Abbe Lane.

A selection of Latin based songs with some good stereo !

1. Pan, Amore y Cha Cha Cha
2. Take it Easy
3. Noche De Ronda (Be Mine Tonight)
4. Too Marvelous For Words
5. Nightingale
6. Oyeme Mama

1. Whatever Lola Wants
2. Arrivederci Roma
3. Green Eyes
4. Anna
5. The River Seine
6. Babalu

3. Green Eyes.

Betty Carter

Here we have a singer that I have heard of but not actually listened to....Its a voice and style that takes a bit of getting used to but well worth the effort of listening and hearing this L/P all the way through....Live performance at its best and I wish I had listened earlier in my musical life !

Betty Carter (born Lillie Mae Jones; May 16, 1930 – September 26, 1998) was an American jazz singer known for her improvisational technique, scatting and other complex musical abilities that demonstrated her vocal talent and imaginative interpretation of lyrics and melodies. Vocalist Carmen McRae once remarked: "There's really only one jazz singer—only one: Betty Carter.

Influenced by the improvisational nature of bebop and inspired by vocalists Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan, Carter strove to create a style of her own. Lionel Hampton asked Carter to join his band in 1948; however, her insistence on improvising annoyed Hampton and prompted him to fire her seven times in two and a half years. Carter left Hampton’s band for good in 1951 and performed around the country in such jazz clubs as Harlem’s Apollo Theater and the Vanguard in New York, the Showboat in Philadelphia, and Blues Alley in Washington, D.C., with such jazz artists as Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Muddy Waters, T-Bone Walker, and Thelonious Monk.

Arguably the most adventurous female jazz singer of all time, Betty Carter was an idiosyncratic stylist and a restless improviser who pushed the limits of melody and harmony as much as any bebop horn player. The husky-voiced Carter was capable of radical, off-the-cuff reworkings of whatever she sang, abruptly changing tempos and dynamics, or rearranging the lyrics into distinctive, off-the-beat rhythmic patterns. She could solo for 20 minutes, scat at lightning speed, or drive home an emotion with wordless, bluesy moans and sighs.....(Info Edited From Wikipedia & Steve Huey of AllMusic)

1. Seems Like Old Times / I Remember You / You Forgot

2. Blue Moon

3. Sun Died

4. I Only Have Eyes For You

5. Body And Soul / Heart And Soul

1. I Didn't Know What Time It Was / All The Things You Are

2. Girl Talk

3. You're a Sweetheart

4. Ego

5. All through The Day

         6. I Did'nt Know What Time It Was / All The Things You Are

Bob Wallis Storyville Jazzmen

Robert Wallis (3 June 1934 – 10 January 1991) was a British jazz musician, who had a handful of chart success in the early 1960s, during the UK traditional jazz boom.

Wallis joined up with Hugh Rainey's All Stars (Ginger Baker was their drummer at the time) and shortly afterwards the band changed its name to The Storyville Jazz Band, fronted by Wallis. In 1959 the band recorded an album for Top Rank Records, Everybody Loves Saturday Night. It peaked at No. 20 in the UK Albums Chart in June 1960.

 Somehow, a young Bob Wallis managed to get beautifully colored sound and soul from this group of very raucous players. This is not refined jazz, nor is it intellectual--it's rough, loud, rowdy, visceral, and at times very basic. But the tone of each player, the enthusiasm, and the depth of joy has rarely been matched. Everything they touch turns to gold--even the cheesy, nearly cringe-worthy opening quote of Mozart in "Alla Turka", which is redeemed into a winking nod by the subsequent impassioned outcries of Doug Richford's clarinet and driving, sinister riffing in the brass.  Some of the standards, particularly "Old Stack-O-Lee Blues" and "Kansas City Man Blues" are among the finest versions recorded--blunt, strong, obvious, original, they stare you down like a gunfighter and make for some of the best, most straightforward utterances in the Trad Jazz canon.  Central to the band, of course, is the charismatic trumpet and voice of Bob Wallis. Like so many of the great British Trad cornet and trumpet players, Wallis is a pleasure to listen to, with a balanced, golden sound--and his drive as a player and leader yields an exceptionally balanced result, with a band identity that never lets up. ( Info Edited From "The Jazz Clarinet" by "Eric Seddon")...Thanks Eric  !

1. Le Reve Passe

2. Down Home Rag

3. Old Stack-A-Lee Blues

4. Ev'rybody Loves Saturday Night

5. I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen

6. Alla Turka

1. Savoy Blues

2. Where Shall I Be

3. Kansas City Man Blues

4. Captain Morgan

5. Sons Of The Brave

6. L'Oiseau Bleu

          6. Alla Turka

Dinah Shore

Dinah Shore (born Fannye Rose Shore; February 29, 1916 – February 24, 1994) was an American singer, actress, and television personality, and the top-charting female vocalist of the 1940s. She rose to prominence as a recording artist during the Big Band era, but achieved even greater success a decade later, in television, mainly as hostess of a series of variety programs for Chevrolet.

