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Dixie chick

“A Tribute to the Immortal Bob Scobey” by Jan Scobey and her Dixie Cats. (1966)   Jansco Records Cover design by Don Bronstein

LP cover lover, Ross Smythe writes:   I enjoy LP Cover Lover and check it a few times per week to see what’s new and unusual.   Found this  at the Orange County  Record Show, a monthly event here in Southern California.   The cover caught my attention.   I had never seen this title before, and   I liked  the black and white,  the shadows, and the photo of the young lady.     Bob Scobey (1916 – 1963) was an American jazz trumpeter and bandleader – Jan is his wife and is the vocalist on this album.   I’d be curious  to see how your other viewers  rate this cover.   I’d give it at least a 4/5.

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Everybody must get stoned

Original Soundtrack   The Tziganes Gypsies   Music by The Motifs Folkloriques       AZ Records (1967)   (France)

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Please don’t throw stones

Courtesy of M. Glass

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From head to toe

“From Rumba to DoDon-Pa”   Toru Arima and his Noche Cubana   Teichiku Records (Japan)

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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!

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Wall flower

“Onna”   (Japan)

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