Anthony Newley

I guess going by the title of this L/P some of his songs that he has recorded before has been recorded again !!

          1. What Kind Of Fool Am I

Anne Shelton & Ambrose & His Orchestra

We now have a trip to the 1930's / 40's

Ambrose was the leader of a highly acclaimed British dance band, Ambrose & His Orchestra, in the 1930s.

            3. Better Not Roll Those Blue Blue Eyes

             10. Let There Be Love

Anita O'Day

Here's a treat for those people that love "Live" performances and here is two of them from a Great !!!

          8. On The Sunny Side Of The Street

          15. S'wonderful / They Can't Take That Away From Me

Anita O'Day

The Second Live Performance....Where' the F*** is that darn DeLorean !!!

I Want To Be There !!!

1. Wave

2. It Had To Be You

3. Sleeping Bee

4. Time After Time

5. Stompin' At The Savoy

6. P-Town

1. The Man With The Horn

2. Body And Soul

3. Lush Life

4. The Song Is You

5. Wave

          2. It Had To Be You

Andre Previn

From 1958 the dizzy fingers of a young Andre Previn 

Mad About the Boy Review by Scott Yanow

From 1947 to April 1950, pianist Andre Previn recorded 23 selections for the Victor label. Although the recording dates are not given on this long-out-of-print LP, the 11 numbers are taken from that period. Previn is featured with either Bob Bain or Al Viola on guitar, Lloyd Pratt or Charles Parnell on bass and drummer Jackie Mills; a string section pops up on a couple of the numbers. Still a teenager at the time of these performances, Previn was already a very talented pianist, as he shows on such numbers as "Anything Goes," "You Took Advantage of Me" and "Who Cares."

1. Anything Goes

2. My Shinning Hour

3. Hallelujah

4. Mad About The Boy

5. You Took Advantage Of Me

6. Just One Of Those Things

1.You're The Top

2. Thinking Of You

3. Who Cares

4. Who

5. I'm Old Fashioned

6. The Gypsy In My Soul

7. Dardanella

           1. Anything Goes

           12. Gypsy In My Soul

Abbey Lincoln

Anna Marie Wooldridge (August 6, 1930 – August 14, 2010), known professionally as Abbey Lincoln, was an American jazz vocalist. She was a civil rights activist beginning in the 1960s. Lincoln made a career out of delivering deeply felt presentations of standards as well as writing and singing her own material.

A great first for me !.....not many singers would tackle a song unaccompanied and make it sound perfect !...So if you also have not heard her you won't be sorry she's great !!

Got a Missing track on Side Two !!

1. Strong Man

2. Happiness Is A Thing Called Joe

3. My Man

4. Tender As A Rose

5. That's Him

1 .Must Have That Man

2. Porgy

3. When A Man Loves A Woman

4. Don't Explain

         4. Tender As A Rose

Hugo Winterhalter

Some great Instrumental sounds now for the Orchestra Lovers !!

Hugo Winterhalter (August 15, 1909 – September 17, 1973) was an American easy listening arranger and composer, best known for his arrangements and recordings for RCA Victor.

Winterhalter also arranged and conducted sessions for singers including Dinah Shore and Billy Eckstine, and in 1948 he was named musical director at MGM Records. After two years with the label, he joined Columbia Records, where he scored a pair of hits with his recordings of "Jealous Heart" and "Blue Christmas".

In 1950, Winterhalter moved to RCA Victor, where he arranged sessions for most of the label's pop recording artists including Perry Como, Harry Belafonte, Eddie Fisher, Jaye P. Morgan, and the Ames Brothers. He also recorded several instrumental albums.

          3. Hora Staccato

Yul Brynner & Alyosha Dimitrievich

Still In The Gypsy Mode !!...a very unusual L/P that needs listening too a few times to appreciate how good it is... if you like the different unusual !!

Yuliy Borisovich Briner (Russian; July 11, 1920 – October 10, 1985), known professionally as Yul Brynner, was an American actor. He was best known for his portrayal of King Mongkut in the Rodgers and Hammerstein stage musical The King and I, for which he won two Tony Awards, and later an Academy Award for Best Actor for the film adaptation. He played the role 4,625 times on stage and became known for his shaved head.

 In 1941, Brynner performed as a singer and guitar player at the "Blue Angel" club in New York. There he met and fell in love with Marlene Dietrich. She was 40, Brynner was 21; it was a mutually beneficial relationship, and the two became lifelong friends.

He was also an accomplished guitarist and singer. In his early period in Europe, he often played and sang gypsy songs in Parisian nightclubs with Aliosha Dimitrievitch. He sang some of those same songs in the film The Brothers Karamazov. In 1967, Dimitrievitch and he released a record album The Gypsy and I: Yul Brynner Sings Gypsy Songs (Vanguard VSD 79265).

