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The Universal Language Of Music Volume 3
INDIA Records
400 Series Private Collection (noted as "500 Series on the disk label)
Recorded by Korla Pandit Production Co. 1969
Pandit signed and dated (1977) the front of the top jacket example.
Above is another signed copy. This jacket is signed on the back (which is blank): "Best Wishes Wilma & Elmer. Korla Pandit" and dated "1972".
And a third copy of the same release this one with the notation: Namaste! (Common spoken greeting or salutation originating from India and Nepal) "Greetings! Doris. Korla Pandit - 1972 - Box 261 West Vancouver. B.C.
77 Sunset Strip
Frankie Ortega & Sy Oliver
Produced by Marty Palitz
Cover Design by Sy Leichman
Diamond Jubilee
A Product of Jay-Gee Record Co., Inc.
Cover and Liner Printed by MacMurray Press, N.Y.
SDJLP 1106 & JLP 1106
1959
Personnel (Dining At Dino's, 77 Sunset Strip, Kookin' For Kookie, Free Way Mambo)
Frankie Ortega - Piano
Bert Hanson - Bass
Walther Sage - Drums
Sy Oliver - Arranger-Conductor
Charlie Shavers - Trumpet
Richard Perry - Trumpet
James Nottingham - Trumpet
Frank Sarraci - Trombone
Lawerence Brown - Trombone
Rodnet Levit - Trombone
Philip Bodner - Alto Sax and Clarinet
Sam Taylor - Tenor Sax
Seldon Powell - Tenor Sax
Dave McRae - Baritone Sax
Al Chernet - Guitar
Donald Lamond - Drums
Personnel (Lady In Distress, After Sunset, Spencer Stakes Out, Sunset Stripper, Stu's Muse, What Private Eyes)
Frankie Ortega - Piano
Bert Hanson - Bass
Walther Sage - Drums and Bongos
Sy Oliver - Arranger-Conductor
Charlie Shavers - Trumpet
Ernst Royal - Trumpet
Lawerence Brown - Trombone
Rodney Levitt - Trombone
George Dorsey - Alto Sax
Philip Bodner- Tenor Sax and Clarinet
Daniel Bank - Baritone Sax
Dave McRae - Baritone Sax
Kenneth Burell - Guitar
Donald Lamond - Drums
From Billboard - May 11, 1959: Sexy cover gives the package display value. Ortega, who is featured in the TV film series "77 Sunset Strip," provides solid swingy instrumental treatments of listenable jazz-flavored selections, including the title theme, and other tunes keyed to the series – Kookin' For Kookie," "What Private Eyes," etc. Effective backing by Sy Oliver.
From the back cover: The beat of the Frankie Ortega Trio is a familiar one on the West Coast. They are featured regularly in Los Angeles, Palm Springs, Las Vegas, Lake Tahoe. They were heard recently, for the first time, on the East Coast – at the Embers in New York.
"77 Sunset Strip" is the sound and style of the Frankie Ortega Trio set in the moving music of Sy Oliver for this album and will probably be used in future episodes. The feeling of the program, the frenzy of "jazz" climate is here.
The Trio is featured in all of the numbers. The trio means Frankie Ortega on piano. Bert Hanson on bass and Walter Sage on drums. Frank is a native of Los Angeles. He studied with Edith Knox, joined the Roger Wagner Chorale when he was 10, remained with them for 6 years. Frank organized his first band when he was 17.
Bert Hanson first studied violin. Then he played cello with the Milwaukee Symphony under the baton of Bruno Walter, Stokowski and more. Walter Sage studied with Ian Kerr, Tympanist of the Cleveland Orchestra. He played with the Peter Merenblum Symphony. Each member of the Trio began his career in classical music.
Sy Oliver is one of our greatest arranger-conductors. He created the 2-beat style of Jimmy Lunceford. He played and wrote many of the great Tommy Dorsey arrangements. He has scored for Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Mills Brothers, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Della Reese.
The orchestra playing around the Frankie Ortega Trio here include some of the country's best and best-known jazz musicians. Many are featured as soloists through this "77 Sunset Strip" album.
