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A skinny Santa returns post-recession for a hand out

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“Eterno Natal”

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Lieutenant kernel

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The Pop Corns   “Zero-Zero”   Festival Records

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Sisters morphing

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The Jensen Sisters “Dancin’ in the Autumn Breeze”   Check out that double neck! Jimmy Page eat your heart out.

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Detroit breakdown

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MC5 “Kick Out the Jams” (“motherfuckers”)   1969 Elektra Records   Vocals, Rob Tyner; Guitarists Wayne Kramer and Fred “Sonic” Smith (Later Mr. Patti Smith); Michael Fraser on vocals/bass and Grant Palmer on drums.

Radical and revolutionary. in the late sixties MC5 was banging out hard punk jams that meshed out jazz, political anger and garage band rock.   MC5 was signed to Elektra in 1969 along with fellow motor city madmen The Stooges.

Stupefaction hips us to this site of MC5 drummer Dennis “Machinegun” Thompson.   Check it out.

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Monster Shindig

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“Monster Shindig”   Super-Snooper and Blabber Mouse with The Gruesomes (of the Flintstones), Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Wolf Man.   Songs:   “The Monster Shindig” and “The Monster Jerk”   Hanna-Barbera Original T.V. Stars.       This brings back fond memories of a childhood spent in front of the TV on Saturday Mornings and coloring books, board games, comics, puzzles, lunch boxes, notebooks and records.

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Peeper boy

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Discos Picaros   “Colorin Colorao! por La Palanca”   Chistes Solo para Adultos     (Seems silly to be peeking through the keyhole when there’s a giant window right there.)

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Blow by blow

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From Bangkok

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Ring around the roses

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Cantigas de Roda   “Coro Infantil com Orquestra sob direcao de Lyrio Panicali   Columbia Records Brazil

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Tulips, long hair and a big nose

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Thanks to lp cover lover Jim Henderson for sharing his Tiny Tim album “With Love and Kisses From Tiny Tim” (Editor’s note: eeewwww!) “Concert in Fairyland”.   On Bouquet Records

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Hey Sandy girl

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Sandra (Philips Records)

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