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Besame smoocho

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“Besame Mucho”   Gran Orquesta Romanicos de Cuba.   Musart from Mexico.

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When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose

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“Let’s Subtract” Sometimes less is more – simpler is better. All this talk about adding, multiplying and dividing in the world. Here’s educator Rebecca Warden on her version of the “Inconvenient Truth” tour, speaking to young people about the importance of subtracting – reducing, taking away, lessening, minusing. The kids always seemed to respond with smiles hearing that there was no pressure to put two and two together anymore. (Listen and learn here at Way Out Junk)

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Tears of a clown

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A torn up copy of “Mera Naam Joker.”   The soundtrack to a 1970 Bollywood movie. On EMI Angel Records. Made in India. Music by Shankar Jaikishan.

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Banana split

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Another picture sleeve from Lp cover lover Ulf Gustafsson.   Photo by R. Carre.   On the Riviera label.

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Pigging out

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This is a Jimi Hendrix bootleg called “GOOD KARMA I”, featuring Hendrix recorded live at The Berkeley, California Community Theatre on May 30, 1970, released in this Collectors Item version by the TRADEMARK OF QUALITY folks. The cover features the classic underground illustration work of William Stout. The tracks are: FIRE, JOHNNY B. GOODE, HEAR MY TRAIN A COMIN’, FOXY LADY, and FREEDOM.

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Hoops! – she did it again.

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From the nice folks at Do You Speak English Radio!

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Trumpet Boy

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Trumpet Boy “El Paso Cha-Cha” A Philips EP.

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The beautiful and the damned

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Bob McFadden with Jack Hansen and the Transylvanians. “Dracula Cha-Cha” B/W “The Transylvania Polka”. Words and Music by Rod McKuen. Coral Records.

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Eighty and miles high

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Os Velhinohos. “Transviados Em Orbita” RCA Brazil These old dudes are usually oggling some young babe. Here they are in orbit playing patty-cake, drinking tang and floating around. Crazy man.

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Playing Flora laugh

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“The Comedians” by The Boston Pops.   An RCA EP.   Art by one of the legends of cover art illustration – Jim Flora.

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