Songs Of Friendship and Manners

I Have A Little Friend

Songs Of Friendship Safety, Health and Manners
Golden Records Vol. 12
1962

Turkish Delight! - Mike Sarkissian And His Cafe Bagdad Ensemble

Atamee Baghladan

Turkish Delight!
Mike Sarkissian And His Cafe Bagdad Ensemble
Audio Fidelity AFLP 1867
1958

From the back cover: Michael Sarkissian, in addition to boasting a vast knowledge of oriental and Middle Eastern art, is one of America's foremost directors and interpreters of music of this part of the world. He has appeared as singer and conductor on many television and radio programs with top personalities such as Bob Hope, Jerry Colonna, Pat O'Brien and Frances Langford. Born in the United States of Armenian parents, he learned the rudiments of Armenian music and Middle Eastern dancing at an early age. When he was 14, he formed his own orchestra. During the second World War, he served in the special service branch of the Air Corps, appearing as soloist, orchestra member and musical director in many shows. Following the war, he appeared in numerous night clubs, until he decided to open his own club. This he named Cafe Bagdad, and it has become a kind of diplomatic center for the furtherance of Middle Eastern music and dance. As Sarkissian puts it, "We created a sort of musical Mecca for our people, but soon found out that not only our people but those of other lands appreciated our music and traditional dance."

Legend Of The Jivaro - Yma Sumac

Legend Of The Jivaro
Yma Sumac
Capitol T770
1957

Available from online vendors so I will not be posting a sample. Presented here to share the cover.

This from the back cover: To unearth the Jivaro music – the stories their ancient songs tell, the musical instruments of their culture – Yma Sumac and her husband, Moises Vivanco, one of the foremost authorities on ancient music, travelled deep into the headhunters' native territory. There, her mastery of the Jivaro dialect (she was reared less than one hundred miles from their land) helped facilitate the research in that strange and obscure society.

Dang... that makes for a great story and creative platform for this terrific concept album! However I don't see Sumac, at this stage in her career, hovering over a cauldron of mystery meat to gather inspiration for a new album. Sumac and Vivanco divorced in 1957, remarried the same year and divorced again in 1965.  None-the-less, Billboard was convinced  that the couple did, indeed, make a trip into the back country even though they were unclear about her marriage status.

From Billboard - January 26, 1957: Miss Sumac takes off on a wild series of vocal calisthenics in which she portrays a series of authentic native melodies and dances of the Jivaro headhunters of South America. Miss Sumac and her husband, Moises Vivanco, obtained the basic material via a trip into the savage territory with a tape recorder. This was then arranged for the singer, choral group and drums. Notes explain in some detail what each of the selections signifies and for those who want to increase their own cultural knowledge this can prove an interesting addition to a collection.

Jivaro
Sejollo (Whip Dance)
Yawar (Blood Festival)
Shou Condor (Giant Condor)
Sauma (Magic)
Nina (Fire Arrow Dance)
Sansa (Victory Song)
Hampi (Medicine)
Sumac Sorateña (Beautiful Jungle Girl)
Aullay (Lullaby)
Batanga-Hailli (Festival)
Wanka (The Seven Winds)

Pervasive Percussion

Granada

Pervasive Percussion
Omega Records OSL-118

Out of all the unbelievable records I've found, this Omega release takes the cake.

Look at this cover. Nice huh? Are you ready for a little jungle rhythm? Yeah, me too!

Look at the back cover. The album title, catalog number and songs titles on the back cover match the record label and cover information. Now listen to the music sample! WTF?!!!

When I bought this album, I only glanced at the track list and it didn't sink in that the titles are in Spanish! I think the titles are correct. What in the name of all-that-is-good-but-way-stupid happened during production?!!

I was pissed because I thought that someone had slipped the wrong record in this cool jacket. I was still pissed when I thought that Omega had pasted the right label on the wrong record. Then I stopped being pissed because how could I continue to hate a record/album that is this absurdly wrong?

