Alma Cogan

Here we have a Swedish release of Alma's early recordings.....it seems that they have cranked up the orchestra on the first track and went for a cup o'tea !!..leaving poor Alma to battle with the orchestra.....it just shows you that the little man twiddling the knobs in the control room is sometimes needed !!

          4. Fly Me To The Moon

Sarah Vaughan

A Classic singer singing some Classical Vocal Interpretations !

1. Be My Love

2. Intermezzo

3. I Give To You

4. Because

5. Full Moon And Empty Arms

6. My Reverie

7. Moonlight Love

1. Ah Sweet Mystery Of Life

2. Till The End Of Time

3. None But The Lonely Heart

4. Night

5. If You Are But A Dream

6. Only

7. Experience Unnecessary

          4. Because

Twiggy.

 Here's "Twiggy" of  M&S fame & Model of "The Swingin'60's" doing quite a pleasant job of singing some "Country & West" style songs 1977 is the date !!....around this time I think she must have starred in the "Ken Russell" film "The Boy Friend" which was a "Musical" wonder what came first this L/P or the film !!!......anyway she does do a pretty good job with the songs best one being "20/20 Hindsight"....I think she did do another L/P and released some singles and had a minor hits with "Here I Go Again" and "Vanilla Ole"

1. Rings
2. I Hope We Get To Love In Time
3. Cooking School
4. I'll Be Doggone
5. I Lie Awake And Dream of You
6. Fish In The Sea
7. My Town

1. Brown Shoes
2. You've Got Me To Hold On
3. I Love Us
4. Everything Falls Into Place
5. 20/20 Hindsight
6. Please Get My Name Right

 

          5. 20 / 20 Hindsight 

Bill Haley & His Comets

I would give a guess that this is some of Bill Haley's early recordings......OOOOOPs...just checked on Wikipedia and this is some of what they say...

Recorded over the span of more than 18 months, Strictly Instrumental was the ninth rock and roll album by Bill Haley & His Comets, and their final album of new material for Decca Records (although Decca would release previously unissued recordings during the 1960s). Produced by Milt Gabler (the last full album he would produce for Haley), the album collects instrumental recordings made by Haley and the Comets between June 1958 and their final Decca recording sessions in September 1959. (The band subsequently began recording for Warner Bros. Records in January 1960.)

As the title of the album suggests, all of the songs on this album were instrumentals, with the exception of some ensemble singing on the track "Chiquita Linda". Bill Haley's involvement in the recordings was a matter of conjecture until research for the Bear Family Records box set The Decca Years and More in the early 1990s confirmed his presence. 

          1. Joey's Song

Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga

Right  up to date now ....Most of the tracks are duets except two solo's each from Tony* and Lady G*..

Voice great for a 95 year old singer !!

1. Anything Goes.

2. Cheek To Cheek

3. Don't Wait To Long.....Tony Bennett*

4. I Can't Give You Anything But Love

5. Nature Boy

6. Goody Goody

7. Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye......Lady Gaga*

8. Firefly

9. I Wont Dance

10. They All Laughed

11. Lush Life......Lady Gaga*

12. Sophisticated Lady......Tony Bennett*

13. Lets face The Music And Dance

14. But Beautiful

15. I Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing

          4. I Can't Give You anything But Love

Werner Muller & His Orchestra

Great Strings Great Orchestra what's more to say but just listen !!

         1. Tico Tico

Dickie Valentine

A Trip now to the 50' & 60's with two popular singers of that Era...completely different from one another singing popular hit songs of the time....Enjoy the Nostalgia !!

1. All The Time And Everywhere

2. Endless

3. Many Times

4. Who's Afraid Not I Not I

5. A Blossom Fell

6. Mister Sandman

1. The Finger Of Suspicion

2. I Wonder

3. Runaround

4. Guessing

5. You Too Can Be A Dreamer

6. No Such Luck

7. La Rosita

           1. Finger Of Suspicion

David Whitfield

Second of  the popular singers of the 50's/60's.....totally different from the above one...Listening to this and the one above makes me realise just  how much popular music has changed in the last 60 odd years !!...still the recorded music of the 20's 30's 40's was also very different from the 50's & 60's as is the music from the 70's onward !!.......I wonder how all the great singers that are now no longer with us would cope and perform with the music of the 2022's

1. Lady Of Madrid

2. How When Or Where

3. You Are Ev'rywhere

4. Santa Rosa Lea Rose

5. Beyond The Stars

6. When You Lose The One You Lose

1. I'll Never Stop Loving You

2. Mama

3. Open Your Heart

4. The Lady

5. Angelus

6. Cara Mia

           1. Lady Of Madrid

Roberto Delgardo & His Band

Fancy a trip to mexico !....get your dancing shoes on and your maraca's out and start shaking !!

1. Amopola

2. Noches De Mazatian

3. Suby Universitario

4. Cielto Lindo

5. Estrelita

6. El Rascapetate

1. La Bamba

2. Ruega Por Nosotros

3. Green Eyes

4. La Malaguena

5. Ahoro Y Siempre

6. El Jarabe Tapatio

          1. La Bamba

Chris Montez

Seems we still have the dancing shoes on !!....this one is courtesy of  Tony angel's collection ...Thanks Tony !

1. Let's Dance

2. I Ran

3. You're The One

4. Let's Do The Limbo

5. Rocking Blues

6. Chiquita Mia

1. Some Kinda Fun

2. Say You'll Marry Me

3. All You Had To Do Was Tell Me

4. I Feel Like Dancing

5. No No No

6. Tell Me It's Not Over

 

          4. Let's Do The Limbo

Johnny Logan

It's great that we in England came second in The Eurovision Song Contest instead of being on the last few rungs of the ladder !!...so here's a celebration of the only singer that has won it twice !

