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Back to one of my father’s favorite trumpet players. This time, a little later in his career. It’s as if the years have slightly mellowed his sound, and he blends in more with the band.

But there’s almost never any trouble recognizing when this musician is front and center, because he had one of the smoothest sounds around.

So, get ready to hear one of the best known and easily recognized trumpet players ever in Volume 197: Jazzy James.

More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it. 

Credits and copyrights

Harry James And His Orchestra – Jazz Session Label: Columbia – CL 669, Columbia – CL-669 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Hollywood Pressing Released: 1955 Genre: Jazz Style: Big Band

Marchin' Soloist, Tenor Saxophone – Pat Chartrand Written-By – Harry James and Louis Bellson

I'll Remember April Written-By – Don Raye, Gene DePaul and Patricia Johnson

One For My Baby (And One More For The Road) Written-By – Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen

(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66! Vocals – Gordon Polk Written-By – Bobby Troup

Stealin' Apples Written-By – Andy Razaf and Fats Waller

Queen Of The Mambo Written-By – Tony Martinez

I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

Today, the day this episode drops, would have been my mom’s 87th birthday. Earlier today, I dropped ten roses on her gravestone to signify how many of those birthdays we have had without her.

I’ve said this before, that my mom’s spirit is within this album collection just as much as my dad’s, and it’s artists like this that I know she enjoyed very much.

My parents did get to see him once in concert. He is one of the world’s most recognized tenors, even years after he has been gone. 

So get ready to hear Luciano sing to celebrate my mother’s birthday in Volume 196: Pavarotti for Pauline. 

More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it. 

Credits and copyrights

Luciano Pavarotti – Verismo Arias Label: London Records – LDR 10020 Series: London Digital Format: Vinyl, LP, Stereo Released: Dec 1980 Genre: Classical Style: Opera

The portrait reproduced for the cover was done by Gerrit Greve, and was one of Pavarotti's favorites.

We will hear 10 of the 15 songs on this album.

Amor Ti Vieta (Fedora) Composed By – Umberto Giordano

Dai Campi, Dai Prati (Mefistofele) Composed By – Arrigo Boito

La Dolcissima Effigie (Adriana Lecouvreur) Composed By – Francesco Cilea

L'Anima Ho Stanca or My Soul Is Tired (Adriana Lecouvreur) Composed By – Francesco Cilea

Apri La Tua Finestra! (Iris) Composed By – Pietro Mascagni

Colpito Qui M'Avete.....Un Di All 'Azzurro Spazio (Andrea Chénier) Composed By – Umberto Giordano

Come Un Bel Di Di Maggio (Andrea Chénier) Composed By – Umberto Giordano

Ch'Ella Mi Creda (La Fanciulla Del West) Composed By – Giacomo Puccini

Ma Se Vi Talenta.....Tra Voi, Belle (Manon Lescaut) Composed By – Giacomo Puccini

Ah! Non Y'Avvicante! (Manon Lescaut) Bass Vocals – Neil Howlett Composed By – Giacomo Puccini

I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

This is truly an interesting find in my dad’s collection. We know by now my dad’s love for the Dixieland style of music. So it’s not surprising I found this record in the stacks.

But what was surprising is that this recording was made by seven musicians that had never played together before. You most certainly can’t tell. And they’re not exactly household names. 

So, get ready to hear what it must have sounded like rollin’ down the Mississippi River in the late 19th and early 20th century in Volume 195: Delta Dixieland.

More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it. 

Credits and copyrights

Delta Kings – Down The River With The Delta Kings Label: Down South Records – DS 201 Format: Vinyl, LP Released: 1958 Genre: Jazz, Blues Style: Dixieland

We will hear 6 of the 10 songs on this album.

Ole Man River written by Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II

Beautiful Ohio written by Ballard MacDonald, Robert King First released in 1919

'Way Down Upon The Swanee River Old Folks at Home written by Stephen Foster

Waitin' For The Robert E. Lee written by L. Wolfe Gilbert, Lewis F. Muir 

Up That Lazy River by Hoagy Carmichael and Sidney Arodin

Down By The Riverside (I Ain't Goin' to Study War No More) A traditional song first recorded in 1920

I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

I’m not sure why, but the episodes that feature Ray Conniff music have been among the most popular…by far. Maybe because his music is so enjoyable. Maybe because his music is laid back and brings back memories of better times, or what are assumed to be better times.

But Conniff’s music had a very unique sound because of how he treated vocals in many of his songs. He used voices as instruments as they sang wordless notes. But on this record? They use their real words.

So get ready to hear some sweet music with that unique Conniff vocal arrangement in Volume 194: Ray's Honey. 

More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it. 

Credits and copyrights

Ray Conniff And The Singers – Honey Label: Columbia – CS 9661 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Pitman Pressing Released: 1968 Genre: Jazz Style: Easy Listening

We will play 7 of the 11 songs on the album.

Honey (I Miss You) Written-By – Bobby Russell

Gentle On My Mind Written-By – John Hartford

Spanish Eyes Written-By – Bert Kaempfert, Charles Singleton and Eddie Snyder

I Say A Little Prayer Written-By – Burt Bacharach and Hal David

The Look Of Love (From "Casino Royale") Written-By – Burt Bacharach and Hal David

Sound Of Silence Written-By – Paul Simon

Goin' Out Of My Head Written-By – Bobby Weinstein and Teddy Randazzo

I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

We slide now quite nicely into the second record of a two album set of popular New York City Jazz musicians taking their music around the U.S. In fact, according to the album back cover, they performed in front of 200 thousand fans during 37 concerts in 25 cities. This is one of those concerts.

So get ready to hear the East-West Coast All Stars with music refined at a famed jazz club named after one of the best saxophonists that ever lived in Volume 193:  Birdland Stars Tour 2.

More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it. 

Credits and copyrights

The Birdland Stars – The Birdland Stars On Tour Vol. 2 Label: RCA Victor – LPM-1328 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono Released: 1956 Genre: Jazz Style: Hard Bop

Recorded February 27, 1956, Webster Hall, New York

We will hear 4 of 6 songs from this record.

Hip Boots! Written-By – Ernie Wilkins

Ah Funky New Baby Written-By – Manny Albam

Playboy Written-By – Ernie Wilkins

Birdland Fantasy Written-By – Ernie Wilkins

I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

Here is the first of two from Doris my dad had. And it's just some downright pretty music. She's got a soft, delicate voice. I can see why Colonel Potter fell in love with her. But that's a story for later in the episode.

A car accident cut her budding dancing career short, but she showed off her voice on radio in Cincinnati and ended up attaining fame in both music and movies.

So get ready to hear one of the most popular and acclaimed singers of the 20th century in Volume 192: Day Dreaming.

More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it. 

Credits and copyrights

Doris Day – Day Dreams Label: Columbia – CL 624 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Released: Jun 13, 1955 Genre: Pop Style: Vocal

We will hear 6 of the 12 songs from this album.

Bewitched Written-By – Rodgers & Hart

Sometimes I'm Happy Music By – Vincent Youmans Words By – Irving Caesar

I Didn't Know What Time It Was (GREAT lyrics) Written-By – Rodgers & Hart

I've Only Myself To Blame Written-By – David Mann, Redd Evans

Darn That Dream (such language Doris) Written-By – Eddie Delange, Jimmy Van Heusen

Imagination Music By – Jimmy Van Heusen Words By – Johnny Burke

I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

This album is the epitome of extended music.

These melodies had been recorded before, but the technology of the 78 RPM kept them limited in length. Once the opportunity to put more music on one disk became available with the new Long Playing technology of the 1950s, most musicians were adding more songs to put  together an album.

Not this episode’s featured artist. He kept adding to the songs on this album. Just when you think the tune is getting ready to conclude, it heads off in a different direction. In doing so Duke has created absolute masterpieces.

And because of the length of these recordings, we’ll only hear three songs on this episode.

So, get ready to hear uncut concert arrangements by one of the most prolific composers in history in Volume 191: Master Ellington.

More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it. 

Credits and copyrights

Duke Ellington And His Orchestra – Masterpieces By Ellington Label: Columbia Special Products – JCL 825 Series: Collectors' Series Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono (originally released in 1951) Released: 1973 Genre: Jazz Style: Swing, Big Band

Recorded December 19, 1950

These are uncut concert arrangements. 

All music written by Duke Ellington, arranged by Ellington and Billy Strayhorn.

Sophisticated Lady Solitude The Tattooed Bride

I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

Here’s an artist dwelling in my father’s collection we haven’t heard from yet. We’ll be hearing selections from the first of three Billy Vaughn records he had.

This record isn't just filled with the pop hits Vaughn would arrange and record for orchestra to be played on those easy listening radio stations. These are standards. In fact, the hit recordings of these songs sold a lot of records.

So, get ready to hear 7 tunes that were recorded over 1,200 times combined over the years in Volume 190: Billy's Million Sellers.

More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it. 

