I assume this was a free gift or some other special offer with Singer sewing machines back in 1969. What do they give away these days? It's interesting how contemporary everything about this sleeve is - the model, her clothes, the font, the layout - especially compared with the 1963 "Music for Intelligent Young Ladies" cover posted previously. The music within is a bit of a grab bag, although hipsters will notice the Free Design nestled in amongst the over-the-hill Broadway stars and dodgy cover versions with one the greatest songs of all time.

Do you match the qualifications for listening to this album? Then be off with you, you simpleminded old gentlemen!

This was one of the few LPs I ever found worth buying in the Headingley branch of Oxfam as I remember. Willy Albimoor was big on the Belgian cafe circuit in the early sixties and this album is intriguing as a European take on spaceage pop but tends to be toothachingly jaunty with covers of such standards as "Get Me To The Church On Time" and "The Surrey With The Fridge On Top".

From what I can gather Albimoor was reincarnated as "Bill Ador" and involved with 70s Belgian funksters Chakachas, writing "Jungle Fever" which reached number 2 in the US charts, has been sampled to death by everyone from 2 Live Crew to Public Enemy and was featured in the film Boogie Nights. Which is a long way from covering Stanley Holloway songs.

I was going to upload this album (and although the sleeve is for the mono release the LP within was the full-on, glorious stereo version) but Santa told me you had all been naughty. And I messed up the conversion to MP3 anyway . Instead here is side one of Douglas Leedy's rather disappointing 1969 Moog, Buchlia Box and Ognob Generator album A Very Merry Electric Christmas to You, all 12 minutes of it. I may put side two up next year if you're good little elves.