Record Covers of the Week

Dave Brubeck Quartet: Anything Goes!

Les Paul: Now!

Ian & Sylvia: Play One More

Thrift Item of the Moment

Novelty oversize brandy snifter

So many uses. Pefect for retro desserts:

Ice cream balls with creme de menthe.

Multistripe Delight:

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Some helpful hints for making Multistripe Delight: Use a smaller large novelty snifter than this one unless you and your friends looove jello. I’d also recommend you set it at a shallower angle. When I put the snifter upright, the jello came away from sides and shifted ever so slowly over the course of the evening, trying to level itself out (you might also reduce the amount of water in the recipe to make it firmer).

I used the six colours of the rainbow, our good friend Roy G. Biv (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet).

Gayest dessert ever.

Record Cover of the Week

Paul Mauriat: Rhythm & Blues

American soul interpreted by the master of French easy listening – with a gratuitously psychedelic cover.

comfy

Thrift Item of the Moment

Bobbly mugs

Sex

Death

Record Cover of the Week

The Linha Singers: Voices in Rhythm

Swingle Singers style rococo-jazz from Czechoslovakia (1970).

Fabio After Dark

I bought Fabio’s 1993 CD on ebay for 1¢. Totally worth it.

Record Cover of the Week

Jo Basile, Accordion and Orchestra: Mexico With Love

There’s a beautiful vintage Lambretta (Italian scooter) hidden under all those peppers and tequila. Part of a series that includes Rome, Berlin, Paris, Rio, Madrid, and Moscow.

Record (First Day) Cover of the Week

Britain’s Royal Mail has issued a series of 10 stamps of iconic record covers by British artists. Included are Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells, The Rolling Stones’ Let It Bleed, Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust, and Led Zeppelin IV, among others.

According to this BBC article, the selection criterion was the artwork and not necessarily the music on the album. Seems odd to me that no Beatles covers were selected – I’d opt for Revolver (or maybe the white album – how cheeky would that be?).

And somehow this one was also missed.

Record Cover of the Week

Lalo Schifrin: The Fox

Very groovy 60’s graphic. Schifrin’s music is also excellent.

Zero Mostel Sings Harry Ruby’s Songs My Mother Never Sang

Record Cover of the Week

Oscar Peterson: The Silent Partner

Those are Christopher Plummer’s sparkling, malevolent eyes on the cover of this LP. He played a nasty bank robber opposite bank clerk Elliot Gould. Quebec actress Céline Lomez played Plummer’s girlfriend and met with a memorably gruesome end involving a fish tank. The film was one of the more notable products of Canadian cinema’s tax shelter years. Oscar Peterson wrote some themes for the characters that were orchestrated by composer/arranger Ken Wannberg. This LP (never released on CD) features Peterson with an all-star septet including Benny Carter (alto sax), Zoot Sims (tenor sax) and Milt Jackson (vibes).

Have a Burly Ivesy Christmas

Burl Ives has been topping the list of search engine terms that bring people to this blog for the past week or so. I assume they’re looking for this:

and not this: