Luigi's 50's & 60's Vinyl Corner

Monday, 8 December 2025

Sounds Of The Unexpected...VA

A little bit more madness ! I guess the title says it all !!.....if you like your music a bit strange and wacky then give this a listen !!

19. B'wana Bongos

Carmen McRae...Second To None.

A great singer now..

1. In Love In Vain

2. Where Did It Go

3. The Music That Makes Me Dance

4. Because Your Mine

5. Too Good

6. Once Upon A Summertime

1. The Night Has A Thousand Eyes

2. Cloudy Morning

3. Blame It On my Youth

4. Winter In May

5. My Reverie

6. And I Love Him

2. Where Did It Go

Two EP's from the 50's from the Queen of Exotica is next on the agenda.
Yma Sumac ( September 10, 1923 – November 1, 2008), was a Peruvian–American coloratura soprano. In the 1950s, she was one of the most famous exponents of exotica music.

Sumac was born Zoila Augusta Emperatriz Chávarri del Castillo on September 10, 1923, in Ichocán, a historically Indian village in Cajamarca, Peru. Her parents were Sixto Chávarri and Emilia del Castillo. Her father was born in Cajamarca and her mother was born in Pallasca. Stories published in the 1950s claimed that she was an Incan princess, directly descended from Atahualpa.

The government of Peru in 1946 formally supported her claim to be descended from Atahualpa, the last Incan emperor. She was the youngest of six children. Her mother was a schoolteacher and her father a civic leader.

Sumac became an international success based on her extreme vocal range. She had six-and-a-half octaves according to some reports, (A typical trained singer has a range of about three octaves.) She was able to sing notes in the low baritone register as well as notes above the range of an ordinary soprano and notes in the whistle register. Both low and high extremes can be heard in the song "Chuncho (The Forest Creatures)" (1953). She was also apparently able to sing in a remarkable "double voice".

She married Moisés Vivanco on June 6, 1942. After this date, Moises and Yma toured South America and Mexico as a group of fourteen musicians called Imma Sumack and the Conjunto Folklorico Peruana. In 1946, Sumac and Vivanco moved to New York City where they performed as the Inka Taqui Trio, Sumac singing soprano, Vivanco on guitar, and her cousin, Cholita Rivero, singing contralto and dancing. The group was unable to attain any success; their participation in South American Music Festival in Carnegie Hall was reviewed positively. She was signed by Capitol Records in 1950, at which time her stage name became Yma Sumac. Her first album, Voice of the Xtabay, launched a period of fame that included performances at the Hollywood Bowl and Carnegie Hall. In 1950 she made her first tour to Europe and Africa, and debuted at the Royal Albert Hall in London and the Royal Festival Hall before the Queen. She presented more than 80 concerts in London and 16 concerts in Paris.. During the 1950s, she produced a series of lounge music recordings featuring Hollywood-style versions of Incan and South American folk songs, working with Les Baxter and Billy May. She put out a number of hit albums, such as Mambo! (1954) and Fuego del Ande (1959). Capitol Records, During the height of Sumac's popularity, she appeared in the films Secret of the Incas (1954) with Charlton Heston and Robert Young and Omar Khayyam (1957).

Sumac had a wide vocal register, could emit notes above a coloratura soprano to the low notes of a bass, had one of the widest vocal ranges, being able to emit notes from the tessitura of sopranino, soprano, mezzo-soprano, contralto, tenor, baritone and bass, was the only person able to do the triple coloratura or the trill of the birds......(Info Edited From Wikipedia)

1. Bo Mambo

2. Taki Rari

3. Gopher

4. Chicken Talk

5. Malambo No 2

6. Five Bottles Mambo

7. Indian carnival

8. Jungla

3 Gopher

Sunday, 7 December 2025

Jonathan & Darlene's Greatest Hits.Volume 2.

More crazyness from Jo And Paul !!

1. Cocktails For Two

2. Tiptoe Through The Tulips

3. Ain't Misbehavin'

4. The Object Of My Affection

5. Five Foot Too Eyes Of Blue

6. Sophisticated Lady

7. Play a Simple Melody

8. I'm Beginning To see The Light

9. For Me And my Gal

10. La Vie En Rose

11. Pretty Baby

12. Paris In The Spring

13 That Certain Party

14. Its Magic

2. Tiptoe Through The Tulips

10. La Vie En Rose

Hollywood's Best...Rosemary Clooney & Harry James

Harry And Rosie Duo singing some Academy Award songs great listening !!

Hollywood's Best..... Review by William Ruhlmann Of ALLMUSIC..

