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We're going to take a little side road along our musical journey for this episode. It's not something I often do, especially in my youth, but I'm going to make a big deal out of my birthday this year, since it actually falls on a day I publish my episodes.
62 is not a milestone. There is no special celebration with my high school classmates, since next year we'll be celebrating at our 45-year reunion. In fact, I better get busy and call a meeting since I am currently the chair of the reunion committee.
In that vein, I am going to pull out an album filled with plenty of songs you've already heard on this show, but they all appear on this one disk.
I keep circling back to Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. Back to the music that made my household so much fun to grow up in. Back to an album that was permanently in the To Play pile next to the living room record player.
So, get ready to hear the entire album of music that always went along well with my mom's lasagna, a house full of friends, and bocce ball in the backyard and help me celebrate with some favorite memories in Volume 186: Best of TJB (Happy Birthday to Me).
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Include links to previous spinning My Dad's Vinyl episodes featuring the TJB:Volume 6: Herb Alpert Lonely BullVolume 33: Tijuana Brass Going PlacesVolume 54: Alpert's NinthVolume 98: Whipped AlpertVolume 129: Brass' Beat for Father's DayVolume 156: Christmas Herb
Credits and copyrights
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass – Greatest HitsLabel: A&M Records – SP-4245Series: Greatest Hits (8)Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Stereo, Terre Haute PressingReleased: 1970Genre: Jazz, LatinStyle: Latin Jazz
Liner Notes – Charles ChamplinCover Photography – Jim McCraryProducer – Herb Alpert, Jerry Moss
Comes in a "UniPak" styled gatefold cover with a inner pocket to house LP.We will hear all 12 songs in the order they appear.
Lonely BullWritten-By – Sol LakeAppeared on The Lonely Bull Released in 1964
Spanish FleaWritten-By – Julius WechterAppeared on Going Places released in 1967
Getting Sentimental Over YouWritten-By – George BassmanAppeared on Going Places released in 1967
Love Potion #9 (first time I came across an actress by the name of Sandra Bullock...it's hilarious.)Written-By – Jerry Leiber and Mike StollerAppeared on Whipped Cream and other Delights Released in 1965
Never On SundayWritten-By – Billy Towne and Mano HadjidakisAppeared on The Lonely Bull Released in 1964
Mexican ShuffleWritten-By – Sol LakeAppeared on South of the Border Released in 1964
Taste Of HoneyWritten-By – Bobby Scott and Ric MarlowAppeared on Whipped Cream and other Delights Released in 1965
Tijuana TaxiWritten-By – Ervan ColemanAppeared on Going Places released in 1967
South Of The BorderWritten-By – Jimmy Kennedy and Michael CarrAppeared on South of the Border Released in 1964
AmericaWritten-By – Leonard Bernstein and Stephen SondheimAppeared on America Released in 1969
Whipped CreamWritten-By – Naomi NevilleAppeared on Whipped Cream and other Delights Released in 1965
Zorba The GreekWritten-By – Mikis TheodorakisAppeared on Going Places released in 1967
I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.
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Let’s jump back into one of my favorite box sets from my dad’s collection. We will listen to selections from both sides of the second to last record in this six-disk set.
I have often said I would have loved to have been around in the early days of radio. There was such a pioneering spirit in the way to entertain and inform. I know this technology made the world a smaller place. It was also basically just the newest way to sell the latest product.
So, gather around your home receiver and get ready to hear drama in both the theatrical and athletic forms in Volume 185: Golden Memories of Radio Record 5.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Promised link to CNN article.
Credits and copyrights
Jack Benny – Golden Memories Of RadioLabel: Longines Symphonette Society – noneFormat: 6 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Mono, Maroon Labels Box SetReleased: 1969Genre: Non-MusicStyle: Radioplay
We are listening to selections from record five, which is side 5 and side 8, thanks to being numbered for the automatic changing spindle.
Jack ArmstrongThe Lone RangerGene Tunney vs. Jack DempseyJoe Louis vs. Max SchmelingJesse Owen In The 1936 OlympicsWhirl-A-Way Wins The Kentucky DerbyBobby Thomson Home RunThe Shadow
I do not own the rights to these recordings. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.
