Dusty Springfield.

The first side of this L/P is the up tempo tracks and the second side is the ballad side...excellent album from Dusty when she made this L/P she was well and truly established as one of England's finest singers !!...her version of "This Girls In Love With You" is second to none !!..and she even has a cool "Swinging Track " as well...

P.S. The back side of the L/P as you can see is one hell of an "Orange" Zest !!....so I have scanned Dusty's comments in Black & White....it does make better reading you don't have to strain your eyes !!

1. Ain't No Sun Since You've Been Gone 

2.Take Another Little Piece Of My Heart

3. Another Night

4. Mr Dream Merchant

5. I Can't Give Back The Love I Feel For You

6. Love Power
  

1. This Girls In Love With You
2. I Only Wanna Laugh
3. Who Will Take My Place
4. I Think Its Gonna Rain Today
5. Morning
6. Second Time Around

          8. I Only Wanna Laugh

Barbra Streisand.

Barbra takes it nice and easy on this L/P....Mind you there are some "Power Ballads" on it which shows off Barbra's vocal range....Good job she manages to control her top notes !!...as the title is "The Way We Were" it does have that hit on it !!

1. Being At War With Each Other
2. Something So Right
3. The Best Thing You've Ever Done
4. The Way We Were 
5. All In Love Is Fair

1. What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life
2. Summer Me Winter Me
3. Pieces Of Dreams
4. I've Never Been A Woman Before
5. My Buddy / How About Me

          2. Something So Right

Colin Davis & The BBC Symphony Orchestra At The last Night At The Proms

We now have a great classical L/P with a difference....Explanations my be necessary for people who don't get our English peculiar ways !..Imagine over 6000 people going to a classical concert and brings with them.. Slogan Banners ! Gaudy Umbrellas ! Silly Hats ! Boaters with Union Jacks On Them ! Toy Trumpets ! Squeakers ! Referee Whistles ! Streamers ! Balloons ! and So on !!...recommend that you read the Back sleeve to get the whole of the picture !!

Side two is a corker !!...and the whole Concert is well worth a listen too.....This was recorded in 1969 and 1971...It would be great to hear from anyone who has been to a  "Last Night At The Proms" at the Albert Hall London and hear what they have to say !!

Just a little bit of the back cover notes to give you an idea of how it all started !!

American Teenage Classics. VA.

A great "Pop Art" cover and inside we have 26 tracks of "Doo Wop" groups from the 50's...great version of "Too Young" that I have never heard before this is defiantly a classic VA L/P !!..well worth a listen to !!

          10. Too Young

Ann-Margaret

Ooops seems we have slid slided across the channel and negotiated "The Pond" and arrived surprisingly at the door of a certain "Record Store"...well now we are here can't waste a good "Rumage" around !!!

1. Oh Lonesome Me
2. Slowly
3. Fever
4. What Do You Want From Me
5. Heartbreak Hotel
6. I Just Don't Understand

1. His Ring
2. Could It Be
3. What Am I Suposed To Do
4.  Let Me Go Lover
5. Moon River
6. My Last Date With You

          2. Slowly

Peggy Lee

You can't go out of a "Vinyl" record shop without a "Peggy Lee" tucked under your arm !! and here's a " Gud Un".....not so many well known songs but it does not matter "Peggy" Sounds great whatever she is singing...

 1. Love Song
2. Razor Love Me As I Am
3. When I Found You
4. A Song For You
5. It Changes
6. It Takes To Long to Learn To Live Alone

1. Superstar
2. Just For A Thrill
3. Someone Who Cares
4. The More I See You
5. I'll Be Seeing You

In April 1972, recording veteran Peggy Lee, then a few weeks shy of her 52nd birthday, could look back with pride on a long and successful career when she went into a Hollywood studio to record a musical milestone; her 40th album for Capitol Records, Norma Deloris Egstrom From Jamestown, North Dakota.

          4. A Song For You

           8. Just For A Thrill

Peggy Lee..Pete Kelly's Blues.

 This is also one of my favourite films so naturally the cover is a bit battered and seen better days...I think that I should have taken more care of the covers... then some of the L/P's could be worth a fortune !!....Fat chance of that I reckon...both covers and records have to be in pristine condition for some of them to be worth something and as you can see mine ain't !!!!

