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Finally some reliable information on being a Scorpio from a not only a “renowned” astrologer, but “the world’s most renowned astrologer.” Ever? Had enough of those rinky dink, nobody, fly-by-night astrologers? Sydney Omarr (rhymes with catarrh, I bet) has made a record - A RECORD - to create a permanence of authority that is ALWAYS THERE TO SERVE YOU. So grab your nearest Aries friend, Scorpios, and listen to Mr. Omarr explain your relationship to you. You’ll be the better for it, and you’ll thank Sydney Omarr for saving your friendship.

A peek into the world of women’s opportunities in 1967, this record, meant to help you teach yourself how to take accurate dictation, is meant specifically for “the working girl who wants to improve her career” and “the woman eager to return to work,” which pretty directly tells you that this record is not for men. At all. It is a girlie record. Men, obviously, should stick to the executive lounge until such time as they feel like dictating to a woman. The actual spiel the woman is expected to jot down seems more like some kind of practical joke. I had no clue what the fellow was on about. Some kind of international intrigue that seems to have something to do with arms dealers and hiring the right guy for the job. Very strange. 

Perfect Black Friday listening. Speaker Bill Gove is described on the back of the album as the Stan Musial of sales. Plus he won Salesman of the Year. The album was a vanity pressing out of Wiscasset, Maine, in 1965. Listen and learn the magic of sales!

I’ve decided to cut to the chase here, and rather than include the odd introduction to the record by the hypnotist with the strange voice, I’m posting the actual hypnosis session so that those of you who want to lose weight can AND will lose weight thanks to this hypnotist with the strange voice. He’s apparently Australian, but that doesn’t very well explain the odd noises that come out of him. 

According to the back cover, he is “internationally-known,” and “has accumulated one of the world’s largest private libraries on hypnotism and on mesmerism, memory-training, telepathy, psychic phenomena, parapsychology, occultism, and allied subjects.”

Because of the huge number of requests for private settings from people in the audience of his appearances - he apparently has no time for this, no surprise, considering the number of books he has to buy and read - he made this record to satisfy that need. So he’s a bit of a lazy swindler, I guess.

I’ve not lost my appetite, but listening to this did make me veeeeeeeery sleepy …

In the 1980s, the men’s fashion magazine “Details” (which I’m not even sure still exists) was something quite different - an East Village art/punk fashion monthly that was entirely in black and white (sometimes even the cover) and very devoted to covering the gossip of the downtown scene in New York City at the time. The main downtown celebrity watcher was columnist Stephen Saban, walking a similar beat to that of the Village Voice’s Michael Musto. In their December/January 1989 issue, the magazine included a flexi-disc that was a montage of actual interview recordings from Saban and a page of commentary from Saban. The disc featured goofiness from celebrities who are still pretty well known, the off-the-record kind of moments that never show up in the actual stories but you encounter all the time as a reporter.

The track listings are: 1. Judy Tenuta 2. Emo Phillips’ mother 3. Julio Iglesias 4. Bruce Willis 5. Debbie Harry 6. Judy Tenuta 7. Steven Wright 8. Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner 9. Steven Wright 10. Debbie Harry 11. Boy George 12. Debbie Harry 13. Judy Tenuta 14. Dennis Hopper 15. Emo Phillips 16. Emo Phillips 17. Julio Iglesias 18. Julio Iglesias 19. Emo Phillips’ mother