Credits and copyrights

Billy Vaughn – Billy Vaughn Plays The Million Sellers Label: Dot Records – DLP 3119 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Released: 1958 Genre: Jazz, Folk, World, & Country Style: Easy Listening

We will hear 7 of the 12 songs on this album.

Holiday For Strings written by David Rose

Canadian Sunset written by Eddie Heywood

Tonight We Love written by Freddy Martin, Ray Austin

Fascination written by Fermo Dante Marchetti 

In The Mood Written by Joe Garland, Jimmy Dale, Wingy Manone, Andy Razaf 

Around The World Music written by Victor Young

So Rare written by Jerry Herst, Jack Sharpe

I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

The four letter album title in large yellow font along with the same color silhouette of a pair of hands playing a trumpet over a black background immediately sets the tone for this LP. 

It’s familiar music played a little more sparsely than you are used to hearing it. But fear not, there are some great treatments of music you may know on this disk, and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did listening to this unfamiliar trumpet player.

So get ready to hear a honeyed horn from a musician who actually was more popular in another profession in Volume 189: Jim's Java.

More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it. 

Credits and copyrights

Jim Collier – Java Label: Wyncote – W-9013 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono Released: 1964 Genre: Jazz Style: Easy Listening

We will hear 7 of the 10 songs on this album.

Java written by Allen Toussaint, Murray Sporn, Alvin "Red" Tyler, and Danny Kessler

Miss Daisy De Lite Written by Kal Mann and Dave Appell

Happiness Is A Thing Called Fun Could not find any information on this song

Honey In The Horn (which according to the front cover is the featured song even though it's number one on side two.) written by Fred Wise, Ben Weisman, Kay Twomey, Al Alberts

Anymore written by Roy Drusky, Vic McAlpin, and Marie Wilson

Chills written by Jack Keller, and Gerry Goffin

Get It Movin' Could not find any information on this song

I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

#jimcollier #trumpetsrule #jazzmusic

Let’s get back to some of the big band and early swing my dad listened to a lot. And this record is a real find because of the two main musicians.

One played a brass instrument, one played reeds. One ended up just a little more famous than the other. But they were brothers. And they had their famous beginnings in a band with the family name that recorded in the early to mid-1930s.

So get ready to hear a compilation of some of the last studio recordings for this sibling duo that began on 78 RPM Shellac and ended up on this 33 ⅓ RPM Vinyl in Volume 188: The Brothers Dorsey Shine.

More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it. 

Credits and copyrights

The Dorsey Brothers' Original Orchestra – Their Shining Hour Label: Design Records – DLP 20 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Mono Released: 1957 Genre: Jazz

We will play 7 of the 11 songs from this album.

By Heck music by S. R. Henry

Solitude written by Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Eddie DeLange

Rhythm Of The Rain written by Jack Meskill, Jack Stern

Night Wind Written-By – Bob Romberg, Dave Pollock and Harry Link

Eccentric is actually cut 3 written by J. Russel Robinson

Sugar Foot Stomp written by Louis Armstrong, King Oliver

The Weary Blues written by Artie Matthews

I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

Like I’ve mentioned before, my dad liked his cowboy music too. So, we’ll go back to a box set where we’ll pull out the fourth of its seven records.

The title of each of these sides is Deep in the Heart of Texas and Western Landscapes, hence the mashup title of this episode.  

Four songs from side one were all big hits and reference our second biggest state. The selections from side two are lesser known but paint a beautiful picture of the old west. 

So get ready to hear what is really Tumbling Tumbleweeds part 4 in Volume 187: Texas Landscapes.

More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it. 

Credits and copyrights

Various – Tumbling Tumbleweeds Label: Reader's Digest – RDA-229 / A Format: 7 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation Box Set Released: 1982 Genre: Folk, World, & Country Style: Country

We will be listening to record 4, sides 1 and 2. We will hear 7 of the 11 tunes from this disk.

Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys - Deep In The Heart Of Texas written by Don Swander, June Hershey

George Hamilton IV - Abilene written by John D. Loudermilk, Bob Gibson and Lester Brown

Gene Autry - The Yellow Rose Of Texas It's a traditional song with lyrics added by Don George

Jerry Reed - El Paso  written by Marty Robbins

The Sons Of The Pioneers - Moonlight On The Colorado written by Billy Moll, Robert King

Jimmy Wakely - The Call Of The Canyon written by Billy Hill

Hank Snow - Cross The Brazos At Waco written by Kay Arnold

I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

We're going to take a little side road along our musical journey for this episode. It's not something I often do, especially in my youth, but I'm going to make a big deal out of my birthday this year, since it actually falls on a day I publish my episodes.

62 is not a milestone. There is no special celebration with my high school classmates, since next year we'll be celebrating at our 45-year reunion. In fact, I better get busy and call a meeting since I am currently the chair of the reunion committee.

In that vein, I am going to pull out an album filled with plenty of songs you've already heard on this show, but they all appear on this one disk.

I keep circling back to Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. Back to the music that made my household so much fun to grow up in. Back to an album that was permanently in the To Play pile next to the living room record player.

So, get ready to hear the entire album of music that always went along well with my mom's lasagna, a house full of friends, and bocce ball in the backyard and help me celebrate with some favorite memories in Volume 186: Best of TJB (Happy Birthday to Me).

More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it. 

Include links to previous spinning My Dad's Vinyl episodes featuring the TJB: Volume 6: Herb Alpert Lonely Bull Volume 33: Tijuana Brass Going Places Volume 54: Alpert's Ninth Volume 98: Whipped Alpert Volume 129: Brass' Beat for Father's Day Volume 156: Christmas Herb

Credits and copyrights

Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass – Greatest Hits Label: A&M Records – SP-4245 Series: Greatest Hits (8) Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Stereo, Terre Haute Pressing Released: 1970 Genre: Jazz, Latin Style: Latin Jazz

Liner Notes – Charles Champlin Cover Photography – Jim McCrary Producer – Herb Alpert, Jerry Moss

Comes in a "UniPak" styled gatefold cover with a inner pocket to house LP. We will hear all 12 songs in the order they appear.

Lonely Bull Written-By – Sol Lake Appeared on The Lonely Bull Released in 1964

Spanish Flea Written-By – Julius Wechter Appeared on Going Places released in 1967

Getting Sentimental Over You Written-By – George Bassman Appeared on Going Places released in 1967

Love Potion #9 (first time I came across an actress by the name of Sandra Bullock...it's hilarious.) Written-By – Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller Appeared on Whipped Cream and other Delights Released in 1965

Never On Sunday Written-By – Billy Towne and Mano Hadjidakis Appeared on The Lonely Bull Released in 1964

Mexican Shuffle Written-By – Sol Lake Appeared on South of the Border Released in 1964

Taste Of Honey Written-By – Bobby Scott and Ric Marlow Appeared on Whipped Cream and other Delights Released in 1965

Tijuana Taxi Written-By – Ervan Coleman Appeared on Going Places released in 1967

South Of The Border Written-By – Jimmy Kennedy and Michael Carr Appeared on South of the Border Released in 1964

America Written-By – Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim Appeared on America Released in 1969

Whipped Cream Written-By – Naomi Neville Appeared on Whipped Cream and other Delights Released in 1965

Zorba The Greek Written-By – Mikis Theodorakis Appeared on Going Places released in 1967

I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

Let’s jump back into one of my favorite box sets from my dad’s collection. We will listen to selections from both sides of the second to last record in this six-disk set.

I have often said I would have loved to have been around in the early days of radio. There was such a pioneering spirit in the way to entertain and inform. I know this technology made the world a smaller place. It was also basically just the newest way to sell the latest product.

So, gather around your home receiver and get ready to hear drama in both the theatrical and athletic forms in Volume 185: Golden Memories of Radio Record 5.

More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it. 

Promised link to CNN article.

Credits and copyrights

Jack Benny – Golden Memories Of Radio Label: Longines Symphonette Society – none Format: 6 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Mono, Maroon Labels Box Set Released: 1969 Genre: Non-Music Style: Radioplay

We are listening to selections from record five, which is side 5 and side 8, thanks to being numbered for the automatic changing spindle.

Jack Armstrong The Lone Ranger Gene Tunney vs. Jack Dempsey Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling Jesse Owen In The 1936 Olympics Whirl-A-Way Wins The Kentucky Derby Bobby Thomson Home Run The Shadow

I do not own the rights to these recordings. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

Almost everybody likes to show off their singing skills whether they have some or not. Karaoke bars have made a killing off that theory for decades.

Back in the 1950s and 60s, there were a couple of TV shows that got viewers to sing along with them. Of course Mitch Miller was also all the rage with his albums. 

This audience participation album is performed by the first woman in history to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1960. It includes songs most of you should know because they have been recorded more than 15 hundred times combined over the last 134 years.

So get ready to hear music that you might have heard cowboys sing around a campfire or drunkards bellow out at the bar in Volume 184: Connie's Sing Along.

More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it. 

