Sunday, January 25, 2009

Dean Martin- Everybody Loves Somebody & Dean Martin Hits Again

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There's something about Dean Martin singing that I find very relaxing...I guess he didn't sweat the small stuff much... Anyways Dean...
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Frank Sinatra- Swing Easy and Songs for Young Lovers

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Allright SINATRA!!!!!!! Can't get enough of this guy and while he sold a billion records they got play and there are a lot of considerat...
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Solid State Presenting Thad Jones Mel Lewis &"The Jazz Orchestra"

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Here's an interesting one...ALthough it should be catalog number Solid State 16003 this was apparently put out by the Capitol Records Re...

Mary Wells- Greatest Hits

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Mary Wells' "Greatest Hits" on Motown 616.. Mary Wells is the one great Motown artist that got away from the label... From wha...
Monday, January 19, 2009

Don Ellis- Music From Other Galaxies and Planets

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Don Ellis, a jazz trumpeter, recorded the first "jazz" version of Theme from Star Wars in the middle of the Star Wars craze that h...
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The Gil Evans Orchestra Plays the Music of Jimi Hendrix

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This is an interesting album on RCA CPL1-0667 from 1974 that has always peaked my curiosity.. The story goes that Gil Evans had spoken with ...

Jamiroquai- Cosmic Girl Promo 12" inch single

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Its hard to remember but there was a time in the mid 1990s where Jamiroquai's brand of environmental hippie acid jazz dance funk was com...

Mott the Hoople debut album Atlantic SD 8258 test pressing

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Extremely rare.. I venture to guess this is one of the rarest records I own.. the US Atlantic white label test pressing (pressed at Presswel...
Sunday, January 18, 2009

Nina Simone- Sings the Blues

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I suppose Nina Simone's career can largely be divided into four periods based on the record labels she was working with: 1) Colpix Reco...

Stan Getz at Large

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Now here's a treat.. I found this at a junk shop.. you know the kind of place... it smells..its basically a bunch of garbage on sale for...
Saturday, January 17, 2009

Pink Moon LP labels/inner gatefold/full cover gatefold

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Nick Drake - Pink Moon

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Whoa Nelly! This is of course a picture of Nick Drake's final LP - "Pink Moon" - released in the United States as Island SMAS-...

Dizzy Gillespie Plays

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Here's some classic jazz on a 10 " LP from 1956 on the Allegro Elite label Long Play 4108.. Allegro looks like some sort of shoddy ...

Afrique- Soul Makossa

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This is an interesting album on Mainstream MRL 394 from 1973 (I notice the Mainstream label had some interesting stuff going on in the 70s) ...

King Cole Trio - Volume 4

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Probably in the past few years - after having fully absorbed the greatness of Frank Sinatra- my greatest discovery has been Nat King Cole.. ...

Hank Crawford- Soul of the Ballad

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Here is something that is kind of interesting.. an Atlantic fairly early jazz lp from Hank Crawford with the Marty Paich Orchestra on Atlant...
Friday, January 16, 2009

Willie Nelson- Somewhere Over the Rainbow

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WILLIE! "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" on Columbia PC 36883 in shrink..looks new in fact...This is a third standards release apparen...

Johnny Mathis - Warm

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Johnny Mathis! Thrift store gold!!!!!!!!! For some reason although there is a lot of Mathis in the trifts and junkyards of America whenever ...

The Wondeful World of Antonio Carlos Jobim

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Somewhat neat score... Jobim's 1965 Warner Brothers LP (his second) On Warner W 1611 with arrangements by none other than Nelson Smock R...

MECO: Star Wars and other Galactic Funk

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Allright.. in the midst of the Star Wars and disco mania MECO came out with an album of disco versions of Star Wars and a few other things.....