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Burning love

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Two Cigarettes in the Dark   The M-G-M Strings conducted Leroy Holmes   M-G-M Records

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Tumbling dice

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The Mike Sammes Singers  “Taking A Chance On Love”  Fontana Records (UK)

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“Ceci n’est pas une pipe”

K.C. Douglas  “The Country Boy”  Arhoolie Records  (1974)

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Sax and the single girl

Jack Defer  Germinal Records (France)  “Moon River”

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Parlor dames

“Old Standards”  Dick Hayman  Busted Records  What is this?  A real oddity.  Anybody heard of Busted Records?

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Paton plays

The Many Sides of Sandy Paton  Elektra Records (1959)  Folk songs from Scotland and the British Isles.  Charles Alexander “Sandy” Paton died in 2009 at the age of 80.

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Italian Lit

Achille Togliani  “La Voce Di Sogno Per I Vostri Sogni’  Zeus Records (Italy)

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Light melody?

Bar de Melodias  Guarana e sua orquesta de dancas  Copacabana Records  (Brazil)

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Again. Naturally.

David Whitfield  “Alone”  Decca Records (UK)  (1961) He was the first UK male vocalist to earn a gold disc; the first to have a hit placed in the Top Ten of the Billboard Hot 100; and the first artist from Britain to sell over one million copies of one disc in America!  Not bad if you have to be alone.

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Exhalent!

Aperta Outro  Bafo da Onca (“Breath of the Jaguar”)

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