Cornelia

What a cool clear voice this songbird has  !!...another singer that should be heard more !!

Cornelia Möller was born in Hamburg, Germany and came to South Africa with her family at the age of three. 

Cornelia was for many years the leading female vocalist in South Africa. She had a string of chart topping hit records and won many awards including SARIE (the South African equivalent of Grammy Awards) and gold discs. She rapidly became a popular performer in South Africa, South West Africa (Namibia) and Mozambique. She toured Europe, particularly Germany and Switzerland, gaining a considerable following there, too. She has also appeared on numerous radio and television programmes. 

For her third album in 1969 "If You love Her", Cornelia chose more commercial material to record. The decision paid off - critics praised the album as her best effort yet. The songs If You Love Her, Gentle On My Mind, Then you can tell me Goodbye and You’re  Up To Your Same Old Tricks.

South Africa has (arguably) produced few female vocalists of world-class stature. Cornelia is undoubtedly one of a select few which can truly be classed as, and favourably compared to, any of the world’s top female vocalists. In her voice you hear everything from a trumpet down to a rich cello – and everything else in between. That is more than just a remarkable range – it is a fabulous breadth of resonant richness.

1. If You love Her

2. Little Green Apples

3. It's My Time

4. By The Time I Get To Phoenix

5. Gentle On My Mind

6. I Shall be Released

1. Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye

2. Lonesome

3. Lingering On

4. You're Up To The Same Old Tricks

5. Seeman

6. The Wind Knows The Truth

          7. Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye

Elke Sommer

Elke Sommer (born 5 November 1940), born Elke Baronesse von Schletz, is a German actress, entertainer and artist who starred in many Hollywood films.

She moved to the UK to work as an au pair, in order to earn a living and to perfect her English. There, she also received some training as an interpreter.

A frequent guest on television, Sommer sang and participated in comedy sketches on episodes of The Dean Martin Show and on Bob Hope specials, made 10 appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. ( Info Edited From Wikipedia )

            5. Solamente Una Vez (You Belong To My Heart)

Libby Morris

Libby Morris (born 1930) is a Canadian comic actress. She appeared in several BBC radio shows of the 1950s and moved into TV and film from the 1960s onwards. She then moved on to London, England, where she starred in her own show doing impersonations.

1. One Of Those Songs

2. Sand In My Shoes

3. I Could fall In Love

4. My Own Personal Bird

5. Alice Blue Gown

6. Tea For Two

1. What Are you trying To Say

2. The Phoenix Love Song

3. It That

4. One Of Those Songs

5. Tess's Torch Song

6. On The Other Side Of The Tracks

           12. On the Other Side Of The Tracks

Bob Thompson Orchestra

Here's the third of the "Bob Thompson" L/P's...this was also a surprise to me !...I expected a rip rousing sound of "Bang Crash & Wallop's !!" that goes with the title of the L/P...Instead we have some very tasteful orchestra sounds that are very inventfull..especially the intro's to the track....Something different is alway's great and welcome !!

1. Super Chief (Diesel Train)

2. Midnight Sailing (Ocean Liner) 

3. La Vespa (Motor Scooter)

4. Sub-Manhattan Blues (Subway)

5. Three Wheeler Waltz (Tricycle) 

6. Count Down (Missile)

1. Star Fire (Jet Plane)

2. Surry Serenade (Horse & Buggy)

3. Le Mans ( Spostrs Cars)

4. Streetcar Named Irvine (Streetcar)

5. Sea Spray (Speed Boat )

6. Early-Bird Whirly-Bird (Helicopter)

          3. La Vespa

Margaret Whiting

 

Margaret Eleanor Whiting (July 22, 1924 – January 10, 2011) was an American popular music and country music singer who gained popularity in the 1940s and 1950s.....In 1945, Whiting began to record under her own name. "A Tree in the Meadow" was a number one hit in the summer of 1948, and her duet with country music star Jimmy Wakely, "Slippin' Around", was another number one hit in 1949. It sold 1.75 million copies, and Whiting was titled "Queen of the Jukeboxes".

Margaret Whiting Sings the Jerome Kern Songbook is a 1960 studio album by Margaret Whiting, with an orchestra conducted and arranged by Russell Garcia, focusing on the songs of Jerome Kern. Originally released as a double-LP set by Verve Records in 1960.

          2. Remind Me

           14. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

Johnny Cash

Yea Ha ! Johnny singing in the Sun !.

            9. Goodnight Irene

Juanita Hall

Juanita Hall (née Long, November 6, 1901 – February 29, 1968) was an American musical theatre and film actress. She is remembered for her roles in the original stage and screen versions of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals South Pacific as Bloody Mary – a role that garnered her the Tony Award – and Flower Drum Song as Madame Liang.

