Some of you may remember the Saturday morning animated cartoon series The Harlem Globetrotters as I surely do.   (1970-1972 on CBS)   Hanna-Barbera meets Meadowlark Lemon and “Curley” Reese and the high-flyin’, high-fivin’, slam-dunkin’est squad ever to cross 125th street!   And don’t forget their fictional bus driver and manager Granny, and Dribbles, their dog mascot.   Josie and the Pussycats, Hanna-Barbera’s other 1970 series, premiered 30 minutes earlier on the same day and network.  

This soundtrack album, The Globetrotters, was produced by Jeff Barry and released in 1970 by Kirshner Records.   It includes tunes heard in episodes of the series (during the basketball game sequences). Don Kirschener served as music supervisor for both the series and the record. Globetrotter frontman Meadowlark Lemon was the only member of the team to be actually involved with the project, adding occasional background vocals to some tracks.   Among those actors also providing voices for the series are Scatman Crothers, Stu gilliam and Eddie (“Rochester”) Anderson.

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(48 votes, average: 3.42 out of 5)

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Here’s a funny one.   A local production from Kin-Tel Records,   “Recorded Live at The Malibu Lounge, Hapeville, GA.”   Talent Mart Proudly Presents The larry Willims Quartette.   “Expectant Fathers (Out of Wedlock)”

(43 votes, average: 3.33 out of 5)

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“See You Later Alligator”     This is another in the series of twelve in a series from Broadway FunTime Records.   Each has an illustration on the cover signed by “Stauffer” – don’t know him but love the drawings on each of these records.   Search for “funtime” to see others up so far.

(36 votes, average: 2.69 out of 5)

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The Stylers   Singapore’s best.

(41 votes, average: 3.22 out of 5)

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We love to showcase examples of homemade album covers just like this one.   Whoever this DIY, cover art iconoclast was, he or she wanted to improve on the packaging of this run-of-the-mill record by the Ray Charles Singers.     Using just scissors, paste and pen (and the cut-up of a nude Jayne Mansfield), the result provides a personal, yet universal, response to the title, “Things To Do On A Rainy Night”.   Thanks to Will at ShowandTellMusic for showing this one-of-a-kind find.

(68 votes, average: 3.81 out of 5)

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Babs Gonzales “Voila”   Hope Records

1. Le Continental
2. Me Spelled, M-E, Me
3. Them Jive New Yorkers
4. Lullaby of the Doomed
5. The Preacher
6. A Nite in Tunisia
7. Movin’ and Groovin’

Babs Gonzales (vcl), Johnny Griffin (ts), Charles Rouse (cl), Les Spann (fl), Ray Crawford (g), Horace Parlan (p), Peck Morrison (b), Roy Haynes (d), The Modern Sounds (vcl). Arrangements by Melba Liston. Recorded in NYC, July 16, 1958.

(45 votes, average: 3.64 out of 5)

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Jesse Owens and Anne Byrne with Seamus Gallagher   Waverly/EMI Records   (Courtesy of long-time LP cover lover, Way Back Now! Let’s Go)

(60 votes, average: 3.82 out of 5)

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Freddie Robbinson   “The Coming Atlantis”   With Orchestration by Monk Higgins.   World Pacific Records.   Freddie cut his teeth with Little Walter and Howlin’ Wolf on classic Chess recordings such as “Spoonful” and “Mean Ol’ Frisco” in the late fifties and early sixties before taking the spotlight on this, his first album as a leader in 1968.   This Lp was later reissued with the title “Black Fox”, one of the cuts included and heard here.

(50 votes, average: 3.92 out of 5)

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Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty /Prokofieff: Peter and the Wolf   Acorn Records (A budget label that produced some memorable covers including one with Bettie Page)

(54 votes, average: 3.69 out of 5)

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The Rumbles LTD   “The Wildest Christmas” on (the must be very rare!) Dad’s Records

(46 votes, average: 3.13 out of 5)

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