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Almost everybody likes to show off their singing skills whether they have some or not. Karaoke bars have made a killing off that theory for decades.
Back in the 1950s and 60s, there were a couple of TV shows that got viewers to sing along with them. Of course Mitch Miller was also all the rage with his albums.
This audience participation album is performed by the first woman in history to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1960. It includes songs most of you should know because they have been recorded more than 15 hundred times combined over the last 134 years.
So get ready to hear music that you might have heard cowboys sing around a campfire or drunkards bellow out at the bar in Volume 184: Connie's Sing Along.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Connie Francis And The Jordanaires – Sing Along With Connie FrancisLabel: Mati-Mor Superecords – 8002Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Indianapolis PressingReleased: 1961Genre: PopStyle: Vocal
Sing Along Unkown composer
Home On The Rangemusic by Daniel E. Kelley and lyrics by Brewster M. Higley
In The Good Old Summertimewritten by George Evans, Ren Shields
I Love You TrulyWritten by Carrie Jacobs-Bond
You Tell Me Your Dream, I'll Tell You Minewritten by Charles N. Daniels, Seymour Rice, and Albert H. Brown
Down In The Valleywritten by Tom Darby and Jimmie Tarlton
My Wild Irish Rosewritten by Chauncey Olcott
Auld Lang Synewritten by Robert Burns
And The Band Played Onwritten by John F. Palmer, Charles B. Ward
Tavern In The Town Derived from the English ballad
I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.
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Let's finish the first half of the year by turning up the speed. Let’s make it a 78 RPM Sunday.
What better voice to do that with than one who sold over 100 million records during a six-decade-long career. She topped the Hot 100 FOUR times and had several songs in the top 10 and 20 over the years. In fact, she was the top-charting female vocalist and best-selling female artist of the 1950s.
She was also an early pioneer of a specific recording technique.
So, get ready to hear the woman often introduced as the Singin’ Rage in Volume 183: Six Pages of Patti on 78.
00:00 - Season's Show Intro00:51 - Episode Introduction01:46 - Little Crazy Quilt04:19 - First Break: Why I chose these records for this episode and a M*A*S*H connection05:49 - Cabaret08:44 - Second Break: More information about the records, marketplace value and what condition my dad's shellac is in.10:11 - Whispering12:31 - Third Break: Patti Page Bio 16:18 - Hocus Pocus18:26 - Fourth Break: this episode's Interesting Side Note.20:23 - Let Me Go, Lover22:45 - Quick Extra break to introduce bonus cut23:16 - Doodle Doo Do25:43 - Sixth Break: Final Words27:02 - Keep Me in Mind29:18 - Close
Credits and copyrights
Little Crazy QuiltJack Rael And His OrchestraWritten-By – Hal David and Leon CarrReleased in 1955
CabaretWritten by Al Russell - Joel CowanRecorded 24 April 1949 New York City - with an Orchestra Conducted by Mitch Miller.
Whisperingwritten by Vincent Rose, Richard Coburn, John Schonberger, Malvin SchonbergerRecorded 24 April 1949 New York City - with an Orchestra Conducted by Mitch Miller.
Hocus Pocusfrom Mercury 70511 78 rpmwith Jack Rael and his orchestra - arranged by Joe ReismanMusic by David Saxon - Lyrics by Norman Gimbel
Let Me Go, LoverWritten by Jenny Lou Carson - Al Hill, which is a Pseudonym for Kay Twomey - Fred Wise - Ben WeismanRecorded Circa October 1954
Doodle Doo DoKen Griffin on OrganJerry Wayne on Vocalswritten by Art Kassel, Mel StitzelReleased March 1948
Keep Me in MindThis early Bacharach song was co-written with Jack Wolf and published by Famous Music. Both the different composer, Zing-Wexler, and publisher names credited on the label were erroneously referring to a different song with the same title.Released in 1955
I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.
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My dad had plenty of records featuring large orchestras playing classical music on both 33 ⅓ RPM vinyl LPs and 78 RPM Shellac records.
