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We begin a month of travel-related music in what I am calling World Tour November. And what better way to begin that month than with a tour of the world all in one album. This episode will serve as the month’s Overture, so to speak.
The movie, based on a Jules Verne novel, was an epic screen hit that won eight Academy Awards. Not only was the lead character a trailblazer in the film, but the entire production was considered a trailblazer itself in many ways.
So, get ready to hear the soundtrack that won the 1957 Oscar for Best Original Score in Volume 201: 80 Days with Passepartout.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrightsVictor Young – Michael Todd's Around The World In 80 Days - Music From The Sound TrackLabel: Decca – DL 9046Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Gloversville pressReleased: 1957Genre: Stage & ScreenStyle: Soundtrack
Around The World - Part 1PassepartoutInvitation To A Bull Fight/Entrance Of The Bull MarchIndia Country SideThe Pagoda Of PillagiPrairie Sail CarLand Ho
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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Well, here’s a milestone for you. I can’t believe that I have reached 200 shows with no intent of stopping.
While I’ve played over 12 hundred songs on this show over those more than three and a three quarter years, I have several that have stuck in my brain or keep coming up in conversation and memories.
They may not be the most popular of the songs I’ve played, the biggest hits or even necessarily among my favorites, but they had a catchy melody or rhythm that I couldn’t get out of my head.
So get ready to hear a dozen extra memorable tunes you’ve heard on this show before in Volume 200: Frank's Earworms Take 2.
Listen to the Ted Alexander unedited phone interview.Read Frank's REO Speedwagon story.
Credits and copyrights
The Lady Is A Tramp - Buddy GrecoWritten by Richard Rodgers, and Lorenz Hart
Take the A Train - The Duke Ellington OrchestraWritten by Duke Ellington
Day-O - Harry BelafonteWritten by Harry Belafonte, Lord Burgess, and Bill Attaway
Java - Al HirtWritten by Allen Toussaint, Alvin Tyle, and Freddy Friday
Let’s Cha Cha - Tito PuenteWritten by Ray Coen
Debbie Reynolds and the cast of the musical motion picture The Unsinkable Molly Brown - Belly up to the Bar, BoysMusic And Lyrics written By Meredith Willson
(Running Around in Circles) Getting Nowhere - Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra Written by Irving Berlin
Ye-Me-Le - Sergio Mendez & Brasil ‘66Written by Chico Feitosa, and Luis Carlos Vinhas
Sing, Sing, Sing - Henry ManciniComposed by Louis Prima
Spinning Wheel - Sammy Davis Jr.Written by David Clayton-Thomas
Che La Luna - Louis Prima With Sam Butera And The Witnesses Written-By – Kopak, and Louis Prima
Taste Of Honey - Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass Written by Bobby Scott and Ric Marlow
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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Most of the albums so far in my father’s collection were of popular artists from the US. This record is the first of four my dad had from an orchestra leader who reportedly was from England, featuring a trumpet player, who reportedly has the same name as the guy who writes all the liner notes for the orchestra leader.
Meanwhile, there were a number of musicians who really recorded this album. Who they were is a budget record label mystery.
So, get ready to hear some pretty melodies while you’re having your afternoon crumpets in Volume 199: Tea and Trumpets.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Stanley Applewaite, Roy Freeman – Stanley Applewaite Plays Tea And Trumpets Featuring Roy FreemanLabel: Design Records (2) – DLP 40Format: Vinyl, LPReleased: Oct 1957Genre: PopStyle:
If I Had A Love That Loved Me
Medley: Darling My Heart Is Yours/Standing In The Rain (written by Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal)/Sing Nightingale Sing (written by Bob Iller, Bruno Balz, Michael Jary)
Pleasewritten by Leo Robin, Ralph Rainger
Moritatwritten by Kurt Weill, Bertolt Brecht
Medley: You Make This World Beautiful / Virginia Blues (written by Ernie Erdman, Fred Meinken) / Two Hearts In May (Michael Jary)
John And Julie (fitting to end the show with a song written by another trumpet player.)by Eddie Calvert
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 filled with some of the biggest big band jazz orchestra leaders there ever were. And they’re the songs that each leader was most identified by.
It’s also a special promotional copy with a Cleveland area connection, which is probably why it’s in my dad’s collection. Plus it brought back some memories of TV commercial gold.
So get ready to hear tunes that introduced the bands that played them in Volume 198: Big Band Themes.