Aleksey (Alyosha) Ivanovich Dimitrievich (March 23, 1913, Russian Empire – January 21, 1986, Paris was a Russian singer of Roma origin.

He was born in a family of artists from Russian Gypsies (according to another version - kotlyars). His father created a gypsy ensemble of singers and dancers, organized tours throughout Russia. Alyosha had three older brothers - Ivan, Nikolai and Dmitry, and two sisters - Valya and Marusya. Each child had his own role in the ensemble: singer, dancer or musician. Alyosha was a dancer and guitarist.

From the late 1930s he was friends with Yul Brynner, with whom he then performed in many Parisian restaurants and cabarets. They later recorded a record together.

1. The Line Of Fate

2. The End Of The Road

3. Don't Be Angry

4. Sokolov's Guitar

5. A Hundred Miles

6. Two Guitars

1. The Pacer

2. For The Last Time

3. Why Get Married

4. The Shawl

5. Travelling Gypsy's

6. I Am Lost

         4. The Shawl

Yvonne De Carlo

There is plenty of information on the back sleeve about Yvonne's voice and career which is a nice change, so many  L/P' back sleeves give very little info...You can definitely hear the influence of her Opera voice training so if you like that type of voice then this will be right up your street...Plenty of songs with "Blue" in the title... It could have been titled "Yvonne Sings The Blues"!!!!!The extra 7 tracks I guess could be singles or maybe a 45 EP.......Yep I Was Right !!...just found this on Wikipedia !!!

In June 1957, Billboard announced that Remington Records would release film star Yvonne De Carlo's first LP record, an album of blues songs. Although it was her first album, this was not her first commercial recording. In 1951, Columbia Records released a 78 rpm single with her two songs from Hotel Sahara, "I Love a Man" and "Say Goodbye". In 1955, she sang "Take It or Leave It" in Flame of the Islands, which was arranger Nelson Riddle's first film work. Riddle encouraged her to become a recording artist and made sure Capitol Records recorded the song, which was released as a 45 rpm single with "Three Little Stars" on the B-side.

1.The End Of A Love Affair

2. In The Blue Of The Evening

3. I Got It Bad

4. Am I Blue

5. Little Girl Blue

1. Blue Moon

2. But Not For Me

3. My Blue Heaven

4. Mood Indigo

5. One For My Baby

6. Say Goodbye

7. You Belong To My Heart

8. Take It Or Leave It

9. That's Love

10.The Secret Of Love

11. Three Little Stars

12. I'm Still Here

          3. My Blue Heaven

International Pop All Stars

A Percussion Instrumental now...to keep the stereo enthusiasts happy !!

1. I Got Rhythm

2. We'll Be Together Again

3. Three Blind Mice

4. Nice Work If You Can Get It

5. Just A Gigolo

6. Lover

1. Button Up Your Overcoat

2. Green Eyes

3. Pennies From Heaven

4. La Mer

5. Why Don't You Do Right

6. Adios Muchachos

          6. Lover

The Four Aces

One of the most successful pre-rock vocal groups, the Four Aces did well during the early '50s with a narrow range of pop material but burned out before decade's end. Founded by Navy shipmates Al Alberts and Dave Mahoney, the act added Lou Silvestri and Sol Vaccaro before making a name for themselves around their native Philadelphia. Alberts left the group in 1958 to try to make it as a soloist, but never made the charts...It was then that Diodati led a new line-up, which consisted of Diodati, Alesi, Giglio, and Harry Heisler. After almost 19 years with the group, Alesi developed a medical condition that forced him to leave the group....In 1975, Diodati, Alesi, Giglio, and Heisler were awarded the right to the name in a court suit in which the original members tried to re-establish their right. The court allowed the founding members to tour as "The Original Four Aces, Featuring Al Alberts", which they did, finally retiring the act in 1987.

I believe that these are not the original 50's recordings but re- recordings of some of their hits....It is Al Alberts on the front cover....so I guess that it should have said
"The Original Four Aces, Featuring Al Alberts.

Don Mclean 's "And I Love You So" & "I Write The Songs" were not around in the 50's !!

      Thanks Bob !!!

      6. Heart And Soul.

Sergio Franchi

Not in the same class as "Mario Lanza" but a good tenor from the 60's....it says on the back sleeve that his appearance on British TV namely "Sunday Night At The London Palladium" started his career...its a good nostalgic walk or stroll down the "Italian Streets" !!!

P.S. Just a quick note !..the year is 1962 ! so when the "Italy's Brilliant New Tenor" that is on the front its 62 Years ago !!!!......Cor' don't time Fly !!!!

Sergio Franchi (April 6, 1926 – May 1, 1990), born Sergio Franci Galli, was an Italian-American tenor and actor who enjoyed success in the United States and internationally after gaining notice in Britain in the early 1960s. In 1962, RCA Victor signed him to a seven-year contract and in October of that year Franchi appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show and performed at Carnegie Hall. Sol Hurok managed Franchi's initial American concert tour.