The Reader’s Digest liner notes for this seven record box set starts off…quote…the nineteenth century was just opening in Vienna when the fist of an implacable genius knocked like destiny upon the doors of music. unquote.
They were, of course, talking about the immortal Ludwig Van Beethoven.
His symphonies live on in performances to this very day. In fact we saw the Cleveland orchestra perform his fifth symphony earlier this year.
So, get ready to hear the man who is said to have set music free in Volume 182: Beethoven's 1st & 2nd.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Beethoven, René Leibowitz, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, The Beecham Choral Society – The Nine Symphonies Of BeethovenLabel: Reader's Digest – RD 4-6, RCA Custom – RD 4-6 (1-7)Format: 7 x Vinyl, LP, Box SetReleased: 1966Genre: ClassicalStyle: Romantic, Choral
We will hear 4 of the 8 movements from the first record which includes Symphonies number 1 and 2.
Symphony No. 1 In C Major, Op. 21First Movement - Adagio Molto; Allegro Con BrioSecond Movement - Andante Cantabile Con Moto
Symphony No. 2 In D Major, Op. 36Second Movement - LarghettoThird Movement - ScherzoFourth Movement - Allegro Molto
I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.
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So, Dad…your last fathers day was 2019. You died that December.
In those four and a half years since, you have been dearly missed, thought of often and always toasted at family get-togethers.
I still use a lot of your tools. But no…I still don’t know where that sledgehammer went. I have your Willie the trumpet playing Hobo Melody Music maker music box where I can see it every day. I’ve replaced the batteries twice so far. And these albums keep me connected to you, your memories, and the life you started for us.
Dad…even more than others, this episode is for you.
So get ready to hear the style of music that makes up the biggest percentage of music in my dad’s collection in Volume 181: Dixieland Stars for Fathers Day.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Various artists – DixielandLabel: Golden Tone – C4021Format: Vinyl, LP, MonoReleased: 1960 something Genre: JazzStyle: Dixieland
We will hear all 8 of the songs on this album.
Matty Matlock And His Dixie-Men - Sugar Foot Strutwritten by Billie Pierce, Henry Myers, Charles Schwab
Matty Matlock And His Dixie-Men - Ida, Sweet As Apple Ciderwritten by Eddie Munson, Eddie Leonard
Pee Wee Hunt And His Orchestra - Royal Garden Blueswritten by Spencer Williams, Clarence Williams
Pee Wee Hunt And His Orchestra - Lazy Boneswritten by Hoagy Carmichael, Johnny Mercer
Morty Corb And His Dixie All-Stars - Southwritten by Bennie Moten, Thamon Hayes
Morty Corb And His Dixie All-Stars - Back Home Again In Indianawritten by Ballard MacDonald, James F. Hanley, Paul Dresser
Matty Matlock And His Dixie-Men - Jazz Me Blueswritten by Tom Delaney
Matty Matlock And His Dixie-Men - Oh, Didn't He Ramblewritten by Bob Cole, J. Rosamond Johnson
I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.
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When it came to how popular a band’s music was, it was the charts that told you. It was the charts that determined radio station song lists and how often they changed.
While maybe not quite all of the songs on this record made the charts, even though that’s what the album title hints at, all of the artists were on the charts at one time or another.
So, get ready to hear music makers that were high up in a specific list at one time or another in Volume 180: Hit Makers.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Various – The Original Top Hits By The Hit MakersLabel: Columbia – CL 1485Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, MonoReleased: 1960Genre: PopStyle: Light Music
Johnny Mathis– Starbright written by Lee Pockriss, Paul Vance
Doris Day– Please Don't Eat The Daisieswritten by Joe Lubin
Jerry Vale– Solitairewritten by Neil Sedaka, Phil Cody
Mitch Miller– Pink Polemoniums Written-By – Al Hoffman and Dick Manning
Greenfieldswritten by Frank Miller, Richard Dehr, and Terry Gilkyson (also known as The Easy Riders)
Kitty Kallen– Got A Date With An Angelwritten by Clifford Grey, Jack Waller, Joseph Tunbridge, Sonny Miller
Marty Robbins – Big Iron He wrote and was the first to record it on April 7, 1959.
