The Spinning My Dad's Vinyl Podcast: Recent Episodes
Frank Vaccariello
Extensive and Eclectic and we hear them as is with skips, scratches, and pops.
Being a radio and mobile DJ for a decade and a half, I collected several hundred albums. I had nothing on my dad who owned 478 (33 1/3) LPs and dozens of 78s at the time of his death in December 2019. I had no idea he had so many. We found them spread all over the house when we prepared for the estate sale. I went through every one and categorized them on an app called Discogs. I thought so many were unique, I decided to start a podcast called Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl. Each episode will feature an album. I’ll tell stories about the family listening to these albums and I’ll give other info about the album and the time it was released.
Happy Valentine's Day!
Of course my dad had plenty of romantic music. So that’s why we are able to do this special episode.
There was a popular radio format known as Easy Listening. We listened to one of those stations from Cleveland when we were young. And there was one extremely popular orchestra that was the backbone of those radio station playlists. 101 Strings.
So, get ready to hear the lush sound that immediately gets you into a romantic mood in Volume 253: Valentines is for Lovers.
For more information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
101 Strings – 101 Strings In A Symphony For Lovers
Label: Somerset – P-4500
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Released: 1957
Genre: Classical
Style: Romantic
We will hear all 7 songs on the album.
Evening Star - From Tannhauser
Written-By – Richard Wagner
Barcarolle - From Tales Of Hoffmann
Written-By – Jacques Offenbach
Poem
Written-By – Zdeněk Fibich
Serenade
Written-By – Franz Schubert
2nd Piano Concerto - 3rd Movement
Written-By – Sergei Rachmaninoff
Reverie
Written-By – Claude Debussy
Cradle Song
Written-By – Johannes Brahms
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.
valentinesday #valentines #romanticmusic #vinylcollecting #vinylrecords #musicalmemories #fyp
Merry Christmas!
My dad had a couple dozen records meant just for this time of year. So I HAD to come back for a Christmas Day music show.
I talked a lot in yesterday's deep dive into the music of the seasonal favorite, The Nutcracker. So we're going to do a lot of listening in this one…and thinking about Christmas dinner pasts.
This four record box set is filled with lots of holiday hits and some songs I’ve never heard before. Its source is one of the most beloved TV hosts and orchestra conductors from my youth.
So get ready to hear that effervescent music from holidays past complete with a longed-for litany of my family’s favorite holiday food items in Volume 252 A Champagne Christmas.
For more information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Lawrence Welk And His Champagne Music Makers – Merry Christmas From Lawrence Welk And His Champagne Music Makers
Label: Reader's Digest – RDA-07-A
Format: 4 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation Box Set
Released:1970
Genre: Jazz, Pop, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Polka, Easy Listening, Holiday
We will hear 12 songs from the first two records in the box.
Merry Christmas From Our House To Your House
'Twas The Night Before Christmas
The Little Drummer Boy
Carol Of The Bells
The Christmas Song
I Wanna Do More Than Whistle
High On The Housetop
Ho Ho Ho Record
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
Here Comes Santa Claus
Merry Christmas Day
Sleigh Ride
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.
merrychristmas #lawrencewelk #champagnemusic
The Nutcracker: Concert Suite vs. Ballet
Welcome back and Merry Christmas Eve.
My girlfriend Karen and I partook in a Northcoast Christmas season tradition a week and a half ago for the very first time. And of course, my dad had a record for that.
It’s not a vinyl record, but a shellac album set recorded nearly 100 years ago that probably belonged to my dad’s dad. And it’s filled with music from a US holiday tradition. But if you’ve ever seen the ballet it’s connected to, you’ll notice plenty of music missing.
I’ll tell you why as we go along. In fact, this is going to be a lengthy dive into the difference between the suite and the dance.
So, get ready to hear the most notable themes from a fairytale ballet as Stokowski conducts Tschaikowsky in Volume 251: A Cleveland Ballet Christmas Tradition.
For more information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - The Philadelphia Orchestra Conducted By Leopold Stokowski – Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a
Label: Victor Red Seal – DM 265
Series: Musical Masterpiece Series
Format: 3 x Shellac, 12", 78 RPM, Album, Reissue, Camden Pressing
Released: in the mid 1940s, I am not sure of the release of this version. There many of them
Genre: Classical
Style: Romantic, Ballet
We are listening to all 6 sides of this collection which includes 8 songs.
Overture Miniature
Marche
Dance Of The Sugar-plum Fairy
Russian Dance
Arab Dance
Chinese Dance
Dance Of The Flutes
Waltz Of The Flowers
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.
nutcracker #christmastradition #tchaikovsky
My Dad's Greatest Hits
This will be my last regularly scheduled weekly episode. We’ll talk about that as we go along.
One of the last songs my dad heard in his hospital bed the day he died and the one we played as we wheeled his casket out of the church was the Frank Sinatra song, My Way. It’s how my dad lived his life. And it’s how I will bring this show to a close. I’ll use paraphrased lyrics from the song.
So Yes, the end is near.
My friend, I'll say it clear.
Strap in. This is going to be a fun musical ride.
So, get ready to hear 20 songs that had meaning to my father, my family, and me in Volume 250: Fading Out My Way.
Credits and copyrights
Louis Armstrong
When The Saints Go Marching In
A traditional Tune
Opens and Closes (almost) every episode
Lou Monte
Pepino The Italian Mouse
written by Ray Allen and Wandra Merrell
Volume 9: Lou Monte and Pepino
Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass
Whipped Cream
Written By – Naomi Neville
Volume 98: Whipped Alpert
Henry Mancini
Peter Gunn Theme
Written by Henry Mancini
Volume 242: Mancini's Gunn
Ray Conniff
This Is My Song
Written By – Charlie Chaplin
Volume 76: My Song
Willie Nelson
Georgia On My Mind
Written By Hoagy Carmichael and Stuart Gorrell
Volume 225: The Standard Stoner
The Sons Of The Pioneers
Cool Water
written by Bob Nolan
Volume 41: Tumbling Tumbleweeds Part 1
Luciano Pavarotti with The National Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Gian Carlo Chiaramello
Torna A Surriento
Composed By – Ernesto de Curtis
Volume 86: Pavarotti's Greatest Part 1
unknown artist
Oh Marie
Adapted from Maria Marì written by Eduardo Di Capua, Alfredo Mazzucchi, and Vincenzo Russo
Volume 127: Italian Favorites
Roy Meriwether Trio
Zipadee Doo Dah
composed by Allie Wrubel with lyrics by Ray Gilbert
Volume 62: Popcorn and Soul
Kay Kyser And His Orchestra
Woody Woodpecker, a Walter Lantz Cartoon
With vocal chorus from Gloria Wood.
Written by Ramey Idriss, George Tibbles
Volume 74: 8 Sides from Columbia
Bing Crosby
Running Around in Circles (Getting Nowhere)
Written by Irving Berlin
Volume 78: Berlin’s Blue Skies
Pete Fountain
Farewell Blues
written by Paul Mares, Leon Roppolo and Elmer Schoebel
Volume 25: Pete Fountain a High Society Fathers Day
Glenn Miller Orchestra
Bugle Call Rag
Written By – Billy Meyers, Elmer Schoebel, and Jack Pettis
Volume 122: Glenn Miller Collection Part 4
Jonah Jones
Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White
Written By – Louiguy (real name Louis Guglielmi)
Volume 210: Jonah Style
Harry James
Two O'Clock Jump
Written-By – Benny Goodman, Count Basie, and Harry James
Volume 4: Harry James Greatest Hits
Al Hirt
Holiday For Trumpet
Written By – Mario Ruiz Armengol
Volume 158: Hirt So Good
Dean Martin
Your Other Love
Written by Mort Shuman and Doc Pomus
Volume 75: Everybody Loves Dean
Sammy Davis Jr.
Mr. Bojangles
written by Jerry Jeff Walker
Volume 136: Sammy Record 1
Frank Sinatra
My Way
written by Jacques Revaux, Gilles Thibaut, and Claude François
English lyrics by Paul Anka
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.
dadsrecords #vinyl #musichistory #vinylcollecting #vinylrecords #musicalmemories #fyp
Historic Papal Visit
We haven't broken away from music for a while, but what have I told you before? My dad has a record for every occasion.
60 years ago yesterday, on October 4, 1965, Pope Paul VI visited the United States for a 14-hour trip that was entirely contained within New York City. The visit marked the first time a pope had visited the U.S. and included addressing the United Nations, meeting with President Lyndon B. Johnson, celebrating Mass at Yankee Stadium, and visiting the New York World's Fair.
It is estimated that at least 1 million people saw the pope in person, while 100 million watched his visit on television
This record commemorates that historic day.
So, get ready to hear the voice of a man that met with world leaders looking to find a path to peace among nations in Volume 249: A Pope Visits.
For more information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Pope Paul VI – An Historic Occasion: Pope Paul VI Visits New York City October 4, 1965
Label: MGM Records – E-4337-D
Format: Vinyl, LP, Mono
Released: 1966
Genre: Non-Music
Style: Religious, Spoken Word
We will hear 5 of the 8 tracks from this album.
Leonardo Da Vinci Airport, Rome
Kennedy Airport, New York
United Nations Address
Address To United Nations Staff Workers
Kennedy Airport
I do not own the rights to this recording. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.
thepope #popepaulVI #musichistory #vinylcollecting #vinylrecords #musicalmemories #fyp
TJB South of the Border
OK…I was having Tijuana Brass withdrawals.
While I did play plenty of his music in Volume 222: A TJB Concert Rewind earlier this year, that was a special episode shortly after I saw Herb and the gang in concert.
It’s been over a year since I’ve pulled out one of the 11 records my dad had of one of his favorite groups. Since I grew up listening to his music, and have now seen him in concert three times, Alpert has been one of MY favorite artists as well.
So, get ready to hear from this group’s third album that features music from south of the border in Volume 248: Down Mexico Way.
For more information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass – South Of The Border
Label: A&M Records – LP 108
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
Country:
Released: 1964
Genre: Jazz, Latin, Pop
Style: Latin Jazz, Mariachi, Easy Listening, Bossa Nova
We will hear 9 of the 12 songs on this album.
South Of The Border (Down Mexico Way)
Written-By – Jimmy Kennedy and Michael Carr
Hello, Dolly!
Written-By – Jerry Herman
Up Cherry Street
Written-By – Julius Wechter
Angelito (Little Angel usually meant for children)
Written-By – Rene Herrera and Rene Ornellas
I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face
Written-By – . Songwriting duo of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe. Better known as just Lerner and Lowe
All My Loving
Written-By – Paul McCartney and John Lennon
The Girl From Ipanema
Written-By – Antonio Carlos Jobim, Norman Gimbel, and Vinicius De Moraes
El Presidente
Written-By – Sol Lake
Mexican Shuffle
Written-By – Sol Lake
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.
herbalpert #tijuanabrass #musichistory #vinylcollecting #vinylrecords #musicalmemories #fyp
Ray Conniff Improvisations
My father must have really loved the music of Ray Conniff. This is the sixth of eight albums from this arranger and orchestra leader in my dad’s collection. This one has a bit of a twist to it. No. Not the dance.
While the title of the album makes it seem like it will be a live album, that is not the nature of the concert here. Several of the songs you hear will be improvisations or interpretations of some pretty popular melodies from throughout time.
So, get ready to hear those lush strings paired with those lyric-less vocals in Volume 247: A Conniff Concert.
For more information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Ray Conniff His Orchestra And Chorus* – Concert In Rhythm Volume II
Label: Columbia – CL 1415
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
Released: 1960
Genre: Jazz, Classical
Style: Listening
We will hear 7 of the 12 songs on this album.
An Improvisation On "Liebestraum"
written by Franz Liszt
An Improvisation On The Fibich "Poéme"
written by Jacques Larue, Zdeněk Fibich
An Improvisation On Chopin's "Nocturne In E-Flat"
written by Frédéric Chopin
Adapted By – Ray Conniff
Yours Is My Heart Alone
written by Harry B. Smith, Fritz Löhner-Beda, Franz Lehár, and Ludwig Herzer
But it actually started life as Dein ist mein ganzes Herz translated back as Yours is my whole heart and first recorded in 1929.
Smith added the lyrics about 1931 when the song changes to the English version on Second Hand Songs Dot com.
Favorite Themes From Greig's A Minor Piano Concerto
written by Edvard Grieg
Warsaw Concerto
written by Richard Addinsell
I'll See You Again From the 1929 operetta Bitter Sweet (thought it was going to be Tequila for a second)
written by Noël Coward
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.
rayconniff #musichistory #vinylcollecting #vinylrecords #musicalmemories #fyp
Real Country and Western Music
We are pulling out the 6th record of this seven record set that has really grown on me over the four and a half years of this show. Reader’s Digest has compiled 83 classic country and western songs and arranged them in themes…all completely unabridged, unlike stories we would usually see from that publication.
One side of this record features songs from the dusty trail. The other side features theme songs from Western TV and Movies.
So, get ready to hear what is technically Tumbling Tumbleweeds Part 6 in Volume 246: Western Trails.
For more information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Various – Tumbling Tumbleweeds
Label: Reader's Digest – RDA-229 / A
Format: 7 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation Box Set
Released: 1982
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Country
We are pulling out Record six of this seven record box set and we'll hear eight of the 11 songs on sides K and L.
Al Caiola - Theme From Bonanza
written by Ray Evans, Jay Livingston
This version was released in 1961 and became a hit song.
Hugo Montenegro - The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo written by Ennio Morricone who first recorded it in 1966
Hugo released his version in December 1967 and it was a hit song.
Roy Rogers (King of the Cowboys) with Orchestra conducted by Perry Botkin - Along The Navajo Trail
written by Eddie DeLange, Dick Charles, Larry Markes
They released this version in September 1945.
The Sons Of The Pioneers - Along The Santa Fe Trail
written by Al Dubin, Hugh Williams, Edwina Coolidge
This version was released in 1955, more than 10 years after recording it.
The Sons Of The Pioneers - Twilight On The Trail
written by Louis Alter, Sidney D. Mitchell
Released in March 1960.
Al Caiola - Theme From The Magnificent Seven
written by Elmer Bernstein
Released in September 1960.
Warren Barker - Theme From Gunsmoke
written by Glenn Spencer, Rex Koury
Barker recorded his version in 1959
Roy Rogers and Dale Evans with The Whippoorwills and Orchestra - Happy Trails
This was the First recording on April 21, 1952
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.
countryandwestern #wevegotbothkinds #oldcountrymusic #musichistory #vinylcollecting #vinylrecords #musicalmemories #fyp
Joy from Sammy and Joya
Usually I don’t title the episode exactly the same as the album I’m featuring, but this one was just too good not to use. Yes, we will hear the artist I think is the greatest showman who ever lived, but this record is really about Joya.
She is not widely known today, despite her significant contributions, because of a combination of historical and social factors that often affected women and African American artists in jazz.
But the gang at the Design Label teamed her up in 1957 with a fast rising star in Davis Jr to introduce her solo recordings to the world.
So, get ready to hear a voice that brought joy when I saw him on stage and a voice that brought joy when I heard this record in Volume 245: Sammy Jumps With Joya.
For more information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Sammy Davis Jr., Joya Sherrill – Sammy Jumps With Joya
Label: Design Records – DLP 22
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
Released: 1957
Genre: Jazz
We will hear 7 of the 10 songs from this album.
Sammy Davis Jr. backed by Orchestra under the direction of Morton Stevens – The Gypsy In My Soul
Recorded in February 1953
written by Clay Boland and Moe Jaffe
Joya Sherrill – Baby Me
written by Lou Handman, Archie Gottler, Harry Harris
Joya Sherrill – Easy Street
written by Alan Rankin Jones
Joya Sherrill – Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea
written by Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler
Joya Sherrill – Thou Swell
written by Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart
Joya Sherrill – The End Of A Love Affair
written by Edward Redding
Sammy Davis Jr. – Chloe
written by Gus Kahn, Charles N. Daniels
This was also recorded in 1957
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.
joyasherrill #sammy #sammydavisjr #musichistory #vinylcollecting #vinylrecords #musicalmemories #fyp
Great Big Band Vocalists
Most times when the Longines Symphonette Society put out albums, we had no idea who the musicians were. But sometimes they did give us all the information. And it’s even rarer when they cram an album full of star singers.
THIS is one of those albums.
These Decca recording artists are still some of the best known. The songs, pure pop gold from the 1930s through 50s.
So, get ready to hear a few memorable singers performing memorable songs in Volume 244: Big Band Vocals.
For more information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Various – The Great Vocalists Of The Big Band Era
Label: Longines Symphonette Society – SY 5207, Decca – DL 734665
Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Stereo, Gloversville press
Released: Of course we don't know. See above label mentioning Longine Symphonette and how we've covered that before.
Genre: Jazz, Stage & Screen
Style: Big Band
We will hear 6 of the 14 songs from this record.
Ethel Merman and Fairchild and Carroll and Their Orchestra–It's De-Lovely
This recording was released in 1936, the same year she sang it with Bob Hope in the Cole Porter musical Red Hot and Blue.
Judy Garland With Victor Young And His Orchestra– Over The Rainbow
written by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg
Released September 1939. This was the Hit song. It was first recorded for the Wizard of Oz.
By the way, this song has been recorded 2,023 times according to Second Hand Songs dot com.
Mary Martin with Eddy Duchin and His Orchestra-My Heart Belongs To Daddy
written by Cole Porter
This recording was released in 1939. Martin also was the original singer for the musical Leave It to Me! which premiered on November 9, 1938.
Ella Fitzgerald With Chick Webb And His Orchestra–A-Tisket A-Tasket
written by Van Alexander and Ella Fitzgerald
It was released June 1938.
She reprised that song with the Merry Macs for the 1942 Abbot and Costello movie Ride 'Em Cowboy.
Pearl Bailey – Orchestra directed by Don Redman - Ciribirbin
written by Harry James and Jack Lawrence from music by Alberto Pestalozza and Carlo Tiochet
Released September 1954.
The song was first recorded by Ardito e Torre November 1910. Of course Harry James made it his theme song.
The Andrews Sisters With Vic Schoen And His Orchestra–Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree (With Anyone Else But Me)
written by Charles Tobias and Lew Brown
This version was released in May 1942.
First recorded by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra - Vocal Refrain by Marion Hutton, Tex Beneke and The Modernaires on February 18, 1942. They didn't leave much room between versions back in those days. In fact six versions of that song were recorded in 1942.
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.
musichistory #vinylcollecting #vinylrecords #musicalmemories
Beautiful Hawaiian Music
This is episode eleventeen hundred three thousand and forty-three of Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl.
I might as well say anything I want anymore, because according to the liner notes on this album, the featured artist played all 32 instruments and sings like Bing Crosby.
While the singer’s voice does bear a remarkable resemblance to der Bingle, I had two Artificial Intelligence platforms arguing about if anything about Jack La Delle is real.
While I’ll of course cover that story in a while, there is no mistaking the beauty of the music on this record, which I can only prove - through photos and videos for myself - the beauty of the island nation it represents.
So get ready to hang loose, hang ten, then bid a sweet aloha in Volume 243: Hi-Fi Hawaii.
For more information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Jack La Delle – Hawaiian Holiday In Hi-Fi
Label: Design Records – DLP 53
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Released: 1958
Genre: Pop, Folk, World, & Country
We will hear 6 of the 10 tunes on this album.
Blue Hawaii
written by Leo Robin, Ralph Rainger
First recorded by Jack Denny and His Orchestra - Vocal by Sonny Schuyler on February 19, 1937.
Sweet Leilani
written by Harry Owens
First recording by Ted Fio Rito and His Orchestra - Vocal Chorus by The Debutantes and Muzzy Marcellino on February 19, 1937
Song Of Old Hawaii
written by Johnny Noble, Gordon Beecher
First released by Al Kealoha Perry and His Singing Surfriders on August 15, 1938
Na lei o Hawaii (Song Of The Islands)
written by Charles E. King
First released by R. K. Holstein and Octette on June 1916.
Sing Me A Song Of The Islands
written by Mack Gordon, Harry Owens
First recording by Ray Kinney and His Hawaiian Musical Ambassadors on December 19, 1941. It was released January 30 of 42.
Aloha Oe
written by Liliuokalani
First recording by Quartet of Hawaiian Girls from Kawaihao Seminary on July 1, 1904
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.
musichistory #vinylcollecting #vinylrecords #musicalmemories
Peter Gunn TV Music
This is the fourth of six Henry Mancini albums we’ve heard from my dad’s collection. This one is a little different, because most of the other records contained tunes that could have been released as singles or were the theme songs of movies.
While you’ll hear the theme song of a late 1950s TV detective show, you also get to hear the incidental music from the show. And I came to think of a couple of these tunes as some of Henry’s best melodies.
I’m also going to apologize in advance, but my show theme of skips, scratches, and pops is on full display in this episode.
So get ready to hear music that was as much a star of the show as the actors in Volume 242: Mancini's Gunn.
For more information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Henry Mancini – The Music From Peter Gunn
RCA Victor – LPM-1956, RCA Victor – LPM-1956 RE 2
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono
Released: 1959
Genre: Jazz, Pop, Stage & Screen
Style: Space-Age, Theme
from the sound track of the NBC-TV series "Peter Gunn"
Recorded in Hollywood, August 26 and 31, and September 4 and 29, 1958.
All the music for this recording session was composed by Henry Mancini.
We will hear 6 of the 12 songs from this album.
Peter Gunn
Sorta Blue
The Brothers Go To Mother's
Fallout!
The Floater
Not From Dixie
Peter Gunn for 100th Birthday
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.
henrymancini #petergunn #oldTVmusic #musichistory #vinylcollecting #vinylrecords #musicalmemories
The Ultimate Nashville Stars
Here’s a nice little compilation album with some pretty big names on it. The recordings you are about to hear sold millions of copies combined.
And they all came from a town at the heart of country music smack dab in the heart of Tennessee.
So get ready to hear wall-to-wall solid gold from wall-to-wall talent in Volume 241: Nashville Souvenirs.
For more information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Various – Souvenirs Of Music City U.S.A.
Label: Plantation Records – PLP-506
Format: Vinyl, LP
Released: 1978
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
We will hear 10 of the 20 songs on this album. I got a little carried away.
Jeannie C. Riley – Harper Valley P.T.A.
written by Tom T. Hall
Released in August 1968
Charlie Rich – Sittin' And Thinkin'
written by Charlie Rich
First recorded on August 9, 1962 and released in October of that year.
Gordon Terry – Johnson's Old Gray Mule
is attributed to Thomas Westendorf, who wrote the song in 1884, but it's listed as traditional on Second Hand Songs dot com.
Released in March of 1957.
Rita Remington – Feel My Love
Written by Rita Remington and Shelby S. Singleton
Released in January of 1977
Roy Orbison – Sweet And Easy To Love
written by Sam Phillips
recorded on December 14, 1956 and released on January 24, 1957.
David Allan Coe – Got You On My Mind
Written by Howard Biggs and Joe Thomas
Released August of 1977 more than 10 years after recording it.
Willie Nelson – Night Life
written by Myles Goodwyn, Walt Breeland, Paul Buskirk, and Willie Nelson
Released in September of 1965.
Carl Perkins – Blue Suede Shoes
Written by Carl Perkins
Recorded and released in December 1955. Elvis did his version just three months later.
Johnny Cash – I Walk The Line
Written by Johnny Cash
recorded on April 2, 1956 and released May 1.
Little David Wilkins– Just Blow In His Ear
Written by Bill Way, John Reynolds, and Johnny Bienstock
Released in 1969
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.
nashvillesound #musiccity #musichistory #vinylcollecting #vinylrecords #musicalmemories
The Voice of Louis Armstrong
My dad’s favorite trumpet player also was an extremely popular vocalist. I have documented many trumpet players who have also recorded their singing voices during the course of this show. Rarely do they commit to a full record of it. And none were as famous for it.
This musician popularized a singing style, while making some of the hottest jazz records in the 1920s and 30s with his trumpet.
So, get ready to hear the gravely voice of the guy they called pops in Volume 240: A Singing Satchmo.
For more information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Louis Armstrong – Satchmo Sings
Label: Decca – DL 8126
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Released: 1955
Genre: Jazz
We will hear 7 of the 12 songs on this album
Someday You'll Be Sorry (Louis Armstrong and the Commanders)
Written-By – Louis Armstrong
Sincerely (Sonny Burke and His Orchestra)
Written-By – Allen Freed, Harvey Fuqua
Your Cheatin Heart (Sy Oliver Orchestra)
Written-By – Hank Williams
April In Portugal (Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra)
Written-By – Jimmy Kennedy, Raul Ferrao
Kiss Of Fire (Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra)
Written-By – Lester Allen, Robert Hill
The Gypsy (Louis Armstrong and the Commanders)
Written-By – Billy Reid
Takes Two To Tango
Written-By – Al Hoffman, Dick Manning
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.
louisarmstrong #satchmo #musichistory #vinylcollecting #vinylrecords #musicalmemories
Dixieland Veterans
My dad loved his Dixieland music. Even when he had no idea who was performing it. This is a perfect album for that mindset, because this budget label doesn’t even get all of the tunes listed correctly on the cover and label, let alone tell us who’s performing on it.
And even though the title of this episode leans toward anonymous musicians, today’s technology might have helped. And then again. It might not have.
So, get ready to hear some hot jazz recordings from an album re-released without naming the artists in Volume 239: Unknown Dixieland.
For more information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Unknown Artist – Dixieland!
Label: Omega Disk – OSL 63
Format: Vinyl, Stereo, LP
Released: mid 1960s best my research could tell
Genre: Jazz
Style: Dixieland
We will hear all 7 songs from this album.
Buck Clayton - trumpet
Jo Jones - drums
Vic Dickenson - trombone
Pee Wee Russell - clarinet
Lou Carter - piano
Bud Freeman - tenor saxophone
Omega was a budget record label based in Hollywood run by the International Pacific Recording Corporation, which also produced reel-to-reel tapes on their Omegatape label.
Battle Hymn Of The Republic
[Traditional]
Pee Wee Blues
written by Pee Wee Russell, Nat Pierce
Synthetic Blues
written by Tim McEwan and Tyler Lyle
Strike Up the Band
NOT Chiribiribin as both discogs and the record album itself listed here.
written by George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin
Billboard March
written in 1901 by John N. Klohr, and dedicated to the Billboard music-industry magazine.
Blue Blues
written by Nick Mulder
When The Saints Go Marching In
Traditional
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.
dixielandmusic #musichistory #vinylcollecting #vinylrecords #musicalmemories
Maynard Ferguson's Hot Trumpet
We now get to feature the second of two albums my dad had of MY favorite trumpet player. In fact, I haven’t seen a rock band more times than I’ve seen Maynard Ferguson and his big band.
This musician was known for his energetic charts, youthful big band members, soaring high notes, and most importantly his music education at the high school level.
So, let’s crank this up to a double high C and give Maynard the blazing, brass-heavy tribute he deserves in Volume 238: Maynard's Horn.
For more information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Maynard Ferguson – Around The Horn With Maynard Ferguson
Label: Emarcy – MG 36076
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Released: 1956
Genre: Jazz
Style: Cool Jazz
We will hear 6 of the 12 songs on this album.
All of the music on this album was written by Bill Holman.
Mrs. Pitlack Regrets
Never You Mind
Ain't Life Grand
Open Sesame
C'est La Blues
Wildman
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.
maynardferguson #bigbandjazz #trumpetsrule #musichistory #vinylcollecting #vinylrecords #musicalmemories
Here’s a voice we’ve heard before. It was during a 78 RPM Sunday when we had plenty of her shellac to fill a show. This singer went on to have her own TV show where she sang many of the pop hits from that time.
In fact, the tunes that made it on this album were among the most requested from her show.
So, get ready to hear an artist known as the Singin' Rage in Volume 237: A TV Page
For more information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
It's A Good Day
written by Peggy Lee, Dave Barbour
(I Wanna Go Where You Go, Do What You Do) Then I'll Be Happy
written by Cliff Friend, Lew Brown, Sidney Clare
Sometimes I'm Happy
written by Vincent Youmans, Irving Caesar, Clifford Grey
Crazy Rhythm
written by Roger Wolfe Kahn, Joseph Meyer, Irving Caesar
Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup
written by Anna Sosenko
Gypsy
written by Billy Reid
Gypsy In My Soul
written by Clay Boland, Moe Jaffe
Happy Days Are Here Again
written by Milton Ager, Jack Yellen
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.
pattiepage #musichistory #vinylcollecting #vinylrecords #musicalmemories
We are going to have a ton of fun with this episode. Well 16 tons. Ah. That was too easy.
This is the only album my dad has of this great singer. But, it’s obviously the most important one from his releases.
This artist was really a radio personality at heart, but when producers discovered that deep voice of his, well, the rest is history.
So get ready to hear one of the truly great voices of pop music from the mid 20th century in Volume 236: Tennessee Tons.
For more information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Tennessee Ernie Ford – Sixteen Tons
Label: Pickwick/33 Records – SPC-3268
Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Reissue, Stereo
Released:
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Country
This is an abridged reissue of Tennessee Ernie Ford - Favorites
We will hear 6 of the 9 songs on this album.
Sixteen Tons
Written-By – Merle Travis
First Born
Written-By – Johnny Lehman
One Suit
Written-By – Charles Singleton and Larry Coleman
Call Me Darling, Call Me Sweetheart, Call Me Dear
Written-By – Bert Reisfield, Dorothy Dick, Mart Fryberg, and Rolf Marbot
The Watermelon Song
Written-By – Bill (Roy) Eustrom
That's All
Written-By – Merle Travis
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.
tennesseeernieford #musichistory #vinylcollecting #vinylrecords #musicalmemories #fyp
We’ve already come close to proving that the named orchestra leader on this album probably doesn’t exist. I discussed that mystery in Volume 199: Tea and Trumpets.
But the man who wrote all of the tunes on this album most certainly existed. He wrote the scores for more than 30 stage and film musicals. Many of those songs have been performed and recorded by some of the most famous artists in history.
So, get ready to hear memorable show tunes from one of the most memorable composers in history performed by a band leader that nobody has any memory of in Volume 235: Still Stanley.
For more information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Stanley Applewaite – In The Still Of The Night (Music Of Cole Porter)
Label: Design Records – DLP 36
Format: Vinyl, LP
Released: 1957
Genre: Jazz
Style: Easy Listening
We will hear 6 of the 11 songs on the album.
In The Still Of The Night
Cole Porter wrote the song "In The Still Of The Night" for the 1937 MGM film Rosalie. This film was an adaptation of the 1928 musical of the same name. The song was introduced by Nelson Eddy in the movie.
You're The Tops
Cole Porter wrote the song "You're The Top" for his musical Anything Goes. This musical debuted on Broadway in 1934. "You're The Top" is one of the show's most well-known songs.
I've Got You Under My Skin
Cole Porter wrote "I've Got You Under My Skin" for the 1936 musical film, Born to Dance. Virginia Bruce performed the song in the film.
Medley: C'est Magnifique-Paris Night
Cole Porter wrote the song "C'est Magnifique" for his 1953 musical Can-Can.
Begin The Beguine
Cole Porter wrote the song "Begin the Beguine" for the Broadway musical Jubilee.
The song was first introduced to the public in October 1935 by June Knight in the original production of the musical.
Anything Goes
Cole Porter wrote the musical Anything Goes which premiered on Broadway in 1934.
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.
coleporter #musicals #musichistory #musicalmemories #vinylcollecting #vinylrecords #fyp
What? Yet another trumpet player in my dad’s collection I haven’t introduced you to yet? But of course.
Clyde McCoy is not nearly as well known as the myriad of other horn players I’ve shown off, but he recorded a lot of music from 1917 through 1985.
His 1931 version of a song written nine years earlier set off a mini craze within jazz and set his career on fire.
So get ready to hear a trumpet played in such a style that it inspired a popular electronic tool for guitar players used still to this day in Volume 234: Sugar Blues.
For more information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Clyde McCoy – The Golden Era Of The Sugar Blues
Label: Design Records – DLP 28
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
Released: 1957
Genre: Jazz
Style: Big Band
We will hear 7 of the 12 songs on this album.
Sugar Blues
written by Clarence Williams and Lucy Fletcher
Recorded in 1931
Honeysuckle Rose
written by Andy Razaf and Fats Waller
Recorded January 22, 1931
Beale Street Blues
written by W.C. Handy
Recorded 10/14/1935
Swamp Fire
written by Hal Mooney
Recorded sometime in 1936
Farewell Blues
written by Elmer Schoebel, Paul Mares, and Leon Roppolo
Recorded 7/5/1935
Deep In A Dream
written by Jimmy Van Heusen and Eddie DeLange
It was recorded maybe in 1938 or 1939.
Ridin' To Glory On A Trumpet
written by Clyde McCoy
Recorded 3/24/1936
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.
clydemccoy #sugarblues #dixielandmusic #trumpetsrule #musichistory #musicalmemories #vinylcollecting #vinylrecords
Well, it’s Fathers Day.
For me, that means another trip to the cemetery rather than a trip to visit my dad for dinner. I’m not looking for sympathy. That’s just the way it is. I mean. That’s life!
And this episode’s featured artist certainly saw his share of ups and downs during his incredibly influential and talented life. He was also my dad’s favorite singer.
This is the last of five of his solo albums my dad had. But we have heard sing him with the Harry James and Tommy Dorsey Orchestras as well.
So, get ready to hear the man who went from pauper to king, a couple of times, in Volume 233: Frank's Life for Fathers Day.
For more information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Frank Sinatra – That's Life
Label: Reprise Records – F 1020
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Promo, Mono
Released: 1966
Genre: Jazz, Pop
Style: Vocal, Swing
Supported by a studio orchestra arranged and conducted by Ernie Freeman
We will hear 6 of the 10 songs from this album.
That's Life
Written-By – Dean Kay and Kelly Gordon
number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1966-67. It also reached number 1 on the Billboard Easy Listening chart.
I Will Wait For You
Composed By – Michel LeGrand and Norman Gimbel
Somewhere My Love
Composed By – Maurice Jarre and Paul Francis Webster
Winchester Cathedral
Written By – Geoff Stephens
The New Vaudeville Band/September 26, 1966/Hit song
The Impossible Dream
Composed By – Mitch Leigh and Joe Darion
What Now My Love
Composed By – Carl Sigman and Gilbert Bécaud
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.
franksinatra #thatslife #musichistory #musicalmemories #vinylcollecting #vinylrecords #fyp
Time to take a road trip around this great country we call the US of A. And who better to be our tour guide than the incredible Ray Charles.
He had over 1,700 listings in discogs, the website I use to catalog my vinyl collections. And it’s not easy to catalog just what genre this genius belongs to.
Well, he belongs to them all: pop, blues, jazz, gospel, country, and rock.
So get ready to hear a guy who once tried to sell an electric piano to Jake and Elwood Blues, “2,000 bucks and it's yours. You can take it home with you. As a matter of fact, I'll throw in the black keys for free!" In Volume 232: Ray on the Road.
For more information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Ray Charles – The Genius Hits The Road
Label: ABC-Paramount – ABC 335, ABC-Paramount – ABC-335
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
Released: Sep 1960
Genre: Jazz, Funk / Soul
Style: Rhythm & Blues
We will hear 7 of the 12 tunes on this album.
Alabamy Bound
Written-By – Bud Green, Buddy DeSylva, and Ray Henderson
Georgia On My Mind
Written-By – Hoagy Carmichael and Stuart Gorrell
Moonlight In Vermont
Written-By – John Blackburn and Karl Suessdorf
Mississippi Mud
Written-By – Harry Barris and James Cavanaugh
Deep In The Heart Of Texas
Written-By – Don Swander and June Hershey
California, Here I Come
Written-By – Al Jolson, Buddy DeSylva and Joseph Meyer
Chattanooga Choo-Choo
Written-By – Harry Warren and Mack Gordon
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.
musicalmemories #musichistory #vinylcollecting #vinylrecords #fyp
When I featured this artist the first time on this show, he was still with us.
Unfortunately, Harry Belafonte passed away just a few weeks later.
This is the second record we will hear of the two my dad had from this singer. This was Harry’s second LP in his illustrious career. While his first did hit number three on the Billboard charts. This was his first of two number one albums.
So, get ready to hear one of the purest singing voices ever recorded in Volume 231: Simply Belafonte.
For more information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Harry Belafonte – Belafonte
Label: RCA Victor – LPM 1150, RCA Victor – LPM-1150
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Rockaway Pressing
Released: 1956
Genre: Pop, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Calypso, Vocal, Folk
We will hear 7 of the 11 songs from this album.
Waterboy
Written-By – Harry Belafonte
Troubles
Written-By – Harry Belafonte
Matilda (This one made me get my bongo drums out)
Written-By – Harry Thomas
Noah (Next up a song of biblical proportions)
Written-By – Harry Belafonte and William Attaway
Scarlet Ribbons (For Her Hair)
Written-By – Evelyn Danzig, Jack Segal
Unchained Melody
Written-By – Alex North, Hy Zaret
Jump Down, Spin Around
Written-By – H. Belafonte, Norman Luboff, and William Attaway
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.
harrybelfonte #calypsomusic #musicalmemories #musichistory #vinylcollecting #vinylrecords #fyp
We now pull out the final disk of this six record box set filled with memories of radio days past. Back in the days before television when you had to imagine what was being described. To the days of live happenings. Expected and extremely unexpected.