Correction: Lawson's Milk Company was founded in Cuyahoga Falls, not Chagrin Falls, which is what I said in the episode.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Various – Dance To The Themes Of The Greatest BandsLabel: Columbia Special Products – XTV 68511Format: Vinyl, LP, CompilationReleased: 1963 Genre: JazzStyle: Big Band
Les Brown–Leap Frogwritten by Joe Garland, Leo Corday in 1942Recorded by Les Brown and his Orchestra in October 1945
Woody Herman and his Thundering Herd - Blue Flamewritten by Leo Corday, Joe Bishop, James A. NobleFirst recording on February 13, 1941 by Woody Herman
Claude Thornhill - Snowfallwritten by Claude Thornhill, Ruth ThornhillFirst recording on May 26, 1941
Kay Kyser - (I've Grown So Lonesome) Thinking Of Youwritten by Bert Kalmar, Harry Rubyrecorded New York, NY, January 9, 1939 but not released until 1941.
Gene Krupa - StarburstComposed by Eddie Finckel and Gene KrupaRecorded February 8, 1947
Count Basie - One O'Clock Jumpwritten by Count BasieFirst recording on July 7, 1937
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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Back to one of my father’s favorite trumpet players. This time, a little later in his career. It’s as if the years have slightly mellowed his sound, and he blends in more with the band.
But there’s almost never any trouble recognizing when this musician is front and center, because he had one of the smoothest sounds around.
So, get ready to hear one of the best known and easily recognized trumpet players ever in Volume 197: Jazzy James.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Harry James And His Orchestra – Jazz SessionLabel: Columbia – CL 669, Columbia – CL-669Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Hollywood PressingReleased: 1955Genre: JazzStyle: Big Band
Marchin'Soloist, Tenor Saxophone – Pat ChartrandWritten-By – Harry James and Louis Bellson
I'll Remember AprilWritten-By – Don Raye, Gene DePaul and Patricia Johnson
One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)Written-By – Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen
(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66!Vocals – Gordon PolkWritten-By – Bobby Troup
Stealin' ApplesWritten-By – Andy Razaf and Fats Waller
Queen Of The MamboWritten-By – Tony Martinez
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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Today, the day this episode drops, would have been my mom’s 87th birthday. Earlier today, I dropped ten roses on her gravestone to signify how many of those birthdays we have had without her.
I’ve said this before, that my mom’s spirit is within this album collection just as much as my dad’s, and it’s artists like this that I know she enjoyed very much.
My parents did get to see him once in concert. He is one of the world’s most recognized tenors, even years after he has been gone.
So get ready to hear Luciano sing to celebrate my mother’s birthday in Volume 196: Pavarotti for Pauline.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Luciano Pavarotti – Verismo AriasLabel: London Records – LDR 10020Series: London DigitalFormat: Vinyl, LP, StereoReleased: Dec 1980Genre: ClassicalStyle: Opera
The portrait reproduced for the cover was done by Gerrit Greve, and was one of Pavarotti's favorites.
We will hear 10 of the 15 songs on this album.
Amor Ti Vieta(Fedora)Composed By – Umberto Giordano
Dai Campi, Dai Prati(Mefistofele)Composed By – Arrigo Boito
La Dolcissima Effigie(Adriana Lecouvreur)Composed By – Francesco Cilea
L'Anima Ho Stanca or My Soul Is Tired(Adriana Lecouvreur)Composed By – Francesco Cilea
Apri La Tua Finestra!(Iris)Composed By – Pietro Mascagni
Colpito Qui M'Avete.....Un Di All 'Azzurro Spazio(Andrea Chénier)Composed By – Umberto Giordano
Come Un Bel Di Di Maggio(Andrea Chénier)Composed By – Umberto Giordano
Ch'Ella Mi Creda(La Fanciulla Del West)Composed By – Giacomo Puccini
Ma Se Vi Talenta.....Tra Voi, Belle(Manon Lescaut)Composed By – Giacomo Puccini
Ah! Non Y'Avvicante!(Manon Lescaut)Bass Vocals – Neil HowlettComposed By – Giacomo Puccini
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 truly an interesting find in my dad’s collection. We know by now my dad’s love for the Dixieland style of music. So it’s not surprising I found this record in the stacks.
But what was surprising is that this recording was made by seven musicians that had never played together before. You most certainly can’t tell. And they’re not exactly household names.
So, get ready to hear what it must have sounded like rollin’ down the Mississippi River in the late 19th and early 20th century in Volume 195: Delta Dixieland.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Delta Kings – Down The River With The Delta KingsLabel: Down South Records – DS 201Format: Vinyl, LPReleased: 1958Genre: Jazz, BluesStyle: Dixieland
We will hear 6 of the 10 songs on this album.
