Ronnie Aldrich And His Two Pianos

Good Morning Starshine

Ronnie Aldrich And His Two Pianos

The London Festival Orchestra
Destination
London SP 44135
1969

Groovy dreamy cover with groovy on the outside and dreamy light pop covers on the inside.

Bachelor pad and lime green leisure suits.

Persuasive Percussion Volume 4

Oh Lady Be Good

Persuasive Percussion Volume 4
Enoch Light and The Command All Stars

Arrangements by Lew Davies

Originated and Produced by Enoch Light

Associate Producer: Julie Klages

Cover Design By Charles E. Murphy
Recording Chief: Robert Fine

Mastering: George Piros

Command Records STEREO RS 830 SD
1961

Oh Lady Be Good
I May Be Wrong
It's De Lovely
Hello Young Lovers
Am I Blue
Besame Mucho
Hold Me
You Brought A New Kind Of Love To Me
In The Mood
Got A Date With An Angel
Can't Get Enough Of My Baby
My Blue Heaven

Persuasive Percussion Volume 3

Bingo Bango Bongo Baby

Persuasive Percussion Volume 3
The Command All Stars
Originated and Produced by Enoch Light
Associate Producer: Julie Klages
Recording Chief: Robert Fine
Mastering George Piros
Cover by Josef Albers
Grand Award Publishing Co. Inc. New York, N.Y.
RS 33-817
1960

The Command All-Stars

Doc Severinsen
Bob Haggart
Phil Bodner
Romeo Pence
Cliff Leeman
Sol Gubin
Dominic Cortese
Mel Davis
Bobby Byrne
Moe Wechsler
Ezelle Watson
Bernie Glow
Artie Marotti
Al Cassamenti
Willie Rodriguez
Stanley Webb
Tony Mottola

From Billboard - December 6, 1960: This album, Volume III in the best selling "Persuasive Percussion" series, looks like another winner. Once again Enoch Light has turned out a bright, breezy, tasteful and musical percussion set, featuring The Command All Stars, which shows off clean, and well-nigh perfect recording. The tunes include "Moments To Remember," " All The Way," "One For My Baby" and "Kashmiri Song." The arrangements are both spectacular and at the same time delightfully subtle. Fine wax.

Moments To Remember
All The Way
Theme From Polovetzian Dances
Perdido
Come Rain Or Come Shine
Hawaiian War Chant
One For My Baby
Kashmiri Song
When Your Lover Has Gone
Bingo Bingo Bongo Baby
Autumn In New York
Don't Worry 'Bout Me

Persuasive Percussion Volume 1

Tabu

Persuasive Percussion
Volume 1
Terry Snyder and The All Stars
Originated And Produced By Enoch Light
Cover Art Josef Albers
Command STEREO RS 800 S.D.
1959 Award Publishing Corporation

Persuasive Percussion
Command/ABC Records/Pickwick SPC-3807
Pickwick Records Division
1978

The Pickwick reissue does not include the tracks: Japanese Sandman & Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing.

Cover Art by Josef Albers, one of America's foremost contemporary painters, was born in Westphalia, Germany in 1888. After studying in Berlin, Essen and Munich he taught at the famous Bauhaus school from 1923 - 1933. When the Bauhaus was closed by order of the German government in 1933, Mr. Albers came to the United States to head the Art Department of Black Mountain College where he remained until 1950. After leaving Black Mountain, Mr. Albers took over the direction of the Department of Design at Yale University. At the present time, Mr. Albers lives and works in New Haven, Connecticut.

I'm In The Mood
Whatever Lola Wants
Misirlou
I Surrender Dear
Orchids In The Moonlight
I Love Paris
My Heart Belongs To Daddy
Tabu
The Breeze And I
Aloha Oe
Japanese Sandman
Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing

Ellis In Wonderland - Ray Ellis

You're My Girl

Ellis In Wonderland
Ray Ellis and His Orchestra
Columbia CL 933
1957

From the back cover: Clamber through the looking glass, scamper down the hole after the white rabbit, and there is Wonderland. The scenery auditory, in this instance – has been sketched out by Ray Ellis, and the sonic vistas are wonderful indeed. A good deal of the delight that this collection provides arises from the fact that one of America's top-flight arranger-conductors has been turned loose to experiment with sounds and textures in popular music, and through the listener's pleasure can be sensed the pleasure that Ray Ellis took in his assignment.

