“Wanna play?”
The Big Hit Parade Royal Pops Orchestra (Toshiba Records, Japan)
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Smooth operator
Jonah Jones “I Dig Chicks!” Capitol Records This one is in the Hall of Fame. I’ve had this record since I was a kid. I would sit on the floor listening with the cover on my lap dreaming of getting a job as a construction crane operator some day. Incidentally, this album won the Grammy for best Jazz Group Performance of 1958. (Seems hard to believe considering the amazing jazz that was being recorded that year by Miles, Monk, Mingus, etc., etc.!)
On the dock of the babe
Delicious Brigitte Bardot on the cover of this easy listening (easy to look at) LP “Percussion Italiano” Command Records All-Stars starring Charles Magnante. Grand Award International series.
Muchacha cha!
“Cantares de la Revolucion” Harmanos Zaizar – Mariachi Jalisco de Pepe Villa y Alegres Languneros Peerless Records Mexico
“Funny, I dote on dreamy music too”
“She Dotes On Dreamy Music” One of a dozen in the “Music for the Girl/Boy Friend” Series on Decca. All with a dreamy Petty Girl! (As featured in Esquire) Here’s Harry Hermann and His Orchestra.
Let it all hang out
Grazias to LP cover lover Ulf for sharing this sweet sleevage with us. “Piccolo Night Club” Durium Records EP
Ben Dover at the Sands
Cha-Cha a Mexico Las Secretarias el Bodeguero avec les orchestres Pepe Luis et Frankie Fontana Records EP France
Check under the hood
“Just You, Just Me” Jaye P. Morgan with Marion Evans and his Orchestra RCA Records Twenty years before she was a panelist on The Gong Show and The Match Game, Jaye P. was this peachy, peroxide blonde, sweater girl and, in 1955, the top female vocalist in the U.S. according to a Cashbox magazine poll.
Ryes and shine
“The Best of Whisky” The Great Sounds of the Great Groups from Whisky A Go-Go Chart Records
So you think you can dance?
“Strip Tease Susi” b/w “Mama, Hol’ Den Hammer” by Ralf Bendix German Columbia Records (1962)
