Can we dim those a bit?
The McCance Sisters “The Lights of Home”
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Gold ‘n delicious
Hit Parade #1 Stateside Records EP (Portugal) Jay Stevens & Gil Grant SUDDENLY YOU LOVE ME / SCARBOROUGH FAIR / MIGHTY QUINN / WILL YOU LOVE ME TOMORROW
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Sweet Jane
“Let’s Put the Lights Out” Columbia Records (1947) Jane Russell At the age of 25 in 1946, Jane Russell was a big movie star without many movies to justify her status. She had been signed to a seven-year contract by Howard Hughes at 19, and Hughes had spent nine months shooting her first film, The Outlaw, a western that was more about her cleavage than about its nominal subject, Billy the Kid. That got it in hot water with the Hays Office, and years went by while Hughes tinkered with the picture, then fought to get it released properly. Meanwhile, he had tens of thousands of photographs taken of Russell and lent her out for one other film, Young Widow. While she was waiting around for her movie career to take off, she got an offer from bandleader Kay Kyser to appear on his radio show, and after hearing her he signed her to a 12-week contract and even took her with him to Columbia Records for a couple of sides. As The Outlaw finally neared a New York opening, Columbia signed Russell on her own for this album, originally released on four 78s in 1947. The eight original tracks are bedroom ballads that she coos in a drowsy voice dripping with sex. The sentiments are well represented by such titles as “Do It Again” and “Love for Sale,” and on two songs, the title track and “Two Sleepy People.”
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Work it
A mis-printed sleeve for this French German Vogue single of Dionne Warwick’s big hit – “WALK on By”.
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Billy Taylor recorded a dozen original compositions with bassist Henry Grimes and drummer Ray Mosca for SESAC Repertory during this 1960 session. Highlights include “Warming Up,” “Native Dancer,” “Uncle Fuzzy,” and the dreamy ballad “Afterthoughts.” Look for the 1993 Fresh Sound CD reissue called “Custom Taylored”
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Get your yo-yo’s out
“Yo-yo, Ye-ye” b/w “Bum-Ban-Ban-Ban” Kinita on Philips Records (Spain) (1969) “No one can be a ye-yé without playing with a yo-yo. The yo-yo of the ye-yés, the ye-yés of the yo-yos,” While real fame eluded her, this song, Kinita’s final single, was a hit. Then like the yo-yo itself, she went out of fashion and slipped quietly back into obscurity. Attempts to find the singer have failed and she remains a mystery. The B-side is “Bum ban Ban ban,” a version of British singer Lulu’s, Boom Bang-a-bang,” Kinita also achieved some notoriety for her numerous and complicated hairdos, earning herself the nickname ‘the princess of lacquer’. She has a Tina Turner thing going on here I think.
(38 votes, average: 3.87 out of 5) Loading ...
Miles high
“A Caddy for Daddy” Hank Mobley A classic, timeless, quintessential mid-sixties cover from the oft-quoted Blue Note graphic designer Reid Miles. Here’s something as beautiful on the inside as on the outside. Hank Mobley, Lee Morgan, Curtis Fuller, Bob Crenshaw and Billy Higgins at the top of their form. Artists of the highest order creating in a world of their own. Turn someone on today. Here’s the swinging, rumprolling title cut: A Caddy For Daddy
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Chairwoman Jackson
“Rockin’ with Wanda!” Wanda Jackson Capitol Records
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