Rosemary Clooney's success as a singles artist with a string of hits, including the chart-toppers "Come On-A My House" and "Half as Much," convinced Columbia Records that the time was right for her first LP, on which the rising star was paired with a faltering labelmate, trumpeter and bandleader Harry James, on an album consisting of eight of the 18 songs that won the Academy Award between 1934 and 1951. In essence, Clooney serves as the girl singer for Harry James & His Orchestra on this disc, with James' trumpet serving as a duet partner. His distinctive playing leads off the collection on a version of the 1943 Oscar-winner "You'll Never Know" before she comes in, sounding much more as she did singing in a legato style with Tony Pastor in the 1940s than as the comic dialect personality of "Come On-A My House." Clearly, this is intended as music for grownups, not for the novelty-happy hit-parade crowd. Often, these familiar songs also have familiar interpreters, and it can't be said that Clooney and James were going to make anyone forget Judy Garland's take on "Over the Rainbow" or Bing Crosby's on "Sweet Leilani" and 1951's "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening." But the album delivered exactly what it promised in the singer's clearly enunciated matter-of-fact phrasing and the instrumentalist's characteristically broad tone on some well-loved material. The album reached number three in the Billboard pop albums chart, while "You'll Never Know" spent a week in the pop singles chart.

1. You'll Never Know
2. On The Atchison Topeka And The Santa Fe
3. Ruby
4. It Might As Well Be Spring
5. Come On-a-My House
6. Over The Rainbow

1. Sweet Leilani
2. The Continental
3. Stella By Starlight
4. When You Wish Upon A Star
5. Red Garters
6. In The Cool Cool Of The Evening

1. You'll Never Know

The Sound Of Fury...Billy Fury.

A real blast from the past now !!...the 60's to be exact nostalgia at its best !!

Isn't is great that you can hear every word he sings !!...today singers should take note !!!!

1. Thats Love

I Remember Tommy...Frank Sinatra.

Old blue eyes is back reprising his early days as a Big band singer..and on "Reprise" of course !!...Project for later get the original tracks and make a play list of him singing the original track follow it by the track this L/P !!!

6. Without A Song

Jr Walker & The All Stars...Greatest Hits.

Some hits from the 60's...some great sax on this one !!

2. How Sweet It Is

Chic...Chic's Greatest Hits.

"Les Plus Grands Succes De Chic"....which says "Chic's Greatest Hits" !

Wondering if "Yowser" is French??!!

"Yowser"....
an slightly scared exclamation similar to "holy crap" or "yikes". Made famous by Shaggy in Scooby Doo.
3. Dance Dance Dance

Sunny Afternoon...The Kinks

Here's a look back to the 60's with the psychedelic Buick !! and four kinky lads !!

6. Dedicated Follower of Fashion

Angels & Other Original BBC TV Themes.

A nice compilation from "Bob" featuring BBC's Themes which I guess will be very familiar to nearly every one who watches Television from the bygone days of Black and White and NO remote!! you had to get up off your a**e walk over to the T/V and either press a button or turn a knob !!!....Ah those were the days !!

4. Dance Ti Thi Daddy

Saturday, 6 December 2025

The Happy Beat...Ray Conniff & Orchestra.

Vintage Conniff !! complete with the famous Shuffle Beat.....Ya can't beat the early Conniff sound !!

1. Volare

2. Gigi

3. Yellow Rose

4. Wheel Of Fortune

5. Song From Moulin Rouge

6. Mack The Knife

1. I Walk Alone

2. Never On A Sunday

3. Chanson d'amour

4. Blueberry Hill

5. Cry

6. My Prayer

6. Mack The Knife

Zacharias Best Seller.

It wouldn't be right not to have the King of the Violins selection whilst visiting Bob In Belgium!!

13. Winchester Cathedral

Pia Beck...The Flying Dutchess & Her Piano.

Here's some piano music

Its a great double L/P with some great tracks on it...first side seems to be is a live concert and the other tracks are studio recordings...If you are new to "Pia" or have not heard of her then do yourself a favour and have a listen !!..you piano enthusiasts will not be disappointed ...its a Gud Un !!!......Courtesy of Bob from Belgium !!!....Thanks Bob !!

13. Everything Happens To Me

Friday, 5 December 2025

Belafonte Sings Of Love...Harry Belafonte.

Great to hear some great songs from Mr Belafonte instead of the usual calypso style that he is mainly associated with !

7. A Day In The Life Of A Fool

In The Mood...The Marachi Brass with Chet Baker.

We now have an L/P dedicated to some big band sound this one is of course "Glenn Miller" in the Mariachi style featuring a classic trumpet player Chet Baker and its very different from his usual style of playing.....if you didn't know I reckon you could think that you were listening to "Herb Alpert"...but its still great and definitely worth a listen to....this one and the ones below courtesy of John...thanks John !!

7. Little Brown Jug

Thursday, 4 December 2025

Ted Heath Salutes The Duke.

Ted Heath once again in the "Phase 4 Studio" with music by "Duke Ellington" need I say more !! except Grrrrrrrrrrreat !!

1. Take The A Train

2. Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me

3. Sollitude

4. I Got It Bad And That Aint good

5. Caravan

1. Perdido

2. Mood Indigo

3. Sophisticated Lady

4. Don't Get Around Much Anymore

5. Cotton Tail