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Saturday, May 21, 2011

Exotic Percussion - Stanley Black And His Orchestra

Adieu Tristesse

Exotic Percussion
Stanley Black And His Orchestra
Phase 4 Stereo
London SP 44004
1961

From Billboard - August 28, 1961: This should become one of the best selling items from London's new Phase 4 percussion line. Stanley Black has long been a solid seller for the label. Here he has some extra plus factors working for I'm. The colorful two-channel arrangements play up the pagan aspects of such tunes as "Temptation," "Old Devil Moon," "Misirlou," "Babalu," "Caravan," etc. And London's sound is startling real. It's all topped off with lavish packaging.

Temptation
Baia
By The Waters Of Minnetonka
Adieu Tristesse
Jungle Drums
Hymn To The Sun
Babalu
Old Devil Moon
Moon Of Manakoora
Misirlou
Flamingo
Caravan

Friday, May 20, 2011

The Persuasive Trombone Of Urbie Green - Volume 2

The Poor Soul

The Persuasive Trombone Of Urbie Green
America's Greatest Trombonist and His Orchestra
Volume 2
Arrangements by Robert Byrne, Urbie Green, Ralph Burns
Originated and Produced by Enoch Light
Associate Producer: Julie Klages
Cover Design: Charles E. Murphy
Recoding Chief: Robert Fine
Command Records RS 838 SD
1962 Grand Award Record Co. Inc.

From the inside cover: The men in Urbie Green's band represent a fabulous cross-section of veterans of the great bands of the past and the most firmly grounded of the newer musicians. Urbie himself falls somewhere in between these two groups. Too young to have taken part in the heyday of the big bands' successes, he nonetheless has a big band background. He was the last of the star sidemen to emerge from this background when, after he shot to stardom with Woody Herman's orchestra in the early Fifties. Then he settled down in New York in 1954 and quickly established himself as the most versatile studio trombonist in town, playing with bands ranging from Lester Lanin to Benny Goodman and occasionally drawing on his early experience as a Dixieland musician.

The musicians that Urbie Green has chosen for his bands are equally distinguished in their individual fields. His trumpet section is headed by Doc Severinsen, a Command Records star in his own right, who, like Urbie on trombone, has become the outstanding studio trumpet man in New York after a big band background in which he made his name with bands of Tommy Dorsey and Charlie Barnet. The other trumpets also have the highest credentials: Marky Markowitz, whose experience includes terms with Charlie Spivak, Jimmy Dorsey and Woody Herman; Bernie Glow, another onetime Hermanite who has also played with Artie Shaw and Benny Goodman; and Joe Wilder, once of the Lionel Hampton, Jimmie Lunceford and Count Basie bands.

Urbie himself heads up the trombones, of course, and with him are Frank Rehab, whose wide background has included periods with Jimmy Dorsey, Claude Thornhill, the Sauter-Finegan band and Dizzy Gillespie's big band; Chauncey Welsch, a finely schooled veteran of Benny Goodman's band; and one of the more recently arrived stars, bass trombonist Paul Faulise who was with Quincy Jone's orchestra.

In the reed section, the two alto saxophonist are Walt Levinsky, a onetime Tommy Dorsey star, and Bernie Kaufman, who came out of the Benny Goodman saxophone section. On tenor saxophone is Carl Perkel, another of the newer musicians whose work with Lester Lanin impressed Urbie Green so much when he also played with Lanin that he grabbed Perkel for his own band. The baritone saxophone chores are shared by Sol Schlinger, who has blown for both Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey as well as Goodman, Charlie Barnet and Perez Prado, and Stanley Webb whose remarkable versatility among the reed instruments has been demonstrated repeatedly on Command Records.

The pianist is one of the distinctive stylists among the younger men - Eddie Costa, another Herman veteran who makes fascinating rumbling explorations of the lower regions of the piano in some of his solos and is also one of the most brilliant vibraphonists now playing. Sharing the guitar chair are Barry Galbraith, one of the few great rhythm guitarists who lifting drive has helped to spur the bands of Claude Thornhill, Hal McIntyre and Red Norvo, and Artie Ryerson, who includes a spell with Paul Whiteman in his distinguished record.

