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It was a guitar or braces for young Chad

The Chad Morgan Song Book.  EMI Columbia.

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Mad man!

Another from the pen of the always awesome Jack Davis!  “Spoofing the Big Ones!  Ben Colder as played by Sheb Wooley.  MGM Records.  1962.  Includes:  Don’t Go Near The Eskimos / Ballad Of A Mean Ole Queen / I Walk The Line No 2 / Hello Walls No 2 / Walking The Floor Over You No 2 / Don’t Take Your Cash To Town / Little Bitty Steer / Real Me / Devil Woman No 2 / Don’t Worry Bout Me No 2 / Shudders And Screams / Release Me No 2

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Everybody say aaaaahhh

Ratana Presents a Programme of Maori and English Favourites.  Viking Records.

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A challah of a good time!

“Bei Mir TWIST Du Schon”  The Temples  Ad Lib Records.

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Minor threat

Foster Sylvers.  Pride Records.  “Misdemeanor” was a top ten hit in 1973 and still holds up as well as any of the Jackson Five songs from that time.  (Foster was ten!)  It’s just a great, funky, pop-soul song with great arrangements by Jerry Peters.  Other cuts on the album are nice covers including  ”I’m Your Puppet”, “Mockingbird”, “I’ll Get You In The End”, “Swooperman”, “More Love”, “Happy Face”, “Lullabye/Uncle Albert”, and “Only My Love Is True”.   Foster was part of another family group “The Sylvers” that had a couple of hits in the mid-seventies, “Boogie Fever” which went to #1 in 1975 and “Hot Line” which reached #3 the next year.

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Hairy James?

Gallodorro

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Souled out

Gene Martin “My Soul Magnifies the Lord”  An A.A. Allen production on his evangelical Miracle Records label.  On red vinyl.


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Native dancer

Thunderbird Records Present “Indian Songs of the Southwest” (Gems for Collectors) Includes a paste on cover of native American art by Gerald Nailor from 1948. Interesting liner notes too.

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Indian giver

Jim Flora illustrates the cover of “Redskin Romp” by Charlie Barnet and his Orchestra.   RCA Victor.  (1954)

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Right handed

“The Piano Artistry of Jonathan Edwards”  Columbia Records

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