This last LP features many news recordings that were captured as they happened from 1920 through the early 1940s.
So get ready to hear history as it unfolded live to countless listeners around the globe during a time of financial turmoil and approaching world war in Volume 230: Golden Memories of Radio Record 6.
For more information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Jack Benny – Golden Memories Of Radio
Label: Longines Symphonette Society – none
Format: 6 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Mono, Maroon Labels Box Set
Released: 1969
Genre: Non-Music
Style: Radioplay
We will hear 12 tracks from this album
KDKA Election Returns/Pres. Coolidge Presents Charles Lindberg To Congress (The music world then honored him by naming a dance after Lindy. Check out episode ??? for details on that dance.)
Eddie Cantor On 1929 Crash/Billy Sunday On Prohibition
FDR Is Inaugurated (include some of the most famous words in presidential speech history)
The King George V Funeral/Edward VIII Abdicates/King George VI Coronation
In this segment we will hear from four leaders of three countries from the late 1930s and early 40s. The lead up and declaration of war: Hitler, Chamberlain, FDR, Churchill
Hitler Declares War On Poland/Chamberlain Announces War/FDR "America Hates War"/Winston Churchill "Give Us The Tools"
The Hindenburg Disaster
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.
radiohistory #oldtimeradio #musicalmemories #musichistory #vinylcollecting #vinylrecords #fyp
It’s a 78 RPM Sunday. These episodes should probably more appropriately be labelled spinning my dad’s dad’s shellac.
In the old days of records coming on 10” disks with one song per side, it made collections rather large. So in order to organize them, record stores would sell large books that you can put several records in. The same you would do with photos. They came with a generic front cover and several sleeves to slip the disks into. My dad has a couple of these albums.
I decided to pull out the ten record set inside a, now cream colored, album. But I only have time for ten songs.
So get ready to hear the first five records in a personalized collection of 78 RPM disks in Volume 229: White Album Front Half.
Credits and copyrights
Harry James And His Orchestra – I Can't Begin To Tell You / Waitin' For The Train To Come In
Label: Columbia – 36867
Format: Shellac, 10", 78 RPM
Released: Oct 22, 1945
Genre: Jazz, Pop, Stage & Screen
Style: Big Band, Swing, Vocal
Recorded in New York, NY, August 20, 1945.
I Can't Begin To Tell You
Vocals [Vocal Chorus] – Ruth Haag
Written-By – James Monaco and Mack Gordon
Waitin' For The Train To Come In
Vocals [Vocal Chorus] – Kitty Kallen
Written-By – Martin Block and Sunny Skylar
Claude Thornhill And His Orchestra – A Sunday Kind of Love / Sonata
Label: Columbia – 37219
Format: Shellac, 10", 78 RPM, Bridgeport Pressing
Released: Jan 1947
Genre: Jazz, Pop
Style: Big Band
Recorded New York, NY, November,11 1946.
A Sunday Kind of Love
Vocals [Vocal Chorus] – Fran Warren
Written-By – Anita Leonard, Barbara Belle, Louis Prima and Stan Rhodes
Sonata
Vocals [Vocal Chorus] – Buddy Hughes
Written-By – Alex Alstone, Ervin Drake, and Jimmy Shirl
Dinah Shore / Dinah Shore With Spade Cooley And His Orchestra – Anniversary Song / Heartaches, Sadness And Tears
Label: Columbia – 37234
Format: Shellac, 10", 78 RPM
Released: Feb 1947
Genre: Pop, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Vocal, Country, Swing
Dinah Shore– Anniversary Song
Written By – Al Jolson and Saul Chaplin
from a theme by – Ion Ivanovici
Dinah Shore With Spade Cooley And His Orchestra– Heartaches, Sadness And Tears
Written-By – Ella May Evans and Spade Cooley
Frank Sinatra – People Will Say We're In Love / Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin'
Label: Columbia – 36682
Format: Shellac, 10", 78 RPM
Released: Sep 1943
Genre: Pop
Style: Ballad, Vocal
Written-By – Oscar Hammerstein II and Richard Rodgers for the Broadway musical Oklahoma
Frankie Yankovic And His Yanks – Oh Marie / On The Beach
Label: Columbia – 12376-F
Format: Shellac, 10", 78 RPM
Released: Oct 1948
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Folk
Written-By – Frank Yankovic
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.
78RPM #oldmusic #musichistory #musicalmemories #vinylcollecting #vinylrecords #fyp
Happy mothers day. This one’s for my mother who we lost ten years ago this month.
As we go through this large record collection, I can tell which records my mom might have picked out. This is one of them.
It’s a self-titled debut album from a singer who already had a hit single and a starring role in a popular TV show. He was just a bit of a heartthrob.
So get ready to hear a singer and actor who gave up that life to save lives in Volume 228: A Bobby Happy Mothers Day.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Bobby Sherman – Bobby Sherman
Label: Metromedia Records – MD 1014
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Promo, Stereo
Released: 1969
Genre: Pop
We'll hear 6 of the 11 songs on this album.
Little Woman
Written-By – Danny Janssen
Rainy Day Thought
Written-By – Danny Janssen, Gary Young, Myrna Janssen, and Wally Keske
This Guy's In Love With You
Written-By – Burt Bacharach, Hal David
Bluechip
Written-By – Paul MacNeil
Time
Written-By – Bobby Sherman
Seattle
Written-By – Ernie Sheldon, Hugo Montenegro, and Jack Keller
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.
bobbysherman #mothersday #musicalmemories #musichistory #vinylcollecting #vinylrecords #fyp
We now pull out the third record from this seven disk box set. A record that features a relatively unknown work AND probably one of the most famous works in music history. Talk about a dichotomy. This is music from the immortal Ludwig Van Beethoven. His symphonies live on in performances to this very day. Plus I decided to play three movements from each symphony. I thought this joint needed some classing up. So, settle in and get ready to hear the man who is said to have set music free in Volume 227: Beethoven's 4th & 5th. For more information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it. Here is the promised Leonard Bernstein video. Credits and copyrights Beethoven, René Leibowitz, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, The Beecham Choral Society – The Nine Symphonies Of BeethovenLudwig van BeethovenLabel: Reader's Digest – RD 4-6Format: 7 x Vinyl, LP Box SetReleased: 1966Genre: ClassicalStyle: Romantic, Choral This is record 3 of a 6 record set. We will hear two movements from the 4th Symphony and three from the 5th. Symphony No. 4 In B-Flat Major, Op. 60First Movement - Adagio; Allegro VivaceSecond Movement - AdagioFourth Movement - Allegro Ma Non Troppo Symphony No. 5 In C Minor, Op. 67First Movement - Allegro Con BrioThird Movement - AllegroFourth Movement - Allegro 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. #beethoven #beethovensfifth #musicalmemories #musichistory #vinylcollecting #vinylrecords #fyp
Here’s a trumpet player we’ve heard from before. He was a favorite of my dad’s. He’s also a favorite of mine. He’s loud and powerful. He plays at just below a blatting level, but keeps in control with some of the most intricate music.
He performed at halftime of the first Super Bowl and owned his own New Orleans jazz club.
So get ready to hear a musician who could shift gears to play many styles of music, even being critiqued for that skill, in Volume 226: Hirt's Dixieland Horn.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Al Hirt – The Best Of Dixieland Jazz
Label: Longines Symphonette Society – LWCP 1, Longines Symphonette Society – LWS 332
Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Promo
Released: 1968
Genre: Jazz
Style: Dixieland
We'll hear 6 of the 10 songs on this album.
Darktown Strutters Ball
Written by Shelton Brooks
Stumblin'
Written by Zez Confrey
Wang Wang Blues
Written by Henry Busse
I Can't Get Started With You
Written by Vernon Duke
Just A Closer Walk With Thee
Traditional
Chicago
Written by Fred Fisher
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.
alhirt #dixielandmusic #trumpetsrule #musichistory #vinylrecordcollecting #vinylrecords
We’re going to have a little extra fun with this episode. In fact, you might say I have high hopes for it.
One of my dad’s, and my, favorite artists is Willie Nelson. One of my favorite holidays is the day this episode drops, and I’m not talking about Easter.
Some of the most favorite songs-to-record in music history are on this album. So famous, just the songs you’ll hear have been recorded more than 63 hundred times. That’s what you call standards.
And the voice who sings them? A classic!
We definitely need to take a toke of Indica for this one as we get mellow.
So get ready to bake a mixture of melancholy and marijuana with one of the most recognizable voices in history singing some of history’s most recognizable vocals in Volume 225: The Standard Stoner.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Willie Nelson – Stardust
Label: Columbia – JC 35305
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Promo, Terre Haute
Released: 1978
Genre: Rock, Blues, Pop
Style: Country Blues
Georgia On My Mind
Written-By – Hoagy Carmichael and Stuart Gorrell in 1930
A song record 1125 times
All Of Me
Written-By – Gerald Marks and Seymore Simons in 1931
Recorded 953 times
Blue Skies
Written-By – Irving Berlin in 1926
Recorded 637 times
Unchained Melody
Written-By – Alex North and Hy Zaret in 1955
Recorded 708 times
On The Sunny Side Of The Street
Written-By – Dorothy Fields and Jimmy McHugh in 1930
Recorded 814 times
Moonlight In Vermont
Written-By – John Blackburn and Karl Suessdorf in 1944
Recorded 545 times
Don't Get Around Much Anymore
Written-By – Bob Russell and Duke Ellington in 1940
Recorded 611 times
Someone To Watch Over Me
Written-By – George and Ira Gershwin in 1926
Recorded 928 times
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.
willienelson #standards #stoners #stonerholiday #420 #musicalmemories #musichistory #vinylcollecting #vinylrecords
We haven’t reached into the great Franklin Mint section of my dad’s collection for a while. Most of the episodes featuring the Greatest Jazz Recordings of All Time often get blocked by YouTube.
But I’ve really grown attached to this specific box set lately. It’s filled with some great and legendary jazz singers.
So get ready to hear a variety of voices with various styles in Volume 224: Big Band Bards Record 2.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Various – The Jazz Singers
Label: The Franklin Mint Record Society – JAZZ2
Series: Institute Of Jazz Studies Official Archive Collection, The Greatest Jazz Recordings Of All Time
Format: 4 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Red Vinyl Box Set
Released: 1982
Genre: Jazz
We will hear 7 of the 12 songs on this record.
George Thomas With McKinney's Cotton Pickers - Baby, Won't You Please Come Home?
Written by Charles Warfield, Clarence Williams
Recorded July 28, 1930
Released on Victor
Al Hibbler With Duke Ellington And His Orchestra - I'm Just A Lucky So And So
Written by Duke Ellington, Mack David
Recorded November 26, 1945
Released on Victor
Bing Crosby And The Mills Brothers - My Honey's Lovin' Arms
Written by Joseph Meyer, Herman Ruby
Recorded Januray 26, 1933
Released on Brunswick Records
Johnny Hartman With The John Coltrane Quartet - Dedicated To You
Written by Sammy Cahn, Hy Zaret, Saul Chaplin
Recorded Maarch 7, 1963
Released on Impulse Records
Ray Charles - It Had To Be You
Written by Gus Kahn, Isham Jones
Recorded June 23, 1959
Released on Atlantic
Cab Calloway And His Orchestra - I Ain't Got Nobody
Written by Spencer Williams, Roger Graham
Recorded July 2, 1935
Released on Brunswick Records
Metronome All Stars Featuring Billy Eckstine - How High The Moon
Written by Morgan Lewis, Nancy Hamilton
Recorded July 9, 1953
Released on MGM 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.
jazzmusic #earlyjazz #musicalmemories #musichistory #vinylcollecting #vinylrecords #fyp
We now pull out yet another one of the seven Henry Mancini albums my dad had. He’s one of my favorites too.
This one is a follow up to Mancini Plays The Great Academy Award Songs, the album you heard in Volume 43: Mancini and the Oscar Winners.
There’s just something about his music. You just recognize the sound right away.
So get ready to hear music from a composer arranger who had his hands on the scores for more than 100 big screen films in Volume 223: Mancini Movie Magic.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Henry Mancini – 12 Great Oscar Winners Volume 2
Label: RCA Victor – PRM-175
Format: Vinyl, LP, Mono
Released: 1965
Genre: Stage & Screen
Arranged By – Mr. Mancini
Chorus – The Chorus Of Henry Mancini
Orchestra – The Orchestra Of Henry Mancini
Prepared Expressly For B.F. Goodrich
We will hear 7 of the 12 songs on this album.
Call Me Irresponsible
Written By – Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen
High Hopes
Written By – Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen
Never On Sunday
Written By Manos Hadjidakis
The lyrics to the English version of the song were written by Billy Towne
Thanks For The Memory
song composed by Ralph Rainger with lyrics by Leo Robin
Over The Rainbow
Written By – Yip Harburg and Harlold Arlen
In The Cool, Cool, Cool Of The Evening
Written By – Harold Carmichael and Johnny Mercer
Swingin' On A Star
Written By – Jimmy Van Heusen and 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.
henrymancini #oscarwinningmusic #musicalmemories #musichistory #vinylcollecting #vinylrecords
I attended the Wednesday, March 26, 2025 Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass concert at the Goodyear Theater in Akron, Ohio.
Yes, Herb is still touring at 89 years old. Yes, I was excited to see him again.
Obviously, I can’t can’t record the show. That’s why I’m going to do something the FM radio stations did when I was younger. After a show, they would play the entire set list in order. Sit tight. This will be a long episode.
So get ready to hear one of the most influential artists in music recording, art, and philanthropy in Volume 222: A TJB Concert Rewind.
Promised link for Lani Hall bio.
Credits and copyrights
The Lonely Bull (El solo toro)
Written-By – Sol Lake
The Lonely Bull (El solo toro) 1962
Work Song
Written-By – Nat Adderley and Oscar Brown, Jr.
SRO 1967
Memories of Madrid
Written-By – Sol Lake
What Now My Love 1966
Whipped Cream
Written-By – Naomi Nevillev
Whipped Cream and Other Delights 1965
Spanish Flea
Written-By – Julius Wechter
!!Going Places!! 1965
A Banda
Written-By – Chico Baurque De Hollanda
Herb Alpert's Ninth 1967
Ladyfingers
Written-By – Toots Thielemans
Whipped Cream and Other Delights 1965
Lollipops and Roses
Written-By – Tony Velona
Whipped Cream and Other Delights 1965
Bittersweet Samba
Written-By – Sol Lake
Whipped Cream and Other Delights 1965
Mexican Shuffle
Written-By – Sol Lake
South Of The Border 1964
Tangerine
Written-By – Johnny Mercer, and Victor Shertinzer
Whipped Cream and Other Delights 1965
I'm Getting Sentimental Over You
(The Dorsey Brothers Orchestra cover)
Written-By – George Bassman
!!Going Places!! 1965
Love Potion No. 9
(The Clovers cover)
Written-By the writing team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
Whipped Cream and Other Delights 1965
This Guy’s in Love With You
Vocals – Herb Alpert
Written-By – Burt Bacharach and Hal David
The Beat Of The Brass 1968
Tim Dom Dom
(with Lani Hall)
Written by Brito Clodoaldo and Luiz Joao Mello
Herb Alpert Presents Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66 1966
One Note Samba
Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66
(with Lani Hall)
Herb Alpert Presents Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66 1966
The Fool on the Hill
(The Beatles cover) (with Lani Hall)
Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66
Fool on the Hill 1968
Mas que nada
written by Jorge Ben Jor
(Jorge Ben Jor cover) (with Lani Hall)
Herb Alpert Presents Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66 1966
Rise
Written-By – Andy Armer, Randy Badazz Alpert (Herb's nephew)
Rise 1979 Solo
A Taste of Honey - TJB
Written-By – Bobby Scott, and Ric Marlow (Scott Cover)
Whipped Cream and Other Delights
A Taste of Honey - Solo
Midnight Sun 1992
Zorba the Greek
Written-By – Mikis Theodorakis
!!Going Places!! 1965
Smile
Written-By – Charles Chaplin, Geoffrey Parsons, and John Turner
Midnight Sun 1992
What Now My Love
(Gilbert Bécaud cover)
Written-By – Carl Sigman, Gilbert Bécaud
What Now My Love 1966
A Banda (Reprise)
(with band intros)
Tijuana Taxi
Written-By – Ervan Coleman
!!Going Places!! 1965
On The Sunny Side of the Street
written by Dorothy Fields, and Jimmy McHugh
Sunny Side Of The Street 2022
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.
herbalpert #herbalpertandthetijuanabrass #musicalmemories #musichistory #vinylcollecting #vinylrecords #fyp
This is going to be an extra fun episode. Many of the tunes have melodies you already know. Some tunes were created for this album.
The trumpet player leading the band was part of some great music history in the form of some famous big bands, including some history he claimed on his own.
So get ready to hear the last living member of the original Glenn Miller Orchestra in Volume 221: Every Twist You Take.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Ray Anthony And His Bookends – The Twist
Label: Capitol Records – T 1668
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
Released: 1962
Genre: Jazz, Blues
Style: Big Band, Rhythm & Blues, Twist
We will hear 9 of the 12 songs from this album.
The Twist
Written-By – Hank Ballard
Twistin' Alice
Written-By – Don Simpson, Ray Anthony
Twist Around Mister
Written-By – Don Simpson, Ray Anthony
Peter Gunn Twist
Written-By – Henry Mancini
Tequila With A Twist
Written-By – Chuck Rio
Twist And Rock Around The Clock
Written-By – Jimmy De Knight, Max C. Freedman
Mexican Hat Twist
Arranged By – Don Simpson, Ray Anthony
Bookend Twist
Written-By – Don Simpson, Ray Anthony
Bunny Hop Twist
Written-By – Leonard Auletti, Ray Anthony
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.
rayanthony #twist #thetwist #musichistory #vinylrecordcollecting #vinylrecords
Gee, imagine that! Another album featuring a trumpet player from my dad's collection. And a trumpet player we've heard from before.
This time, we get to hear some great ragtime.
This artist not only fronted his own band, but got his pedigree through some of the best big bands in history.
So, get ready to hear a musician who had a movie made about his life in Volume 220: Red Hot Pennies.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Red Nichols And His Famous Pennies – Hot Pennies
Label: Capitol Records – T 775
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Released: 1956
Genre: Jazz
Style: Ragtime
Recorded in Capitol Tower on September 7 and 10, 1956.
We will hear 6 of the 10 songs on this album.
Louisiana
written by Andy Razaf, J. C. Johnson, and Bob Schafer
Marchin' With The Saints (aka When the Saints Go Marching In)
(Traditional)
Maple Leaf Rag
written by Scott Joplin
Blues At Midnight
written by Ivory Joe Hunter
Row, Row, Row
written by William Jerome, and Jimmy Monaco
Farewell Blues
written by Elmer Schoebel, Leon Roppolo, and Paul Mares
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.
rednichols #ragtime #dixielandjazz #musichistory #vinylrecordcollecting #vinylrecords
There’s an old business saying that goes, how do you eat a whale? One bite at a time.
In this episode we take several small bites and a couple of big ones from the incredible output of the composer Johann Sebastian Bach.
Ahhhh Bach.
And to continue that MAS*H connection right now in the opening, the scene goes, “Somehow... there's a mathematical precision about Bach, a complexity that adds up to actual simplicity. It goes beyond emotion.”
So get ready to hear some of the more popular of the more than one thousand composed pieces from this master in Volume 219: Bite Sized Bach Record 1.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Johann Sebastian Bach - The Greatest Hits Album
Label: Columbia Masterworks – MG 31261
Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Album, Compilation, Stereo
Released: 1972
Genre: Electronic, Classical
Style: Baroque, Classical
We are listening to record one, sides one and two. We will hear 6 of the 8 tunes on this album.
Air On The G String
The Marlboro Festival Orchestra conducted by Pablo Casals
Little Suite (From The Anna Magdalena Notebook)
Arranged By – Thomas Frost
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Conductor – Eugene Ormandy
A Mighty Fortress Is Our God
Arranged By – Arthur Harris
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Conductor – Eugene Ormandy
Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring
Conductor – Zoltan Rozsnyai
Orchestra – The Columbia Chamber Symphony
Final Movement From Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 In G Major
Synthesizer – Benjamin Folkman and Wendy Carlos
Toccata And Fugue In D Minor
Transcription By – Eugene Ormandy
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Conductor – Eugene Ormandy
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.
bach #classicalmusic #musichistory #vinylrecordcollecting #vinylrecords
Episode dedicated to Dino Baskovic (1974-2025)
This is the third of four records from Connie Francis that my dad has in his collection. She WAS the top charting female US artist of the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Her popularity was due to her voice and being able to sing in multiple languages. And she was a hit maker during the early days of rock and roll.
So get ready to hear a star who was estimated to have sold more than 200 million records worldwide in Volume 218: Rock and Roll Connie.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Connie Francis – Connie Francis
Label: Metro Records – M-519
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
Released: 1964
Genre: Pop
Style: Vocal
We will hear 7 of the 10 tunes on this album.
Someone Else's Boy
Written-By – Athena Hosey and Hal Gordon
Too Many Rules
Written-By – Don Stirling and Harold Temkin
I'm Gonna Be Warm This Winter (did I hear a little flash of an Elvis impersonation?)
Written-By – Hank Hunter and Mark Barkan
We Have Something More (Than A Summer Love)
Written-By – Jennie Lee Lambert and Mickey Gentile
It Happened Last Night
Written-By – Earl Wilson, Leonard Whitcup and Slugger Wilson
Two for the road with a double shot of Francis penned tunes
Plenty Good Lovin'
Written-By – Connie Francis
Vacation
Written-By – Connie Francis, Gary Weston and Hank Hunter
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.
conniefrancis #earlyrockandroll #musichistory #vinylrecordcollecting
Here’s an album I thought was going to be unplayable when I saw the condition of the cover. I have no idea why the back and front are completely separated. And the bigger surprise is that my dad didn’t put it back together with his usual black electrical tape patchwork.
But I’m glad I didn’t overlook it because of the condition of the cover when I listened to the music it wasn’t covering very well. This was some great jazz that I didn’t mind listening to several times while I was deciding on the songs for this episode.
So get ready to hear a couple of musicians who were around for the birth of the cool in Volume 217: Gerry and Chet.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Gerry Mulligan Quartet Featuring Chet Baker – Gerry Mulligan Quartet
Label: Pacific Jazz – PJ-1207
Series: West Coast Artists Series – 1
Format: Vinyl, LP, Mono
Released: 1955
Genre: Jazz
Style: Cool Jazz
We will hear 7 of the 12 songs on this album.
Frenesi
written by Alberto Domínguez
Lullaby Of The Leaves
written by Joe Young and Bernice Petkere
I'm Beginning To See The Light
written by Duke Ellington, Harry James, Johnny Hodges, and Don George
Jeru
written by Gerry Mulligan
Cherry
written by Don Redman and Ray Gilbert
Tea For Two
written by Don Redman and Ray Gilbert
Makin' Whoopee
written by Gus Kahn, Walter Donaldson
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.
gerrymulligan #chetbaker #cooljazz
Talk about your complete coincidences. The numbers 2-1-6 come up three times in regards to this episode. It’s the episode number. It’s the date this episode drops. The US version of dating things. And it’s the area code of where this music was performed and recorded. Yes, I bought a lottery ticket today.
Recordings of the Cleveland orchestra date back to 1928. Discogs dot com has them credited for well more than 800 either old 78 RPM records or 33 ⅓ Vinyl LPs.
So, get ready to hear this 1967 recording of virtuoso showpieces from a virtuoso orchestra in Volume 216: The Classical 216.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
For more information about the show, the episode script and the video version, check out the show's website.
Credits and copyrights
The Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell – One Hundred Men And A Perfectionist
Label: Columbia – SOG-5
Series: The Sound Of Genius
Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Sampler, Stereo
Released: 1967 I believe
Genre: Classical
Style: Classical, Romantic
We will hear 6 of the 9 pieces on this album.
Divertimento No. 2 In D Major, K. 131-Menuetto No. 2
Composed By – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
L'Arlesienne Suite No. 2-Farandole
Composed By – Georges Bizet
Symphony No. 4 In A Major, Op. 90, "Italian"-Saltarello Presto
Composed By – Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
"Die Meistersinger" Prelude
Composed By – Richard Wagner
Concerto For Orchestra-Intermezzo Interrotto
Composed By – Béla Bartók
Overture To "The Marriage Of Figaro," K.492
Composed By – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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.
clevelandorchestra #classicalmusic #vinylcollecting
It's special Valentine’s Day episode of Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl.
That means, of course, my girlfriend Karen gets to join me as we once again grab some music from one of the most romantic voices ever recorded.
We featured this voice two years ago in our Valentines special and it’s the third of five Nat King Cole records in his dad’s collection. This was one of 30 albums Cole recorded for Capitol Records.
So, get ready to hear the smooth velvety voice that sold more than nine million records in Special Volume: Nat's Very Thoughtful Valentine.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Nat King Cole, Gordon Jenkins And His Orchestra – The Very Thought Of You
Label: Capitol Records – W-1084
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Scranton Pressing
Released: Nov 1958
Genre: Jazz, Pop
Style: Easy Listening, Vocal
We will hear 6 of the 14 songs on this album
The Very Thought Of You
Written-By – Ray Noble
Paradise
Written-By – Gordon Clifford, Nacio Herb Brown
This Is All I Ask
Written-By – Gordon Jenkins
Cherchez La Femme
Written-By – Bob Marcus and Lorenzo Pack
I Found A Million Dollar Baby (In A Five And Ten Cent Store)
Written-By – Billy Rose, Harry Warren, and Mort Dixon
The More I See You
Written-By – Harry Warren, and Mack Gordon
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.
natkingcole #valentinesday #vinylcollector
Welcome to a 78 RPM Sunday!
As I was flipping through my dad’s shellac collection looking for patterns to create a few 78 RPM episodes for this season, I found these 7 disks. What they had in common was their one-sidedness.
Yup. In the early days of records, they only pressed one side. And I’ll talk about why in detail a little later.
What’s most important to remember is that every one of these disks was pressed more than 110 years ago.
So, get ready to hear songs that were recorded and released with no flip side in Volume 215: Single-Sided 78s.
Credits and copyrights
All 78 RPM Shellac Recordings are on the Victor Record Red Label
Alice, Where Art Thou - Evan Williams (recorded Camden, NJ, July 18, 1912.)
Written By – Wellington Gurnsey and Joseph Ascher
A Dream - Evan Williams (recorded Camden, NJ, December 18, 1913, released in 1914)
written by Charles B. Cory, J.C. Bartlett
Absent - Evan Williams ( recorded Camden, NJ, February 28, 1913. released in 1914)
Catherine Young Glen and John W. Metcalf
Eventually became the flip side of A Dream in 1923
A Perfect Day - Evan Williams (recorded Camden, NJ, July 16, 1913)
written by Carrie Jacobs-Bond
Eventually became the flip side for Just A-Wearyin’ For You, a recording my dad did not have, but was recorded in 1911.
Good-Bye, Sweetheart, Good-Bye - Evan Williams
Published in 1868 by John L. Halton
Love is Mine - Enrico Caruso (1912)
Composed By – Clarence G. Gartner
Lyrics By – Edward Teschemacher
O Sole Mio (Neapolitan Folk Song) - Emilio de Gogorza (Recorded 13 May 1909)
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.
78RPMShellac #vinylcollecting #victorrecordredlabel
How are we only on record five of this great seven record set? Because I continue to find gold in this box set filled with legendary songs about the old west.
Each record, or in this case each side of this collection had its own theme. Even with those guides, I might take a little poetic license when I name episodes like this.
One side of this record is about things South Of The Border. The flip side mentions a thing or two about Legends And Sagas. Some you may know. Some have some pretty odd twists if you ask me.
So, get ready to hear plenty of "ahh aaahs" and stories about heroes and villains in what is technically Tumbling Tumbleweeds Record 5, Volume 214: Badlands.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Various – Tumbling Tumbleweeds
Label: Reader's Digest – RDA-229 / A
Format: 7 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation Box Set
Released: 1982
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Country
We will be listening to record 5, sides 1 and 2.
We will hear 7 of the 12 tunes from this disk.
Eddy Arnold - The Ballad Of Jesse James
written by Billy Gashade
Red Foley - Don't Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes
written by Slim Willet
Merle Travis - John Henry
Unknown, but One of the earliest written copies of this ballad, prepared by a W. T. Blankenship was published about 1900 or slightly earlier.
The Sons Of The Pioneers - A Gay Ranchero
written by Francia Luban, Abe Tuvim, Juan José Espinosa
The Sons Of The Pioneers - The Strawberry Roan
written by Nat Vincent, Fred Howard, Curly Fletcher, J.E. Patterson
Tex Ritter - Billy The Kid
A traditional song
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys - South Of The Border (Down Mexico Way)
written by Jimmy Kennedy, Michael Carr
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.
oldcountrymusic #cowboymusic #vinylcollecting #spinvinyl
We once again pull out the most popular orchestra leader in my dad’s collection. This is a follow-up album to a popular record my dad does not have. Both titles reference the Ira and George Gershwin tune S’Wonderful from the 1927 Broadway musical Funny Face.
Of course Conniff arranged all of these standards by using a chorus singing tones and not lyrics, which created his own recognizable style.
So, get ready to hear another in the great line of Space-Age composers performing music you heard on stage and screen in Volume 213: Ray's Marvelous.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Ray Conniff And His Orchestra – 'S Marvelous
Label: Columbia – CL 1074
Format: Vinyl, LP, Repress, Mono
Released: 1958
Genre: Jazz, Pop
Style: Easy Listening, Space-Age
We'll hear 6 of the 12 songs on this record.
The Way You Look Tonight
Written-By – Dorothy Fields and Jerome Kern
They Can't Take That Away From Me
Written-By – The writing team of Ira and George Gershwin
I've Told Ev'ry Little Star
Written-By – the writing team of Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern
You Do Something To Me
Written-By – Cole Porter
Where Or When
Written-By – The writing team of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart
As Time Goes By
Written-By – Herman Hupfeld
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.
rayconniff #easylistening #vinylcollecting #oldvinyl
Congratulations to the Ohio State Buckeye football team for winning their ninth national championship.
If you grew up in Ohio, especially in the 1960s and 70s, you were probably an OSU fan no matter where you ended up going to college in the state. My parents certainly were and they instilled the love of Buckeye football on us as well.
During the early 1970s, the Bucks’ offense featured a back who is still the only two-time winner of the Heisman Trophy, given to the country’s best player each year. Archie Griffin.
But we’re here to listen to one of those albums that my dad collected over the years more for what’s on it than to really listen to it. In fact it doesn’t look like he did much playing of this one at all.
This record recaps in great detail the 1974 season which ended in a Rose Bowl loss to USC for the national championship. You are going to hear some very familiar names if you are an older college football fan.
And I’m going to do something different. I’m going to play the whole album with only one interruption at the end of side one. Each side is 45 minutes long.
So get ready to hear Ohio football history through the voice of Marv Homan to celebrate the 2024 NCAA Football Championship in this Special Volume: History of a Champion; O-H-I-O
For more information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it. https://www.discogs.com/release/6751440-Marv-Homan-Great-Moments-In-Ohio-State-Football-A-Tribute-To-Woody-Hayes
Credits and copyrights
Marv Homan – Great Moments In Ohio State Football - A Tribute To Woody Hayes
Label: Fleetwood Records – FMS 1009
Format: Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM, Compilation, Stereo
Released: 1975
Genre: Non-Music
Style: Spoken Word
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.
My dad seemed to have an album for every occasion.
I can’t tell you how appropriate the timing is to play this record for you. Oh wait…yes I can…and will.
This is truly in the vein of “the more things change the more they stay the same.” And it’s all portrayed using some of the main characters of an all time classic movie.
Tomorrow the United States of America swears in its 47th president, who, of course, was also the 45th president. We will not be making any commentary on the results of the most recent election itself, but we will be reflecting on many similarities of current events to what you are about to hear.
So, get ready to listen to a comedy recording performed right about the time Richard Nixon was getting elected as the 37th president 53 years ago in Volume 212: Inauguration Italian Style.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
The Firsta Family – The Firsta Family
Label: Poppy – PYS5706
Format: Vinyl, LP, Stereo
Released: 1972
Genre: Non-Music
Style: Comedy, Spoken Word
We will hear 10 of the 17 tracks on this album.
The Godfathers Inauguration
Mama Presidentes Tour
First Cabinet Eating
White House Garage Sale
Group Confessional
Papa Presidente's Security
Breakfast Problem
Family Portrait
The Late Show
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.
comedyalbum #inauguration #godfather
I’ve mentioned this a few times on this show. The Latin beat was extremely popular when my dad was a teenager and beyond. This record is a combination of taking that Latin beat, this time from a specific country, and arranging it with a plush orchestra.
The orchestra conductor who arranged this music was considered the leader in a genre that infiltrated hundreds of radio stations in the 1960s. It’s still a term widely used to describe this sound.
So get ready to hear the captain of the easy listening movement in Volume 211: Percy's Cuba.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Percy Faith And His Orchestra – Malagueña (Music Of Cuba)
Label: Columbia – CS 8081
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
Released: 1958
Genre: Jazz, Latin
Style: Easy Listening, Afro-Cuban Jazz, Rumba, Samba, Cha-Cha
We'll hear 6 of 14 tunes from this album.
Malagueña
Written-By – Ernesto Lecuona
El Manisero (The Peanut Vendor)
Written-By – Marion Sunshine, Moises Simons, and Louise Wolfe Gilbert
El Bodeguero
Written-By – Richard Egues
Siboney
Written-By – Ernesto Lecuona
Mama Inez
Written-By – Elisio Grenet
Para Vigo Me Voy (Say, Sí Sí)
Written-By – Al Stillman, Ernesto Lecuona, and Francia Luben
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.
percyfaith #vinylcollecting #easylistening #oldvinyl
Welcome to season five.
We start out 2025 with a trumpet player you’ve heard twice before. This is the last of his records in my dad’s collection.
When I first came across him, 165 episodes ago, I realized quickly that I had been missing out on listening to another great trumpet player in my youth. His previous episodes are on my play-often list.
The arrangements on this record call for his playing to be smooth and lyrical, but we know he had a famous solo that was brash and beautiful.
So, get ready to hear from a musician who was the jokester of the Cab Calloway orchestra for over a decade in Volume 210: Jonah Style.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Here's the promised link: Read the Jonah Jones New York Time Obituary.
Credits and copyrights
The Jonah Jones Quartet – Great Instrumental Hits Styled By Jonah Jones
Label: Capitol Records – T1557, Capitol Records – T-1557
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
Released: 1961
Genre: Jazz
Style: Swing, Easy Listening
Bass – John Brown
Drums – George Foster
Piano – Teddy Brannon
We’ll hear 7 of the 12 songs on the album.
The Poor People Of Paris
Written-By – Marguerite Monnot, and Rene Rouzard
Dansero
Written-By – Lee Daniels, Richard Hayman, and Sol Parker
The Third Man Theme
Written-By – Anton Karas, and Walter Lord
Lisbon Antigua
Written-By – Paul Portela
Soft Summer Breeze
Written-By – Eddie Heywood, and Judy Spencer
Serenata
Written-By – Leroy Anderson
Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White
Written-By – Louiguy (real name Louis Guglielmi)
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.
jonahjones #trumpetsrule #jazzmusic #oldjazz
Welcome to the last episode of season 4.
You know you can get close to new years eve and NOT have to listen to Guy Lombardo. WE are going to finish out 2024 on a really upbeat note. In fact, there’s nothing like that two-beat music to send us out dancing.
Our featured artist has a slightly more famous brother, but he certainly made a big name for himself as well. And on this record, he features music from the Big Easy, which was among my dad’s favorite styles.
So get ready to hear some energetic New Orleans music in Volume 209: Dixie Dorsey.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Jimmy Dorsey And His Original "Dorseyland" Jazz Band – Dixie By Dorsey
Label: Columbia – CL 608, Columbia – CL-608
Format: Vinyl, LP, Hollywood Pressing
Released: 1955
Genre: Jazz
Style: Dixieland
South Rampart Street Parade
Written-By – Andy Razaf and Paul Denniker
Jazz Me Blues
Written-By – Tom Delaney
That's A Plenty (That's a Party!)
Written-By – Lew Pollack
Struttin' With Some Barbecue
Written-By – Lil Hardin
Panama
Written-By – Unknown Artist
When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With You)
Written-By – Joe Goodwin, Larry Shay, and Mark Fisher
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.
jimmydorsey #dixielandjazz #happynewyear
'Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, well, except for my dad who was putting together the air hockey game, or large electronic toy crane, or other present that would be one of ours the next morning. I have two younger brothers and a sister.
Those are some of my memories of Christmas past, but I wonder what some of my dad's memories of those past holidays were when HE was a kid. And did those memories have a soundtrack filled with some of the music you are about to hear.
Because I have a feeling these are my dad's dad's 78 RPM shellac records. Most of these disks came out around the time my dad was born.
So, get ready to hear sounds of seasons greetings past with records that were probably my grandfathers in Volume 208: A 78RPM Christmas.