After failing singing auditions for the bands of Benny Goodman, and both Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, Shore struck out on her own to become the first singer of her era to achieve huge solo success. She had a string of 80 charted popular hits, spanning 1940–1957, and after appearing in a handful of feature films, she went on to a four-decade career in American television, starring in her own music and variety shows from 1951 through 1963 and hosting two talk shows in the 1970s. TV Guide ranked her at number 16 on their list of the top 50 television stars of all time. Stylistically, Shore was compared to two singers who followed her in the mid-to-late 1940s and early 1950s, Doris Day and Patti Page.

1. Deep Purple

2. When The World Was Young

3. Moments Like This

4. I'll Remember April

5. These Foolish Things

6. I Fall In Love To Easily

1. I Loved Him

2. What's New

3. I Can Dream Can't I

4. Now I Know

5. How Long Has This Been Going On

6. Something Wonderful

         10. Now I Know

Vic Damone

 This is a great "Live" performance it has no date on the sleeve but found out from "Google" that it was from about 1969 which is about right it fits with most of the songs he sings on it from the 60's !!.. ..Pity About Macarthur Park it goes on too long....apart from that as I said a great "Live" One !!!

1. The Song Is You
2. All I Need Is A Girl Like You
3. By The Time I Get To Phoenix 
4. Little Green Apples
5. Moment Of Truth
6. Didn't We 

1. The Look Of Love 

2. Can 't Take My Eyes Off You 

3. When You've Laughed All Your Laughter 

4. La Vita 

5. Macarthur Park 

6.Time After Time 

Johnny Mathis.

A good balanced compilation of well-known songs from "JM"...this time the record company did not pick out the "record filler" songs.....and do I detect some "alternative" versions!!!... will have to play the tracks side by side to be defined.....all in all a good L/P !!!

1. What'll I Do 
2. More That You Know
3. Stranger In The Night
4. Baby Baby Baby 
5. Danke Schon
6. Stranger In Paradise

1. Misty
2. By Myself
3. Spanish Eyes
4. There Goes My Heart
5. LOVE
6. That's All

 

1. Vaughn Monroe & Orch--Stan Kenton & Orch--Max Bygraves--Frank Sinatra

Just for a change I thought that I would post the first post of my other Blog of 78's rpm....the quality on the first few of posts on this blog was not to bad....It took me a while to master the filters on my recording app...these days the Quality is great you wouldn't know that they are Shellac 78's...unless of course they were really old and played a lot with the dreaded Steel Needle !!

For the first post we have some popular artists that were popular in the 50's in the following posts perhaps not so well known...But nostalgia is the name of the game on here!!...also a selection of Classics will be making an appearance so a great cross section of music will be featured that we enjoyed in the bygone days!

1. The Maharajah Of Magador......Vaughn Monroe & Orchestra

2. Dardanella......Vaughn Monroe & Orchestra

3. Tequila......Stan Kenton & Orchestra

4. Cuban Mumble......Stan Kenton

5. Seventeen Tons......Max Bygraves

6. Try Another Cherry Tree.....Max Bygaves

7. Nancy......Frank Sinatra

8. Just Say I'm A Friend Of Yours.....Frank Sinatra

          3 . Tequila

The Greatest Hits of The 80's.

Here's a first in many way's on this blog !!...It's a Triple (3) record set !!!...a compilation that I can't complain about !!!....who can argue with No 1's !!!!..even tho' there is a couple that I can't say I'm familiar with !!.....Sooooooooooo of we go on a merry ride through the diverse musical tastes of the 80's !!!!!

Record Number 1

Record Number Two

Record Number Three 

         1. Careless Whisper 

         26. Pump Up The Volume

          36. Perfect

Luciano Tajoli

A treat now for all the guy's and gal's from Italy...this one comes all the way from Brazil via Marcos... thanks Marcos !...keep them comming much appreciated for your imput !.....

Luciano Tajoli (17 April 1920 – 3 August 1996) was an Italian singer and actor.

Luciano Tajoli participated several times (1961, 1962, 1963, and 1970) in the Sanremo Music Festival, winning in 1961 with the song Al di là. It is estimated that he sold over 45 million records.

1. Mon Pays......( My Country )

2. Tre Rundinelle......( Three Swallows )

3. Come E'Bello Fa L'amore Quanno E Sera...(How Beautiful He Makes Love Every Year and Evening )

4. Aria De Roma

5. Quattro Gondole......( Four Gondolas )

6. Javapache

7. Mama Buonanotte......( Mama Goodnight )

8. Samba Alla Fiorentina

          5. Quattro Gondole

Gene Krupa

Here's a surprise !!!...a real blast from the past !!!...Drum Playing At its best !!!!....

          4. Stomping Waltz

Jane Powell

A  soundtrack, and then a studio recording of the great Jane Powell !

 

          3. I Don't Know What I Want

Jane Powell.

Songs From "The King And I" and from Janes Film "Rich Young And Pretty" plus a couple more tracks...just a pleasant set of songs with "Jane Powell" in her "Musical Film" Mode !

