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Cogan Alma - The Very Best of Alma Cogan – He Just Couldn’t (CD)
€15,00Quick ViewUniversally known as ’The girl with the laugh in her voice’, ALMA COGAN was The UK’s very first Princess of Pop.
She cut her very first record, ’To Be Worthy Of You’, on her 20th birthday in March 1952, and was rewarded with a Top 5 hit.
Alma topped the UK charts with ’Dreamboat’ in 1955, and during the 1950s she registered twenty-three hit Records in Britain, far more than any other female singer.
This is the first compilation to include all her UK hits, including further ’signature songs’ like ’Bell Bottom Blues’, ’I Can’t Tell A Waltz From A Tango’, ’Never Do A Tango With An Eskimo’ and ’Last Night On The Back Porch’, alongside the pick of her other singles.
Also featured are a number of her celebrated R&R covers, e.g. ’Tweedle Dee’, ’Why Do Fools Fall In Love’, ’Lucky Lips’, ’Fabulous’, ’This Little Girl’s Gone Rockin” and ’Pink Shoelaces’.
She enjoyed considerable international success, notably in Japan, where ’He Just Couldn’t Resist Her With Her Pocket Transistor’ topped the charts.
Alma died in 1966 at the tragically young age of thirty-four, at more or less the peak of her popularity, following a battle with ovarian cancer.
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Various - Locura Tropical Vol.2 (LP)
€20,00Quick ViewFinally, and thanks to the hard work of the fine folks at INAMU (Instituto Nacional de la Música de Argentina) and the amazing selection job of Nekro (Fun People & Boom Boom Kid), we’re proud to present ”Locura Tropical vol 1”, the first of a 2 volume set of mind blowing lp’s compiling the finest 60’s and 70’s (and some 80’s) latin sounds from the legendary Argentinian label Music Hall. This first lp presents an avalanch of sounds so hot it needs to be handled with care! From Latin to Tropical, to Jazz influences, Cumbia, Candombe, Pachanga…It’s all (and more!) here! A crazy feast to re discover this incredible label .
Limted to 500 copies
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Various - Locura Tropical Vol.1 (LP)
€20,00Quick ViewFinally, and thanks to the hard work of the fine folks at INAMU (Instituto Nacional de la Música de Argentina) and the amazing selection job of Nekro (Fun People & Boom Boom Kid), we’re proud to present ”Locura Tropical vol 1”, the first of a 2 volume set of mind blowing lp’s compiling the finest 60’s and 70’s (and some 80’s) latin sounds from the legendary Argentinian label Music Hall. This first lp presents an avalanch of sounds so hot it needs to be handled with care! From Latin to Tropical, to Jazz influences, Cumbia, Candombe, Pachanga…It’s all (and more!) here! A crazy feast to re discover this incredible label .
Limted to 500 copies
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Rondells - Exotic Sounds From Night Trips (LP)
€24,00Quick ViewThe new EXOTICA sensation has a Name : The RONDELLS,
This talented French trio+ 1 is exploring the world and its crazy rhythms on this amazing debut album. All the cuts were recorded and mixed at the ELECTROPHONIC studio, down in Lyon, France,
by the wizard of the place Hervé Bessenay.
With a handfull of vacuum equipment and vintage effects, Hervé’s got it ! The mid century Lounge Exotica sound that was in vogue from Miami to Malibu in the 50’s…
full analogical recording rules ! So get your Bamboo skirt and Limbo barefoot in the sand ! -
Martin Dean - French Style (Pink) (LP)
€29,90Quick ViewColoured Vinyl, High Quality
In 1962 Martin left his record label Capitol and signed with Frank Sinatra’s new label Reprise. His debut album for them was French Style, released in April of that year. Martin had recently released an album of songs sung in Italian and would go on to record an album of Latino material at the end of that year. French Style came in between the two, and collected a number of songs about France ably arranged by conductor Neal Hefti. At this point, France must have seemed impossibly glamorous, with Brigitte Bardot swanning around St Tropez, while Grace Kelly raced her sports car around the clifftops of Cannes in Hitchcock’s To Catch A Thief. Beatniks filled the jazz cafés, where the New Wave of French cinema was being discussed over Disques Bleu and café au lait. What’s more, the majority of songs in this collection focus on Paris – and the City of Lights has been a magnet for Americans ever since the days when Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald and Cole Porter first took up residence there. French Style is delivered with his trademark charm and ease. So, bon appetit!