I did find this same exact same cover online with a "Sutton" label brand in place of the Omega brand, bottom right... but it is apparent that Omega removed the Sutton brand and printed their logo type in it's place.

Hawaiian Enchantment - Your Passport To Hawaii

Beautiful Girls And Sunshine (stereo)

Hawaiian Enchantment

Your Passport To Hawaii
Luke Leilani
Spinorama MK 3040 & S-26
A Product Of Premier Albums, Inc.

Hawaiian Wedding Song
Luau
Mood In Hawaiian
Pineapples, White Sands And Coconuts
Island Maid
Hawaiian Promenade
High Tide
Stars Over Hawaii
Hawaiian Serenade
Beautiful Girls And Sunshine
Hawaiian Moon
Lost Love

Favorites From Italy

Anema E Core

Favorites From Italy
Nestor Amaral And His Continentals
Craftsmen A Division Of PRI
C8027

Craftsmen? This is the first record I've found on that label. PRI stands for Precision Radiation Instruments, a company who owned the Tops label.

All of the short-lived Craftsmen label albums featured this jacket design which featured a circle inside of the jacket shape. Some records were pressed on colored vinyl. This record was not.

The music is pretty budget. The rest of the set isn't nearly as sweet as the sample I cherry picked.

Music From Close Encounters Of The Third Kind

Theme From "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind"

Music From Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
Produced by Joe Saraceno & Heyward Collins
Arranged by Pat DeVuono
Background Vocals: Bonnie Licelli
Engineer: Michael Lietz
Special Thanks To Kim Espy
Illustration: Clinton Stockwell
Pickwick SPC 3616
1978

The budget "Not An Original Soundtrack" Close Encounters soundtrack.

Sometime moog, sometimes disco and sometimes sci-fi mystery cheese, this set blends all three into a danceable cosmic stew.

Hi-Fi For Small Fry

In The Middle Of The Island

Hi-Fi For Small Fry
Diplomat Pops
The Gold Record For Children
Diplomat 5010

Children records can be charming and sometimes funny as content can age poorly. On rare occasions, for my tastes, is  the music fun. This record, for the most part, is like a slice of space age Hi-Fi easy listening geared towards kids. Nice and you have to love the cover illustration.

Evalyn Tyner Night

Downtown

Evalyn Tyner Night
Port Royal Beach Club
Benefit Of Naples Community Hospital Auxiliary
Naples, Florida
March 25, 1966

Presented for your enjoyment is a record I found at a thrift in a silver cardboard jacket blank. The record was apparently a part of a two record set recorded live for the benefit as mentioned above. I only found sides 3 and 4.

Not much to be found on Tyner. She get a brief mention in Billboard, June 18, 1949 as one of the opening acts for a show at the "Capitol" in New York.

It appears like someone complied a CD of her recordings along with those of a performer named Rose Murphy.

Java, Cotton Candy, Sugar Lips

Whenever I'm Feeling Low

Java, Cotton Candy, Sugar Lips
By Jim Collier
Wyncote W 9036
1964

Budget set featuring the "Tijuana Brass" sound and one groovy sixties go-go tune.

The Proud American

 

Six Klicks

An American Dream

The Proud American
Hershel Gober
Patriot Records, Dermott, Arkansas
91140
1968

This obscure recording is a great time capsule featuring a soldier's patriotic, sometimes questioning, bitter sweet and honest message.

I can find no bio information on Gober.

Ralph Marterie

Blue Mirage

The Hits That Made
Ralph Marterie And His Orchestra Famous
Mercury MG 20336
1961

This is a great album if you are looking to collect Marterie's most popular tunes. Tunes he charted with including Skokiaan, Pretend, Shish-Kebab (great fun) and an excellent cover of Caravan are on this release. Nice swing with some exotica/space pop mixed in.

