Pops For America..2..VA

 Here's The Other Mystery L/P supplied By Luc...Thanks Luc !

We Have The Songs

 We Have The Singers & Orchestra's

So who does what ??...or is it "The Paul Whiteman Singers" or "The Enoch Light Singers"....still looking for the Back Covers !!

         11. School Day

Porgy And Bess...Film Soundtrack.

A double feature of Film Music Now Beginning with a Classic !!

1. Overture -- Orchestra

2. Summertime -- Loulie Jean Norman

3. A Woman Is A Sometime Thing ---Cab Calloway-Leslie Scott-Earl Jackson

4. Gone, Gone, Gone -- Ken Darby Singers

5. Porgy's Prayer -- Robert McFerrin

6. My Man's Gone Now -- Inez Matthews

7. I Got Plenty of Nuttin’ -- Robert McFerrin, Inez Matthews, Pearl Bailey

8. Bess, You Is My Woman -- Robert McFerrin & Adele Addison

9. Morning: Catfish Row -- Ken Darby Singers

10. Oh, I Can't Sit Down -- Ken Darby Singers

11. It Ain't Necessarily So -- Cab Calloway, Ken Darby Singers

12. I Ain't Got No Shame -- Ken Darby Singers

13. What You Want With Bess! -- Adele Addison & Brock Peters

14. Strawberry Woman-Crab Man--Helen Thigpen, Ken Darby Singers

15. I Loves You, Porgy -- Adele Addison & Robert McFerrin

16. A Red Headed Woman -- Brock Peters

17. Clara, Clara -- Ken Darby Singers

18. There's a Boat That's Leavin' Soon for New York -- Cab Calloway

19. Oh, Where's My Bess? -- Robert McFerrin

20. I'm On My Way -- Robert McFerrin, Ken Darby Singers

Sidney Poitier--Dorothy Dandridge and surprisingly Sammy Davies Jnr voices were all dubbed as you can see by the track listing....

          2. Summertime

           19. Oh Where's My Bess

The Five Pennies...Film Soundtrack

Fancy a visit to the Cinema imaginary of course !...so get that imagination going and immerse yourself in some 1920's / 30's music.....this film was made in 1959 and has some great music that you will hear if you decide to have a listen !!....This is a great film and if you ever get a chance to see it either on TV or in your local Cinema ! Jump at it and go !!

The Five Pennies is a semi-biographical 1959 film starring Danny Kaye as cornet player and bandleader Loring Red Nichols. Other cast members include Barbara Bel Geddes, Louis Armstrong, Harry Guardino, Bob Crosby, Bobby Troup, Susan Gordon, and Tuesday Weld. 

          10. The Five Pennies Saints

Bill Monroe...Kentucky Blue Grass

Here we have a real "Yea Hah" set of tracks and some great banjo and fiddle playing all in the Bluegrass Style that is completely different to the post below...so all you Country & Western fans give it a spin !!...Thanks John !!

1. I Live In The Past

2. Cripple Creek

3. Last Old Dollar

4. The Long Black Veil

5. Log Cabin In The Lane

6. I Want To Go With You

1. Kentucky Mandolin

2. Sally Goodin

3. Never Again

4. Is The Blue Moon Still Shining

5. Fire On The Mountains

         2. Cripple Creek

Guitar Hits...VA

A double dose of guitar music now played by a variety of different Guitarists / Orchestra's

A very pleasant sound all the way from Bob In Belgium ! thanks Bob !

         4. Guitar Boogie

Cleo Laine...Live At Carnegie Hall.

The great Cleo Laine doing her stuff at The Carnegie Hall and its great !!

         1. I Know Where I'm Going / Music

Donna Summer..Greatest Hits.

The Queen of the Disco sound  does her greatest hits with the pounding disco beat that go on and on and on and on for sometimes 5 mins but mostly 4 and sometimes 3 !!....But in the 70's that was the norm !!..so revel in some sexy sounds !!

         6. I Remember Yesterday

Rock 'n' Skiffle..Brit Beat Beginnings.VA.

Still in nostalgic mode !...here we have some 50's / 60's... I guess when these were released most of these tracks would be on 78 rpm records...it would be about 1958 before in England they started releasing the songs on 45's as well as 78's.......all these tracks have been re-mastered so you get no hiss crackles or pops !!...but I wonder if they have lost any of there original sound...being that now you can mess about with the sound enhancing bass and treble ect...saying that they do sound great !!

