No Condition Is Permanent

Pictured: The Jones Girls.

Of course lots of women look better in their own places. Once in a while you get a stunner who knocks them cold in a restaurant but back in her own living room takes on the second-rate lifelessness of her own handpicked ordinary background. Still the majority of women come out better in their own homes, so it wasn’t really so surprising that Ebie should look quite dignified, and unusually pretty, coming down the staircase to music, for the radio was playing a Paul Whiteman recording of “Afraid to Dream” as sumptuously soft as the white bear rug in front of the great fireplace. Ebie was a girl who changed at every appearance from pretty to chic to naïve to plain tart, but this was a good night, the socko from Oliver had challenged her. Her hair was reddish gold tonight—Lou dimly recalled it as platinum at one time—and instead of the cutie-pie curls it was arranged in two plaits around her head so that her small naughty face with knowing hazel eyes looked not the least tartish. She wore a long-sleeved brownish-gold dinner dress and the amber jewelry on that with her hair and coloring was something that struck an odd new chord in Lou, something that didn’t seem to stem from Ebie herself but from some new force Lou had never struck before.

— Dawn Powell, Angels On Toast.

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Here’s what we played in Ep. 263 of No Condition Is Permanent:

THE FIRST SET

Jones Girls — “You Gonna Make Me Love Somebody Else” — Love Train: The Sound of Philadelphia

Bukky Leo & Black Egypt — “Precious Mother” — Club Africa Vol.2: Hard African Funk, Afro-Jazz, & Original Afro-Beat

The Hollywoods — “Scramble” — Strummin’ Mental! Part 2: Raw, Crude, Instrumental R&R!

Adnan Othman — “Revolusi” — Bersyukor: A Retrospective of Hits by a Malaysian Pop Yeh Yeh Legend

King Curtis — “Something Frantic” — Walk On The Wild Side: The Jazz Side Of Mod

Al Valdez Y Su Conjunto — “Gózalo” — Gozando!! Con Al Valdez Y Su Conjunto

Reigning Sound — “Reptile Style” — Time Bomb High School

IT’S MADISON TIME…

Jim Burgett — “Split Personality” — Malamondo 7

THE SECOND SET

Ayalew Mesfin — “Feqer Aydelem Wey” — Éthiopiques Box 7″ Vol. 2

MC5 — “I Can Only Give You Everything” — A-Squared 45rpm

Lafayette Afro-Rock Band — “Racubah” — Pulp Fusion 10: Africa Funk

The T.S.U. Toronados — “A Thousand Wonders (Instrumental)” — One Flight Too Many: Rare And Unreleased Houston Funk From The Vaults Of Ovide Records 1968-1969

Chantana Kittiyapan — “Sa Ra Wan” — Thai Funk: ZudRangMa

The Bobby Fuller Four — “Never To Be Forgotten” — I Fought The Law

Bunny Lee — “Dub Magnificent” — Bunny Lee’s Kingston Flying Cymbals 1974-1979

Jay Brown & The Jets — “Hanky Panky” — Dr. Boogie Presents 26 Deranged and Smokin’ Cool Cats: The Rocketing Rise and Fast Decline Of A Music Form Called Rockabilly 1954-1959

Ralph Robles — “Taking Over” — We Got Latin Soul

THE THIRD SET

Magnum — “Evolution” — Fully Loaded

Gregory Isaacs — “Mr. Brown” — Front Line Presents Dub: 40 Heavyweight Dub Sounds

Frank Zappa — “Peaches En Regalia” — Hot Rats

Nico Fidenco — “La Sposina (M16)” — Nuda: 21 Exciting Cuts From Italian Sexy-Comedy Disco Scene 1975-1981

Wild Jimmy Spruill — “Scratchin’” — Scratchin’: The Wild Jimmy Spruill Story

El Grupo Folclorico — “Piano Loco” — Música De Mi Tierra Costeña

Orgone — “New You” — New You, Part 1

THE FINAL SET

Dr. Alimantado — “I Shall Fear No Evil” — Best Dressed Chicken In Town

The Rolling Stones — “Honey, What’s Wrong” — The Rolling Stones

Africando — “Lindas Africanas” — Martina

The Woolies — “Who Do You Love” — Nuggets I: Original Artyfacts From The First Psychedelic Era

S. Pandit, S. Singh, A Yagnik & N. Mukesh — “Seth Ke Ghar Mein Aayo Beto “ — Doob Doob O’ Rama 2: More Filmsongs From Bollywood

Pere Ubu — “Non-Alignment Pact” — The Modern Dance

Coco Lagos Y Sus Orates — “Busco Una Chiquita” — Gózalo! Bugalu Tropical Vol. 4

LORD BUCKLEY’S WEEKLY BENEDICTION…

Fleetwood Mac — “Oh Well – Pt. 1 (Bonus Track)” — Then Play On