“What’s Next?” Foster Edwards’ orchestra featuring the elephants Bertha and Tina on drums and lead guitar.   Note the Beatle wigs!

(33 votes, average: 3.61 out of 5)

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Rod Hart “Breakeroo!” including the trucker hit C.B. Savage.   Rod Hart was one-hit wonder who scored a minor hit single in 1977, “C.B. Savage”, which charted on both the Billboard pop and country charts. The song was a gay themed takeoff on the citizen’s band radio fad and featured a “smokey” (slang for a highway patrolman) pretending to be a gay truck driver over the CB radio. It appeared on his album Breakeroo.

(20 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)

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Canadian professional wrestler Sweet Daddy Siki (aka “Mr. Irresistable”) “Squares off with Country Music” Canadian Arc Label.   The black, Gorgeous George of his day.

(26 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5)

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Holy shit! “LSD Battle for the Mind”

(52 votes, average: 4.06 out of 5)

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A generic twist record sponsored by Dr. Pepper (“It’s different…I like it”)   “Twistin’ Time” featuring “Tyler King and the Twisteens”   (at the) Pepper Lounge.

(18 votes, average: 4.28 out of 5)

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Jeannie C. Riley “The Girl Most Likely” on budget Pickwick 33 label.

(33 votes, average: 4.24 out of 5)

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An odd piece of beatnik poetry from 1957. “Contributions to the Delinquency of Minor Poetry by Guy Wernham” I never heard of this guy, but a Google search brought up his name as a dude on the San Francisco scene who first made his name with a 1943 translation of Lautremont’s “Les Chants du Maldoror” in New Directions magazine. It says by the mid-50’s he was tending bar in North Beach and a frequent visitor to Alan Ginsburg’s apartment. The cover is pretty unusual and cool I think. Can’t be many of these around.

(18 votes, average: 3.39 out of 5)

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Jerry Lee Lewis “Fools Like Me” from the movie “High School Confidential” with a sexy Mamie Van Doren. Check out a cool clip from the movie.

(28 votes, average: 3.61 out of 5)

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Sylvia “Pillow Talk” (London Records) “Pillow Talk” held the number one R&B spot for two weeks and made it to number three pop on Billboard’s charts in 1973. “You can’t find love on a one-way street…” Check out the sexy lyrics here! And check out her performance on Soul Train!! Here’s to you Mrs. Robinson!

Sylvia Robinson recorded in the early fifties with Hot Lips Page, then as “Little Sylvia” on the Savoy label, but it was with guitarist Mickey Baker as half of “Mickey and Sylvia” that she scored a number one R&B hit with “Love is Strange” in early 1957.

(19 votes, average: 4.16 out of 5)

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Another great Jack Davis illustration.   Homer & Jethro “Songs My Mother Never Sang” on RCA Victor (Trick or Treat series?)

(30 votes, average: 4.43 out of 5)

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