1. Oh Didn't He Ramble
2. Sugar
3. Somebody Loves Me 
4. I'm Gonna Meet My Sweetie Now
5. I Never Knew
6. Bye Bye Blackbird

1. What Can I Say After I Say I'm Sorry
2. Hard Hearted Hannah....Ella Fitzgerald
3. Ella Hums The Blues....Ella Fitzgerald
4. He Needs Me
5. Sing A Rainbow
6. Pete Kelly's Blues....Ella Fitzgerald

 

 Back To The L/P....this one always reminds me of my army days because I saw this film again when I was at Catterick....Ok so I'm rambling a bit... its my age so people tell me!! This is not a "Film Soundtrack" but is just songs from the film....In the film Peggy Lee only sings 5 of the songs Ella does sing the 3 that are on here...2 are sung by Janet Leigh and the rest by the band in the film..I wonder if Janet Leigh's voice was dubbed... no indication of it anywhere so who knows.....the CD version has a lot more music on it but not the vocals by Janet Leigh....sorry it is a bit scratchy

          2. Sugar

Alma Cogan.

I wonder if most of us who listen to songs either on Vinyl or CD or MP3 players and even the Radio think about the orchestral arrangements because I think that a good arrangement of a song can make it great...and this L/P has some fantastic arrangements in fact the whole album is A1....and it helps the singer sound great too...not that Alma Cogan needs any help in that department...Once again she sings perfectly....I wish some of our female singers of today could sing as clear as Alma you can hear every word she sings.

1. With You In Mind
2. I Dream Of You
3. Lets Fall in Love
4. In Other Words
5. My Heart Stood Still
6. But Beautiful

1. You'll Never Know
2. All I Do Is Dream Of You
3. What Is There To Say
4. Don't Blame Me
5. Falling In Love With Love
6. The More I See You

          5. My Heart Stood Still

Marie Mc Donald

I think you can tell that this singer had experience with the big bands vocal wise her voice is pleasant and she certainly works with it and that experience shines through...

Marie McDonald (born Cora Marie Frye, July 6, 1923 – October 21, 1965) was an American singer and actress known as "The Body Beautiful" and later nicknamed "The Body".

After auditioning for Tommy Dorsey in December 1940, she joined Dorsey & His Orchestra on his radio show and she later performed with other big bands. Dorsey suggested that she change her last name from "Frye" to her mother's maiden name "McDonald" which she used professionally for the rest of her life. In 1942, she was put under contract by Universal for $75 a week and immediately appeared in several minor roles. That year, she appeared in three motion pictures, most notably, Pardon My Sarong, which earned her the nickname "The Body" for her shapely physique.....During World War II, McDonald became one of Hollywood's most popular pin-up girls and she posed for the United States military magazine, Yank. While she initially did not mind being called "The Body", McDonald soon grew tired of the nickname and focus on her body and expressed a desire to be known for her acting and singing skills.

In 1950, McDonald appeared in Once a Thief and Hit Parade of 1951, which would be her final films for the next eight years. For the remainder of the 1950s, McDonald focused on theatre and music. McDonald recorded an LP for RCA Victor in 1957, The Body Sings, backed by Hal Borne and His Orchestra, which consisted of twelve standard ballads. She also toured the world in a very successful nightclub act. She returned to the screen in 1958, when she was cast as actress Lola Livingston in The Geisha Boy, a slapstick comedy, opposite Jerry Lewis. In 1963, she made her last film appearance in the sex comedy Promises! Promises!, opposite Jayne Mansfield.......(Info Edited From Wikipedia )

1. Embraceable You

2. How Deep is The Ocean

3. You'll Never Know

4. I Got It Bad And that Ain't Good

5. Bill

6. Paradise

1. These foolish Things

2. Don't Blame Me

3. It Had To Be You

4. He Took Me By Storm

5. I Don't know Why

6. Falling In Love With Love.

          9. It Had To Be You

Oklahoma..London Cast

London's West End Is a' calling everyone for a few hours, to listen to some well known songs and enjoy some nostalgic shows...

Another trip "Out West" in "America" for the music and "London" for the visuals via Mp3's.....This seems to be a recording that was made of an actual "live" performance in 1980.
All the great "Rogers & Hammerstein's" song's that everybody knows and by the sound of the recording it defiantly has atmosphere echoey' when the singers seem to move around the stage and of course all the audience applause so its a great one !!!