Tempos Of Tahiti

Theme From Mutiny Of The Bounty

Tempos Of Tahiti
The Catamaran Serenaders
21 Channel Sound
MGM E 4091
1962

I didn't have high hopes for this record. The cover just didn't spark the collecting juices, however, this is the typical layout for a 21 Channel Sound cover. The album is designed as a book-fold after a trend set by Enoch Light's Command label. However, the set is good space-age fair.

From Billboard - December 8, 1962: Spectacular sound and orchestration make this one of the top collections of Island music, perhaps in part because of the 21 separate channels used by MGM in taping. Most of the tunes are Hawaiian rather than Tahitian in origin, but all are done in lively and listenable fashion that should earn plenty of air play. Included are two themes from "Mutiny On The Bounty."

Love Songs From 'Mutiny On The Bounty'
Little Brown Gal
Pagan Love Song
My Little Grass Shack In Kealakekua, Hawaii
The Hawaiian Wedding Song [Ke Kali Nei Au]
Yaaka Hula Hickey Dula
Theme From 'Mutiny On The Bounty
Hawaiian War Chant
Paradise Moon
Steel Guitar Hop
Steel Guitar Hop
Aloha Oe [Farewell To Thee]

Orientale - Carmen Dragon

Orientale

Orientale
Carmen Dragon Conducting The Capitol Symphony Orchestra

Cover Photo by Leigh Wiener
Capitol P8453
1963

Procession Of The Sardar - Arranged by Carmen Dragon

Tambourin Chinois - Arranged by Carmen Dragon

Orientale 

Turkish March

Song Of India - Arranged by Carmen Dragon

Kashmiri Song

Arabian Dance (Nutcracker Suite)

Chinese Dance (Nutcracker Suite)

Ballet Egyptien (First Movement)

Persian Dance (Khovantchina)

Oriental Fantasy

Oriental Fantasy

Gianni Monese and his Orchestra
Vox ST-VX 25 780
1958

This was a great find today. Needless to say that cover image is a great collectible.

The musical content not at all like I expected. Side one and two are singular pieces of music that blend into one another with no track separation. Like any good exotica or soundtrack recording this LP is an auditory adventure that holds your attention from start to finish.

There are several, probably mono covers posted on the web, but this is the only stereo cover. Both the same with the exception of the stereo logo. But I thought that is would be nice to know the release also came in stereo.

I can't find any hard bio info on Monese. There is a mention of him in the August 11, 1956 Billboard in an article about VOX releasing a Monese album titled Cook's Tour Of Venice.

I usually only post a track by way of sample, but will post side one for you enjoyment.

Side 1: In A Persian Market (Ketelbey), Theme From Polovetsian Dances (Borodin), Alla Turca (Mozart), Nel Sahara (Langosz), Arabian Dance From Nutcracker Suite (Tchaikovsky), Serenata Araba (Frontini)

Side 2: Marcia Turca (Turkish March - Beethoven), Orientale (Cui), Aranian Dance (Grieg), Theme From Strings Quartet (Borodin), Theme From Scheherazade (Rimsky-Korsakov), Serendade Orientale (Gangloff)

Percussion Espanol - Pirouette

Cordoba

Percussion Espanol
The Big Sound
Pirouette Records RFM 54

I can't find a release date for this album, but my guess would be 1960. A while back I blogged an album on the TIME label featuring the same title and stylistically similar cover art. I have to assume that one label was following the others lead. In this case, many of the songs lead in with ping-pong percussion, an effect Enoch Light developed in the early 60s.

No artists are credited. There really isn't much percussion other than the ping-pong effect. And the percussion effects are only found on side one. Apparently that's was all the budget called for. Side two features no percussion at all.

Music Of America

My Momma Didn't Raise No Dummy - Louise Holmes/Erica Laine

Exotic Dancers - Raymond L. Fields/Erica Laine

I Found My Love - Robert Roth/Carlton St. John

Music Of America
Hollywood Artists Recording Co.
HAR-32

Song poems strike again...