Credits and copyrights

Connie Francis And The Jordanaires – Sing Along With Connie Francis Label: Mati-Mor Superecords – 8002 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Indianapolis Pressing Released: 1961 Genre: Pop Style: Vocal

Sing Along  Unkown composer

Home On The Range music by Daniel E. Kelley and lyrics by Brewster M. Higley

In The Good Old Summertime written by George Evans, Ren Shields

I Love You Truly Written by Carrie Jacobs-Bond

You Tell Me Your Dream, I'll Tell You Mine written by Charles N. Daniels, Seymour Rice, and Albert H. Brown

Down In The Valley written by Tom Darby and Jimmie Tarlton

My Wild Irish Rose written by Chauncey Olcott

Auld Lang Syne written by Robert Burns

And The Band Played On written by John F. Palmer, Charles B. Ward

Tavern In The Town  Derived from the English ballad

I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

Let's finish the first half of the year by turning up the speed. Let’s make it a 78 RPM Sunday.

What better voice to do that with than one who sold over 100 million records during a six-decade-long career. She topped the Hot 100 FOUR times and had several songs in the top 10 and 20 over the years. In fact, she was the top-charting female vocalist and best-selling female artist of the 1950s.

She was also an early pioneer of a specific recording technique.

So, get ready to hear the woman often introduced as the Singin’ Rage in Volume 183: Six Pages of Patti on 78.

00:00 - Season's Show Intro 00:51 - Episode Introduction 01:46 - Little Crazy Quilt 04:19 - First Break: Why I chose these records for this episode and a M*A*S*H connection 05:49 - Cabaret 08:44 - Second Break: More information about the records, marketplace value and what condition my dad's shellac is in. 10:11 - Whispering 12:31 - Third Break: Patti Page Bio  16:18 - Hocus Pocus 18:26 - Fourth Break: this episode's Interesting Side Note. 20:23 - Let Me Go, Lover 22:45 - Quick Extra break to introduce bonus cut 23:16 - Doodle Doo Do 25:43 - Sixth Break: Final Words 27:02 - Keep Me in Mind 29:18 - Close

Credits and copyrights

Little Crazy Quilt Jack Rael And His Orchestra Written-By – Hal David and Leon Carr Released in 1955

Cabaret Written by Al Russell - Joel Cowan Recorded 24 April 1949 New York City - with an Orchestra Conducted by Mitch Miller.

Whispering written by Vincent Rose, Richard Coburn, John Schonberger, Malvin Schonberger Recorded 24 April 1949 New York City - with an Orchestra Conducted by Mitch Miller.

Hocus Pocus from Mercury 70511 78 rpm with Jack Rael and his orchestra - arranged by Joe Reisman Music by David Saxon - Lyrics by Norman Gimbel

Let Me Go, Lover Written by Jenny Lou Carson - Al Hill, which is a Pseudonym for Kay Twomey - Fred Wise - Ben Weisman Recorded Circa October 1954

Doodle Doo Do Ken Griffin on Organ Jerry Wayne on Vocals written by Art Kassel, Mel Stitzel Released March 1948

Keep Me in Mind This early Bacharach song was co-written with Jack Wolf and published by Famous Music. Both the different composer, Zing-Wexler, and publisher names credited on the label were erroneously referring to a different song with the same title. Released in 1955

I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

My dad had plenty of records featuring large orchestras playing classical music on both 33 ⅓ RPM vinyl LPs and 78 RPM Shellac records.

The Reader’s Digest liner notes for this seven record box set starts off…quote…the nineteenth century was just opening in Vienna when the fist of an implacable genius knocked like destiny upon the doors of music. unquote. 

They were, of course, talking about the immortal Ludwig Van Beethoven.

His symphonies live on in performances to this very day. In fact we saw the Cleveland orchestra perform his fifth symphony earlier this year.

So, get ready to hear the man who is said to have set music free in Volume 182: Beethoven's 1st & 2nd.

More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it. 

Credits and copyrights

Beethoven, René Leibowitz, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, The Beecham Choral Society – The Nine Symphonies Of Beethoven Label: Reader's Digest – RD 4-6, RCA Custom – RD 4-6 (1-7) Format: 7 x Vinyl, LP, Box Set Released: 1966 Genre: Classical Style: Romantic, Choral

We will hear 4 of the 8 movements from the first record which includes Symphonies number 1 and 2.

Symphony No. 1 In C Major, Op. 21 First Movement - Adagio Molto; Allegro Con Brio Second Movement - Andante Cantabile Con Moto

Symphony No. 2 In D Major, Op. 36 Second Movement - Larghetto Third Movement - Scherzo Fourth Movement - Allegro Molto

I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

So, Dad…your last fathers day was 2019. You died that December. 

In those four and a half years since, you have been dearly missed, thought of often and always toasted at family get-togethers.

I still use a lot of your tools. But no…I still don’t know where that sledgehammer went. I have your Willie the trumpet playing Hobo Melody Music maker music box where I can see it every day. I’ve replaced the batteries twice so far. And these albums keep me connected to you, your memories, and the life you started for us.

Dad…even more than others, this episode is for you.

So get ready to hear the style of music that makes up the biggest percentage of music in my dad’s collection in Volume 181: Dixieland Stars for Fathers Day.

More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it. 

Credits and copyrights

Various artists – Dixieland Label: Golden Tone – C4021 Format: Vinyl, LP, Mono Released: 1960 something  Genre: Jazz Style: Dixieland

We will hear all 8 of the songs on this album.

Matty Matlock And His Dixie-Men - Sugar Foot Strut written by Billie Pierce, Henry Myers, Charles Schwab

Matty Matlock And His Dixie-Men - Ida, Sweet As Apple Cider written by Eddie Munson, Eddie Leonard 

Pee Wee Hunt And His Orchestra - Royal Garden Blues written by Spencer Williams, Clarence Williams

Pee Wee Hunt And His Orchestra - Lazy Bones written by Hoagy Carmichael, Johnny Mercer 

Morty Corb And His Dixie All-Stars - South written by Bennie Moten, Thamon Hayes 

Morty Corb And His Dixie All-Stars - Back Home Again In Indiana written by Ballard MacDonald, James F. Hanley, Paul Dresser

Matty Matlock And His Dixie-Men - Jazz Me Blues written by Tom Delaney 

Matty Matlock And His Dixie-Men - Oh, Didn't He Ramble written by Bob Cole, J. Rosamond Johnson 

I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

When it came to how popular a band’s music was, it was the charts that told you. It was the charts that determined radio station song lists and how often they changed. 

While maybe not quite all of the songs on this record made the charts, even though that’s what the album title hints at, all of the artists were on the charts at one time or another. 

So, get ready to hear music makers that were high up in a specific list at one time or another in Volume 180: Hit Makers.

More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it. 

Credits and copyrights

Various – The Original Top Hits By The Hit Makers Label: Columbia – CL 1485 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Mono Released: 1960 Genre: Pop Style: Light Music

Johnny Mathis– Starbright  written by Lee Pockriss, Paul Vance

Doris Day– Please Don't Eat The Daisies written by Joe Lubin

Jerry Vale– Solitaire written by Neil Sedaka, Phil Cody

Mitch Miller– Pink Polemoniums  Written-By – Al Hoffman and Dick Manning

Greenfields written by Frank Miller, Richard Dehr, and Terry Gilkyson (also known as The Easy Riders)

Kitty Kallen– Got A Date With An Angel written by Clifford Grey, Jack Waller, Joseph Tunbridge, Sonny Miller

Marty Robbins – Big Iron  He wrote and was the first to record it on April 7, 1959.

Johnny Horton - Sink The Bismarck written by Tillman Franks

I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

I’m not sure the person who gathered the music for this record understood what the assignment was. This is not at all what I expected the music to sound like after seeing the name of the album and the text on the cover.

I mean, who hasn’t enjoyed that Latin sound from Guy Lombardo, Billy May, Ray Anthony, and Joe Leahy? Good thing there’s a song by Sergio Mendez here to lend the recording some credibility.

The closest comparison I can come up with is that the music on this record is light and bouncy, quite like the Latin music my dad and I like so well.

So, get ready to hear music from the most inappropriately titled record in my dad's collection, so far, in Volume 179: Viva the Latin Beat.

More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it. 

Credits and copyrights

Various – Viva! Label: Creative Products – SL-6650, Capitol Records – SL-6650 Series: The Capitol Stereo Showcase Format: Vinyl, LP, Limited Edition Released: not sure what year but sometime in the 1970s based off the Series name. Genre: Jazz, Latin, Pop

Billy May– Spanish Flea Written-By – Cissy Wechter, Julius Wechter

Joe Leahy–Life Written-By – Joe Leahy, Mike Curb

Ray Anthony– Danke Schoen Written-By – Bert Kaempfert, Kurt Schwabach, and Milt Gabler

Guy Lombardo– A Banda Written-By – Chico Barque De Hollanda

Guy Lombardo– A Taste Of Honey Written-By – Bobby Scott, Ric Marlow

Sergio Mendes– Muito A Vontade Written-By – João Donato

Joe Leahy– Arriba Written-By – Joe Leahy, Mike Curb

I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

Here’s an album I came across while looking for a specific artist for an earlier episode. I wasn’t familiar with some of the musicians and most of the music on this record. But it represents an interesting time frame in music. Sort of between bebop and rock and roll styles seeing the most spots on the charts. There’s also one country music star here as well. 

