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Patti Smith Group   “Gloria” b/w “My Generation”   Arista Record (1976)   (“My Generation” was recorded live in Cleveland on 1/26/76.)   Cool candid shot of Patti and Lenny Kaye backstage.

This “warning” appears on the back “NOTICE:   “My Generation” contains language that might be considered objectionable”   What the fuck does that mean!?

(47 votes, average: 2.77 out of 5)

Praise the lord and pass the hairspray

Geraldine Sings Four Gospel Favorites “By Request”

(58 votes, average: 3.40 out of 5)

Talk to the hand

Senor Wences‘ “Deefeecult For You – Easy For Me”   Joy 45-228.   “S’awright?”   “S’awriiiiight!”   Did you know there’s a Senor Wences Way?     A block of West 54th Street by the Ed Sullivan Theater.

(46 votes, average: 3.46 out of 5)

“You got the cutest little baby face”

The Hendersons “It’s the Hendersons”   “Baby Happy” b/w “The Merger”   I got this single in Boston around 1981.   Long before photoshop.   Never heard of the band again, but its a cover you gotta love.

(68 votes, average: 3.88 out of 5)

Hoops, upside your head!

Hula Hoop!   Adolfo Waitzman et ses Hula Hoopers   Pacific 45

(40 votes, average: 3.48 out of 5)

Everybody loves a clown

Carequinha sings “A Praca” and “Ye Ye Ye Baiano”

(38 votes, average: 2.61 out of 5)

Lamb chaps

Nivo & Chinezinho “O Rei Dos Cabritos” PromoDisco Records Brazil.   These guys have a Homer & Jethro thing going.

(39 votes, average: 3.51 out of 5)

Chilly Willy

Andy Panda Polka and Chilly Willy the Penquin!   An Approved Cricket Playhouse Production.

(33 votes, average: 2.67 out of 5)

Mao sounds!

Nice one from lp cover lover, Michael Chorney in Lincoln, Vermont who writes:   “Love your site.     Heres a classic – Maoist children songs (note they are holding rifles.)     Contains the hit “Criticize Lin Piao and Discredit Him Completely” (Lin Biao (also Piao) was a famous revolutionary general who rose to become Mao’s anointed successor, but died in a 1971 plane crash after what appeared to be a coup against Mao)

(71 votes, average: 3.75 out of 5)

Asian fusion

“Song of the Island”   The ATOMS.   “Hala Hala”, “Off Beat” “A Go Go”

(42 votes, average: 3.36 out of 5)