Franchi became a headliner in Las Vegas, and starred in concerts and cabarets on several continents. His earliest ambitions and studies had been directed toward an operatic career, but he instead found his niche in popular and romantic music. Franchi performed musical comedies on stage, appeared on numerous television variety shows, and starred in a major motion picture. He became an American citizen in 1972. During 1959 Franchi made an important contact with an English agent, James Gilmore, who encouraged Franchi to meet with him if he came to London. Early in 1960 Franchi had played the role of Janni in the short-lived London production of The Golden Touch. His singing performance received favourable reviews. His London agent, James Gilmore, arranged several TV appearances for Franchi.

Franchi made several appearances on ATV's Startime.  And then, during a two-week engagement at the London Palladium, Franchi made two TV appearances on Sunday Night at the London Palladium; a show that launched the career of many performers, and the most popular TV show in Britain. Franchi's second Palladium TV show was a breakthrough performance, in that it led to a cascade of events which catapulted Sergio Franchi into American stardom. Viewing his performance that night was Norman Luboff, who called RCA Victor about the Italian tenor.

With RCA approval, Luboff facilitated Franchi's signature on an exclusive seven-year recording contract. RCA Victor issued his records on the prestigious Red Seal label. Sol Hurok was engaged to provide bookings and direction for an American tour, and (while in London) Franchi recorded his first RCA Victor album-- Romantic Italian Songs, to be released concurrent with his American debut.......( Info Edited From  a very long "Info" Page on "Wikipedia")

1. Core 'ngrato

2. Funniculi Funicula

3. O Sole Mio

4. Mattinata

5. Mamma Mia Che Vo' Sape

6. La Vilanella

1. Marechiare

2. A Vucchella

3. Come facette Mammeta

4. Fenesta Che Lucive

5. Torna a Surriento

6. O Surdato Namorato 

          02. Funniculi Funnicula

Wally Whyton

Glad to see and hear vocalists that I am not familiar with and not heard of !! so its broadening my musical tastes as well as I hope it is doing to some of the people that are looking in !!

Wallace Victor "Wally" Whyton (23 September 1929 – 22 January 1997) was a British musician, songwriter and radio and TV personality. Born in London, England, Whyton grew up listening to jazz, blues and folk music, and learned to play first the piano, then trombone, and finally guitar. In 1956, while working in advertising, he formed the Vipers Skiffle Group, which became the resident band at the 2i's Coffee Bar in Soho. After a number of hit records produced by George Martin, including Whyton's song "Don't You Rock Me Daddy-O", the group split up in 1960, and Whyton moved into television .

It's me, mum!" (Fontana, STL5476) was released in 1968 and featured Wally playing 12-string guitar and singing contemporary and traditional folk songs from the USA, an old music-hall song, and a couple of his own songs: "Selma, Alabama (April 1965)", and "When Winter Comes".

          10. When Winter Comes

Funny Girl..( Broadway Cast )

This is the Broadway Cast production of Funny Girl....with as you can see "Sydney Chaplin" in the part of "Nick Arnstein"...it opened in Boston on January 13th 1964 then Philadelphia...then it opened at the "Winter Garden" New York on March 26th 1964 !!

 

1. Overture.....Orch

2. If A Girl Isn't Pretty....Jean Stapelton, Kay Medford, Danny Meehan

3. I'm The Greatest Star....Barbra Streisand

4. Cornet Man....Barbra Streisand

5. Who taught Her Everything...Kay Medford, Danny Meehan

6. His Love Makes Me Beautiful....John Lankston, Barbra Streisand

7. I Want To Be Seen With You Tonight....Sydney Chapman, Barbra Streisand

8. Henry Street....Cast

9. People....Barbra Streisand

1. You Are Woman....Sydney Chaplin, Barbara Streisand

2. Don't Rain On My Parade....Barbra Streisand

3. Sadie Sadie....Barbra Streisand

4. Find Yourself A Man....Danny Meehan, Kay Medford, Jean Stapelton

5. Rat-Tat-Tat-Tat....Danny Meehan, Barbra Streisand

6. Who are You Now....Barbra Streisand

7. The Music That Makes Me Dance....Barbra Streisand

8. Don't Rain On My Parade....Barbra Streisand

          10. You Are Woman

Susan Maughan

This is a surprise only having heard "Bobby's Girl" and nothing else...BOY !! this girl can "Swing" !!!....It seems that this was recorded in 1967...Were the hell was I !!!...Missed something good and would love a time machine to go back !!!...Googled her and seems she is now in her 80's.....Give this one a listen to folks and be amazed !!

          5. On Green Dolphin Street

          8. Call Me

Henry Mancini

This is  mood music  and very different from any other Mancini's L/P's with the voices at a minimum !!

          7. Flamingo