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Father Goose

Max Bygraves “Nursery Rhymes For Grown-Ups.   Decca (Australia)   Forgive me these other title considerations from a list of classic nursery rhymes:

All  Around  the  Mulberry  Bush / Bum,  Bum,  Baily  O! / Dickery  Dickery  Dare / Diddle,  Diddle,  Dumpling / Hart He Loves  the  High  Wood / Here  We  Go Round the Mulberry  Bush / Hey  Diddle  Diddle /Hokey  Pokey / Hot  Cross  Buns / Humpty  Dumpty / I Had  a  Little  Nut  Tree / I  Love  Little  Pussy / Peter,  Peter,  Pumkin  Eater / Peter Piper / POP!  Goes  the  Weasel / Ride  a  Cock  Horse / There  Was  A  Crooked  Man / This  Little  Piggy Went To  Bed / Wee  Willie  Winkie or maybe Where  is  Thumbkin?

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On congas

Sonus Records.   Meregue vs. Charanga   Sonora de Lucho Macedo

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A case of mistaken identity

Dean Martin “My Woman, My Woman, My Wife” b/w “Here We Go Again”   Reprise Records

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Lower. Harder. Deeper.

“Music to Massage Your Mate By”     With this “explicitly illustrated” “instruction” booklet!   Thinly discussed soft porn, smuggled into the house in a record sleeve.   (Funny, I used to have to smuggle records in!)   Doesn’t she looked thrilled.

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Undress for success

“Music to Strip For Your Man By”   Original Music By Teddy Philips & His Orchestra.   With a fully illustrated instruction booklet by professional stripper Honey West.   AA Records.

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Dwarf star

Linda Lou and the Three For All.   Check out “Little” Linda Lou – her hair equals 1/6 of her overall height!

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Can you dig Bill Evans?

“Dig It!”   Bill Evans   Fontana Records (French)   A compilation of tracks from the albums “Everybody Digs Bill Evans”, “New Jazz Conceptions” and “Portrait in Jazz”, each originally issued on Riverside in the late fifties.   One of a series of Jazz reissues that each featured a different hip chick posing in front of a jazz legend.   Search the site for Fontana and see others listed here.   Tracks include:   I Love You / Easy Living / Displacement / Waltz For Debby / Autumn Leaves / Someday My Prince Will Come / Tenderly / What Is There To Say? / Oleo

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Over-heated Chili Peppers

“On the Road with Rock ‘n Roll”   Golden Crest Records (1957)     Before Richie Valens, Mando and the Chili Peppers were perhaps the first Mexican-American rock & roll group.   This is their only LP, though they continued to play around their home town of San Antonio into the Sixties.     Their sound was a mix of New Orleans R&B and rock and roll.   In 2004, after nearly 40 years and out of nowhere, the band played at the Ponderosa Stomp Music Festival in New Orleans.

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Zorro to sexy

Los Forasteros de Monterrey “Polkas Pa’echar Estilo   Cuate’s Records

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Polish wax

Bernie Witkowski & His Orchestra at the Belmont Ballroom, Garfield, New Jersey   “12 Polka Figure Dances”   Stella Records.

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