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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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“Take your stinking paws off me you damn dirty ape!”

Front and back of “Planet of the Apes” including 4 Stories “Planet of the Apes”, “Escape From the Planet of the Apes”, “Battle for the Planet of the Apes”, “Beneath the Planet of the Apes”. On POWER Records. From 1974. Man these movies blew my adolescent mind! And there’s a fifth — “Conquest of the Planet of the Apes,” the fourth in the movie series from 1972.

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Bow and eros

Emery and “His Violin of Love” This guy looks harmless but with an instrument like that no woman is safe.

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