Hollywood Studio Orchestra

Hackett Funeral And Fight

Hollywood Studio Orchestra
Main Theme From Spectacular Movies
Wyncote
W-9172
1967

Over all this "Hollywood" budget record, released towards the end of the Wyncote label life span, is good easy listening fare with that 60s light pop touch. The Impossible Lover is actually cool and Hackett Funeral And Fight? I know nothing about the movie that this tune came from (The Wrong Box, 1966), but I love this tune and it is a standout on this album.

Belshazzar's Feast - William Walton

Belshazzar's Feast
William Walton
London Philharmonic Choir
Dennis Noble Baritone
Philharmonic Promenade Orchestra Conducted By Sir Adrian Boult
Westminster XWN 18253
1956

I bought this record because I was drawn to the outstanding illustration. But the music, if you are into exotica and or soundtrack, is an interesting listen. A few passages remind me of the mutants singing to the bomb in the movie Beneath The Planet Of The Apes. Well... it just does!  I sampled the first part of the record. Sorry, that's just the way I do things here in The Attic... just a taste.

This from the Belshazzar's Feast wiki page: Musical structure: The music throughout is strongly rhythmic, and richly orchestrated. The rhythms and harmonies reflect Walton’s interest in jazz and other popular music, pressed into service to tell a religious story. Despite its jagged rhythms and strident orchestral effects, the work is essentially conventional in its tonality. Walton's biographer Michael Kennedy writes, "diatonicism is at the root of the matter ... stringtremolandi, brass fanfares, and masterly use of unaccompanied declaration work their customary spell." Kennedy adds that the chilling orchestral sounds which introduce the writing on the wall derive from Richard Strauss's Salome.

The World At My Fingers - Hal Shutz

Zexpa-Biem

The World At My Fingers
Hal Shutz
Hammond Extravoice
Epic Stereorama BN 582
1960

From what I can tell, Shutz made one other album, Organ And Firelight (Columbia, 1956). It was offered by The Hammond Organ Company as a demonstration record.

This record seems way more obscure. The only other instance I could find was a listing in an Epic ad that ran in the November 7, 1960 Billboard.

Valley Of The Dolls - Hollywood Sound Stage Orchestra

Vally Of The Dolls

Theme From Valley Of The Dolls
Hollywood Sound Stage Orchestra
Somerset SF-30400
1968

Here's a gem. Apparently 101 Strings wasn't enough for Somerset and D. L. Miller so they created the lesser known Hollywood Sound Stage Orchestra. From the cover notes the orchestra was a 70 piece affair.

It's difficult, or impossible for me to piece together how many "Sound Stage" albums were released. I've got several. They seem to be way budget, more so than 101 Strings, which was a successful franchise for Somerset.

This music is lackluster 60s easy listening that is thematically all over the place. But you can't beat the budget cover! The cover model looks strikingly like Susan Hayward from the movie, Valley Of The Dolls.