Johnny Horton - Sink The Bismarckwritten by Tillman Franks
I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.
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I’m not sure the person who gathered the music for this record understood what the assignment was. This is not at all what I expected the music to sound like after seeing the name of the album and the text on the cover.
I mean, who hasn’t enjoyed that Latin sound from Guy Lombardo, Billy May, Ray Anthony, and Joe Leahy? Good thing there’s a song by Sergio Mendez here to lend the recording some credibility.
The closest comparison I can come up with is that the music on this record is light and bouncy, quite like the Latin music my dad and I like so well.
So, get ready to hear music from the most inappropriately titled record in my dad's collection, so far, in Volume 179: Viva the Latin Beat.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Various – Viva!Label: Creative Products – SL-6650, Capitol Records – SL-6650Series: The Capitol Stereo ShowcaseFormat: Vinyl, LP, Limited EditionReleased: not sure what year but sometime in the 1970s based off the Series name.Genre: Jazz, Latin, Pop
Billy May– Spanish FleaWritten-By – Cissy Wechter, Julius Wechter
Joe Leahy–LifeWritten-By – Joe Leahy, Mike Curb
Ray Anthony– Danke SchoenWritten-By – Bert Kaempfert, Kurt Schwabach, and Milt Gabler
Guy Lombardo– A BandaWritten-By – Chico Barque De Hollanda
Guy Lombardo– A Taste Of HoneyWritten-By – Bobby Scott, Ric Marlow
Sergio Mendes– Muito A VontadeWritten-By – João Donato
Joe Leahy– ArribaWritten-By – Joe Leahy, Mike Curb
I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.
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Here’s an album I came across while looking for a specific artist for an earlier episode. I wasn’t familiar with some of the musicians and most of the music on this record. But it represents an interesting time frame in music. Sort of between bebop and rock and roll styles seeing the most spots on the charts. There’s also one country music star here as well.
The artists I recognized I knew were deserving of having their names big and bold on the venue’s marquee in the late 1950s.
So get ready to hear various bands play a variety of musical styles in Volume 178: Headliners.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Various – The Headliners, Volume 2Label: Columbia Record Club – GB-9, Columbia – GB-9Format: Vinyl, LP, Club Edition, Limited Edition, Sampler, MonoReleased: 1961Genre: Jazz, Pop, Folk, World, & CountryStyle: Country, Vocal
"Limited Edition Available to Club Members Only"
Lester Lanin And His Orchestra–This Could Be The Start Of SomethingReleased on the B-side of Blue Tango Rock released in 1961 by Epic Records.song by Steve Allen, published in 1956. Yes, the Steve Allen who created the Tonight Show.
Johnny Cash–The Big Battle (cover only says The Battle)Written by Johnny Cash and released as a single on Columbia records in 1962.
The Miles Davis Sextet (Quintet)–Drad DogWritten by Miles Davis and appeared on his 1961 Columbia record Someday My Prince Will Come.
Dinah Washington– Somewhere Along The LineComposed by Dinah Washington, with lyrics by Dinah and Walter MerrickReleased in 1961 on the Mercury label record Unforgettable.
Jerry Murad's Harmonicats– Tuxedo Junction (A #1 hit for Glenn Miller in 1940)music was written by Erskine Hawkins, Bill Johnson, and Julian Dash in 1939.
The Dave Brubeck Quartet– Slow and Easy (Lawless Mike) The Lawless MikeWritten by Dave BrubeckThis song was found on the CD re-release of the 1961 Brubeck album Time Further Out. It was not on the original vinyl LP, but made its way into this collection.
I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.
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Here’s the second record of a two disk set that spent as much time among my own records as it did my dad’s. There was a point where neither one of us remembered whose collection it actually belonged in. Like I’ve said in the past, my dad and I had similar taste in music.
The featured artist is just as much among my favorites as he was my dad’s. I still remember sitting in the Richfield Coliseum awestruck at what I was witnessing him do on the stage. And I witnessed that performance with my dad and my mom.
When we get done with this episode you’ll know why they called him Mr. Show Business.
