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“See Mi Yah” by Pinchers

Conscious dancehall legend Pinchers performing on a King Jammy riddim and the whole thing titled: “See Mi Yah” makes an intriguing record, especially as the title is the same as on dubtechno releases...

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Es Geht Ein Spielmann Durch Das Land by Werner Müller u. s. Orchester

It’s the opening game of the European Championships and i’m gonna show some patriotism here with a fine 50s Pop-Ballad from Germany! With “Es Geht Ein Spielmann Durch Das Land” i dug up a nice little,...

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Never Too Much by Luther Vandross

I know you’re all thinking not this worn out old pop, sold millions – nothing special about this record! And you’re not completely wrong just when you do have one for your private listening pleasure,...

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Carmen Murdered! – Spike Jones Suspected

“Hello Music Lover’s: This Is Spike Jones Inviting You to The Opera House For A City Slickers Performance Of The Opera Carmen…” is how two sides and over 12 minutes of mayhem start. From the man who...

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German National Anthem by Berlin-Schöneberg’s Choir Boys

Deutschland Lied Schöneberger Fassung – recorded 1989 in front of the Brandenburg Gate, a day after the fall of the wall, with some of the old heavyweights of German politics. Featuring in the lead,...

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Write Myself A Letter by Gregory Isaacs

Remembering “The Cool Ruler”, “The G.I.”, or “The King Of Lovers Rock” who died 2 years today and is still unparalleled! Milo Miles, writing in the New York Times, described Isaacs as “the most...

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Du bist neurotisch… by Georg Kreisler

Legendary Austrian born comedian displays his skills for recorded pharmacautical advertising from the 50s. Georg Kreisler fled to the USA in the 1940s and actually gained citizenship there, before...

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I Ain’t Give You None Of My Jelly Roll by Two Beat Stompers

Swinging Dixieland cover of New Orleans standard “Jelly Roll” by the rather obscure German Trad-band “Two Beat Stompers”. The 45″ I’ve unearthed for you this week was written by the boogie woogie,...

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Black & White Love by Mighty Sparrow

Huge piece of conscious Beguine rhythm song here from the Calypso champion they call The Mighty Sparrow. “Black & White Love” is not just romantic and enchanting but also carries that irony and...

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Monk’s Dream by Thelonious Monk

This week we go way back to the dives of Chicago’s Southside, juke joints of Basin Street, the prospering Kansas City of the 50′s, the Chitlin Circuit and all those legendary places where the early...

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A Message To You Rudy by Dandy

Dandy aka Robert Linval Thompson has been a very important in the development of reggae as we know it today, having started his musical career learning in the same Alpha Boys School in Kingston,Ja....

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