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Jazz Royalty: The High Priest of Bop

Monk’s Moods   The Thelonious Monk Trio   Prestige Records (Holland) Dutch cover photo.   Thelonious Monk piano, Gary Mapp or Percy Heath bass, Art Blakey or max Roach drums.     Recorded in 1953

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Favorite omelet #7

Houston Wells and the Marksmen   “…Western Style”   Parlaphone Records (Uk)

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Dream catcher

“Sueno y Realidad”   Las Tres Guittarras   Verne Records (Argentina)

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Don’t do it

“Relax”   Ramona Gerhard at the Hi Fi Wurlitzer Organ   Soma Records

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Lush life

“Beer, Beer, Beer”   By Marion LUSH   Dyno Records

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Sound bites

hors d’oeuvres for connoisseur DJ’s     A sampler of new releases from Tops Records in 1960.

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First you’re just sharing sodas

“Bom Mesmo e Mu…sica”   Renato de Oliveira   Continental Records (Brazil)

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Sock jocky

“On The Air with DJ the DJ”   Jubilee Records   (1978)   Christian entertainment from ‘Kids Praise the Lord’ TV series on KTBN, Channel 40 in Los Angeles.”

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Dixie chicks

“Farmyard Favorites”   Twinkle Records

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I’ve been in love with the same woman for 49 years…

… if my wife finds out, she’ll kill me! “Kosher Comedy”   by Benny Bell   Zion Records (1960)

A Jewish grandmother is watching her grandchild playing on the beach when a huge wave comes and takes him out to sea. She pleads, “please God, save my only grandson. I beg of you, bring him back.” And a big wave comes and washes the boy back onto the beach, good as new. She looks up to heaven and says: “He had a hat!”

For more, see Old Jews Telling Jokes here.

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