So get ready to hear music written over the course of four decades and then rearranged for one of the best overall stage entertainers the world ever saw in Volume 177: Sammy Record 2.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Promised link to a story on Sammy's conversion to Judaism.
Promised link to research used in above story.
Credits and copyrights
Sammy Davis, Jr. – SammyLabel: Sessions (2) – ARI-1001Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, CompilationReleased: 1976Genre: Jazz, PopStyle: Vocal, Swing
We'll hear 7 of the 13 songs from record 2.
Chicago (Toddling Town)written by Fred Fisher and published in 1922.Sammy recorded it live several times.
Go right into next songBirth Of The Bluescomposed in 1926 by Ray Henderson, with lyrics by Buddy DeSylva and Lew BrownIt was a song he recorded in 1955 for the album Starring Sammy Davis Jr.
You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You written by Russ Morgan, Larry Stock, and James Cavanaugh and published in 1944.He recorded a studio version of that with Count Basie for the 1965 album Our Shining Hour
The Impossible Dreamcomposed by Mitch Leigh, with lyrics written by Joe Darion. Sammy recorded a version for the 1969 album The Goin' Great.
Exoduscomposed by Ernest Gold.This track was recorded sometime around 1972, and was never released on any of his official "albums", however it was also released in 1975 on this K-Tel LP entitled "The Sounds Of Sammy Davis Jr."
I've Gotta Be Mecomposed and written by Walter Marks in 1967Sammy Davis Jr. recorded the song in 1968, as the title track of Davis’ 1968 Reprise album.
Spinning WheelWritten by David Clayton-Thomas of Blood, Sweat & Tears in 1968.This was taken from his 1970 LP Something for Everyone.
I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.
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So, mom...your last mother's day was in 2015 just three weeks before you died.
In those nine years since, you have been dearly missed, thought of often and always toasted at family get-togethers.
I still use your recipes and even some of your kitchen tools to cook our meals. And your granddaughter still helps me make cavatelli and cassatelles. My kitchen always smells good. Almost like yours…sometimes.
Your memory is just as much a part of this record collection as dad’s. Because you were always telling me what you wanted to hear on the living room record player.
Mom…This episode is for you.
So get ready to hear a collection of Italian memories often played and definitely whistled around my house growing up with Volume 176: For Mama on Mothers Day.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
The Botticelli Family Singers – For Mama and Other Italian FavoritesLabel: Diplomat Records – D 2348Format: Vinyl, LPReleased: 1965Genre: Folk, World, & Country
We will hear 7 of the 11 songs from the album.
For Mamawritten by Charles Aznavour, Robert Gall
Funiculi Funiculawritten by Luigi Denza, Peppino Turco
O Mariean adaptation of an operatic tune called Maria Mari written by Eduardo di Capua and Vincenzo Russo.
Santa LuciaA traditional Italian song first recorded by Enrico Caruso in 1916
Stretti Stretti Vincenzo Di Chiara wrote the popular Italian song "La Spagnola", also known as "Stretti stretti, nell'estasi d'amor", in 1906.
Torna a Surrientowritten by C. Chacón, Giambattista de Curtis, Ernesto de Curtis
Ciribiribinwritten by Alberto Pestalozza, Carlo Tiochet
I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.
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When you think of bebop and other improvisational jazz, your mind usually hears a trumpet or saxophone as the lead. We rarely think about that instrument with the long slide that makes some pretty funny sounds as taking on any serious solo work, because, the thinking went, there was no way to be as intricate with some of the fast solos in that type of jazz.
The trombone player you are about to hear proved them all wrong. And made a pretty good name for himself in that trumpet and sax dominated world. He is joined by three amazing big names from the era as well.
So get ready to hear the musician who brought the bone to bebop in Volume 175: JJ is Blue.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Promised link for arts.gov article.
Credits and copyrights
J.J. Johnson – Blue TromboneLabel: Columbia – CL 1303Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, MonoReleased: 1959Genre: Jazz
We will hear 5 of the 7 songs on this album.
Hello, Young LoversWritten-By – Oscar Hammerstein II and Richard Rodgers Better known together as Rodgers & Hammerstein
What's NewWritten-By – Bob Haggart and Johnny Burke
Blue Trombone, Part 1Written-By – J.J. Johnson
Blue Trombone, Part 2Written-By – J.J. Johnson
100 ProofWritten-By – J.J. Johnson
I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.
