“Sing It Again, Sam!”  The inimitable song stylings of Sam Sacks  Arliss Records  For those unfamiliar with the wonder of WFMU’s Beware of the Blog let this be a welcome introduction.  Go to BOTB and listen to Sam’s fantastically awful mauling of standards.  A private recording on par with the best of the worst from Mrs. Miller, Lucia Pamela and Florence Foster Jenkins.  I gotta find a copy!

(28 votes, average: 3.96 out of 5)

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Ann-Margret strikes a stunning pose on the cover of this lost gem from Japan.  Faust(o) Papetti  “Alto Sax Screen Time”  Globe Records

(35 votes, average: 4.03 out of 5)

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Sun Ra and his Arkestra featurig John Gilmore on Tenor Sax   I don’t have any information about this as I don’t have the disc, just the cover, which is “homemade.”  The back is all pasted over with gold foil and the front has hand-coloring and some stickers.   I think that this covered one of Sun Ra’s records on Saturn.  Any Sun Ra followers out there that can shine some light here?

(29 votes, average: 3.86 out of 5)

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J.P Teaches You To Rock!! (Columbia Records)

Step 1.  The overexcited greeting

Step 2.  A little air guitar

Step 3.  Laugh at a joke

Step 4.  Lay your cards on the table

Step 5.  “I’m totally broke!”

Step 6:  Always finish with Jazz Hands…

(35 votes, average: 4.11 out of 5)

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“La Gorda”  Exitos de los Llopis con Anardy Lopez  Colonia Records

(23 votes, average: 3.74 out of 5)

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“Heaven’s Satellite”  with The Good News Singers from Bakersfield, California.  Vision Records  This one is highly sought after and rarely found.

(31 votes, average: 4.13 out of 5)

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“Music To Dream By”  Valentino and His Orchestra   GMS Records   An exceptional example of a 1950’s cheesecake cover on a record of quite unexceptional music.  Looks quite common but it’s really very rare.

(33 votes, average: 4.21 out of 5)

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“Viva A Vida”  Pocho e Orquestra RGE   RGE Records Brazil

(31 votes, average: 4.29 out of 5)

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“EL PARTY” con LA CREMA  UA Latino  Mellie Mel hooked me up with a great Latin site called Latin Vinyl Junkie

Listen to this there and discover some of the finest in Latina musica.

(20 votes, average: 3.35 out of 5)

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IKE QUEBEC  “TENOR SAX”  BLUE NOTE Set 102.  Ike Quebec (ts) Roger Ram Ramirez (p) Tiny Grimes (g) Milt Hinton (b) J.C. Heard (d)  WOR Studios, NYC, July 18, 1944  Songs include: Topsy/Cup-Mute Clayton/If I Had You/Hard Tack/Sweethearts on Parade/Dolores   Three 78 RPM Recordings – Record #’s 510, 515, 516.

These sides were released “for the jukebox market” in the late fifties as 45’s by Blue Note records and lead to new session work and some brilliant albums as a leader in 1961 -62.  His comeback was cut short by lung cancer in 1963.

(35 votes, average: 3.69 out of 5)

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