          10. Whats Another Year

Sentimental Memories..VA

Relax now let the music flow around your brain as you recall the memories of a slower and not so hectic time !!

           Love Is A Five Letter Word

Mason Williams

Here's some great Guitar playing and some great original songs courtesy of Mason Williams...I have posted  "Hand Made"earlier.... this one was supplied by Tony Angel... thanks Tony !!

Mason Douglas Williams (born August 24, 1938) is an American classical guitarist, composer, singer, writer, comedian, and poet, best known for his 1968 instrumental "Classical Gas" and for his work as a comedy writer on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour, and Saturday Night Live.

The Mason Williams Phonograph Record is an album by classical guitarist and composer Mason Williams (with various accompaniment) released in 1968. It is Williams's most successful and most recognized album, and contains the instrumental "Classical Gas," his best known song. Mason Williams won two Grammy awards, for Best Pop Instrumental Performance and Best Instrumental Theme, and Mike Post won Best Instrumental Arrangement on the song. In Canada, the album reached #16.

1. Overture

2. All The Time

3. Dylan Thomas

4. Wanderlove

5. She's Gone Away

6. Here I Am

1. Classical Gas

2. Long Time Blues

3. Baroque-a Nova

4. The Prince's Panties

5. Life Song

6. Sunflower

Williams has recorded more than a dozen albums, five on the Warner Bros. label (The Mason Williams Phonograph Record, The Mason Williams Ear Show, Music, Handmade, and Sharepickers). ."
 

           3. Baroque-a-Nova

           6. Sunflower

Tommy Dorsey & Orchestra

From the "Rock" to "Swing"...I'll leave it to the back sleeve for all the information !!
another one from across the channel !!!

          1. Do Do Do

Engelbert Humperdinck.

Now we have next two first class singers in their "Hey Days" from 1970...the selection of songs are all popular songs of the day....The "Gem" on this one is "My Wife The Dancer"

1. We Made It Happen
2. My Cherie Amour
3. Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head
4. Love Me With All Your Heart
5. Words
6. Something

1. Everybody's Talking 
2. Love For Love
3. Just Say I Love Her
4. Wandrin' Star
5. My Wife The Dancer
6. Leaving On A Jet Plane

          5. My Wife The Dancer

Max Bygraves & Acker Bilk.

Another singalong from Max this time its a "Duo" with a "Jazz" Band...first side is the crazy side !! second side is the lush slow one !!

           3. I Like Beer

Tuxedo Junction - "Chattanooga Choo Choo" (1978) - MDA Telethon

Browsing YouTube I came across this video from the disco era of the 70's...so get your Cuban heels on and have a look and a listen to the two L/p's that I found !!

Tuxedo Junction Disco Band

Well now hope you enjoyed the video above...just a great bit of late 70's/80's nostalgia mixed in with the 40's...I guess it won't be everybody's cup 'o tea but it a great idea even tho' it does go on a bit !! so you would be Travolta's mind your backs and anything else that could be strained !!

1. Chattanooga Choo Choo

2. Rainy Night In Rio

3. Moonlight Serenade

1. Fox Trot

2. Volga Boatman

3. Tuxedo Junction

Tuxedo Junction - whose hallmark was a blend of retro-flavored big band sound and modern disco - eclipsed prematurely in 1979, after just two full-length albums and a handful of singles.

It would take two producers as wicked as Laurin Rinder & W. Michael Lewis to fuse the big band swing sound of the 30s with the disco beat of the 70s ... and make it work. The result was the novelty Tuxedo Junction, released on yellow vinyl on Butterfly Records 1977, and it yielded club hits with their takes on the standards "Chattanooga Choo Choo" and "Moonlight Serenade" with singers Marilyn Jackson, Sue Allen and Marti McCall cooing and crooning. 

Tuxedo Junction Disco Band

 Ok... no rest here's the second  Disco sound !!

1. Toot Toot Tootsie Goodbye

2. That Old Black Magic

3. Take The A Train

1. You Gotta Be a Football Hero

2. Begin The Beguine

3. Night In Tunisia

          3. Night In Tunisia

Les Brown & His Band

 A chirpy band singer on this EP from Tony Angel is of course DD....enjoy the early recording of a great singer

         

      4. Sentimental Journey

Jean Goldkette & His Orchestra

Not exactly recorded in the 20's but in the late 1950's with the arrangements by Sy Oliver

John Jean Goldkette (March 18, 1893 – March 24, 1962) was a jazz pianist and bandleader.

He led many jazz and dance bands, of which the most popular was his Victor Recording Orchestra of 1924–1929. The band defeated Fletcher Henderson in a battle of the bands contest. The head arranger was Bill Challis and the musicians included Bix Beiderbecke, Steve Brown, Hoagy Carmichael, Jimmy Dorsey, Tommy Dorsey, Eddie Lang, Chauncey Morehouse, Don Murray, Bill Rank, and Spiegle Willcox. Rex Stewart, a member of Henderson's band, wrote that "It was, without any question, the greatest in the world...the original predecessor to any large white dance orchestra that followed, up to Benny Goodman." Brian Rust also called it "the greatest band of them all."...........Plenty of info on the back sleeve  !!

     Thanks to Tony Angel for this one !!

1. My Pretty Girl

2. Dinah

3. Charleston

4. Always

5. Who

1. Put Your Arms Around Me Honey

2. Sweet Georgia Brown

3. Varsity Drag

4. Blue Skies

5. It Had To Be You

          3. Charleston

VA.Ah Paris

Now we have courtesy of Bob a L/P that  features French singers but this time sung in French !...so enjoy this one all the lookers in from "France" !!!...most of the songs are well known !!

         2. Petite Fleur