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Nico the model

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Nico began modeling young and somehow in 1959 she got on the set of the film La Dolce Vita and Fellini gave her a part on the spot. She continued modeling in Paris, moved to New York took acting classes with Lee Strasberg, recorded a song with Serge Gainsbourg, met Brian Jones and through him she met Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham, and made her first record for his Immediate label: I’m Not Sayin, a Gordon Lightfoot song, produced by Jimmy Page.

Returning to New York later in 1964, Nico went back to work as a model and landed a job singing at the Blue Angel Lounge on 55th Street (all drinks 85¢). She had an affair with French actor Alain Delon, whom she had met in Italy in 1962, and had a child. Nico called the boy Ari. In that period everybody wanted to know that mysterious blonde girl, and gave her short but complete adoration.

Afterwards in Paris, Nico met Bob Dylan who urged her to pursue her career as singer and gave her a song: I’ll Keep It with Mine, later recorded on the solo debut-album Chelsea Girl. Dylan wrote her a tribute on his album Blonde on Blonde called Visions of Johanna, later he introduced her to Andy Warhol who began to feature her in his and Paul Morrisey’s experimental films.

Legend has it that Nico told Andy: ‘I want to sing’ and he introduced her to his latest protégés, The Velvet Underground, a part of Warhol’s mixed-media Exploding Plastic Inevitable troupe until 1967. At that point Nico gave up modeling and spent a year touring with them. She joined then to sing in long improvisations as well as the classic Lou Reed compositions Femme Fatale, All Tomorrow’s Parties and I’ll Be Your Mirror. Even before the legendary Banana album was released she went her own way; the band worried about being eclipsed by her haunting, charismatic presence and forced her out of the line-up. The main reason was trouble between her, Lou and John Cale, jealously in love and hate, something Andy loved to witness.

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Tina Louise on Dot

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Push it

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Grazin’ in the grass with Jayne Mansfield on the cover of this original soundtrack lp from “Panic Button”.

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