Rhapsody - Ferrante and Teicher

Swedish Rhapsody

Rhapsody
Ferrante And Teicher
And Their Magic Pianos
Urania USD 1009
1955

From the back cover: Arthur Ferrante and Louis Teicher, two enterprising pianists, have fused their talents to produce a new commodity in the world of music and sound. They tailor a wide variety of concert, semi-classical and pop compositions to their instruments, and on occasion, to ginger up pop selections, they even tinker with their instruments to produce novel sound effect. In serious repertory, however, they cut no capers. There they are noted for lucidity, precision, adaptability to many styles of music, and fingers that are fleet far beyond the ordinary. In the past ten years, they have come to  be admired by countless thousands on nation-wide concert tours, on radio and TV, and on several notable record releases. Their clever arrangements of Brahms, Schumann, Debussy, Saint-Saens or of Porter, Kern, etc. endow familiar compositions with new vitality and enrich sonorities. As for the various ways in which they "prepare" the piano for programs, they justify their innovations by maintaining that historically "the piano contains its ancestors – harp, lute, dulcimer, zither, clavichord and harpsichord," and they are only attempting to bring these submerged sonorities to the fore. Although only in their thirties, Ferrante and Teicher have appeared as performers of serious music with the New York Philharmonic, Rochester Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Toledo Symphony and New York City Symphony Orchestra. On the airways, in serious as well as light classics, listeners have heard them regularly on ABC's Piano Playhouse, NBC's Eddie Dowling Show, or NBC's Carnation Hour. Sophisticated m.c.'s such as Steve Allen, Garry Moore, Ernie Kovacs and Mitch Miller have been proud to introduce them on their TV shows. In all the media, they have received rave notices for their thorough mastery of their craft, their versatility, and the artistic rapport which transforms them into a excitement in the modern manner. They are ideally suited to the diablerie which is the breath of ice to most rhapsodies.

Charles Wildman - Swedish Rhapsody

George Enesco - Roumanian Rhapsody in A Major, Op. 11, No. 1

Franz Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2

Hubert Bath - Cornish Rhapsody

George Gershwin - Rhapsody In Blue

Ferrante And Teicher - Hollywood Rhapsody

Barbarian - Les Baxter

Barbarian

Les Baxter
American International Records
AIR LP 1001 (Monaural)
1960

Soundtrack from Goliath And The Barbarians starring Steve Reeves. Baxter's name was well positioned on marketing materials to help promote this 1959 Italian strong-man movie in the U.S.

The January 4, 1960 Billboard liked the record and commented on the "eye catching" cover.

Apparently this record was reissued in 1978 featuring a cover taken from the movie poster (which is reproduced in black and white on the back of this album). A CD with both Baxter's Master Of The World and Goliath and the Barbarians scores are available on CD, all though today, the asking price is over $100 on Amazon. I found my vinyl copy at a real record store for $7. Who would pay that much for a CD?

I do love the cover, the score is professional and I'm sure possibly more than the movie deserves, but frankly, there are better Baxter albums to be collected. This movie seems right for the Baxter "exotica" treatment but the music seems "safe" except for Fire Dance, a track on the B side, which is smoking cool.

Skin Diver Suite And Other Selections - Leo Diamond

Skin Diver Suite And Other Selections
Leo Diamond, Harmonica
With Orchestra Conducted by Murray Keliner
RCA LPM-1165
1956

I finally found a great copy of this fabulous album. I was mainly interested in the awesome cover art, but the music is, likewise, unique. The Skin Divers Suite plays through on side one as one continuous piece of music (a blend of soundtrack and exotica), a very cool and inventive piece.

The back cover claims that Diamond merged his hobby, skin diving, with his art to create this piece. Generally, I'm not to hip on harmonica driven music, but this recording goes way beyond your standard harmonica fare. Apparently I also need to look for copies of Diamond's Subliminal Sounds and Exciting Sounds from Romantic Places which are highly thought of experiments in harmonica. This record, appears to be Diamond's first.

Side two is more straight forward mood, but seems stylistically way ahead of what mood would become a few years later. Tracks include: April Again, Melinda, Wendy, Reminiscing Interlude, Ride The Dark Hills Home and All I Desire.

Album Without A Title

Stormy

Kentucky Woman

Pickwick SPC-3135

Here we have another album that needs no title. The songs sell the record. Buyer beware, of course, you are not buying the original artists. Up here in The Atomic Attic we flip right past the original artists in the thrift store record bin and go right for the lame and awful! Not to mention groovy 60s covers.

Sadly... Hey Jude isn't over-the-top. However, there are a few tracks that are.

