Neil Diamond.

Another classic L/P from Neil....Side One is some of his hit singles and Side Two is composed of African themes which in the 70's all the major artists were having a go at !!!

1. Cracklin' Rosie
2. Free Life
3. Coldwater Morning
4. Done To Soon
5. He Ain't Heavy He's my Brother

1. Childsong
2. I Am the Lion
3. Madrigal
4. Soolaimon
5. Missa
6 African Suite
7. Chilsong (Reprise) 

          1. Cracklin' Rose

Barry Manilow.

  Here's Barry doing his hit "Copacabana" along with some of his "Power Ballads" which he is well known for... "Starting Again" is a great track with some fantastic lyrics well worth pointing out...I love a song that tells a story and this one certainly does !!!


 1. Copacabana
2. Somewhere In The Night
3. A Linda Song
4. Can't Smile Without You
5. Leavin' In The Morning
6. Where Do I Go From Here

1. Even Now
2. I Was A Fool To Let You Go
3. Losing Touch
4. I Just Want To Be The One In Your Life
5. Starting Again
6. Sunrise

          2. Somewhere In The Night

Alice Babs

Swingtime Again is a 1998 music album featuring Alice Babs . In addition, Charlie Norman and Anders Berglund Big Band participate .After having been retired for 18 years she released this new album at the tender age of 74 !

The recording was made in Atlantis Studio in Stockholm between August 31 and September 5, 1998. 

1. Me And You

2. Its Wonderful

3. Sugar

4. I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart

5. Our Love Is Here To Stay

6. A Sailboat in The Moonlight

7. Swing It Magistern

8. I Don't Mind

9. Who's Got The Other Half of Heaven

10. Regntunga Skyar

11. I'm Checkin' Out Go'om Bye

12. Drop Me Off In Harlem

13. Bluer Than Blue

          8. I Don't Mind

The Crew Cuts

The Crew-Cuts were a Canadian vocal quartet, that made a number of popular records that charted in the United States and worldwide. They named themselves after the then popular crew cut haircut, one of the first connections made between pop music and hairstyle. They were most famous for their recording of The Chords' hit record, "Sh-Boom".

Artist Biography by Richie Unterberger

On most informed lists of rock & roll villains, the Crew Cuts would have to rank near the top. They weren't rock & rollers in the first place: their clean-cut white harmony glee club approach was really in the style of early- and mid-'50s groups such as the Four Aces, the Four Lads, and the Four Freshmen. The Canadian quartet differed from those acts, however, in their concentration upon covers of songs originally recorded by R&B/doo wop vocal groups. Their cover of the Chords' "Sh-Boom" set the pattern, going to number one in 1954 and setting the stage for their other commercially successful pop treatments of R&B hits by the Penguins, Gene & Eunice, Otis Williams & the Charms, the Robins, the Spaniels, the Nutmegs, and others.

1. Crazy 'Bout You Baby

2. Sh Boom Sh Boom

3. Oop Shoop

4. A Story Untold

5. Don't Be Angry

6. Earth Angel

7. Gum Drop

8. Ko Ko Mo

9. Slam Bam

10. Two Hearts Two Kisses

11. Honey Hair Sugar lips Eyes Of Blue

12. Tell Me Why

13. Susie Q

14. Young love

15. You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby

          14. Young Love

Helen Carr

With the exception of one song cut with Charles Mingus in 1946 and two with King Curtis later in the 1950s, this single CD (which consists of Helen Carr's two Bethlehem albums) has the complete output of the talented but short-lived singer who died in 1960 at age 36. Carr's interpretations fall between jazz and middle-of-the-road pop, yet her treatments of the standards consistently swing and uplift the material. On one occasion she is joined by a quintet with husband/pianist Donn Trenner, trumpeter Don Fagerquist and altoist Charlie Mariano, while the other session finds Carr interacting quite winningly with a trio consisting of guitarist Howard Roberts, bassist Red Mitchell and the muted (but fiery) trumpet of Cappy Lewis.

