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45 Picture Sleeves

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Cats in the cradle

The Tokens  “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” / “Dry Your Eyes”

(51 votes, average: 4.12 out of 5)

Disco sucks

“Dracula Disco” / “Red Blood”   A Maximus Records 45  (1977)

(49 votes, average: 3.78 out of 5)

Love notes

“Instrumental Hits  Volume 3”   Floyd Cramer   RCA Records EP

(38 votes, average: 3.79 out of 5)

Ole Mexico

“Ole”  South of the Border   The Harmonicats (a group of all harmonicas)  Mercury Records EP

(47 votes, average: 4.28 out of 5)

Jean genies

“Dungaree Doll”  A “Teen Pop Record”  on the Peter Pan Records label.  $.25

(37 votes, average: 3.70 out of 5)

A ZZ Top Christmas

Les Chaussettes Noires on Barclay Records

(49 votes, average: 3.35 out of 5)

Holiday jeer


Stan Freberg   Green Christmas and The Meaning of Christmas  with the Jud Conlon Chorale and Billy May’s Music.   Capitol Records   “Ho Ho Ho there Matthew, I just found this at an antique store in Healdsburg, Ca.  Good buttoned-down cover.  Be sure to read Stan’s anti-commercialism screed on the back.   Merry Christmas!  Nick in Santa Rosa, Ca.”

(45 votes, average: 3.02 out of 5)

Dasher & Dancer…Harvey & Albert?

Meet Harvey the Hippo and Albert the Alley Cat, just two of Santa’s unheralded helpers.  Over the next few weeks, we’re going to share some of the forgotten ghosts of Christmas past..  We’ll be celebrating records from around the world that show the other side of the holiday and highlighting the non-traditional.  That’s what we do.

(34 votes, average: 3.06 out of 5)

Chinese record holders

A hefty sleeve from China.

(46 votes, average: 3.72 out of 5)

Music for a Mexican knife fight

Amalia Mendoza  “Punalada Trapera”  RCA Victor (Mexico)  (1954)

(40 votes, average: 3.65 out of 5)