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Various - Smoking Reefers and Kicking the Gong (CD)
€13,00Quick ViewWhatever its nomenclature, entertainers have long enjoyed a ’special relationship’ with cannabis/marijuana, particularly musicians and singers, who’ve long delighted in extolling the joys of recreational drugs.
This compilation deals with the leaf’s early years, when it was generally referred to as ’Reefer’ (sometimes, ’Gage’, ’Pot’, or ’Tea’), and was pretty much the exclusive domain of Jazz and Blues musicians.
The oldest sides featured herein are a couple of the earliest known druggies’ anthems, ’Willie the Chimney Sweeper’ (an homage to smoking opium, a practice then widely known as ’kicking the gong’) and ’Dope Head Blues’.
Some major artistes feature on this set, notably Cab Calloway, Ella Fitzgerald, Fats Waller, Champion Jack Dupree and The Ink Spots.
Mind you, many of the song titles are a dead giveaway: ’Reefer Man’, ’Sweet Marijuana Brown’, ’Reefer Head Woman’, ’Who Put The Benzedrine In Mrs Murphy’s Ovaltine?’, ’The Reefer Song (If You’re A Viper)’, etc.
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Paulette Sisters - In The ’50s (CD)
€13,00Quick ViewThe Paulette Sisters were among the most prolific of all the singing sisters of the 1940’s, 50’s and early 60’s, recordings dozens of singles for such major labels as Decca, Columbia and Capitol, yet this is the very first CD compilation of their work.
They were early protégées of Connee Boswell and backed her on several sides as a quartet.
When one of the sisters left to get married, Connee coached them on becoming a trio like the Boswells.
This new Jasmine set focuses on their 50’s material, with orchestrations by Mitch Miller, Percy Faith, Larry Clinton, Dave Cavanaugh, and Sy Oliver, all remastered in pristine digital sound.
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Various - Pin-Up Girls – Too Hot To Handle (RSD, Ltd) (LP)
€18,00Quick ViewThis 20 track coloured vinyl compilation brings together an eclectic mix of female performers and movie stars of the fifties, often referred to as ‘Pin-Up Girls’. The album opener is one of hottest songs of the fifties, Marilyn Monroe’s “I Wanna Be Loved By You” from Billy Wilder’s movie ‘Some Like It Hot’. Another hot one is Peggy Lee’s signature song “Fever”, there’s the theme from ‘Vie Privée’, entitled “Sidonie”, performed by Brigitte Bardot followed by sensual performances by Sophia Loren, Julie London, Marlene Dietrich, Josephine Baker, Françoise Hardy, Gina Lollobrigida, Ava Gardner, Jane Mansfield’s “Too Hot To Handle” and the closing song is Rita Hayworth’s “The Heat Is On”.
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Various - Fool’s Gold: Lux And Ivy Dig Those Novelty Tunes (CD)
€15,00Quick ViewReleased March 25, 2022.
• Think original Saturday morning Children’s Choice selections fed into a Crampsian cement mixer.
• 25 madcap and eclectic novelty 45s gathered together for All Fool’s Day.