             19. Your Getting To Be A Habit With Me

Sparky's Magic Piano

WOW !!!...here's a blast from my past !!....I had this on 78's

when I was about 12 or there about's and loved it....haven't heard it for years....so thanks John for this memory !!..I guess that this is why I like piano music so much !!....if you haven't heard it it's a story about a Piano that plays itself !!  and "Sparky" of course !!!...so be a kid again and have a listen !!!!....it only lasts about 15 mins !!

The Vernons Girls

The Vernons Girls were an English musical ensemble of female vocalists. They were formed at the Vernons football pools company in the 1950s in Liverpool, settling down to a sixteen strong choir and recording an album of standards.

As a 16-piece vocal group, the Vernons Girls appeared on the ITV show Oh Boy with the house band between 1958 and 1959, and made a series of relatively successful singles for the label Parlophone between 1958 and 1961. Their 1958 LP released on Parlophone was arranged and conducted by Peter Knight, with sleeve notes by Eamonn Andrews. This record is significantly different from their later pop hits, featuring such fifties standards as "We'll Gather Lilacs", "Lonely Ballerina", and the "Cuckoo in the Clock".

Led by Maureen Kennedy, from 1961 the group reduced their membership to five and then three members, and by 1962 had signed to Decca Records where they recorded covers of American hits. Their cover of Clyde McPhatter's "Lover Please" and "You Know What I Mean" were both hits; the latter was also originally the B-side of "Lover Please". In the US, the group charted with the first Beatles tribute album there, We Love The Beatles. The Carefrees had previously charted with a Beatles tribute called "We Love You Beatles" in the UK in 1964.

As session singers for Decca, the Vernons Girls were the female backing voices on many hit singles during the 1960s – one of the first being Billy Fury's "Maybe Tomorrow". The trio of Jean Owen (aka Samantha Jones), Frances Lea, and Maureen Kennedy.

Jean Owen had solo success under the name Samantha Jones.

1. Lover Please

2. You Know What I Mean

3. Dat's Love

4. Be Nice To Him Mama

5. Don't Wanna Go

6. The Locomotion

7. See For Yourself

8. Funny All Over

9. Do The Bird

10. I'm Gonna Let My Hair Down

11. Stay at Home

12. He'll Never Come back

13. Mama Doesn't Know

14. Just Another Girl

15. Tomorrow Is Another Day

16. Why Why Why

17. Hey Lover Boy

18. Stupid Little Girl

19. We Love The Beatles

20. Only You Can Do It

21. It's A Sin To Tell a Lie

22. Don't Say Goodbye

          1. Lover Please

Vicky Lane

This Cool Lady only recorded this one L/P....Shame !!

Vicky Lane was born Grace Patricia Rose Coghlan in Dublin, Ireland in 1926. At a relatively young age, she had already travelled around the world twice before settling with her family in Mexico, then Nevada, and finally Beverly Hills.

Lane first went to Mexico with her family, then to the United States. As a teenager, her first Hollywood role was in 1942. She became known for her role as the Ape Woman Paula Dupree in the horror film The Jungle Captive (1945, directed by Harold Young).It was followed by supporting roles in films such as The Cisco Kid Returns (1945) 

After a brief marriage to film actor Tom Neal (1948–49), Lane married jazz musician and bandleader Pete Candoli in 1953, Around 1953, she recorded several songs for the Sunset label with Candoli, Jimmy Rowles, Joe Mondragon and Shelly Manne such as 'S Wonderful and I Got Nothin' But the Blues. Candoli also arranged the songs for her only solo album, which she recorded with the Candoli Orchestra in 1959 for Time Records, I Swing for You. 

(Info Edited From Wikipedia)....Note Track "Song Is You" 47 seconds X three !!

