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Guitar pickup

Adriano Celentano   “Stai Lontana Da Me”   Ri-Fi Records (Milan)

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Buzz cut

“Baby Sittin’ Boogie”  Buzz Clifford  Philips Records EP

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What time is it?

“Samba Time”  Egidio Bortoli and Latin American Rhythm  Spotlight Records (Australia)

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Tweet me

And here are the JAILBIRD SINGERS, a Swedish “hootenanny” singing group of real prison inmates on Metronome Records (ca., 1963)  (Via Ulf)

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Swedish fishin’

Lil Malmkvist (“great fishin’ “)  Fina Fisken  (circa early sixties)  ScanDisc Records (Sweden)  She looks like Lucy, no?  (Thanks for sending Ulf!)

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Fancy lads

“Dandy”  The Kinks  PYE Records (France)  From the album “Face to Face” (1966)

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Lei’in ’round

Jo Ann Campbell sings “A Kookie Little Paradise” and “Bobby, Bobby, Bobby b/w The Playboys singing “Memories” and “You’re All I See”  Karusell Records EP  (Sweden)  (Via ULF!)

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He comes out swinging!

“Count ‘Em”  Quincy Jones with Harry Arnold and his Swedish Radio Studio Orch.  Recorded in Stockholm for Metronome Records (1958)  A three-song EP with “Count ‘Em”, “Meet Benny Bailey” (featuring the added trumpet of … Benny Bailey) and “Cherokee”  These tracks are also on the LP “Quincy’s Home Again”.  Q writes in the notes, “The atmosphere, the warmth, the musicianship and the understanding I found in Sweden certainly make me consider it my spiritual home”  Consider in contrast what blacks, including many brilliant jazz artists, were experiencing in their native home America in 1958 and why so many became expatriates in Europe for years.  Thanks to Lp cover lover, ULF for another fine contribution.

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Strap hangers

The Gaylords  “On the Town”  Mercury Records EP

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You blow in here and it comes out there

Raymond Boisserie

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