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Felonious Monk

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The Modern Jazz Quartet  Soundtrack to “Sait-On Jamais”  Atlantic Records (France)

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Twenty Days and Twenty Nights

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Surprise-Partie Twenty  Compilation of sixties pop tunes on Vogue Records in France including Pet Clark, Francoise Hardy, etc.

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Walking My Baby Back Home

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“We Come Too Far To Look Back”    The Danny Turner Singers.  Perfection Gospel Sound Records (Hogansville, Georgia)

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Ballad for a Bronze Beauty

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Ritmos Bailables  Orquesta Romanticos de Brazil   MAMBO. DANZON. CHA CHA CHA. BOLEROS.   Star Records (Miami, Florida)

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Boss Guitar

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Hymns of the Alpines”  Odeon Records (Italy)  Never seen a “guitar” like this before!  Anyone know what this instrument is called?  Is that guy in the back playing a … kettle?

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Smoke Dreams

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I Sing ‘Ammore’  Nicola Arigliano  Columbia Records (Italy)

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Leave My Kitten Alone

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Someone just “adopted” this sweet record from us on eBay at seller:  lp-cover-lover.  We’ll be posting more soon.  I hope she went to a good home.

Looks here like she did!:

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Return to the Planet of the Capes

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The Christ Messengers   “He’ll Go With Me The Rest of the Way”  (1972)  Private Press out of Tulsa, Oklahoma.   The Messengers are Don, Virginia, Leana and Donata Thomas.

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Teacher of Love

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Intensified Sex For Couples  Plan 4   AJG Consultants  AJG Records (New York) (1975).  “Approach this recording with enthusiasm.  It will improve your life”   This series of records is an aid for women to become “THE MATE MEN DESIRE”.  This is some crazy shit from a time not that long ago but light years from how we talk today!  You can read the liner notes by clicking on the cover – there are some real doozies!

In case you’re curious about the others in the series:

PLAN 1:  How To Meet Men

PLAN 2:  How To Marry Rich

PLAN 3:  How To Be A Great Lover

PLAN 5: How to Keep Him

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