AllMusic Review by Ken Dryden

This RCA Victor LP marked the recording debut of Vicky Lane, a native of Ireland who was also an actress. Although gifted with an attractive voice in the alto range, Lane evidently didn't make much of an impression with record buyers, as this also seems to be the only recording under her name. This doesn't mean this is a bad record; in fact, she shows a lot of promise for a first-time recording artist, assisted by Pete Candoli's swinging arrangements and a supporting cast that also includes Jimmy Rowles, Barney Kessel, Alvin Stoller, and Joe Mondragon, along with a host of additional percussionists. Perhaps her selection of all upbeat songs instead of mixing a wider variety of material worked against her, though it is impossible to tell almost a half century after these sessions were completed.

1. The Trolley Song

2. Our Very Own

3. My Romance

4. You Hit The Spot

5. Love Isn't Born It's Made

6. My Heart Stood Still

1. They Say It's Wonderful

2. The Song Is You

3. Long Ago And far Away

4. I Love You

5. Right As Rain

6. This Heart Of Mine

          11. Right As Rain

Janice Harper

We now have a singer that seems to be well forgotten there is hardly anything about her on the internet which is a pity because she has got a great voice and should have been heard more in her time...she should have been with that voice a top seller for "Capitol" records but somehow she missed out.....So here you can find out what people have missed all these years.....

1. Cry Me A River

2. Always

3. I Am Forgetting You

4. If You Are But A Dream

5. If You Love Me Really Love Me

6. I'm Thru With Love

1. The Thrill Has Gone

2. All The Things You Are

3. Just Say I Love him

4. I Hadn't Anyone Till You

5. For All We Know

6. I Believe

7. Bon Voyage

           5. If You Love Me Really Love Me

Ivie Anderson

Here's A Great Singer from the 30's the Era of The Swing bands !!

Ivie Anderson (sometimes Ivy) (July 10, 1904 – December 28, 1949) was an American jazz singer. Anderson was a member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra.Her career for over a decade consisted of touring with Ellington. Her first appearance on record, "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)", recorded in 1932, was a hit. She participated in Ellington's first European tour in 1933. In 1940, she recorded "Solitude", "Mood Indigo", and "Stormy Weather".

1. I'm Checking Out Goo'm Bye

2. I've Got To be A Rug Cutter

3. Shoeshine Boy

4. Chocolate Snake

5. It Don't Mean a Thing

6. Troubled Waters

7. I Got it bad And That Ain't Good

8. My Old Flame

9. Let's have A Jubilee

10. Rocks In My Bed

11. Me And You

12. I've Got The World On a String

13. Isn't love The Strangest Thing

14. All God's Chillen Got Rhythm

15. Killin' Myself

16. Cotton

17. There's a Lull In my life

18. Oh Baby Maybe Someday

19. Heyfoot Strawfoot

20. Truckin'

21. Alabamy Bound

          5. It Don't Mean A Thing

Acquaviva & His Orchestra

Anthony "Tony" Acquaviva (May 10, 1925 – September 27, 1986, also known professionally as Acquaviva, was an American composer, conductor and string instrumentalist, and the founder of the New York Pops Symphony Orchestra.

1. Intermission

2. Green Valley

3. Open Your Eyes

4. Hills Of Rome

5. Dancing Notes

6. Autumn Again

1. Yesterdays Love

2. A  New Shade Of Blue

3. One Look At You

4. I Found A Rainbow

5. A Fool Was I

6. C'est La Vie

7. After A Dream

          5. Dancing Notes

Kylie Minogue.

Okay now from a Bubble Gum Pop Princess to a Classy Lady its "Miss Australia" singing as only she can!!

         5. Enjoy Yourself

Paul McCartney

Paul McCartney without Wings !!...BUT a bonus in the shape of "Michael Jackson" on a couple of tracks 

1. Pipes Of Peace

2. Say Say Say...with Michael Jackson

3. The Other Me

4. Keep Under Cover

5. So Bad

1. The Man...with Michael Jackson

2. Sweetest Little Show

3. Average Person

4. Hey Hey

5. Tug Of Peace

6. Through Our Love

          

          6. The Man

Paul McCartney - Pipes Of Peace

Bob Thompson & His Orchestra

Another great Stereo Recording from a great Orchestra as good as all the others !!..from what info I have found out I have posted all the L/P's that Bob Thompson made !...unless anybody out there knows any different !!

