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45 Picture Sleeves

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Let’s dance

David Bowie   “Without You”   b/w “”Criminal World”   EMI Records   (1983)   Keith Haring illustration.     (Personal aside:   I saw Keith Haring twice, once, in 1982 when he came up to Bard College and covered the art center with his graffiti of   radioactive babies.   Then again in 1989 (the year before he died) at the big Andy Warhol retrospective at MOMA.   Okay, maybe not a classic anecdote, but there you go.)

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Def Jam Records

Def Jam Records picture sleeve back.   Def Jam was the hip-hop house that Rick Rubin and Russell Simmons built.   The first single released with a Def Jam Recordings logo was T La Rock & Jazzy Jay “It’s Yours”   From the mid- 80’s through the end of the century, the label boasted a roster of rap heavyweights including LL Cool J, The Beastie Boys and Public Enemy.

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“It Do Me So Good”

Ann-Margret   “Gimme Love” b/w “It Do Me So Good” !!   RCA Victor

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Nestalgic

Frederci LeCoultre   CBS (French)

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Pigging out

More from the best-selling pig duo in recording history, Pinky and Perky!   “Nursery Romp”     A Columbia (U.K.) EP.

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Ghost buskers

Los Fantasmas   Jose Curbelo   Polydor Records (France)

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Reynold’s rap

Debbie Reynolds   MGM Records E.P. (U.K.)

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Sex bomb

Tom Jones   “Hide and Seek”   / “Love Me Tonight”   London Records EP   (Japan)

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Killing me softly

“Instrumental Assassination”   Manfred Mann on Fontana (UK)

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Drive, he said

“Music While You Drive”   Listening to music while you drive can be perfect.   With the windows rolled up or the top rolled down, sometimes music just sounds best in your automobile.   Crank the volume and the outside world becomes a silent background to the songs.

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