The Impressions “Keep On Pushing”   ABC-Paramount Records (1964)   Orchestra arranged by Johnny Pate.   This was the group’s third record and their best-selling one.   Truly a desert island disc – there was no one better than Curtis Mayfield and he’s at his best harmonizing with The Impressions Fred Cash and Sam Gooden.   This album alone produced some of the sweetest, most inspirational, most honest and heart-wrenching soul sounds ever, including “I’ve Been Trying” and “I Made a Mistake” and the hits “Keep On Pushing” “Amen” and “Talking ‘Bout My Baby”.

Wikipedia gives us some interesting side notes:   “Keep on Pushing” was used as the theme to Obama’s 2004 Democratic National Convention keynote address when he endorsed John Kerry;   the car the guys are “pushing” on the cover is a Jaquar XKE; and a glimpse of this record is seen on the cover of Dylan’s “Bringing It All Back Home” (but that’s a whole other LP Cover Lover story)

“Little Miss Dynamite” Brenda Lee sings her biggest hit “I’m Sorry” with another great one “Sweet Nothin’s” and “Weep No More My Baby”!!!   This is a Decca Records EP from 1960.

“Cartas Marcadas”   Duo Bowen – Villafuerte   Fuentes Records

Blue   Joni Mitchell   (1971)   This one is timeless and beautiful.   So personal and so universal.

Musica e Penumbra (Vol. 2)   “Fats” Elpidio e seu Conjunto   RCA Victor Brazil

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

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

Angela Maria “A Rainha Canta”   Copacabana Records

Osvaldo Oliveira “Paixao Descontrolada”   CBS

Conway Twitty   “To See My Angel Cry” Decca Records   1970