The bass work is split by the two busiest bassists in New York – Milt Hilton whose big band background involves sixteen years with Cab Calloway as well as stints with Count Basie and Louis Armstrong and Bob Crosby Band. At the drums is the man widely considered one of the finest big band drummers who has ever played – Don Lamond who drove the potent Woody Herman Herd of the middle Forties.

To give his program variety and to provide himself and his musicians with more freedom that can unusually be found in big band arrangements alone, Urbie Green has drawn a sextet from the band which is heard on four selections. It is made up of Doc Severinsen, trumpet, Urbie Green, trombone, Walt Levinsky, alto saxophone, Eddie Costa, piano and vibes, Milt Hinton, bass, and Don Lamond, drums.

All the arrangements for this small group were written by Urbie Green. For the big band, Ralph Burns, once Woody Herman's outstanding arranger, wrote The Street Where You Live, Close Your Eyes, Runnin' Wild and I Fall In Love Too Easily. The remaining big band orchestrations are the work of another veteran of big bands, the great trombonist, Bobby Byrne, who led his own big band and before that was the feature sideman in Jimmy Dorsey orchestra.

While We're Young
It Could Happen To You
No Moon At All
On A Slow Boat to China
Love Letters
Hello Young Lovers
Close Your Eyes
I Fall In Love Too Easily
The Poor Soul
On The Street Where You Live
Skylark
Runnin' Wild

The Soulful Stings

Within You Without You
Groovin' With The Soulful Strings
Arranged And Conducted By Richard Evans
Cadet Records LPS 796
1967

This album was a fun find! The music? Jazz meets easy listening meets light funky 60s pop.

Group members include: Sol A. Bobrov and David Chausow - Violin, Arthur Ahlman and Harold Kupper - Viola, Karl B. Fruh, Emil Mittermann and Theodore Ratzer - Cello, Charles Stepney - Organ and Vibes, Lenard Druss and Vernice Green - Sax and Flute, Ronald Steel and Philip Upchurch - Guitar, Cleveland Eaton and Louis Satterfield - Bass, Philip R. Thomas - Bongos and Conga and Morris Jennings, Jr. - Drums.

There is a hard to find Japanese CD import floating around out there.

Inner Light
Another Exposure
The Soulful Strings
Arranged And Conducted By Richard Evans
Cadet Records LPS 805
1968

Great follow up album featuring a number of 60s light pop/jazz flavored covers and the odd-man-out psych sample above.

Nostalgic Swing Mood - The Knightsbridge Singing Strings

Cherokee
Nostalgic Swing Mood
The Knightsbridge Singing Strings
Purist SP-4
1964

This is one (number 4) of 10 "Knightsbridge" albums released by Purist according to Billboard. "The songs are all standards performed in a tempo to suit the mood theme of the particular album. All the albums are available in stereo.

There is no info to be found on Knightbridge and little on Purist Records, other that a few briefs in Billboard. The company head was Elliot Wexler. Purist was distributed by Wayne Record Corporation. One humorous brief in billboard states that Wexler received a fan letter from two dentists whose secretary had heard KS programmed on American Airlines and was so impressed that she suggested its use in their dental office as background music.

There you go... cool music to pull teeth by!

Cover illustration by Milton Glaser.

Viva Bossa Nova! - Laurindo Almeida And The Bossa Nova All Stars

Viva Bossa Nova!
Laurindo Almeida And The Bossa Nova All Stars
Capitol Records T 1759
1962

Terrific early 60s light/jazz pop Bossa Nova album!

Group member include: Howard Roberts and Al Viola – second guitar. Shelly Manne, Milt Holland and Chico Guerrero - percussion. Jimmy Rowles - electric organ, Bob Cooper - tenor sax, Don Fageruist - trumpet and Justin Gordon - flute.

