Lightning Hopkins on Kent Records.   “Original Folk Blues”   From the collection of Rockalain.

(22 votes, average: 4.27 out of 5)

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Johnny Bond   “Here Come the Elephants”   From the collection of Uncle Gil.

Pink Elephants and drunken visions.   Here are the top 100 drinking songs.

(22 votes, average: 3.95 out of 5)

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The Gerry Mulligan Quartet “Reunion” with Chet Baker. World Pacific Records

Mulligan (BS), Baker (T), Henry Grimes (B), Dave Bailey (D) (1957)

The Mulligan-Baker group of 1952-53 was one of the best and most popular jazz ensembles of the fifties (even without a piano!). This reunion session was one of the few times the two leaders recorded together afterwards.

(21 votes, average: 4.19 out of 5)

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Cool David Stone Martin on Norgran.   Johnny Hodges “Dance Bash” (1952) Supervised by Norman Granz.

(34 votes, average: 4.62 out of 5)

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Dick Smart “Smart and Continental” Everest Records.

(Is this a Smart Car?)   No it’s actually a BMW called and “Isetta” available only in Germany.   (Thanks Gerd Brunzema!)

(5 votes, average: 4.20 out of 5)

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“Dim the lights and play this record … if you dare!”

Tales of the Frightened (Volume 2) Told by Boris Karloff. Mercury Records. (1963)

Scarstuff is a site that let’s you download the stories.

(19 votes, average: 4.16 out of 5)

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Milt Hinton, Wendell Marshall and Bull Rather.   Released in 1955.

Songs: Prelude to a Kiss, Fump, I Hear a Rhapsody, Moon Over Miami (Arr: Al Cohn); How Blue Was My Bass, Tenderly, The Continental, Careless (Arr: Billy Byers); Begin the Beguine, Bull in a China Shop, I Poured My Heart Into a Song, Crazy She Calls Me (Arr: Manny Albam). Other performers include Al Cohn, Danny Banks, Billy Byers, Joe Newman, Barry Galbraith, Osie Johnson, Hal McKusick, Jimmy Nottingham, Gene De Novi, and Al Hall. Liner notes by Bill Zeitung.

(14 votes, average: 3.64 out of 5)

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