The jacket notes are also out of control. Here's an excerpt: This (King's Road - the cover band) is their bag. The sounds of today-made their way. The explosive anger of the young cry out against the senseless slaughter of this time's martyr's in the plaintive Abraham, Martin & John. Cut to the bitter sweet nostalgia or yesterday's love in Those Were The Days. Every member of Kings Road swear allegiance to their demigod – and Lennon McCartney's Hey Jude became their thing. The groovy feelings of being young, being now, are what today's hip composers created on this record. This is King's Road. Dig?

The Midas Touch

This Girl Is A Woman Now

The Midas Touch
Decca Records
DL 75151
1969

Here is an obscure album that features a creepy cover.

From the September 6, 1969 Billboard: Decca plans a full-scale promotion for the first single and album of the Midas Touch, arranged and produced by Al Ham, Ham formerly was associate director of Columbia Records pop a&r under Mitch Miller. He has been concentrating recently on film scoring, composing and radio and TV commercials.

This is total late 60s AM mood/pop with no credit given to group personnel. I think there was a follow-up Midas Touch record titled Color My World. I bet one of the colors isn't gold!

Stereo Sounds

 

Stereo Sounds
Rondo-lette SA 46
1959

This album received a brief in the February 23, 1959 Billboard under the heading of "Low-Price Sound".

Rondo is an obscure label out of Union City, N.J.

Unlike many sound effects LPs which offer a variety of singular sounds, this record offers long tracks of ambient sound associated with the title of the track. I enjoyed listening to it almost as if it was an abstract piece of music. I almost set it aside, but wondered what a "trap" sounded like. Apparently a "trap" (set) is another way of saying "drum" (kit). So the first track on the B side, Traps, is an excellent and surprise piece of uncredited space age music.

The record was marketed as a way to "show off " your "wonderful stereophonic set". In a way, it does just that.

This is a great oddball record!

Let Us Entertain You - Magnavox

Hard Days Night - Marty Gold

Let Us Entertain You
Magnavox
RCA PRS-278
1968

Surprises are sometimes found on the records found inside of non-descript album jackets. Take this Magnavox promotional tool for instance. In 1968 this cover was a yawn fest. I bought the album for the photos on the rear cover. Note that the floor model console on the far right. Magnavox named the machine the Astro-Sonic Stereo! LOL! That design is pretty much NOT Astro-Sonic!

Anyway, when I find a cover that is Dullsville... I always go to the track list to see if there is any hopeful artists or covers. The Marty Gold cover of The Beatles Hard Days Night perked my interest. It's great! Si Zentner also does a Beatles cover, And I Love You. The entire album turns out to be pretty darn cool. I even managed to tolerate a show-tune wedged onto side 2. Whoever produced this at RCA for Magnavox did a great job of picking tunes and positioning them on the album to make for an enjoyable play through.

Solid Gold Guitar - Al Caiola

Solid Gold Guitar
Al Caiola
Guitar Hits That Sold A Million
United Artists USA 6180
1962

There is an interesting article on Caiola in the May 21, 1966 Billboard: Al Caiola, who records for the United Artists label is planning to come out of the the confines of recording studios for a crack at the in-person circuit. At the urging of Ashley-Famous, Caiola has been asked to consider a solid booking contract at one of the top clubs in Las Vegas, but Caiola has held back on his okay until he can look over the club.

Caiola believes that if and when he takes an in-person assignment, the club should offer virtually the same advantages he gets in a recording studio. He's especially interested in the acoustics of the room so that he can get a duplication of the sound that's made him a hot seller for United Artists Records.

The article goes on to say that Caiola produces a minimum of 60 sides a year, both albums and singles, to UA. On many dates he serves as arranger, conductor, composer and soloist.

On this album he served as arranger along with Nick Perito and Don Coasta.

The album is fun early 60s guitar play that sounds like tracks from movie or TV projects done up in a fat sound. This should be no surprise because Caiola, according to his Wiki page was doing a lot of movie, TV and commercial work for UA around this time.