 

Harry Mortimer Brass Band

 I think we will have a "water ski" ride over the channel to call at "Bob's" shop and see what's what !!....So!! put your marching boots on and get "Marching"!!....Oh !! don't forget to get of the "Jet Ski "!!!!!

           3. Thunder And Lightning Polka 

Golden Hits From England.VA

Now what have we here !! "Red Buses" "Houses Of Something"...must be on home ground !!
Some "Golden Oldies" for your delight !!

          2. Lesson One

Denise Darcel

Now this L/P will seem a little strange at the first hearing but It's one of those that the more you hear it the better it becomes so if you do download it please play it more than once and I recon that you will like it...I certainly did !!

 After a few listenings it hits the spot !!

Denise Darcel (8 September 1924 – 23 December 2011) was a French actress who also made films in Hollywood.

A winner of the title "The Most Beautiful Girl in France," Darcel was a cabaret singer in Paris after World War II before being spotted by Hollywood. Denise came to the United States in 1947 and became an American citizen in 1952.

In 1950, Darcel had a Vaudeville act, which was panned by at least one reviewer. About Darcel's performance 5 May 1950, at the Strand in New York, the Billboard review said: "Denise Darcel showed her well-stacked chassis ... but her heavily accented English sounded like so much gibberish; it got laughs instead of attention. her singing is inadequate, her over-use of hands and arms is clumsy and she shows herself completely at a loss in handling hecklers."

After her film and television career began to wane, Darcel, aged 41, became an ecdysiast (stripper), appearing in West Coast theatres in San Francisco, Las Vegas, Oakland, and Los Angeles. She retired from stripping after a few years and returned to the cabaret circuit, In the early 1950s, Darcel was linked romantically with singer Billy Eckstine. In 1993, Jet magazine reported, "Eckstine's hot romance with actress Denise Darcel cooled off after their photo appeared on cover of Life Magazine, causing a White backlash.

          10. Chattanooga Choo Choo

1 comment:

Vince Mallardi, C.M.C.24 June 2020 at 14:39

I just came across this album sixty years after I recorded Denise for the NBC show, Abbondanza. Cosmo Mallardi, a cousin, did the filming; I did the sound. I also knew Bernie Lowe who produced this record near where our offices are today, on Locust Street in Philadelphia. This was her only album to my knowledge.

Jane Morgan

The crystal clear voice of "Jane Morgan" sings "Paris" via "John" in "New York"....Thanks John for all these great different L/P's .enjoy all the music everybody !!!!

1.  The Time Is Now
2.  Cest Si Bon
3. Under Paris Skies
4. Autumn Leaves
5. La Vie En Rose
6. The Poor People Of Paris

1. Once Upon A Summertime
2. Dominique
3. If You Love Me
4. Domino
5. The Last Time I Saw Paris
6. Petites Chansons

          9. If You Love Me Really Love Me

Peggy Lee.

We are still on the other side of the pond with this one some early recordings of "Peggy Lee" that are classics and are enjoyed time and time again....."Timeless" I would say !!!!

1. Why Don't You Do Right 
2. Them There Eyes
3. Deed I Do
4. I Don't Know Enough About You
5. Its A Good Day
6. Golden Earings

1. I Can't Give You anything But Love
2. Stormy Weather
3. Don't Smoke In Bed
4. While we Were Young
5. Manana 
6. Hold Me

          1. Why Don't You Do Right

Johnny Mathis.

 I have said in previous posts of JM that I prefer him when he sings up tempo and swinging songs...But I stand corrected with this L/P...Although the songs are sung more or less how they were written It's a great L/P enhanced by just a couple of guitars and a bass... he brings completely fresh versions of the standard songs...which I have said many times before. the arrangements as well as the voice go a long way to an excellent L/P and this is a first class one....I do believe it is some of his earlier recordings !!!

1. Bye Bye Blackbird
2. In The Still Of The Night
3. Embraceable You
4. I'll Be Seeing You
5. Tenderly

1. When I fall In Love
2. Please Be Kind
3. You'll Never Know 
4. I'm Just A Boy in Love
5. My Funny Valentine

          5. Tenderly 

          6. When I Fall In Love