Curacao – Cal Tjader
The Frog – Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66
Come Together – The Beatles
All Blues – Miles Davis
Come è lunga l’attesta! (Tosca) – Leontyne Price
Scorpio – Dennis Coffey And The Detroit Guitar Band

Bacharach for the Ladies has special significance because I believe that hearing Mom do her best with “Alfie” may have been my first experience listening to a backing track without a Dionne or Dusty to sing along with.
The Good The Bad and the Ugly – Ennio Morricone
Stop! In The Name of Love – The Supremes
Crimson & Clover – Tommy James & The Shondells
Groovin – The Young Rascals
All Cried Out – Dusty Springfield
Walk On By – Dionne Warwick
Every Day A Little Death – Patricia Elliott & Victoria Mallory – Stephen Sondheim

No blog post about vinyl would be complete without this advice from the back cover of Mom’s Lionel Hampton LP, “Wailin’ At The Trianon”