When an inventive arranger is given free rein, inventive music is bound to result. "Ellis in Wonderland" is full of interesting ideas both in sound and treatment, but there has been no effort to make an effect on shock value. All but four of the songs are familiar friends, and they are treated with affection. The other four, similarly treated, consist of a hitherto unrecorded theme song, a pair of Ellis originals, and a neglected show tune. It is a warm and colorful program, and the arrangements underline that feeling.

Consider the variety Ray Ellis has spread forth; the program opens with a slow, progressively emotional pre- sentation of You Are Never Far Away from Me, Perry Como's never-before- recorded theme song. In this, as in other melodies in the collection, the chorus is used for an instrumental effect and is less forward than in many similar efforts. A bright and cheerful setting of How About You follows, presented in terms of a dance orchestra's arrangement, with the strings relegated to an accompanying position. Then comes For All We Know, a smooth medium-tempo presentation, spotlighting the strings and a brief saxophone solo. When I Fall in Love uses the harmonic atmosphere associated with the works of Rachmaninoff in a splendid example of first-rate mood music and also employs the wordless chorus. The jaunty mambo theme of 36-26-36 carries through over the substantial background the orchestra provides, and the first side closes with the moody torch song Alone Together, wherein the male voices of the chorus assist in the accompaniment and the female voices sing in a counter- melody.

Subtle reminders of a biblical land in its Oriental guises are evoked in Milk and Honey, a broad, flowing melody that includes bells among the instruments in its fascinating background. A wistful arrangement of that old favorite P. S. I Love You follows, succeeded in turn by a bright, bouncy setting of Love Is a Simple Thing, which brings back the dance band idiom. The warm, expansive melody of You're My Girl from "High Button Shoes" is used to provide a romantic. interlude, followed by a light, airy treatment of Poor Butterfly that contains a hint, perhaps inherent in the song itself, of its 1916 origin. The program concludes with a smooth, sentimental version of Trust in Me, building to a vivid and lingering close.

These are some of the aspects of Ray Ellis' particular wonderland; there are others, of course, not contained in this collection. Along the way, through his outstanding career in popular music, he has arranged music for many other conductors, and has performed the same chore, as well as conducting, for such varying entertainers as The Four Lads, Mahalia Jackson, Guy Mitchell, Cathy Johnson, and the DeJohn Sisters, among others, on some of their best-selling records. Here he is on his own, for the first time, in a richly rewarding collection of his distinctive inventions.

From Billboard - September 9, 1957: Smooth treatments by top-flight orkster, Ellis, provide easy listening. A variety of tempos, Latin, slow, lush settings with chorus, and others with danceable beat, can appeal to teens and mature buyers.

You Are Never Far Away From Me
How About You
For All We Know
When I Fall In Love
36-26-26
Alone Together
Milk And Honey
P.S. I Love You
Love Is A Simple Thing
You're My Girl
Poor Butterfly
Trust Me

Earl Bostic Plays Sweet Tunes Of The Fantastic 50s

Canadian Sunset

Earl Bostic Plays Sweet Tunes Of The Fantastic 50s

X-15 cover art illustrated by L. Paleno
King Records 602

1959

From the back cover: Earl has always loved music, so much so he gave up a job as grammar school teacher to go on the road. He first learned to play the clarinet in his home town of Tulsa, Oklahoma. His first job netted him exactly 15¢, yet he liked what he as doing, and move to Xavier University in New Orleans where he received training in harmony, composing, theory, arranging, plus all the brass, reed and string instruments.

He formed a small combo and managed to get one week's commitment at Small's Paradise in New York City. He didn't leave, however, when the week was up... but was held there for four years.

With a desire to learn more through experience, he joined Lionel Hampton's sextet, and played along with Teddy Wilson, Sid Catlett and J. C. Higginbotham. Through experience he picked up, he began arranging for Paul Whitement, Louis Prima, Cab Calloway and Ina Ray Hutton among others.

In 1945 he started on his own again and blossomed into one of the outstanding horn men in the music business. At the time he recorded "845 Special" and "That's The Groovy Thing" things really began to happen. Both records were instant hits and Bostic's musical career was assured.

Because Of You

Unchained Melody

Stranger In Paradise

Ebb Tide

Lisbon Antiqua

Love Is A Many Splendored Thing

April IN Portugal

Blue Tango

Three Coins In The Fountain

Canadian Sunset

Autumn Leaves

The Song Form Moulin Rouge