 1. Something Wonderful
2. We Kiss In A Shadow
3. I Whistle A Happy Tune
4. Hello Young Lovers
5. Wonder Why
6. Paris

1. Dark Is The Night
2. L'amour Toujours
3. I Can See You
4. I Love You
5. We Never Talk Much
6 The Echo Song

          12. The Echo Song

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Helene De Lys

Can't find out much about this singer...there's not much info about her at all..she is definatly a forgotten singer !..pity the recording is a bit on the scratchy side...be nice if anyone has the CD.. which I found that there is a Japanese release out there..be great to have a link to it to replace the Vinyl that must have been played a lot....so she was appreciated....even the L/P cover is not to clear so you can't realy see what she looks like...even the CD has the same Blurry Cover.....But it is a great voice and needs to be heard even with all the crackles and pops the voice still shines through..any info on her would be appreciated !!

         7. Don't Worry 'Bout Strangers

Tommy Reilly

Thomas Rundle Reilly MBE (August 21, 1919 – September 25, 2000) was a Canadian-born harmonica player, predominantly based in England. He began studying violin at eight and began playing harmonica at aged eleven as a member of his father's band. In the 1940s, he began parallel careers as a concert soloist and recitalist playing the harmonica.

A popular BBC radio and TV performer, and a studio musician-composer. He performed with most of the major European orchestras and toured Europe several times with the Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields. He also played the theme tune and musical breaks to the BBC Radio series The Navy Lark, from 1959-77.

He was signed to Parlophone in 1951 where his recordings were produced by George Martin. He performed music for the soundtracks of many US and European films and for several US TV series. In 1967, Reilly initiated the development of the first Hohner silver harmonica. He and James Moody have recorded many musical scores for the harmonica under the pen names "Dwight Barker" and "Max Martin".

In 1992 he was awarded the MBE for his services to music.

1. Sunshine Of My Life

2. Wave

3. Baubles Bangles And Beads

4. Triste

5. Corcovado

6. Light My Fire.

1. Girl From Ipanema

2. Its Impossible

3. Desafinado

4. The Secret

5. Shadow Of Your Smile

6. Brazil.

         10. The Secret

Annie Ross

Annabelle Allan Short (born 25 July 1930), known professionally as Annie Ross, is a British-American singer and actress, best known as a member of the jazz vocal trio Lambert, Hendricks & Ross. Early in her acting career, she was credited as Annabelle Logan.

In 1952, Ross met Prestige Records owner Bob Weinstock, who asked her to write lyrics to a jazz solo, in a similar way to King Pleasure, a practice that would later be known as vocalese. The next day, she presented him with "Twisted", a treatment of saxophonist Wardell Gray's 1949 composition of the same name, a classic example of the genre.The song, first released on the 1952 album King Pleasure Sings/Annie Ross Sings, was an underground hit, and resulted in her winning Down Beat magazine's New Star award.

Her first solo album, Singin' and Swingin' (1952), was recorded in New York with members of the Modern Jazz Quartet. Other albums include Annie by Candlelight (1956), Annie Ross Sings a Song with Mulligan! (1958) with Gerry Mulligan on saxophone and Chet Baker on trumpet, A Gasser! (1959) with Zoot Sims, In Hoagland with Georgie Fame and Hoagy Carmichael and Music Is Forever, featuring Tommy Flanagan on piano.She recorded seven albums with Lambert, Hendricks & Ross between 1957 and 1962. 

Ross left the group in 1962 and, in 1964, opened her own nightclub in London. Annie's Room featured performances by Joe Williams, Nina Simone, Stuff Smith, Blossom Dearie, Anita O'Day, Jon Hendricks, Erroll Garner, and Ross herself.....( Info Edited From Wiliepedia )

There was a time in the 1950s and 1960s when people began to try fusing jazz with poetry. One of the foremost British experimenters was Christopher Logue, a maverick poet who was involved with Private Eye and London’s Royal Court Theatre. He wrote numerous poems. Loguerhythms, consisting of a dozen of his sardonic poems, was recorded in 1962 at the Establishment Club in Soho, with music composed mostly by Stanley Myers and Tony Kinsey.

Annie Ross was the perfect vocalist to perform Loguerhythms. She had made her name as a member of Lambert, Hendricks & Ross, a vocal team which specialised in vocalese, the art of putting words to pieces of jazz. She was therefore an expert in the difficult process of singing poems with jazz accompaniment. Christopher Logue’s poetry doesn’t always make it easy to deliver the words.

Yet Annie manages splendidly: conveying the pieces clearly and with plenty of style. It would still have been useful if the sleeve-notes had included the poems in full, so that the listener could study them more closely.....( Info Edited From "Jazz CD Reviews" by Tony Augarde )

I will have to listen to this L/P a few times ....the voice is great...the songs you have to listen to carefully to appreciate them !!! and understand !

1. Bellini

2. The Ballad Of The Water And The Flame

3. The Ass' Song

4. The Liberal Man

5. Johnny

6. Sick Man

1. Things

2. He

3. Go To The Wall

4. The Ballad Of The Ape And The Judge

5. The General

6. Western Ladies

         10. The Ballad Of The Ape And Judge