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Cigar aficionado

“Os Fabulosos Romanticos De Cuba”   Musidisc Records

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Hard Driving Jazz

The Cecil Taylor Quintet with John Coltrane, Kenny Dorham, Steve Lacy, Chuck Israels and Louis Hayes.   United Artists   (1958)   Reissued In 1964 as “Coltrane Time.”   Includes “Double Clutching” (Chuck Israels), “Like Someone In Love” (Van Heusen/Burke),   “Shifting Down” (Kenny Dorham), “Just Friends” (Klenner/Lewis).

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Music? for Screaming!!!

Jerry Colonna At His Best.   Decca Records (1954)   Hear it here.

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Um…

Major Lance “Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um” b/w “Sweet Music”   Okeh Records (1964)   Written by Curtis Mayfield.   This single was the follow up to the 1963 hit “Monkey Time,” (also written by Mayfield).

In 1978, Major Lance was convicted of selling cocaine and he spent the next four years in prison.   Upon his release, he began playing the Beach Music circuit on the Carolina coast until 1987 when a heart attack halted his career again.   In 1994, he performed at the Chicago Blues Festival, a show which turned out to be his last.   Major Lance died of heart failure on 3rd September 1994, at the age of 55.

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Gum sisters

A Doublemint Gum sales promotion record (ironically a single). With music by the Doubleaires, of course.

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A regular riot

“And Awaaay We Go!   With Jackie Gleason   Capitol Records (1954)

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“C’mon, do something funny”

Les Beatles Odeon EP “I Want To Hold Your Hand” “It Won’t Be Long” “I Wanna Be Your Man” and “Till There Was You”

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What a body!

“Memories of You”   The Elmer Duke Orchestra”   Union Records (Japan)

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On the rocks

Osvaldo Oliveira “Paixao Descontrolada”   CBS

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Disco inferno

The Hipster Singers “Hip! Hip! Hipsters”

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