“Take Me In The Life Boat”   The Wilder Trio

(65 votes, average: 3.95 out of 5)

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Harold Ousley “Sweet Double Hipness”   (1972)   Muse Records   (To hear this one, check out Kathleen Loves Music)

(55 votes, average: 4.04 out of 5)

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This may be my favorite cover ever!   Alberto Closas con la orq. “Calisita”   (Argentina)

(44 votes, average: 4.52 out of 5)

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Spade Cooley “The King of Western Swing”   Straight outta Hollywood Babylon or True Crime – Spade made millions then flipped and killed his wife in a jealous rage in 1961.   Sentenced to life in prison, Govenor Reagan parolled him in 1969.   He died at 69, just days before his release.

(39 votes, average: 3.85 out of 5)

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The Natural Four   Curtom Records   1974   Produced by Leroy Hutson   Contains their radio hit, and one of my favorite soul songs,   “Can This Be Real”

(Written by Leroy Hutson)   Oh, and those suits!

(21 votes, average: 3.76 out of 5)

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Shin Jung Hyun   “The Psychedelic Sound – In-A-Kadda-Da-Vida” (sic)   From Korea   (Another favorite from Drill Pop!)

(60 votes, average: 4.03 out of 5)

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A super cool 45 from Polydor Japan (Found at “Asian Drill Pop”)

(69 votes, average: 4.54 out of 5)

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Discipline 27-II   Sun Ra     (Recorded during the same 1972 sessions as Impulse’s “Space Is the Place”)   A tough one to find and well-worth seeking out, especially for those who like “Space Is the Place.”   (This post courtesy of lp cover lover Charles Bass who wrote “Why is this my favorite cover?   The life it portrays is fascinating and inexorable.   It’s also one of my favorite albums”)

The title cut is a side-long space chant number, presumably recorded as one lengthy piece, although the tune itself is divided into three sections.   Lyrics to Discipline 27-II:

What planet is this?   (repeat)

What planet is this?   (repeat)

Is this a planet of life?   (repeat)

Is this a planet of life . . . or death?   (repeat)

If this is a planet of life, why are people dying here?   (repeat)

This is not life, this is not life . . . this is death disguised as life.   (repeat)

If this is a planet of life, why do people die here?

I . . . I roam the cosmos . . . I know what life is . . . Life is splendid.   (repeat)

Why don’t you . . . why don’t you seek to know the mysteries of the greater universe?   Why do you want to stay on just one isolated little planet?

(Why . . . why don’t you want to seek the greater mysteries of the universe?

Why . . . why do you want to stay on this one little isolated planet?)

Are you afraid? . . . What is it you want to know? Do you want to know where the universe came from?   I’ll tell you.   At first there was nothing . . .

At first there was nothing . . . then nothing turned itself inside out and became something.   (repeat)

Why don’t you turn yourself inside out?   (repeat)

Come with me . . . come with me . . . to the outer planets.   Why do you want to stay here?   What do you have to lose here?   You have nothing to lose . . . except your death.

(Come . . . with me to the outer planets.   Why do you want to stay here?   You have nothing to lose . . . but your death.)

(56 votes, average: 4.48 out of 5)

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“La Dolce Vita”   Duo Fasano

(42 votes, average: 3.81 out of 5)

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CHILDREN FILM SONGS by XIAO DING TONG DOUBLE RING RECORDS   1960s CHINA

(49 votes, average: 3.80 out of 5)

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