77 Sunset Strip
Kookin' With Kookie
Spencer Stakes Out
What Private Eyes
After Sunset
Sunset Stripper
Stu's Blues
Lady In Distress
Dining At Dino's
Free Way Mambo
The George Shearing Quintet And Orchestra Arrangements by Billy May and George Shearing Capitol Records T858 1957
Black Satin (with Capitol "Stereo" sticker applied to cover)
The George Shearing Quintet And Orchestra Arrangements by Billy May and George Shearing Capitol Records ST858
E.M.I Records Limited - Hayes • Middlesex • England
Made and Printed in Great Britain 1957
From Billboard - November 3, 1958 (review for stereo release): This melodic package was a solid sales item in it's monaural version and has much to offer stereo-wise, via Shearing's tasteful delicate pianistics and the easy swinging jazz-flavor of the entire album. Listenable, spin able mood music.
The Folks Who Live On The Hill If I Should Lose You Starlight Souvenirs What Is There To Say Black Satin You Don't Know What Love Is Nothing Ever Changes My Love For You One Morning In May Moon Song Medley: As Long As I Live – Let's Live Again
From the back cover: Ethel Azama is a little Japanese-Hawaiian girl who "comes on" with a big jazz sound – this little lady's personality virtually fills the room. For the past several years she has been amazing Island visitors with her up-beat styling of traditional Island music... modern, up-tempoed and bursting with life, yet always maintaining the soft Island melodies and the delicate oriental flavor.
Ethel's only singing lessons were from her father. An old-school Okinawan entertainer, he tutored her from early childhood in the dance rituals. Fortunately, Ethel's mother persuaded her to branch out, and her father, pleased with his daughter's success, remains her "number one" fan.
Probably Ethel's "number two" fan would be Paul Conrad, her arranger and accompanist. A popular Honolulu pianist, with both Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees in music from Carnegie Tech, Paul not only has done all of her arrangements, including those in this album, but is largely responsible for her development as a singer.
In the nearly three years that these two artists have been working together, Ethel's style has matured and her popularity grown. A steady stream of top Honolulu night club and concert engagements vouch for that.
This album and her first tour of the mainland should debut about the same time. – Martin Denny
Cover Photo by Werner Stoy - Camera Hawaii
HIFI RECORD R607
1959
From the back cover: Arthur Lyman plays vibes, marimbas, congas, etc.; Alan Soares plays piano and celeste; John Kramer plays bass and percussions; and on the beat, Harold Chang, who plays as dazzling and overwhelming an array of percussion as you'll ever see or hear. The voice heard in "Lullaby Of The Leaves," the last track on side one, is charming Ethel Azama.
Once again, through the courtesy and generosity of Mr. Henry J. Kaiser, we have been permitted to record the Arthur Lyman group in the Aluminum Dome on the beautiful grounds of Mr. Kaiser's famed Hawaiian Village Hotel. Fabulous is an extravagant word, but the recorded sound in the Aluminum Dome is extravagantly good, so we'll call it fabulous. The very fine photography on the cover is that of Werner Stoy of Honolulu.
Perfect sound reproduction was achieved with 3 AKG Austrian microphones, a custom built Ampex 3-track 1/2" magnetic tape stereophonic recorder, and later painstakingly processing, using a scully automatically variable pitch lathe with latest Westrex cutting head to make the master disc. Frequency response is from 16 to 20,000 C.P.S. Pressings are custom pure virgin Vinyl.
White Goddess
Frank Hunter and His Orchestra
Kapp Records KS-3019
1959
From the back cover: Strange, Sultry and Seductive... fierce, fascinating and feverish – here are sounds to quicken the heart-beat; the tropical fantasy of a hidden world. A woman's voice calls, hypnotic and compelling; drums repeat the haunting command and the music weaves a spell of mystery.
Arranger/conductor Frank Hunter has composed eight of the selections in this album and has collected together some of the most unusual instruments ever recorded to produce a completely new and exotic musical sound. They include an Ondioline, an electronic instrument designed in France, which issues a strange, vibrato sound when the entire keyboard is shifted; a Bazimba – the only instrument of its kind – which, although it is unique, can best be identified with a mixture of the Marimba and the Xylophone, and an Alto Flute – a seldom heard instrument. Also on hand are Chromatic Bongo Drums, Chromatic Log Drums and Chinese Bells, on which melodies can by played, and a high soprano voice. Additional rhythm is provided by Gourds, Maraccas and Tambourines, and the ensemble is completed by a Marimba, a Xylophone, a Vibraphone and a String Bass. This amazing combination of instruments brings you music that is attractive and exciting, with unexpected rhythms that will compel your attention.