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• Think original Saturday morning Children’s Choice selections fed into a Crampsian cement mixer.• 25 madcap and eclectic novelty 45s gathered together for All Fool’s Day
From an era where seemingly nothing was taboo on record, songs about worms, cannibalism, wildfowl on a rampage, wombats, mad people and deranged cats
Including the “World’s Worst Record” according to Kenny Everett – The Legendary Stardust Cowboy’s superb ‘Paralyzed’
Plus celebrity nonsense from Danny Kaye, Spike Jones, Brian Hyland, the voice of Mr Magoo Jim Backus and Sheb Wooley
And obscure gems from Dicky Doo And The Don’ts, Sidney And The Chimps and The Joker
Warning: May contain unfounded driving advice and anti-rabbit propaganda
Remastered with sleeve notes by MOJO magazine’s Dave Henderson
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Various - Lux And Ivy Dig Crime Jazz – Film Noir Grooves & Dangerous Liaisons (CD)
€15,00Quick View• Dramatic, dark and daring jazz compilation collected from a brace of late ‘50s exploitation movies and TV soundtracks
• Featuring the masters of tension Elmer Bernstein and Henry Mancini plus a host of cameos from Miles Davis, Burt Bacharach to Andre Previn
• Including the theme music from Dragnet, 77 Sunset Strip and Peter Gunn along with highlights from Touch Of Evil, I Want To Live, The Man With The Golden Arm and Johnny Staccato among many others
Plus genre setting 45 gems ‘Harlem Nocturne’ and ‘Route 66’ plus obscure B- sides ‘Experiment In Terror’ and ‘Two Hour Honeymoon’
The likes of Bernstein and Mancini were the backbone of crime jazz but just like the juxtaposition of plotline and sound, it’s the offbeat nuances that make it all the more spectacular.
An audio masterclass for fans of drive-in movies and Alex Cox’s Moviedrome.
Remastered from the original sound source with sleeve notes by MOJO magazine’s Dave Henderson
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Various - Total Exotica – As Dug By Lux And Ivy (2CD) (CD)
€15,00Quick View• The light and dark of exotica and easy listening, from ethereal Martin Denny- championed grooves to heavier jazz investigations into world music
• As dug by The Cramps’ Lux and Ivy
• Companion set to the successful ‘Pure Exotica’ of 2020Featuring key players in the genre from Martin Denny and Arthur Lyman to Les Baxter and Eden Ahbez
With jazz exponents Esquivel, Ahmed Abdul Malik, Yusef Lateef and Cal Tjader
Plus the incredible voices of Yma Sumac and Ethel Azama
And a host of obscure gems from The Markko Polo Adventurers, Bill Russo, Bianchi, Henri Rene and Jack Marshall
Includes the strange authentic instrumentation of Elisabeth Waldo and the luck strings of Henry Mancini
Remastered from the original sound sources with sleeve notes by MOJO magazine’s Dave Henderson
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Various - Pure Exotica 2CD – As Dug by Lux And Ivy (CD)
€15,00Quick View• Focussing on the recent resurgence of interest in exotica, space age bachelor pad music and the weird side of easy listening.
• Both variations of the exotica genre as dug by much loved record collectors The Cramps’ Lux And Ivy.
• Featuring the celebrated masters of the art; Martin Denny, Lex Baxter and Arthur Lyman plus rarities from the jazz world and journeymen exploitation experts including film composer Henry Mancini and sonic explorers Stan Kenton and Phil Moore.
• One disc of sound effect-infiltrated easy listening plus a fine selection of darker, more intense sounds veering towards the weird and wonderful world of Nexotica.
• Remastered from the original sound sources with sleevenotes by MOJO magazine’s Dave Henderson.
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Allison Mose - The Complete Atlantic / Elektra Albums 1962-1983 (6CD Boxset) (CD)
€40,00Quick ViewStrawberry Records are proud to present the 12 albums that Mose Allison issued on Atlantic Records and Elektra Musician between 1962 and 1982 on 6CDs. This does not include “Greatest Hits” or “Best Of” albums which of course duplicated tracks from regular albums.
• Although these albums have all appeared on CD reissues at different times over the years. This is the first box set to gather together all of the albums from this period in one set.