The artists I recognized I knew were deserving of having their names big and bold on the venue’s marquee in the late 1950s. 

So get ready to hear various bands play a variety of musical styles in Volume 178: Headliners.

More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it. 

Credits and copyrights

Various – The Headliners, Volume 2 Label: Columbia Record Club – GB-9, Columbia – GB-9 Format: Vinyl, LP, Club Edition, Limited Edition, Sampler, Mono Released: 1961 Genre: Jazz, Pop, Folk, World, & Country Style: Country, Vocal

"Limited Edition Available to Club Members Only"

Lester Lanin And His Orchestra–This Could Be The Start Of Something Released on the B-side of Blue Tango Rock released in 1961 by Epic Records. song by Steve Allen, published in 1956. Yes, the Steve Allen who created the Tonight Show.

Johnny Cash–The Big Battle (cover only says The Battle) Written by Johnny Cash and released as a single on Columbia records in 1962.

The Miles Davis Sextet (Quintet)–Drad Dog Written by Miles Davis and appeared on his 1961 Columbia record Someday My Prince Will Come.

Dinah Washington– Somewhere Along The Line Composed by Dinah Washington, with lyrics by Dinah and Walter Merrick Released in 1961 on the Mercury label record Unforgettable.

Jerry Murad's Harmonicats– Tuxedo Junction (A #1 hit for Glenn Miller in 1940) music was written by Erskine Hawkins, Bill Johnson, and Julian Dash in 1939.

The Dave Brubeck Quartet– Slow and Easy (Lawless Mike) The Lawless Mike Written by Dave Brubeck This song was found on the CD re-release of the 1961 Brubeck album Time Further Out. It was not on the original vinyl LP, but made its way into this collection.

I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

Here’s the second record of a two disk set that spent as much time among my own records as it did my dad’s. There was a point where neither one of us remembered whose collection it actually belonged in. Like I’ve said in the past, my dad and I had similar taste in music.

The featured artist is just as much among my favorites as he was my dad’s. I still remember sitting in the Richfield Coliseum awestruck at what I was witnessing him do on the stage. And I witnessed that performance with my dad and my mom.

When we get done with this episode you’ll know why they called him Mr. Show Business.

So get ready to hear music written over the course of four decades and then rearranged for one of the best overall stage entertainers the world ever saw in Volume 177: Sammy Record 2.

More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it. 

Promised link to a story on Sammy's conversion to Judaism.

Promised link to research used in above story.

Credits and copyrights

Sammy Davis, Jr. – Sammy Label: Sessions (2) – ARI-1001 Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation Released: 1976 Genre: Jazz, Pop Style: Vocal, Swing

We'll hear 7 of the 13 songs from record 2.

Chicago (Toddling Town) written by Fred Fisher and published in 1922. Sammy recorded it live several times.

Go right into next song Birth Of The Blues composed in 1926 by Ray Henderson, with lyrics by Buddy DeSylva and Lew Brown It was a song he recorded in 1955 for the album Starring Sammy Davis Jr.

You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You  written by Russ Morgan, Larry Stock, and James Cavanaugh and published in 1944. He recorded a studio version of that with Count Basie for the 1965 album Our Shining Hour

The Impossible Dream composed by Mitch Leigh, with lyrics written by Joe Darion.  Sammy recorded a version for the 1969 album The Goin' Great.

Exodus composed by Ernest Gold. This track was recorded sometime around 1972, and was never released on any of his official "albums", however it was also released in 1975 on this K-Tel LP entitled "The Sounds Of Sammy Davis Jr."

I've Gotta Be Me composed and written by Walter Marks in 1967 Sammy Davis Jr. recorded the song in 1968, as the title track of Davis’ 1968 Reprise album.

Spinning Wheel Written by David Clayton-Thomas of Blood, Sweat & Tears in 1968. This was taken from his 1970 LP Something for Everyone.

I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

So, mom...your last mother's day was in 2015 just three weeks before you died.

In those nine years since, you have been dearly missed, thought of often and always toasted at family get-togethers.

I still use your recipes and even some of your kitchen tools to cook our meals. And your granddaughter still helps me make cavatelli and cassatelles. My kitchen always smells good. Almost like yours…sometimes.

Your memory is just as much a part of this record collection as dad’s. Because you were always telling me what you wanted to hear on the living room record player.

Mom…This episode is for you.

So get ready to hear a collection of Italian memories often played and definitely whistled around my house growing up with Volume 176: For Mama on Mothers Day.

More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it. 

Credits and copyrights

The Botticelli Family Singers – For Mama and Other Italian Favorites Label: Diplomat Records – D 2348 Format: Vinyl, LP Released: 1965 Genre: Folk, World, & Country

We will hear 7 of the 11 songs from the album.

For Mama written by Charles Aznavour, Robert Gall

Funiculi Funicula written by Luigi Denza, Peppino Turco

O Marie an adaptation of an operatic tune called Maria Mari written by Eduardo di Capua and Vincenzo Russo.

Santa Lucia A traditional Italian song first recorded by Enrico Caruso in 1916

Stretti Stretti  Vincenzo Di Chiara wrote the popular Italian song "La Spagnola", also known as "Stretti stretti, nell'estasi d'amor", in 1906. 

Torna a Surriento written by C. Chacón, Giambattista de Curtis, Ernesto de Curtis

Ciribiribin written by Alberto Pestalozza, Carlo Tiochet

I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

When you think of bebop and other improvisational jazz, your mind usually hears a trumpet or saxophone as the lead. We rarely think about that instrument with the long slide that makes some pretty funny sounds as taking on any serious solo work, because, the thinking went, there was no way to be as intricate with some of the fast solos in that type of jazz.

The trombone player you are about to hear proved them all wrong. And made a pretty good name for himself in that trumpet and sax dominated world. He is joined by three amazing big names from the era as well.

So get ready to hear the musician who brought the bone to bebop in Volume 175: JJ is Blue.

More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it. 

Promised link for arts.gov article. 

Credits and copyrights

J.J. Johnson – Blue Trombone Label: Columbia – CL 1303 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono Released: 1959 Genre: Jazz

We will hear 5 of the 7 songs on this album.

Hello, Young Lovers Written-By – Oscar Hammerstein II and Richard Rodgers Better known together as Rodgers & Hammerstein

What's New Written-By – Bob Haggart and Johnny Burke

Blue Trombone, Part 1 Written-By – J.J. Johnson

Blue Trombone, Part 2 Written-By – J.J. Johnson

100 Proof Written-By – J.J. Johnson

I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

One of the box sets that goes almost ignored is on the bottom row of my dad’s collection. It has a somewhat misleading title, but it includes some of the most classic standards in music.

Once again, we have no record of the musicians, the arrangers, the conductor or conductors, just that the box set is part of a much larger series put out by a company who produced radio shows…and hocked watches.

The title definitely doesn’t prepare you for the instrumentation used to perform this classic music, but it definitely grows on you.

So, get ready to hear tunes originating from the roots of American music in Volume 174: Birth of the Blues Record 2.

More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it. 

Credits and copyrights

The Longines Symphonette – Birth Of The Blues - Vol. 11 Label: Longines Symphonette Society – C-7-11 1 Series: Our Century In Music – 11 Format: 3 x Vinyl, LP Box Set Country: Canada Released: 1974 Genre: Blues

1974 Longines Society A Library of Memorable Hits from 1900 to the Present

We are listening to record two which is side C and D.

We will hear 6 of the 10 songs.

St. Louis Blues  composed by W. C. Handy

Muskat Ramble written by Kid Ory

Jazz Me Blues by Tom Delaney

Wabash Blues arranged by Joseph E. Maddy

Blues in the Night written by Harold Arlen

That's A Plenty by Lew Pollack

I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

This is the second of the three main Rat Pack members we will hear from here in season four of this show. This crooner is the one we DIDN’T get to see in concert with the other two back in March of 1988 at the Richfield Coliseum.

He’s a singer, actor, and comedian. One of the most popular entertainers of the mid-20th century, he was nicknamed "The King of Cool". And his music is still among the most streamed today.

So, get ready to hear the voice that had just as many teenage girls swooning as Old Blue Eyes did in Volume 173: Dean's Swingin'.

More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it. 

Promised Links: Dean Martin's IMDB listing Dean Martin's official website About page. 

Credits and copyrights

Dean Martin Orchestra Conducted By Nelson Riddle – This Time I'm Swingin' Label: Capitol Records – T1442 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Los Angeles Pressing Released: Oct 3, 1960 Genre: Jazz Style: Easy Listening, Vocal, Swing

It was recorded during three sessions in May of 1960.