Credits and copyrights
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus - Jimmy Boyd
written by Tommie Connor and first released by Jimmy Boyd accompanied by Norman Luboff in September 1952
Adeste Fideles - Bing Crosby
written by John Francis Wade in 1743
Silent Night - Bing Crosby
written by John Freeman Young, Joseph Mohr, Franz Gruber in 1859.
This record was originally released in 1935. By dad had the repress released in 1938
Oh Little Town of Bethlehem - Charles Paul
written by Lewis Redner, Phillips Brooks in 1868
Paul released his version in 1937
O, Holy Night - Lucy Isabelle Marsh with Lyric Quartet
written by John Sullivan Dwight, Placide Cappeau, Adolphe Charles Adam in 1855
Night Before Christmas - The Music Hall Drama Group and Orchestra
a poem first published anonymously under the title "Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas" in 1823 put to music by Johnny Marks, Henry Livingston, Jr. in 1942
Released in 1952
Frosty the Snowman - Bud Roman and the Toppers with the Hal Lomen Orchestra
written by Jack Rollins, Steve Nelson in 1950
Released in 1952
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.
christmasmusic #78RPM #oldchristmasmusic
Here’s a fun find from this collection. My father really loved his country music too besides all that jazz, pop and classical.
This is the kind of country and western music that was kind of between the fiddle-led twang of early country and the days of outlaw country, although you will hear one of those outlaws from his early days first.
This album is filled with memorable songs and some great memories that went beyond those songs. You know how music triggers those.
So, get ready to hear several great singers from what I think was a great era in Volume 207: Good Country Record 1.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Various – The Good Times In Country Music
Label: Columbia Special Products Tampa Records – C2-10419
Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Stereo, Terre Haute Pressing
Released: 1974
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Country
We'll hear 10 of the 17 songs on record 2 of this two-record set.
Johnny Cash & June Carter – Jackson
written by Jerry Leiber, Billy Edd Wheeler
Johnny Cash and The Tennessee Two – Folsom Prison Blues
written by Johnny Cash, Gordon Jenkins
Jim Nabors - Wichita Lineman
written by Jimmy Webb
Dottie West – I Fall To Pieces
written by Hank Cochran, Harlan Howard
Hank Thompson– Smoke, Smoke, Smoke That Cigarette
written by Merle Travis, Tex Williams
Roy Clark - Yesterday When I Was Young
written by Herbert Kretzmer, Charles Aznavour
Buck Owens - Sweet Hearts In Heaven
written by Buck Owens
Grandpa Jones and His Grandchildren - Mountain Dew
written by Scott Wiseman, Bascom Lamar Lunsford
Jimmy Dean - Big Bad John (September 22, 1961)
written by Jimmy Dean
Carl Storey - Daddy Sang Bass
written by Carl Perkins
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.
countrymusic #oldcountrymusic #heehaw
We pull out the second record from this seven disk box set. This one is filled with an incredible performance of a long piece of music from an incredible composer.
The Reader’s Digest liner notes for this seven record box set starts off "the nineteenth century was just opening in Vienna when the fist of an implacable genius knocked like destiny upon the doors of music."
They were, of course, talking about the immortal Ludwig Van Beethoven. His symphonies live on in performances to this very day.
So, get ready to hear the man who is said to have set music free in Volume 206: Beethoven's 3rd.
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 Beethoven
Label: Reader's Digest – RD 4-6, RCA Custom – RD 4-6 (1-7)
Format: 7 x Vinyl, LP Box Set
Released: 1966
Genre: Classical
Style: Romantic, Choral
Disk two of this 7 record set is all the third symphony
We will hear 3 of the 4 movements.
First Movement - Allegro Con Brio
Second Movement - Marcia Funebre: Adagio Assai
Fourth Movement - Allegro Molto; Poco Andante; Presto
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.
beethoven #beethovens3rd #romanticera
Of course big bands and cars go together. The first car radio was offered by Chevrolet in 1922. As the medium became more popular and more practical for use in a vehicle, it was more than likely large jazz orchestras filling those airwaves.
This album is a really good collection of some great star band leaders along with some great versions of big hits.
So get ready to hear music that was probably coming out of the dashboard for those early drivers in Volume 205: Big Band Chevy.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Various – Golden Anniversary Album (A Collector's Item Specially Produced For Chevrolet)
RCA Victor – PR.111, RCA Victor
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Compilation, Mono
Released: 1961
Genre: Jazz, Pop
Style: Big Band, Swing, Vocal
Charlie Barnet – Cherokee
Written by Ray Noble
Larry Clinton – My Reverie
Vocals – Bea Wain
Written by Larry Clinton
Duke Ellington – Solitude
Vocals – Al Hibler, Joya Sherrill, Kay Davis, Marie Hibler
Written by Duke Ellington, Eddie DeLange, and Irving Mills
Bunny Berigan – I Can't Get Started
Vocals – Bunny Berigan
Written by Ira Gershwin, Vernon Duke
Guy Lombardo – Bei Mir Bist Du Schon
Vocals – Male Trio
Written by Jacob Jacobs, Sammy Cahn, Saul Chapin, Sholom Secunda
Rosemary Clooney & Perez Prado – Bali Ha'i
Written by Rodgers-Hammerstein
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.
jazzmusic #bigbandjazz #chevy
For our last stop during World Tour November we head to a region of the world known for its Beaches and Casinos. To where the rich have played for centuries. Three different country’s musical styles are included on this record; Spain, France, and Italy.
In fact, the music you will hear was composed by a prince of the holy Roman Empire. His scores create musical landscapes in your mind.
So, get ready to hear music that gets us into a Mediterranean mood with Volume 204: Riviera Paradise.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
D'Artega And His Orchestra – Riviera Holiday (Mediterranean Moods)
Label: Design Records – DLP-46
Format: Vinyl, LP, Mono
Released: 1957
Genre: Jazz
Style: Easy Listening
We will hear 6 of the 11 songs on the album.
All music was written by Camillo Ruspoli, Principe di Candriano.
Palace Of The Prince
Monte Carlo Nocturne
Mediterranean Sunset
Gardens Of Beau Lieu
Continental Memories
Sorrento Momento
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.
Next stop on our World Tour November is also a stop back to the 19th century. Back to one of the music centers of the world at the time. Budapest. Home of the Danube River and a beautiful opera house.
All of that and more made it a popular tourist stop for that era. And the two composers you will hear from were partly responsible for that popularity as well.
So, get ready to hear an important orchestra in its own right perform music from this landlocked central European country in Volume 203: Classic Hungary.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms, RIAS Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Karl Rucht – Hungarian Rhapsodies No. 2 And No. 14 / Hungarian Dances No. 1 Through No. 6
Label: Paris – Album 12
Format: Vinyl, LP
Released: 1956
Genre and Style: Classical
We will hear 5 of the 8 tunes on this record.
Franz Liszt:
Hungarian Dance 1
Hungarian Dance 3
Hungarian Dance 4
Hungarian Dance 5
Johannes Brahms:
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
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.
hungariandances #hungarianrhapsody #classicalmusic
We continue World Tour November with music about a location I’ve actually been to. It’s on the list as being one of the seven natural wonders of the world.
If you’ve ever visited that big hole in the ground in the southwestern United States, sometimes words escape you. That’s why we have composers like Ferde Grofe who skillfully describes the wonder through the lens of black notes on a white sheet of paper.
I have been absolutely mesmerized by this album since I found it, especially since the five-movement suite depicts two of my favorite moments on that side trip. Which is why I’m playing the tunes out of order.
So get ready to hear music as big, bold and beautiful as the scenery it was written about in Volume 202: Grand Canyon.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Andre Kostelanetz And His Orchestra – Grand Canyon Suite Featuring On The Trail
Label: Columbia – CL 716
Format: Vinyl, LP, Mono
Released: 1955
Genre: Classical
Style: Modern
Composed by Ferde Grofé
On The Trail
The Painted Desert
Sunset
Sunrise
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.
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 copyrights
Victor Young – Michael Todd's Around The World In 80 Days - Music From The Sound Track
Label: Decca – DL 9046
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Gloversville press
Released: 1957
Genre: Stage & Screen
Style: Soundtrack
Around The World - Part 1
Passepartout
Invitation To A Bull Fight/Entrance Of The Bull March
India Country Side
The Pagoda Of Pillagi
Prairie Sail Car
Land 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.
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 Greco
Written by Richard Rodgers, and Lorenz Hart
Take the A Train - The Duke Ellington Orchestra
Written by Duke Ellington
Day-O - Harry Belafonte
Written by Harry Belafonte, Lord Burgess, and Bill Attaway
Java - Al Hirt
Written by Allen Toussaint, Alvin Tyle, and Freddy Friday
Let’s Cha Cha - Tito Puente
Written by Ray Coen
Debbie Reynolds and the cast of the musical motion picture The Unsinkable Molly Brown - Belly up to the Bar, Boys
Music 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 ‘66
Written by Chico Feitosa, and Luis Carlos Vinhas
Sing, Sing, Sing - Henry Mancini
Composed 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.
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 Freeman
Label: Design Records (2) – DLP 40
Format: Vinyl, LP
Released: Oct 1957
Genre: Pop
Style:
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)
Please
written by Leo Robin, Ralph Rainger
Moritat
written 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.
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 Bands
Label: Columbia Special Products – XTV 68511
Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation
Released: 1963
Genre: Jazz
Style: Big Band
Les Brown–Leap Frog
written by Joe Garland, Leo Corday in 1942
Recorded by Les Brown and his Orchestra in October 1945
Woody Herman and his Thundering Herd - Blue Flame
written by Leo Corday, Joe Bishop, James A. Noble
First recording on February 13, 1941 by Woody Herman
Claude Thornhill - Snowfall
written by Claude Thornhill, Ruth Thornhill
First recording on May 26, 1941
Kay Kyser - (I've Grown So Lonesome) Thinking Of You
written by Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby
recorded New York, NY, January 9, 1939 but not released until 1941.
Gene Krupa - Starburst
Composed by Eddie Finckel and Gene Krupa
Recorded February 8, 1947
Count Basie - One O'Clock Jump
written by Count Basie
First 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.
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 Session
Label: Columbia – CL 669, Columbia – CL-669
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Hollywood Pressing
Released: 1955
Genre: Jazz
Style: Big Band
Marchin'
Soloist, Tenor Saxophone – Pat Chartrand
Written-By – Harry James and Louis Bellson
I'll Remember April
Written-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 Polk
Written-By – Bobby Troup
Stealin' Apples
Written-By – Andy Razaf and Fats Waller
Queen Of The Mambo
Written-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.
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 Arias
Label: London Records – LDR 10020
Series: London Digital
Format: Vinyl, LP, Stereo
Released: Dec 1980
Genre: Classical
Style: 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 Howlett
Composed 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.
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 Kings
Label: Down South Records – DS 201
Format: Vinyl, LP
Released: 1958
Genre: Jazz, Blues
Style: Dixieland
We will hear 6 of the 10 songs on this album.
Ole Man River
written by Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II
Beautiful Ohio
written by Ballard MacDonald, Robert King
First released in 1919
'Way Down Upon The Swanee River
Old Folks at Home written by Stephen Foster
Waitin' For The Robert E. Lee
written by L. Wolfe Gilbert, Lewis F. Muir
Up That Lazy River
by 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.
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 – Honey
Label: Columbia – CS 9661
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Pitman Pressing
Released: 1968
Genre: Jazz
Style: Easy Listening
We will play 7 of the 11 songs on the album.
Honey (I Miss You)
Written-By – Bobby Russell
Gentle On My Mind
Written-By – John Hartford
Spanish Eyes
Written-By – Bert Kaempfert, Charles Singleton and Eddie Snyder
I Say A Little Prayer
Written-By – Burt Bacharach and Hal David
The Look Of Love (From "Casino Royale")
Written-By – Burt Bacharach and Hal David
Sound Of Silence
Written-By – Paul Simon
Goin' Out Of My Head
Written-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.
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. 2
Label: RCA Victor – LPM-1328
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
Released: 1956
Genre: Jazz
Style: 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 Baby
Written-By – Manny Albam
Playboy
Written-By – Ernie Wilkins
Birdland Fantasy
Written-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.
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 Dreams
Label: Columbia – CL 624
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Released: Jun 13, 1955
Genre: Pop
Style: Vocal
We will hear 6 of the 12 songs from this album.
Bewitched
Written-By – Rodgers & Hart
Sometimes I'm Happy
Music By – Vincent Youmans
Words By – Irving Caesar
I Didn't Know What Time It Was (GREAT lyrics)
Written-By – Rodgers & Hart
I've Only Myself To Blame
Written-By – David Mann, Redd Evans
Darn That Dream (such language Doris)
Written-By – Eddie Delange, Jimmy Van Heusen
Imagination
Music By – Jimmy Van Heusen
Words 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.
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 Ellington
Label: Columbia Special Products – JCL 825
Series: Collectors' Series
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono (originally released in 1951)
Released: 1973
Genre: Jazz
Style: 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 Lady
Solitude
The 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.
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 Sellers
Label: Dot Records – DLP 3119
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Released: 1958
Genre: Jazz, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Easy Listening
We will hear 7 of the 12 songs on this album.
Holiday For Strings
written by David Rose
Canadian Sunset
written by Eddie Heywood
Tonight We Love
written by Freddy Martin, Ray Austin
Fascination
written by Fermo Dante Marchetti
In The Mood
Written by Joe Garland, Jimmy Dale, Wingy Manone, Andy Razaf
Around The World
Music written by Victor Young
So Rare
written 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.
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 – Java
Label: Wyncote – W-9013
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
Released: 1964
Genre: Jazz
Style: Easy Listening
We will hear 7 of the 10 songs on this album.
Java
written by Allen Toussaint, Murray Sporn, Alvin "Red" Tyler, and Danny Kessler
Miss Daisy De Lite
Written by Kal Mann and Dave Appell
Happiness Is A Thing Called Fun
Could 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
Anymore
written by Roy Drusky, Vic McAlpin, and Marie Wilson
Chills
written 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
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 Hour
Label: Design Records – DLP 20
Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Mono
Released: 1957
Genre: Jazz
We will play 7 of the 11 songs from this album.
By Heck
music by S. R. Henry
Solitude
written by Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Eddie DeLange
Rhythm Of The Rain
written by Jack Meskill, Jack Stern
Night Wind
Written-By – Bob Romberg, Dave Pollock and Harry Link
Eccentric is actually cut 3
written by J. Russel Robinson
Sugar Foot Stomp
written by Louis Armstrong, King Oliver
The Weary Blues
written 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.
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 Tumbleweeds
Label: Reader's Digest – RDA-229 / A
Format: 7 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation Box Set
Released: 1982
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: 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 Texas
written by Don Swander, June Hershey
George Hamilton IV - Abilene
written by John D. Loudermilk, Bob Gibson and Lester Brown
Gene Autry - The Yellow Rose Of Texas
It'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 Colorado
written by Billy Moll, Robert King
Jimmy Wakely - The Call Of The Canyon
written by Billy Hill
Hank Snow - Cross The Brazos At Waco
written 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.
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 Bull
Volume 33: Tijuana Brass Going Places
Volume 54: Alpert's Ninth
Volume 98: Whipped Alpert
Volume 129: Brass' Beat for Father's Day
Volume 156: Christmas Herb
Credits and copyrights
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass – Greatest Hits
Label: A&M Records – SP-4245
Series: Greatest Hits (8)
Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Stereo, Terre Haute Pressing
Released: 1970
Genre: Jazz, Latin
Style: Latin Jazz
Liner Notes – Charles Champlin
Cover Photography – Jim McCrary
Producer – 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 Bull
Written-By – Sol Lake
Appeared on The Lonely Bull Released in 1964
Spanish Flea
Written-By – Julius Wechter
Appeared on Going Places released in 1967
Getting Sentimental Over You
Written-By – George Bassman
Appeared 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 Stoller
Appeared on Whipped Cream and other Delights Released in 1965
Never On Sunday
Written-By – Billy Towne and Mano Hadjidakis
Appeared on The Lonely Bull Released in 1964
Mexican Shuffle
Written-By – Sol Lake
Appeared on South of the Border Released in 1964
Taste Of Honey
Written-By – Bobby Scott and Ric Marlow
Appeared on Whipped Cream and other Delights Released in 1965
Tijuana Taxi
Written-By – Ervan Coleman
Appeared on Going Places released in 1967
South Of The Border
Written-By – Jimmy Kennedy and Michael Carr
Appeared on South of the Border Released in 1964
America
Written-By – Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim
Appeared on America Released in 1969
Whipped Cream
Written-By – Naomi Neville
Appeared on Whipped Cream and other Delights Released in 1965
Zorba The Greek
Written-By – Mikis Theodorakis
Appeared 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.
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 Radio
Label: Longines Symphonette Society – none
Format: 6 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Mono, Maroon Labels Box Set
Released: 1969
Genre: Non-Music
Style: 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 Armstrong
The Lone Ranger
Gene Tunney vs. Jack Dempsey
Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling
Jesse Owen In The 1936 Olympics
Whirl-A-Way Wins The Kentucky Derby
Bobby Thomson Home Run
The 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.
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 Francis
Label: Mati-Mor Superecords – 8002
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Indianapolis Pressing
Released: 1961
Genre: Pop
Style: Vocal
Sing Along
Unkown composer
Home On The Range
music by Daniel E. Kelley and lyrics by Brewster M. Higley
In The Good Old Summertime
written by George Evans, Ren Shields
I Love You Truly
Written by Carrie Jacobs-Bond
You Tell Me Your Dream, I'll Tell You Mine
written by Charles N. Daniels, Seymour Rice, and Albert H. Brown
Down In The Valley
written by Tom Darby and Jimmie Tarlton
My Wild Irish Rose
written by Chauncey Olcott
Auld Lang Syne
written by Robert Burns
And The Band Played On
written 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.
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 Intro
00:51 - Episode Introduction
01:46 - Little Crazy Quilt
04:19 - First Break: Why I chose these records for this episode and a MAS*H connection
05:49 - Cabaret
08:44 - Second Break: More information about the records, marketplace value and what condition my dad's shellac is in.
10:11 - Whispering
12:31 - Third Break: Patti Page Bio
16:18 - Hocus Pocus
18:26 - Fourth Break: this episode's Interesting Side Note.
20:23 - Let Me Go, Lover
22:45 - Quick Extra break to introduce bonus cut
23:16 - Doodle Doo Do
25:43 - Sixth Break: Final Words
27:02 - Keep Me in Mind
29:18 - Close
Credits and copyrights
Little Crazy Quilt
Jack Rael And His Orchestra
Written-By – Hal David and Leon Carr
Released in 1955
Cabaret
Written by Al Russell - Joel Cowan
Recorded 24 April 1949 New York City - with an Orchestra Conducted by Mitch Miller.
Whispering
written by Vincent Rose, Richard Coburn, John Schonberger, Malvin Schonberger
Recorded 24 April 1949 New York City - with an Orchestra Conducted by Mitch Miller.
Hocus Pocus
from Mercury 70511 78 rpm
with Jack Rael and his orchestra - arranged by Joe Reisman
Music by David Saxon - Lyrics by Norman Gimbel
Let Me Go, Lover
Written by Jenny Lou Carson - Al Hill, which is a Pseudonym for Kay Twomey - Fred Wise - Ben Weisman
Recorded Circa October 1954
Doodle Doo Do
Ken Griffin on Organ
Jerry Wayne on Vocals
written by Art Kassel, Mel Stitzel
Released March 1948
Keep Me in Mind
This 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.
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 Beethoven
Label: Reader's Digest – RD 4-6, RCA Custom – RD 4-6 (1-7)
Format: 7 x Vinyl, LP, Box Set
Released: 1966
Genre: Classical
Style: 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. 21
First Movement - Adagio Molto; Allegro Con Brio
Second Movement - Andante Cantabile Con Moto
Symphony No. 2 In D Major, Op. 36
Second Movement - Larghetto
Third Movement - Scherzo
Fourth 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.
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 – Dixieland
Label: Golden Tone – C4021
Format: Vinyl, LP, Mono
Released: 1960 something
Genre: Jazz
Style: Dixieland
We will hear all 8 of the songs on this album.
Matty Matlock And His Dixie-Men - Sugar Foot Strut
written by Billie Pierce, Henry Myers, Charles Schwab
Matty Matlock And His Dixie-Men - Ida, Sweet As Apple Cider
written by Eddie Munson, Eddie Leonard
Pee Wee Hunt And His Orchestra - Royal Garden Blues
written by Spencer Williams, Clarence Williams
Pee Wee Hunt And His Orchestra - Lazy Bones
written by Hoagy Carmichael, Johnny Mercer
Morty Corb And His Dixie All-Stars - South
written by Bennie Moten, Thamon Hayes
Morty Corb And His Dixie All-Stars - Back Home Again In Indiana
written by Ballard MacDonald, James F. Hanley, Paul Dresser
Matty Matlock And His Dixie-Men - Jazz Me Blues
written by Tom Delaney
Matty Matlock And His Dixie-Men - Oh, Didn't He Ramble
written 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.
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 Makers
Label: Columbia – CL 1485
Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Mono
Released: 1960
Genre: Pop
Style: Light Music
Johnny Mathis– Starbright
written by Lee Pockriss, Paul Vance
Doris Day– Please Don't Eat The Daisies
written by Joe Lubin
Jerry Vale– Solitaire
written by Neil Sedaka, Phil Cody
Mitch Miller– Pink Polemoniums
Written-By – Al Hoffman and Dick Manning
Greenfields
written by Frank Miller, Richard Dehr, and Terry Gilkyson (also known as The Easy Riders)
Kitty Kallen– Got A Date With An Angel
written 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 Bismarck
written 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.
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-6650
Series: The Capitol Stereo Showcase
Format: Vinyl, LP, Limited Edition
Released: not sure what year but sometime in the 1970s based off the Series name.
Genre: Jazz, Latin, Pop
Billy May– Spanish Flea
Written-By – Cissy Wechter, Julius Wechter
Joe Leahy–Life
Written-By – Joe Leahy, Mike Curb
Ray Anthony– Danke Schoen
Written-By – Bert Kaempfert, Kurt Schwabach, and Milt Gabler
Guy Lombardo– A Banda
Written-By – Chico Barque De Hollanda
Guy Lombardo– A Taste Of Honey
Written-By – Bobby Scott, Ric Marlow
Sergio Mendes– Muito A Vontade
Written-By – João Donato
Joe Leahy– Arriba
Written-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.
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 2
Label: Columbia Record Club – GB-9, Columbia – GB-9
Format: Vinyl, LP, Club Edition, Limited Edition, Sampler, Mono
Released: 1961
Genre: Jazz, Pop, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Country, Vocal
"Limited Edition Available to Club Members Only"
Lester Lanin And His Orchestra–This Could Be The Start Of Something
Released 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 Dog
Written by Miles Davis and appeared on his 1961 Columbia record Someday My Prince Will Come.
Dinah Washington– Somewhere Along The Line
Composed by Dinah Washington, with lyrics by Dinah and Walter Merrick
Released 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 Mike
Written by Dave Brubeck
This 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.
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. – Sammy
Label: Sessions (2) – ARI-1001
Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation
Released: 1976
Genre: Jazz, Pop
Style: 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 song
Birth Of The Blues
composed in 1926 by Ray Henderson, with lyrics by Buddy DeSylva and Lew Brown
It 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 Dream
composed by Mitch Leigh, with lyrics written by Joe Darion.
Sammy recorded a version for the 1969 album The Goin' Great.
Exodus
composed 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 Me
composed and written by Walter Marks in 1967
Sammy Davis Jr. recorded the song in 1968, as the title track of Davis’ 1968 Reprise album.
Spinning Wheel
Written 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.
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 Favorites
Label: Diplomat Records – D 2348
Format: Vinyl, LP
Released: 1965
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
We will hear 7 of the 11 songs from the album.
For Mama
written by Charles Aznavour, Robert Gall
Funiculi Funicula
written by Luigi Denza, Peppino Turco
O Marie
an adaptation of an operatic tune called Maria Mari written by Eduardo di Capua and Vincenzo Russo.
Santa Lucia
A 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 Surriento
written by C. Chacón, Giambattista de Curtis, Ernesto de Curtis
Ciribiribin
written 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.
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 Trombone
Label: Columbia – CL 1303
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
Released: 1959
Genre: Jazz
We will hear 5 of the 7 songs on this album.
Hello, Young Lovers
Written-By – Oscar Hammerstein II and Richard Rodgers Better known together as Rodgers & Hammerstein
What's New
Written-By – Bob Haggart and Johnny Burke
Blue Trombone, Part 1
Written-By – J.J. Johnson
Blue Trombone, Part 2
Written-By – J.J. Johnson
100 Proof
Written-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.
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. 11
Label: Longines Symphonette Society – C-7-11 1
Series: Our Century In Music – 11
Format: 3 x Vinyl, LP Box Set
Country: Canada
Released: 1974
Genre: 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 Ramble
written by Kid Ory
Jazz Me Blues
by Tom Delaney
Wabash Blues
arranged by Joseph E. Maddy
Blues in the Night
written by Harold Arlen
That's A Plenty
by 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.
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 listing
Dean Martin's official website About page.
Credits and copyrights
Dean Martin Orchestra Conducted By Nelson Riddle – This Time I'm Swingin'
Label: Capitol Records – T1442
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Los Angeles Pressing
Released: Oct 3, 1960
Genre: Jazz
Style: 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 Me
Written-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
Imagination
Written-By – Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Burke
Until The Real Thing Comes Along
Written-By – Alberta Nichols, L.E. Freeman, Mann Holiner, Sammy Cahn and Saul Chaplin
Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
Written-By – Sam Stept and Sidney Clare
Someday
Written-By – Jimmie Hodges
Just In Time
Written-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.
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 Brown
Debbie Reynolds featured in I Ain't Down Yet
Harve Presnell & Orchestra - Colorado, My Home
Harve Presnell And Debbie Reynolds–I'll Never Say No
Debbie Reynolds And Chorus– Belly Up To The Bar, Boys
MGM Studio Orchestra– Dolce Far Niente (Meaning Pleasant Idleness) although literally meaning sweetly and softly do nothing
Harve Presnell & Cast– He's My Friend
All 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.
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 Night
Arranged By – Ernie Freeman
Producer – Jimmy Bowen
Written-By – Bert Kaempfert, Charles Singleton and Eddie Snyder
Summer Wind
Written-By – Henry Mayer and Johnny Mercer
All Or Nothing At All
Written-By – Arthur Altman and Jack Lawrence
You're Driving Me Crazy!
Written-By – Walter Donaldson
On A Clear Day
Written-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.
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 Pressing
Label: RCA Victor – LPT 6700
Format: 5 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Reissue
Released: 1960
Genre: Jazz
Style: 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 Me
Vocals – Kay Starr
Written-By – Archie Gottler, Harry Harris and Lou Handman
January 26, 1939
Love With A Capital "You"
Vocals – Kay Starr
Written-By – Leo Robin and Ralph Rainger
January 26, 1939
Oh So Good
Written-By – Jerry Gray
Broadcast September 5, 1941
Bobby Hacket on guitar
Sun Valley Jump
Written-By – Jerry Gray
January 17, 1941
Rug Cutter's Swing
Written-By – Horace Henderson
January 29, 1940
King Porter Stomp
Written-By – Jelly Roll Morton
Broadcast 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.
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.
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 Miller
Label: Bravo! Records – K-118
Series: Grand Prix Series
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
Released: 1962
Genre: Jazz, Pop
Style: Big Band
We will hear 6 of the ten songs from the album
I've Got A Gal In Kalamazoo
written by Mack Gordon and Harry Warren
Jeannie With The Light Brown Hair
written by Stephen C. Foster
Volga Boatman
A traditional Russian song
Bill Finegan's jazz arrangement for the Glenn Miller band took the song to #1 in the US charts in 1941.
Habanera
Written aby Georges Bizet the 19th century French composer
Anitra's Dance
Written 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.
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 Hits
Label: Epic – LN 24206
Format: Vinyl, LP
Released: 1966
Genre: Jazz
Style: Big Band
We will hear 7 of the 10 songs on the album.
A Taste Of Honey
Written-By – Bobby Scott and Ric Marlow
Herb 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 You
Written-By – George Bassman and Ned Washington
from the album Going Places in 1965
The Third Man Theme
Written-By – Anton Karas
!!Going Places!! (1965) for A&M Records.
Dating Game Duo
Whipped Cream
Written-By – Naomi Neville
It is the title track of their 1965 LP, Whipped Cream & Other Delights, and was released as the lead single from the album.
Spanish Flea
Written-By – Julius Wechter
from the album Going Places in 1965
Tijuana Taxi
Written-By – Ervan Coleman
!!Going Places!! (1965) for A&M Records.
The Lonely Bull
Written-By – Sol Lake
The 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.
I think this record might go down as my favorite from the five records we are playing in the month of March to celebrate what would have been Glenn Miller’s 120th birthday on March first.
The featured trumpet player on this album has such a soft sound that really fits in with the Miller sound, yet stands out to make each song his own. His solos are delicate, yet hardly boring. As they were when he played for the Miller band.
He was a cool-toned cornetist who always sounded relaxed no matter what the setting or the tempo.
So get ready to hear some great songs made famous by the Glenn Miller orchestra in a setting of wall to wall strings and brass in Volume 167: Bobby's Miller Pearls.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Here's the article from Kim Filed mentioned in this episode.
Credits and copyrights
Bobby Hackett – A String Of Pearls
Label: Epic – LN 24174
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Released: 1965
Genre: Jazz
Style: Big Band
We'll hear 6 of the 12 songs on this album.
A String Of Pearls
Composed by Jerry Gray
Moonlight Serenade
Composed by Glenn Miller
Georgia On My Mind
Written by Hoagy Carmichael and Stuart Gorrell
Tuxedo Junction
Written by Erskine Hawkins, Bill Johnson, and Julian Dash
Poor Butterfly
Music was written by Raymond Hubbell inspired by Giacomo Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly
In The Mood
Based on the composition "Tar Paper Stomp" by Wingy Manone
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.
My dad really loved his big bands. And what bigger big band than the Glenn Miller Orchestra.
March first, Glenn Miller would have been 120 years old. So we are going to celebrate his birthday all month with his music and musical style.
My dad had a ton of Miller music, and while I have already featured him many times on this show, you’ll be introduced to an even larger portion of it this month including a return to the most distinctive album in his collection which we’ll feature in four weeks.
So, get ready to hear one of this bandleader’s compilation disks released 12 years after his death, to kick off an entire month of his music in Volume 166: This Is Glenn Miller.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Glenn Miller And His Orchestra – This Is Glenn Miller
Label: RCA Victor – LPM 1190
Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation
Released: 1956
Genre: Jazz
Style: Swing, Big Band
Pressed By – RCA Records Pressing Plant, Indianapolis
Liner Notes – George T. Simon
Johnson Rag
Written-By – Guy Hall, Henry Kleinkauf
Arranged By – Bill Finegan
Soloists on sax – Al Klink and Tex Beneke
Soloist, Trombone – Glenn Miller
Soloist, Trumpet – Clyde Hurley
Beautiful Ohio
Written-By – Ballard MacDonald, Mary Earl
Arranged By – Jerry Gray
Soloist, Piano – Chummy McGregor
Soloist, Tenor Saxophone – Tex Beneke
Adios
Written-By – Eddie Woods, Enric Madriguera
Arranged By – Jerry Gray
Bass – Doc Goldberg
Trumpet [Muted] – Mickey McMickle
Londonderry Air
traditional Irish melody
Arranged By – J. C. McGregor and Glenn Miller
Celesta – Chummy McGregor
Anvil Chorus
Written-By – Giuseppe Verdi yes, the 19th century Italian Opera Composer
Arranged By – Jerry Gray
Soloist – Tex Beneke
Soloist, Bass – Trigger Alpert
Soloist, Clarinet – Ernie Caceres
Soloist, Trumpet – Billy May
Bugle Call Rag
Written-By – Billy Meyers, Elmer Schoebel and Jack Pettis
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.
Time to pull out the 14th of the 24 records from the six box set from the Franklin Mint. And I’ve been having so much fun listening to this one.
In fact, I’m going to play a few more tunes than my normal six that I like to keep these episodes to because, quite frankly, there was so much good music on this disc I didn’t know where to stop.
The featured trumpet player you’ll be hearing was known as the bridge between Louis Armstrong and Dizzy Gillespie. But he had a style all his own that was quite influential in his own right.
So, get ready to hear the musician that seemed to have the trumpet permanently glued to his lips in Volume 165: Little Jazz on Horn Part 2.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it. https://www.discogs.com/release/11735925-various-Louis-Armstrong-Roy-Eldridge-Jazz-Masterpieces
Credits and copyrights
Louis Armstrong Roy Eldridge Jazz Masterpieces
Label: The Franklin Mint Record Society – JAZZ 001: 1/2/3/4
Series: part of both! The Greatest Jazz Recordings Of All Time and the Institute Of Jazz Studies Official Archive Collection
Format: Box Set, Red Box, 4 x Red vinyl LPs, Compilation,
Released: 1982
Genre: Jazz
Style: Swing
We will hear 8 of the 12 songs from this album
Artie Shaw & His Orchestra – Little Jazz
Composed by Roy Eldridge and Buster Harding
Roy Eldridge & His Orchestra – Twilight Time
Music by the Three Suns (Morty Nevins, Al Nevins, and Artie Dunn)
King David & His Little Jazz – Easter Parade
Written by Irving Berlin
Roy Eldridge Sextet – School Days
Written by Gus Edwards
The Roy Eldridge - Benny Carter Quintet – I Still Love Him So
Written by Roy Eldridge & Benny Carter
Coleman Hawkins - Roy Eldridge – Hanid
Written by Coleman Hawkins
Roy Eldridge & Claude Bolling – Fireworks
Composed by Clarence Williams and Spencer Williams
Roy Eldridge Trio – Undecided
Written by Sid Robin and Charlie Shavers
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.
It’s another Valentine's special. And time for another romantic voice.
Joining me once again is my girlfriend Karen.
I rarely recognize the song titles or the artist names of the music Frank picks, but I recognized this one. While my parents didn’t listen to the same kind of music his parents did, Johnny Mathis was still played a lot by my mom.
And why not? He has one of the most recognizable, elegant, romantic voices ever recorded. And it just makes you want to cuddle up with the one you love.
So, get ready to hear a voice tailor-made for this specific holiday in Volume 164: A Faithful Valentine.
More information about this album: More information about this album: See the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Johnny Mathis – Faithfully
Label: Columbia – CS 8219
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Repress, Stereo
Released: December 21, 1959.
Genre: Pop
Style: Vocal
The album reached #2 on the U.S. album charts.
Arranger, Conductor – Glenn Osser
Faithfully
Written-By – Burt Bacharach, and Sydney Shaw
Nobody Knows (How Much I Love You)
Written-By – Bart Howard
Tonight
Written-By – Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim
Maria
Written-By – Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim
Blue Gardenia
Written-By – Bob Russell, and Lester Lee
One Starry Night
Written-By – Abner Silver, and Sid Wayne
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.
One hundred years ago tomorrow, February 12, 1924, in Aeolian Hall, New York City, Paul Whiteman's band played the first public performance of Rhapsody in Blue with composer Gorge Gershwin playing the piano. It was orchestrated by Whiteman's arranger Ferdie Grofé.
This album is one of at least three versions my dad owned of the famous song. He has a 1939 version from Whiteman that was released on 12 inch 78 RPM discs from the Decca record label. The Rhapsody is broken down into two sides. There's Gershwin's solo piano first recorded on piano roll, then transferred to the LP format in 1958. Then there's the one you are about to hear, which was recorded in 1958 to celebrate Whiteman's fifty years in music.
So, get ready to hear an iconic American tune that is celebrating a century of popularity in Volume 163: 100 Years of Rhapsody.
More information about this album: See the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Paul Whiteman And His Orchestra – Rhapsody In Blue
Label: Grand Award – G.A. 33-502
Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Mono
Released: 1958
Genre: Jazz
Style: Big Band
You will hear 4 of the 6 songs from this record.
When Day Is Done
Written by Buddy DeSylva
Limehouse Blues
Music by Philip Braham
Autumn Leaves
Music by Joseph Kosma
Rhapsody In Blue
Composed by George Gerswhin
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.
Here’s someone I mention often when I tell you who wrote a song. In fact, he’s one of the most popular songwriters of all time. He even sang on a few recordings too. Many of the songs you will hear on this episode you may recognize as being sung by a popular female vocalist, but this is all Burt. He wrote the music. He arranged it and conducted the orchestra. He also plays the piano.
So, get ready to hear music that’s all about one guy in Volume 162: Burt Conducts Bacharach
Credits and copyrights
Burt Bacharach – Reach Out
Label: A&M Records – SP 4131
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
Released: 1967
Genre: Jazz
Style: Easy Listening
We will hear 7 of the 11 songs on this record.
All of the music was written, arranged, produced and conducted by Burt Bachrach.
Reach Out For Me
Alfie
Message To Michael
The Look Of Love
I Say A Little Prayer
What The World Needs Now Is Love
Bond Street
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.
The latin beat was all the rage when my dad was a teenager and young adult. You can tell he fell for it in a big way with all the Mambos, Cha Chas, Rhumbas, and Salsas he has in his collection. And like I’ve said before, it’s hard not to dance when the bongos, congas, timbales, and claves are working their magic.