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One of the box sets that goes almost ignored is on the bottom row of my dad’s collection. It has a somewhat misleading title, but it includes some of the most classic standards in music.
Once again, we have no record of the musicians, the arrangers, the conductor or conductors, just that the box set is part of a much larger series put out by a company who produced radio shows…and hocked watches.
The title definitely doesn’t prepare you for the instrumentation used to perform this classic music, but it definitely grows on you.
So, get ready to hear tunes originating from the roots of American music in Volume 174: Birth of the Blues Record 2.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
The Longines Symphonette – Birth Of The Blues - Vol. 11Label: Longines Symphonette Society – C-7-11 1Series: Our Century In Music – 11Format: 3 x Vinyl, LP Box SetCountry: CanadaReleased: 1974Genre: Blues
1974 Longines Society A Library of Memorable Hits from 1900 to the Present
We are listening to record two which is side C and D.
We will hear 6 of the 10 songs.
St. Louis Blues composed by W. C. Handy
Muskat Ramblewritten by Kid Ory
Jazz Me Bluesby Tom Delaney
Wabash Bluesarranged by Joseph E. Maddy
Blues in the Nightwritten by Harold Arlen
That's A Plentyby Lew Pollack
I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.
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This is the second of the three main Rat Pack members we will hear from here in season four of this show. This crooner is the one we DIDN’T get to see in concert with the other two back in March of 1988 at the Richfield Coliseum.
He’s a singer, actor, and comedian. One of the most popular entertainers of the mid-20th century, he was nicknamed "The King of Cool". And his music is still among the most streamed today.
So, get ready to hear the voice that had just as many teenage girls swooning as Old Blue Eyes did in Volume 173: Dean's Swingin'.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Promised Links:Dean Martin's IMDB listingDean Martin's official website About page.
Credits and copyrights
Dean Martin Orchestra Conducted By Nelson Riddle – This Time I'm Swingin'Label: Capitol Records – T1442Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Los Angeles PressingReleased: Oct 3, 1960Genre: JazzStyle: Easy Listening, Vocal, Swing
It was recorded during three sessions in May of 1960.
We will hear 7 of the 12 songs on the album.
I Can't Believe That You're In Love With MeWritten-By – Clarence Gaskill and Jimmy McHugh
You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You (the 1964 re-release reached number 25 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1964 and number 1 on the Billboard Easy Listening chart.)Written-By – James Cavanaugh, Larry Stock, and Russ Morgan
ImaginationWritten-By – Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Burke
Until The Real Thing Comes AlongWritten-By – Alberta Nichols, L.E. Freeman, Mann Holiner, Sammy Cahn and Saul Chaplin
Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm GoneWritten-By – Sam Stept and Sidney Clare
SomedayWritten-By – Jimmie Hodges
Just In TimeWritten-By – Adoph Green, Betty Comden and Jule Styne
I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.
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One hundred twelve years ago today, on April 14, 1912, while on its maiden voyage from England to New York, the unsinkable RMS Titanic struck an iceberg in the north Atlantic… then the next day did the unthinkable…it sunk.
In 1960, Meredith Willson followed up his Broadway hit The Music Man with a musical version of the fictionalized life of one of the aristocrats who survived the sinking, Margerat Brown. The musical was made into a movie in 1964 starring Debbie Reynolds as Mrs. Brown and Harve Presnell reprising his role from the stage as JJ Brown.
The film was nominated for 6 Oscars. It won none. The Titanic and scenes of the aftermath of its sinking take all of two minutes and five seconds of the entire movie that runs two hours and fifteen minutes, but there are some great song and dance numbers in the show. As well as some very funny scenes.
