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

Saturday, 13 September 2025

Peggy Lee & George Shearing...Beauty And The Beat.

Still in the land of the "Eagle" and a couple of home grown entertainers that fully deserve the title of "Greats"....what's greater than spending some time with the "Husky/ Silky"voice of "Peggy" and the hands of "George"...100% Listenability !!!

1. Do I Love You
2. I Lost My Sugar In Salt Lake City
3. Dreams Come True
4. All Too Soon
5. Mambo In Miami
6. Isn't It Romantic

1. Blue Prelude
2.You Came A Long Way From St Louis
3. Always True To You In My Fashion
4. There'll Be Another Spring
5. Get Out Of Town
6. Satin Doll

3. Dreams Come True

Georgie Fame & Alan Price...Together

Some English Blasts from the Past !! now... still in the "Record Shop"....talking about the "Stereo" on some posts, seems that on this one someone's fiddling about with them knobs !! sending me giddy from one speaker to the other !!..but its good fun !!!

8. Ballad Of Billy Joe

The World Of Easy Listening. Vol 1...VA

It's great what you find in a "New York" record shop !!!...all the way from England !!

3. Call Me.

Wednesday, 10 September 2025

Michael Buble...Crazy Love (Plus)

A feast of tracks from Mickey Bubbles !!

Michael Steven Bublé OC OBC born September 9, 1975) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and record producer. His first album reached the top ten in Canada and the United Kingdom. He found a worldwide audience with his 2005 album It's Time as well as his 2007 album Call Me Irresponsible – which reached number one on the Canadian Albums Chart, the UK Albums Chart, the US Billboard 200, the Australian ARIA Albums Chart and several European charts. Bublé's 2009 album Crazy Love debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 after three days of sales, and remained there for two weeks. It was also his fourth number one album on Billboard's Top Jazz Albums chart. His 2011 holiday album, Christmas, was in first place on the Billboard 200 for the final four weeks of 2011 and the first week of 2012, totalling five weeks atop the chart, it also made the top 5 in the United Kingdom. With this, Christmas became his third-consecutive number-one album on the chart. To Be Loved was released in April 2013. Bublé has sold over 75 million records worldwide, and won numerous awards, including four Grammy Awards and multiple Juno Awards. Bublé is a dual citizen of Canada and Italy.

As a child entertainer he used the name "Mickey Bubbles".

1. All I Do Is Dream Of You

2. All Of Me

3. At This Moment (Live)

4. At This Moment

5. Baby You Got What It Takes

6. Best Of Me

7. Comin' Home Baby..(Duet With Boys II Men)(Frank Popp Re-Mix)

8. Crazy Love

9. Cry Me A River

10. End Of May

11. Everything..(Bob Rock Mix)

12. Georgia On My Mind

13. Haven't Met You Yet..(Live)

14. Haven't Met You Yet..(Instrumental)

15. Haven't Met You Yet

16. Heartache Tonight..(Live)

17. Heartache Tonight

18. Hold On

19. Hollywood

20. Home..(International Pop Mix)

21. It Had Better Be Tonight..(Meglio Stazara Zoned Out Mix)

22. Lost..(International Pop Mix)

23. Me And Mrs Jones..(Live)

24. Pennies From Heaven

25. Save The Last Dance For Me..(Star City Remix)

26. Some Kind O Wonderful

27. Spider Man Theme..(Junkie XL Re-Mix)

28. Stardust

29. Sway..( Ralphi's Salsation Edit )

30. Twist And Shout..(Live)

31. Whatever It Takes

32. Your Nobody Till Somebody Loves You

29. Sway

Anita O'Day...You Betcha

This release looks like yet another anthology of her hits but in fact is a collection of live broadcasts. The audio quality is not as good as from studio recordings.

You Betcha Review by John Bush

You Betcha, a compilation of Anita O'Day's big-band years released on Sounds of Yesteryear, reprises most of her early career's best-known features -- "And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine," "Let Me Off Uptown," and "Honeysuckle Rose" -- whether they were for the orchestras of Stan Kenton, Gene Krupa, or (briefly) Benny Goodman. Although a few more of her solid early sides appear, the rest of the compilation is filled out with an odd assortment of '40s and '50s material, all of it passable but none of it adding up to the type of Anita O'Day compilation that belongs in the first rank.