We will hear 7 of the 12 songs on the album.

I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me Written-By – Clarence Gaskill and Jimmy McHugh

You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You (the 1964 re-release reached number 25 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1964 and number 1 on the Billboard Easy Listening chart.) Written-By – James Cavanaugh, Larry Stock, and Russ Morgan

Imagination Written-By – Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Burke

Until The Real Thing Comes Along Written-By – Alberta Nichols, L.E. Freeman, Mann Holiner, Sammy Cahn and Saul Chaplin

Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone Written-By – Sam Stept and Sidney Clare

Someday Written-By – Jimmie Hodges

Just In Time Written-By – Adoph Green, Betty Comden and Jule Styne

I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

One hundred twelve years ago today, on April 14, 1912, while on its maiden voyage from England to New York, the unsinkable RMS Titanic struck an iceberg in the north Atlantic… then the next day did the unthinkable…it sunk.

In 1960, Meredith Willson followed up his Broadway hit The Music Man with a musical version of the fictionalized life of one of the aristocrats who survived the sinking, Margerat Brown. The musical was made into a movie in 1964 starring Debbie Reynolds as Mrs. Brown and Harve Presnell reprising his role from the stage as JJ Brown.

The film was nominated for 6 Oscars. It won none. The Titanic and scenes of the aftermath of its sinking take all of two minutes and five seconds of the entire movie that runs two hours and fifteen minutes, but there are some great song and dance numbers in the show. As well as some very funny scenes.

So, get ready to hear a raucous MGM soundtrack sung by characters molded by the backwoods and mountains of Colorado in Volume 172: Molly is Unsinkable.

More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it. 

Credits and copyrights

MGM Studio Orchestra with the Overture for the musical the Unsinkable Molly Brown Debbie Reynolds featured in I Ain't Down Yet Harve Presnell & Orchestra - Colorado, My Home Harve Presnell And Debbie Reynolds–I'll Never Say No Debbie Reynolds And Chorus– Belly Up To The Bar, Boys MGM Studio Orchestra– Dolce Far Niente (Meaning Pleasant Idleness) although literally meaning sweetly and softly do nothing Harve Presnell & Cast– He's My Friend All music written by Meredith Willson

I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

Talk about your comeback albums. This release became the Chairman of the Board’s most commercially successful album. My dad’s favorite voice was finding it hard to sell records during the early days of rock and roll. And he wasn’t finding the top of charts as often.

He once again teamed up with the Nelson Riddle orchestra and this time struck Grammy gold.

So get ready to hear The Voice most heard around our house when I was growing up in Volume 171: Sinatra is No Stranger.

More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it. 

Credits and copyrights

Strangers In The Night Arranged By – Ernie Freeman Producer – Jimmy Bowen Written-By – Bert Kaempfert, Charles Singleton and Eddie Snyder

Summer Wind Written-By – Henry Mayer and Johnny Mercer

All Or Nothing At All Written-By – Arthur Altman and Jack Lawrence

You're Driving Me Crazy! Written-By – Walter Donaldson

On A Clear Day Written-By – Alan Jay Lerner and Burton Lane

Yes Sir, That's My Baby! Written-By – Gus Kahn and Walter Donaldson

The Most Beautiful Girl In The World (classic Sinatra phrasing) Written-By – Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart

I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

IMPORTANT! If you downloaded this before 7PM April 1, there is an 18 second SKIP in the original mp3 file. Not sure how that happened. Sorry for the inconvenience. This new one should be fixed.

This is not an episode of Spinning My Dad's Vinyl. It was the only place I could share this music mix for the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse on April 8, 2024.

Music to watch an eclipse by

We've been looking forward to the April 8, 2024 Total Solar Eclipse that is hitting parts of North America for a long time. I bought a special camera filter to take photos of the phenomenon. We bought really nice Eclipse glasses a couple of months prior. We'll be smoking ribs and chicken while enjoying the spectacular with high school friends in from D.C. IF THE WEATHER HOLDS! It is northeast Ohio.

But, of course, I needed to create a special music mix for the occasion.

Most people think you should just play Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon to time the song Eclipse's last words to end at the start of totality: "...and the sun is eclipsed by the moon." While my playlist starts with the beginning of that classic album and brings in totality with those lyrics from that song, the list will showcase more eclipse/moon-themed songs from many different music genres. After totality, you'll get to enjoy more sun-based music to bring you to the end of the eclipse, which will be capped by Satchmo's What A Wonderful World.

By the way...I chose Disturbed's version of Sound of Silence for totality.

No matter where you are along the path, if you start this 2024 Eclipse Music Mix EXACTLY 1 hour and 15 minutes before totality starts in your vicinity, the transition I just described should line up properly. You can see the playlist below the audio player.

Enjoy the show that nature is providing us backed by some great music.

Were there other great tunes to use? You bet. But I had time constraints and needed to back time exactly to totality and then to the end.

We finish up a month of celebration for what would have been Glenn Miller’s 120th birthday March first. And we finish by getting back to the man himself.

We’re not ending this memorial month with just any album in my dad’s collection. I refer to it with the same name as a popular and influential Beatles record.

This album has always caught my eye, and a few times my toe as it has the largest cover in the collection and sticks out beyond all the others, and it is made of a near-wood material. It also has one of the best selections of Glenn Miller’s recordings. Some studio. Some from his live national radio broadcasts. 

So get ready to hear the last two sides of this great compilation record set from the most famous big band conductor there was in Volume 170: Miller's White Album Record 5.

More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it. 

Credits and copyrights

Glenn Miller And His Orchestra – RCA Victor Collectors Issue Second Pressing Label: RCA Victor – LPT 6700 Format: 5 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Reissue Released: 1960 Genre: Jazz Style: Big Band, swing

Released in a binder with a 14 page liner notes booklet.

The original release of this set was a limited edition in 1953, and the Second Pressing was actually first released in Canada in 1956.

We will hear 6 of the 12 songs from record five of the collection, which is sides 5 and 6. Spindle numbering. The other side of the record is not the next side. The next side is the next record.

Baby Me Vocals – Kay Starr Written-By – Archie Gottler, Harry Harris and Lou Handman January 26, 1939

Love With A Capital "You" Vocals – Kay Starr Written-By – Leo Robin and Ralph Rainger January 26, 1939

Oh So Good Written-By – Jerry Gray Broadcast September 5, 1941 Bobby Hacket on guitar

Sun Valley Jump Written-By – Jerry Gray January 17, 1941

Rug Cutter's Swing Written-By – Horace Henderson January 29, 1940

King Porter Stomp Written-By – Jelly Roll Morton Broadcast March 12, 1940

I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

Week four of celebrating what would have been Glenn Miller’s 120th birthday March first, brings us to another album from a different orchestra playing music made famous by Miller.

A couple of weeks ago I played an album by Bobby Hackett. THAT Bobby actually played with Glenn Miller before world war 2. Music you are about to hear features the Bobby Krane Orchestra. THIS Bobby…doesn’t exist.

So get ready to hear recordings that came from a sound-alike record label playing more of that famous clarinet over saxophone swing in Volume 169: Krane's Miller Tribute.

More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it. 

Credits and copyrights

Bobby Krane His Trombone And Orchestra* – A Tribute To Glenn Miller Label: Bravo! Records – K-118 Series: Grand Prix Series Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo Released: 1962  Genre: Jazz, Pop Style: Big Band

We will hear 6 of the ten songs from the album

I've Got A Gal In Kalamazoo written by Mack Gordon and Harry Warren

Jeannie With The Light Brown Hair written by Stephen C. Foster

Volga Boatman A traditional Russian song Bill Finegan's jazz arrangement for the Glenn Miller band took the song to #1 in the US charts in 1941.

Habanera Written aby Georges Bizet the 19th century French composer

Anitra's Dance Written by Edvard Grieg the 19th century Norwegian composer

Chattanooga Choo Choo  written by Mack Gordon and Harry Warren

I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

We continue Glenn Miller month in celebration of what would have been his 120th birthday on March 1.

My dad was obviously a big Glenn Miller fan or we wouldn’t have been able to do this month-long celebration of his music. He owned 12 33 ⅓ RPM Vinyl records of Glenn Miller performing his music, later conductors of the Miller band, and other band leaders recording Glenn’s music. My dad owned even more Miller music on the original 78 RPM Shellac records.

Now, if you are a follower of this show, you’ll also know my dad was a really big Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass fan. He owned 12 records of the TJB.

In this episode we bring them together with the Buddy DeFranco led Glenn Miller band from the 1960s. Sort of an early mashup.

So get ready to hear one popular band play music from another popular band in Volume 168: Miller Band Translates TJB.

More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.

Credits and copyrights

The Glenn Miller Orchestra, Buddy DeFranco – Something New - Translates The Tijuana Brass Hits Label: Epic – LN 24206 Format: Vinyl, LP Released: 1966  Genre: Jazz Style: Big Band

We will hear 7 of the 10 songs on the album.