So, get ready to hear a raucous MGM soundtrack sung by characters molded by the backwoods and mountains of Colorado in Volume 172: Molly is Unsinkable.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
MGM Studio Orchestra with the Overture for the musical the Unsinkable Molly BrownDebbie Reynolds featured in I Ain't Down YetHarve Presnell & Orchestra - Colorado, My HomeHarve Presnell And Debbie Reynolds–I'll Never Say NoDebbie Reynolds And Chorus– Belly Up To The Bar, BoysMGM Studio Orchestra– Dolce Far Niente (Meaning Pleasant Idleness) although literally meaning sweetly and softly do nothingHarve Presnell & Cast– He's My FriendAll music written by Meredith Willson
I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.
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Talk about your comeback albums. This release became the Chairman of the Board’s most commercially successful album. My dad’s favorite voice was finding it hard to sell records during the early days of rock and roll. And he wasn’t finding the top of charts as often.
He once again teamed up with the Nelson Riddle orchestra and this time struck Grammy gold.
So get ready to hear The Voice most heard around our house when I was growing up in Volume 171: Sinatra is No Stranger.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Strangers In The NightArranged By – Ernie FreemanProducer – Jimmy BowenWritten-By – Bert Kaempfert, Charles Singleton and Eddie Snyder
Summer WindWritten-By – Henry Mayer and Johnny Mercer
All Or Nothing At AllWritten-By – Arthur Altman and Jack Lawrence
You're Driving Me Crazy!Written-By – Walter Donaldson
On A Clear DayWritten-By – Alan Jay Lerner and Burton Lane
Yes Sir, That's My Baby!Written-By – Gus Kahn and Walter Donaldson
The Most Beautiful Girl In The World (classic Sinatra phrasing)Written-By – Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart
I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.
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IMPORTANT! If you downloaded this before 7PM April 1, there is an 18 second SKIP in the original mp3 file. Not sure how that happened. Sorry for the inconvenience. This new one should be fixed.
This is not an episode of Spinning My Dad's Vinyl. It was the only place I could share this music mix for the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse on April 8, 2024.
Music to watch an eclipse by
We've been looking forward to the April 8, 2024 Total Solar Eclipse that is hitting parts of North America for a long time. I bought a special camera filter to take photos of the phenomenon. We bought really nice Eclipse glasses a couple of months prior. We'll be smoking ribs and chicken while enjoying the spectacular with high school friends in from D.C. IF THE WEATHER HOLDS! It is northeast Ohio.
But, of course, I needed to create a special music mix for the occasion.
Most people think you should just play Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon to time the song Eclipse's last words to end at the start of totality: "...and the sun is eclipsed by the moon." While my playlist starts with the beginning of that classic album and brings in totality with those lyrics from that song, the list will showcase more eclipse/moon-themed songs from many different music genres. After totality, you'll get to enjoy more sun-based music to bring you to the end of the eclipse, which will be capped by Satchmo's What A Wonderful World.
By the way...I chose Disturbed's version of Sound of Silence for totality.
No matter where you are along the path, if you start this 2024 Eclipse Music Mix EXACTLY 1 hour and 15 minutes before totality starts in your vicinity, the transition I just described should line up properly. You can see the playlist below the audio player.
Enjoy the show that nature is providing us backed by some great music.
Were there other great tunes to use? You bet. But I had time constraints and needed to back time exactly to totality and then to the end.
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We finish up a month of celebration for what would have been Glenn Miller’s 120th birthday March first. And we finish by getting back to the man himself.
We’re not ending this memorial month with just any album in my dad’s collection. I refer to it with the same name as a popular and influential Beatles record.
This album has always caught my eye, and a few times my toe as it has the largest cover in the collection and sticks out beyond all the others, and it is made of a near-wood material. It also has one of the best selections of Glenn Miller’s recordings. Some studio. Some from his live national radio broadcasts.
So get ready to hear the last two sides of this great compilation record set from the most famous big band conductor there was in Volume 170: Miller's White Album Record 5.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Glenn Miller And His Orchestra – RCA Victor Collectors Issue Second PressingLabel: RCA Victor – LPT 6700Format: 5 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation, ReissueReleased: 1960Genre: JazzStyle: Big Band, swing
Released in a binder with a 14 page liner notes booklet.
The original release of this set was a limited edition in 1953, and the Second Pressing was actually first released in Canada in 1956.