So get ready to hear, yet another musical trailblazer from Puerto Rico in Volume 161: The Latin Dance.
Credits and copyrights
Morales – Morales Latin Dance Time
Label: Grand Prix Series – K-154
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
Country: US
Released: in 1962 I think. I'll tell you more in this episode's interesting side note.
Genre: Latin
Style: Cha-Cha, Mambo, Pachanga
We will hear 7 of the 10 songs on the album.
Norin-Norin
written by Noro Morales
For Me And My Gal
written by Edgar Leslie, George W. Meyer, E. Ray Goetz
Dark Eyes Mambo
Written by Florian Hermann
I'm Getting Sentimental Over You (Sounds like another famous latin song for a while)
written by Ned Washington, George Bassman
Who's Sorry Now
written by Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, Ted Snyder
The Children's Merengue
written by Noro Morales
Mississippi Mambo
written by Cliff Ferre
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.
We pull out the second of four records my dad has from this singer. While he never had a number one hit, he did sell over 45 million records, and was viewed regularly by many million more TV viewers on his show.
He got his start with his brothers singing for film productions in the 1940s. And he’s another halftime performer at an early Super Bowl.
So get ready to hear music from the twentieth studio album by this pop singer with Volume 160: Andy Sets Us Free.
Credits and copyrights
Andy Williams – Born Free
Label - Columbia – CL 2680
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Terre Haute Pressing
Released: 1967
Genre: Jazz
Style: Easy Listening
We will hear 6 of the 12 songs from the album.
Born Free written for the 1966 movie of the same name.
Written-By – Don Black and John Barry
Spanish Eyes
Written-By – Bert Kaempfert, Charles Sing, and Eddie Snyder
Sunny
Written-By – Bobby Hebb
I Want To Be Free
Written-By – Tommy. Boyce and Bobby Hart
Strangers In The Night
Written-By – Bert Kaempfert, Charles Sing, and Eddie Snyder
Music To Watch Girls By
Written-By – Sid Rami and Tony Velona
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.
"The program you are about to see…well hear… is All in the Family. It seeks to throw a humorous spotlight on our frailties, prejudices and concerns. By making them a source of laughter, we hope to show — in a mature fashion — just how absurd they are."
That was the disclaimer made before the start of the first episode of an early 1970s TV show where the main character is an obnoxious, prejudiced, big mouth, bigot, played by a brilliant actor, who actually was credited with bringing highly controversial subjects to light every week. But no matter what the subject, he was highly humorous. And millions laughed along.
The character and the show was the brainchild of a TV mastermind that we just lost last month at the age of 101.
So, Boy...get ready to hear the way Glenn Miller played, and songs on the hit parade, not really, there’s no music on this record, in Volume 159: Those Were The Days.
Promised link to Norman Lear's obituary on NPR.org.
Credits and copyrights
Archie Meets Mike
Breasts
The Man In The Street
The Elevator
Stifle
Sammy's Visit
I do not own the rights to this music or recording. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.
Here’s a great compilation disk to kick off the new year and season. It’s one of my dad’s favorite trumpet players who is famous for playing my dad’s favorite kind of music. Dixieland. In fact, Al is known as the king.
But he also played some straightforward instrumentals that the critics complained about. Not only will you hear some of both those styles on this best of album, you get to hear him with a full orchestra and one of the most famous sex symbols and actresses of the 1960s and beyond.
So get ready to hear a musician hailed as a one-man trumpet section in Volume 158: Hirt So Good.
Promised link to Al Hirt's Obit in the Guardian.
Credits and copyrights
Al Hirt – The Best Of Al Hirt
Label: RCA Victor – LPM-3309
Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Reissue, Mono, Indianapolis Pressing
Released: 1965
Genre: Jazz
Style: Dixieland
Conductor [Orchestras And Choruses] – Billy May, Henri René, Marty Paich
8 of the 12 songs on the album.
Java
Written-By – Allen Toussaint, Alvin Tyle, and Freddy Friday
taken from the album Honey in the Horn released in 1963.
Of the 21 times Al Hirt was nominated for a Grammy Award, this was his only winner, bringing home the gramophone shaped trophy in 1964.
Stranger In Paradise from the Broadway musical "Kismet."
Written-By – George Forrest and Robert Wright
taken from the album Trumpet and Strings released in 1962
The Best Man - Another trumpet player and his singing
Arranged By, Conductor – Marty Paich
Vocals – Al Hirt and Ann-Margret
Written-By – Fred Wise, Roy Alfred
taken from the album Beauty and the Beard, an entire album he did with Ann Margret, released in 1964.
Holiday For Trumpet
Written-By – Mario Ruiz Armengol
taken from the album Horn-a-Plenty released in 1962.
I Love Paris from the musical Can Can
Written-By – Cole Porter
That was taken from the album Al (He's the King) Hirt and his Band released in 1961.
Sugar Lips
Written-By – Billy Sherrill, Buddy Killen
taken from the album Sugar Lips released in 1964.
Cotton Candy
Written-By – Russ Damon
taken from the album Cotton Candy released in 1964.
Bourbon Street Parade
Written-By – Paul Barbarin
from the album Al Hirt at the Mardi Gras released in 1962.
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.
Happy New Year's Eve! When some of us think about our earliest memories of watching New Year’s Eve on TV, we’ll remember long before Ryan Seacrest and even before Dick Clark. This Guy, who brought the New York City ballroom celebration into our living rooms every year, goes back to even before this holiday was celebrated live on television. He formed the band during 1924 in his hometown of London, Ontario, Canada and sold more than 100 million records. Maybe as many as 300 million. So get ready to hear The Sweetest music this side of heaven, with a little sweet champagne to go with it, in Volume 157: 50 Years of Lombardo. Credits and copyrights Guy Lombardo – 50th Anniversary AlbumLabel: Suffolk Marketing, Inc. – SMI-1-8MFormat: Vinyl, LP, Album, Compilation, MonoReleased: 1977Genre: Jazz, PopStyle: Big Band, Easy Listening We will hear 8 of the 20 songs on the album. Boo HooWritten by Edward Heyman, John Jacob Loeb, Carmen Lombardo Humoresquewritten by Howard Johnson, Hugo Frey, and Antonín Dvořák Tales from the Vienna Woodswritten by Johann Strauss Best Things In Life Are Freewritten by Ray Henderson, B.G. DeSylva, and Lew Brown The Band Played On written by John F. Palmer, and Charles B. Ward Harbor Lights with Vocal Chorus by Kenny Gardnerwritten by Jimmy Kennedy, and Hugh Williams Third Man Themewritten and performed by Anton Karas MedleyMoonlight & Roseswritten by Charles N. Daniels, Ben Black, Edwin LemareFar Away Placewritten by Alex Kramer, Joan WhitneyAuld Lang SyneTraditional 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.
Here's a disk that was in the record player stack every December. It was definitely played during Christmas eve and day...a lot! You can tell by the shape it's in.
This is one of 12 records by this artist and one of a large list of Christmas Recordings from my dad’s collection. And it once again includes my dad’s favorite trumpet player SINGING a song.
So get ready to feel that south of the border holiday spirit with Volume 156: Christmas Herb.
Credits and copyrights
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass – Christmas Album
Label: A&M Records – SP 4166
Format Vinyl, LP, Stereo
Released: 1968
Genre: Jazz
Style: Latin Jazz, Holiday, Easy Listening
Voices and Strings arranged by Shorty Rogers.
Art Direction – Tom Wilkes
Engineer – Larry Levine
Photography By – Guy Webster
Producer – Jerry Moss
Producer, Arranged By – Herb Alpert
Recorded At – A&M Studios
Winter Wonderland
Written-By – Dick Smith and Felix Bernard
Jingle Bells
Arranged By – Herb Alpert and John Pisano
Sleigh Ride
Written-By – Leroy Anders and Mitchell Parish
The Christmas Song
Written-By – Mel Torme and Robert Wells
Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow
Written-By – Jule Stein and Sammy Cahn
Jingle Bell Rock
Written-By – Jim Boothe and Joe Beal
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.
Even though he was mostly into early jazz and pop, my dad liked his cowboy music too. And he bought a great collection in a 7-record box set. We’ve already featured two of those records in previous episodes. This record features a lot of music you have probably heard over the years yourself, but most likely by other bands. In fact, the eight songs you’ll hear have been recorded more than a thousand times combined. But you may have to check my math.
So get ready to hear what is really Tumbling Tumbleweeds part 3 in Volume 155: Western Favorites.
Credits and copyrights
Various – Tumbling Tumbleweeds
Label: Reader's Digest – RDA-229 / A
Format: 7 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation Box Set
Released: 1982
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Country
The Sons Of The Pioneers–(Ghost) Riders In The Sky
written by Stan Jones
The Sons Of The Pioneers–Ragtime Cowboy Joe
written by Grant Clarke, Lewis F. Muir, Maurice Abrahams
The Sons Of The Pioneers–Don't Fence Me In
written by Cole Porter, Bob Fletcher
Al Dexter–Pistol Packin' Mama
written by Al Dexter
Slim Whitman–Rhinestone Cowboy
written by Larry Weiss
Tennessee Ernie Ford–Mule Train
written by Hy Heath, Johnny Lange, Fred Glickman
Bing Crosby, Jimmy Dorsey– I'm An Old Cowhand
written by Johnny Mercer
Bing Crosby–Sioux City Sue
written by Max Freedman, Dick Thomas
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.
Here’s another great compilation album from my father’s collection. It’s filled with music from some pretty big names in the music world. And every tune swings…hard. There is some serious 1950s grooving going on within these recordings. And it was put together to promote pens. And not the ballpoint kind.
So, get ready to hear some of the most uptempo music you’ll find on this show with Volume 154: Swingin' Sounds.
Credits and copyrights
Various – Swingin' Sound!
Label: Columbia Special Products – XTV-8229 and 30 (each side has a number)
Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Limited Edition, Stereo
Nobody seems to know when this ablum was released, it's not even listed on the CSP discography with a date, but I'm going with about 1961 or 62.
Genre: Jazz, Classical
Dave Brubeck - I'm in a Dancing Mood
written by Al Hoffman, Al Goodhart, and Maurice Sigler
recorded at Newport Jazz Festival July 6, 1956.
Duke Ellington - Perdido
written by Juan Tizol
First recorded on January 21, 1942. Ellington went on to record this song many times and I'm not sure when the version you just heard was recorded.
Buddy Greco - The Lady Is A Tramp
written by Richard Rodgers, and Lorenz Hart
recorded at Le Bistro, on Rush Street in Chicago some time in 1959.
André Previn, His Piano And Orchestra - Like Love
written by André Previn, and Dory Previn
Released in 1960
Lambert, Hendricks & Ross - Cloudburst
written by Jon Hendricks, Leroy Kirkland, and Jimmy Harris
Dave Lambert, Jon Hendricks and Annie Ross Recorded that in 1959
The Dave Brubeck Quartet With Carmen McRae - Paradiddle Joe
Written by John Morris
Recorded in New York City on September 9, 1960
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.
Here’s a fun find from my father’s LPs and an artist that we have not gotten to yet despite my dad having a couple records from him. He’s a piano player you might not have heard of, but you’ve probably heard in many famous recordings, including Elvis’ Heartbreak Hotel. He has also covered many hits and made hits for himself. All in his slip-note style. And he liked recording TV themes, as you’ll hear on this album.
So, get ready to hear the young generation, cuz they’ve got something to say in Volume 153: Cramer's Monkees.
Credits and copyrights
Floyd Cramer – Floyd Cramer Plays The Monkees
Label: RCA Victor – LPM-3811
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Dynagroove
Released: 1967
Genre: Pop
Style: Pop Rock, Country
(Theme From) The Monkees
Written-By – Tommy Boyce-Bobby Hart
I'm A Believer
Written-By – Neil Diamond
A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You
Written-By – Neil Diamond
Last Train To Clarksville
Written-By – Tommy Boyce-Bobby Hart
Tomorrow's Gonna Be Another Day
Written-By – Steve Venet, Tommy Boyce
Papa Gene's Blues
Written-By – Michael Nesmith
(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone
Written-By – Tommy Boyce-Bobby 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.
Normally when I see that an album has been released by the Longines Symphonette Society, I’m a little leary about what’s actually on it. I’ve been burned before. For example, the Longines album in episode 30 with Bing Crosby featured on the front cover was just some of his favorite recordings, not necessarily him.
After carefully researching the music on this record, I think I have found a gem. It’s the King of Swing before he BECAME the famous bandleader he became.
So, get ready to hear some influential musicians who recorded together more than 90 years ago in Volume 152 Goodman's Greats.
Credits and copyrights
Benny Goodman – King Of Swing With The All-Time "Greats"
Label: Longines Symphonette Society – LWS 267
Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation
Released:
Genre: Jazz
Style: Swing
That's A-Plenty
Written by Lew Pollack
Indiana (Back Home Again In Indiana)
Written by Lew Pollack
Dinah
Written-By – Harry Akst, Joe Young, and Sam Lewis
Someday, Sweetheart
written by Benjamin F. Spikes, John C. Spikes
Wolverine Blues
written by Jelly Roll Morton, Benjamin F. Spikes, John C. Spikes
Muskrat Ramble
written by Kid Ory
Farewell Blues
written by Elmer Schoebel, Paul Mares, Leon Roppolo
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.
It was 60 years ago today, at 12:30 PM local Dallas Time that those terrible shots rang out. I was only 16 months old when it happened.
Welcome to a special extra episode of Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl. My dad’s collection is known for its extensive and eclectic mix of music and other albums. This is one of those Other Albums.
My dad was a big enough fan of the 35th president of the United States that he had two memorial records in his collection. I already featured the other one on President’s Day 2021 in Volume 8: JFK The Presidential Years. This one is really special. And I will be playing it in its entirety.
This recording is a memorial tribute produced and broadcast by radio station WMCA, New York on Friday November 22, 1963. Just hours after John F. Kennedy’s assassination. You will hear highlights of speeches made by JFK, including his entire inaugural address. The broadcast was narrated by Ed Brown. It was written by Martin Plissner. Produced by M.L. Oberstein, and directed by Roger Turner, the director of news and public Affairs. The recorded speech material is from the files of Radio Press International.
So get ready to hear one of the greatest orators and politicians of our time, only to have his time with us ended early in A Special Extra Volume: 60 Years Since JFK’s Assassination.
Credits and copyrights
John Fitzgerald Kennedy – A Memorial Album
Label: Premier – 2099
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Released: 1963
Genre: Non-Music
Style: Speech, Spoken Word
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.
We slide now quite nicely into the first 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 151: Birdland Stars Tour 1.
Promised link about Birdland Jazz Club.
Credits and copyrights
The Birdland Stars – The Birdland Stars On Tour Vol. 1
Label: RCA Victor – LPM-1327
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
Released: 1956
Genre: Jazz
Style: Hard Bop
Alto Saxophone – Phil Woods
Bass – John Simmons
Drums – Kenny Clarke
Piano – Hank Jones
Tenor Saxophone – Al Cohn
Trumpet – Conte Candoli, Kenny Dorham
Recorded February 27, 1956, Webster Hall, New York
A Bit Of The Blues
Minorin' The Blues
Phil 'Er Up
Last Lap
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.
This is a special milestone episode.
It's November 2023. Four years since my dad said, “here, have all my records to do with them what you want,” and four years minus a month since he died.
It was a couple of months after that when I came up with the idea for this show to share this wonderful collection rather than sell it.
We are now at episode 150!
Along the way on this musical journey through my dad’s records, I have kept the number of songs and the total length of each episode down to a reasonable number and time. However, that means I had to leave plenty of great music unplayed. This episode will only partially fix that, but I know I’ll feel better about sharing some of this extra music.
So get ready to hear twelve tunes from albums I’ve already featured on this show with Volume 150: Songs I Didn't Get To.
Credits and copyrights
Pee Wee Hunt - On Wisconsin.
Written-By – Carl Beck, W. T. Purdy
Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass - Walk, Don’t Run
Written by Johnny Smith
Lou Monte - Calypso Italiano
Written-By – Lou Monte, Wandra Merrell
Dizzy Gillespie - My Man
Written by Maurice Yvain
Max Roach Septet - Orientation
Written by Hank Mobley
Duke Ellington Orchestra - Black and Tan Fantasy
Written by Duke Ellington and Bubber Miley
Henry Mancini - Alright, Okay, You Win
Written by Sid Wyche
Roy Merriweather Trio - Call Me Irresponsible
Written by Jimmy Van Heusen
Tommy Dorsey And His Orchestra - On The Sunny Side Of The Street
Written by Jimmy Fields and Dorothy McHugh
Al Hirt - I'm On My Way
Traditional
Oscar Pettiford and Billy Taylor - Oriental Cello Blues
Unkown Composer
Sammy Davis Junior - You've Made Me So Very Happy.
Written by Brenda Holloway, Patrice Holloway, Frank Wilson and Berry Gordy
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.
My dad did try to connect us to all sorts of music through his record collection. I have a separate pile of records filled with just music for children. I've mentioned the Teddy Bears Picnic album in a previous show.
But my parents made sure we weren't only listening to the classic children's tunes, they made sure we knew what real classical music was. And they bought records like this one that helped make that connection at a young age.
So get ready for a musical journey spanning more than two centuries as the young ones are introduced to some great composers in Volume 149: Classics for Kids.
Credits and copyrights
Mitch Miller & His Orchestra - A Child's Introduction To Great Composers
Label: Golden Records (2) – A198:4
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Released: 1956
Genre: Classical, Children's
Style: Classical, Romantic, Educational, Opera, Modern
Gavotte
Composed in 1730 By – Johann Sebastian Bach
Finale From Symphony No. 88
Composed in 1787 By – Franz Joseph Haydn
Turkish Rondo From Piano Sonata In A Major
Composed in 1783 By – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Dance Of The Clowns From A Midsummer Night's Dream
Composed in 1826 By – Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
The Minute Waltz
Composed in 1847 By – Frédéric Chopin
The Happy Farmer From Album For The Young
Composed in 1848 By – Robert Schumann
Hungarian Dance No. 5
Composed in 1869 By – Johannes Brahms
Children's Dances From Hansel And Gretel
Composed in 1893 By – Engelbert Humperdinck
Rumanian Dance
Composed in 1915 By – Béla Bartók
March From Peter And The Wolf
Composed in 1936 By – Sergei Prokofiev
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.
Once again we reach into my dad’s stack of shellac records where we pull out another big name among the early record labels…Decca. It’s a label that saw its share of some of the biggest names in the recording industry. Several you have heard on this show.
And if you’re watching the video version, you’ll see that I pulled out my old timey RCA Ribbon mic. I thought it would give this show extra atmosphere.
So get ready to hear an array of artists all recorded during the 1940s in Volume 148: 8 Sides From Decca.
Credits and copyrights
Wedding Bells - Four Aces
(Are Breaking up the Old Gang of Mine)
With Chorus and Orchestra Directed by Jack Plies
Written by Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal, and Willie Raskin
Released April 1954
Three Coins in the Fountain - Four Aces Featuring Al Alberts
From the 20th Century Fox film of the same name.
With Chorus and Orchestra Directed by Jack Plies
Written by Juli Styne and Sammy Cahn
Released April 1954
Sabre Dance - Victor Young and his Concert Orchestra
From Cayne Ballet Suite.
Written by Aram Khachaturian
Released in July 1943
For Whom The Bell Tolls - Victor Young and his Concert Orchestra
The Massacre and Love Them from the Paramount Picture of the same name.
Written by Victor Young
Released in July 1943
Jolly Fella Tarantella - The Andrews Sisters, backed by Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians
The Organ Grinder's Song
Written by Dick Manning
recorded on July 19, 1949
Stars are the Windows of Heaven - The Andrews Sisters, backed by Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians
Written by Tommy Malie and Jimmy Steiger.
recorded on July 19, 1949
The Matador - Carmen Miranda with the Andrews Sisters with Vic Shoen and His Orchestra
Written by Joao DeBarro, Alberto Ribeiro, Ray Gilbert and Bob Russell
Released in September 1948
Cuanto La Gusta - Carmen Miranda with the Andrews Sisters with Vic Shoen and His Orchestra
From the MGM Picture a Date With Judy.
Written by Gabriel Ruiz and Ray Gilbert
Released in September 1948
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.
Music has always been important and supported in the region where I grew up. The local county community college has been the focus of many concerts, both that I’ve observed and participated in, over the years. And their musical legacy goes back a long way. This album is a great example of what happens when there is civic pride in the talented music makers of the area. And the sponsor of this record has a special place in my and my family’s history.
So through the concern and courtesy of Lakeland Community College and Citizens Savings and Loan Company in Painesville, get ready to hear your friends and neighbors from northeast Ohio in concert in Volume 147: Lakeland Music.
Credits and copyrights
Various – Lakeland Here's The Music
Label: Century Advent Recording – Stereo 5810
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
Released: 1973
Genre: Jazz, Classical
Style: Modal, Big Band, Swing, Choral
Lakeland Civic Orchestra
Jacques Offenbach–Selections from the Overture to "Orpheus in Hades" (Can Can)
Arthur Herzog, Jr. and Billie Holiday – God Bless The Child
Arranged By – Anita Kerr
Lakeland Civic Jazz Forum
George Gershwin – Strike Up The Band
Arranged By – Sarge Parsons
Lakeland Civic Jazz Forum
Frank White Meacham – American Patrol
Arranged By – Bob Bunton
Lakeland Civic Orchestra
George Gershwin– Selections from "Porgy and Bess"
Lakeland Civic Chorus
Duke Ellington–Mood Indigo
Lakeland Civic Chorus
Josef Myrow– You Make Me Feel So Young
Ray Conniff inspired Arrangement By – Clay Warnick
Lakeland Civic Jazz Forum
Jerry Bock – Selections from "Fiddler on The Roof"
Arranged By – Roy Phillippe
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.
This is a great compilation album of jazz artists who all recorded for Roost Records. These are some major stars that appeared on a minor label. And once I try to figure out what the characters are doing on the album cover, I’ll try to explain it to you.
So get ready to hear some memorable musicians in their own version of an O.R. in Volume 146: Operation Jazz.
Credits and copyrights
Various – Operation Jazz
Label: Royal Roost – OJ1, Royal Roost – OJ-1
Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Mono
Country: USA & Canada
Released: 1958 according to the etchings on the runout.
Genre: Jazz
Style: Bop, Hard Bop, Afro-Cuban Jazz, Post Bop
Stan Getz, Horace Silver with Potter's Luck
Written by Horace Silver
Recorded New York, March 1 or August 15, 1951
Stan Getz, tenor sax; Horace Silver, piano; Tommy Potter, bass; Roy Haynes, drums; Jimmy Raney, guitar
Kai Winding, Gerry Mulligan with Crossing The Channel
Written by Kai Winding
Kai Winding (tb), Brew Moore (ts), Gerry Mulligan (bs), George Wallington (p), Curley Russell (b), Max Roach (d).
Recorded in New York City, April 1949
Art Tatum with Flyin' Home
Written by Sid Robin, Lionel Hampton and Benny Goodman
Bud Powell, Max Roach with Bud's Bubble
Written by Bud Powell
NYC, January 10, 1947
Bass – Curly Russel*
Drums – Max Roach
Piano – Bud Powell
Dizzy Gillespie with Chris And Diz
Written by Dizzy Gillespie
Machito & His Afro-Cubans, Harry Belafonte Lean On Me
written by Alan Greene & Edwin Haldman
Recorded in 1949
Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Jay Johnson with Air Conditioning
Written By Charlie Parker
Miles Davis, trumpet; J.J. Johnson, trombone; Charlie Parker, alto sax; Duke Jordan, piano; Tommy Potter, bass; Max Roach, drums.
WOR Studios, NYC, December 17, 1947
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.
One of the unique aspects of my dad’s collection is how many historically significant records he has in it. In this episode, we feature an example of this. This comedian, and this album, were the first to win a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Performance - Spoken, when the Academy first introduced that category in 1959.
So, get ready for a man on a stool who often pretended he was on the phone in Volume 145: Inside Shelley Berman.
Credits and copyrights
Shelley Berman – Inside Shelley Berman
Label: Verve Records – MG V-15003
Series: Celebrity Series (2)
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
Country: US
Genre: Non-Music
Style: Comedy
Buttermilk, Zen, Nostalgia
Flying (in 2 parts)
Phoning A Department Store About A Woman On A Ledge
Phone Call With A Small Child
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.
This is a special edition. Its timing only has a little to do with the fact that it’s the beginning of Halloween season around here.
The musicians you will hear have all been heard in previous episodes of this show. A few of them might have played together at one time or another. None of these songs are found on the same album. But the artists have one thing in common. All of their final resting places are in the same cemetery.
So, get ready to hear music from the grave somewhere in the Bronx with Volume 144: Where Jazz is Buried - Woodlawn.
Credits and copyrights
Miles Davis
If I were a Bell from Swingin' Sound!
Lionel Hampton
Sweethearts On Parade from The Original Big Band Hits, Vol. 1
Max Roach
Orientation from Modern Jazz - Hall Of Fame Volume 1
Coleman Hawkins
I Mean You from Franklin Mint Jazz Masters Of The Sax
Jonah Jones
Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone from Trumpet on Tour
King Oliver & His Dixie Syncopators
Aunt Hagar's Blues from Franklin Mint Kings Of New Orleans Jazz
Duke Ellington
Take the A Train from Dance To The Themes Of The Greatest Bands
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.
Of course my dad loved his opera. What music collection in any Italian household was without some of the world’s finest music.
Several of the songs on this album had special meaning for my parents. It’s music from a singer they saw at least once in concert. He held a special place in both their hearts as one who could deliver Italian music at its purest.
So, get ready to hear one of the best to ever sing music from this region of Italy in Volume 143: Neapolitan Pavarotti.
Credits and copyrights
Luciano Pavarotti – O Sole Mio Favorite Neapolitan Songs
Label: London Records – OS26560, London Records – OS 26560
Format: Vinyl, LP, Club Edition
Released: 1979
Genre: Classical
Style: Opera, Romantic
'O Sole Mio
Written-By – Eduardo Di Capua, Edward Teschemacher
Torna A Surriento
Written-By – Ernesto de Curtis, Giambattista De Curtis
'O Surdato 'Nnammurato
Written-By – Aniello Califano, Enrico Cannio
'O Marenariello
Written-By – Gennaro Ottoviano, Salvatore Gambardella
Maria Mari'
Written-By – Eduardo Di Capua, Vincenzo Russo
Funiculì Funiculà
Written-By – Giuseppe Turco, Luigi Denza
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.
Here’s another gem of a find from my dad’s collection. Not only is the album cover attention grabbing with five stuffed TIGERS playing various instruments. But how they’re the wrong animals according to the album title. Faulty album cover aside, this is true roots of dixieland music with a twist.
So get ready for a Sousa good time with Volume 142: Parading Bobcats.
Credits and copyrights
Bob Crosby And His Orchestra – Bobcats On Parade
Label: Coral – CRL 57061
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Released: 1957
Genre: Jazz
Style: Big Band
Washington Post March
Written by John Philip Sousa
King Cotton
Written by John Philip Sousa
Bobcats On Parade
written by George Cates and Sonny Burke
The Thunderer
Written by John Philip Sousa
High School Cadets
Written by John Philip Sousa
Semper Fidelis March
Written by John Philip Sousa
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.
This is the third of eight records my dad had of this orchestra leader. He was an innovator who used the voice as an instrument, not as a vocalist. The previous episode we featured Ray on is my most viewed on YouTube…by a lot! Let’s hope this one gets past the copyright police unlike the first time I featured this artist.
So get ready to hear a multi-million selling recording musical style in Volume 141: Conniff Memories.
Credits and copyrights
Ray Conniff And His Orchestra & Chorus – Memories Are Made Of This
Label: Columbia – CL 1574
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
Released: 1960
Genre: Jazz
Style: Big Band, Easy Listening
Memories Are Made Of This
Written by Richard Dehr, Frank Miller, Terry Gilkyson
Young Love
written by Carole Joyner, Ric Cartey
Love Letters In The Sand
Music written by J. Fred Coots
Three Coins In The Fountain
written by Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne
Unchained Melody
written by Hy Zaret, Alex North
Love Me Tender
written by Elvis Presley, Ken Darby, George Poulton, W.W. Fosdick
No Other Love
written by Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers
Boy, we play a lot of their music on this show.
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.
Here’s another album in my dad’s collection that featured a group of jazz musicians recording an album before playing the same music on live TV days later. This time, the live TV show was a drama about a jazz trumpet player in the 1920s. Several of the musicians you’ll hear had speaking parts in the show as well as playing some great music.
So get ready to hear Ruby Braff as Spencer Lee playing mostly jazz standards in Volume 140: The Magic Horn.
Credits and copyrights
George Wein's Dixie-Victors Featuring Ruby Braff – The Magic Horn
Label: RCA Victor – LPM-1332
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
Released: 1956
Genre: Jazz, Stage & Screen
Style: Dixieland
We will hear 6 of the 9 tunes on this record.
Banjo – Danny Barker
Baritone Saxophone – Ernie Caceres
Bass – Milt Hinton
Clarinet – Bill Stegmeyer, Peanuts Hucko
Drums – Buzzy Drootin
Piano, Creative Director [Musical Director] – George Wein
Trombone – Vic Dickenson
Trumpet – Jimmy McPartland, Ruby Braff
Struttin' With Some Barbecue
Written By – Louis Armstrong
The Magic Horn
Written By – Ben Ross
Loveless Love
Written By – W. C. Handy
A Monday Date
Written By – Carl Hines, Sid Robinc
On The Sunny Side Of The Street
Written By – Jimmy McHugh & Dorothy Fields
Dippermouth Blues
Written By – Joe Oliver, Louis Armstrong
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.
While my dad had a handful of polka records, I had at least heard of the songs and musicians on them. Not this one. In fact, I’ll have to use the album cover to…uh…cover the info I usually do on each episode. The internet not only had no idea who the band leader was, but had no idea who wrote any of the music. That doesn’t matter. This music always means there’s fun to be had.
So get ready to hear music that had its origins more than a century and a half ago in Volume 139: Party Polkas.
Credits and copyrights
Wally Mateck & His Polka Faces – Polkas For Parties Label: Design Records (2) – DLP 34 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono Country: US Released: 1957 Genre: Folk, World, & Country Style: Polka
Cover photo by Ed Moore
Coalbucket Polka Kapoosta Polka Pretty Polly Polka Mama Daddy Polka Pittsburg Polka Dapper Dan Polka Block Party Polka Sligo Rock Polka
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.
Latin jazz, especially Cuban music, was wildly popular in the 1950s and my dad’s collection has plenty of examples of that. That popularity is partly because of the artist you are about to hear. He’s really known for his mambo recordings. This style of music is just a slower tempo. But not much slower.
So, get ready to hear The King of Latin Jazz in Volume 138: Cha Cha With Tito.
Credits and copyrights
Tito Puente And His Orchestra – Let's Cha Cha With Tito Puente And His Orchestra Label: RCA Victor – LPM-1392 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Indianapolis Pressing Released: 1957 Genre: Latin Style: Cha-Cha, Guajira
We will hear 6 of the 12 songs from the album.
Lindo Cha-Cha Written by Tito Puente
Let's Cha-Cha Written by Ray Coen
Habanero Written by Ray Coen
Just For You Written by Johnny Conquet
Cha-Cha Fiesta Written by Johnny Conquet
Cubarama Written by Tito Puente
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.
We pull out the second of five records my dad has from this artist. His career started in the late 1930s and spanned almost three decades where he found success and recorded over 100 songs that became hits on the pop charts. So get ready for him to meander through some older hits in Volume 137: Nat is Ramblin'.
Credits and copyrights
Nat King Cole – Ramblin' Rose Label: Capitol Records – T 1793 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Scranton Pressing Released: 1962 Genre: Pop, Folk, World, & Country Style: Easy Listening, Country
It was also available in stereo.
We'll hear 8 of the 12 songs on this record.
Ramblin' Rose Written-By – Joe Sherman, Noel Sherman
Wolverton Mountain Written-By – Claude King, Merle Kilgore
He'll Have To Go Written-By – Audrey Allison, Joe Allison
When You're Smiling Written-By – Joe Goodwin, Larry Shay, and Mark Fisher
Goodnight, Irene, Goodnight Written-By – Huddie Ledbetter, John A. Lomax
Your Cheatin' Heart Written-By – Hank Williams
Skip To My Lou Arranged By – Edith Bergdahl, Nat King Cole Written-By – Traditional
The Good Times Written-By – Lee Porter, Ron Miller
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.
Here’s an album I used to steal so much from my dad’s collection I thought it actually might be mine when I went through his records. This entertainer had an unmistakable voice, an unmistakable style, AND unmistakable cool. He seemed to always sing the most recognizable version of most of the standards. And he only ever needed one name to introduce him. So get ready to hear from who I think is the most outstanding showman of all time in Volume 136: Sammy Record 1.
Promised link: Highway Of Agony: How Traffic Safety Films Introduced Millions Of Kids To Scenes Of Real Death
Credits and copyrights
Sammy Davis, Jr. – Sammy Label: Sessions (2) – ARI-1001 Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation Released: 1976 Genre: Jazz, Pop Style: Vocal, Swing
What The World Needs Now written by Burt Bacharach, Hal David
Mr Bojangles written by Jerry Jeff Walker
Singin' In The Rain Written by Nacio Herb Brown, Arthur Freed
What Kind Of Fool Am I Written by Leslie Bricusse / Anthony Newley
Talk To The Animals written by Leslie Bricusse
For Once In My Life written by Ron Miller and Orlando Murden
I've Got You Under My Skin written by Cole Porter
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.
The team of Rodgers and Hammerstein was a multiple award-winning and highly influential broadway show writing duo. They also weren't afraid of touching on controversial subjects in their shows. The show we will be hearing music from started as a book, became a highly successful broadway show, then an award-winning movie. So, get ready to hear cuts from one of the two copies my dad had of this soundtrack with Volume 135: South Pacific.
http://www.ogunquitplayhouse.org/2012-south-pacific-about
Credits and copyrights
Rodgers & Hammerstein – South Pacific Label: RCA Victor – LOCD-2000 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Gatefold Released: 1958 Genre: Stage & Screen Style: Soundtrack
Deluxe edition. Gatefold sleeve with booklet of film stills. Front cover is textured with raised "lei" of flowers. Leather library-style binding at spine. Gold print on spine.
The album became a major success, reaching No.1 in both the US and UK. In the US, the album stayed at No.1 on the Billboard 200 for seven months, the fourth longest run ever. The album remained in the top five of the UK Albums Chart for 27 consecutive weeks before reaching No.1 in November 1958. It stayed at the top for a record-breaking 115 weeks and remained in the top five for 214 weeks.
South Pacific Overture
A Cock-Eyed Optimist Performer, Vocals [Nellie Forbush] – Mitzi Gaynor
Some Enchanted Evening Performer, Vocals [Emile De Becque] – Giorgio Tozzi
Bali Ha'i Chorus – The Ken Darby Singers Performer, Vocals [Bloody Mary, Uncredited] – Muriel Smith
I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair Chorus – The Ken Darby Singers Performer, Vocals [Nellie Forbush] – Mitzi Gaynor
I'm In Love With A Wonderful Guy Chorus – The Ken Darby Singers Performer, Vocals [Nellie Forbush] – Mitzi Gaynor
Carefully Taught Performer, Vocals [Lt. Cable, Uncredited] – Bill Lee (4)
Younger Than Springtime Performer, Vocals [Lt. Cable, Uncredited] – Bill Lee (4)
Finale Performer, Vocals [Children] – Unknown Artist Performer, Vocals [Emile De Becque] – Giorgio Tozzi Performer, Vocals [Nellie Forbush] – Mitzi Gaynor
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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After this episode we will be two thirds of the way through a great Jack Benny hosted box set from my dad’s collection. The six records of the set had Benny reminiscing about the era when most families were crowded around their radios instead of their television sets for their news and entertainment. This record had the same subjects on both sides as episode 92 of this show.
So get ready for a severe contrast as we hear radio broadcasts about our country at war and the radio comedians who kept us laughing during it with Volume 134: Golden Memories of Radio Part 4.
Credits and copyrights
Jack Benny – Golden Memories Of Radio Label: Longines Symphonette Society – none Format: 6 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Mono, Box Set Country: US Released: 1969 Genre: Non-Music Style: Radioplay
Radio comedians: Lum 'N Abner Fanny Brice As Baby Snooks Bob Hope Fred Allen With Jack Benny Mel Blanc As "The Maxwell Car"
Broadcasts from World War II Pearl Harbor Bulletin Manila Bombing FDR "Day Of Infamy" Last Broadcast From Corregidor Interview With Radio Operator
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.
We break out another of my dad's favorite musicians, but he's not a trumpet player. He does however play the style of music that is a big portion of my dad's collection...Dixieland. While this album was released 57 years ago, all of the music on it was written over 100 years ago. In fact four of the songs on this episode were written in the 19th century. So get ready for some old traditional music in true New Orleans fashion with Volume 133: The Village Fountain.
