Ken Nordine and the Fred Katz Group. “My Baby” Dot Records (1959)   Ken Nordine is a voice-over and recording artist whose deep, resonant voice was featured in many commercials and movie trailers.  He attracted much wider attention when he recorded the aural vignettes on Word Jazz (Dot, 1957) and Son of Word Jazz (Dot, 1958).   His other albums in this vein feature Nordine’s narration over cool jazz by the Chico Hamilton jazz group, recording under the alias of Fred Katz, who was then the cellist with Hamilton’s quintet.

(44 votes, average: 2.64 out of 5)

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Les Aventures de TINTIN et Milou (Snowy his faithful fox terrier)   By Herge the Belgian comic book artist and author who created Tintin in 1929.   Currently Tintin the MAJOR MOTION PICTURE is under production at Peter Jackson’s WETA Studios in New Zealand.   Mel James and friends are working on the details now.   (Some say that God is in the details.   Others that the devil is!)

(49 votes, average: 4.02 out of 5)

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“Laughin’ to Keep From Cryin'”   Lester Young, Roy Eldridge and Harry Edison   Verve Records   (1958)   What a great candid shot of Eldridge and Young in a private, unguarded moment of comradery.   The title says a lot for these brilliant musicians who suffered through segregation and humiliation their whole lives.   Especially Young who as a sensitive young artist felt the heartbreaking brunt of racism in the army and never quite recovered.   This lp is one of Young’s final recordings.   The title is shared by a Langston Hughes novel from 1952.

(55 votes, average: 4.05 out of 5)

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“Waikiki Swings” With Hawaii’s Greatest Recording Artists   Don Ho (of course), Nani Lee, Kui Lee, Zulu (!), Sonny Chillingworth, and introducing ALVAN!

(58 votes, average: 4.12 out of 5)

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“I Maziani”   Peppino di Capri

(45 votes, average: 3.67 out of 5)

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The Tiger Tamer Monitor Records (1958) The Georgian Radio Symphony Orchestra

(46 votes, average: 3.33 out of 5)

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Coco Martinez   Diablo Records

(151 votes, average: 3.68 out of 5)

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Mi Panama   Lucho Ascarraga y su conjunto   Vocals by Margarita Escala

(40 votes, average: 3.25 out of 5)

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Original Motion Picture Soundtrack “It’s A Revolution Mother”   “Recorded on the scene where the action is”   An Entertainment Systems, Inc. Release   Here’s an odd but nonetheless fascinating time capsule of late- Sixties social unrest filtered through the mind of Florida-based sexploitation producer-director HARRY KERWIN. Yup, the man who made Strange Rampage, My Third Wife George, and Girls Come Too.   But lacking the funds to make something along the lines of an Easy Rider or a Wild in the Streets, Kerwin blissfully dispensed with both fiction and actors and, instead, went out and filmed The Real Thing. Combining (rough, raw) authentic footage of bikers, peace protestors, and the crowd at a rock festival, he created the mondoesque It’s a Revolution Mother! a self-described “Documentary of Love” tied together with an exuberant (and often hilarious) anti-government-anti establishment-anti-Vietnam-war-pro-rebel lion rant delivered by an uncredited narrator who sounds like an AM disk jockey on speed. THE ALIENS are a biker gang who let Kerwin photograph them on the highway, inside their squalid headquarters, at a weekend beach party, and a clubhouse. “They candidly discuss their lifestyle (“I’d say Jesus died so we could ride'”); order drugs (“An ounce of speed and 200 trips'”); bitch about hassles with the cops, the courts, and their landlord; and explain the difference between “mamas and old ladies.” One of’ em even pisses in a beer can for us. “Don’t let it snap your mind. You’ve got to groove with the biker crowd to know where it’s really at'” – Something Weird

(40 votes, average: 2.90 out of 5)

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“Regalame esta Noche”   Mozart Brandao e suo Orquestra   RCA Victor (Brazil)

(59 votes, average: 2.78 out of 5)

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