Surreal killer
The Recorded Detailman.. When YOU are really free to listen…
So there’s more to this than meets the eye (or ear). Like Jackie Gleason famously tapping Salvador Dali for the cover of his easy listening pablum, this use of de Chirico-like artwork, is the inconcrous cover of a promotional record put out by ENZYPAN – an antacid and the “first thought in digestive disturbances” From the back cover: “Whether dyspepsia of functional, secretory or nervous origin; whether manifest by nausea and regurgitation, or by flatulence, gas pressure, irritable colon; whether accompanied by fermentative or putrefactive processes”
The music is “Le Tableau de L’Operation de la Taille” (“The Table of a Bladder Operation” ) by French composer, Marin Marais (1656-1728). The only musical description of a surgical operation. This record,circa 1950, offers the first modern performance and first recording of this unusual composition. It includes the recorded commentary of the composer’s original annotations announcing the phases of the progressing operation. The performance is by the Dutch viola da gamba player, Carel Boomkamp, accompanied by the French harpsichordist, Denyse Gouarne. One final note, this odd piece of medical and advertising history is a 10″ 78 RPM pressing on deep red vinyl.
Poof is in the pudding
Peter and Penelope Poof Have A Party “The Brightest, Most Hilarious and Sophisticated Album Ever Produced” RIC Records “Over 100 funny stories and jokes. Over 30 limericks and wildly amusing naughty songs by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein III, by Noel Coward and Cole Porter, by Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz, by Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock, Irving Berlin and by Jim Lowe too!” Cover art by Wally Wood.
From the back shelf of my mind
Tavernalar Krali HAYKO Kupa 4 Lusu Esliginde DT Records (I don’t know what I’m saying!)
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“The Most Mishige” Mickey Katz Capitol Records
Actually the illustration looks like it was also taken directly from here. And here’s a different album cover featuring the other chick!
Anders Als Die Andern Die Unverbesserlichen Vogue Records
You can’t pick your family
The Kaye Family Album on Hira Records. Listen up: “You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me”
Check out the source of this wonderful family find: Forgotten Albums and get the whole story and more enchanting music from the album.