We will hear 6 of the 12 songs from record five of the collection, which is sides 5 and 6. Spindle numbering. The other side of the record is not the next side. The next side is the next record.
Baby MeVocals – Kay StarrWritten-By – Archie Gottler, Harry Harris and Lou HandmanJanuary 26, 1939
Love With A Capital "You"Vocals – Kay StarrWritten-By – Leo Robin and Ralph RaingerJanuary 26, 1939
Oh So GoodWritten-By – Jerry GrayBroadcast September 5, 1941Bobby Hacket on guitar
Sun Valley JumpWritten-By – Jerry GrayJanuary 17, 1941
Rug Cutter's SwingWritten-By – Horace HendersonJanuary 29, 1940
King Porter StompWritten-By – Jelly Roll MortonBroadcast March 12, 1940
I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.
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Week four of celebrating what would have been Glenn Miller’s 120th birthday March first, brings us to another album from a different orchestra playing music made famous by Miller.
A couple of weeks ago I played an album by Bobby Hackett. THAT Bobby actually played with Glenn Miller before world war 2. Music you are about to hear features the Bobby Krane Orchestra. THIS Bobby…doesn’t exist.
So get ready to hear recordings that came from a sound-alike record label playing more of that famous clarinet over saxophone swing in Volume 169: Krane's Miller Tribute.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Bobby Krane His Trombone And Orchestra* – A Tribute To Glenn MillerLabel: Bravo! Records – K-118Series: Grand Prix SeriesFormat: Vinyl, LP, Album, StereoReleased: 1962 Genre: Jazz, PopStyle: Big Band
We will hear 6 of the ten songs from the album
I've Got A Gal In Kalamazoowritten by Mack Gordon and Harry Warren
Jeannie With The Light Brown Hairwritten by Stephen C. Foster
Volga BoatmanA traditional Russian songBill Finegan's jazz arrangement for the Glenn Miller band took the song to #1 in the US charts in 1941.
HabaneraWritten aby Georges Bizet the 19th century French composer
Anitra's DanceWritten by Edvard Grieg the 19th century Norwegian composer
Chattanooga Choo Choo written by Mack Gordon and Harry Warren
I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.
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We continue Glenn Miller month in celebration of what would have been his 120th birthday on March 1.
My dad was obviously a big Glenn Miller fan or we wouldn’t have been able to do this month-long celebration of his music. He owned 12 33 ⅓ RPM Vinyl records of Glenn Miller performing his music, later conductors of the Miller band, and other band leaders recording Glenn’s music. My dad owned even more Miller music on the original 78 RPM Shellac records.
Now, if you are a follower of this show, you’ll also know my dad was a really big Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass fan. He owned 12 records of the TJB.
In this episode we bring them together with the Buddy DeFranco led Glenn Miller band from the 1960s. Sort of an early mashup.
So get ready to hear one popular band play music from another popular band in Volume 168: Miller Band Translates TJB.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
The Glenn Miller Orchestra, Buddy DeFranco – Something New - Translates The Tijuana Brass HitsLabel: Epic – LN 24206Format: Vinyl, LPReleased: 1966 Genre: JazzStyle: Big Band
We will hear 7 of the 10 songs on the album.
A Taste Of HoneyWritten-By – Bobby Scott and Ric MarlowHerb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass recorded the most popular instrumental version of the song with a cover on their 1965 album, Whipped Cream & Other Delights.
I'm Getting Sentimental Over YouWritten-By – George Bassman and Ned Washingtonfrom the album Going Places in 1965
The Third Man ThemeWritten-By – Anton Karas!!Going Places!! (1965) for A&M Records.
Dating Game DuoWhipped CreamWritten-By – Naomi NevilleIt is the title track of their 1965 LP, Whipped Cream & Other Delights, and was released as the lead single from the album.
Spanish FleaWritten-By – Julius Wechterfrom the album Going Places in 1965
Tijuana TaxiWritten-By – Ervan Coleman!!Going Places!! (1965) for A&M Records.
The Lonely BullWritten-By – Sol LakeThe song was the title track to the album The Lonely Bull, released in December 1962. The Herb Alpert single represents the first release on A&M Records.
I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.
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