Promised links
Pete Fountain at New Orleans Jazz Fest Pete Fountain NY Times Obituary
Credits and copyrights
Pete Fountain – Pete Fountain & The Village Scramblers (Jazz) Label: Crown Records (2) – CLP 5478 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono Released: 1966 Genre: Jazz Style: Dixieland
We will hear 6 of the 10 songs on the album.
Dixieland One Step Written by Nick LaRocca, Eddie Edwards, Larry Shields, Henry Ragas, and Tony Sbarbaro in 1917 All the members of the Original Dixieland Jass Band
There Is A Tavern In The Town a traditional folk song, which first appeared in the 1883 edition of William H. Hill's Student Songs.
Washington And Lee Swing written by Mark W. Sheafe, Tod Robbins, Thornton W. Allen in 1910
Battle Hymn Of The Republic written by William Steffe in 1856
My Wild Irish Rose written by Chauncey Olcott in 1899
When The Saints Go Marchin' In written by James Milton Black, Katharine Purvis in 1896
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.
Here’s an interesting combination from my dad’s shellac disks from RCA Victor Records. He had several albums made FOR children and several that seem like they were made BY children. Four sides you’ll hear is a familiar story of encouragement, determination and pride. The other four sides are pure musical comedy by the master of the art.
So get ready to put these eight sides together in one show with Volume 132: A 78 RPM Railroad Spike.
Credits and copyrights
Paul Wing / Henri René / Norman Leyden – The Little Engine That Could Label: RCA Victor – Y 384, RCA Victor – 45-5251, RCA Victor – 45-5252 Series: Little Nipper Series Format: 2 x Vinyl, 10", 78 RPM, Album Released: 1949 Genre: Stage & Screen
Conductor – Henri René Music By – Norman Leyden Narrator – Paul Wing Orchestra – Frank Milano
Spike Jones And His City Slickers – Musical Depreciation Label: RCA Victor – none Format:5 x Shellac, 10", 78 RPM, Album Released: Genre: Pop Style: Novelty, Parody The Album is generic. Customers could buy the album, and any Spike Jones records available at the time to put in the album.
Chloe written by Gus Kahn and Neil Moret Released in March 1945
Hawaiian War Chant Lyrics written by Ralph Freed Originally written by Johnny Noble, Prince Leleiohoku Released in June 1946
Little Engine that Could pts 1-4 based on the book published in 1930 by Platt & Munk
Our Hour (The Puppy Love Song) Cover of song originally by: The Modernaires Written-By – Al Hoffman, Jerry Livingston, and Mack David Recorded July 15, 1947
Spike Jones And His City Slickers Old MacDonald A traditional song...meaning nobody knows who wrote it. Released April 1946
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.
They were television shows filled with suspense, intrigue, and excitement, and their theme songs had to represent that feeling. Some of those tunes became top 40 radio hits, which meant we heard them more than once a week. So get ready for music that may have had you sit up and pay closer attention with Volume 131: The TV Detectives.
Credits and copyrights
The Johnny Gregory Orchestra – TV's Greatest Detective Hits Label: Compleat Records – 671019-1 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Released: 1986 Genre: Jazz, Stage & Screen Style: Theme
The Rockford Files Written-By – Michael Post and Pete Carpenter
Kojak Written-By – Billy Goldenberg
McMillan & Wife Written-By – Jerry Fielding
Police Woman Written-By – Morton Stevens
77 Sunset Strip Written-By – Jerry Livingston and Mack David
The Six Million Dollar Man Written-By – Oliver Nelson
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.
This crooner is the most successful charting music artist in history. He was in films and on TV and radio. He helped finance the development of videotape, bought television stations, bred racehorses, and co-owned the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team, during which time they won two World Series. But, boy could he sing.
So get ready for a billion selling voice in Volume 130: Bing's Hit Parade.
Credits and copyrights
Bing Crosby – Bing Crosby's All Time Hit Parade Label: Longines Symphonette Society – LWS 349 Format: Vinyl, LP Released: 1970 Genre: Pop
Where The Blue Of The Night written by Fred E. Ahlert, Bing Crosby and Roy Turk Released on Brunswick records December 1931 reached #4 on the Billboard pop singles chart in 1932.
June In January written by Leo Robin, Ralph Rainger Performed in the movie Here Is My Heart released on December 22, 1934 Reached #9 on the Billboard pop singles chart in 1934
Just One More Chance from the movie of the same name (bublabloo) written by Sam Coslow, Arthur Johnston recorded on May 4, 1931, Released on Brunswick records which topped the various charts of the day in 1931.
Let Me Call You Sweetheart written by Beth Slater Whitson, Leo Friedman recorded on August 8, 1934 and released on Decca records
Moonlight Becomes You written by Johnny Burke and Jimmy Van Heusen Featured in the movie Road to Morocco released November 10, 1942 This topped the Billboard charts in 1942 and spent a total of 17 weeks in the lists.
Goodnight Sweetheart Written by Jimmy Campbell, Reg Connelly, and Ray Noble Released on Brunswick records October 1931 As far as I can tell made it to the top 10 in 1931.
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.
My dad had 10 different Herb Alpert and Tijuana Brass records, several with duplicates. After this episode, we’ll have featured half of them. I guess you could say he was crazy about TJB. He played them enough that I became crazy about TJB. So, get ready for one of the bands my dad and I shared a love of in Volume 129: Brass' Beat for Father's Day.
Credits and copyrights
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass – The Beat Of The Brass Label: A&M Records – SP-4146 Format: Vinyl, LP, Stereo, Album, Terre Haute Press, Gatefold Released: 1968 Genre: Jazz, Pop Style: Easy Listening, Latin Jazz
Photography By – Guy Webster Photography By [Contributing] – Jim McCrary Because there is quite a bit of photography
Monday, Monday Written-By – John Phillips and Michell Phillips of the Mamas and Papas
Cabaret Written-By – John Kander and Fred Ebb
Talk To The Animals Written-By – Leslie Bricusse
This Guy's In Love With You Vocals – Herb Alpert Written-By – Burt Bacharach and Hal David
Slick Written-By – Herb Alpert and John Pisano The Robin Written-By – John Pisano
Thanks For The Memory Written-By – Leo Robin and Ralph Rainger and of course made famous by Bob Hope.
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.
Even though both my dad and I played trumpet in our respective high school bands, we had way more percussionists in the family. My brother Mike was a drummer as were all three of his sons. My sister Michelle’s son minors in percussion at Baldwin Wallace University and we’ve gone to see his ensemble perform. Which just all means, we all grew up in loud households.
So get ready to hear music led by the instrument even I learned how to play in Volume 128: Let There Be Drums.
Promised links: https://www.notsomoderndrummer.com/not-so-modern-drummer/2022/2/28/sandy-nelson-dies-at-83-let-there-be-drums https://lasvegasweekly.com/ae/music/2015/oct/01/surf-rock-giant-drummer-sandy-nelson-boulder-city/
Credits and copyrights
Sandy Nelson – Let There Be Drums Label: Imperial – LP-9159 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono Country: US, also released in Canad, the UK and Australia Released: 1961 Genre: Rock Style: Rock & Roll
Let There Be Drums Written-By – Richard Polodor and Sandy Nelson
Slippin' And Slidin' Written-By – Richard Penniman AKA Little Richard
Tequila Written-By – Chuck Rio My Girl Josephine Written-By – Dave Bartholomew and Antoine Domino, better known as Fats Domino
Big Noise From Winnetka Written-By – Bob Crosby, Bob Haggart, Gil Rodin and Ray Bauduc
Quite A Beat Written-By – Richard Polodor and Sandy Nelson Get With It Written-By – Richard Polodor
Bouncy Written-By – Sandy Nelson
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.
This June 6th would have been my parents’ 64th wedding anniversary. I’ve often said my family had its own D-day. And as I’ve mentioned before on this show, even though none of us spoke a lick of Italian, that didn’t mean we didn’t listen to the music from that country. So get ready to hear several short musical pieces that we don’t have to worry about singing since they’re all instrumentals in Volume 127: Italian Favorites.
Promised link: https://www.bsnpubs.com/philadelphia/wyncote/wyncote.html
Credits and copyrights
Various – 30 Italian Favorites
Label: Wyncote – W-9181
Format: Vinyl, LP, Mono
Country: US
Released: 1967 (and I had to find that out through research)
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
We will hear 10 of those 30 songs on this episode.
Cielito Lindo
Ciribiribin
O Mari
Funiculi Funicula
O Sole Mio
Tarantella
La Donna E Mobile
Santa Lucia
Ela Luna Mezzo Mare
Italian Street 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.
Here’s a trumpeter we heard before on this show back in the first season. He’s a lesser known musician from that era, mostly because of some of the big names he played around. But he still had what’s considered a very successful career. So get ready to hear music listed as recorded at a New York City restaurant and nightclub, yet we hear no applause in Volume 126: Live Jonah.
Credits and copyrights
The Jonah Jones Quartet – Jonah Jones At The Embers
Label: Vik – LX-1135
Format: Vinyl, LP, Mono, Reissue, Album
Released: 1958
Genre: Jazz
Style: Swing, Dixieland
The Jonah Jones Quartet
Bass – John Browne*
Drums – Harold Austin
Piano – George Rhodes
Trumpet – Jonah Jones
Liner Notes – Ben Kemper
It's All Right With Me
Written-By – Cole Porter
Learnin' The Blues
Written-By – Delores Silver
Something's Gotta Give
Written-By – Johnny Mercer
Tin Roof Blues
Written-By – Ben Pollack, George Brunies, Leon Roppolo, Mel Stitzel, and Paul Mares
Muskrat Ramble
Written-By – Edward Ory, Ray Gilbert
At Sundown
Written-By – Walter Donaldson
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.
We actually heard this band leader’s orchestra in the last episode. I guess I wasn’t paying attention when I scheduled them. But this time, there is no famous lead singer fronting these musicians. It’s all instrumental, and it’s from a popular movie musical. So get ready for Cole Porter broadway music rearranged for the big screen then rearranged for this album in Volume 125: Riddle Can Can.
Promised link: https://blog.martinoakscemeteryandcrematory.com/when-riddle-and-ronstadt-made-beautiful-music-together/
Credits and copyrights
Nelson Riddle And His Orchestra – Can Can
Label: Capitol Records – T1365
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Released: 1960
Genre: Pop, Stage & Screen
We'll hear 7 of the 12 songs on this album.
It's All Right With Me
You Do Something To Me
Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love)
Just One Of Those Things
I Love Paris
C'est Magnifique
Can Can
All music written by Cole Porter and arranged by Nelson Riddle
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.
This is the third of five albums in my dad’s collection from one of the greatest and most recognizable voices of all time. While this is my dad’s collection, Sinatra was often heard in the house while my mom was in control of the stereo. So, get ready for music only the way old blue eyes can sing it with Volume 124: Frank's All for Mother's Day.
Credits and copyrights
Frank Sinatra – All The Way
Label: Capitol Records – W 1538, Capitol Records – W-1538
Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Mono, Los Angeles Pressing
Released: 1961
Genre: Jazz, Pop
Style: Swing, Ballad, Vocal
All The Way
Written-By – James Van Heusen-Sammy Cahn
River, Stay 'Way From My Door
Written-By – Harry Woods, Mort Dixon
This Was My Love
Written-By – Jim Harbert
High Hopes
Written-By – James Van Heusen-Sammy Cahn
Recorded on May 8, 1959 at Capitol Studios in Hollywood.
Witchcraft
Written-By – Carolyn Leigh, Cy Coleman
Ol' Mac Donald
Written-By – Alan Bergman, Lew Spence, and Marilyn Keith
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.
We pull out the first of five albums my dad has of this popular pianist. His first hit is still the greatest selling piano instrumental recording of all time. He played for presidents and performed an annual marathon of requests. So get ready to hear plenty of arpeggio flourishes from the guy they called Mr. Piano in Volume 123: Roger by Request.
Credits and copyrights
Roger Williams – By Special Request
Label: Kapp Records – KS-3
Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Club Edition, Stereo
Released: 1964
Genre: Pop
Style: Easy Listening
We will hear 6 of the 12 songs on this album.
Roger's Bumble Bee
Written-By – Roger Williams based on Flight of the Bumblebee written by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
I'm going to be flying all over this album. I usually play them some sort of album listed order.
The Merry Widow Waltz
Written-By – Charles Ross Perlee, and Franz Lehár
Listen To The Mocking Bird
Music written by Richard Milburn in 1855.
Arranged By – Roger Williams
Moonlight Sonata
Written-By – Ludwig van Beethoven
O Sole Mio
Written-By – Eduardo di Capua
We are going to whirl our way out of here
Whirlaway
Written and Arranged By – Roger Williams
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.
Back to the distinct album from my dad’s collection that sticks out like a sore thumb. It’s slightly broader than normal LP records and the cover is a soft padding that holds a small booklet and five records in a spiral binding, inside a perfect binding. So get ready for two more sides filled with the music from a band leader who lost his life in the service of this country with Volume 122: Glenn Miller Collection Part 4.
Credits and copyrights
Glenn Miller And His Orchestra – Second Pressing
Label: RCA Victor – LPT 6700
Series: Collector's Issue Series
Format: 5 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation
Country: Canada
Released: 1956
Genre: Jazz
Style: Big Band, Swing
American Patrol
Written-By – FW Meacham
Broadcast April 23, 1942
I Guess I'll Have To Change My Plan
Vocals – Marion Hutton, Tex Beneke
Written-By Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz (lyricist and composer respectively)
Broadcast July 30, 1940
Bugle Call Rag
Written-By – Billy Meyers, Elmer Schoebel, and Jack Pettis
Broadcast November 25, 1941
Chattanooga Choo Choo
Vocals – Tex Beneke, The Modernaires
Written-By – Harry Warren, Mack Gordon
Broadcast December 30, 1941
Sleepy Town Train
Written-By – Allan Roberts, Bill Fontaine
Recorded July 16, 1942
Medley
My Melancholy Baby
Written-By – Ernie Burnett, George Norton, and Maybelle Watson
Moon Love
Vocals – Ray Eberle
Written-By – André Kostelanetz, Mack David, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Stomping At The Savoy
Written-By – Andy Razaf, Benny Goodman, Chick Webb, and Edgar Sampson
Blue Moon
Written-By – Composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Lorenz Hart
Broadcast January 10, 1940
Flagwaver
Written-By – Jerry Gray
Broadcast November 25, 1941
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.
Here’s an interesting album in my dad’s collection. It is filled with stars of the jazz era. It’s from a special recording session for a TV show that went live a couple days later. As we’ll find out, that show was groundbreaking. So get ready to hear an all-star list of who’s who of jazz in the late 1950s with Volume 121: Jazz Sounds.
Credits and copyrights
Various – The Sound Of Jazz
Label: Columbia – CL 1098
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Promo, Mono
Released: 1958
Genre: Jazz
Style: Big Band, Swing
Red Allen All-Stars – Wild Man Blues
Written-By – Jelly Roll Morton and Louis Armstrong
Billie Holiday With Mal Waldron And All-Stars–Fine And Mellow
Written-By – Billie Holiday
Pee Wee Russell, Jimmy Giuffre, Danny Barker, Jo Jones – Blues
Written by those musicians
Count Basie With All-Stars – I Left My Baby
Written-By – Andy Gibson, Count Basie, and Jimmy Rushing
The Jimmy Giuffre Trio – The Train And The River
Written-By – Jimmy Giuffre
Count Basie All-Stars – Dickie's Dream
Written-By – Count Basie, Lester Young
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.
Of all the musicians in the Franklin Mint Greatest Jazz Recordings of All Time multi-box collection, only one has his own box all to himself. Composer, pianist, influencer, band leader and legend, Ellington composed thousands of scores over his 50-year career. So get ready to hear an originator of big-band music in Volume 120: Duke, A Jazz Classic Part 2.
Credits and copyrights
Duke Ellington – Great Jazz Classics
Label: The Franklin Mint Record Society – JAZZ6
Series: The Greatest Jazz Recordings Of All Time
Format: 4 x Red Vinyl, LP, Red Compilation Box Set
Released: 1983
Genre: Jazz
We will hear six of the 12 songs from record 22 of this collection.
Duke Ellington And His Famous Orchestra (1940s)
Ko-Ko
Duke Ellington
Recorded March 6, 1940
Jumpin' Punkins
Mercer Ellington
Recorded February 15, 1941
Raincheck
Billy Strayhorn
Recorded December 2, 1941
Duke Ellington And His Orchestra (Post 1940s)
Heaven
Duke Ellington
Recorded January 19, 1968, released in 71
Aristocracy A La Jean Lafitte (From New Orleans Suite)
Duke Ellington
Recorded April 27, 1970
Rockin' In Rhythm
Ellington, Harry Carney and Irving Mills.
Recorded February 2, 1954. It was first recorded by Ellington in January 1931 at the Cotton Club.
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.
We once again have a musician claiming he's top trumpet. Or at least his recording label is saying that. I can see why my dad liked this album. This is a high-flying trumpet player surrounded by more than just the other five or six musicians he’s used to. So get ready to hear a wildly successful and talented trumpet player with Volume 119: World's Greatest Horn.
Credits and copyrights
Al Hirt – The Greatest Horn In The World
Label: RCA Victor – LSP2366
Series: Living Stereo
Format: Vinyl, LP, Stereo
Released: 1961
Genre: Jazz
Stompin' At The Savoy
Written by Edgar Sampson
Begin the Beguine
written by Cole Porter
Undecided
written by Charlie Shavers and published in 1938.
What's New?
composed by Bob Haggart
Stella By Starlight
Written by Victor Young
Let's Do It
composed by Cole Porter
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.
Gather around the radio, kids, it's story time. My first radio job was on a historical frequency in the Cleveland market, 1260 AM. I learned from some radio legends. During that time, the station put out an album of big band music from a local group. So get ready for lots of reminiscing while listening to Music of Your Life standards in Volume 118: Big Band Grandstand.
Credits and copyrights
Harry Hershey And The WBBG Orchestra – Big Band Grandstand
Label: Peters Sound – PSLP 102
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Released: 1982
Genre: Jazz
Style: Big Band
Chattanooga Choo Choo
I Can't Get Started
Shoo Shoo Baby
Why Don't We Do This More Often
Anniversary Waltz
Well Dressed Man In Harlem
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
A phone call with Ted Alexander
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.
Welcome to a 78 RPM Sunday. Yes, I know 78 RPM records were made from shellac, not vinyl. But I wasn’t going to completely ignore the more than 100 of the original record format - disks in his collection. I even played them back for the digitizing process using a manual 1917 Victrola. So get ready to crank that handle up to get the disk spinning in Volume 117: 8 Sides From Victor.
Credits and copyrights
Since Henry Ford Apologized to Me - The Happiness Boys
Pastafazoola - The Happiness Boys
Down by the Sheltering Palms - Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye
Lavender Blue - Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye
Just for now - The Three Suns
A Lovely Rainy Afternoon - The Three Suns
And the Angels Sing - Benny Goodman
I Sent for you Yesterday and Here You Come Today - Benny Goodman
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.
Back to one of my favorite voices in my dad’s collection. He was a singer I was supposed to see, however he got sick before the show, which included Sammy and Frank. He’s often referred to as the King of Cool.
So get ready to hear the stereo copy of the two my dad had of this album with Volume 116: Dean Hits Again.
Promised links:
Copacobana: https://youtu.be/NLS1gPo0VFA
MDA Telethon: https://youtu.be/K3KAMg9LIzw
Credits and copyrights
Dean Martin – Dean Martin Hits Again
Label: Reprise Records – R 6146
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
Released: Feb 2, 1965
Genre: Jazz, Pop
Style: Easy Listening
Accompanied By – Ken Lane
Arranged By, Conductor – Ernie Freeman
Engineer – Eddie Brackett
Liner Notes – Stan Cornyn
Photography By [Cover And Liner Photos] – Ed Thrasher
Producer – Jimmy Bowen
You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You
Written-By – James Cavanaugh, Larry Stock, Russ Morgan
My Heart Is An Open Book
Written-By – Hal David, Lee Pockriss
Send Me The Pillow You Dream On
Written-By – Hank Locklin
Send Me Some Lovin'
Written-By – John Marascalco, Leo Price
In The Chapel In The Moonlight
Written-By – Billy Hill
I'll Be Seeing You
Written-By – Irving Kahal, Sammy Fain
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.
My dad’s record collection is filled with plenty of albums of previously released music from various artists that were put into a set for various reasons. This record was released to sell toothpaste. So get ready to hear a cross section of hits from the late 1950s with Volume 115: Great and New Sounds.
Credits and copyrights
Various – Colgate Presents Great Sounds And New SoundsLabel: Columbia – noneFormat: Vinyl, LP, CompilationCountry: USReleased: 1959 Genre:Jazz, Brass & Military, Folk, World, & Country, Stage & ScreenStyle:Brass Band, Big Band
We will hear 6 of the 12 songs from the album.
Les Elgart– When I Take My Sugar To The SeaWritten-By – Irving Kahal, Pierre Norman, and Sammy Fain in 1931. First recorded by Melotone Boys.Recorded in 1959
Andre Kostelanetz– I Enjoy Being A GirlWritten-By – Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgersfrom the 1958 musical Flower Drum Song.Recorded in 1959
Tony Bennett with Percy Faith & His Orchestra– Just In TimeWritten-By – Adolph Green, Betty Comden, and Jule StyneRecorded in 1956
Johnny Cash–The TroubadourWritten-By – Cindy WalkerRecorded in 1958
Luther Henderson– Stay As Sweet As You AreWritten-By – Harry Revel, and Mack GordonRecorded in 1959
Mitch Miller–The Band Played On / Oh! You Beautiful DollWritten-By – A. Seymour Brown, Charles Ward, John Palmer, and Nat AyerRecorded in 1959
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.
Here’s a beautiful voice we have not heard yet although we did hear a tune she wrote. And even better, this recording is in a live setting. She sings softly with feeling because of her nightclub experience. So get ready for the Queen of American pop music in Volume 114: Peggy at Basin Street East.
Credits and copyrights
Miss Peggy Lee – Basin Street East Proudly Presents Miss Peggy Lee Recorded At The Fabulous New York ClubLabel: Capitol Records – T 1520Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, MonoCountry: USReleased: 1961Genre: JazzStyle: Big Band, Swing
Recorded live at Basin Street East in an after-hours performance with an invited audience on February 9 and at a New York studio on March 8, 1961.
Day In - Day OutWritten By – Johnny Mercer, Rube Bloom
Moments Like ThisWritten By – Burton Lane, Frank Loesser
FeverWritten By – Eddie Cooley, John Davenport
The Second Time AroundWritten By – James Van Heusen*, Sammy Cahn
I Love Being Here With YouWritten By – Bill Schluger, Peggy Lee
Them There EyesWritten By – Doris Tauber, Maceo Pinkard and William Tracey
A Tribute To Ray CharlesJust For A ThrillWritten By – Don Raye, Lil ArmstrongYes Indeed!Written By – Sy Oliver
Bass – Max BennettBongos, Congas – Chino PozoConductor, Piano – Joe HarnellDrums – Stan LeveyFlute – Bob DonovanGuitar – Dennis BudimirHarp – Abe RosenTrombone – Mickey Gravine, Ray DesioTrumpet – Danny Stiles, Phil Sunkel, Willie ThomasProducer – Dave CavanaughCover [Photo] – Lee Friedlander
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.
We return to a box set and a record filled with music from my dad’s favorite trumpet player, and we’re going to hear him sing every song. It comes from the first of 12 box sets in the Franklin Mint collection, the greatest jazz recordings of all time. And this musician has the first two records all to himself. So get ready to hear the man once billed as the world’s greatest trumpeter…by his wife…in Volume 113: Louis THE Jazz Masterpiece Part 2.
The promised link: (https://www.history.com/news/9-things-you-may-not-know-about-louis-armstrong)
Credits and copyrights
Louis Armstrong Roy Eldridge Jazz MasterpiecesLabel: The Franklin Mint Record Society – JAZZ 001: 1/2/3/4Series: The Greatest Jazz Recordings Of All Time, Institute Of Jazz Studies Official Archive Collection – JAZZ 001Format: 4 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Red vinyl Box Set, Red BoxCountry: USReleased: 1982Genre: JazzStyle: Swing
As usual for a Franklin Mint record we will hear 8 of the 12 songs from record two, which is sides 3 and 4.
Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra – Dusky StevedoreWritten by J.C. Johnson
Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra – Swing That MusicLouis Armstrong & His Orchestra – Swing That MusicWritten by Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra – Alexander's Rag Time BandWritten by Irving Berlin
Louis Armstrong With Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five – You Rascal YouWritten by Sam Theard
Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra – SolitudeWritten by Duke Ellington
Louis Armstrong & The Mills Brothers – Darling Nellie Graya 19th century anti-slavery ballad written and composed by Benjamin Hanby in 1856.
Louis Armstrong & The Dukes Of Dixieland – Avalona 1920 popular song written by Al Jolson, Buddy DeSylva and Vincent Rose
Louis Armstrong & The All Stars – Someday, Sweetheartwritten by Los Angeles-based musicians John and Reb Spikes
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.
OK…a few months since episode 24 has turned into almost two years. But we are finally going to finish the great story about how early recording devices became the music machines of the 1950s. So get ready to hear some great tunes while we learn about how we got the music you want when you want it with Volume 112: Music America Loves Part 2.
Credits and copyrights
Various – 60 Years Of "Music America Loves Best"Label: RCA Victor Red Seal – LM-6074Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation, GatefoldCountry: USReleased: 1959Genre: Jazz, Pop, Classical, Folk, World, & CountryStyle: Vocal, Opera, Romantic, Swing, Instrumental
We'll hear 7 of the 14 songs on disk two of this two-record set, which is sides 2 and 3.
Duke Ellington–Take The "A" TrainComposed by Billy Strayhorn and released in 1941, “Take the 'A' Train” became the Duke Ellington orchestra's signature tune. The February 15, 1941 recording of the song remained on the top charts for seven weeks and is now considered the definitive version.
Artie Shaw–Begin The Beguinewritten by Cole Porter who composed the song between Kalabahi, Indonesia, and Fiji during a 1935 Pacific cruise.Recorded July 24, 1938
Leopold Stokowski And The Philadelphia Orchestra–Blue Danube WaltzComposed by Johann Straus II in 1867Recorded in 1927
José Iturbi–Polonaise In A-Flatcomposed by Frédéric Chopin in 1842Recorded in 1946
Perry Como–Prisoner Of LoveClarence Gaskill, Russ Columbo, Leo Robin om 1931Recorded in March 1946
May the bird of happiness fly up your noseJan Peerce–Bluebird Of Happinesswritten by Edward Heyman, Sandor Harmati, Harry Parr-DaviesRecorded in 1958
Jascha Heifetz–Hora StaccatoHora staccato, written in 1906, is a virtuoso violin showpiece by Grigoraș Dinicu. It is a short, fast work in a Romanian hora style, and has become a favorite encore of violinists, especially in the 1932 arrangement by Jascha Heifetz you just heard.
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.
ou couldn’t help but feel the love in my parents’ house, especially when there was Italian music playing. My mom was very fond of this album. She often requested that I put this on the record player for her as she was preparing dinner. So, get ready to snuggle up with the one you love for record one of this two album set with Volume 111: Love Italian Style Part 2
Credits and copyrights
Louis Prima With Sam Butera And The Witnesses - Che La Luna (That the moon)Written-By – Kopak, Louis PrimaRecorded in 1964
Dick Contino - Roman GuitarAccordion – Dick ContinoWritten-By – Eldo Di Lazzaro and Marjorie HarperRecorded in 1958
Hugo Winterhalter And His Orchestra - Anna (El Negro Zumbon) (Spanish for The buzzing black)Written-By – Franco Giordano, Roman VatroRecorded in 1962
Enrico Caruso - O Sole Mio (My Sunshine)Written-By – Eduardo Di Capua, Giovanni Capurrorecorded on 5 February 1916
Sergio Franchi - A Man Without Love (Quando M'innamoro) (When I fall in love)Written-By – Barry Mason, Duranice Pace, Mario Panzeri, Roberto LivraghiRecorded July 1968
The Three Suns - Arrivederci, Roma (Goodbye To Rome)Written-By – Pietro Garinei, Renato Rascel, Sandro GiovanniniRecorded October 1955
Lou Monte with Joe Reisman and his Orchestra - Bella Notte (beautiful night)Written-By – Peggy Lee, Joseph "Sonny" BurkeRecorded in May 1955
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Back out west we go. To a simpler time in this country. Before the technology that has invaded our daily lives. When cowboys gathered to play guitar and sing. So get ready to hear what is technically Tumbling Tumbleweeds Part 2 with Volume 110: Around the Campfire.
Here's the promised link from the show, however, many of the videos I said were embedded have been taken down for ownership rights.
Credits and copyrights
Various – Tumbling TumbleweedsLabel: Reader's Digest – RDA-229 / AFormat: 7 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation Box SetCountry: USReleased: 1982Genre: Folk, World, & CountryStyle: Country
The Sons Of The Pioneers - Home On The Range
Rex Allen - On Top Of Old Smokey
Slim Whitman - The Cattle Call
Tex Ritter - Big Rock Candy Mountain
Bing Crosby - Clementine
Jimmie Davis - You Are My Sunshine
Rex Allen - Sweet Betsy From Pike
The Weavers - So Long (It's Been Good To Know Yuh)
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.
This was an episode I was looking forward to since I digitized the record. And one I knew I would have a tough time picking just 6 tunes. I couldn't stop chair dancing...I was working from home that day. This music just makes you move. So, get ready for the King of Calypso in Volume 109: Harry's Day O.
Credits and copyrights
Harry Belafonte – CalypsoLabel: RCA Victor – LPM-1248Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Hollywood PressingCountry: USReleased: 1956Genre: Latin, Folk, World, & CountryStyle: Calypso
Day OWritten-By – Harry Belafonte, Lord Burgess, Bill Attaway
Star OWritten-By – Harry Belafonte, Lord Burgess, Bill Attaway
Dolly DawnWritten-By – Lord Burgess
The Jack-Ass SongWritten-By – Lord Burgess, Bill Attaway
Come Back LizaWritten-By – Lord Burgess, Bill Attaway
Brown Skin Girl (Calypso)
Man Smart (Woman Smarter)Written-By – Harry Belafonte
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.
This was an interesting find in my dad’s collection. When I saw the word Tango I think I immediately flashed back to one Bond film or another thinking about the precise movements and the long stemmed rose in the woman’s teeth. So get ready to learn that if you can walk you can do this dance in Volume 108: Tango King.
Credits and copyrights
Malando – King Of The TangoLabel: Philips – PHS-600-315Format: Vinyl, LP, AlbumCountry: USReleased: 1969Genre: Folk, World, & Country
JealousyJalousie is a tango written by Danish composer Jacob Gade in 1925. Its full title is Jalousie "Tango Tzigane" (Jealousy "Gypsy Tango"). It soon became popular around the world and is today a classic in the modern songbook.
Holando - Tangowritten by Malando
Tango Du Revewritten by Edouard Van Malderen, Jean Carwald
Blue Tangocomposition by Leroy Anderson
Guapitawritten by Malando
Poor GigoloJust a Gigolo" is a popular song, adapted by Irving Caesar into English in 1929 from the Austrian tango "Schöner Gigolo, armer Gigolo", composed in 1928 in Vienna by Leonello Casucci to lyrics written in 1924 by Julius Brammer. Of course I've played the popular Louis Prima version on this show and most of you are familiar with the 1985 version from David Lee Roth.
Japanese Tangowritten by Malando
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We now return to one of my favorite composers. He wrote scores of movie and TV soundtracks, with some of them still being used to this day. And his music has a definite sound to let you know just who that composer/arranger was. So get ready to hear jazz arranged by a guy who was once with Glenn Miller-Tex Beneke with Volume 107: Big Band Mancini.
Credits and copyrights
Henry Mancini And His Orchestra – Mancini '67 (The Big Band Sound Of Henry Mancini)Label: RCA Victor – LSP-3694, RCA Victor – LSP 3694Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Indianapolis PressingCountry: USReleased: 1967Genre: Jazz, Stage & ScreenStyle: Big Band
The CatWritten-By – Lalo Schifrin
The Shadow Of Your SmileWritten-By – Johnny Mandel, Paul Francis Webster
ConquestWritten-By – Alfred Newman
Autumn NocturneWritten-By – Josef Myrow, Kim Gannon
Tijuana TaxiWritten-By – Bud Coleman
The House Of The Rising SunWritten-By – Alan Price
'Round MidnightWritten-By – Bernie Hanighen, Cootie Williams, Thelonious Monk
TurtlesWritten-By – Henry Mancini
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.
We once again feature a trumpet player with an unmistakable sound. He is among one of the fastest trumpet players I’ve encountered. A common joke was that if a fly landed on his written music, James would play it. He also wrote a good portion of the music on this record. So get ready for a musician who played and arranged for Benny Goodman, and discovered old Blue Eyes in Volume 106: Harry's Favorites.
Credits and copyrights
Harry James – All Time Favorites By Harry JamesLabel: Columbia – CL 655Format: Vinyl, LP, MonoCountry: CanadaReleased: 1955Genre: JazzStyle: Big Band
We'll hear 7 of the 12 songs on this record.
My dad had two copies of this album,
Concerto For TrumpetWritten-By – Harry JamesNovember 30, 1939
Don't Be That WayWritten-By – Benny Goodman, Edgar Sampson, Mitchell ParishOctober 11, 1951
Music MakersWritten-By – Harry JamesJanuary 8, 1941
Flatbush FlanaganWritten-By – Harry JamesJanuary 8, 1941
One O'Clock JumpWritten-By – Count BasieRecorded January 5, 1938
Two O'Clock JumpWritten-By – Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Harry JamesMarch 6, 1939
The Flight Of The Bumble BeeArranged By – Harry JamesWritten-By – Nikolai Rimsky-KorsakovFebruary 13, 1941
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.
My dad has several albums from the “Guy” we let enter our living rooms every new years eve and they still play his version of the song he made famous as the ball hits the bottom of the pole. So, get ready to flash back to what a new years eve on TV sounded like in the 1960s and 70 with Volume 105: Guy's New Year Tradition.
Promised link: http://www.thisdayinquotes.com/2014/
Credits and copyrights
Guy Lombardo And His Royal Canadians – Guy Lombardo At Harrah's ClubLabel: Capitol Records – ST 1393Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, StereoCountry: USReleased: 1960Genre: JazzStyle: Big Band
Auld Lang Syne (Opening Theme)/Love, Look AwayRichard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein (STINE)
Humoresquewritten by a Czech composer Antonín Dvořák in 1894. Arranged by Guy Lombardo
FascinationF D Marchetti
Silver DollarClark Van Ness and Jack Palmer
Intro/Return To MeCarmen Lombardo Di Minno
Boo-HooEdward Heyman, Carmen Lombardo and John Jacob Loeb
When The Saints Go Marching In
Lombardo Sing-A-Long Medley/Auld Lang Syne (Closing Theme)
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.
No matter what your thoughts are on this holiday, even I have to admit whether it be secular or not, this season has brought about some of the most beautifully written and joyous music there is. So, gather around the fire and get ready to hear about Vaccariello Christmases past while listening to several talented northeast Ohio high school choirs in Volume 104: A Cleveland Christmas.Give it a spin Sunday, December 25, 3P ETTurn up the volume at spinningmydadsvinyl.com
Credits and copyrights
Various – Christmas In Cleveland / Dedicated To The Society For The Crippled ChildrenLabel: Delta Records Of Ohio – none Format: Vinyl, LPReleased: 1962Genre: Folk, World, & CountryStyle: Religious
Short version:Lakewood High School Choir– Now Is The Carolling SeasonCathedral Latin H.S. Glee Club– Carol Of The DrumCleveland Heights H.S. Choir– O Holy NightHoly Name H.S. Choir– Ring Christmas BellsJohn Marshall H.S. Choir– Christmas Was Meant For ChildrenMagnificat H.S. Senior Choir– Adeste FidelisNotre Dame Academy Choral Club – To The MangerOur Lady Of Lourdes H.S. Choir– The Sleigh
Long Version:Lakewood High School Choir– Now Is The Carolling SeasonWritten-By – Dorothy PriesingDirected By – Thelbert R. Evans who was also the music directorPrincipal was Mahlon PovenmireSuperintendent was Dr. William Edwards
Cathedral Latin H.S. Glee Club– Carol Of The DrumComposed By – Katherine K. DavisDirected By – Brother Donald Boccardi, S.M.Principal was Reverend James McKaySuperintendent of Cleveland Catholic Diocese schools was Right Reverend Monsignor Clarence ElwellSupervisor of music was Evelyn SabolThose last two will be the same for all Catholic Schools.
Cleveland Heights H.S. Choir– O Holy NightDirected By – George F. StricklingMusic Director – John F. FarinacciPrincipal was Paul NashSuperintendent Dr. Theos Anderson
Holy Name H.S. Choir– Ring Christmas BellsComposed By – Mykola LeontovichDirected By – Sister Bernard Agnes, S.C.Principal was Reverend George EppleyThey are a part of the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland
John Marshall H.S. Choir – Christmas Was Meant For ChildrenComposed By – Gordon GoodmanArranged By – HawleyAdesDirected By – Helen L. BradshawJohn Marshall is part of the Cleveland Public Schools.Superintendent was Dr William Levenson.Director of Music was Ernest Manrig.