Super tight work by Almeida who was invited to the United States in 1947 by Stan Kenton. He played for Kenton's band during the height of it's success in the 1940s. He won Grammy Awards for his work in 1959, 61 and 65.

Martin Denny - Spanish Village

Baia
Martin Denny
Spanish Village
Produced by Dave Pell
Arranged by Bob Florence
Liberty LST-7409
1965

Baia
MaƱana
In A Little Spanish Town
Anna
Maria Elena
Who Shot The Hole In My Sombrero?
Cielito Lindo
La Paloma
Spanish Village
Tampico
Mexican Hat Dance
Samba De Orfeu

Brass Impact - Warren Kime

Prelude To A Kiss
Brass Impact
The Brass Choir Conducted By Warren Kime
Command Records RS 910 SD
1967

This is a killer 60s brass set and first of three "Impact" albums by Kime/Command. The engineering is outstanding.

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Million Seller Hits - 101 Strings - Simon And Garfunkel

The Boxer
101 Strings
Play Million Seller Hits Of Today
Written By Simon And Garfunkel
The Sound Of Magnificence
Alshire S-5156
1969

Fortunately Monty Kelly (house arranger) was on the job. He added enough 60s pop instrumental flourishes to keep the tunes from falling into pure string-based easy listening.

The Boxer is actually way weird compared to the rest of the set. I did not overlay that guitar riff! That crunchy guitar is actually heard in the middle of the song!

Scheherazade - Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra

Scheherazade
Rimsky-Korsakov
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by William Steinberg
Capitol P8305
1956

Spicy stuff for 1956. Sex sells...

Strings Aflame - Esquivel And His Orchestra

Scheherazade

Strings Aflame
Esquivel and His Orchestra
Arranged and Conducted by Esquivel
Produced by Johnnie Camacho
Recorded in Webster Hall, New York City, January and February, 1959
Recording Engineer: Ernest Oelrich
RCA Victor LSP-1988
1959

Guadalajara
Scheherazade
Parade Of The Wooden Soldiers
Andalusian Sky
Misirlou
Sun Valley Ski Run
MalagueƱa
Fantasy
Foolin' Around
Gypsy Lament
I Love Paris
Turkish March

Valley Of The Dolls Featuring The Young Lovers

A Man And A Woman

Valley Of The Dolls
Featuring The Young Lovers
Design Records DLP 286
1968

Valley Of The Dolls
Carmen
Reverie
Man And A Woman
Ingrid's Theme
Live For Life
The Love Garden
Fleur Rouge
Opus #1 In Bauer
Bluette

Korla Pandit At The Pipe Organ

Korla Pandit At The Pipe Organ
Fantasy 3286
1960

Signed: Best Wishes To Jay - Korla Pandit Nov 12, 1978

Paradise - Arthur Lyman

Poinciana
Paradise
Arthur Lyman
Cover Photos taken in Tahiti by Michael H. Golden
Cover Design by Geo. Whiteman
Gene Norman Presents
GNP Crescendo 606
1964

From the back cover:

Arthur Lyman is a masterful, sensitive and astonishingly versatile musician. He plays vibes, marimba, congas, bongos, guitar and almost every other instrument heard in the ensemble.

John Kramer, who writes in collaboration with Arthur, plays bass, flute, guitar, ukelele, clarinet and percussion.

Harold Chang is a multi-talented percussionist, who doubles on bass and a battery of exotic instruments.

Alan Soares, pianist, also doubles on guitar, clavietta, glockenspiel and marimba


From Billboard - March 7, 1964: Arthur Lyman and his South Seas sound has been a steady seller for some time. This set, which again melds the distinctive vibes sound with small group exotica, should carry on the Lyman spell. "Poincana," "Shangri-La" and "Baubles Bangles And Beads" are a few of the first-class tracks.

