Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington "It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't G...

Ella & Dean

Couldn't Resist another one !!

Robert Byrne & Orchestra

Pulsating sounds from the "Command" Label....Stereo Galore !

1. Limehouse Blues

2. Ebb Tide

3. Talk To The Animals

4. This Heart

5. Spanish Eyes

6. March of The Space Cadets

1. South Rampart St Parade

2. The Sound Of Music

3. El Gato Montes

4. Blue Hawaii

5. Get Me To The Church On Time

      6. March Of The Space Cadets

Elaine Paige.

I did expect to enjoy this L/P more than I did....nothing wrong with it a nice set of songs sung ok but nothing to rave about...It only comes realy alive on the last track !!....BUT I reckon all the "Elaine Paige" fans out there will love it !!!!!

1. Love Hurts
2. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
3. This Is Where I Came In 
4. All Things Considered
5. Macarther Park

1. For You
2. My Man And Me
3. Without You
4. The Apple Tree
5. Shaking You
6. I Know Him So Well...with Barbara Dickson

      2. Sorry Seems The Hardest Word 

Acker Bilk

 This one and the next one from "Bob" in Belgium !! Thanks Bob !!

      5. I Can't Get Started

Acker Bilk

So now we have a change supplied by "Bob" from "Belgium"....That cool cool cool sound of the clarinet from the master of that instrument !!!..with some great Hit sounds !

      4. The Fool On The Hill

Maurice Chevalier

Always something different from Bob and as the cover says "Movie Hits" and you can tell by the recordings its definatly "early"!!

      7. You Bought A New kind Of Love To Me

Sammy Davis

 Great performances of songs from Sammy with only a guitar for accompaniment...Not many singers are brave enough to do that !...these were recorded in 1957....In 1966 he did another guitar only with Laurindo Almeida which is posted on here October 2016 !

This post has also got some bonus tracks 6 *of them with orchestra....Cheers And Thanks to the person who tacked them on the end !!

1. What Is There To Say

2. Why Shouldn't I

3. Love Me

4. Bewitched

5. I Could Have Told You

6. For All We Know

1. Deep In A Dream

2. I Get Along Without You Very Well

3. Mam'selle

4. Try A Little Tenderness

5. This love Of Mine

6. I've Got A Crush On You

7. It's Bigger Than You And Me*

8. Back Track*

9. Circus*

10. Dangerous*

11. Adelaide*

12. All About Love*

      4. Try A Little Tenderness

Laurie Johnson & His Orchestra

Some Big Bands sounds now ! before the speakers go haywire with the sounds below !

1. Something's Coming

2. I'm Beginning To See The light

3. Bye Bye Brown Eyes

4. There Comes A Time

5. Once In love With Amy

6. Gigi

1. Funny Face

2. On a Clear Day You Can See Forever

3. Night Of My Nights

4. When Chiquita Says

5. Looking For A Girl

6. My Foolish Heart

 

      3. Night Of My Nights

Enoch Light

Wa-hay !..36 tracks of percussion !...music drifting from one speaker to the other... Command Records at it's best !!......3 L/P's in one place !

      2. La Cucraracha

Marion Ryan

 Back to the 50's with this songbird !

Marion Ryan (4 February 1931 – 15 January 1999) was a popular British singer in the 1950s.She was once called "the Marilyn Monroe of popular song", Marion Ryan was a pop singer of the 1950s in the early years of British Independent Television. Her song "Love Me Forever" peaked at number five on the UK Singles Chart in 1958. She was the regular singer in the popular musical quiz Spot the Tune on Granada Television for seven years from 1956, with a total of 209 half-hour programmes......With the reference to MM the sound bite can only be !!!

1. A Lady Loves

2. I'll Take Romance

3. I'm Beginning To See The Light

4. Hit The Road To Dreamland

5. This Can't Be Love

6. My Heart Belongs To Daddy

1. Doing What Comes Naturally

2. Over The Rainbow

3. Isn't This A Lovely Day

4. There Will Never Be Another You

5. It Might As Well Be Spring

6. Heat Wave

      6. Heat Wave !!!
 

Ray Tchicoray & His Orchestra

 Further afield now with some Latin American Rhythms to keep you on the move!!.. just in case of couch potatoitiss !!..but nice and gentle !!

1. Andalucia

2. Cachita

3. La Comparsa

4. Karabali

5. Siboney

1. Malaguena

2. Maracas

3. Canto Indio

4. Babalu

5. Panama

  4. Babalu

Dean Martin....320 Kbps

This is a very early L/P of Dean's it's an American release that I Bought when I was in the
Army in the Middle East in 1958...and yes it's me in the photo at the tender age of 21 !