Magnificat H.S. Senior Choir – Adeste Fidelishas been attributed to various authors, including John Francis Wade (1711–1786), John Reading (1645–1692), King John IV of Portugal (1604–1656), and anonymous Cistercian monks. Arranged By – Rev. Russell DavisDirected By – Sister Mary Dominica, H.H.M.Principal Sister HonoraThey are a part of the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland
Notre Dame Academy Choral Club – To The MangerArranged By – Katherine K. DavisDirected By – Sister Mary Carol, S.N.D.Principal was Sister Mary ReeanThey are a part of the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland
Also a part of the Catholic Diocese of ClevelandOur Lady Of Lourdes H.S. Choir – The SleighComposed By – Ivor Tchervanow, Richard Kountz, Wallingford RieggerDirected By – Sister Mary St. Gabriel, S.N.D.Principal was Sister Mary Justille
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.
In the immortal words of Monty Python and the Flying Circus, now for something completely different. This record was an unexpected find in my dad’s collection, but it’s obvious he played it frequently, telling by its condition. So get ready to head out to the middle of the Pacific Ocean for some quiet meditation at my favorite time of day with Volume 103: Hawaiian Sunset.
Credits and copyrights
Poly And His Hawaiian Ensemble – Hawaiian SunsetLabel: Harmony (4) – HL 7114Format: Vinyl, LPCountry: CanadaReleased: 1958 Genre: Folk, World, & CountryStyle: Pacific
Song Of The IslandsWritten by Charles E King
The Moon Of Manakoorawritten by Frank Loesser (lyrics) and Alfred Newman (music)
Hawaiian Paradise Owensmusic by Harry Owens
Hawaiian DreamsBy Poly
The One Rose Lyon - Written by Lani McIntire, Del Lyon
Pagan Love Songwritten by Nacio Herb Brown and Arthur Freed
Aloha Oe Composed by Queen Lilluokalani
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.
Just shouting we’re number one doesn’t necessarily make it so. But when year after year, your peers say you are number one at what you do, everyone should listen. So get ready for a musician whose style was as unique as his visage and the horn he played with Volume 102: The Greatest Trumpet.
Credits and copyrights
The Dizzy Gillespie Octet Featuring Benny Golson – The Greatest Trumpet Of Them AllLabel: Verve Records – MG V-8352, Verve Records – MG V 8352Format: Vinyl, LP, AlbumReleased: 1959 but it was recorded December 17, 1957 in New York CityGenre: Jazz
Alto Saxophone – Gigi GryceBaritone Saxophone – "Pee-Wee" Moore*Bass – Tommy BryantDrums – Charlie PersipPiano – Ray BryantTenor Saxophone – Benny GolsonTrombone – Henry CokerTrumpet – Dizzy Gillespie
We'll hear 5 of the 8 tunes on the record.
Blues After DarkBenny Golson 1957
ShabozGigi Gryce 1952
Out Of The Paswritten by Jon Hendricks, Benny Golson 1958
A Night At Tony'swritten by Gigi Gryce 1957
Smoke Signalswritten by Gigi Gryce 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.
Here’s another great compilation of million sellers put out by Columbia Records. It’s also another great example of the kind of fun music my dad loved to collect. So, get ready for a bunch of Gold Records recorded from 1939 through 1954 with Volume 101: Remember How Great Part 2.
Credits and copyrights
Various – Remember How Great...? Volume 2Label: Columbia Record Productions – noneFormat: Vinyl, LP, CompilationReleased: 1962Genre: Jazz, RockStyle: Easy Listening
Jo Stafford – Jambalayawith Paul Weston and His Orchestra and The Norman Luboff ChoirWritten-By – Hank WilliamsRecorded August 8, 1952
The Chordettes – Mr. SandmanWritten-By – Pat BallardRecorded in October 1954
Frankie Laine – Mule TrainWritten-By – Fred Glickman, Hy Heath, Johnny LangeRecorded October 2, 1949
Guy Mitchell – The Roving KindWritten-By – Arnold Stanton, Jessie CavanaughRecorded November 2, 1950
Rosemary Clooney – Come On-a My HouseWritten-By – Ross Bagdasarian, Vilyam SaroyanRecorded July 2, 1951
Cab Calloway – Jumpin' JiveWritten-By – Cab Calloway, Frank Froeba, Jack PalmerRecorded July 17, 1939
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.
I’m going to nickname this episode Frank’s earworms because these were the songs that stuck in my head sometimes for weeks after recording a show. They may not be the most popular of the songs I’ve played or even among my favorites all the time, but they had a catchy melody or rhythm that I couldn’t get out of my head. So get ready for an episode with a lot more music and a lot less of me talking with Volume 100: Frank’s Favorites.
Credits and copyrights
Girl From Ipanema - Nat King Cole written in 1962 by Antônio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes Found on Nat King Cole – L-O-V-E Released in1965 on Capitol Records Featured in Volume 59: Nat's L-O-V-E for Valentine's Day aired on February 13, 2022
Naughty Lady of Shady Lane - Ames Brothers written by Sid Tepper and Roy C. Bennett Recorded on September 8, 1954 Found on 60 Years Of "Music America Loves Best" by various artists released in 1959 by RCA Victor Red Seal Label Featured in Volume 24: Music America Loves Part 1 aired on June 13, 2021
Ciribiribin - Harry James Written-By – Harry James Recorded April 6, 1939 Found on Harry James' Greatest Hits Reissue Released in 1970 on Columbia Records from Music Recorded: 1939 - 1946 Featured in Volume 4: Harry James Greatest Hits which aired on January 24, 2021
Go Li’l Liza - Coleman Hawkins Quartet Written by Countess Ada DeLachau Recorded September 9, 1962 Found on the Franklin Mint Collection, Jazz Masters Of The Sax Featured in Volume 66: Sax Master Hawkins which aired April 23, 2022
Please Mr. Columbus, Turn the Ship Around - Lou Monte written by Ray Allen, Wandra Merrell and Sam Saltzberg Recorded in 1962 Found on Lou Monte – Pepino, The Italian Mouse & Other Italian Fun Songs on Reprise Records Featured in Volume 9: Lou Monte and Pepino which aired February 28, 2021
Georgie Girl - Ray Connif Music By – T. Springfield and Lyrics By – J. Dale Recorded in 1970 Found on Ray Conniff And The Singers – This Is My Song And Other Great Hits on Columbia Records Featured in Volume 76: My Song which aired June 12, 2022
Cool Water - Sons of the Pioneers written as a poem by original member Bob Nolan when he was only 16 and first recorded by the Pioneers in 1941. This recording was found on the compilation box set Tumbling Tumbleweeds featuring various artists Featured in Volume 41: Tumbling Tumbleweeds Part 1 which aired October 10, 2021
Seattle - Perry Como composed by Hugo Montenegro with lyrics by Jack Keller and Ernie Sheldon Recorded in 1968 We took that from Perry Como – Sylvania Presents Perry Como By Special Request a 1976 compliation on RCA Records Featured in Volume 97: Como By Request which aired November 6, 2022 (it's the most recent one I can't get out of my head, other than a TJB one.)
South of the Border - Frank Sinatra Written-By – Jimmy Kennedy, Michael Carr in 1939 Recorded November 2, 1953 We took that from Frank Sinatra – This Is Sinatra!, a 1956 compilation album on Capitol. Featured in Volume 71: This Is Sinatra! for Mothers Day which aired on May 8, 2022
Your Other Love - Dean Martin by Mort Shuman and Doc Pomus probably in the Brill Building Recorded in 1964. We took that from Dean Martin – Everybody Loves Somebody on Reprise Records Featured in Volume 75: Everybody Loves Dean which aired on June 5, 2022
I Want To Be Happy - Sammy Davis Jr. Written by Irving Caesar, Vincent Youmans Recorded in 1972 We took that from Sammy Davis Jr. – Now on MGM Records Featured on Volume 56: Sammy is Now which aired Janurary 23, 2022
Featured 78 RPM Kay Kyser And His Orchestra with Woody Woodpecker With vocal chorus from Gloria Wood. Written by Ramey Idriss, George Tibbles Recorded December 31, 1947 We took that from a Columbia 78 RPM disk Featured in Volume 74: 8 Sides from Columbia which aired on May 29, 2022
Zipadee Doo Da - The Roy Meriwether Trio composed by Allie Wrubel with lyrics by Ray Gilbert Recorded in 1966 We took that from The Roy Meriwether Trio – Popcorn & Soul: Groovin' At The Movies on Columbia Records Featured on Volume 62: Popcorn and Soul which aired March 6, 2022
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.
It was the dance of a generation and well beyond. It was the dance of my parents’ youth and one they continued to do for decades. It is the Jitterbug. So get ready for Fred Astaire Dance Studio approved numbers in Volume 99: Time To Dance.
Credits and copyrights
Various – Perfect For Dancing Jitterbug Or Lindy Label: RCA Victor – LPM-1071, RCA Victor – LPM 1071 Series: Perfect For Dancing Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Released: 1955 Genre: Jazz, Pop Style: Swing
Produced and prepared under the direction of The Fred Astaire Dance Studios
Photography By [Cover Photograph] – David Hecht
Erskine Hawkins And His Orch.– John Henry Blues Arranged By – Frederick Lowe Written-By – W C Handy Recorded January 10, 1950.
Ralph Flanagan And His Orch.– Hot Toddy Written-By – Ralph Flanagan Recorded in December of 1952
Boots Brown And His Blockbusters– Block Buster Written-By – Shorty Rogers Recorded in December of 1952
Ralph Flanagan And His Orch. – Palladium Punch Written-By – Ralph Flanagan Recorded in 1952
Artie Shaw And His Orch.– Donkey Serenade Written-By – George Forrest, Herbert Sothard, Robert Craig Wright, Rudolph Friml Recorded in 1939
Boots Brown And His Blockbusters– Short'nin' Bread Written-By – Shorty Rogers Recorded in December of 1952
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.
This is probably the most played album in my dad's collection and not just because of the woman on the front cover wearing a pile of dessert topping like a dress. It fully represents the fun, trumpet-led pop jazz music that filled the house on a regular basis. So get ready for a record the Vaccariello household heard on a weekly basis for years with Volume 98: Whipped Alpert.
Promised link: https://www.billboard.com/music/features/herb-alpert-whipped-cream-other-delights-story-behind-album-cover-50-years-later-7370623/
Credits and copyrights
Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass – Whipped Cream & Other Delights Label: A&M Records – SP 4110 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo Country: US Released: 1965 Genre: Jazz, Latin, Pop Style: Latin Jazz
A Taste Of Honey Written-By – Bobby Scott, Ric Marlow
El Garbanzo Written-By – Sol Lake
Butterball Written-By – Mike Henderson
Peanuts Written-By – Luis Guerrero
Ladyfingers Written-By – Toots Thielemans
Lollipops And Roses Written-By – Tony Velona
Whipped Cream Written-By – Naomi Neville
Love Potion No. 9 Written-By – Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller
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.
During this singer’s half century career, he hosted and performed on television. He recorded 22 albums and 147 singles. He was famous for his relaxed vocals, cardigan sweaters and television Christmas specials. So get ready for the singer who Bing Crosby said was “the man who invented casual” in Volume 97: Como By Request.
Promised link: https://www.colorado.edu/amrc/perry-como-local-barber-legendary-crooner
Credits and copyrights
Perry Como – Sylvania Presents Perry Como By Special Request Label: RCA – DPL1-0193 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Reissue Released: 1976 Genre: Jazz Style: Easy Listening
Magic Moments - The time the floor fell out when I put the clutch down...lol music by Burt Bacharach and lyrics by Hal David in Originally recorded by Como December 3, 1957 with Mitchell Ayres Orchestra & The Ray Charles Singers
Just Born (To Be Your Baby) Written by Billy Dawn Smith, Luther Dixon First released by Perry in October 1957 with Mitchell Ayres Orchestra & The Ray Charles Singers
You Alone (Solo Tu) written by Al Stillman, Robert Allen released in September 1953 with Hugo Winterhalter's Orchestra and Chorus
No Other Love written by Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers Released in May 1953 with Henri René's Orchestra & Chorus
Seattle composed by Hugo Montenegro with lyrics by Jack Keller and Ernie Sheldon. It was used as the theme for the 1968–1970 ABC-TV United States television show Here Come the Brides,[1] which was set in 19th-century Seattle, Washington. became a Top 40 hit for Perry Como on the Billboard Hot 100 singles charts in early 1969.
Mandolins In The Moonlight written by Aaron Schroeder, George David Weiss Released September 29, 1958 with Mitchell Ayres Orchestra and The Ray Charles Singers
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.
It’s a 78 RPM Sunday, the last one for the year. This is one of the longer symphony performances in my dad’s collection. It was written by someone who remains one of the most admired composers in the history of Western music conducted by a long-tenured Russian turned American director. So get ready for Sergei conducting Ludwig in Beantown with Volume 96: Beethoven From Boston.
Credits and copyrights
Ludwig van Beethoven, Koussevitsky, Boston Symphony – Beethoven Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat, Op. 55 ("Eroica") Label: RCA Victor Red Seal – DM 1161 Format: 6 x Vinyl, 12", 78 RPM, Album, Mono Country: US Released: 1947 Genre: Classical Style: Romantic
First Movement: Allegro Con Brio (Part 1)
First Movement: Allegro Con Brio (concluded)
Second Movement: Marcia Funebre: Adagio Assai (concluded)
Third Movement: Scherzo And Trio: Allegro Vivace
Fourth Movement: Finale: Allegro Molto (Part 1)
Fourth Movement: Finale: Poco Andante; Presto (concluded)
Liner Notes – David Hall
Cover – S. Greco
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.
While we have heard recordings where this trumpet player was part of the group, we have never played music where he is the featured instrumentalist. Plus we really take the tempo of the music you are used to listening to on this show down a notch or three. So get ready for the relaxed, easy-going sound of a horn player you may never have heard of in Volume 95: Bobby Gets Mellow.
The promised link: https://riverwalkjazz.stanford.edu/?q=program/sweet-hot-salute-cornetist-bobby-hackett
Credits and copyrights
Bobby Hackett – In A Mellow Mood Label: Capitol Records – T 575, Capitol Records – T-575 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono Country: US Released: 1955 Genre: Jazz Style: Easy Listening
Serenade In Blue composed by Harry Warren, introduced in the 1942 film Orchestra Wives
Deep Night melody composed in 1929 by Charles E. Henderson
In A Sentimental Mood composition by Duke Ellington from 1935
All Through The Night written by Cole Porter for his 1934 musical Anything Goes
You're My Thrill composed by Jay Gorney, was introduced in the film Jimmy and Sally (1933)
Lazy River written by Hoagy Carmichael and Sidney Arodin published in 1930
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.
We once again will reach into one of my favorite collections that my dad had. Not only because of the great big band music on it, but because of the album cover itself. So get ready to hear from a bandleader who has been called the father of modern military music from an album I used to trip over as a kid in Volume 94: Glenn Miller Collection Part 3.
Credits and copyrights
Glenn Miller And His Orchestra – Second Pressing Label: RCA Victor – LPT 6700 Series: Collector's Issue Series Format: 5 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: Canada Released: 1956 Genre: Jazz Style: Big Band, Swing
Rainbow Rhapsody Written-By – Benny Carter
Little Brown Jug Written-By – Traditional
Chip Off The Old Block Written-By – Al Young
One O'clock Jump Written-By – Count Basie
Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree Vocals – Dorothy Claire, Tex Beneke, The Modernaires Written-By – Charles Tobias, Lew Brown, Sam Stept
The Hop Written-By – Ray Coniff
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.
We turn our ears to yet another singer who gained popularity during the big band era. A star in radio, recording, film, and TV. So get ready for the journey that started in Winchester Tennessee and ended up in Beverly Hills with Volume 93: Dinah Indeed.
Credits and copyrights
Dinah Shore – Dinah, Yes Indeed! Label: Capitol Records – T-1247, Capitol Records – T 1247 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1959 Genre: Jazz, Pop Style: Easy Listening, Vocal, Swing
It All Depends On You Written-By – Buddy DeSylva-Lew Brown- and Ray Henderson
Falling In Love With Love Written-By – Richard Rodgers-Lorenz Hart
Sentimental Journey Written By – music was written by Les Brown and Ben Homer, and the lyrics were written by Bud Green
I'm Old Fashioned Written-By – Jerome Kern, Johnny Mercer
Taking A Chance On Love Written-By – John Latouche, Ted Fetter, Vernon Duke
Yes Indeed! Written-By – Sy Oliver
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.
It’s been a while since we’ve pulled out this collection. We are going to hear some memorable comedians and some historical moments from just one of the six records in this Jack Benny hosted box set. So get ready for a severe contrast as we hear about our country at war and the comedians who kept us laughing during it with Volume 92: Golden Memories of Radio Part 3.
Credits and copyrights
Jack Benny – Golden Memories Of Radio Label: Longines Symphonette Society – none Format:6 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Mono, Box Set Country: US Released: 1969 Genre: Non-Music Style: Radioplay
The Great Radio Comedians "Allen's Alley" With Fred Allen, Senator Claghorn, Titus Moody, And Mrs. Nusbaum
Radio Reports World War II - "D" Day To Final Victory: Dwight D. Eisenhower Announces "D" Day/FDR On "D" Day/"Live" Report From Landing Ship/Iwo Jima Invaded FDR Death/ Arthur Godfrey At Funeral
Baron Munchausen, Featuring Jack Pearl Fibber McGee And Molly, With Mr. And Mrs. Jim Jordan
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Finishing up unofficial Franklin Mint Month we come across another influential cornet player. In fact, he influenced my dad’s favorite cornet player. So get ready for the musician and bandleader who helped make Dixieland music popular outside of Dixie in Volume 91: Oliver is King.
Credits and copyrights
Jelly Roll Morton / King Oliver / Sidney Bechet – Kings Of New Orleans Jazz Label: The Franklin Mint Record Society – FM JAZZ 017, The Franklin Mint Record Society – FM JAZZ 018, The Franklin Mint Record Society – FM JAZZ 019, The Franklin Mint Record Society – FM JAZZ 020 Series: The Greatest Jazz Recordings Of All Time, Institute Of Jazz Studies Official Archive Collection Format: 4 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Red Vinyl and Box Box Set Country: Sweden Released: 1983 Genre: Jazz
King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band - Canal Street Blues Composed by King Oliver and Louis Armstrong
King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band - Dipper Mouth Blues Composed by King Oliver and Louis Armstrong
King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band - Frog-I-Moore written by Jelly Roll Morton
King Oliver's Jazz Band - Riverside Blues written by Richard M. Jones
King Oliver & His Dixie Syncopators - Snag It Composed by King Oliver
King Oliver & His Dixie Syncopators - Aunt Hagar's Blues written by W. C. Handy and J Tim Brymn
King Oliver & His Dixie Syncopators - Wa Wa Wa Don't know
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Moving on with unofficial Franklin Mint Month we come across another extremely talented and influential saxophone player. His tragic life may have mirrored another sax player featured in a past episode, but Lester’s playing was all his own. So get ready to hear the musician Billie Holiday nicknamed Prez in Volume 90: Sax Master Young.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/apr/08/billie-holiday-and-lester-young-friendship-between-lady-day-and-prez
Credits and copyrights
Various – Jazz Masters Of The Sax Label: The Franklin Mint Record Society – FM JAZZ 014 Series: Institute Of Jazz Studies Official Archive Collection, The Greatest Jazz Recordings Of All Time Format: 4 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Red Vinyl Box Set Country: Sweden Released: 1983 Genre: Jazz
Jones-Smith Inc. – Shoe Shine Boy Written by Saul Chaplin Tenor Saxophone – Lester Young Trumpet – Carl "Tatti" Smith Piano - Count Basie String Bass - Walter Page Drums - Jo Jones Recorded Autumn 1936 Released on Vocalion Records
Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra – I Can't Get Started Music by Vernon Duke and lyrics by Ira Gershwin Trumpet - Buck Clayton Trombone - Dicky Wells Piano – Margaret "Queenie" Johnson Guitar - Freddie Greene String Bass - Walter Page Drums - Jo Jones Vocals – Billie Holiday Tenor Sax Lestor Young Recorded September 15, 1938 Released on Columbia Records
Count Basie & His Orchestra– Clap Hands! Here Comes Charley! written by Billy Rose, Ballard MacDonald and Joseph Meyer Alto Saxophone – Earle Warren Alto Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone – Jack Washington Trombone – Dickey Wells, Benny Morton, and Dan Minor Trumpet – Buck Clayton, Ed Lewis, Harry Edison and Shad Collins Guitar - Freddie Greene String Bass - Walter Page Drums - Jo Jones Piano - Count Basie Alto Sax - Lester Young Recorded August 4, 1939 Released on Vocalion Records
Young Quartet– I Never Knew written by Gus Kahn, Ted FioRito Piano - Johnny Guarnieri String Bass - Slam Stewart Drums - Sid Catlett Alto Sax - Lester Young Recorded on December 28, 1943 Released on Kenote Records
Young Quintet– Lester Blows Again Written by Lester Young Trombone – Vic Dickenson Piano - Dodo Marmarosa Guitar - Freddy Greene String Bass - Red Callendar Drums - Henry Tucker Green Alto Sax - Lester Young Recorded in October 1945 Released on Alladin
Young Quartet– Neenah Could not find the composer on this one Acoustic Bass – Joe Shulman Drums – Bill Clarke Piano – John Lewis Recorded in July of 1950 Released on Clef Records
Young-Cole-Rich Trio – I Want To Be Happy written by Vincent Youmans, Otto Harbach, Irving Caesar Piano - Nat King Cole Drums – Buddy Rich Alto Sax - Lester Young Recorded in December 1945 Released on Clef Records
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We continue with my unofficial naming of September as Franklin Mint Month since there is so much good music in this collection, The Greatest Jazz Recordings of All Time. And back to the keyboards we go for a talent whose technical ability was regarded by fellow musicians as extraordinary. So get ready for the greatest piano virtuoso Jazz has known in Volume 89 : Tatum on Keys.
Credits and copyrights
Various – Jazz Masters Of The Keyboard Vol. I Label: The Franklin Mint Record Society – FM JAZZ 010 Series: The Greatest Jazz Recordings Of All Time, Institute Of Jazz Studies Official Archive Collection Format: 4 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Red Box and Vinyl Box Set Country: Sweden Released: 1982 Genre: Jazz
Tea For Two 1924 song composed by Vincent Youmans
I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm written in 1937 by Irving Berlin
Tiger Rag Nick La Rocca, Eddie Edwards, Henry Ragas, Tony Sbarbaro, and Larry Shields.
Indiana composed by James F. Hanley in 1917
How High The Moon music by Morgan Lewis in 1940.
Cocktails For Two written by Arthur Johnston and Sam Coslow in 1934
Makin' Whoopee Composed by Walter Donaldson in 1928
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We now enter the unofficial Franklin Mint Month. Unofficial, because I just made it up in order to get through all of the records that make up this special section of my Dad’s collection. So, get ready for some sweet vocal performances in Volume 88: Greatest Jazz Singers Part 1.
Credits and copyrights
Taken from the Franklin Mint Box Set Various – The Jazz Singers Label: The Franklin Mint Record Society – The Franklin Mint Record Society – FM JAZZ 007 Series: The Greatest Jazz Recordings Of All Time, Institute Of Jazz Studies Official Archive Collection Format: 4 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Red Box and Vinyl Box Set Country: Sweden Released: 1982 Genre: Jazz
Ethel Waters– Guess Who's In Town Piano – James P. Johnson
The Boswell Sisters– It's The Girl Double Bass – Joe Tarto Piano – Arthur Schutt Trumpet – Mannie Klein Violin – Joe Venuti Vocals – Connie, Helvetia, Martha Boswell, the Boswell Sisters
Mildred Bailey– All Too Soon Double Bass – Frenchy Covetti Drums – Jimmy Hoskins Guitar – Dave Barbour Piano – Herman Chittison Vocals – Mildred Bailey
Ivie Anderson– Big Butter And Egg Man Drums – Lee Young Guitar – Irving Ashby Piano, Arranged By – Phil Moore Tenor Saxophone – Lucky Thompson Trumpet – Karl George Vocals – Ivie Anderson
orchestra playing so light behind her. Maxine Sullivan With Claude Thornhill's Orchestra– Blue Skies Alto Saxophone – Pete Brown Clarinet – Buster Bailey Double Bass – John Kirby Drums – O'Neil Spencer Piano, Arranged By – Claude Thornhill Tenor Saxophone – Babe Russin Trumpet – Frankie Newton Vocals – Maxine Sullivan
Julia Lee– My Sin Alto Saxophone – Benny Carter Cornet – Red Nichols Double Bass – Red Callender Drums – Baby Lovett Guitar – Jack Marshall Tenor Saxophone – David Cavanaugh Trombone – Vic Dickenson Vocals, Piano – Julia Lee Xylophone – Red Norvo Anita O'Day– Honeysuckle Rose Trombone – Joe Howard, Lloyd Elliott, Milt Bernhardt, Si Zentner
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It’s a 78 RPM Sunday. This time we head to Cuba and get treated to the latin beat that was so popular in the first half to middle of the 20th century and a rhythm that still rules some of the best music in the world. So, get ready to hear both sides of all four records in Volume 87: Rumba Rhapsody.
Credits and copyrights
Caney – Rumba Rhapsody Cuarteto Caney - Rumba Rhapsody album cover More images
Label: Decca – A-238 Series: 21M Series, Serie Hispana Format: 4 x Shellac, 10", 78 RPM, Album, Repress Released: 1942 Genre: Jazz, Latin Style: Rumba, Latin Jazz, Cubano
We will hear all eight sides of this collection.
Rumba Rhapsody Written-By – Rafael Audinot Pare Cochero Written-By – Marcelino Guerra, Miguel A. Banguela El Mondonguero Written-By – F. Bauzá Un Brujo De Guamabacoa Written-By – H. Cárdenas Paran Pan Pin Written-By – Luciano Pozo (Chano) Oye El Carbonero Written-By – Iván Fernández Mis Cinco Hijos Se Casaron Written-By – Osvaldo Farrés Con Un Solo Pie Written-By – B.J. Gutierrez
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My dad’s taste seemed to refine over the years. Many were the days late in his life when I would catch him listening to opera when he wasn’t listening to old country or one of the members of the rat pack. But it wasn’t just any old opera. So, get ready for one of the most popular contemporary vocal performers in the world with Volume 86: Pavarotti's Greatest Part 1.
Credits and copyrights
Luciano Pavarotti – Pavarotti's Greatest Hits Label: London Records – PAV 2003-4 Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Stereo, Gatefold Released: 1980 Genre: Classical Style: Opera
We are listening to Record One of the two record set and we will hear 6 of the 13 songs on the album.
Turandot: Nessun Dorma Composed By – Puccini* Conductor – Zubin Mehta Orchestra – The London Philharmonic Orchestra
La Bohème: Che Gilida Manina Composed By – Puccini Conductor – Herbert von Karajan Orchestra – The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
La Danza Composed By – Rossini* Conductor – Richard Bonynge Orchestra – Orchestra Del Teatro Comunale Di Bologna
Torna A Surriento Composed By – de Curtis Conductor – Gian Carlo Chiaramello Orchestra – The National Philharmonic Orchestra*
Carmen: Flower Song Composed By – Bizet Conductor – Leone Magiera Orchestra – The Vienna Volksoper Orchestra
Il Trovatore: Di Quella Pira Chorus – The Vienna Opera Chorus Composed By – Verdi Conductor – Nicola Rescigno Orchestra – The Vienna Opera Orchestra* Soprano Vocals – Gildis Flossmann
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The voice you will hear on this episode probably best represents what the music in our family was all about. Fun and funny…with an Italian twist. And this album is filled with all of that. So get ready for our Sunday dinner tour d'Italia taken from music played around the world with Volume 85: Monte's Bull.
Credits and copyrights
Lou Monte – The Mixed Up Bull From Palermo Label: Reprise Records – R-6155 Format: Vinyl, LP Released: 1964 Genre: Jazz Style: Big Band
We'll hear 8 or the 16 songs on this record.
The Mixed Up Bull From Palermo Think It Over Skinny Lena (translation...I think) Hello, Dolly! (Italian Style) Too Fat Polka (Italian Style) Who Stole My Provolone My Paisan's Across The Way Hootennany Italian Style
Ray Allen, Wandra Merrell, Marie Scaglione, Arthur Richardson, Ross MacLean, and Jerry Herman
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Back to Dixieland, but this time the music has a more laid-back, sophisticated style. And while I may have mentioned this trumpet player in a past episode, Red Nichols has not been featured on one of my dad’s records so far. So get ready for an entree that’s always on my dad’s menu with Volume 84: Dixieland for Dinner.
Credits and copyrights
Red Nichols And The Five Pennies – Dixieland Dinner Dance Label: Capitol Records – ST-1297 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo Released: 1960 Genre: Jazz Style: Dixieland
We'll hear 6 of the 10 songs on the album.
Cornet – Red Nichols Bass Saxophone – Joe Rushton, Jr. Clarinet – Bill Wood Trombone – Pete Beilmann, Sr. Drums – Rollie Culver Piano – Bobby Hammack Producer – Bill Miller Artwork – Frank Page
Johnson Rag Written-By – Guy Hall, Henry Kleinkauf, Jack Lawrence My Funny Valentine Written-By – Richard Rodgers - Lorenz Hart Satan Takes A Holiday Written-By – Larry Clinton Baby Won't You Please Come Home Written-By – Charles Warfield, Clarence Williams Stop, Look And Listen Written-By – George Van Eps, Johnny Van Eps, Ralph Freed American Patrol Arranged By, Adapted By – Henry Beau, Red Nichols
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It’s a 78 RPM Sunday and back to the time of Shakespeare we go. The music was conceived due to the composer’s love of an actress. The orchestra recorded here was assembled to lure the conductor out of Italy. So, get ready to hear excerpts from one of the most famous love stories in history with Volume 83: Toscanini Conducts Berlioz.
Credits and copyrights
NBC Symphony Orchestra Conducted By Arturo Toscanini – Romeo And Juliet Opus 17, Dramatic Symphony Excerpts Label: RCA Victor Red Seal – DM-1160 Format: 3 x Shellac, 12", 78 RPM, Album Released: Genre: Classical Style: Romantic
Rome Seul, Tristesse, Concert Et Bal, Grand Fete Chez Capulet (Part 1) Rome Seul, Tristesse, Concert Et Bal, Grand Fete Chez Capulet (Part 2) Rome Seul, Tristesse, Concert Et Bal, Grand Fete Chez Capulet (Concluded) Scene D'Amour (Part 1) Scene D'Amour (Part 2) Scene D'Amour (Concluded)
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I’m not sure there are enough superlatives available when describing the career of Bob Newhart. From early comedy and TV, through movie voiceovers and more TV, to being one of the most memorable regulars on a recent popular show. So get ready to hear The most celebrated new comedian since Attila (The Hun) with Volume 82: Button Down Bob.
Credits and copyrights
Bob Newhart – The Button-Down Mind Of Bob Newhart Label: Warner Bros. Records – W 1379 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono Released: 1960 Genre: Non-Music Style: Comedy
Recorded live at The Tidelands Club, Houston, Texas
Abe Lincoln Vs. Madison Avenue Merchandising The Wright Brothers Driving Instructor (Pilot Script For A New TV Series) Nobody Will Ever Play Baseball
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I’ve been familiar with Bobby Darin ever since I heard Splish Splash for the first time. I’ve been familiar with Johnny Mercer because he’s written at least a couple dozen of the songs we’ve heard on this show so far. So get ready for a couple singer songwriters who were born 27 years apart in Volume 81: Two of a Kind.
Credits and copyrights
Bobby Darin & Johnny Mercer With Billy May And His Orchestra – Two Of A Kind Label: ATCO Records – 33-126 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Shelley Press Released: 1961 Genre: Jazz, Pop Style: Big Band, Vocal
Two Of A Kind Written-By – Bobby Darin, Johnny Mercer - Indiana Written-By – Ballard MacDonald, James F. Hanley
Ace In The Hole - Funny interplay with one of them imitating other stars Written-By – George Mitchell (4), James Dempsey
East Of The Rockies Written-By – Lou Singer*, Sid Robin
I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None Of My Jellyroll Written-By – Clarence Williams, Spencer Williams
Who Takes Care Of The Caretaker's Daughter Written-By – Chick Endor, Paul Specht
Two Of A Kind Written-By – Bobby Darin, Johnny Mercer
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The voice you will hear is someone I’ve been a big fan of for years. The violinist you will hear is someone I’ve never heard of. But they’re on the same album compiled from songs recorded in 1935. So get ready to hear a couple of amazing jazz clowns in Volume 80: Hi-Fi Lootin'.
Credits and copyrights
Joe Venuti And Louis Prima – Hi-Fi Lootin' Label: Design Records – DLP 54 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: US Released: 1958 Genre: Jazz
I'm Confessin' That I Love You Confessin' by Louis Prima's New Orleans Gang (1936) written by Al J. Neiburg, Doc Daugherty, Ellis Reynolds, Sterling Grant, Chris Smith
Doin' Things written by Joe Venuti, Eddie Lang and released in 1928
Hoagie Carmicheal Medley Rockin Chair, Georgia On My Mind, Lazy River
Way Down Yonder In New Orleans written by Henry Creamer, Turner Layton
Basin Street written by Spencer Williams
Monday Date written by Earl Hines
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Back to the birthplace of jazz we go. To a concert that took place about 60 years ago in some unidentified club on some unidentified date. It featured a lot of great Dixieland musicians, but none more famous than one of the greatest jazz clarinet players there ever was. So get ready for more of that fun New Orleans music we heard around the house on a regular basis with Volume 79: Fountain Comes Alive.
Credits and copyrights:
Pete Fountain and other All-star Dixielanders – Dixieland (Live Performance In New Orleans) Label: RCA Camden – CAS 727(e) Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo Released: 1962 Genre: azz Style: Dixieland
When The Saints Go Marching In Written-By – Traditional Farewell Blues Written-By – Elmer Schoebel, Leon Roppolo, Paul Mares Darktown Strutters' Ball Written-By – Shelton Brooks Muskrat Ramble Written-By – Edward Ory 12th Street Rag Written-By – Euday L Bowman Won't You Come Home, Bill Bailey Written-By – Hughie Cannon
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It's a 78 RPM Sunday. This 5-record album of 10 inch shellac disks has some of the great Irving Berlin music re-recorded for a 1946 movie, which starred a couple of characters. So get ready for Vaudeville partners vying for the same beautiful woman on Volume 78: Berlin's Blue Skies.
Credits and copyrights:
Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire – Blue Skies Label: Decca – A-481 Format: 5x shellac 10” 78 RPM Disks in a bound book Year: 1946 Genre: soundtrack, Jazz, Pop Style: Vocal, Swing
All music written by Irving Berlin Blue Skies I'll See You In Cuba (Running Around In Circles) Getting Nowhere Everybody Step A Couple Of Song And Dance Men Puttin' On The Ritz
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It’s Fathers Day…I miss my dad very much. He’s been gone two and half years now leaving us with this magnificent record collection. The trumpet was the biggest musical connection I had with my dad. And I know this is the kind of record he probably pulled out very often. So get ready for seven more trumpet players I have yet to introduce you to in Volume 77: Trumpets for Father's Day.
Credits and copyrights:
Various – Man With A Horn: Trumpet Solos By Famous Jazzmen Label: Decca – DL 8250 Format: Vinyl, LP, Promo, Mono Released: 1954 Genre: Jazz Style: Big Band, Ragtime, Dixieland, Swing
Randy Brooks And His Orchestra - The Man With The Horn Featuring – Randy Brooks Music by Jack Jenney and Bonnie Lake. Lyrics by Eddie DeLange.
Jimmy McPartland And His Jazz Band - Singin' The Blues Till My Daddy Comes Home Featuring – Jimmy McPartland by Con Conrad, Sam Lewis, J. Russel Robinson, Joe Young
Glen Gray & The Casa Loma Orchestra - Memories Of You Featuring – Sonny Dunham by Eubie Blake, Andy Razaf
Muggsy Spanier And His Ragtimers - Hesitating Blues Featuring – Muggsy Spanier A traditional tune meaning no known composer.
Bunny Berigan And His Blue Boys - You Took Advantage Of Me Featuring – Bunny Berigan by Richard Rodgers
Andy Kirk And His Orchestra - McGhee Special Featuring and written by Howard McGhee
Ralph Mendez - Hora Staccato composed and originally performed by Jascha Heifetz, Grigoras Dinicu in 1906
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I think the Ray Conniff Singers were exactly what Ray Hamm had in mind for the sound when he invented the Music of Your Life Radio Format in the late 1970s. Soft luxurious arrangements of popular hits. So, get ready to hear plenty of chart-topping movie music from a chart-topping group in Volume 76: My Song.