Noro Morales Cha Cha Cha's

Pagan Love Song (mono)

Pagan Love Song (stereo)

Noro MoralesCha Cha Cha's
Design DCF 1008 (mono & stereo pressings)
A Product
1960

Morales passed away at the age of 53 in 1964 of the effects of chronic diabetes.

Ja-Da
Once In Awhile
Maybe
Three O'Clock In The Morning
Don't Be That Way
Pagan Love Song
Paradise
Peg O' My Heart
Candy
Darktown Strutters Ball

Debbie Drake's Dancercize

Boots

Debbie Drake's Dancercize
The New Enjoyable Way To Exercise!
Original Music by Gilbert Leibinger and Charles Holden
Midwest Broadcasting, Inc.
1969

Why no one picks these exercise albums out of the bin at the thrift I'll never know. OK... admittedly the art form is an acquired taste.

These records are a time capsule of fashion and exercise trend. Exercise records, the gimmick that sells the album, has a self life of about a week before they become out dated and silly.

This album features "original" music. Side one through the third track on side two is layered with Debbie's voice counting on top of the tunes. That is a surreal experience in itself, but I thought I play, by-way-of-example, a tune without the voice over. This track has a great lounge feel to it.

From the back cover: Every woman, regardless of age, wants to be all woman. She wants to feel that she is something special and unique. To feel dull and sexless is a needless waste of a woman's attributes.

Below is vintage Debbie Drake exercise video.

Salute To The Big Bands

Sleepy Time Down South

Salute To The Big Bands
Dean Lester And His Hollywood Recording Orchestra
Crown Records CLP 5034
1957

Early Crown release featuring a great cheesecake cover. Nothing to be found on Lester.

The album is a curious mix of standards covered in a standard way, a few light pop easy listening tracks and even a few uncredited solo vocals like the Louis Armstrong imitation above.

Bill Justis Plays 12 Big Instrumental Hits - Alley Cat - Green Onions

Wonderland By Night

Bill Justis Plays 12 Big Instrumentals Hits
Smash Records SRS 67021
1962

Justis released at least three 12 Big Instrumental Hits records. On this album, Green Onions, the first track on the B side is groovy. That tune is followed by a nice cover of Take Five. Wonderland By Night is my fav as it is, for sure, the most quirky tune on the record.

That's Life - Billy Vaughn

Music To Watch Girls By

That's Life
Billy Vaughn
Featuring Pineapple Market
Dot DLP 25788
1967

There are a few cool tracks on this album.

Also checkout: Windmills Of Your Mind. 

Pineapple Market
Walking On Wilshire
Music To Watch Girls By
Green Green Grass Of Home
Winchester Cathedral
Tiny Bubbles
That's Life
The Dis-Advantages Of You
There's No Love
No Matter What Shape.

No Cover No Minimum - Enid Mosier

Darts!

No Cover No Minimum

Enid Mosier
Decca Records DL 8804
1958

From the back cover: Enid Mosier studied dancing with Katherine Dunham, Pearl Primus and Asadata Dafora and made her Broadway debut to great acclaim in a non-singing role in "St. Louis Woman". A trip to Europe that lasted three years followed the demise of the show, and during this period Enid's vocalistics gained her a huge following in France, Germany, Holland, Switzerland, Spain and the British Isles. The Harold Arlen-Truman Capote musical, "House Of Flowers" brought Enid back to Broadway and night after night, she and Ada Moore stopped the show cold with their classic treatment of "Two Ladies in De Shade of De Banana Tree". Now married to her superb drummer, Alfonso Marchall, Enid is delighting audiences from coast-to-coast. "No Cover - No Minimum" is needed to enjoy a most rewarding visit with this great performer.

This album is a bit obscure. Mosier made one other album titled Hi Fi Calypso, Etc. on Columbia.