1. On The Street Where You Live

2. A Foggy Day

3. Makin' Whoopee

4. Look For The Silver Lining

5. Mad About The Boy

6. Angel Eyes

7. Peek-a-Boo

1. It might As Well be Spring

2. All of You

3. It's Alright With Me

4. Diga Diga Doo

5. Bye Bye Blackbird

6. Why Do I Love You

7. Just For Kicks

            12. Bye Bye Blackbird

Frankie Valli.

 This is "Frankie Valli" minus "The Three Seasons" !!!...from 1977...A good set of songs and Frankie's voice is not as "falsetto" as he is in the group...One of the best tracks is "Boomerang" the arrangement and production although it's a bit on the "Disco" side is great....all the rest of the tracks are typically 70's !!!

1. Easily
2. We're All Alone
3. Can't Get You Off My Mind
4. So She Says
5. Lucia

1. Boomerang
2. Your The Song That I Can't Stop Singing
3. Look At The World Changing
4. Where Were You When I Needed You
5. What Good Am I Without You

          6. Boomerang

The Carpenters.

This I think was one of the Carpenters best L/P's different from all the previous ones and as it says on the inside of this cover ..."Daring Innovative Surprising Serendipitous and Satisfying"
I reckon that says it all !!

1. B'Wanna She No Home
2. All You Get From Love Is A Love Song
3. I Just Fall In Love Again
4. On The Balcony Of Casa Rosada / Don't Cry For Me Argentina

1. Sweet Sweet Smile
2. Two Sides
3. Man Smart Woman Smarter
4. Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft 

          5. Sweet Sweet Smile

Barry Manilow.

  Here's Barry singing most of his own songs with one well known "Hit" song and a very flattering drawing of him on the front cover !

1. The Old Songs
2. Let's Hang On
3. If I Should Love Again
4. Don't Fall In Love With Me
5. Break Down The Door

1. Somewhere Down The Road
2. No Other Love
3. Fools Get Lucky
4. I Haven't Changed The Room
5 Lets Take All Night To Say Goodbye 

          9. I Haven't Changed The Room

Neil Diamond.

  Here is another great singer/songwriter in a quiet mood apart from "Reggae Strut" !!

1. I've Been This Way Before
2. Rosemarys Wine
3. Lady Magdelene
4. The Last Picasso

1. Longfellow Serenade
2. Yes I Will
3. Reggae Strut
4. The Gift Of Song

          7. Reggae Strut

Lars Gullin

How'z about a couple of hours Jazz !!..what with this one and the one's below just lose yourself with some improvisation !!.....Thanks JOHN !! for all the contributions !!

1. Bugs

2. Jump For Joy

3. Lars Meets Jeff

4. A La Carte

5. Stocks And Bonds

6. I Fall In Love To Easily

7. Manchester Fog

8. Soho

          6. I Fall In Love To Easily

Andrea Motis

Here's a young lady at the age of 30 (Now), who plays trumpet alto sax and sings great. Defiantly a Jazz star of today and the future ! and here she is at the tender age of 15 doing all three of the above ! Alto Sax ! Trumpet ! And a great voice !

Andrea Motis (born May 9, 1995) is a Spanish jazz singer and trumpeter who sings in Catalan, Spanish, Portuguese and English

From the age of seven, Motis developed musically at the Municipal School of Music of Sant Andreu, a neighborhood of Barcelona, becoming the school's lead trumpeter and later saxophonist. In 2007, at twelve, she began to collaborate with the Sant Andreu Jazz Band, led by teacher and musician Joan Chamorro

In 2010, at the age of fifteen, she recorded an album of jazz standards, Joan Chamorro Presents Andrea Motis. Her albums include Live at Jamboree and Feeling Good (2014). She recorded Feeling Good with her mentor, Joan Chamorro, bassist and leader of the Sant Andreu Jazz Band. She made her major label debut with Emotional Dance (Impulse!, 2017).

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