We’re Excited too!
The King’s Messengers
“We’re Excited”
Superior # S-10083
photos & layout: Dave Dodrill
art direction: Ken Harding
My sleeves. Look at them.
Jack Costanzo & his Latin Orchestra
“Mr. Bongo Plays in Hi-Fi”
Tops #1564
From the Back Cover:
From Havana to Hollywood, the bongo beat is sweeping the continent. Bongo parties are developing into a revered Institution as thousands of unrelenting tyros nurse sore fingers and aching wrists trying to make the skins speak Cubano.
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His organ is in the mood
Eddie Layton
“Organ Moods in Hi-Fi”
Mercury #MG20208
“Great Organ Hits”
Mercury #SR60639
From the Back Cover:
“MERCURY believes that this long playing album presenting the creative genius of Eddie Layton shows just how limitless the realm of sound can be when left in the hands of an artist who has full command of his instrument.”
Okay, TWO hugely phallic album covers by one guy? What’s going on?
Mr. Layton was the organist for the New York Yankees baseball team until his retirement in 2003.
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giant pipes
Leon Berry
“Giant Wurlitzer Vol. 3″
Audio Fidelity #1844
From the Back Cover:
“Leon Berry is one of this country’s most versatile theater organists who knows his own instrument intimately and therefore is highly conscious of its many capabilities. For a number of years, Berry has been organist at the world renowned Hub Rink in Chicago.”
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Knees Up!
Mrs. Mills
“Knees-Up Party”
Music for Pleasure #50230
1975
photography: Colin Glanfield
design: David Wharin
From the Back Cover:
A party isn’t any sort of a party without our Glad. Half a minute of her gusty lusty piano playing and you’re a goner… a compulsive joiner… toes tapping, fingers snapping… away on a breezy bouncy journey that gets you singing every step of the way simply because of the come-on-and-be-with-us atmosphere she creates whenever she’s around.
–Carol Spero
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Probably not.
Mrs. Miller
“Will Success Spoil Mrs. Miller?!”
Capitol records
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the things you find while looking for obscure euro music videos
Bernie und Ert
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world cups
Various Artists
“Op Losse Groeven 8″
Bovema #5C048.25 102
1973, Netherlands
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Leisure suits by Ikea
Thorleifs
“Grȧt Inga Tȧrar…”
Platina #3040
Sweden, 1975
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