The Best Of Peter Sellers.

Well now I recon we should have a visit to NZ via John with some very unusual posts !....this one is like something that I can't even say what category you could give it !!..could be a narrative L/P with music ...and I guess that you will have to listen to the whole of the L/P to perhaps appreciate it...Good luck !! it got me a bit baffled !!.....But as I have said before "Variety Is the spice of life " and that includes Music !!...we will be with John in NZ for quite some time with some very varied music...

1. The Trumpet Volunteer 

2. Auntie Rotter

3. All The Things You Are

4. We Need Money

1. I'm So Ashamed

2. Party Political Speech

3. Balham-Gateway To the South

4. Suddenly It's A Folk Song

      3. All The Things You Are.

Super Movie Themes Just A Little Bit Different...Love Unlimited Orchestra.

 

Released in 1979, this album showcases the Love Unlimited Orchestra's signature orchestral soul and disco sound, blending smooth strings, brass, and rhythm sections to reinterpret cinematic themes with a unique flair. The album contains 10 tracks and runs approximately 46 minutes and 46 seconds. 

The album is characterized by warm, smooth jazz and soul instrumentals, ideal for gentle, relaxing listening. Its arrangements highlight the orchestra's lush string sections, rhythmic grooves, and cinematic flair. 

1. Theme From Superman.

2. Theme From King Kong.

3. Night Fever.

4. Grease.

5. Intermission.

1. Theme From Shaft.

2. Theme From A Summer Place.

3. The Way We Were.

4. As Time Goes By.

5. People Of Tomorrow Are the Children Of Today.

The Love Unlimited Orchestra was formed by Barry White to support his female vocal group, Love Unlimited, and later his own recordings. Known for their 40-piece ensemble, the orchestra became a key contributor to the emergence of disco and orchestral soul in the 1970s.

      3. Night Fever.

1001 Songs Part 13.VA

We are the third of the way before The end !!.......And the Box !!

1. Ain't No Mountain High Enough......Diana Ross

2. Black Night......Deep Purple

3. War......Edwin Star

4. Young Gifted And Black......Bob & Marcia

5. Ball of the Confusion (that's What The World Is Today )......Temptations

6. Avec Le Temps......Leo Ferre

7. The Man Who Sold the World......David Bowie

8. Waiting On You All......George Harrison

9. Northern Sky......Nick Drake

10. Maybe I'm Amazed......Paul McCartney

11. Into The Mystic......Van Morrison

12. Get It Up (I Feel Like Being A ) Sex Machine.....James Brown

13. Ohio......Crosby, Stills, Nash

14. The Only Living Boy In New York......Simon & Garfunkel

15. In A Broken Dream......Python Lee Jackson

16. Oh Lonesome Me......Neil Young

17. 54-46 ( That's My Number)......Toots & Maytals

18. Working Class Hero......John Lennon

19. Box Of Rain......Grateful Dead

20. Life On Mars......David Bowie

21. Bang A Gong (Get It On)......T. Rex

22. Blackwater Side......Anne Briggs

23. I Don't Want To Talk About It......Crazy Horse

24. A Case of You......Joni Mitchell

25. Crayon Angels......Judee Sill

        11. Into The Mystic...Van Morrison.

        16. Oh Lonesome Me...Neil Young.

Smalltown Boy...Jimmy Somerville.

Wow we are now traveling forward in time to 1980's !!...with a 45 rpm EP on a 12 inch Disc...I guess that when the recordings were over 3 mins long they would not fit onto a regular 7 inch disc and of course the singer  and arrangements can let the music flow without the restriction of about 3 mins !!

1. Smalltown Boy

1. To Love Somebody
2. There's More To Love Than Boy Meets Girl

      1. To Love Somebody

Diana Ross

No need for a "Google"search for this singer !!!.."Diana" minus the other two !!..just a couple of songs that I recognise...But the voice is great !!

We now have 3 Re-posts from 2016.....all great singers !!....hearing this again I did say minus the other two !!.in the comment above ! BUT are they still there but not credited !!

    3. All I Need To Get By.

I'm Coming Home...Johnny Mathis.

 Of all of the Johnny Mathis L/p's that are out there this in my opinion is one of his best...typically 70's sounds sung by Johnny at his peak !

1. I'm Coming Home
2. I'd Rather Be Here With You
3. Foolish
4. I'm Stone In Love With You
5. And I Think That's What I'll Do

1. Life Is A Song Worth Singing
2. A Baby's Born 
3. Sweet Child
4. Stop Look And Listen To Your Heart
5. I Just Wanted To Be Me

      1. Life Is A Song Worth Living

Seventh Son...Georgie Fame.

 I always thought that "Georgie Fame" could do better than his "Pop" songs...and here is an L/P that just proves that...just a bit of inside information that I have read somewhere...on the first side of this album second track "Blossom" is dedicated to singer songwriter
 "Blossom Dearie" she wrote and recorded a song called "Sweet Georgie Fame" on one of her albums so he has reciprocated with one about her...Ain't that sweet !!...love the track "Vino Tequila" Hic Hic !! Side Two is better than Side One

      5. Vino Tequila

A Camp Of Pleasure...The Berkeley Scottish Players.

A Camp of Pleasure – Ancient & Modern Music  ( The Berkeley Scottish Players formed in 1973-74 and first performed in public in October 1975 with a seminal performance at the San Francisco Branch Weekend in Burlingame. . In 1976 the band became the first American band to record and LP album. Now, 25 years later, this historic album is still influencing dancers and musicians, and most of the greater family of the Berkeley Scottish Players, though widely dispersed, can still be spotted playing a Scottish tune upon occasion.