In 1950, she became the first African American to win a Tony Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Bloody Mary in South Pacific starring Ezio Pinza and Mary Martin. She also won a Donaldson Award for playing that role. She played the role for 1,925 performances on Broadway at the Majestic Theatre beginning on April 7, 1949. She also starred in the 1954 Broadway musical House of Flowers in which she sang and danced Harold Arlen's Slide Boy Slide. In addition to her role in South Pacific, she was a regular performer in clubs in Greenwich Village, where she captivated audiences with her renditions of "Am I Blue?", "Lament Over Love", and Langston Hughes' "Cool Saturday Night".

In 1958, she recorded Juanita Hall Sings the Blues (at Beltone Studios in New York City), backed by a group of jazz musicians that included Claude Hopkins, Coleman Hawkins, Buster Bailey, Doc Cheatham, and George Duvivier. In 1958, she reprised Bloody Mary in the film version of South Pacific, for which her singing part was dubbed (because of legal matters involving copyright), at Richard Rodgers's request, by Muriel Smith, who had played the role in the London production. The same year, Hall starred in Flower Drum Song, another Broadway show by Rodgers and Hammerstein.She also toured in the road show version of Flower Drum Song, but she had to leave it in early 1962 because of illness.

 ( Info Edited From Wikipedia )

1. Hold That Train

2. You've Been A Good Old Wagon

3. After You've Gone

4. Nobody Wants You When Your Down And Out

5. I Don't Want it Second Hand

6. A Good Man is Hard To Find

1. Baby Wont You Please Come Home

2. Gulf Coast Blues

3. Second Fiddle

4. Downhearted Blues

5. Gimme A Pigfoot

6. Lovin' Sam from Alabam

           10. Downhearted Blues

Middle Of The Road

Middle of the Road is a Scottish pop group who have enjoyed success across Europe and Latin America since the 1970s. Before ABBA established themselves in the mid 70s, Middle of the Road were the sound of early europop with their distinctive harmonies and lead vocals from Sally Carr. Four of their singles sold over one million copies each, and received a gold disc: "Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep". "Sacramento", "Tweedle Dee, Tweedle Dum" and "Soley Soley". By early 1972 the group had sold over five million records.

Original lead singer Sally Carr, drummer Ken Andrew, guitarist Ian McCredie and his bassist brother Eric McCredie, founded the band on 1 April 1970 in Glasgow, Scotland. They had already played together under the name Part Four since 1967 and later in Latin American style under the name Los Caracas. Under the name Los Caracas they won the UK TV talent show Opportunity Knocks. They moved to Italy in 1970 because they had not found success in the United Kingdom. There they met the Italian music producer Giacomo Tosti, who gave the band their distinctive sound and gave them their international break.

The band had their first and biggest hit record in the United Kingdom with debut UK single, "Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep" to reach #1 in the UK Singles Chart in June 1971 and keep it for four more weeks. In all, Middle of the Road had five hit singles in the UK during 1971-1972.

( Info Edited From Wikipedia )

1. Sacramento

2. Queen Bee

3. The Talk Of All USA

4. On This Land

5. Louise ( My Little Ship )

1. Soley Soley

2. Samson And Delilah

3. Medicine Woman

4. Try A Little Understanding

5. Then You'll Know What Love Is

           7. Samson And Delilah

Ray Anthony & His Orchestra

Raymond Antonini (born January 20, 1922), known as Ray Anthony, is an American bandleader, trumpeter, songwriter, and actor. He is the last surviving member of the Glenn Miller Orchestra.

Anthony was born to an Italian family in Bentleyville, Pennsylvania but moved with his family to Cleveland, Ohio, where he studied the trumpet. He played in Glenn Miller's band from 1940–1941 and appeared in the Glenn Miller movie Sun Valley Serenade before joining the U.S. Navy during World War Two. After the war he formed his own group. The Ray Anthony Orchestra became popular in the early 1950s with "The Bunny Hop", "Hokey Pokey", and the theme from Dragnet He had a No. 2 chart hit with a remake of the Glenn Miller tune "At Last" in 1952, the highest charting pop version of the song in the U.S.

In 1953, Anthony and his orchestra were featured when Helen O'Connell and Bob Eberly headlined a summer replacement program for Perry Como's CBS television show.Anthony was considered one of the most modern big band leaders...(Info Edited From Wikipedia)

1. Sometimes I'm Happy

2. Lets Dance

3. Sleepy Time Gal

4. Wolverine Blues

1. What is This Thing Called Love

2. A String of Pearls

3. Lackawanna Local

4. Blue Moon

         8. Blue Moon

The Chordettes

The Chordettes were an American female popular singing quartet, usually singing a cappella, and specializing in traditional popular music. They are best known for their hit songs "Mr. Sandman" and "Lollipop".