Credits and coptyrights:
Ray Conniff And The Singers – This Is My Song And Other Great Hits Label: Columbia – CS 9476 Format: Vinyl, LP, Reissue, Stereo Released: 1970 Genre: Jazz Style: Easy Listening
This Is My Song Written-By – C. Chaplin Mame Producer – Jack Wiedenmann Written-By – J. Herman Sunrise, Sunset Lyrics By – S. Harnick Music By – J. Bock Cabaret Lyrics By – F. Ebb Music By – J. Kander Producer – Jack Wiedenmann Georgy Girl Lyrics By – J. Dale Music By – T. Springfield Born Free Lyrics By – D. Black Music By – J. Barry
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I think he had Rat Pack Company Badge number 2. He was always so smooth whether delivering a tune or a punchline, still never spilling his drink. He tied his wagon to a goofy comedian, and put out hit after hit. So, get ready to hear from the King of Cool in Volume 75: Everybody Loves Dean.
Credits and copyrights:
Dean Martin – Everybody Loves Somebody Label: Reprise Records – R-6130 Format: Vinyl, LP, Mono Released: 1964 Genre: Jazz Style: Easy Listening
We will hear 6 of the 12 songs from the album.
Everybody Loves Somebody by Irving Taylor and Ken Lane Your Other Love by Mort Shuman and Doc Pomus Shutters And Boards by Audie Murphy and Scott Turner Things by Bobby Darin Corrine Corrina by Armenter "Bo Carter" Chatmon Siesta Fiesta by Marcus Barkan and Ben Raleigh
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It’s a 78RPM Sunday. So far, when we've played these extra old records, they've come in an album with several records tied around one theme. But my dad had a ton of shellac records with no covers just lying around in stacks. After sorting them by record label, I thought you might like to hear from the most popular label in this part of my dad’s collection. So get ready for lots of high speed hiss but fun tunes two-at-a-time with Volume 74: 8 Sides from Columbia.
Credits and Copyrights:
Kay Kyser And His Orchestra - Woody Woodpecker Kay Kyser's Kampus Kowboys - When Veronica Plays the Harmonica Modernaires - Juke Box Saturday Night Modernaires - Glen Miller Tribute Rosemary Clooney, Jose Ferrer - AY AY Who’s the Guy Rosemary Clooney, Jose Ferrer -A Bunch of Bananas Harry James and His Orchestra - The Carnival of Venice Harry James and His Orchestra - Flight of the Bumblebee
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es, my parents loved their musicals and got to see many shows. Mostly at Playhouse Square in Cleveland, but they saw their share in New York City. This popular musical tells the tale of 1912 River City, Iowa in a Tony AND Grammy-winning musical from 1957. So, get ready for Trouble with a capital "T" which rhymes with "P" that stands for pool in Volume 73: The Music Man.
Credits and Copyrights
Meredith Willson – The Music Man - Original Broadway Cast Label: Capitol Records – WAO-990 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Gatefold Released: Jan 20, 1958 Genre: Stage & Screen Style: Soundtrack, Musical
We'll hear 7 of the 18 tracks from this album on this episode.
Overture/Rock Island Trouble Goodnight My Someone Seventy-Six Trombones Shipoopi Till There Was You Finale
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Back to one of my favorite composers/arrangers/conductors, Henry Mancini. And this recording has him boiling the music down to the essence of jazz. So, get ready for an interesting take on some classic tunes with Volume 72: Blues and the Beat.
Credits and copyrights:
Henry Mancini – The Blues And The Beat Label: RCA Victor – LPM-2147 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono Released: 1960 Genre: Jazz, Pop Style: Easy Listening
The Blues Composed by Henry Mancini Misty Composed by Johnny Burke and Erroll Garner Blue Flame Composed by Joe Bishop, Leo Corday and James Noble After Hours Composed by Erskine Hawkins and Avery Parrish The Beat Composed by Henry Mancini Big Noise From Winnetka Composed by Ray Bauduc, Bob Crosby, Bob Haggart and Gil Rodin Sing, Sing, Sing Composed by Louis Prima
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It’s mothers day…and I miss my mom very much. She’s been gone for almost seven years now. But I know that this is one of those albums that she would have chosen to be on the stereo. She was a poodle skirt-wearing bobby soxer when Old Blue eyes was really hot in the 1940s and 50s. And it’s an entertainer both my parents were able to see in concert a couple of times. So get ready for the Sultan of Swoon in Volume 71: This Is Sinatra! for Mothers Day.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frank-Sinatra/The-Rat-Pack-and-the-mob
Credits and copyrights:
Frank Sinatra – This Is Sinatra! Label: Capitol Records – T-768 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Mono, Scranton Pressing Released: 1956 Genre: Jazz, Pop Style: Big Band, Swing, Easy Listening, Vocal
Recorded : April 30, 1953 – September 13, 1955 at Capitol Studio on Melrose Ave.in Hollywood.
I've Got The World On A String Written-By – Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler Love And Marriage Written-By – James Van Heusen-Sammy Cahn* South Of The Border Conductor, Arranged By – Billy May Written-By – Jimmy Kennedy, Michael Carr Young-At-Heart Written-By – Carolyn Leigh, Johnny Richards My One And Only Love Written-By – Guy Wood, Robert Mellin Learnin' The Blues Written-By – Dolores Vicki Silvers
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You would think that polka music would be out of place in an Italian household. But not ours. It was one of the dances my parents loved to do and one I would even attempt at the right wedding. It was the music my grandmother and one of her sisters loved to play on the organ. And this kind of polka has Cleveland written all over it. So get ready for some beer drinking and skirt twirling with Volume 70: 7 Decades of the Polka King.
Credits and copyrights: Frank Yankovic – 70 Years Of Hits Label: Smash Records – 830 024-1 M-1 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Promo, Stereo Country: US Released: 1985 Genre: Folk, World, & Country Style: Polka
We will hear 7 of the 10 songs on this album.
Zivili Brace, Zivili Sestra Written by Johnny Krizancic Cleveland, A Polka Town Written by William Lausche Blue Skirt Waltz Written by Václav Bláha (or Rudolf Antonín Dvorský) Lyrics written by Mitchell Parish Just Because written by Joe Shelton, Sydney Robin and Bob Shelton Beer Barrel Polka Written by Jaromír Vejvoda Beer Drinking Song Written by Lacy J Dalton and David Wood Corrida #1/Serenata Written by Carlos Rosas
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As Jazz appreciation month draws to a close, we need to get a trumpet player in there. It’s even a musician I have not introduced you to yet. His playing is so effortless especially for the speed he plays. So get ready to hear the graceful and uptempo style from the horn of Roy Eldridge in Volume 69: Little Jazz on Horn Part 1.
Credits and Copyrights: Louis Armstrong Roy Eldridge Jazz Masterpieces Label: The Franklin Mint Record Society – JAZZ 003: FROM 1/2/3/4 Yes, Armstrong and elridge were the featured artists in the first box set of this collection. Series:The Greatest Jazz Recordings Of All Time – JAZZ 001, Institute Of Jazz Studies Official Archive Collection Format: 4 x Vinyl, LP,Compilation, Red vinyl Red Box Box Set Country: US Released: 1982 Genre: Jazz Style: Swing
Here Comes Cookie written by Mack Gordon Jangled Nerves Written by Bud Green, Sam H. Stept, Herman Ruby Swing Is Here Written by Gene Krupa, Chu Berry and Roy Eldridge Rockin' Chair composed by Hoagy Carmichael The Gasser Composed by Roy Eldridge Minor Jive Composed by Roy Eldridge Fiesta in Brass Composed by Roy Eldridge
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Moving on with Jazz appreciation month we come to a particular type of jazz from a particular type of city…New Orleans. There were many great and memorable musicians that came out of that town, and we’ve already featured several of them on this show. But when the Franklin Mint puts together an entire box set around the Kings of that kind of music, you need to sit and take notice. So get ready to hear the early genres begin to mix together on Jelly Roll’s keyboard in Volume 68: King Morton.
Credits and copyrights:
Jelly Roll Morton / King Oliver / Sidney Bechet – Kings Of New Orleans Jazz Label: The Franklin Mint Record Society – FM JAZZ 017 Series: The Greatest Jazz Recordings Of All Time, Institute Of Jazz Studies Official Archive Collection Format: 4 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Red Vinyl and Box, Box Set Country: Sweden Released: 1983 Genre: Jazz
We will hear both sides of record one. We'll listen to 7 f the 12 songs on the record.
King Porter Stomp Written by Jelly Roll Morton Mamie's Blues Written by Mamie Desdumes The Chant Composed by Mel Stitzel, Arranged by Jelly Roll Morton Original Jelly Roll Blues Written by Jelly Roll Morton Red Hot Pepper Written by Jelly Roll Morton Freakish Written by Jelly Roll Morton High Society Written in 1901 by Porter Steele
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Man, I wish I had kept the notes for the upper division History of Jazz class I took at Kent State University. Because Duke Ellington was on Professor Chaz Baker’s Mount Rushmore of Jazz. In fact, Duke’s music is so important he warranted a FULL box set from this Franklin Mint collection. So get ready to hear the most significant composer of the genre, in Volume 67: Duke, A Jazz Classic Part 1.
Credits and copyrights:
Duke Ellington – Great Jazz Classics Label: The Franklin Mint Record Society – FM JAZZ 021 Series: The Greatest Jazz Recordings Of All Time, Institute Of Jazz Studies Official Archive Collection Format: 4 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation, red vinyl and box Box Set Country: Sweden Released: 1983 Genre: Jazz
Doin' The Voom Voom Old Man Blues Creole Love Call Slippery Horn Hyde Park Harmony In Harlem Braggin' In Brass
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Welcome to Jazz appreciation month and what better way to celebrate than with the greatest jazz recordings of all time collection from the Franklin Mint. We will start the month with the versatile saxophone. And we will feature one of the true innovators on the instrument and jazz in general, Coleman Hawkins. So get ready for an ever-evolving sound in Volume 66: Sax Master Hawkins.
Credits and copyrights:
Various – Jazz Masters Of The Sax Label: The Franklin Mint Record Society – FM JAZZ 013 Series: Institute Of Jazz Studies Official Archive Collection, The Greatest Jazz Recordings Of All Time Format: 4 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Red Vinyl Box Set Country: Sweden Released: 1983 Genre: Jazz
We will listen to selections from both sides of disc one. We will hear 7 of the 12 songs on this record. And believe me, I had a tough time choosing those 7. In fact, so tough, I chose to include an extra song on this episode.
Hello, Lola Swinging In The Groove Body And Soul The Man I Love Picasso Mood Indigo Go Li'l Liza
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It’s a 78 RPM Sunday. On this show, we’ve had music sung in the language of my birth, English, and the language of my heritage, Italian, and the rhythmic beat of the language of Latin America, Spanish. We turn now to another language I’m going to butcher, German. So get ready for a 1934 performance of the music that just might have given Tolkien an idea in Volume 65: Wagner's Walkure.
Credits and copyrights:
Excerpts from Die Walküre / Philadelphia Orchestra ; Leopold Stokowski A Victor Musical Masterpiece. Label: Victor matrix CS-83102 Format: 4x shellac 78 RPM Records Released in 1934 Genre: Classical
We will hear 6 of the 8 sides from this collection.
Excerpts from Die Walkure Part 1 The Ride of the Valkyrie The Ride of the Valkyrie conclusion Wotan's Farewell Wotan's farewell concluded The Magic Fire
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For many decades, selling a million records meant you had recorded something special. While the songs you’ll hear on this episode were all million sellers, Andy was not the original singer when any of them hit a million in sales. So let’s get ready to hear me say a million at least a million times with Volume 64: William's Millions.
There are 12 songs on this record, We'll hear 7 of them on this episode
Credits and copyrights:
Andy Williams – Million Seller Songs Label: Cadence (2) – CLP 3061 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Mono Country: Canada Released: 1962 Genre: Pop
Twilight Time Written-By – Al Nevins, Artie Dunn, Buck Ram, Morty Nevins It's All In The Game Written-By – Carl Sigman, General Charles Gates Dawes Butterfly Written-By – Anthony September Love Letters In The Sand Written-By – Charles Kenny, J. Fred Coots, Nick Kenny Suddenly There's A Valley Written-By – Biff Jones, Chuck Meyer Mam'selle Written-By – Edmund Goulding, Mack Gordon So Rare Written-By – Jack Sharpe, Jerry Herst
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We now turn to music from the country where my mom’s parents and dad’s grandparents were born. Italia! And we hear it from one of the chart-topping female singers of the 1950s and 60s from around the world. So get ready for great music in TWO languages with Volume 63: Connie's Italian Hits.
Credits and copyrights:
Connie Francis – Connie Francis Sings Modern Italian Hits Label: MGM Records – E/SE 4102 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Repress, Stereo, Blue-Gold Label Country: E Canada, SE US Released: 1962 Genre: Pop, Folk, World, & Country Style: Chanson, Vocal
Al Di La Written By – Carlo Donida, Mogol whose real name is Giulio Rapetti
Il Cielo In Una Stanza (This World We Love In) Written By – Mogol, Toang whose real name is Renato Angiolini
24 Mila Baci Written By – composed by Ezio Leoni, Piero Vivarelli, Lucio Fulci, and Adriano Celentano
Quando Quando Quando (Tell Me When) Written-By – Alberto Testa, Tony Renis
Come Prima (For The First Time) Written By – written by Enzo Di Paola, Mario Panzeri, Buck Ram and Sandro Taccani
Tango Italiano Written By – written by Bruno Pallesi, Luciano Beretta and Walter Malgoni
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Back to the big screen we go. But this time the tunes are provided by just a trio of musicians instead of the orchestra full you are used to. And every one is an Oscar winner. So time to go groovin at the movies with extra butter for Volume 62: Popcorn and Soul.
Credits and copyrights:
The Roy Meriwether Trio – Popcorn & Soul: Groovin' At The Movies Label: Columbia – CL 2498 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono Released: 1966 Genre: Jazz
Never On Sunday Over The Rainbow Moon River Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah The Shadow Of Your Smile When You Wish Upon A Star
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It’s a 78 RPM Sunday. Since it’s still February, we might have a little leftover love on our mind. And since so many great tunes over the years have been titled with women’s names, this piano player made a list of his favorites….well back in 1944. So get ready for the ivory tickling many women’s fancy in Volume 61: Frankie's Girlfriends.
Credits and copyrights:
Frankie Carle – Frankie Carle And His Girl Friends Label: Columbia Set C-97 Genre: Jazz Style: Swing Year: 1944
Ida (Sweet As Apple Cider) Liza Charmaine Diane Margie Rose Marie Louise Josephine
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How fitting that this episode is number 60. Because something very important happened 60 years ago on the day this episode drops. While I might have just been a tiny bump in my mom’s belly at the time, the world had its eyes on the US Space Race. So, get ready for something literally out of this world in Volume 60: Glenn in Orbit.
Credits and copyrights:
No Artist – Go! - Colonel Glenn In Orbit Label: Crown Publishers, Inc. – OBC 101 Format: Vinyl, LP Released: 1962 Genre: Non-Music Style: Interview, Education
Lieutenant Colonel John H. Glenn, Jr. In The Friendship VII Space Capsule Lieutenant Colonel John A. Powers In The Mercury Control Tower Other Astronauts And Correspondents Stationed At Observation Posts Throughout The World President Kennedy's Greetings Lieutenant Colonel Glenn's Address To Congress
Produced in cooperation with NBC News - National Broadcasting Company © 1962, By National Broadcasting Co., Inc.
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Articles mentioned in the episode:
Ney York Times Article from February 21, 1962 https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/nasa/022162sci-nasa-witkin.html
60th Anniversary Article https://earthsky.org/space/john-glenn-1st-american-to-orbit-earth-feb-20-1962/
(My girlfriend Karen joins me on this episode) When it comes to love songs, one of the voices I often think of first is Nat King Cole. His effortless style, smooth voice and crystal clear lyrics have set the background for many romantic encounters over the years. So get ready to snuggle up to the one you love for Volume 59: Nat's L-O-V-E for Valentine's Day.
Credits and copyrights: Nat King Cole – L-O-V-E Label: Capitol Records – T 2195 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono Released: 1965 Genre: Jazz Style: Easy Listening
Three Little Words music by Harry Ruby and lyrics by Bert Kalmar, published in 1930 The Girl From Ipanema written in 1962 by Antônio Carlos Jobim and Vinicius de Moraes Coquette 1928 fox trot jazz standard composed by Johnny Green and Carmen Lombardo, with lyrics by Gus Kahn. Ti Guarderò Nel Cuore (More) written by Riz Ortolani and Nino Oliviero for the 1962 Italian documentary film Mondo Cane How I'd Love To Love You Joe Bailey L-O-V-E composed by Bert Kaempfert with lyrics by Milt Gabler My Kind Of Girl 1961 song written by Leslie Bricusse
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The Boob Tube. The idiot Box. TV will only be a fad. No matter how badly that living room screen has been disparaged, there has been some great music from some great shows over the years. So get ready to run some memories through those old brain tubes of yours for Volume 58: TV's Golden Hits.
Credits and copyrights:
Frank Chacksfield & His Orchestra – TV's Golden Hits Label: Compleat Records – 671020-1 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Club Edition, Stereo Released: 1986 Genre: Pop, Stage & Screen Style: Novelty, Soundtrack, Theme
Rawhide Hitchcock Presents Peter Gunn Dragnet The Man From U.N.C.L.E. The Jackie Gleason Show The Dick Van Dyke Show
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Welcome to the first 78 RPM Sunday. My earliest memories of listening to and playing music in my parents’ house involved this collection. It was created to teach children the instruments in the orchestra, but definitely not be boring about it…well for 1949. So get ready to hear the instruments talk in Volume 57: Rusty in Orchestraville.
Credits and copyrights:
Henry Blair And Billy Bletcher – Rusty In Orchestraville Label: Capitol Records – DCN-115 Format: 3 x Shellac, 10", 78 RPM Box Set, Album Released: 1949 Genre: Classical, Children's Style: Educational, Story
A Introduction B Violin / Cello / Bass Bass – Arthur Bernstein Cello – Kurt Reher Violin – David Frisina C Trumpet / Trombone Trombone – Edward Kusby Trumpet – Del Staigers D Haydn's Surpise Symphony E Woodwind & Percussion Family F Piano / Conclusion Piano – Raymond Turner
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He was often billed as the "greatest living entertainer in the world". In fact I watched him blow a slightly even more famous entertainer off the stage in 1988. His nickname was "Mr. Show Business,” and he held a grudge against JFK. So get ready for Rat Pack Style entertainment in Volume 56: Sammy is Now.
Credits and copyrights:
Sammy Davis Jr. – Now Label: MGM Records – SE-4832 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Released: 1972 Genre: Jazz, Pop Style: Vocal, Easy Listening
The Candy Man Songwriter – Anthony Newley, Leslie Bricusse I Want To Be Happy Songwriter – Irving Caesar, Vincent Youmans This Is My Life Songwriter – Bruno Canfora MacArthur Park Songwriter – Jim Webb John Shaft Songwriter – Isaac Hayes Time To Ride Songwriter – Charles, Mack David
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From Laugh In to Grace and Frankie, with many movies and a stop off for the Magic School Bus, Lily Tomlin has been a part of my entertainment life for parts of six decades. There are so many faces and voices that belong to her. But there's one, three-word line that makes her instantly recognizable. So get ready to hear early stage comedy from Ernestine herself with Volume 55: Lily's Ringy Dingy.
Credits and copyrights:
Lily Tomlin – This Is A Recording Label: Polydor – 24-4055 Format: Vinyl, LP Released: 1971 Genre: Non-Music Style: Comedy
The marriage counselor Obscene phone call Strike Ernestine The Pageant The F.B.I. The Mafia And The Pope
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Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass was never far from the stereo in my parents’ living room. The TJB easily has the highest number of records represented in my dad’s collection with 12. The second highest is Henry Mancini with 7. And, of course, it’s the ultimate representation of the happy music I grew up with I talk so much about. So get ready for some classical brass with Volume 54: Alpert's Ninth.
Credits and copyrights:
Herb Alpert And The Tijuana Brass* – Herb Alpert's Ninth Label: A&M Records – SP 4134 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Terre Haute Pressing Country: US Released: Dec 8, 1967 Genre: Jazz Style: Latin Jazz
The Love Nest Written-By – Louis Hirsch, Otto Harbach Cowboys And Indians Written-By – Sol Lake Flea Bag Written-By – Julius Wechter Carmen Arranged By – Herb Alpert, Peter Matz The Trolley Song Written-By – Hugh Martin, Ralph Blaine My Heart Belongs To Daddy Written-By – Cole Porter A Banda Written-By – Chico Buarque De Hollanda
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If you are anywhere near my age and older, you’ll remember those many new years eves tuned to your TV to watch the ball drop in Times Square. And usually, you were tuned into a CBS broadcast of Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians live from the Waldorf Astoria in New York City. Now I’ll be saving his most famous song for next year’s episode that DOES fall on New Years Day. But for this episode, get ready for all the other music that made up those magical broadcasts in Volume 53: Dancing Room for the New Year.
Credits and copyrights:
Guy Lombardo And His Royal Canadians – Dancing Room Only Label: Capitol Records – T1121 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono Country: US Released: 1959 Genre: Jazz, Pop Style: Big Band, Vocal, Easy Listening
Fascination Written-By – F. D. Marchetti Now Is The Hour Vocals – Bill Flannigan Written-By – C. Scott, D. Stewart, M. Kaihan Our Love Is Here To Stay Vocals – Kenny Gardner (2) Written-By – G. Gershwin-I. Gershwin East Of The Sun Written-By – B. Bowman Canadian Sunset Written-By – E. Heywood, N. Gimbel Arrivederci Roma (Goodbye To Rome) Vocals – Bill Flannigan Written-By – C. Sigman, Garinei, R. Rascel, Giovannini
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I’m sure I’ve already mentioned a couple of times how when I was cataloging both my dad’s and my record collections I kept finding his records in my collection and vica versa. Well, THIS album was part of my collection for most of the last four decades. So let’s jazz up this end of the year’s Christmas episode with Volume 52: Blues For Baby Jesus.
Credits and Copyrights:
Gary Mann (2) – Blues For Baby Jesus: The E & E Insurance Christmas Album Label: Educator & Executive Insurance – EE-101 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Released: 1972 Genre: Jazz
Jingle Bells Alone At Christmas Time God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen Sleigh Bells Christmas Song Blues for Baby Jesus
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Credits and copyrights:
Carlos Molina And His Orchestra – Latin Touch Label: Coronet Records – CXS-270 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Released: 1965 Genre: Jazz, Latin Style: Mambo, Latin Jazz
Tico Tico composed by Zequinha de Abreu in 1917 Ay Mi Chatita Mujer Celosa Mambo #5 composed by Pérez Prado in 1949 Mambo #8 composed by Pérez Prado
Ay Mi Chatita Por Mi Lloraras
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Ah, my mom and dad with their love of music from the movies. We’ve already heard a few tunes from the big screen this year on this show, like the Mancini episode of Academy Award winning music. Only a couple of the tunes you are about to hear earned an Oscar, and even Google hasn’t heard of the orchestra leader, but get ready anyway for silver screen music from the first half of last century in Volume 50: Hollywood Hits.
Credits and Copyrights:
Ronnie Ogden And His Orchestra – Hits From Hollywood - Vol. 3 For Hi-Fi Living Label: RCA Custom – RAL 1003, RCA Custom – RAL-1003 Series: For Hi-Fi Living – Volume 3 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Released: 1957 Genre: Jazz, Pop
I Feel A Song Coming' On Written: 1935 Music by: Jimmy McHugh Words by: Dorothy Fields Written for: Every Night at Eight
It's A Most Unusual Day Written: 1948 Music by: Jimmy McHugh Words by: Harold Adamson Written for: A Date with Judy
Over The Rainbow Written: 1938 Music by: Harold Arlen Words by: E. Y. Yip Harburg Written for: The Wizard of Oz
Ramona Written in 1928 music by Mabel Wayne lyrics by L. Wolfe Gilbert Written for Ramona (Silent Film)
High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me) Written: 1952 Music by: Dimitri Tiomkin Words by: Ned Washington Written for: High Noon
Three Coins In The Fountain Written: 1955 Music by: Jule Styne Words by: Sammy Cahn Written for: Three Coins In The Fountain
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Here’s another collection of albums released by the Longines Symphonette Society. One of 12 my dad has in his collection. You’ve already heard from a couple. This is a three record set and we’ll be listening to selections from record one. So get ready for music from a completely anonymous source in Volume 49: Birth of the Blues Part 1.
The Longines Symphonette – Birth Of The Blues - Vol. 11 Label: Longines Symphonette Society – C-7-11 1 Series: Our Century In Music – 11 Format: 3 x Vinyl, LP Box Set Country: Canada Released: 1974 Genre: Blues
Birth Of The Blues Music by Ray Henderson Rhapsody in Blue written by George Gershwin Stormy Weather written by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler Mississippi Mud written by Harry Barris and James Cavanaug St. James Infirmary Anonymous Ja Da a hit song written in 1918 by Bob Carleton.
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What? Another trumpet player we haven't played yet? What? More dixieland? From my dad's collection? Well of course. And this is just one of four albums from this trumpet master in my dad’s collection. So get ready to take a trip back to New Orleans for some happy music in Volume 48: Al Hirt Swingin' Dixie.
Credits and copyrights:
Al Hirt – Swingin' Dixie Volume 3 Label: Audio Fidelity – AFLP 1926 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono Released: 1960 Genre: Jazz Style: Dixieland
High Society Written-By – Porter Steele Bill Bailey words and music were written by Hughie Cannon Arranged By – Hirt, Sidney Frey Dixieland One Step Written-By – Nick La Rocca Up A Lazy River Written-By – Hoagy Carmichael, Sidney Arodin Sweet Georgia Brown Written-By – Ben Bernie, Kenneth Casey, Maceo Pinkard Down By The Riverside Arranged By – Hirt, Sidney Frey
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This is a cool collection. Benny Goodman performed a famous concert in 1938 at Carnegie Hall, which happened to be recorded and released 12 years later. However, this album was culled from CBS radio broadcasts from the previous year and not released until 1956. So get ready for some raw Benny Goodman taken from the early airwaves with Volume 47: Swing's King Concert 2
Credits and Copyrights:
Benny Goodman – 1937-38 Jazz Concert No. 2 The King Of Swing Vol. 1 Label: Columbia – CL 817, Columbia – CL-817 Series: Benny Goodman Silver Anniversary Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Compilation, Mono Released: 1956 Genre: Jazz Style: Big Band, Swing
Ridin' High Written-By – Cole Porter Nice Work If You Can Get It Written-By – Ira Gershwin - George Gershwin Vibraphone Blues Written-By, Vocals – Lionel Hampton The Sheik Of Araby Written-By – Francis Wheeler, Harry Smith, and Ted Snyder Sunny Disposish Written By – Ira Gershwin and Phil Charig Nagasaki Written-By – Harry Warren and Mort Dixon Band–St. Louis Blues Written-By – W. C. Handy
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You’ve heard some great Oscar-winning music from the big screen in previous episodes. Now it’s time to hear some great music from a Tony-winner. So prepare to hear English Americans haven’t used in years with Volume 46: My Fair Lady.
Rex Harrison, Julie Andrews – My Fair Lady Label: Columbia Masterworks – OL 5090 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono Released: 1956 Genre: Stage & Screen Style: Musical
Overture - Why Can't The English? Wouldn't It Be Loverly (‘scuse the early skips) With A Little Bit Of Luck The Rain In Spain I Could Have Danced All Night On The Street Where You Live I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face
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Here’s a trumpet player I was not familiar with. Although I did mention him in the Dizzy Gillespie episode. And it seems to be a reissue from another band. So let’s get ready for some jazz in its simplest form with Volume 45: Jonah's Trumpet on Tour.
Credits and Copyrights:
Jonah Jones – Trumpet On Tour Label: Baronet Records – B-103 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Released: 1962 Genre: Jazz Style: Swing
Jonah Whales Again Jumpin' On 57th Pete's Delta Bound Manhattan Blues Stormy Weather Walkin' And Shoutin The Boogie
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Back to dance music….from the first half the 20th century, give or take a few years. In fact, most of the music recorded by this orchestra leader was recorded on 78 RPM records. And according to discogs he had 88 of them to his name. So let’s get ready to get this party swinging with Volume 44: Invitation to the Dance.
Al Donahue And His Society Orchestra – Invitation To Dance Label: Design Records (2) – DLP 51 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono Country: US Released: 1957 Genre: Jazz, Pop Style: Easy Listening
Low Down Rhythm In A Top Hat Written in 1935 by Irving Berlin Autumn Leaves composed by Joseph Kosma in 1945. Lyrics by Johnny Mercer High Society originally a march copyrighted in April 1901 by Porter Steele
Around The World In Eighty Days music by Victor Young in 1956 for the movie of the same name Baila, Cha Cha Cha Composed by Ernesto Duarte Brito in 1953 Nocturne For Nell Rhapsaboogie
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Did I mention my parent’s loved the music of Hollywood? This is only the second time we’ve heard music from the silver screen. There will be plenty more. And this is the first of eight records by this composer, arranger and orchestra director. Get ready to hear Academy Award winning music music from Academy Award worthy movies in Volume 43: Mancini and the Oscar Winners.
Credits and copyrights: Henry Mancini – 12 Great Oscar Winners Volume 2 Label: RCA Victor – PRM-175 Format: Vinyl, LP, Mono Released: 1965 Genre: Stage & Screen
Three Coins In The Fountain High Hopes Over The Rainbow Swingin' On A Star The Way You Look Tonight In The Cool, Cool, Cool Of The Evening
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In this episode, we turn to the waltz. Despite my dad’s real love of dixieland, other jazz music and all things Rat Pack, I think he really collected beautiful music like this so he could dance with my mom. So let’s do the dance done in three four time in Volume 42: Waltzes with a Continental Flavor.
Credits and Copyrights:
Kurt Weininger And The Vienna Baroque Orchestra – Waltzes With A Continental Flavor Label: Design Records (2) – DLP 41 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1957 Genre: Classical, Folk, World, & Country
Credits and copyrights: All music Composed by Johann Strauss II Voices Of Spring A Thousand And One Nights Tales From The Vienna Woods Vienna Life Southern Roses Emperor Waltz The Beautiful Danube
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Here’s one of those collections I didn’t know my dad had. But I’m not surprised it’s in there. This is some old country western music, from some of the original recording stars. So get ready to get along little doggie for Volume 41: Tumbling Tumbleweeds Part 1.
Credits and Copyrights:
Various – Tumbling Tumbleweeds Label: Reader's Digest – RDA-229 / A Format: 7 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation Box Set Country: US Released: 1982 Genre: Folk, World, & Country Style: Country
Slim Whitman - The Red River Valley Hank Snow - The Golden Rocket Hank Snow - The Wabash Cannonball The Sons Of The Pioneer - Whoopee Ti Yi Yo (GIt Along Little Dogies) The Sons Of The Pioneer - Cool Water The Sons Of The Pioneers - Tumbling Tumbleweeds Eddy Arnold - Casey Jones (The Brave Engineer) Merle Haggard - Train Whistle Blues
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Hot damn! Another trumpet player. One I saw with my parents at the State Theater in Cleveland in the mid 1990s. One you saw almost every night on your living room TV...or bedroom TV where many people watched Johnnie Carson. So get ready for some soft Dixieland from a guy who used to wear some loud shirts on late night with Volume 40: Doc Severinson and Friends
Doc Severinson – Doc Severinson And Friends Label: Everest Records Archive Of Folk & Jazz Music – FS 334 Format: Vinyl, LP Released: 1978 Genre: Jazz
Georgia On My Mind music by Hoagy Carmichael My Old Kentucky Home music by Stephen Foster Tennessee Waltz music by Pee Wee King Swanee River music by Stephen Foster Carolina In The Morning music by Walter Donaldson Moon Over Miami music by Joe Burke M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I written by Curley Williams, Billy Simmons
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On this episode, we get to hear another record from a great collection of one of the best known big bands ever. Plus I always think of my parents as they floated across the dance floor to music like this. So, let’s get ready to once again hear from the king of the dance hall in Volume 39: Glenn Miller Collection Part 2.
Credits and copyrights Glenn Miller And His Orchestra – Second Pressing Label: RCA Victor – LPT 6700 Series: Collectors Issue Format: 5 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: Canada Released: 1956 Genre: Jazz
Say Si Si Written-By – Al Stillman, Ernesto Lecuona, Francia Luban Caribbean Clipper (even with the beginning skip) Written-By – Jerry Gray, Sammy Gallop Something old, new, borrowed, blue Medley Japanese Sandman Written-By – Raymond Egan, Richard Whiting What's The Matter With Me Vocals – Marion Hutton Written-By – Sam Lewis, Terry Shand Let's Dance Written-By – Frank Skinner Blue Room Written-By – Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart Rhapsody In Blue Written-By – George Gershwin Down For The Count Written-By – Bill Finegan Sliphorn Jive Written-By – Eddie Durham
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It’s been over a month since I’ve featured a trumpet player, so I’m having withdrawals. I was very glad to see this album in my dad’s collection. I have long been a fan of this jazz icon. So let’s get ready for some hot jazz with some hot tempos in Volume 38: Dizzy Will Excite.
Credits and Copyrights
St. Louis Blues Composed by W. C. Handy My Heart Belongs To Daddy Composed by Cole Porter Moonglow Composed by Eddie DeLange, Irving Mills, and Will Hudson Woody'n You Composed by Dizzy Gillespie I Found A Million Dollar Baby In The Five And Ten Cent Store Composed by Harry Warren
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Both my parents seemed to enjoy music from movies, whether it be original soundtracks or variations arranged and recorded by other artists. My dad also owned eight records by the orchestra leader Ray Conniff who was popular for arranging and performing other composers’ works. So get ready to combine my parents love of big screen music with the Conniff sound in Volume 37: Hollywood in Rhythm.
Ray Conniff And His Orchestra – Hollywood In Rhythm Label: Columbia – CL 1310 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono Country: US Released: 1959 Genre: Jazz, Pop Style: Easy Listening
Credits and copyrights
Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing Written-By – Paul Francis Webster And Sammy Fain Thanks For The Memory Written-By – Leo Robin, Ralph Rainger Cheek To Cheek Written-By – Irving Berlin Laura Written-By – David Raksin, Johnny Mercer Stella By Starlight Written-By – Ned Washington, Victor Young It Might As Well Be Spring Written-By – Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein
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While I am very familiar with some of this artist’s music, I was completely unfamiliar with the music on this record. The tunes are played with a really interesting juxtaposition between written music and improvisation using the musical theme of the first song on the album. So get ready to hear the same tune over and over again without realizing it on Volume 36: Brubeck's Riddle
The Dave Brubeck Quartet – The Riddle Label: Columbia – CL 1454 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono Released: 1959
Credits and copyrights Hey, Ho, Anybody Home? The Twig Offshoot Swingin' 'Round (everybody takes a turn) The Riddle Yet We Shall Be Merry All tunes composed by William Smith
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I grew up just east of Cleveland. My dad took me to my first Browns game when I was ten in 1972 and I still watch games at the new stadium. I’ve been going to Indians and Cavaliers games for almost as long. There’s another Cleveland institution that brings back great family memories and that is the Cleveland Orchestra. So get ready for a march through Severance Hall with Volume 35: Cleveland Orchestra Marches.
The Cleveland Orchestra – Majestic Marches Label: Telarc Records – none Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Country: US Released: 1981 Genre: Classical Style: March
Farandole from L’Arlesienne Suite Number 2 Composed by Georges Bizet Viennese Musical Clock and Entrance of the Emperor and his court from Harry Janos Suite Composed by Zoltán Kodály Kije's Wedding and Troika from Lt. Kije Suite Composed by Sergei Prokofiev Marche Slave Composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Hungarian March from the Damnation of the Faust Composed by Hector Berlioz American Salute - Variations on When Johnny Comes Marching Home Composed my Morton Gould
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This is not an album that was played often in the house. In fact, this is one of those albums I don’t remember my dad having at all. But after listening to it, I could understand why my dad had it in his collection. It’s that happy music that I talk about so much. So get ready for a south American beat with Volume 34: Brasile '66 Ye-Me-Le
Credits and copyrights:
Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66* – Ye-Me-Le Label: A&M Records – SP-4236, A&M Records – SP 4236 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1969 Genre: Jazz, Latin Style: Bossa Nova, Easy Listening
Ye-Me-Le Written-By – Chico Feitosa, Luis Carlos Vinhas Wichita Lineman Written-By – Jimmy Webb Norwegian Wood Written-By – Lennon-McCartney Moanin' Written-By – Bobby Timmons Masquerade Written-By – Leonard Haynes, Ron Rose What The World Needs Now Written-By – Burt Bacharach - Hal David
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For the second time we turn to a Herb Alpert record. One of 12 my dad had in his collection. This album is filled with many familiar TJB tunes, including one that was used on a game show. So get ready for the upbeat and very cool sound that used to fill our home in Volume 33: Tijuana Brass Going Places.
