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For-God-saken

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“Forsaken Doll” Maria Leonora   Vicor   This is weird.   Read below!

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And now for my vinyl act

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Franquito “Prodigioso”   Copacabana Records     But who’s balancing the books?

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For the newly unemployed

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“Music for Courage and Confidence”   The Melachrino Strings   RCA Victor

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That’s Pete Best on drums

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Pinky and Perky’s “Beat Party”   Columbia/EMI Records

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Comet relief

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“Flying High!   With Salconi the Italian ‘Astro-Nut’   Vedettes Records

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Pump up the volume

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“Hi Fi Fo Fum”   Marty Gold and His Orchestra   Vik Records   1958   Photo by Dave Hecht   From back in the day when the guys in the art dept were allowed to have fun and were free to do the most crazy stuff they could think of.   That’s the spirit we celebrate here!

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Wax on, wax off

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A Blue Elephant compilation of ska and early reggae.   “Whaaauw Ooooooohh”

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TV is the thing this year

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67 Melody Lane Ken Griffin At The Wurlitzer Organ   18 Selections From The Ken Griffin TV Film Series “67 Melody Lane”   Columbia Records, 1950s   “What I find funny about this cover is that the star himself is the small BW figure shown on the TV set, not the guy in the large color pic.   The album itself is (musically) unlistenable.” — lp cover lover, Nicholas West

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Roy “Little Jazz” Eldridge

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Roy Eldridge “Collates”   Mercury Records (Supervised by Norman Granz) Illustration by David Stone Martin.

Instead of other Collates series, this album is NOT a collection of Roy Eldridge’s previously-released 78rpm/45rpm single tracks, but two different sessions aimed for this LP album.

Roy Eldridge (tp) Buddy Tate (ts) Teddy Brannon (p) Clyde Lombardi (b) Charlie Smith (d)   NYC, August, 1951

579-6 Baby, What’s The Matter With You?
580-6 Yard Dog
581-3 Sweet Lorraine
582-5 Jumbo The Elephant

Roy Eldridge (tp) George Williams (dir) unidentified orchestra   NYC, December, 1951

644-6 Basin Street Blues
645-2 I Remember Harlem
646-4 Easter Parade
647-3 I See Everybody’s Baby

** also issued on Clef MGC 113

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Oil in the family

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Na Voz de Agnaldo Rayol   Copacabana Records   Another example of the cover-on-the-cover in this oil painting of a family listening to their own, to-be-released, record.   Check out the little girl – she’s got some attitude.

A random aside:   He looks a little like Aristotle Onassis or the Shah of Iran.

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