Poinciana
Stranger In Paradise
Shangri-La
Now Is the Hour (Maori Farewell Song)
Mountain High, Valley Low
Vini Vini
South Sea Island Magic
Pearly Shells (Pupu O Ewa)
Baubles Bangles And Beads
Song Of India
Aloha Oe

Lyman '66 - Arthur Lyman

Lyman '66
HIFI Records Life Series L-1031
1965

We continue Lyman In The Attic Day... here in the attic... as I work through a few more Lyman albums which appeared on top of my stack-o-wax.

This album is available, as I think most Lyman albums are, for purchase/download.

This is a "softer" Lyman, compared to the 7 or 8 other Lyman albums I've listened to/bloggerd. Jazzy and soft. Nice.  And you will find some bird calls in The (Jungle) Cat, a track from side two.

This is one of the albums recorded in the Aluminum Dome on the grounds of The Hilton Hawaiian Village. The sound is amazing.

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

The Now Sounds Of Today

Just Lovers by Joe S. Johnson/John Muir
Crying Time Again by Dennis Bohne/John Muir
The Now Sounds Of Today
Columbine Records
CRH-266

The Atomic Attic dusts off another song-poem album for you enjoyment.

Calcutta - Larry Walker And His Orchestra

Algiers
Caravan
Calcutta
Larry Walker And His Orchestra
Pirouette Records FM 83

Obscure budget release featuring a band that sounds very much like The Three Suns. Check out the fun version of Caravan. But there is another song, the last track on side 1 that sounds "Calcutta-ish" (even though Algiers is no where near Calcutta... I'm just saying...) and not at all like the rest of the record.  I'm assuming that Pirouette probably inserted the track to help fill out the record. There are three tracks on this album that sound like filler.

The Shadow Of Your Smile - Arthur Lyman

The Shadow Of Your Smile
Arthur Lyman
HI FI Records Life Series L 1033
1966

This one is available on CD, as all Lyman LPs maybe so I will not be posting a sample.

It's Arthur Lyman day up here in The Atomic Attic!

One of my favorite tunes on this LP is a cover of Yesterday (Beatles 1965). This album seems to have a touch more of a 60s lounge jazz feel to it. The first track on the B side, Marobi, is typical great Lyman exotica.  There is also a curious rocking cover of Hang On Sloopy found on the B side that sounds as though the group just decided to jam to fill out the record.

The Exotic Sounds Of Arthur Lyman At The Crescendo

Waltz Latino (stereo)
The Exotic Sounds Of Arthur Lyman At The Crescendo
Engineering Supervisor: Thorne E. Nogar
GNP Crescendo Records GNP 605
1963

From the back cover: The Exotic Sounds Of... Arthur Lyman At The Crescendo

From the first time the exotic sounds of Arthur Lyman are recorded "live" as they appeared "in person" in one of their regular engagements at the Crescendo on the world renowned Sunset Strip in Hollywood. Inspired by the devoted attention of a throng of faithful fans, many of them from the movie colony, the group achieves a peak of perfection possible only when artist feel the warmth and rapport of a hushed and appreciative audience (The applause was later deleted to preserve the exotic mood!)

Arthur is a masterful, sensitive and astonishingly versatile musician. He plays vibes, marimba, congas, bongos, guitar and almost every other instrument used in the group.

John Kramer, who writes in collaboration with Arthur, plays bass, flute, guitar, ukulele, clarinet and percussion.

Harold Chang is a multi-talented percussionist, who doubles on bass and a battery of exotic instruments.

Alan Soares, pianist, also doubles on guitar, glockenspiel and marimba.

All are from Hawaii and have that special ingratiating friendliness that seems indigenous to the Islands. – Gene Norman

Time Magazine Story from the back cover:

Mood Merchant

A conch shell wailed, the conga drums thump-thumped, the bamboo sticks clattered. The four men on stage were constantly on the move – clacking wooden blocks, scratching a corrugated gourd, falling away at Chinese gongs, weaving rhythms that were insistent, sinuous and hypnotic. Occasionally, when the spirit moved them, they barked like seals or whooped like cranes. The happy audience at Chicago's Edgewater Beach Hotel rattled the rafters whooping back.

