TRANSFERRED COVER KITTEN

Melvin admits picking up this LP only because it looked soooo faux. Apparently, in 1983 it was considered a good marketing  using Dutch bodybuilding champ Marie-Jose van der Laan to promote a perfectly respectable bop record. Do I love the eighties! 

Chicago born saxophonist and flutist Joseph Carl Firrantello (1937-1986), aka Joe Farrell, recorded with Charlie Mingus, Art Pepper and George Benson and featured in the original line-up of Chick Corea's Return to Forever. At the end of his life and - so I read - beat up by a rather nasty drug habit, he met drummer Louis Hayes and Dutchmen Rob van den Broeck (p) and Harry Emmery (d) in Studio 44 (Monster, Holland) to blow out some seriously tight tunes regardless.
The title track is my favourite, but each of the other 4 listings would equally justify the transfer from Melvin's section for Cover Kittens to the Jazz department. I checked out Marie-Jose: she's a career coach now, also giving workshops 'Dress for Success'. Sweet!

LET'S GET AWAY FROM IT ALL

Ray reminding us what to do on a sunny day. Walk out of the office, round up three fit birds in bathing suits and gear up for an afternoon you will remember. On Let's get away from it all (Columbia CL 1097), Ray Ellis (1923-2008) treats us on some 40 minutes of Big Band, not entirely unlike Quincy Jones' Soul Bossa Nova which, as any Snag* should know, is of course the soundtrack to the only white boy who could ever upstage James Brown: Austin Powers.  Now go and Behave!

* Not the Australian sausage but the Sensitive New Age Gentleman who, it cannot be stressed enough, is a completely different animal from the Sensitive New Age Guy.

ET DIEU...

..créa la femme. According to Wiki, the French flick by Roger Vadim is widely recognised as the vehicle that launched Brigitte Bardot into the epitome of sixties Oh la la. For Melvin of course, the vehicle in this picture would have done just as fine.

SATISFACTION

One of the many advantages of being into bikes is that you can dig The Stones and The Beatles. On the other hand, I still have to find proof of Keith Richards on two wheels. Classement Provisoire: 4 to 1 for the Liverpool team. Can't see what the Fab4 are riding, Mick however is sporting a Condor rig, by the 1948 London firm that outfitted both Tom Simpson and Bradley Wiggins and is still very much alive.

HELP!

Ringo, George, John & Paul in the movie Help! from 1965. They also wet themselves.