Ole Man Riverwritten by Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II
Beautiful Ohiowritten by Ballard MacDonald, Robert KingFirst released in 1919
'Way Down Upon The Swanee RiverOld Folks at Home written by Stephen Foster
Waitin' For The Robert E. Leewritten by L. Wolfe Gilbert, Lewis F. Muir
Up That Lazy Riverby Hoagy Carmichael and Sidney Arodin
Down By The Riverside (I Ain't Goin' to Study War No More)A traditional song first recorded in 1920
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 why, but the episodes that feature Ray Conniff music have been among the most popular…by far. Maybe because his music is so enjoyable. Maybe because his music is laid back and brings back memories of better times, or what are assumed to be better times.
But Conniff’s music had a very unique sound because of how he treated vocals in many of his songs. He used voices as instruments as they sang wordless notes. But on this record? They use their real words.
So get ready to hear some sweet music with that unique Conniff vocal arrangement in Volume 194: Ray's Honey.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Ray Conniff And The Singers – HoneyLabel: Columbia – CS 9661Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Pitman PressingReleased: 1968Genre: JazzStyle: Easy Listening
We will play 7 of the 11 songs on the album.
Honey (I Miss You)Written-By – Bobby Russell
Gentle On My MindWritten-By – John Hartford
Spanish EyesWritten-By – Bert Kaempfert, Charles Singleton and Eddie Snyder
I Say A Little PrayerWritten-By – Burt Bacharach and Hal David
The Look Of Love (From "Casino Royale")Written-By – Burt Bacharach and Hal David
Sound Of SilenceWritten-By – Paul Simon
Goin' Out Of My HeadWritten-By – Bobby Weinstein and Teddy Randazzo
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 slide now quite nicely into the second record of a two album set of popular New York City Jazz musicians taking their music around the U.S. In fact, according to the album back cover, they performed in front of 200 thousand fans during 37 concerts in 25 cities. This is one of those concerts.
So get ready to hear the East-West Coast All Stars with music refined at a famed jazz club named after one of the best saxophonists that ever lived in Volume 193: Birdland Stars Tour 2.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
The Birdland Stars – The Birdland Stars On Tour Vol. 2Label: RCA Victor – LPM-1328Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, MonoReleased: 1956Genre: JazzStyle: Hard Bop
Recorded February 27, 1956, Webster Hall, New York
We will hear 4 of 6 songs from this record.
Hip Boots!Written-By – Ernie Wilkins
Ah Funky New BabyWritten-By – Manny Albam
PlayboyWritten-By – Ernie Wilkins
Birdland FantasyWritten-By – Ernie Wilkins
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 is the first of two from Doris my dad had. And it's just some downright pretty music. She's got a soft, delicate voice. I can see why Colonel Potter fell in love with her. But that's a story for later in the episode.
A car accident cut her budding dancing career short, but she showed off her voice on radio in Cincinnati and ended up attaining fame in both music and movies.
So get ready to hear one of the most popular and acclaimed singers of the 20th century in Volume 192: Day Dreaming.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Doris Day – Day DreamsLabel: Columbia – CL 624Format: Vinyl, LP, AlbumReleased: Jun 13, 1955Genre: PopStyle: Vocal
We will hear 6 of the 12 songs from this album.
BewitchedWritten-By – Rodgers & Hart
Sometimes I'm HappyMusic By – Vincent YoumansWords By – Irving Caesar
I Didn't Know What Time It Was (GREAT lyrics)Written-By – Rodgers & Hart
I've Only Myself To BlameWritten-By – David Mann, Redd Evans
Darn That Dream (such language Doris)Written-By – Eddie Delange, Jimmy Van Heusen
ImaginationMusic By – Jimmy Van HeusenWords By – Johnny Burke
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 album is the epitome of extended music.
These melodies had been recorded before, but the technology of the 78 RPM kept them limited in length. Once the opportunity to put more music on one disk became available with the new Long Playing technology of the 1950s, most musicians were adding more songs to put together an album.
Not this episode’s featured artist. He kept adding to the songs on this album. Just when you think the tune is getting ready to conclude, it heads off in a different direction. In doing so Duke has created absolute masterpieces.
And because of the length of these recordings, we’ll only hear three songs on this episode.
So, get ready to hear uncut concert arrangements by one of the most prolific composers in history in Volume 191: Master Ellington.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Duke Ellington And His Orchestra – Masterpieces By EllingtonLabel: Columbia Special Products – JCL 825Series: Collectors' SeriesFormat: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono (originally released in 1951)Released: 1973Genre: JazzStyle: Swing, Big Band
Recorded December 19, 1950
These are uncut concert arrangements.
All music written by Duke Ellington, arranged by Ellington and Billy Strayhorn.
Sophisticated LadySolitudeThe Tattooed Bride
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 artist dwelling in my father’s collection we haven’t heard from yet. We’ll be hearing selections from the first of three Billy Vaughn records he had.