1. Tea For Two

2. Opus One

3. All Reet

4. Otto Make That Riff Stacato

5. Bolero At The Savoy

6. Ride On

7. Build It Up

8. And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine

9. You Betcha

10. Special Delivery

11. I Lost My Sugar In Salt lake City

12. Four Brothers

13. Ooh Hot Dog

14. Let Me Off Uptown

Anita Belle Colton (October 18, 1919 – November 23, 2006), known professionally as Anita O'Day, was an American jazz singer and self proclaimed “song stylist” widely admired for her sense of rhythm and dynamics, and her early big band appearances that shattered the traditional image of the "girl singer". Refusing to pander to any female stereotype, O'Day presented herself as a "hip" jazz musician, wearing a band jacket and skirt as opposed to an evening gown. She changed her surname from Colton to O'Day, pig Latin for "dough", slang for money.
O'Day, along with Mel Tormé, is often grouped with the West Coast cool school of jazz. Like Tormé, O'Day had some training in jazz drums (courtesy of her first husband Don Carter)..While maintaining a central core of hard swing, O'Day's skills in improvisation of rhythm and melody rank her among the pioneers of bebop...While performing she met Gene Krupa, who promised to call her if Irene Daye, then his vocalist, ever left his band.The call from Krupa came in early 1941. Of the 34 sides she recorded with Krupa, it was "Let Me Off Uptown", a novelty duet with Roy Eldridge, that became her first big hit. The same year, DownBeat named O'Day "New Star of the Year".
She joined Stan Kenton's band in April 1944. During her 11 months with Kenton, O'Day recorded 21 sides, both transcription and commercial, and appeared in a Universal Pictures short Artistry in Rhythm (1944). "And Her Tears Flowed Like Wine" (1944) became a huge seller, and put Kenton's band on the map.

12. Four Brothers

Waldo De Los Rios & His Orchestra...Songs For The 70's.

Not a sign of a beat classic in this selection just as it say's songs of the 70's !...done very differently !

1. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da

2. Sugar Sugar

3. Help Yourself

4. The Good Bad And The Ugly

5. Those Were The Days

6. Les Bicyclettes De Belsize

1. Everybody's Talking

2. Raindrops Keep falling On My Head

3. I'll Never Fall In love Again

4. Je T'aime Moi Non Plus

5. Jean

6. Aranjuez Mon Amour

2.Sugar Sugar

Tuesday, 9 September 2025

Joni James...Bossa Nova Style.

Very subtle Bosa Nova style..but still very pleasant to listen to !....Courtesy of Marco

1. Dindi

2. I Could Have Danced All Night

3. September Song

4. My Foolish Heart

5. I Wish You Love

6. While We're Young

1. I Understand

2. The Girl from Ipanema

3. Guilty

4. Once I Loved

5. My Romance

6. You're Nearer
10. Once I Loved

Werner Muller & His Orchestra...So Easy To Love.

Some Dreamy Music from one of my favourite orchestra's....Thanks Luc !

1. It's Not For Me To Say

2. Easy To Love

3. Hot Toddy

4. Exactly Like You

5. The Hawaiian Wedding Song

1. All The Way

2. Chances Are

3. There's a Small Hotel

4. My Prayer

5.You're Driving me Crazy

4. Exactly Like You.

The Magic Of Sarah Vaughan.

The first of two great singers !!

11. What's So Bad About It

20 Golden Pieces of Lena Horne.

Some great tracks from Lena...with some good info on the back cover !!

5. Love Me Or Leave Me

6. I Got It Bad

Glen Campbell...Wichita Lineman.

Country & Western Now Courtesy Of Luc....Cheers Luc !

1. Wichita Lineman

2. Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay

3. If You Go Away

4. Ann

5. Words

6. Fate Of Man

1. Dreams Of The Everyday Housewife

2. The Straight Life

3. Reason To Believe

4. You Better Sit Down Kids

5. That's Not Home

3. If You Go Away

Fred Neil...Everybody's Talking

Fred Neil (born Frederick Ralph Morlock Jr.; March 16, 1936 – July 7, 2001) was an American folk singer-songwriter active in the 1960s and early 1970s.

Though highly regarded by contemporary folk singers, he was reluctant to tour and spent much of the last 30 years of his life assisting with the preservation of dolphins.

Fred Neil is the second album from Fred Neil, a pioneer folk rock musician, recorded and released in 1966. The album has a more laid-back sound than his debut, and contains his best-known songs; "Everybody's Talkin'" and "The Dolphins". It was re-released in 1969 under the title Everybody's Talkin' in response to the international success of the soundtrack of the movie Midnight Cowboy, which made a hit of the new title track for Harry Nilsson.