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March, 2020

Lost in Music

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Piano Reverie  Alain Romans et ses Rythmes  Trianon Records (France)

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Skin tight

exitos

Jet de Exitos  Beto Fernan  Fuentes Records (Columbia)

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Before “Social Distancing” we had social dancing

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Danzones  Marimba Lira de Chiapas de los Hnos. Meda U.  Guitarra Records (Mexico).  I don’t know the name of the cover artist though it’s a very familiar style that I see on many other latin records.  Can anyone help?

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Certified Platinum … blonde

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Billy Vaughn  “Greatest Boogie Woogie Hits”  Dot Records (Japan)  Sophia Loren from the film “Heller in Pink Tights” on the cover!

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The House is Rockin’

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“Music to Make Love By … Or Music to Pleasantly Exhaust Each Other With”  Syd Dale Orchestra  Surprise Records (UK)

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Jazzy chef

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Cocinando Twist a la Mexicana  Kay Perez y su Grupo  Dimsa Records (Mexico)

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Stakes is high

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Three Rusty Nails  The Gospel Mel-Tones  Gospel Sound Records (Indiana)

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Sticky fingers

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“Cha Cha Cha” Orquesta America Vol. 1  Panart Records (Cuba)

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In one Pierre and out the other

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Pierre Dac  Panache Records (France).  André Isaac (August 15, 1893 Châlons-sur-Marne, France – February 9, 1975 Paris, France), better known as Pierre Dac, was a French humorist. During World War II, Pierre Dac was one of the speakers of the BBC’s Radio Londres service to occupied France.  He produced a series of satirical songs which were broadcast on the station. After the war, he participated in a comic duet with the humorist Francis Blanche.

Dac is also the creator of the comic term “Schmilblick”.

The Schmilblick is an imaginary object first described in a nonsense prose by the French humorist Pierre Dac during the 1950s. According to its creator, the Schmilblick can be used in almost any occasion, therefore being strictly indispensable.

The Schmilblick resurfaced in 1969, in a TV show by Guy Lux and Jacques Antoine entitled Le Schmilblic (sometimes spelled Schmilblik or Schmilblick). The aim of the game was to guess the name of an object given some of its characteristics (color, shape, use and so on).

The word quickly became very popular in French language and was sometimes used as a synonym for thing or stuff, or something designating a strange or unknown object.

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You can leave your hats on

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Boleros del la Temporada  Various Latin artists  Peerless Records (Mexico)

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