Streetbeater!

Quincy Jones
Streetbeater
A&M - 1455
1973

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Here's Quincy Jones' "Streetbeater", otherwise known as the theme from Sanford & Son. I never have heard this all the way through. On the second half of the record, right after the part where it ends on the TV show, is where Quincy and the band really get down! Very cool!

Uh Oh, It's the Nutty Squirrels...

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The Nutty Squirrels
Uh! Oh pt. 1
Hanover - 4540
1959
Jazz vocal wackiness from the Nutty Squirrels. Yes, it's playing at the right speed. Kind of a Lambert, Hendricks and Ross meet Alvin and the Chipmunks...
By the way, what the hell is "prismatic fidelity??"

More Hep Piggies

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The Three Hep Piggies
5 3/4 year Old Humorous Dian
Veltone - 712
195?
Here's another hep rendition of the three little pigs story, this time by 5 3/4 year old humorous Dian, which I can only imagine must have been the daughter? granddaughter? niece? of the label owner...

Jazzbo Collins and the Three Little Pigs

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Al "Jazzbo" Collins
Three Little Pigs
Brunswick - 80226
1953
Legendary DJ Jazzbo Collins gives his hip rendition of the Three Little Pigs with help from Steve Allen and Lou Stein...

That's the way the mop flops...

Eddie and the Rays
That's the Way it Is Out Here
Titan - 6601

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Here is another one I don't really know anything about. The label lists Billy J. Thomas as the vocalist. A song about life on the road...