1. Who's Your Little Who-Zis
2. I'm Yours
3. I Feel A Song Coming On
4. Come Back To Sorrento
5. Oh Marie
6. With My Eyes Wide Open

1. Just One More Chance
2. Louise
3. That's Amore
4. I Feel Like A Feather In The Breeze
5. When Your Smiling
6. A Girl Named Mary

      6. With My Eyes Wide Open I'm Dreaming   

Luigi !!

Phew!!!!!....Thats me over 50 years ago !!!!....note the funky record player !!

Brigitte Bardot

This is a half & half L/P. !!..to be more precise one track the breathless voice of Brigitte then an Instrumental or two !!....this was definitely in the era of let all the "Stars" of the time make a record !!...but it does have a kinda charm about it !!...and the covers are "Fab" !!

      4. On Demenage

The Ink Spots..

Here's another different one from "Bob".....it's great having and hearing L/P's that I would never ever get to hear if the "Net" wasn't here !!...I had a suspicion that this was one of those that takes old recording's and adds more music tracks to it....but according to the back sleeve no its not !!..and they have done Vol 1 And 2....wonder if anybody has any information on "Spinorama" records ?? !!!! and if anybody has links to Vol 1 & 2 be cool to get them...its a great L/P !!...so people give it a download !!....still not sure tho' the man fiddling with the knobs and sliders on the "Recording Console" is responsible !!

      3. When My Sugar Walks Down The Street

Lena Zavaroni...

I will let "Wikepedia" do the talking on this one...its a very different post courtesy of "Bob" from "Belgium"...I wonder what kind of "Singer / Entertainer" she would have been if her life hadn't gone the way it did !!!!

Lena Hilda Zavaroni (4 November 1963 – 1 October 1999) was a Scottish child singer and a television show host. With her album Ma! (He's Making Eyes At Me) at ten years of age, she is the youngest person in history to have an album in the top ten of the UK Albums Chart. Later in life she hosted TV shows and appeared on stage. From the age of 13 Lena suffered from anorexia nervosa which became clinical depression two years later at the age of 15. Lena died at the age of 35 from pneumonia.

In 1974 Lena appeared on Opportunity Knocks hosted by Hughie Green and won the show for a record-breaking five weeks running. She followed this with the album Ma! (He's Making Eyes At Me), a collection of classic and then-recent pop standards which reached number eight in the UK album chart. At 10 years, 146 days old, Lena is still the youngest person to have an album in the Top 10.
Lena also sang at a Hollywood charity show with Frank Sinatra and Lucille Ball in 1974, at which Ball commented, "You’re special. Very special and very, very good," although some sources attribute the words to Sinatra. Following this, Lena guest-starred on The Carol Burnett Show. She also appeared on The Morecambe and Wise Show, the 1976 Royal Variety Show and performed at the White House for US President Gerald Ford. Signed to the soul-oriented Stax Records label in the United States, Lena was not widely popular despite the praise and television appearances; her Ma album was not listed in the popularity charts, and its title single only reached 91st position on the Billboard Hot 100 during a four-week chart run in the summer of 1974.

      4. Help Me Make It Through The Night

VA..Wunderbar.

This one is courtesy of "Bob" from "Belgium".....For all the "German" visitors ...Thanks for looking !!!....there are some songs on it that I'm sure everyone will know !!

      6. Was Kann Schoner Sein

Bread...320 Kbps

This one comes courtesy of "Geoff"..don't know much about "Bread" so I will leave the comments to those who do !!....It contains one of the most recorded song of the 70's !!!!!

1. Let Your Love Go
2. Take Comfort
3. Too Much Love
4. If
5. Be Kind To Me
6. He's A Good Lad

1. She Was My Lady
2. Live In Your Love
3. What A Change
4. I Say Again
5. Come Again
6. Truckin'

       6. Truckin'

Helmut Zacharias...320 Kbps

 

Still keeping in the easy listening mood and still across the channel in "Belgium" via "Bob" we have once again the man with the "Magic Violins" !!!

      6. Cielito Lindo 

Ray Conniff And Orchestra.

Another Conniff Gem.....this time with a touch of latin...as usual a great sound !!

1. Besame Mucho
2. Stranger In Paradise
3. Summertime
4. I've Got You Under My Skin
5. Too Young
6. Softly As In A Morning Sunrise

1. Just One Of Those Things
2. Deep Purple
3. Brazil
4. Night And Day
5. Temptation
6. Say It With Music

      

      3. Brazil