This is not mood music, but it is music with a difference – melodic music for good listening, popular music that may well find a place on the hit parade; music that you will want to listen to again and again.
Ritual Of The Torch
Poinciana
Strange Echoes
Jungle Drums (Canto Karabali)
Pulse
Lost Plateau
White Goddess
Temple Bells
Lost In The Stars
Zimbahi
Mist Of Gorongoza
Jungle Fantasy
Cover Model: Anita Ekberg (Miss Ekberg can be seen with Bob Hope in United Artists "Paris Holiday")
Cover Photograph: Garrett-Howard
Liberty Records LRP 3088 1958
From the back cover: About Leo Arnaud - Leo Arnaud was born in Lyon, France, July 24, 1904. It was at the Lyon Conservatory of Music and, late, at the Ormesson Academy of Music that he gained his first success. Upon graduation from these academies, he was chosen to further his studies with Ravel and D'Indy. His work with these symphonic titans led to a doctorate of music and conductor's posts with the leading orchestras of Europe.
In 1939 Dr. Arnaud became a U. S. citizen and continued his musical activities as a composer-conductor in Hollywood. He has been closely associated with the many of Hollywood's finest film efforts as his many years with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and 20th Century-Fox Studios will attest. His stirring band work at 20th Century-Fox on "Stars and Stripes Forever" has been rated as one of filmdom's proudest achievements.
Jungle Echoes
Chaino and his African Percussion Safari
Omega Records OSL 7
1959
Chaino is one of the elusive figures of space age pop. After growing up in Chicago, Leon Johnson left home and lived a fairly wild life, eventually taking up the bongos and making a name for himself as "Chaino" (taken perhaps from the great Cuban conga player, Chano Pozo?) on the "chitlins" circuit of black nightclubs.
Quiet Village The Exotic Sounds Of Martin Denny Producer: Si Waronker
Cover Design: Pate/Francis & Assoc. Color Photography: Ivan Nagy Cover Posed by Sandy Warner "the Exotica Girl" Liberty LRP 3122 & LST 7122 1959
Performing Group:
Martin Denny: Arranger-Composer, Piano, Celeste August Colon: Bongos, Congas, Bird Calls Julius Wechter: Vibes, Marimbas, Percussion Harvey Ragsdale: String Bass, Marimbula Raymond Alexander: Percussion Jose Bethancourt: Percussion John Frigo: String Bass
From Billboard - March 30, 1959: Liberty Records is re-releasing "Quiet Village," by Martin Denny. The disk (released as a single last October) suddenly showed up with heavy sales in Detroit three weeks ago, thereby prompting the label to re-release it nationally, including re-servicing of all radio stations.
The platter was originally featured in Denny's "Exotica" Volume 1 album. Meanwhile Denny, who just completed a six-week engagement at the Round Table here, opens at Bakers Keyboard Lounge, Detroit, this week, following which he plays a four-week date at London House in Chicago, starting April 15. He returns to Honolulu May 5, to resume a long-time run at Don the Beachcombers.
Stranger In Paradise Hawaiian War Chant Coronation Sake Rock Paradise Found Firecracker Martinique My Little Grass Shack In Kealakekua, Hawaii Cha Cha Cha Tune From Rangoon Happy Talk Pagan Love Song Quiet Village
Hawaiian Sunset The Sounds Of Arthur Lyman HIFIRECORD R807 1959
Also released, according to the sticker as seen above which is fixed the second cover shown, in stereo. The pressing came inside of the same jacket featuring the mono catalog number.
From the back cover: This recording was miked by three Austrian made AKG microphones and recorded by a custom built Ampex three channel Stereophonic magnetic tape recorder using 1/2" recording tape. Cutting of both the stereophonic and monaural disc was done by Westrex cutting heads and a Sully atomically variable pitch blade in connection with specially designed amplifiers. Exact engineering, painstaking processing and careful quality control make possible nil distortion, 16 to 20,000 CPS frequency range and noise level of minus 60 DB. Pressings are custom pure-virgin vinyl. This recording is also available on Stereophonic HIFIRECORD and pre-recorded HIFITAPE for stereophonic playback.
Hawaiian War Chant Sweet Leilani Imi Au Ia Oe My Tone Whispering Reef Ha Lei O Hawaii Isle Of Golden Dreams Mapuana Waipio Kawohikukapulani Ke Kali Nei Au Harbor Lights