Holiday In Hawaii

Makalapua

Holiday In Hawaii

Exotic Songs Of The Islands
Makamia and His Moana Islanders
Masterseal Records MS-58
1957

Waipio
Ainahau
Makalapua 

One, Two, Three, Four
Waialae
Ta Hu Wa Hu Wa Hi
Halona
Alohe Oe
Ua Like No Ia Like
Aloha No Au I Ko Maka

Martin Denny - Exotica Classica

Born Free

Martin Denny
Exotica Classica
For Those In Love

Producer: Joe Saraceno

Arranger: Nick De Caro

Engineer: Woody Woodward

Design: Gabor Halmos

Cover Photo: Ivan Nagy
Liberty LST-7513
1967

For Lovers

One Love Will Always Last

Two Loves Have I

The Terry Theme From Limelight

I'll Love You Forever And Ever

Born Free

Laura Exotic Night

Sweet September

I Will Wait For You (The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg Theme)

Stella By Starlight

Exotica Classica

The Exotic Sounds of the Japanese Bamboo Flute

The Exotic Sounds of the Japanese Bamboo Flute
Olympic Records 6170

From the back cover: Watazumido-Shuso is the head of a sect which he himself established, not fully satisfied with the existing three Zen sects of Buddhism.

Through the Japanese flute, Watazumido-Shuso has attained musical and spiritual heights unachieved by anyone else. He is also expert with many other musical instruments and is well known to avant-garde musicians overseas through his records. He serves as advisor to many temples.

Instead of using the traditional Japanese 'shakuhachi' flute, Watazumido-Shuso performs his extraordinary music on 'Hotchiku,' flutes made from untreated bamboo of the ordinary type.

Through use of 'Hotchiku' flute, the true feeling of the Watazumido sect of Zen can be understood, according to Watazumido-Shuso.

The "Hotchiku" flutes range in size from 25 cm to 103 cm and have anywhere from five to twelve holes. Practically all are held and blown vertically like the clarinet, but there is one type blown like the flute.

As pointed out in the explanations of the various tunes, Watazumido-Shuso improvises often because the music is the expression of his feelings.

There are very few albums that feature a single instrument that can hold my interest. This isn't one of them. Even though the bamboo flute is an expressive instrument, the range of expression seems too limited to carry an entire album. Any one track is an interesting experience... but after a while I was hoping for a small jazz combo to jump in and perk things up.

Cha Cha Cha

Negra Mi Cha-Cha-Cha (My Baby)

Facundo Rivera and his Quartet

Cha-Cha-Cha

The New Exciting Dance Rhythm From Cuba
RCA Victor LPM-1081
1955

From the back cover: Of the selections in this recording, the one number by Beny More (Cha-Cha-Cha), the two by Ernesto Duarte (Las Enganadoras and Nicolasa) and the three by the Orquesta Almendra (Aquellos Ojos Verdes, Baila Vicente and Lamento Cuban) are actually Cuban in origin and were recorded there, they feature, in the main, strings and flute. As for the other works, they were all recorded New York and feature some of the most prominent exponents of this particular style – Facundo Rivera, Al Romero, Tito Rodriguez, Al Castellanos and Noro Morales. To date, Las Enganadoras, El Tunel, Silver Star and Me Lo Dijo Adela have undoubtedly been the best-known and most popular examples of the Cha-Cha-Cha, but all those here included are exciting and toe-tapping in the extreme, offering to the interests listener and potential dancer every conceivable reason for this dance's new-found success.

Las Enganadoras
Nega Mi Cha-Cha-Cha
Cha-Cha-Cha
Silver Star
Me Lo Dijo Adela
Mustafa
El Baile Del Cha-Cha-Cha
Nicolasa
Aquellos Ojos Verdes
Baila Vicente
Lamento Cubano
El Tunel

South Pacific - Penthouse Studio Orchestra

Bali Ha'i

South Pacific
Audition ADD 33-5927

Starring the Penthouse Studio Orchestra & Chorus with Dottie Evans, Michael Stewart, Lois Winter, Loren Becker and Anita Lawrence

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