If you want to hear some of the original 78's that have just been digitalised and not messed with unless they are very scratchy and very old.. then a filter is used to get rid of the hiss and crackle  

then have a look at my 78rpm Blog at........https://78rp.blogspot.com

          1. Crazy Man Crazy

Rock 'n' Skiffle..Brit Beat Beginnings. 2..VA

 Here's the second post of some 50's & 60's tracks from the "Brit Beat Beginning's"...All British Home Grown Artists !!......some great tracks on this one !!...especially "Winnie's 3 Tracks !!

         10. Bygraves Boogie

          13. Seventeen Century Bookie

Johnny Mathis...The Mathis Collection.

40 seems to be a magic number ! because Lo and behold we have another compilation of 40 tracks also taken from Johnny's many L/Ps  that he has recorded from the very start up to 1977 when this double L/P was released !...so you get a good cross section of Johnny's different styles !

          23. Someone

Motown Chartbusters...Volume 9.

Here's Number 9 of "Motown Chartbusters"

Motown Chartbusters is a series of compilation albums first released by EMI under licence on the Tamla Motown label in Britain. In total, 12 editions were released in the UK between 1967 and 1982. Volumes 1 and 2 were originally called British Motown Chartbusters; after this the title Motown Chartbusters was used.

          16. Boogie Down

Ray Charles..Modern Sounds In Country & Western. Volume Two.

Also from New Zealand number 2 of Ray Charles C&W Modern Sounds

1. You Are My Sunshine

2. No Letter Today

3. Someday You'll Want Me To Want You

4. Don't Tell Me Your Troubles

5. Midnight

6. Oh Lonesome Me

1. Take These Chains from My Heart

2. Your Cheating Heart

3. I'll Never Stand in Your Way

4. Making Believe

5. Teardrops in my Heart

6. Hang your Head in Shame

          3. Someday You'll Want Me To Want You

It Ain't Half Hot Mum...TV Series

A TV show now from The BBC in England.....From John In New Zealand...Thanks For this Retro BBC of 1974 !...Cheers John !

The title originates from the first episode, in which young Gunner Parkin (Christopher Mitchell) writes home to his mother in England.

It Ain't Half Hot Mum is a British television sitcom about a Royal Artillery concert party based in Deolali in British India and the fictional village of Tin Min in Burma, during the final months of the Second World War. It was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, who had both served in similar roles in India during that war.

The series ran for eight series from 1974 to 1981. Each series had between six and eight episodes. In total, there were 56 episodes, and each had a duration of 30 minutes.

Set in 1945, the series follows a Royal Artillery concert party during the final months of the Second World War. The main characters are performers in the base's concert party; their duties involve performing comic acts and musical numbers (similar to those seen in a music hall) for other soldiers prior to their departure for the front lines. The concert party prevents the soldiers from partaking in combat duty; thus, the soldiers love being part of the outfit. 

Many songs of the era were performed by the cast in their re-enactment of wartime variety shows.

The theme song, "Meet the Gang", was written and composed by Jimmy Perry and Derek Taverner. Two singles were released, featuring songs performed in-character by Don Estelle and Windsor Davies. The first, "Whispering Grass", reached No. 1 in the British singles chart for three weeks from 7 June 1975. The second, "Paper Doll", reached No. 41 later that year. They also recorded a top 10 LP titled Sing Lofty

Werner Muller & Orchestra...Broadway

Here's a great L/P with a great orchestra from Germany doing songs from Broadway....doesn't get any better than that !!!

        8. With A Little Bit Of Luck

Johnny Mathis & Denise Williams

A Duo that sounds as good as they look !!

          4. Ready Or Not

Tony Bennett & Count Basie...In Person.

Another great singer coming up....Boy ! its like an Aladins Cave in this record shop thanks "John" for opening 24 hours so I can drop in anytime !!!

         4. Without A Song

          12. Ol' Man River

Pops For America 1....VA

Here's a strange one !!....can't seem to find the back cover to find out who sings what so I guess it's a guessing game !!.....got the songs !!

Got The Featured Singers !

So how's about a guessing game !

       2. Can I Steal A Little Love

Kathleen Ferrier..The World Of Kathleen Ferrier

Kathleen Mary Ferrier CBE (22 April 1912 – 8 October 1953) was an English contralto singer who achieved an international reputation as a stage, concert and recording artist, with a repertoire extending from folksong and popular ballads to the classical works of Bach, Brahms, Mahler and Elgar. Her death from cancer, at the height of her fame, was a shock to the musical world and particularly to the general public, which was kept in ignorance of the nature of her illness until after her death.

        1. Blow The Wind Southerly