A rare one on the Kubaney label  Manuel Caballero’s “Gigantes y Cabezudos”  Many Spanish festivals include costumed figures known as gigantes y cabezudos, roughly, “Giants and Big-Heads” . The main feature of these figures is typically their papier mache heads; bodies are covered in clothing matching the costume’s theme.  These figures are particularly common in festivals of Basque Country or Catalonia, where many cities and towns have their own figures.  FREAKY great cover.

Bonus pic:

(40 votes, average: 3.85 out of 5)

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Bar-Kays  “Too Hot To Stop”  Mercury Records  (1976)   Also includes “Shake Your Rump to the Funk”.

(45 votes, average: 3.51 out of 5)

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The Many Sides of Sandy Paton  Elektra Records (1959)  Folk songs from Scotland and the British Isles.  Charles Alexander “Sandy” Paton died in 2009 at the age of 80.

(34 votes, average: 3.24 out of 5)

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Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis with the Paul Weeden Trio  “I Only Have Eyes For You” Prestige Records  (1963)

(35 votes, average: 3.34 out of 5)

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Italian EP by Franco Trincale on Fonola Records  (1972)  I just found this on YouTube.  Crazy.  What is he singing about?  I’m afraid to know.

(35 votes, average: 3.43 out of 5)

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Meanwhile, back in the USSR

(44 votes, average: 4.25 out of 5)

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Ultra Funk  “Meat Heat”  Contempo Records (1977) (UK)  LISTEN HERE

(51 votes, average: 4.12 out of 5)

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The Lions (“Os Inigualaveis”)  Farroupilha Records (Brazil)  Sixties guitar rock from Sao Paulo with covers of “The Lion Sleeps Tonight”, “Tequila” and Ray Charles’ “Mary Ann”.

(34 votes, average: 3.24 out of 5)

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Hoagy Carmichael’s “Havin’ A Party”  Golden Records

(40 votes, average: 3.58 out of 5)

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Maurice Patton and The Melodians  “Ding Dong A-Go-Go”

(49 votes, average: 3.53 out of 5)

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