The two-sided cover of an Underdog picture-sleeve from 1965.  I really liked Underdog as a kid and remember Sweet Polly Purebred fondly.  “There’s no need to fear, Underdog is here!” Wally Cox, TV’s mild-mannered Mr. Peepers, provided the voice of NBC-TV’s Underdog, a super-canine who talked in rhyme. Underdog was the alter-identity of Shoeshine Boy. He was usually called into action by his girlfriend, ace TV reporter Sweet Polly Purebred (voiced by Norma McMillan).  When he heard Polly’s singing plea of “Oh where, oh where has my Underdog gone?”, “humble, lovable” Shoeshine Boy would slip into a phone booth and emerge as the champion of justice. “When Polly’s in trouble I am not slow, it’s Hip, Hip, Hip and away I go !”

The Underdog Show began with a parody of Superman’s famous opening: “Look, up in the sky, it’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a frog…a frog?” At that point, the canine would correct the observers with: “Not bird, nor plane, nor even frog, it’s just little ‘ole me, Underdog !” Like his human counterpart, Underdog was not infallible. While he didn’t have to contend with Kryptonite, occasionally his power would fade, causing him all kinds of trouble. For cases like that, the pooch would carry a revitalizing energy pill in a secret compartment in his ring.

Underdog’s main foes included underworld boss Riff Raff, and Simon Bar Sinister, an evil scientist who once created a Big Dipper Machine to steal the world’s water supply. He then enslaved the citizens and made them do as “Simon Says” just to get a drink.

(7 votes, average: 4 out of 5)

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“The Enchanting Cha Cha Cha & Mambo”  Carlos Molina and His Music of the Americas

(1 votes, average: 4 out of 5)

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A 45 cover showing the singer,songwriter Thore Skogman! A very happy man!
Courtesy of Lp cover lover, Ulf Gustafsson

(2 votes, average: 4 out of 5)

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A George Wallace “Souvenir Album”!

(4 votes, average: 5 out of 5)

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The T-Bones on Liberty - “No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach’s In)

(6 votes, average: 4.5 out of 5)

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The World’s Most Marvelous Mechanical Invention = “The Fantastic Jazz Orchestra” !!

(1 votes, average: 3 out of 5)

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“Where There Walks a LOGGER, There Walks a Man”  Buzz Martin, Logger (not Blogger).  On Ripcord Records.

(2 votes, average: 5 out of 5)

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ACID TEST on Sound City Productions with Ken Kesey and The Merry Pranksters along with members of the Grateful Dead and others. Ultra rare original copy of drugged out noise experimental psych weirdness housed in paste-on cover with blank back.

From the Acid Archives: “Legendary documentation of the 1965-66 Bay Area Acid Test scene “from 14 hours of the actual trip” (recorded in a studio). Shows the other side of acid culture which is fun, unpredictable and avant garde as opposed to the Leary camp’s solemn religious/ psychological approach. Lots of amazing mind games and word play with Kesey and Ken Babbs in good form, ad libbed poetry, fractured harmonica solos, tape loops and the Grateful Dead lurking in the background. Released in March 1966, just as the Pranksters were splitting for Mexico.”

(7 votes, average: 4.14 out of 5)

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