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“Roomservice, please”

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Lenny Dee “A Man and a Woman”  Decca Records (Japan)  Actress Elizabeth Ashley (Thanks Dan).

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Porpoise songs

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Marineland of Florida presents “Porpy the Porpoise” and “Ride a Blue Dolphin”

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Something funny in the state of Denmark

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Have Fun! with Bruno Martino  An RCA Records EP  (Denmark)

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The girl next door

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Here’s a nice 45 sleeve from Beirut on Brotherphone Records.   Mayada singing “Tamoure” and “Ya Ya Ya.”   Amazing to see how liberal and westernized Lebanon was vs. today.

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Bass jumper

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George Riedel Quintet  Metronome Records (Denmark)  (1955)  “Jumper”

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East Side Story

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“A Go-Go”  TonyBinDC says: The female is Julie Newmar (aka Catwoman), and the picture (which has been reversed) appears to be from LIFE Goes To The Movies 1975.

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God is my palm pilot

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“The Unseen Hand”   Sharla & Tommy McKeely   Sounds of Life Records

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Teutons of fun

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Paul Kuhn and his Orchestra  “Frankfurter Polka” b/w “Heidelberger Polka”   Columbia Records  (Germany)

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Tumbling dice

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The Mike Sammes Singers  “Taking A Chance On Love”  Fontana Records (UK)

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Polka with strings

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Mellodies of Dick Kossins  Bel-Air Records  That’s Dick’s wife Marian Kossin’s pulling the strings on the cover.  Big band Polka from the Mellody Bar in Chicago.

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