If you want more info then go to....(https://rscds-sf.org/about/)

The music on the recording is lively but in strict tempo, and the band brings a 

wealth of instruments & talent into play. The basic band consists of 3 

fiddles, flute, piano, guitar and bass. There are also individual solos 

using the viola, the hammered dulcimer & banjo from the American musical 

tradition, and the Hardanger fiddle from Norway. It is the unique way in 

which the musicians present their solo voices & luscious harmonies that is most pleasing. The haunting solos by the viola in the Red House are 

among the best solos, making the Red House one of the best 

recordings ever of a Reel......and this L/P has some of the best-ever-recorded music for modern Scottish Country Dancing.....

(Edited Comment by Ken Mc Farland at..(strathspey@strathspey.org)

       4. The Merry Reapers

       2. The Red House

Burt Bacharach's Greatest Hits.

I have often wondered why the record company's in different Countries  seem to always change the track listing's and  have different covers for the same L/P's/Album's !...any ideas anyone !....This one is a NZ release....I always try to post the covers what are in the file that I receive  unless they look to dark or light !

If they don't look right then I go to the Covers sites to see what's there....And I do come across the same L/P's but as I said with different covers and tracks !

I agree with John...and here's what he say's about the L/P / Album...

Burt Bacharach Great Hits from 1971. I bought a copy of this many years ago, thinking it was the "original artists" performing the songs. When I realised it wasn't, I got rid of it. I found another copy recently and actually listened to it and noted it was a good album!

      4. South American Getaway

I Did It...Barbara Acklin.

Definitely having a run of singers that I have not heard of !...this one is courtesy of Luc.. so once again i'm off to see what  Wiki ! has to say !!

Barbara Jean Acklin (February 28, 1943 – November 27, 1998) was an American soul singer and songwriter, who was most successful in the 1960s and 1970s. Her biggest hit as a singer was "Love Makes a Woman" (1968). As a songwriter, she is best known for co-writing the multi-million-selling "Have You Seen Her" (1971) with Eugene Record, lead singer of the Chi-Lites.

1. I Did It

2. I Can't Do My Thing

3. The Spinning Wheel

4. After You

5. To Sir With Love

1. I'm Living With A Memory

2. Make The man Love You

3. He's Just A Little Guy

4. More Ways Than One

5. The Look Of Love

      1. I'm Living With a Memory

Southern Nights...Allen Toussaint.

Another singer that I know nothing about....So "Wikipedia" has come to the rescue and this is what they say !

Allen Richard Toussaint (January 14, 1938 – November 10, 2015) was an American musician, songwriter, arranger, and record producer. He was an influential figure in New Orleans rhythm and blues from the 1950s to the end of the century, described as "one of popular music's great backroom figures." Many musicians recorded Toussaint's compositions. He was a producer for hundreds of recordings: the best known are "Right Place, Wrong Time", by longtime friend Dr. John, and "Lady Marmalade" by Labelle.

      In 1973 Toussaint created the Sea-Saint recording studio in the Gentilly section of eastern New Orleans. Toussaint began recording under his own name, contributing vocals as well as piano. His solo career peaked in the mid-1970s with the albums From a Whisper to a Scream and Southern Nights.....

Two years later, Glen Campbell covered Toussaint's "Southern Nights" and carried the song to number one on the pop, country, and adult contemporary charts.

      6. Southern Nights.

Ferrante & Teicher.....Play The Hit Themes

Some very grand piano playing and a great  symphonic orchestra enhances  the sound !

    Ferrante & Teicher were a duo of American pianists known for their clever arrangements of familiar classical pieces, movie soundtracks, and show tunes, as well as their signature style of florid, intricate, and fast-paced piano playing performances.

The duo also experimented with prepared pianos, adding paper, sticks, rubber, wood blocks, metal bars, chains, glass, mallets, and other found objects to piano string beds. In this way they were able to produce a variety of bizarre sounds that sometimes resembled percussion instruments and at other times resulted in special effects that sounded as if they were electronically synthesized.

      

      2. Diamonds Are Forever

Greatest Hits...Marvin Gaye.

Another Greatest Hits compilation from 1964 through to 1982...

      4. How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You

It Never Rains In Southern California...Albert Hammond.

It Never Rains in Southern California is the debut album by Albert Hammond, released in 1972. The title song was a big hit, and the album included the first release of the song "The Air That I Breathe", which would go on to become a major hit for British band The Hollies in 1974.

1. Listen To The World

2. You Gotta' Break Another Heart

3. From Great Britain To L.A.

4. Brand New Day

5. Anyone Here In The Audience

1. It Never Rains In Southern California

2. Names ,Tags , Numbers ,Labels

3. Down By The River

4. The Road To Understanding

5. The Air That I Breathe

      5. The Air That I Breathe

Ron Goodwin & Orchestra

A compilation from The Ron Goodwin Orchestra !.

       3. 633 Squadron

Liberace In Concert

Some piano music now from "Mr Candelabra" himself !!

      1. Malaguena

Top Of The Pops No 14..VA

A Trio of TOTP !!...Redish ! Blue ! & Purple !!...

      4. In My Chair

Top Of The Pops No 15..VA

      More !

      2. The Pushbike Song