Many a stereo bug could recognized the sounds immediately – and name the man who was making them. At 29, Arthur Lyman and his group of Hawaiian musicians are staples of the pop-record market. One album alone sold close to 2,000,000 copies, and Lyman fans buy each new effort with the enthusiasm of rare-stamp collectors. Back home in Hawaii, Lyman's mistily exotic mood music draws tourists by the gross to the Shell Bar in the Hawaiian Village Hotel, where Lyman holds forth with he is not on tour (and were television's Hawaiian Eye show, on which Lyman has appeared, often stops for a drink).

A Little To Drink. The group's repertory is varied and immense – 300 songs ranging from Israeli folk music to rock 'n roll. By the time Lyman has finished arranging them, however – building in parts for castanets, chimers, tambourines, cow bells and even the jawbone of an ass – they all take on the same exotic, Oriental flavor. To give listeners the impression that they are in the rain forests of Brazil, Lyman and his men cut loose at regular intervals with what they hope are authentic bird-cries. at it's best, the group has a delicate, haunting sound that none of its imitators can match.

Arthur Lyman was born on the islands of Kauai, the youngest of eight children of a Hawaiian mother and a father of French, Belgian and Chinese extraction. When Arthur's father, a riveter, lost his eyesight in an accident, the family moved to the island of Oahu and settled in Makiki, a section of Honolulu. Arthur's introduction to music was on a toy marimba. Each day after school, Arthur's father put some old Benny Goodman records on the phonograph and locked Arthur in his room with orders to "play along with the records for the rest of the day." Arthur "hated it" but he also learned: "I mastered every (Lionel) Hampton solo."

By the time he was 14, Lyman was good enough to play with a combo in a Honolulu jazz cellar; from there he graduated to the Martin Denny Trio, which plays music something like Lyman's but with more of a jazz feeling. About that time, he married a girl from Sacramento, California, who still serves as his group's business manager.

Not Like A Bird. It was while he was with Denny that Lyman discovered the value of bird calls. One night, he recalls, he had "a little to drink," and when the trio began playing the theme from the movie "Vera Cruz," he tried a few experimental squawks. "The next thing you know," says he, "the audience started to answer back with all kinds of weird cries. It was great."

It was so great, in fact, that it became Lyman's trademark when he started his own group. He never rehearse his calls. "There's really nothing to it; you just open your mouth and yell a little bit."


From Billboard - February 23, 1964: Here's more of the dreamy misty "mood" settings for some new and old tunes as created by Arthur Lyman and his combo. His fans are bound to dig his treatment of "Days Of Wine & Roses," "China Nights," "Song Of Delilah" and others. Lots of Oriental percussion mixed skillfully into Lyman's easy paced vibes.

Similau
Days Of Wine And Roses
Te Manu Pakarua (Fishing Chant from M-G-M Film "Mutiny On The Bounty")
Waltz Latino
China Nights
Night Train
Pu Pu Hino Hino
Crickets Of Karachi
Cindy Oh Cindy
Cast Your Fate To The Winds
Song Of Delilah (From the Paramount Film "Samson and Delilah")
Slaughter On Tenth Avenue

Cast Your Fate To The Wind
The Exotic Sounds Of Arthur Lyman
GNP Crescendo 607
1965

This is the 1965 reissue of "Arthur Lyman At The Crescendo." The label flipped sides on this release (side 1 became side 2).

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Love For Sale - Arthur Lyman

Love For Sale
Arthur Lyman
HI FI Records Life Series
L1009
1963

I'm working my way through a number of Lyman albums I picked up a while ago.

So far, I have yet to be even remotely let down by a Lyman project. I have to say, when I looked at this cover, I wondered what the deal was. Lyman's portrait under a the title "Love For Sale" just seems odd for some reason. I wondered if is this album was going to be "light" or easy listening/romantic.