Credits and copyrights:
Herb Alpert And The Tijuana Brass* – !!Going Places!! Label: A&M Records – SP-4112 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Monarch Pressing Country: US Released: Oct 1965 Genre: Jazz, Pop Style: Latin Jazz, Easy Listening, Instrumental
Tijuana Taxi Ervan Coleman Spanish Flea Julius Wechter Cinco De Mayo Chris Montez I'm Getting Sentimental Over You George Bassman More And More Amor Sol Lake Zorba The Greek Mikis Theodorakis The Third Man Theme Anton Karas
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We are returning to the Smithsonian collection the Greatest Jazz recordings of all time. This episode is record one of a four-record box set that features a piano player on each disc. So get ready for one of the original cutters in Volume 32: Jazz Keyboard Master Fats Waller
The Smithsonian collections include a booklet for each box set. I’ll use these notes to introduce each song.
Credits and copyrights:
Various – Jazz Masters Of The Keyboard Vol. I Label: The Franklin Mint Record Society – FM JAZZ 009, Series: The Greatest Jazz Recordings Of All Time – , Institute Of Jazz Studies Official Archive Collection – Format: 4 × Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Red Box and Vinyl Box Set Country: Sweden Released: 1982 Genre: Jazz
Handful Of Keys Honeysuckle Rose Vibraphone Anita Clarinet Marmalade Lounging At The Waldorf Paswonky
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Pictures at an Exhibition is a suite of ten pieces - plus a recurring, varied Promenade - composed for piano by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky in 1874. The suite is Mussorgsky's most famous piano composition, and has become a showpiece for virtuoso pianists. It has become further known through various orchestrations and arrangements produced by other musicians and composers, with Maurice Ravel's 1922 version for full symphony orchestra being by far the most recorded and performed.
By the way, we’ll also hear an excerpt from another Russian composer on this episode. So get ready for an historical composer, conductor and orchestra all rolled up into one masterpiece on Volume 31: Pictures at an Exhibition
Credits and copyrights:
Moussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Leonard Bernstein, The New York Philharmonic – Pictures At An Exhibition · Capriccio Espagnol Label: Columbia Masterworks – ML 5401 Format: Vinyl, LP, Mono Released: 1959 Genre: Classical Style: Romantic, Modern
Promenade and The Gnomes Tuileries Ballet Of The Chicks In Their Shells Fandango Asturiano from Cappriccio The Great Gate Of Kiev
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The title of this collection is a little deceiving. Yes, you will hear Bing Crosby singing, but you will hear several selections of the Longines Symphonette without him singing. I don’t have a problem with that, so let’s listen to some beautiful music and a beautiful voice in Volume 30: Bing's Loved Songs Part 1
The Longines Symphonette – Bing Crosby's Treasury - The Songs I Love Label: Longines Symphonette Society – none Format: 6 × Vinyl, LP, Stereo Box Set Released: 1966 Genre: Jazz, Pop, Stage & Screen Style: Vocal, Swing, Musical, Big Band, Easy Listening
Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive written by Harold Arlen and the lyrics by Johnny Mercer in 1944 What'll I Do Written-By – Irving Berlin 1923 Cheek to Cheek Written-By – Irving Berlin 1935 Joobalai Lyrics By – Leo Robin 1938 Music By – Ralph Rainger Marie Irving Berlin in 1924 One for My Baby written by Harold Arlen and the lyrics by Johnny Mercer for the movie musical The Sky's the Limit, 1943
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We are once again featuring a non-music record from my dad’s collection. In fact, this is the second dive into this collection of six records. My previous life in radio made me really appreciate the history we are hearing on this collection. AND I get to share a couple of my own radio stories in this episode. So get ready to heat up some old tubes on Volume 29: Golden Memories of Radio Part 2
Jack Benny – Golden Memories Of Radio Label: Longines Symphonette Society Format: 6 × Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Mono, Box Set Released: 1969 Genre: Non-Music Style: Radioplay
We are listening to record two, which is side 2 and 11.
Excerpts from: Jack Benny and Frank Knight’s narration The Romance Of Helen Trent Just Plain Bill Babe Ruth And Lou Gehrig On Their Radio Show Babe Ruth's Final Message Lou Gehrig Says "Goodbye" "Ma" Perkins Last Broadcast Mary Noble, Back Stage Wife classic live on-air blunders Mary Margaret McBride With Mr. & Mrs. Alben Barkley Commercials: Interwoven Socks, Chesterfield Smoke Dreams, Pepsi-Cola, Rinso, Lava, Crisco, The Longines-Wittnauer Watch Company
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It was a movie for the ages. Cinematic history in how it was filmed and how many extras were required. The 1959 epic had the largest budget, over $15 million, as well as the largest sets built, of any film produced at the time. And the score was just as large. So get ready for big music from the big screen in Volume 28: Ben Hur.
Miklos Rozsa – Ben-Hur Label: MGM Records – SIEI, MGM Records – 1E1 Format: Box Set, Deluxe Edition Vinyl, LP, Stereo Released: 1959 Genre: Stage & Screen Style: Soundtrack, Score
Prelude Love Theme of Ben Hur The Rowing of the Galley Slaves Naval Battle Victory Parade The Miracle And Finale
It’s the independence day episode. So what better way to honor America than with the best damn band in the land. Get ready for some high stepping, fast marching and fancy formations in Volume 27: Buckeyes, Brass and Independence
Learn more about The Frank and Pauline Vaccariello Memorial Scholarship here. https://frankvaccariello.com/scholarship/
Credits and Copyrights:
The Ohio State University Marching Band – Stars, Stripes 'n Brass Label: FSR – FSRS 1294 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Released: 1974 Genre: Brass & Military Style: Marches
The Stars And Stripes Forever Written by John Phillip Sousa Yankee Doodle Traditional Overture To 1776 music and lyrics by Sherman Edwards Semper Sousa Arranged by Frank Seymour Le Régiment de Sambre et Meuse & Battle Cry by Robert Planquette and Paul Cezano Buckeye Battle Cry Written by Frank Crumit Big Ten Medley Arranged by Richard Heine Hang On Sloopy Written by Wes Farrell and Burt Burns Chimes And Carmen Ohio Written by Freddy Cornell
While I am familiar with this band leader’s music, I was not familiar with the main piece of music on this record. It’s not really his style. So we’ll hear the story of why Perez Prado wrote it and we’ll listen to all three movements in Volume 26: Voodoo Suite
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Perez Prado, featuring Shorty Rogers – Voodoo Suite Plus Six All-Time Greats Label: RCA Victor – LPM-1101 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono Released: 1955 Genre: Jazz, Latin Style: Latin Jazz, Afro-Cuban Jazz, Cha-Cha, Mambo
I Can’t get started composed in 1938 by Vernon Duke
Voodoo Suite Composed in 1954 by Perez Prado
In the Mood Composed by saxophonist Joe Garland in 1938
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If you haven’t noticed, my dad’s vinyl collection is filled with Dixieland jazz musicians. But there aren’t many musicians who were as famous as this artist born in New Orleans, stayed there for most of their career and died there. So, let’s lick that licorice stick down in the Big Easy for Volume 25: Pete Fountain a High Society Fathers Day
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Pete Fountain – High Society Label: Pickwick – SPC-3201 Format: Vinyl, LP, Stereo Released: 1956 Genre: Jazz Style: Dixieland
Recording Date: June 10, 1956 - June 12, 1956 in New Orleans, LA
High Society Written in 1901 by Porter Steele That's A Plenty 1914 ragtime piano composition by Lew Pollack. Lyrics by Ray Gilbert The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise 1919 composed by Ernest Seitz Up A Lazy River 1930 Hoagy Carmichael Mahogany Hall Stomp 1929 Spencer Williams Farewell Blues 1922 jazz standard written by Paul Mares, Leon Roppolo and Elmer Schoebel ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.
We’re going to do something a little different in this episode
I’m not only interested in the music itself, but I’ve always loved the more technical side of recordings as well. What equipment was used to record and play back music has always fascinated me. And I really dig the history of recording that is included inside the gatefold of this album that RCA Victor put out. Yes...we will learn a little about the dog that stares into the old phonograph that you see on RCA Victor records.
So get ready to hear some great music while we learn about the technology that recorded it and played it back in Volume 24: Music America Loves Part 1
My experience and research only goes so far. See corrections to recording dates below provided by collector @eblackadder3:
Various – 60 Years Of "Music America Loves Best" Label: RCA Victor Red Seal – LM-6074 Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Gatefold Released:1959 Genre: Jazz, Pop, Classical, Folk, World, & Country Style: Vocal, Opera, Romantic, Swing, Instrumental
Enrico Caruso Vesti La Giubba (From "Pagliacci") Composed by Ruggero Leoncavallo Recorded February 1, 1904 117 years ago (The Caruso recording of "Vesti la Giubba" heard here was his second version for Victor, recorded on March 17, 1907. And the version on this album is the "re-recorded" version , with an electrically recorded orchestral accompaniment overdubbed onto the original orchestra in 1932.)
Paul Whiteman and his Ambassador Orchestra Whispering Written by Vincent Rose Recorded on August 23, 1920
Sergei Rachmaninoff Prelude In C-Sharp Minor Sergei Rakhmaninov Recorded April 23, 1919 (The Rachmaninoff prelude is the electrical version recorded April 4, 1928; the acoustical recording was made October 14, 1921 (not in 1919).)
Mario Lanza Be My Love lyrics by Sammy Cahn and music by Nicholas Brodszky Recorded in 1950
Arturo Toscanini, NBC Symphony Orchestra "Lohengrin" Prelude, Act III Composed by Richard Wagner Recorded in 1954 (1951)
The Ames Brothers The Naughty Lady Of Shady Lane written by Sid Tepper and Roy C. Bennett Recorded on September 8, 1954
Perez Prado Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White Composed by Louis Guglielmi Recorded in 1950 (1955)
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To commemorate what would have been my parents’ 62nd anniversary, we’ll pull out a record filled with the type of Italian music you would hear in a festive restaurant.
This episode drops on June 6. My parents’ wedding anniversary. Even though Italian was not spoken around the house, there was still very much an Italian vibe within the family. When you're 100% Italian, it’s hard for there not to be.
So let’s celebrate what would have been 62 years of marriage for my parents with Volume 23: Anniversary Special for the Cafe Italiano
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Jo Basile, Accordion And Orchestra ; Aldo Conti, Tenor & Chorus – Cafe Italiano Label: Audio Fidelity – AFLP 1893 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: US Released: 1958 Genre: Jazz, Folk, World, & Country Style: Folk
Miguel written by Marino Marini, Ramón Cabrera
Guaglione Kid written by Nisa, Giuseppe Fanciulli
Scapricciatiello written by Ferdinando Albano, Pacifico Vento
Sophia written by Nino Oliviero, Enrico Caputo, Franco Mele
Maruzzella written by Åke Gerhard, Renato Carosone, Enzo Bonagura
Pizza Pizza
O Ciucciariello written by Nino Oliviero, Roberto Murolo
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Yes...I knew he had this album. Yes...I listened to it every once in a while. Yes...there is an extra special connection to my father. Not because of this album. But because of how important the Indianapolis Motor Speedway was to me and my brothers growing up. And how often we listened to the race each year on the radio.
This will be a special format episode. Between segments of the album, I will read from an essay I wrote in a college creative writing class in 1995. Yes...when I was 33. Yes...as my radio career was winding down.
So get ready to turn left 800 times with Volume 22: The Indy 500
Van Camp's Pork And Beans Presents Great Moments From The Indy 500 Label: Fleetwood Records – FMS 1006, Format: Vinyl, LP Released: 1974 Genre: Non-Music Style: Spoken Word
Arranged By [500 Theme By] – Joe Jordan Edited By [Tape Editor] – Bob Lindgren, Jeff Landroche Engineer [Associated Engineer] – Paul Bender Engineer [Chief Engineer] – Bill Ferruzzi Executive-Producer – Victor F. Mancini Illustration – Dick Hamilton Research [Consultant] – Al Bloemker Written-By – Ron Dorson Written-By, Edited By – Donald Davidson Written-By, Edited By AND Narrator by– Sid Collins
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If you’re a regular listener to the show, you’ll know how eclectic my dad’s collection is. And sometimes just one album is eclectic. So get ready for the 1960s looking back at the previous three decades in Volume 21: Remember How Great?
Various – Remember How Great...? Label: Columbia Record Productions – XTV 66640 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Released: 17 Jan 1961 Genre: Jazz Style: Big Band, Easy Listening
Dinah Shore Buttons And Bows Written-By – Livingston - Evans Recorded November 30, 1947
André Kostelanetz Night And Day Written-By – Cole Porter Released in 1954
Les Brown Sentimental Journey Vocals – Doris Day written by Les Brown and Ben Homer, and the lyrics were written by Bud Green. recorded it in 1945
Mary Martin My Heart Belongs To Daddy Written-By – Cole Porter First live performance on November 9, 1938
Xavier Cugat and His Waldorf-Astoria Orchestra Brazil Written-By – A. Barroso 30 December 1941
Cab Calloway Blues In The Night Written-By – Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen Recorded New York, NY, September 10, 1941
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My dad’s collection is filled with Dixieland jazz. You’ve already heard a couple in previous episodes. This album has an all-star cast that was pulled together in the wee hours of the morning. But they definitely were not ready to stop swinging yet. So get ready to put on your all night dancing shoes for Volume 20: Golden Era of Dixieland Jazz.
Claude Hopkins, Pee Wee Erwin, Vic Dickenson, Buster Bailey, Milt Hinton, George Wettling – The Golden Era Of Dixieland Jazz 1887 - 1937 Label: Design Records (2) – DLP 38 Format: Vinyl, LP, Mono Released: 1957 Genre: Jazz Style: Dixieland
Bass – Milt Hinton Clarinet – Buster Bailey Drums – George Wettling Piano, Leader – Claude Hopkins Trombone – Vic Dickenson Trumpet – Pee Wee Erwin
When The Saints Go Marching In Traditional Struttin' With Some Barbeque 1927 by Lil Hardin Armstrong Muskrat Ramble written by Kid Ory in 1926. Clarinet Marmalade composed by Larry Shields and Henry Ragas in 1918 I Would Do Anything For You Written in 1932 by Alex Hill, Claude Hopkins and Bob Williams Birth Of The Blues Written in 1926 by Ray Henderson
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The voice you will hear on this episode is from a hugely important singer...in history...and in my parents’ lives. His music fills up many of the tracks in my dad’s collection and would fill the air when I went to visit him late in his life. Not just vinyl, but cassettes and CDs.
However this is a Mother’s Day Special and my mom was a huge fan as well. I mean how couldn’t she be? She graduated high school in the mid-1950s during this singer’s heyday. She was the epitome of the bobbysoxer.
So...let’s hear some of the most tender ballads ever recorded in Volume 19: Frank Sinatra The Voice for Mothers Day
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Frank Sinatra – The Voice Label: Columbia – CL 743 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Mono Released: 1955 Genre: Jazz Style: Easy Listening
Over The Rainbow Written in 1939 by Yip Harburg These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You) written in 1936 by Eric Maschwitz, Jack Strachey Fools Rush In Written in 1940 by Johnny Mercer Lover Written in 1932 by Richard Rogers Laura Written in 1945 by Johnny Mercer That Old Black Magic Written in 1942 by Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen
It is one of the greatest movies of all time. It has been talked about, joked about, satirized and it propelled a few careers into stardom. It has been imitated, but never duplicated. In fact, we won’t even be hearing from the original soundtrack in this episode, so get ready for an offer you can’t refuse in Volume 18: NOT the Original Godfather.
Mentioned in the show Vicin O Mare by Massimo Raneiri https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzS01Zot-4w
From Discogs.com The Italia Concert Orchestra, Angelo Di Pippo – Music From The Motion Picture The Godfather Label: Pickwick/33 Records – SPC-3306 Format: Vinyl, LP Country: US Released: 1972 Genre: Classical, Stage & Screen Style: Theme
Music composed by Nina Rota except where indicated. Main Title (The Godfather Waltz) Connie's Wedding (written by Carmine Coppola) Vicin' 'O Mare (written in 1893 by Salvatore Gambardella with lyrics by Patrizio Buanne) The Pick Up Love Theme From Godfather The Halls Of Fear The New Godfather
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I grew up listening to some of the greatest musicians in jazz because of my dad’s collection. This album has several huge name talents playing together. Time to get inducted into the avante garde with Volume 17: Modern Jazz Hall of Fame
Credits and Copyrights: Various Artists – Modern Jazz - Hall Of Fame Volume 1 Label: Design Records – DLP 29 Series: The Design Collectors' Series – , Hall Of Fame – Volume 1 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Mono Released: 1957 Genre: Jazz Style: Bop
Charlie Mingus Quintet Extrasensory Perception Alto Saxophone – Lee Kontiz Bass, Leader – Charlie Mingus Cello – George Koutzen Drums – Al. Levitt Piano – Phyllis Pinkerton
Sam Most Quartet Notes To You Bass – Percy Heath Clarinet, Leader – Sam Most Drums – Louie Bellson Piano – Bob Dorough
Jazz Workshop Kai's Day Bass – Charlie Mingus Drums – Arthur Taylor Piano – John Lewis (2) Trombone – Bennie Green, J.J. Johnson, Kai Winding, Willie Dennis
Bud Powell Trio Under My Skin Bass – Charlie Mingus Drums – Max Roach Piano, Leader – Bud Powell
Thad Jones With Strings Portrait Alto Saxophone – John La Porta Bass – Milt Hinton Cello – Jackson Wiley Drums – Joe Morello Piano – Billy Taylor Trumpet, Leader – Thad Jones
Dizzie Gillespie Quintet Perdido Written by Juan Tizol Alto Saxophone – Charlie Parker Bass – Charlie Mingus Piano – Bud Powell Trumpet, Leader – Dizzie Gillespie Drums - Max Roach
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Yes, my parents did have a serious side when it came to music.
My parents had all the biggies, You know...real toe-tappers. Vivaldi, Bach, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich.
And THIS very nice record with two composers who were on the cusp between the classical and romantic eras of music in the early 1800s. Let’s really go back into musical time with Volume 16: Beethoven and Schubert
Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven’s 5th Symphony was written between 1804 and 1808. It was a significant work because it was composed during the transition from the Classical to the Romantic Period. It is important because it represents the culmination of the Classical Era, and the ignition of the Romantic Era.
(Promised link: https://www.biography.com/musician/ludwig-van-beethoven)
Schubert Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 8 may be the most famous unfinished work in the symphonic repertoire. Because of the depth of feeling and drama of the work it has been called the first Romantic era symphony by some.
One was a pallbearer for the other, then died a year later.
Credits and Copyrights:
Schubert / Beethoven / Viennese Symphonic And Salzburg Festival Orchestras / Hans Wolf And H. Arthur Brown – Unfinished Symphony No.8 In B Minor / Fifth Symphony In C Minor, Opus 67 Label: Paris – ALBUM 9 Format: Vinyl, LP, Mono Released: 1956 Genre: Classical
Allegro Con Brio Beethoven: Symphony No.5 In C Minor, Op.67 Conductor – Hans Wolf (8) Orchestra – Viennese Symphonic Orchestra
Andante Con Moto Franz Schubert’s Symphony No.8 In B Minor (Unfinished) Conductor – H. Arthur Brown Orchestra – The Salzburg Festival Orchestra
Finale Allegro Beethoven: Symphony No.5 In C Minor, Op.67 Conductor – Hans Wolf (8) Orchestra – Viennese Symphonic Orchestra
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I’m often surprised at how many albums we found in my parents house after my dad died. While I may have listened to a ton of these albums I didn’t know about the presence of many of them. This is one of those albums. And I know I would have worn this one out.
You see, I’m a big fan of this artist. I’ll prove it as we go through this episode. So get ready for a stratospheric trumpeter in Volume 15: Maynard Ferguson Octet
See the Discogs.com listing here.
Maynard Ferguson Octet – Maynard Ferguson And His Octet Label: EmArcy – MG 36021 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono Released: 1955 Genre: Jazz
Finger Snappin' Written-By – Bill Holman
20 Rue De Madrid Written-By – Bill Holman
Autumn Leaves Written-By – Johnny Mercer
My New Flame Written-By – Bill Holman
Super-G Written-By – Bill Holman
Yeah Written-By – Bill Holman
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Benny Goodman is known as the king of swing. He entertained millions around the world and sold millions of albums...even long after he died.
In this episode we get to hear selections from special live performances from 1958. So Let’s swing into Volume 14: Benny at the World Fair.
This episode had some great music that took me back to my early radio days working for the nation’s number one nostalgia station in Cleveland...WBBG. Our tagline was the Big Band Grandstand and Much More. Even though my dad listened to a lot of this music at home, I played from a much larger library 6 nights a week from midnight to 6.
And you didn’t hear these recordings on the radio
Credits and Copyrights: intro One O'Clock Jump Written-By – Basie, Gaines Why this album Balkan Mixed Grill Written-By – Gutesha Album/market value/liner notes You're Driving Me Crazy Written-By – Donaldson Artist bio Avalon Written-By – Jolson, De Sylva, Rose Side Note - his popularity in Russia King Porter Stomp Written-By – Morton, Robin, Burke Recap Bugle Call Rag Written-By – Meyer, Schoebel, Pettis* Thank you
Recorded at the Brussels World Fair 1958. Made exclusively for Radio-Television-High-Fidelity division of Westinghouse Electric Corporation by Westinghouse Broadcasting Company. Produced by the Park Recording Company, Inc.
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The voice, the style, the Memorex commercials, all unmistakable Ella Fitzgerald. She is known more for her uptempo swing and her scatting skills. But this album is all about the tender ballads. So let’s hear from The First Lady Of Song in Volume 13: Ella Hello Love
At a glance: intro You Go To My Head Written-By – Haven Gillespie, J. Fred Coots Why this album Willow Weep For Me Written-By – Ann Ronell Album/market value/liner notes Everything Happens To Me Written-By – Matt Dennis, Tom Adair Artist bio I've Grown Accustomed To His Face Written-By – Al Lerner and Frederick Loewe Side Note - Memorex Commercial Tenderly Written-By – Jack Lawrence, Walter Gross Recap Moonlight In Vermont Written-By – John Blackburn, Karl Suessdorf Thank you
Ella Fitzgerald – Hello Love Label: Verve Records – MG V-4034, Verve Records – MG V 4034 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono Released: 1959 Genre: Jazz Style: Bop, Vocal
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I always wished I would have kept taking piano lessons from my grandmother when I was young. It’s still an instrument that eludes me. So I used to pull this album out when I wanted to hear some fancy fingering.
So, let’s get ready for fast and furious tickling of the ivories in Volume 12: Fingers at the Bar Room Piano
Joe "Fingers" Carr – Bar Room Piano
Label: Capitol Records – T280
Format: Vinyl, LP, Mono
Released: 1958
Genre: Jazz
Style: Ragtime
https://www.discogs.com/Joe-Fingers-Carr-Bar-Room-Piano/release/5259316
intro
Bar Room Boogie - Written by Lou Busch
Why this album
Carr's Hop - Written by Lou Busch
Album/market value/liner notes
Down Yonder - Written by L. Wolfe Gilbert
Artist bio
Waltz in Ragtime - Written by Lou Busch
Rapscallion Rag - Written by Lou Busch
Side Note - Space Age Pop
Angel Food Rag - Written by Al Marzian
Too Much Mustard - Written by Cecil Macklin
Recap
When You're Smiling - Written by Larry Shay, Mark Fisher and Joe Goodwin
Thank you
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My dad has more than just trumpet players, jazz music and Italian songs in his collection. He and my mom loved broadway music. You’ll hear many of the greats throughout this podcast, but there was one that was head and shoulders above the rest.
From The Sound of Music to Oklahoma! to South Pacific, Richard Rodgers helped change the face of Broadway musicals, giving them stories and making them both memorable and "hum-able."
Get ready for the bright lights and big city nights of Volume 11: The Sounds of Richard Rodgers
Credits, Copyrights and Show Rundown:
Discogs.com album page: https://www.discogs.com/Various-The-Sound-Of-Richard-Rodgers-Music-Great-Hits-From-The-Great-White-Way/release/2424265
Various – The Sound Of Richard Rodgers' Music - Great Hits From The Great White Way Label: RCA Victor – PRM-201 Released: 1966
Show at a glance: intro Richard Kiley - Oklahoma! Written-By – Rodgers-Hammerstein Why this album Mary Martin - It Might As Well Be Spring Written-By – Rodgers-Hammerstein Album/market value/liner notes John Gary - You'll Never Walk Alone Written-By – Richard Rodgers-Oscar Hammerstein Artist bio Boston Pops Orchestra / Arthur Fiedler - Blue Moon Arranged By – Jack Mason Written-By – Rodgers-Hart Side Note - Winner of the first EGOT Lena Horne - Bewitched Written-By – Richard Rodgers-Lorenz Hart Recap Peter Nero - Mountain Greenery Written-By – Richard Rodgers-Lorenz Hart Thank you
"Special Collector's Edition" "Hi-Fi" Prepared expressly for B.F. Goodrich Company by RCA Victor. Made/printed in U.S.A. ©1966 Radio Corporation of America
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I’m pretty sure my dad’s favorite trumpet player was Louis Armstrong. The song you hear open and close each episode was his favorite tune and it’s being played by Satchmo, which was my dad’s favorite version.
Louis is probably the most influential musician, band leader, singer, recording artist and jazz ambassador there is.
Let’s hear some REAL jazz history with Volume 10: Louis Armstrong THE Jazz Masterpiece Part 1.
Credits and Copyrights: Dsicogs.com page: https://www.discogs.com/Louis-Armstrong-Roy-Eldridge-Jazz-Masterpieces/release/11735925
Louis Armstrong - Roy Eldridge – Jazz Masterpieces Label: The Franklin Mint Record Society – FM JAZZ 001 Series: The Greatest Jazz Recordings Of All Time – , Institute Of Jazz Studies Official Archive Collection – Format: 4 × Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Red vinyl and box Box Set Collection was Released: 1982
Phonographic Copyright (p) – The Franklin Mint Record Society Copyright (c) – The Franklin Mint Record Society ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.
The program: Intro West End Blues Recorded: 6/28/1928 Written by: Joe King Oliver Why this album Alone At Last Recorded: 8/7/1925 Written by: Ted Fio Rito and Gus Kahn Album/market value/liner notes When You're Smiling Recorded: 9/11/1929 Written by: Larry Shay, Mark Fisher and Joe Goodwin Artist bio All Of Me Recorded: 1/27/1932 written by Gerald Marks and Seymour Simons Side Note Butter And Egg Man Recorded: 11/26/1926 written by Percy Venable One more time Symphonic Raps Recorded: 6/28/1928 Written by: Bert Stevens Recap Chinatown My Chinatown - GREAT SOLO!! Recorded: 11/3/1931 Music by Jean Schwartz. lyrics by William Jerome
This episode will have some of the funnest music you will hear from my dad’s collection. Everybody in my family enjoyed this album, and its condition will prove it. Even my younger brother was waiting for this episode.
So get ready for plenty of Italian fun songs in Volume 9: Lou Monte and Pepino.
You might even catch me chair dancing in this one if you’re watching the video…
Lou Monte – Pepino, The Italian Mouse & Other Italian Fun Songs Label: Reprise Records – R-6058 Series: Pop Series – Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono Country: US Released: 1962 Genre: Pop Style: Novelty
The Title track - Pepino, The Italian Mouse written by Ray Allen, Wandra Merrell Tici Ti-Tica To-Tici Ta written by Ray Allen, Wandra Merrel Show Me The Way To Go Home Written by Irving King Eh Marie, Eh Marie Credited to Wandra Merrell Sixteen Tons Written by Merle Travis Twist Italiano written by Ray Allen, Wandra Merrell Please Mr. Columbus (Turn The Ship Around) written by Ray Allen, Wandra Merrell and Sam Saltzberg
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This is going to be a very different episode. My usual format will be thrown out the window, but I hope you enjoy it nonetheless.
This is one of several albums my father had made up of speeches from famous people. Since tomorrow is the original date of Presidents’ Day, being George Washington’s birthday, I thought I would choose selections from the 35th president of the United States.
Get ready for some real history in Volume 8: JFK The Presidential Years
I didn’t do liner notes, but you can see them in the photo on the website.
Credits and Copyrights:
John F. Kennedy – The Presidential Years 1960-1963 (A Documentary) Label: 20th Century Fox Records – TFM 3127 Format: Vinyl, LP, Mono, Album Released: 1964 Narrated by: David Teig
Yale Graduation Address, June, 1962 Inaugural Address, January, 1961 Final Address, Fort Worth, November 22, 1963 The Unspoken Credo, November 22, 1963 Cuba - Another Crisis, October, 1961 A Still Greater Crisis, February, 1963 Nuclear Tests, November, 1961 The Steel Crisis, April, 1961 Equal Job Opportunities, November, 1961 American Labor Movement, May, 1963 Tomb Of The Unknown Soldier, November 1961
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My mom especially was very fond of this album. She often requested that I put this on the record player for her as she was preparing dinner. Some of these songs aren’t exactly what you would consider love songs...or the versions that were chosen for this album. But it doesn’t matter. It brings back lots of great memories.
And I get to have my girlfriend Karen along for today’s ride. So cuddle up for a special Valentine's Day episode Volume 7: Love Italian Style Part 1
Credits and copyrights:
Love, Italian Style from Various artists Label: RCA Special Products – PRS-438, Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Compilation We are listening to music from the second disk. Released: 1973
Songs on this episode: Love Theme From "The Godfather" by Hugo Montenegro Written-By – Nino Rota Mama sung by Lou Monte Written-By – Harold Barlow, Phil Brito Three Coins In The Fountain by Peter Nero Orchestra Written-By – Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn Soldi, Soldi, Soldi (Money, Money, Money) by Sophia Loren Written-By – Gorni Kramer, Pietro Garinei, Sandro Giovannini Santa Lucia by Neapolitan Mandolins Written-By – Teodoro Cottrau MalaFemmana by Frankie Fanelli Written-By – Toto Al Di La from Trumpeter Al Hirt Written-By – Carlo Donida, Ervin Drake, Mogol Volare by Domenico Modugno Written-By – Domenico Modugno, Franco Migliacci*
This is the first of many episodes where we will feature one of my dad’s favorite trumpet players. I already told you in a previous episode how both my dad and I played the same trumpet in our high school bands.
My dad ended up with a dozen Tijuana Brass records and a couple of Alpert’s solo albums. So I thought I would start with the very first one, not necessarily the most popular.
We also listened to the TJB many times together. So let’s get off and running as we call out the mariachi band and and the matador for Volume 6: Herb Alpert the Lonely Bull
Credits and Copyrights:
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass – The Lonely Bull Label: A&M Records – A & M 101S, A&M Records – 101 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo Dec 1962
The Lonely Bull (El Solo Toro) Written-By – Sol Lake Tijuana Sauerkraut Written-By – Albert, Moss Mexico Written-By – Bryant Never On Sunday Written-By – Towne, Hadjidakis Struttin' With Maria Written-By – Alpert Crawfish Written-By – Doran, Lake
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As someone who spent over a decade and a half in radio, I was particularly interested in this collection of golden moments in radio when I found it. In this episode, you will hear from some of the trailblazers in not only radio, but those who made very successful transitions to TV and motion pictures.
Jack Benny – Golden Memories Of Radio Label: Longines Symphonette Society – none Format: 6 LP Vinyl, Compilation, Mono, Box Set Released: 1969 Narrator – Frank Knight, Jack Benny Producer – Longines Symphonette Society*
Credits and Copyrights The Philco Radio Show With Bing Crosby, Jack Benny And Mary Livingston George Burns And Gracie Allen Eddie Cantor Arch Oboler Presents "Cat Wife" Voice Actor – Vic Perrin, Virginia Lee Gregg Amos 'N Andy
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The trumpet was the main interest my dad and I had in common when it came to music. My dad played trumpet in high school. I played that same trumpet in high school and college. In fact I still play it every year in my high school alumni marching band.
So it was only natural for him to have tons of albums featuring trumpet players.
In this episode, I will introduce the first of many trumpet players included in my dad’s collection. This includes one of the very first recordings of my dad’s all time favorite singer.
Credits and Copyrights
Harry James – Harry James' Greatest Hits
Label: Columbia – CS 9430
This Reissue was Released in 1970
Music Recorded: 1939 - 1946
Ciribiribin
Written-By – H. James*
Recorded April 6, 1939
I've Heard That Song Before
Vocals – Helen Forrest
Written-By – S. Cahn, J. Styne*
Recorded July 31, 1942
It's Been A Long, Long Time
Vocals – Kitty Kallen
Written-By – S. Cahn, J. Styne*
Recorded July 24, 1945
All Or Nothing At All
Vocals – Frank Sinatra
Written-By – A. Altman, J. Lawrence
Recorded September 17, 1939
You Made Me Love You
Written-By – J. Monaco, J. McCarthy
Recorded May 20, 1941
Two O'Clock Jump
Written-By – B. Goodman, C. Basie, H. James*
Recorded Recorded February 20, 1939
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It's one of the most known melodies the world over. It was used for United Airway commercials for decades.
But have you ever heard it with only piano, played by the guy who wrote it, recorded from a piano roll? Look what I found.
In this episode we will learn about Geroge Gershwin, the Rhapsody in Blue, and the technology used for this recording.
Strike Up the Band Rehearsal
Left Lone Again Blues
Just Snap Your finger
Rhapsody in Blue
Volume 3: Original Performance Rhapsody in Blue
Strike Up The Band Rehearsal
Composed By – George & Ira Gershwin
Performer, Voice – Bobby Clark (2), Gershwin, McCullough
Left All Alone Again Blues
Composed By – A. Caldwell, J. Kern*
Just Snap Your Fingers At Care
Composed By – L. Silvers*
Rhapsody In Blue
Composed By – George Gershwin
Piano – George Gershwin
Sleeve Notes – Edward Jablonski, Lawrence D. Stewart
Voice Actor – Bobby Clark (2), Paul McCullough
Original performance George Gershwin – Plays The Rhapsody In Blue
Label: 20th Fox
Released: 1958
Piano roll photo
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Other images are Public Domain
Up close piano roll video
Clariona https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vxKhpd0vB0
Player piano playing
CJ Covell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mON3dBJiYo
Fox Movietone News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3XwQqTAK3E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQdeTbUDCiw
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One of things I used to love watching my parents do...was dance. These two were so graceful on the dance floor. They made it look as if it was only the two of them in the entire hall. And almost like they were floating on air. They really were a joy to watch.
So in today’s episode, we’re going to play music from one of the kings of the dance hall. Buckle up for Volume 2: The Glenn Miller Collection Part One
Glenn Miller And His Orchestra – Second Pressing Label: RCA Victor – LPT 6700 Series: Collectors Issue 5 × Vinyl, LP, Compilation Released: 1956
SHOW CORRECTION: I said 1962 in the recording. The SECOND Volume of this collection was released in 1962.
Credits and Copyrights: Moonlight Serenade Vocals – Paula Kelly, The Modernaires Written-By – Glenn Miller
Perfidia Vocals – Paula Kelly, The Modernaires Written-By – Alberto Dominguez
Weekend Of A Private Secretary Vocals – Marion Hutton Written-By – Bernie Hanighen, Johnny Mercer
Always In My Heart Vocals – Ray Eberle, The Modernaires Written-By – Ernesto Lecuona, Kim Gannon
Boulder Buff Written-By – Eugen Novello, Fred Norman
The Lamplighter's Serenade Vocals – Ray Eberle, The Modernaires Written-By – Hoagie Carmichael, Paul Francis Webster
Farewell Blues Written-By – Elmer Schoebel, Leon Rappolo, Paul Mares
Manufactured By – RCA Victor Company, Ltd.
All photos are in the Public Domain.
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To get this new podcast off to a rip-roaring start, we’re going to combine my family’s love of football and my dad’s love of Dixieland with Pee Wee Hunt’s Dixieland Kickoff. Plus the only college fight song I know the words to is one of the choices.
This album includes 12 famous college fight songs in swingin’ two-beat arrangements. We’ll learn a little about the band leader’s interesting path in life. We’ll learn that the cover artist was a pretty popular choice as an illustrator in that era.
It also has entertaining cover notes.
Artist: Pee Wee Hunt Album: Dixieland Kickoff Release: 1959
Tune Selections: University of Notre Dame Notre Dame Victory March University of Illinois Illinois Loyalty University of Minnesota The U. of M. Rouser Harvard University Our Director Yale University Down the Field University of Michigan The Victors Ohio State University Across the Field
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Credits and copyrights Notre Dame Victory March Written-By – John F. Shea, Rev. Michael J. Shea Illinois Loyalty Written-By – T. H. Guild The U. Of M. Rouser Arranged By – Bill Stegmeyer Our Director Arranged By – Bill Stegmeyer Down The Field Written-By – C. W. O'Conner, Stanleigh P. Friedman The Victors Arranged By – Bill Stegmeyer Across The Field Written-By – William A. Dougherty, Jr. Manufactured By – Capitol Records, Inc. Copyright (c) – Capitol Records, Inc. Cover, Photography By – Joe Covello Illustration – F.P. Leader – Pee Wee Hunt Producer – Andy Wiswell ©1959 Capitol Records, Inc. Made in U.S.A. Factories: Scranton, PA. - Los Angeles, Calif.
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My dad left us in 2019. He left ME with nearly 500 vinyl records.
The collection is extensive and eclectic and was gathered from the 1940s through the 1970s. We will listen to selections from an album each week, as is, with skips, scratches, and pops included.