Wax of the Week #105...Billy Mure and His Orchestra: Around the World in Percussion (1961)

Mostly pleasant but fluffy orchestral pop of the “world tour” variety, but includes some good cuts that excite the exotica nerve. Dig the abstract cover art.

Wax of the Week #104...Big Jim Sullivan: Plays Gilbert O'Sullivan (1973)

An album of instrumental Gilbert O'Sullivan covers? Besides the expected easy listening, this inexplicably contains a couple of pretty cool 1970s cop show funk cuts. Sullivan (born James Tomkins in 1941) was an in-demand session guitarist, played the first recorded fuzz guitar in Britain, and appeared on records by Dusty Springfield, Bowie, Small Faces, and hundreds of others. He died in 2012. By the way, “Little Jimmy” was fellow session guitarist Jimmy Page.

Wax of the Week #103...Big Black: Atomizer (1986)

I still like their last record best, but this one has a few standouts, including probably their best-known song, “Kerosene,” about the self-destructive behavior driven by boredom of nimrods out in the sticks.

Wax of the Week #102...Baja Marimba Band: Watch Out! (1966)

Their sixth LP, mostly pleasant but unremarkable easy listening, aside from two standouts: “Sabor a Mi” and the bossa-inflected “Telephone Song.”