Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Aunt Carmela's Italian Favorites LP

Here's another Flea Market Find: Aunt Carmela's Italian Favorites.  There was no way I could pass up this double LP of Italian hits.  According to the website The Allee Willis Museum of Kitsch http://www.awmok.com/2010/07/22/aunt-carmela/, Aunt Carmela was actually a man in drag, and his name was Paulie Teardrop.  The website also states that Aunt Carmela was once popular enough to warrant her face being on six-packs of soda as a way of promoting the release of the LP.
It's great to listen to while making spaghetti on a Sunday afternoon and singing along!

Some further internet searching reveals that the LP was eventually released as a CD with a less captivating, but no less ridiculous cover featuring a large (Italian Family?) gathered around a picnic table with a checkered table cloth and instrumentalists dressed in all white smiling at the camera.
http://www.amazon.com/Italian-Favorites-Vol-1-Aunt-Camella/dp/B00000DV6I/ref=cm_cr_pr_pb_i





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