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Comfort jazz

“Chicken & Dumplin’s”   Bobby Timmons   Prestige Records   Bobby Timmons (p, vib) Lee Otis Bass III (b) Billy Saunders (d)   Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, July 12, 1965

Chicken And Dumplin’s   /   The Telephone Song / Ray’s Idea / A Sunday Kind Of Love / The Return Of Genghis Khan

Bobby played his soulful gospel-tinged jazz piano on many of the greatest jazz albums of the late 1950’s and early 60’s –   including classics with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers (1958-1961), Cannonball Adderley, Hank Mobley, Lee Morgan, Donald Byrd, Sonny Stitt, Chet Baker and Kenny Dorham (with whom he made his recording debut in 1956).   He composed the standards “Moanin'”, “Dat Dere”, and “This Here”

Bobby died In March 1974 from cirrhosis at the age of 38, in New York.

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They Were Checkin Her Out While He Was Checkin In

“Shakin’ Up Vegas”   The Tony Pastor Show   Capitol Records   Recorded live at the Stardust Hotel

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Dumb Fuchs

“Shalom Pardner”   Yiddish-American Funny Songs & Humor by Leo Fuchs     Tikva Records

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Back on the chain gang

“Country Hits”   Vocal by Reb Allen

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LP Cover Lover Pop Quiz

Name the Albums and Artists.   The first one to get all four correct wins a free LP Cover Lover T-Shirt and a sense of self-satisfaction!

GARRY WINS IN JUST UNDER AN HOUR!   CONGRATULATIONS TO A REAL LP COVER LOVER!   (See Garry’s answers in the comments section here.)

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Wall flower

“Onna”   (Japan)

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Fit as a fiddle

“Play Fiddle Play”   Dick Kesner His Magic Stradivarius and Orchestra   Coral Records Japan

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Judy in disguise (with glasses)

The Organic Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra – A super groovy freakout of sixties radio hits on Polydor Records

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Love heels

Milo from Italy, writes:   “Love your site, so allow me a shameless self promotion. It could be a new sub-category: Shoes.   Hope you like it.”

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A pout is still a pout

“As Time Goes By”   Fred Hartley, Piano     London Records (Richmond)   Is this Brigitte Bardot?

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