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Swingin’ on a chair

“J’aime danser sur le Jazz”  Vogue Records  A French compilation of swing jazz with Sidney Bechet, Buck Clayton, Coleman Hawkins and others.   Many were ex-pats living in France during the forties and fifties.

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All aboard!!

HAPPY TIMES TUNES  (For children one to one hundred and one)  Sung by Earl Rogers  MusiCraft Records

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Little Miss Dynamite

1958 EP from Brenda Lee  with “Rock the Bop”; “Ring-a-My-Phone; “Dynamite”; and “Love You Till I Die”  Brunswick (France)

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Stain in my heart

Emilinha Borba  “Emilia no pais dos sucessos”   Columbia Records (Brazil)

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Osaka to me!

Interesting front and back cover from Japan.   Almost all of these Japanese nude and cheesecake  covers feature  models that are Caucasian and this one is Japanese.  Go figure.  And what a figure!

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One-ski… two-ski

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“My eyes are up here, not down here!”

“Ritmos Tropicais”  Trio Avileno e seu Conjunto  Columbia Records (Brazil)

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The sausage king of Auvergne

“Auvergne Coeur du Monde”  Andre Curel et ses Joyeaux Auvergnats   Look For Records (France)

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“It’s Mashed Potato time!”

“Alo Dancarinos, Chegou A Musica”   The Sinter Quintet   Sinter Records  (Brazil)

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Shower flower

“Amo”  J.G. de Araujo Jorge  Musidisc (Brazil)

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