No fear... Sure, there are lots of song titles with the word "love" in them. But this is pure exotica and Lyman to the bone. The music is inventive, moody or mood setting and very cool.

The bongo effort on a track titled, simply, Love is totally smoking and must be Lyman's vision of hot sweaty love...

The Trembling Of A Leaf - Ray Hartley

The Trembling Of A Leaf
Ray Hartley
The Trembling Of A Leaf
With David Terry And His Orchestra
RCA Victory LPM-1659
1958

I found an online mention of Hartley doing a benefit in Australia (his home country) in 2008. He would have been 79 years old.

This may have been Hartley's only album which fits nicely with other period contemporary mood.

The cover photo was a set up on the beach of Long Island's Colony Club.

Hear How To Touch Type

Hear How To Touch Type
For Beginners or Refresher Course
Brother

It's fun to listen and learn...

They Laughed When I Sat Down - Billy Rowland

Love, Your Spell Is Everywhere
They Laughed When I Sat Down
Billy Rowland And His Thumbtack Piano
RCA Victor LSP-1872
1959

Light bachelor pad that seems to me to be a little uneven with its blend of lounge, honky tonk and dixieland.

Group members include: Bob Haggart - bass, Terry Snyder - drums, Al Caiola - guitar, Al Klink - sax and Bobby Byrne - Trombone.

The "thumbtack piano" refers to actual thumbtacks Rowland applied to piano hammers. A sound that you hear on his "honky tonk" projects.

Music For A Privare Eye - Ralph Marterie

Perry Mason Theme


Ralph Marterie and His Marlboro Men
Music For A Private Eye
Swinging Themes of Famous TV Whodunits
Arrangements by Pete Rugolo & Skippy Martin
Mercury Records HiFi STEREO SR 60109 & Mercury Wing Records STEREO SWR 16238
1959

From Billboard - October 19, 1959: Marterie has turned out a swinging, big band set with a fine, deep stereo sound about it. With commercial big ensemble arrangements by Pete Rugulo and Skip Martin, the group charges into 10 different TV type private eye themes. Examples would include "M Squad," "Perry Mason," "Richard Diamond," "The Thin Man," "77 Sunset Strip," etc. Good cover shows Marterie in private eye-type raincoat looking over a couple of find looking fem specimens.

M Squad
Perry Mason Theme
Richard Diamond
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The Thin Man
Private Eyeball
The D.A.'s Man
Riff Blues
Peter Gunn

I Could Have Danced All Night - Les Baxter

Quite Village
Les Baxter
I Could Have Danced All Night
Pickwick PC 3048

It's Les Baxter day up here in The Atomic Attic. Or is it?

In my effort to find the rarest and greatest bargain basement records EVER... I bring you a Les Baxter album that is only part Baxter. Yes, who would have thunk that anyone would do an easy listening cover album of Baxter's work? Not me. But here it is. Only when you look at the small type on the back cover do you realize that the tunes are performed by someone else. Additionally... if you didn't already know better... when you glance at the record label you'll note that Quite Village is the only song Baxter actually wrote. The heck you say!  No, really... there is only one actual Baxter tune on this album and that song isn't performer by Baxter.

Fabulous!

Original Quite Village - Les Baxter

Les Baxter's Original Quite Village
Capitol Records ST 8-1846
1963

From the November 23, 1963 Billboard Special Merit Picks listing: Les Baxter's exotic collection of songs provides an excellent escape vehicle for the listener. The sounds and atmosphere of the South Seas, the Near East and an illusionary Shangri La are captured by strings, percussion and soft brass. Attractive gal on cover should help at point of purchase.

It appears that many of the tunes on this LP are available for purchase by download. A number or all of the tracks appear to have added to this collection from earlier projects. I think this record is a compilation album Capitol put out just after Baxter left to focus on film scores (in 1962 according to spaceagepop.com).

