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R R e e d d G G r r a a h h a a m m s s 2 2 0 0 1 1 1 1 Elvis Costello This Year’s Model (Mar. 17, 1978) Hits include: Pump It Up, Little Triggers and (I Don’t Want To) Go To Chelsea Early issues of the album have a misprinted sleeve, which cuts off the left side of the cover (including 'E' from 'Elvis' and 'T' from 'This') Red’s version included the hits: Lick It Up, Little Tunas, and (I Don’t Want To) Go To The Vet and like him, the cover was purrfect from the start! G G r r e e a a t t A A l l b b u u m m C C o o v v e e r r C C a a l l e e n n d d a a r r

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Page 1: Red Graham’s 2011flamingcheese.ca/index_images/Red_calendar_fronts_11.pdf · • Red’s version included the hits: Lick It Up, Little Tunas, and (I Don’t Want To) Go To The Vet

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• Elvis Costello This Year’s Model (Mar. 17, 1978)

• Hits include: Pump It Up, Little Triggers and

(I Don’t Want To) Go To Chelsea

• Early issues of the album have a misprinted

sleeve, which cuts off the left side of the cover

(including 'E' from 'Elvis' and 'T' from 'This')

•• Red’s version included the hits: Lick It Up, Little

Tunas, and (I Don’t Want To) Go To The Vet and

like him, the cover was purrfect from the start!

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• Former Mr. Universe) Jon Mikl

started a rock band called Thor

• Thor’s live shows featured Jon lifting

and flexing were legendary

• Thor released Keep The Dogs Away

on January 28, 1977

• After several failed recordings and

comebacks, Thor pulled a “Meatloaf”

and released a sequel Keep The Cats

Away featuring renowned cover cat

model, Red Graham

January 2011

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• Victory Day was the final studio LP

for Tom Cochrane with Red Rider

• Victory Day received three Juno

Award nominations

• 1986 release went Double Platinum

Feb. 10, 1987

• Tom remade the LP in 2010 with Red

Graham and the re-release almost

went plastic

• The duo split after Tom failed to

deliver a case of tuna as payment

February 2011

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• R.E.O. Speedwagon’s You Can Tune

A Piano But You Can’t Tuna Fish was

released March 17, 1978

• LP sold 2 million copies & charted at

# 29 in the Billboard Top 40

• Singles included: Roll with the

Changes & Time for Me To Fly

• R.E.D. Speedwagon released You

Can Tune A Piano But You Can’t

Tune A Cat in 2010 featuring Time

for Me To Eat Tuna!

March 2011

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• Ted Nugent released Cat Sctach Fever

on May 12, 1977

• Known as the Motor City Madman,

Ted also fronted the Amboy Dukes

• Nugent was an avid hunter and

advocate for gun rights

• Ted’s Cat, Red rerecorded the album

in 2010 and the LP had success

thanks to a paw printing (Cat

autographing) tour of PetSmart

stores

April 2011

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• Paul McCartney released his 2

nd solo

LP Ram on May 17, 1971

• To spite Paul’s wife Linda playing

tambourine on several tracks the LP

went to # 1 in the US

• Apparently McCartney also played in

some band from Lliverpool that was

alright

• John Lennon thought the song Ram

was about him so McCartney

rereleased the album as Red 2010

May 2011

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• Rolling Stones Some Girls was

released on June 9, 1978

• Hits included: Miss You, Beast of

Burden, Shattered & Respectable

• LP cover had cut outs to show the

band & other celebs on the sleeve

• To pay tribute to Cats (the longest

running show on Broadway) the

Stones rereleased the LP as Some

Cats feature Red Graham & friends

June 2011

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• Elvin Bishop released Red Dog

Speaks on July 14, 2010

• Red Dog is Bishop’s 1959 Gibson ES-

347 guitar

• Bishop had a top 10 hit with ‘Fooled

Around & Fell In Love” in 1976

• Bishop released a special pet friendly

edition that only cat’s could hear

called Red Cat Speaks dedicated to

the legendary Red Graham

July 2011

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• Bob Dylan’s 27

th LP Under A Red Sky

released on August 10, 1990

• The LP included no hits but lots of

guests including, Elton John, George

Harrison & Stevie Ray Vaughan

• The LP was dedicated to Gabby Goo

Goo (his 4 year old daughter)

• Dylan released the LP Under A Red

Cat after he found Red Graham

sleeping on his sharpie “No CD’s!”

August 2011

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• Beatles released Abbey Road on

Sept. 26, 1969

• Lsted in the Top 10 LP’s of all time

• McCartney was barefoot leading to

rumours that he was dead

• Red Graham released Tabby Road in

2010

• Listed in the Top 75 Billion LP’s of all

time (give or take a few)

• Because he was barepawed there

were rumours Red was brain dead

September 2011

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• Meatloaf’s Bat Out of Hell was

released on Oct. 21, 1977

• 5th

top selling LP of all time and top

selling LP by a living solo artist

• Hits included: Paradise by the

Dashboard Lights & Two Out of

Three Ain’t Bad

• Red Graham’s Cat Out of Hell

included the hits Tuna by the

Dashboard Light & Two Out of Three

Naps are Good

October 2011

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• Presley’s 50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can’t

Be Wrong release Nov. 13, 1959

• LP was a 2nd

greatest hits volume

and reached #31 on Billboard charts

• Elvis Presley was the King of Rock &

Roll and he died on the toilet in 1977

• Red Graham’s 50,000,000 Red Fans

Can’t Be Wrong was released in 2010

• Red Graham is the King of sleeping,

eating and getting petted and he

lives in a mansion called Kittyland

November 2011

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• The Jingle Cats have released albums

including: Meowy Chrismas, Here

Comes Santa Claws, First Meowl &

Rhythm & Mews

• Real cats meow along to the music

• Jingle Cats rereleased the album

Rhythm & Mews featuring world

renowned cat cover model Red

Graham who happily adorned his

reindeer antlers for the cover

December 2011

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