A Taste Of Honey Written-By – Bobby Scott and Ric Marlow Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass recorded the most popular instrumental version of the song with a cover on their 1965 album, Whipped Cream & Other Delights.

I'm Getting Sentimental Over You Written-By – George Bassman and Ned Washington from the album Going Places in 1965

The Third Man Theme Written-By – Anton Karas !!Going Places!! (1965) for A&M Records.

Dating Game Duo Whipped Cream Written-By – Naomi Neville It is the title track of their 1965 LP, Whipped Cream & Other Delights, and was released as the lead single from the album.

Spanish Flea Written-By – Julius Wechter from the album Going Places in 1965

Tijuana Taxi Written-By – Ervan Coleman !!Going Places!! (1965) for A&M Records.

The Lonely Bull Written-By – Sol Lake The song was the title track to the album The Lonely Bull, released in December 1962. The Herb Alpert single represents the first release on A&M Records.

I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

I think this record might go down as my favorite from the five records we are playing in the month of March to celebrate what would have been Glenn Miller’s 120th birthday on March first.

The featured trumpet player on this album has such a soft sound that really fits in with the Miller sound, yet stands out to make each song his own. His solos are delicate, yet hardly boring. As they were when he played for the Miller band.

He was a cool-toned cornetist who always sounded relaxed no matter what the setting or the tempo.

So get ready to hear some great songs made famous by the Glenn Miller orchestra in a setting of wall to wall strings and brass in Volume 167: Bobby's Miller Pearls.

More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it. 

Here's the article from Kim Filed mentioned in this episode. 

Credits and copyrights

Bobby Hackett – A String Of Pearls Label: Epic – LN 24174 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Released: 1965 Genre: Jazz Style: Big Band

We'll hear 6 of the 12 songs on this album.

A String Of Pearls Composed by Jerry Gray

Moonlight Serenade Composed by Glenn Miller

Georgia On My Mind Written by Hoagy Carmichael and Stuart Gorrell

Tuxedo Junction Written by Erskine Hawkins, Bill Johnson, and Julian Dash

Poor Butterfly Music was written by Raymond Hubbell inspired by Giacomo Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly

In The Mood Based on the composition "Tar Paper Stomp" by Wingy Manone

I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

My dad really loved his big bands. And what bigger big band than the Glenn Miller Orchestra. 

March first, Glenn Miller would have been 120 years old. So we are going to celebrate his birthday all month with his music and musical style.

My dad had a ton of Miller music, and while I have already featured him many times on this show, you’ll be introduced to an even larger portion of it this month including a return to the most distinctive album in his collection which we’ll feature in four weeks.

So, get ready to hear one of this bandleader’s compilation disks released 12 years after his death, to kick off an entire month of his music in Volume 166: This Is Glenn Miller.

More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it. 

Credits and copyrights

Glenn Miller And His Orchestra – This Is Glenn Miller Label: RCA Victor – LPM 1190 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Released: 1956 Genre: Jazz Style: Swing, Big Band Pressed By – RCA Records Pressing Plant, Indianapolis

Liner Notes – George T. Simon

Johnson Rag Written-By – Guy Hall, Henry Kleinkauf Arranged By – Bill Finegan Soloists on sax – Al Klink and Tex Beneke Soloist, Trombone – Glenn Miller Soloist, Trumpet – Clyde Hurley

Beautiful Ohio Written-By – Ballard MacDonald, Mary Earl Arranged By – Jerry Gray Soloist, Piano – Chummy McGregor Soloist, Tenor Saxophone – Tex Beneke

Adios Written-By – Eddie Woods, Enric Madriguera Arranged By – Jerry Gray Bass – Doc Goldberg Trumpet [Muted] – Mickey McMickle

Londonderry Air traditional Irish melody Arranged By – J. C. McGregor and Glenn Miller Celesta – Chummy McGregor

Anvil Chorus Written-By – Giuseppe Verdi yes, the 19th century Italian Opera Composer Arranged By – Jerry Gray Soloist – Tex Beneke Soloist, Bass – Trigger Alpert Soloist, Clarinet – Ernie Caceres Soloist, Trumpet – Billy May

Bugle Call Rag Written-By – Billy Meyers, Elmer Schoebel and Jack Pettis

I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

Time to pull out the 14th of the 24 records from the six box set from the Franklin Mint. And I’ve been having so much fun listening to this one.

In fact, I’m going to play a few more tunes than my normal six that I like to keep these episodes to because, quite frankly, there was so much good music on this disc I didn’t know where to stop.

The featured trumpet player you’ll be hearing was known as the bridge between Louis Armstrong and Dizzy Gillespie. But he had a style all his own that was quite influential in his own right.

So, get ready to hear the musician that seemed to have the trumpet permanently glued to his lips in Volume 165: Little Jazz on Horn Part 2.

More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it. https://www.discogs.com/release/11735925-various-Louis-Armstrong-Roy-Eldridge-Jazz-Masterpieces

Credits and copyrights

Louis Armstrong Roy Eldridge Jazz Masterpieces Label: The Franklin Mint Record Society – JAZZ 001: 1/2/3/4 Series: part of both! The Greatest Jazz Recordings Of All Time and the Institute Of Jazz Studies Official Archive Collection Format: Box Set, Red Box, 4 x Red vinyl LPs, Compilation,  Released: 1982 Genre: Jazz Style: Swing

We will hear 8 of the 12 songs from this album

Artie Shaw & His Orchestra – Little Jazz Composed by Roy Eldridge and Buster Harding

Roy Eldridge & His Orchestra – Twilight Time Music by the Three Suns (Morty Nevins, Al Nevins, and Artie Dunn)

King David & His Little Jazz – Easter Parade Written by Irving Berlin

Roy Eldridge Sextet – School Days Written by Gus Edwards

The Roy Eldridge - Benny Carter Quintet – I Still Love Him So Written by Roy Eldridge & Benny Carter

Coleman Hawkins - Roy Eldridge – Hanid Written by Coleman Hawkins

Roy Eldridge & Claude Bolling – Fireworks  Composed by Clarence Williams and Spencer Williams

Roy Eldridge Trio – Undecided Written by Sid Robin and Charlie Shavers

I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

It’s another Valentine's special. And time for another romantic voice.

Joining me once again is my girlfriend Karen.

I rarely recognize the song titles or the artist names of the music Frank picks, but I recognized this one. While my parents didn’t listen to the same kind of music his parents did, Johnny Mathis was still played a lot by my mom.

And why not? He has one of the most recognizable, elegant, romantic voices ever recorded. And it just makes you want to cuddle up with the one you love.

So, get ready to hear a voice tailor-made for this specific holiday in Volume 164: A Faithful Valentine.

More information about this album: More information about this album: See the Discogs webpage for it. 

Credits and copyrights

Johnny Mathis – Faithfully Label: Columbia – CS 8219 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Repress, Stereo Released: December 21, 1959.  Genre: Pop Style: Vocal

The album reached #2 on the U.S. album charts.

Arranger, Conductor – Glenn Osser

Faithfully Written-By – Burt Bacharach, and Sydney Shaw

Nobody Knows (How Much I Love You) Written-By – Bart Howard

Tonight Written-By – Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim

Maria Written-By – Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim

Blue Gardenia Written-By – Bob Russell, and Lester Lee

One Starry Night Written-By – Abner Silver, and Sid Wayne

I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

One hundred years ago tomorrow, February 12, 1924, in Aeolian Hall, New York City, Paul Whiteman's band  played the first public performance of Rhapsody in Blue with composer Gorge Gershwin playing the piano. It was orchestrated by Whiteman's arranger Ferdie Grofé.

This album is one of at least three versions my dad owned of the famous song. He has a 1939 version from Whiteman that was released on 12 inch 78 RPM discs from the Decca record label. The Rhapsody is broken down into two sides. There's Gershwin's solo piano first recorded on piano roll, then transferred to the LP format in 1958. Then there's the one you are about to hear, which was recorded in 1958 to celebrate Whiteman's fifty years in music.

So, get ready to hear an iconic American tune that is celebrating a century of popularity in Volume 163: 100 Years of Rhapsody.

More information about this album: See the Discogs webpage for it.

Credits and copyrights

Paul Whiteman And His Orchestra – Rhapsody In Blue Label: Grand Award – G.A. 33-502 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Mono Released: 1958 Genre: Jazz Style: Big Band

You will hear 4 of the 6 songs from this record.

When Day Is Done Written by Buddy DeSylva

Limehouse Blues Music by Philip Braham

Autumn Leaves Music by Joseph Kosma

Rhapsody In Blue Composed by George Gerswhin

I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

Here’s someone I mention often when I tell you who wrote a song. In fact, he’s one of the most popular songwriters of all time. He even sang on a few recordings too. Many of the songs you will hear on this episode you may recognize as being sung by a popular female vocalist, but this is all Burt. He wrote the music. He arranged it and conducted the orchestra. He also plays the piano.