Anyway, the tracks are assembled here in such a way to make for a great listen! Recommended!

Jewel Of The Sea - Les Baxter

The Enchanted Sea
Les Baxter's Jewel Of The Sea
Produced by Dave Dexter, Jr.
Album Title: Courtesy Rose Marie Reid Swimsuit
Capitol Records ST 1537
1961

The song "Jewels of the Sea" was composed originally by Les Baxter as "Katia's Theme" for the American International picture, Black Sunday.

Sunken City
Stars In The Sand
Sea Nymph
Singing Sea Shells
Dolphin
Dawn Under The Sea
The Enchanted Sea
The Girl From Nassau
The Ancient Galleon
Dancing Diamonds
Jewels Of The Sea

Skip Martin's Swinging With Prince Igor

Skip Martin's Adaptations For Symphony And Jazz Band
Swinging With Prince Igor And Tannhauser
Somerset SF-16000
1962

Martin was also responsible for several great "percussion" albums on Somerset (Perspectives In Percussion Volume 1 and Volume 2.

Link here to see the original 1959 release.

Monday, May 16, 2011

Grand Bahama Holiday - Fred Callender's Calypsonians

Pe Pi Ta Corazon
Grand Bahama Holiday
Grand Bahama Hotel
Recorded On The Scene At The Jack Tar
Fred Callender's Calypsonians
Carib LP-2024

This album looks like another "island" lounge recording. Which it is. But the quality of this act is heads and tails above most Caribbean lounge records I've found.

While the group members are natives of the Caribbean this album features mostly Latin tracks, including a Samba, Cha Cha, Rhumba, Merengue and Bossa Nova.

The group consists of Fred Callender on bass, Edner Guignard (pianist and arranger), Frank "Bud" Munnings, drummer and Foxy Dean on congo drums and maracas.

Great fun!

The War Of The Worlds - Invasion From Mars

The War Of The Worlds
Invasion From Mars
Audio Rarities LPA 2355

This is a condensed one record version of the original Orson Wells 1938 broadcast that appears to have been marketed to schools to "aid Drama Students".

This is an obscure pressing. I bought it for the fabulous cover art. The pressing itself sounds like it was recorded from another record. I'm not sure, but the audio quality is lacking on my copy.

Rock-On '74

Earache My Eye
Rock-On '74
Dimensional Sound
T.E.J. Records TEJ-200

This is another T.EJ. effort to trick unwary record buyers into thinking that they were purchasing the original song.

Sunday, May 15, 2011

Exotic Love - Martin Denny

 The Look Of Love
Exotic Love
Martin Denny
Liberty LST-7585
1968

I also love Denny's later work. These later albums do not get the same attention as his earlier albums. This album almost seems obscure.

As far as I can tell you have to find a copy of this album to enjoy any track found on it. Voodoo Love is on this album but this version is not the version (sans bird calls) that is available for purchase by download. Denny must have recorded the tune again for this album(?) or the "remastered" version has bird calls added. I have no idea.

One curious thing about my copy is that the record is fixed with a "side 2" label (the same label) on both sides of the record.

Stockhausen

Stockhausen
Candide CE 31022

I'm no expert on electronica or Karlheinz Stockhausen. But I found this album and can't find another image of the cover online. So I post it for reference.

There are two pieces on the LP. They are titled Kontakte and Refrain (both recorded in 1968).

I believe I found Refrain as a 99¢ download on Amazon. Kontakte seems to be available on CD.

Rhythm And Blues Hits Of '64

Walkin' The Dog
Rhythm And Blues Hits Of '64
Ripple Blast Singers And Band
Power S 9001

I'm not sure what to make of this Atomic Attic find. Even though the title suggests the record was released in 1964, dates found in the copy on the back of the jacket indicates a release date as late as 1968. The copy also suggests follow up releases covering the "hits" of '66, '67 and '68

There are lots of online search returns on Ripple Blast Singers, but I could find no real bio information. The cover band may have released as many as four albums(?).