After performing locally in Sheboygan, they won on Arthur Godfrey's radio program Talent Scouts in 1949. They held feature status on Godfrey's daily program, and then they recorded several 10-inch EPs for Columbia Records.

In 1953, Godfrey's music director and orchestra leader, Archie Bleyer, founded Cadence Records. He signed a number of Godfrey regulars and former regulars, including the Chordettes, who had a number of hit records for Cadence.

Their biggest hit was "Mr. Sandman" in 1954. Archie Bleyer himself is on that record along with the group, Bleyer stripping the sound down the better not to clutter the girls' voices. They also hit No. 2 with 1958's "Lollipop".

The Chordettes appeared on American Bandstand on August 5, 1957, the first episode of that show to be broadcast nationally on the ABC Television Network. (Info Edited From Wikipedia).

1. Mr Sandman

2. Eddie My Love

3. Born To be With You

4. Soft Sands

5. Come Home To My Arms

6. Echo Of love

1. Just Between You And Me

2. Teen Age Goodnight

3. Hummingbird

4. Like A Baby

5. Lay Down Your Arms

6. Love Never Changes

           7. Just Between You And Me

Charles Magnante

Charles Magnante (December 7, 1905 – December 30, 1986) was an American piano-accordionist, arranger, composer, author and educator. His artistry helped raise the image of the accordion from an instrument considered suitable only for folk music to an instrument accepted in many music genres.

For much of the 1940s, he was, with Tony Mottola on guitar and George Wright on organ, a fixture of CBS radio, providing the network with its own version of the early Three Suns. Like Mottola, he remained a member of the CBS musical staff for many years while working a steady series of studio sessions on the side.Magnante was certainly one of Enoch Light's favorite accordionists, for he was the only one Light featured as a performer on two of his three labels. Magnante recorded three albums on Command. Magnante stayed to conventional material on all of these, preferring to showcase his skills as an interpreter rather than his proficiency on the instrument.

( Info Edited From Spaceagepop.com )

         2. La Paloma

Helen Shapiro.

When I bought this L/P I was pleasantly surprised....I've always liked Helen Shapiro in her "Pop" days and always thought that when she got older she would be good....a couple of her old tracks reminded me of an early Ella....well folks' I was 100% right....It's a corker...she joined forces with "Humphrey Lyttelton" and the "Jazz" influence has been brought out......Don't know whether "Humph" has had any input in this L/P but the producer and arranger has managed to do something different with the standard songs on it....You usually find that most of standard songs follow similar arrangements this one doesn't...best track is "Its Only A Paper Moon

1. Let Yourself Go
2. You Go To My Head
3. The Way You Look Tonight
4. Where Or When
5. Straighten Up And Fly Right
6. Cry me A River

1. It's Alright With Me
2. It's Only A Paper Moon
3. Serenade in Blue
4. They Can't Take That Away From Me
5. Funny

     2. It's Only A Paper Moon.

Deanna Durbin

Here's a real "Blast From The past"...late 30's early 40's to be exact...whether or not it's "The Best Of " is not important its a collection of her early recordings from the "Films & Studio"....One wonders what would be the difference if she could record with the technology we have today....But of course that is impossible as she died in 2013 at the grand age of 92 !!...This is a great musical document of the music of the 30's & 40's !!!!

         4. The Turntable Song

Tom Jones

We have a double set of L/P's from TJ....some of the tracks are on other L/P's that are posted on here but there are some that are not hence my posting it...Its "Tom" singing most of his Hits and then some !!.....The tracks are not in the order as printed below but they are all there so all you "Tom Jones" fans out there enjoy Tom at his best !!!...
Thanks "Bob" for all those "Goodies !!!!

         9. Proud Mary

Caterina Valente.

 Now this cover looks a lot battered and torn..so it should be... it's my favourite L/P of all time and like all the "Valente" records that I will be posting on here has been played thousands of times.. times ten!!...word to everyone !!...if you only download one L/P from this site this is the one !! every track is pure gold...you usually find that an L/P or CD that you buy has one or two excellent tracks on it the rest are OK ..if you are lucky....this one has got every track 100% grrrrrrrrreat....Cor' I do go on dont I !!!
But don't take my word for it have a
"Download" on me !!....I would definatly like some comments on this one PLEASE !!!
The 1st track "Secret Love" is going to take you by surprise!!!

1. Secret Love
2. Kiss Of Fire
3. All My Love
4. Tenderly
5. Stairway To The Stars
6. Over The Rainbow

1. Side By Side
2. C'est Si Bon
3. Them There Eyes
4. You Better Go
5. Yes My Darling Daughter
6. Golden Earrings

 Somebody kindly cleaned up the front cover and sent it back to me so here it is !!!

     4. You Better Go Now.