• The original LPs are featured two per CD in chronological order. Produced by Bob Fisher whose detailed essay covers the entire history of Mose Allison’s career with quotes and endorsements from artists like Elvis Costello, Bonnie Raitt, Pete Townshend, Georgie Fame, Van Morrison and many others who were inspired by his music. The booklet includes complete recording details and supporting personnel for each album along with numerous reproductions of advertisements, reviews and news stories from music industry magazines.
• Designed by Michael Robson and mastered by Simon Murphy this is the definitive collection of this period of Mose Allison’s career.
• Disc One contains the first two Atlantic albums “I Don’t Worry ‘Bout A Thing” and “Swingin’ Machine”.
• Disc Two contains the albums “The Word from Mose” and “Wild Man on The Loose”
• Disc Three features “Mose Alive” and “I’ve Been Doin’ Some Thinking”
• Disc Four presents “Hello There, Universe” and “Western Man”
• Disc Five opens with the live set, “Mose In Your Ear” and his last album for Atlantic, “Your Mind Is on Vacation”
• Disc Six concludes the box with his two albums for Elektra Musician, “Middle Class White Boy” and a third live set recorded in 1982. This time from the famed Montreux Jazz Festival, “Lessons in Living” with sidemen, Lou Donaldson, Jack Bruce, Eric Gale and Billy Cobham.
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Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Bettye Lavette - Original Grooves (RSD) (LP)
€15,00Quick ViewReleased RSD BF 11.27.2020 US
Limited Edition 2,500
Label on front reads: ”Introducing original grooves with Parallel Grooves, You Won’t Know What You’ll Hear Until The Needle Drops!”Back : ”Original Grooves showcases the vinyl cutting technology known as ”parallel grooves,” where grooves are cut side-by-side instead of one after another, allowing for a different aural experience depending on where the needle is dropped.
The first of this series comes from the legends Bille Holiday (Side A) and Nina Simone (Side B). The Blues Hall of Fame member and five-time Grammy nominee Bettye LaVette powerfully reinterprets both ’Strange Fruit’ and ’I Hold No Grudge’ on corresponding sides of this rare 12″, ”hidden” within the neighboring grooves.”
musical accompaniment credits for Betty Levette versions are the same
Track A1 Ⓟ1939 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Track B1 Ⓟ1967 The Verve Music Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc. -
DeCastro Sisters - Cuban Nightingales – The Complete Rarities (2CD) (CD)
€15,00Quick ViewThe DeCastro Sisters are best-remembered today for their classic hit ’Teach Me Tonight’, but their careers actually spanned an amazing seven decades, from the mid-1940s to the early 2000s.
Bear Family previously issued a collection of their Abbott and RCA recordings, but here gathered for the first time are the remainder of their vast catalogue, without duplicating a single track. Included are two complete stereo Capitol albums, the rest of their rare singles (including the stereo version of ’Teach Me Tonight Cha Cha’) and private demos from Peggy DeCastro’s personal collection.
The Cuban trio had a style and sound unlike any other vocal group and they are displayed here in all their glory.
Jasmine has restored everything with their meticulous work on two CD’s containing nearly three hours of music. Above all, the DeCastro Sisters are fun and guaranteed to give you an exciting listening experience.
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Prima Louis And Lily Ann Carol - Oh Marie! (CD)
€13,00Quick ViewBefore Keely Smith, there was Lily Ann Carol. When Louis Prima abandoned Dixieland and formed his first big band, the beautiful New York native was signed to be his star vocalist, and for more than six years – from 1940-1946 they were one of the most popular attractions in clubs and theatres across the country.
Here gathered together for the first time are nearly all of their recordings and this is the very first collection to throw a spotlight on Lily Ann, who up until now has been something of a mystery figure.
Among their wartime hits are ’Bell Bottom Trousers’, ’I’ll Walk Alone’, ’A Fellow on a Furlough’, ’Hitsum-Kitsum-Bumpity-Itsum’ ’The Lip’ and of course ’Oh Marie’
All tracks have been restored here in sparkling sound on a jam-packed Jasmine CD, with Lily Ann not only singing beautifully, but keeping up with Louis in the humour department as well.