So, get ready to hear music that’s all about one guy in Volume 162: Burt Conducts Bacharach

Credits and copyrights

Burt Bacharach – Reach Out Label: A&M Records – SP 4131 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo Released: 1967 Genre: Jazz Style: Easy Listening

We will hear 7 of the 11 songs on this record.

All of the music was written, arranged, produced and conducted by Burt Bachrach.

Reach Out For Me Alfie Message To Michael The Look Of Love I Say A Little Prayer What The World Needs Now Is Love Bond Street

I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

The latin beat was all the rage when my dad was a teenager and young adult. You can tell he fell for it in a big way with all the Mambos, Cha Chas, Rhumbas, and Salsas he has in his collection. And like I’ve said before, it’s hard not to dance when the bongos, congas, timbales, and claves are working their magic.

So get ready to hear, yet another musical trailblazer from Puerto Rico in Volume 161: The Latin Dance.

Credits and copyrights

Morales – Morales Latin Dance Time Label: Grand Prix Series – K-154 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono Country: US Released: in 1962 I think. I'll tell you more in this episode's interesting side note.  Genre: Latin Style: Cha-Cha, Mambo, Pachanga

We will hear 7 of the 10 songs on the album.

Norin-Norin written by Noro Morales

For Me And My Gal written by Edgar Leslie, George W. Meyer, E. Ray Goetz

Dark Eyes Mambo Written by Florian Hermann

I'm Getting Sentimental Over You (Sounds like another famous latin song for a while) written by Ned Washington, George Bassman

Who's Sorry Now written by Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, Ted Snyder

The Children's Merengue written by Noro Morales

Mississippi Mambo written by Cliff Ferre

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We pull out the second of four records my dad has from this singer. While he never had a number one hit, he did sell over 45 million records, and was viewed regularly by many million more TV viewers on his show. 

He got his start with his brothers singing for film productions in the 1940s. And he’s another halftime performer at an early Super Bowl.

So get ready to hear music from the twentieth studio album by this pop singer with Volume 160: Andy Sets Us Free.

Credits and copyrights

Andy Williams – Born Free Label - Columbia – CL 2680 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Terre Haute Pressing Released: 1967 Genre: Jazz Style: Easy Listening

We will hear 6 of the 12 songs from the album.

Born Free written for the 1966 movie of the same name. Written-By – Don Black and John Barry

Spanish Eyes Written-By – Bert Kaempfert, Charles Sing, and Eddie Snyder

Sunny Written-By – Bobby Hebb

I Want To Be Free Written-By – Tommy. Boyce and Bobby Hart

Strangers In The Night Written-By – Bert Kaempfert, Charles Sing, and Eddie Snyder

Music To Watch Girls By Written-By – Sid Rami and Tony Velona

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"The program you are about to see…well hear… is All in the Family. It seeks to throw a humorous spotlight on our frailties, prejudices and concerns. By making them a source of laughter, we hope to show — in a mature fashion — just how absurd they are."

That was the disclaimer made before the start of the first episode of an early 1970s TV show where the main character is an obnoxious, prejudiced, big mouth, bigot, played by a brilliant actor, who actually was credited with bringing highly controversial subjects to light every week. But no matter what the subject, he was highly humorous. And millions laughed along.

The character and the show was the brainchild of a TV mastermind that we just lost last month at the age of 101.

So, Boy...get ready to hear the way Glenn Miller played, and songs on the hit parade, not really, there’s no music on this record, in Volume 159: Those Were The Days.

Promised link to Norman Lear's obituary on NPR.org.

Credits and copyrights

Archie Meets Mike Breasts   The Man In The Street  The Elevator Stifle Sammy's Visit

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Here’s a great compilation disk to kick off the new year and season. It’s one of my dad’s favorite trumpet players who is famous for playing my dad’s favorite kind of music. Dixieland. In fact, Al is known as the king.

But he also played some straightforward instrumentals that the critics complained about. Not only will you hear some of both those styles on this best of album, you get to hear him with a full orchestra and one of the most famous sex symbols and actresses of the 1960s and beyond.

So get ready to hear a musician hailed as a one-man trumpet section in Volume 158: Hirt So Good.

Promised link to Al Hirt's Obit in the Guardian.

Credits and copyrights

Al Hirt – The Best Of Al Hirt Label: RCA Victor – LPM-3309 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Reissue, Mono, Indianapolis Pressing Released: 1965 Genre: Jazz Style: Dixieland

Conductor [Orchestras And Choruses] – Billy May, Henri René, Marty Paich

8 of the 12 songs on the album.

Java Written-By – Allen Toussaint, Alvin Tyle, and Freddy Friday taken from the album Honey in the Horn released in 1963. Of the 21 times Al Hirt was nominated for a Grammy Award, this was his only winner, bringing home the gramophone shaped trophy in 1964.

Stranger In Paradise from the Broadway musical "Kismet." Written-By – George Forrest and Robert Wright taken from the album Trumpet and Strings released in 1962

The Best Man - Another trumpet player and his singing Arranged By, Conductor – Marty Paich Vocals – Al Hirt and Ann-Margret Written-By – Fred Wise, Roy Alfred taken from the album Beauty and the Beard, an entire album he did with Ann Margret, released in 1964.

Holiday For Trumpet Written-By – Mario Ruiz Armengol taken from the album Horn-a-Plenty released in 1962.

I Love Paris from the musical Can Can Written-By – Cole Porter That was taken from the album Al (He's the King) Hirt and his Band released in 1961.

Sugar Lips Written-By – Billy Sherrill, Buddy Killen taken from the album Sugar Lips released in 1964.

Cotton Candy Written-By – Russ Damon taken from the album Cotton Candy released in 1964.

Bourbon Street Parade Written-By – Paul Barbarin from the album Al Hirt at the Mardi Gras released in 1962.

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Happy New Year's Eve!   When some of us think about our earliest memories of watching New Year’s Eve on TV, we’ll remember long before Ryan Seacrest and even before Dick Clark. This Guy, who brought the New York City ballroom celebration into our living rooms every year, goes back to even before this holiday was celebrated live on television.   He formed the band during 1924 in his hometown of London, Ontario, Canada and sold more than 100 million records. Maybe as many as 300 million.    So get ready to hear The Sweetest music this side of heaven, with a little sweet champagne to go with it, in Volume 157: 50 Years of Lombardo.   Credits and copyrights   Guy Lombardo – 50th Anniversary Album Label: Suffolk Marketing, Inc. – SMI-1-8M Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Compilation, Mono Released: 1977 Genre: Jazz, Pop Style: Big Band, Easy Listening   We will hear 8 of the 20 songs on the album.   Boo Hoo Written by Edward Heyman, John Jacob Loeb, Carmen Lombardo   Humoresque written by Howard Johnson, Hugo Frey, and Antonín Dvořák   Tales from the Vienna Woods written by Johann Strauss   Best Things In Life Are Free written by Ray Henderson, B.G. DeSylva, and Lew Brown   The Band Played On  written by John F. Palmer, and Charles B. Ward   Harbor Lights with Vocal Chorus by Kenny Gardner written by Jimmy Kennedy, and Hugh Williams   Third Man Theme written and performed by Anton Karas   Medley Moonlight & Roses written by Charles N. Daniels, Ben Black, Edwin Lemare Far Away Place written by Alex Kramer, Joan Whitney Auld Lang Syne Traditional   I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

 

Here's a disk that was in the record player stack every December. It was definitely played during Christmas eve and day...a lot! You can tell by the shape it's in. 

This is one of 12 records by this artist and one of a large list of Christmas Recordings from my dad’s collection. And it once again includes my dad’s favorite trumpet player SINGING a song.

So get ready to feel that south of the border holiday spirit with Volume 156: Christmas Herb.

Credits and copyrights

Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass – Christmas Album Label: A&M Records – SP 4166 Format Vinyl, LP, Stereo Released: 1968 Genre: Jazz Style: Latin Jazz, Holiday, Easy Listening

Voices and Strings arranged by Shorty Rogers. Art Direction – Tom Wilkes  Engineer – Larry Levine Photography By – Guy Webster Producer – Jerry Moss Producer, Arranged By – Herb Alpert

Recorded At – A&M Studios

Winter Wonderland Written-By – Dick Smith and Felix Bernard

Jingle Bells Arranged By – Herb Alpert and John Pisano

Sleigh Ride Written-By – Leroy Anders and Mitchell Parish

The Christmas Song Written-By – Mel Torme and Robert Wells

Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow Written-By – Jule Stein and Sammy Cahn

Jingle Bell Rock  Written-By – Jim Boothe and Joe Beal

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Even though he was mostly into early jazz and pop, my dad liked his cowboy music too. And he bought a great collection in a 7-record box set. We’ve already featured two of those records in previous episodes. This record features a lot of music you have probably heard over the years yourself, but most likely by other bands. In fact, the eight songs you’ll hear have been recorded more than a thousand times combined. But you may have to check my math.