This record isn't just filled with the pop hits Vaughn would arrange and record for orchestra to be played on those easy listening radio stations. These are standards. In fact, the hit recordings of these songs sold a lot of records.
So, get ready to hear 7 tunes that were recorded over 1,200 times combined over the years in Volume 190: Billy's Million Sellers.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Billy Vaughn – Billy Vaughn Plays The Million SellersLabel: Dot Records – DLP 3119Format: Vinyl, LP, AlbumReleased: 1958Genre: Jazz, Folk, World, & CountryStyle: Easy Listening
We will hear 7 of the 12 songs on this album.
Holiday For Stringswritten by David Rose
Canadian Sunsetwritten by Eddie Heywood
Tonight We Lovewritten by Freddy Martin, Ray Austin
Fascinationwritten by Fermo Dante Marchetti
In The MoodWritten by Joe Garland, Jimmy Dale, Wingy Manone, Andy Razaf
Around The WorldMusic written by Victor Young
So Rarewritten by Jerry Herst, Jack Sharpe
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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The four letter album title in large yellow font along with the same color silhouette of a pair of hands playing a trumpet over a black background immediately sets the tone for this LP.
It’s familiar music played a little more sparsely than you are used to hearing it. But fear not, there are some great treatments of music you may know on this disk, and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did listening to this unfamiliar trumpet player.
So get ready to hear a honeyed horn from a musician who actually was more popular in another profession in Volume 189: Jim's Java.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Jim Collier – JavaLabel: Wyncote – W-9013Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, MonoReleased: 1964Genre: JazzStyle: Easy Listening
We will hear 7 of the 10 songs on this album.
Javawritten by Allen Toussaint, Murray Sporn, Alvin "Red" Tyler, and Danny Kessler
Miss Daisy De LiteWritten by Kal Mann and Dave Appell
Happiness Is A Thing Called FunCould not find any information on this song
Honey In The Horn (which according to the front cover is the featured song even though it's number one on side two.)written by Fred Wise, Ben Weisman, Kay Twomey, Al Alberts
Anymorewritten by Roy Drusky, Vic McAlpin, and Marie Wilson
Chillswritten by Jack Keller, and Gerry Goffin
Get It Movin'Could not find any information on this song
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.
#jimcollier #trumpetsrule #jazzmusic
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Let’s get back to some of the big band and early swing my dad listened to a lot. And this record is a real find because of the two main musicians.
One played a brass instrument, one played reeds. One ended up just a little more famous than the other. But they were brothers. And they had their famous beginnings in a band with the family name that recorded in the early to mid-1930s.
So get ready to hear a compilation of some of the last studio recordings for this sibling duo that began on 78 RPM Shellac and ended up on this 33 ⅓ RPM Vinyl in Volume 188: The Brothers Dorsey Shine.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
The Dorsey Brothers' Original Orchestra – Their Shining HourLabel: Design Records – DLP 20Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, MonoReleased: 1957Genre: Jazz
We will play 7 of the 11 songs from this album.
By Heckmusic by S. R. Henry
Solitudewritten by Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Eddie DeLange
Rhythm Of The Rainwritten by Jack Meskill, Jack Stern
Night WindWritten-By – Bob Romberg, Dave Pollock and Harry Link
Eccentric is actually cut 3written by J. Russel Robinson
Sugar Foot Stompwritten by Louis Armstrong, King Oliver
The Weary Blueswritten by Artie Matthews
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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Like I’ve mentioned before, my dad liked his cowboy music too. So, we’ll go back to a box set where we’ll pull out the fourth of its seven records.
The title of each of these sides is Deep in the Heart of Texas and Western Landscapes, hence the mashup title of this episode.
Four songs from side one were all big hits and reference our second biggest state. The selections from side two are lesser known but paint a beautiful picture of the old west.
So get ready to hear what is really Tumbling Tumbleweeds part 4 in Volume 187: Texas Landscapes.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Various – Tumbling TumbleweedsLabel: Reader's Digest – RDA-229 / AFormat: 7 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation Box SetReleased: 1982Genre: Folk, World, & CountryStyle: Country
We will be listening to record 4, sides 1 and 2. We will hear 7 of the 11 tunes from this disk.
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys - Deep In The Heart Of Texaswritten by Don Swander, June Hershey
George Hamilton IV - Abilenewritten by John D. Loudermilk, Bob Gibson and Lester Brown
Gene Autry - The Yellow Rose Of TexasIt's a traditional song with lyrics added by Don George
Jerry Reed - El Paso written by Marty Robbins
The Sons Of The Pioneers - Moonlight On The Coloradowritten by Billy Moll, Robert King
Jimmy Wakely - The Call Of The Canyonwritten by Billy Hill
Hank Snow - Cross The Brazos At Wacowritten by Kay Arnold
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'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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