Tracklist

A1	–Martin Denny	Stranger In Paradise
A2	–Fats Domino	My Heart Is Bleeding
A3	–B.J. Thomas And The Triumphs	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
A4	–Jimmy Dorsey	So Rare
A5	–Nat "King" Cole*	Unforgettable / Portrait Of Jennie
A6	–Carol Jarvis	Whirlpool Of Love
A7	–Tommy Dorsey	One Kiss
A8	–Rosemary Clooney	Tenderly
A9	–Thomas Wayne	The Quiet Look
A10	–Bill Parsons	The All American Boy
A11	–Elvis Presley	Don't Be Cruel
A12	–Marty Holmes	Beyond The Sea
A13	–Joni Cole And Bob Mitchell	You Got What It Takes
A14	–The Hilltoppers	The Last Word In Love
A15	–Ray Anthony	Dragnet
A16	–The Righteous Brothers	My Babe
B1	–Pat Boone	Just A Closer Walk With Thee
B2	–The Lennon Sisters	A Hundred And One In The Sun
B3	–Andy Williams	Summer Love
B4	–The Four Jokers	You Did
B5	–Joe Valino	Garden Of Eden
B6	–Les Paul & Mary Ford	How High The Moon
B7	–Bobby Darin	Nature Boy
B8	–Les Baxter	A Wonderful Guy
B9	–The Weavers	Old Paint
B10	–Frankie Avalon	I'm Broke
B11	–El Rancho High School, Pico Rivera, California 1960 Yearbook	Remember When?
B12	–Hank & Dave	Lopsided, Over-Loaded (And It Wiggled When We Rode It!)
B13	–Jerry Wallace	By Your Side
B14	–The Blenders	Everybody's Got A Right
B15	–Bonnie Lou	Twenty Four Hours Of Loneliness
B16	–Larry Williams	You Bug Me, Baby
B17	–Vic Damone	In The Eyes Of The World
B16	–Johnston Brothers*	Chee Chee Oo Chee (Excerpt)

Credits

• Artwork – Lon Spiegelman
• Liner Notes, Compiled By, Design – Vittore Baroni

Notes

Individually dubbed commercial tape in plastic case sealed with yellow sticker. Fold-out A4 color photocopy inner, with enclosed 1 original b&w artistamp and an "international cooperation" un %c stamp from a whole sheet received from Lon.

Private edition of 16 (61 inverted) copies, mailed to Lon's friends in December 2002. Feel free to make copies & pass on.

"On december 9, Lon Spiegelman suffered a heart attack and left this world. He had celebrated his 61st birthday two weeks prior, on November 25. (...) Since I could not be there to attend Lon's memorial service on December 15, I felt I had to do something to be there at least "in spirit". I remembered a big box I received from Lon in 1992, after I circulated an invite for an issue of Arte Postale! magazine on the theme of "vinyl love junkies". In an unxepected act of generosity, not rare in his postal activities, Spiegelman mailed me a heavy box containing about a hundred old 45 rpm records mostly from the 50s-60s: crooners, doo-wop, early r'n'r, easy listening and more assorted nostalgia. He told me these were singles from his youth that had been gathering dust in his garage, he did not need them anymore and thought I could enjoy them. I was surprised and delighted.
As a sort of musical "wake", I decided to play this (juke)box of records that had been sitting for ten years in my studio waiting for a thorough listening, while flipping through archive files of Lon's old correspondence. To give some of Lon's best friends the possibility to share and replicate (if they want) this memorial experience, I copied on cassette some of these songs, jumps and scratches included, in the same semi-casual order that I picked them from the box (but if you listen closely, you will be able to hear bizarre "correspondences": popular music has its ways of talking to us..."