So get ready to hear what is really Tumbling Tumbleweeds part 3 in Volume 155: Western Favorites.

Credits and copyrights

Various – Tumbling Tumbleweeds Label: Reader's Digest – RDA-229 / A Format: 7 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation Box Set Released: 1982 Genre: Folk, World, & Country Style: Country

The Sons Of The Pioneers–(Ghost) Riders In The Sky written by Stan Jones

The Sons Of The Pioneers–Ragtime Cowboy Joe written by Grant Clarke, Lewis F. Muir, Maurice Abrahams

The Sons Of The Pioneers–Don't Fence Me In written by Cole Porter, Bob Fletcher 

Al Dexter–Pistol Packin' Mama written by Al Dexter 

Slim Whitman–Rhinestone Cowboy written by Larry Weiss

Tennessee Ernie Ford–Mule Train written by Hy Heath, Johnny Lange, Fred Glickman

Bing Crosby, Jimmy Dorsey– I'm An Old Cowhand written by Johnny Mercer

Bing Crosby–Sioux City Sue written by Max Freedman, Dick Thomas

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Here’s another great compilation album from my father’s collection. It’s filled with music from some pretty big names in the music world. And every tune swings…hard. There is some serious 1950s grooving going on within these recordings. And it was put together to promote pens. And not the ballpoint kind.

So, get ready to hear some of the most uptempo music you’ll find on this show with Volume 154: Swingin' Sounds.

Credits and copyrights

Various – Swingin' Sound! Label: Columbia Special Products – XTV-8229 and 30 (each side has a number) Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Limited Edition, Stereo Nobody seems to know when this ablum was released, it's not even listed on the CSP discography with a date, but I'm going with about 1961 or 62.  Genre: Jazz, Classical

Dave Brubeck - I'm in a Dancing Mood written by Al Hoffman, Al Goodhart, and Maurice Sigler recorded at Newport Jazz Festival July 6, 1956.

Duke Ellington - Perdido written by Juan Tizol First recorded on January 21, 1942. Ellington went on to record this song many times and I'm not sure when the version you just heard was recorded.

Buddy Greco - The Lady Is A Tramp written by Richard Rodgers, and Lorenz Hart recorded at Le Bistro, on Rush Street in Chicago some time in 1959.

André Previn, His Piano And Orchestra - Like Love written by André Previn, and Dory Previn Released in 1960

Lambert, Hendricks & Ross - Cloudburst written by Jon Hendricks, Leroy Kirkland, and Jimmy Harris Dave Lambert, Jon Hendricks and Annie Ross Recorded that in 1959

The Dave Brubeck Quartet With Carmen McRae - Paradiddle Joe Written by John Morris Recorded in New York City on September 9, 1960

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Here’s a fun find from my father’s LPs and an artist that we have not gotten to yet despite my dad having a couple records from him. He’s a piano player you might not have heard of, but you’ve probably heard in many famous recordings, including Elvis’ Heartbreak Hotel. He has also covered many hits and made hits for himself. All in his slip-note style. And he liked recording TV themes, as you’ll hear on this album.

So, get ready to hear the young generation, cuz they’ve got something to say in Volume 153: Cramer's Monkees.

Credits and copyrights

Floyd Cramer – Floyd Cramer Plays The Monkees Label: RCA Victor – LPM-3811 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Dynagroove Released: 1967 Genre: Pop Style: Pop Rock, Country

(Theme From) The Monkees Written-By – Tommy Boyce-Bobby Hart

I'm A Believer Written-By – Neil Diamond

A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You Written-By – Neil Diamond

Last Train To Clarksville Written-By – Tommy Boyce-Bobby Hart

Tomorrow's Gonna Be Another Day Written-By – Steve Venet, Tommy Boyce

Papa Gene's Blues Written-By – Michael Nesmith

(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone Written-By – Tommy Boyce-Bobby Hart

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Normally when I see that an album has been released by the Longines Symphonette Society, I’m a little leary about what’s actually on it. I’ve been burned before. For example, the Longines album in episode 30 with Bing Crosby featured on the front cover was just some of his favorite recordings, not necessarily him.

After carefully researching the music on this record, I think I have found a gem. It’s the King of Swing before he BECAME the famous bandleader he became.

So, get ready to hear some influential musicians who recorded together more than 90 years ago in Volume 152 Goodman's Greats.

Credits and copyrights

Benny Goodman – King Of Swing With The All-Time "Greats" Label: Longines Symphonette Society – LWS 267 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation Released:  Genre: Jazz Style: Swing

That's A-Plenty Written by Lew Pollack

Indiana (Back Home Again In Indiana) Written by Lew Pollack

Dinah Written-By – Harry Akst, Joe Young, and Sam Lewis

Someday, Sweetheart written by Benjamin F. Spikes, John C. Spikes

Wolverine Blues written by Jelly Roll Morton, Benjamin F. Spikes, John C. Spikes

Muskrat Ramble written by Kid Ory

Farewell Blues written by Elmer Schoebel, Paul Mares, Leon Roppolo

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It was 60 years ago today, at 12:30 PM local Dallas Time that those terrible shots rang out. I was only 16 months old when it happened.

Welcome to a special extra episode of Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl. My dad’s collection is known for its extensive and eclectic mix of music and other albums. This is one of those Other Albums.

My dad was a big enough fan of the 35th president of the United States that he had two memorial records in his collection. I already featured the other one on President’s Day 2021 in Volume 8: JFK The Presidential Years. This one is really special. And I will be playing it in its entirety. 

This recording is a memorial tribute produced and broadcast by radio station WMCA, New York on Friday November 22, 1963. Just hours after John F. Kennedy’s assassination. You will hear highlights of speeches made by JFK, including his entire inaugural address. The broadcast was narrated by Ed Brown. It was written by Martin Plissner. Produced by M.L. Oberstein, and directed by Roger Turner, the director of news and public Affairs. The recorded speech material is from the files of Radio Press International.

So get ready to hear one of the greatest orators and politicians of our time, only to have his time with us ended early in A Special Extra Volume: 60 Years Since JFK’s Assassination. 

Credits and copyrights

John Fitzgerald Kennedy – A Memorial Album Label: Premier – 2099 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Released: 1963 Genre: Non-Music Style: Speech, Spoken Word

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We slide now quite nicely into the first record of a two album set of popular New York City Jazz musicians taking their music around the U.S. In fact, according to the album back cover, they performed in front of 200 thousand fans during 37 concerts in 25 cities. This is one of those concerts.

So get ready to hear the East-West Coast All Stars with music refined at a famed jazz club named after one of the best saxophonists that ever lived in Volume 151: Birdland Stars Tour 1.

Promised link about Birdland Jazz Club. 

Credits and copyrights

The Birdland Stars – The Birdland Stars On Tour Vol. 1 Label: RCA Victor – LPM-1327 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono Released: 1956 Genre: Jazz Style: Hard Bop

Alto Saxophone – Phil Woods Bass – John Simmons Drums – Kenny Clarke Piano – Hank Jones Tenor Saxophone – Al Cohn Trumpet – Conte Candoli, Kenny Dorham

Recorded February 27, 1956, Webster Hall, New York

A Bit Of The Blues

Minorin' The Blues

Phil 'Er Up

Last Lap

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This is a special milestone episode.

It's November 2023. Four years since my dad said, “here, have all my records to do with them what you want,” and four years minus a month since he died.

It was a couple of months after that when I came up with the idea for this show to share this wonderful collection rather than sell it.

We are now at episode 150!

Along the way on this musical journey through my dad’s records, I have kept the number of songs and the total length of each episode down to a reasonable number and time. However, that means I had to leave plenty of great music unplayed. This episode will only partially fix that, but I know I’ll feel better about sharing some of this extra music.

So get ready to hear twelve tunes from albums I’ve already featured on this show with Volume 150: Songs I Didn't Get To. 

Credits and copyrights

Pee Wee Hunt - On Wisconsin. Written-By – Carl Beck, W. T. Purdy

Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass - Walk, Don’t Run  Written by Johnny Smith

Lou Monte - Calypso Italiano  Written-By – Lou Monte, Wandra  Merrell

Dizzy Gillespie - My Man Written by Maurice Yvain

Max Roach Septet - Orientation Written by Hank Mobley

Duke Ellington Orchestra - Black and Tan Fantasy Written by Duke Ellington and Bubber Miley

Henry Mancini - Alright, Okay, You Win  Written by Sid Wyche

Roy Merriweather Trio - Call Me Irresponsible Written by Jimmy Van Heusen

Tommy Dorsey And His Orchestra - On The Sunny Side Of The Street Written by Jimmy Fields  and Dorothy McHugh

Al Hirt - I'm On My Way Traditional

Oscar Pettiford and Billy Taylor - Oriental Cello Blues Unkown Composer

Sammy Davis Junior - You've Made Me So Very Happy. Written by Brenda Holloway, Patrice Holloway, Frank Wilson and Berry Gordy

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