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My Criollo belle

Julio Mori y su conjunto  “Mi Saxo Mas Criollo”

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Drop, bop, and burn!

“Boppin’ & Burnin'”  Don Patterson, Howard McGhee, Charles McPherson, Pat Martino, Billy James  Prestige Records  (1968)

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Let’s go trippin’


Tsuburaya Monster Boosuka   Musicolor Records (Japan)

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Messin’ with the kid!

Elvis Presley in “Kid Galahad”  OST on RCA Victor  (UK)

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Echo and the bunny

“Class Guitar”  Chet Atkins  RCA Victor (Japan)

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This monster just wants to twist!



Here’s a rare one:  “The Monster Twist” b/w “Love Theme”  by Tryrone A’Saurus and his Cro-Magnons  Warner Bros.  (1962)

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Babe on board

“Surf Twist”  Barclay Records compilation from France.  Featuring Les Witchdoctors, Rocky Roberts et les Airedales and Les Sorciers!

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Chic of the week

“C’est Chic”  Chic  (1978)  Atlantic Records  Produced by Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards (The Chic Organization, LTD)   The band’s second LP includes the song “Le Freak” which topped the US charts that year and is still both Atlantic Records and parent company Warner Music’s  best-selling single ever.   The LP also contains the follow-up hit single “I Want Your Love”  Here’s a bit of the album’s last track  “(Funny) Bone”

For a great read, pick up a copy of Nile’s new autobiography, “Le Freak: An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco, and Destiny.”

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Sugar Pie’s guys

American Folk Blues Festival 1964  Fontana Records (UK)   Recorded in the Musikhalle in Hamburg that year including Sonny Boy Williamson, Sugar Pie Desanto,  Howlin Wolf and others.  Courtesy of Chess Records.  GO Sugar go!

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A little black (& white) Samba

Samba e Bom Assim (No.2)   Moacyr Silva  Copacabana Records (Brazil)

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