South Sea Serenades

Hapa Haole Hula Girl

Ray Andrade And His Orchestra
RCA Victor 27653-B
1943(?)

10 inch 78 four record set.

Apparently Andrade handled RCA distribution and merchandising in Hawaii.

Line Renaund's In Love

Teach Me French

Line Renaud's In Love

Love Songs In English by the International Star of Casino de Paris

A Production of Disques Line

Prepared for release in the U.S.A. by Bill Miller
Capitol Records ST 2963

From the back cover: The French love her as their most formidable super-star since Mistinguett, Piaf, and Chevalier.

From Spain to Pakistan to South Africa, her high-octane attractiveness as both entertainer and woman is a guarantee of standing-room-only audiences.

She is currently in Las Vegas, smashing existing records at the Dunes. Both Las Vegas journalists and the visiting press reported her opening in superlatives:

Sand Ralph Pearl in the Las Vegas Sun: "Line Renaud is easily the most exciting performer to come out of France in many years."

Columnist Paul Price in the same paper: "Line Renaud is absolutely sensational. Any able-bodied male who does not fall into instant love is an idiot."

Murray Hertz in the Las Vegas Review Journal: "Line Renaud made a triumphant return... the audience... whistled, howled, roared and cheered."

Joy Hamman in The Hollywood Reporter: "Line Renaud opened in a stunning new act that had an impact you can't believe."

Bill Willard in Variety: "Her ability to whip up a love affair with the audience in evident from her first notes."

And John L. Scott in the Los Angeles Times: "Miss Renaud... enchanted the capacity first-night audience."

This album is  Line Renaud's first recorded entirely in English. The selections include "If I Love" and "Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You," two of the hits of her current "Casino de Paris" show. They include a total of ten of the great songs which her husband, songwriter Louis Gasté, has tailored especially to her talents, and with which she mesmerizes listeners around the world.

Here are the charm, the sexy, sultry warmth and magnetism of one of the  world's most exciting women.

Her songs are about love. Of what else would a Frenchwoman sing?

Majorca, Isle Of Love

Goodbye, My Souvenirs 

Teach Me French

La La La Song

Love Is The Little Things

It's Over

Summer Love

Can't Take My Eyes Off You

To  You My Love

Roses Of May

If I Love You

I'd Love To Fall Asleep

Ethel Smith

Ruby

Ethel Smith Organ Solos
Vocalion VL 73669 

Enhanced For Stereo

1959

Fascination 

Pretend

Casi Casi

Charmaine

Three Coins In The Fountain

Largo "Ombra Mai Fu"

Swedish Rhapsody (Midsummer Vigil)

The Song From Moulin Rouge (Where Your Heart Is)

Sincopado

Ruby

I'm Walking Behind You

Domino

Sears Golden Voices In Hollywood!

Gold Finger

Sears Golden Voices In Hollywood!
SPS-208 STEREO

From the back cover: Take the best professional singers you can find along with the Broadway beat. Add a top choral director to the blend them into an ensemble, and supply him with arrangements prepared especially by leading Broadway and Hollywood arrangers. Then take your group into the best equipped recording studio you can find. Spend a day – two days, if necessary – tampering with the controls until you've got everything just right. Then cut a record. You'll find the result in these grooves – a superb blending of some of America's best voices in a sound we guarantee you'll find breathtaking.

Forget Domani from "The Yellow Rolls Royce"
Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines
The Shadow Of Your Smile - Love Theme from "The Sandpiper"
Chim Chim There from "Mary Poppins"
More from "Mondo Cane"
Call Me Irresponsible from "Papa's Delicate Condition"

Climb Ev'ry Mountain from "The Sound Of Music"

Goldfinger from "Goldfinger"

Moon River from "Breakfast at Tiffany's"

I Will Wait For You from "Umbrellas of Cherbourg"

The Theme From Hawaii - Dale & Dale

Theme From Movie "Hawaii"

The Theme From Hawaii

The Sleepwalk Guitars of Dan & Dale
Dipolmat Records DS 2365

Theme From Movie "Hawaii"

Moon Over Hawaii

Ukulele Dance Pacific Paradis

Coral Reefs

Magic Island Of Molokai

Hula Scuba

White Sands Island Song

Aloha

The Exotic Sounds Of The Spice Islands

Spice Island

The Exotic Sounds Of The Spice Islands
Ed Kenney
Arranged And Conducted By Dick Hyman
Columbia CS 8283
1960

From the back cover: Hawaiian-born, he is the son of a Hawaiian-Chinese mother and an Irish-Swedish father. Ed won a piano scholarship in Junior High School in Hawaii, and appeared in many musical productions in preparatory school and in college. With the Honolulu Community Theatre he was seen in "Oklahoma!" and "Paint Your Wagon" and sang in local night clubs. Ed moved to the United States in 1955, winning a Rodgers and Hammerstein scholarship with the American Theatre Wing and soon thereafter appearing in a non-singing role in the short-lived musical "Shangri-La."

Returning to Hawaii to appear in concert with the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra, Ed as also engaged to sing the leading role in "Kiss Me Kate." After a long run at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel as featured soloist, he returned to the United States for motion picture work, but was at once called to New York for "Flower Drum Song." He remained with the productions throughout its long run in New York, and then went on tour. Ed made his most recent Broadway appearance in the musical "13 Daughters."

I Love You

Speak Low

Love Walked In

In The Still Of The Night

Long Ago (And Far Away)

Happy Talk

The Way You Look Tonight

I Talk To The Trees

They Can't Take That Away From Me

You'd Be so Nice To Come Home To

Wish You Were Here

Spice Island

Shangri-la - Jack Weigand

Shangri-la

Shangri-la
Jack Weigand
Wyncote SW-9017
1964

From the back cover: Please, don't play this album until you have read the following suggestions... Clear your mind of all the events and worries of the day. Tonight is going to be your night, the most special night of all. Draw the drapes... chill the wine... build a fire in the fireplace, a big one, for it's going to be a long, relaxing evening. After your bath... light the candles, open the bottle of wine... (notice how it sparkles in front of the burning hearth). Now, take this record, put it on your phonograph and settle down on the couch in front of the fireplace... the mood is set and you are one (yes... one) your way to your "SHANGRI-LA". – Notes by Candy Joan Leigh and Lois G. Van Duyne

Shangri-La
Way Beyond Today
Third Row Center
For Heaven's Sake
Street Scene
This Time I'm Sure
Stairway To The Stars
Yuppa-Tuppa
One Little Kiss
Impossible Lovers

More Hawaii In Hi-Fi - Leo Addeo

Song Of India

More Hawaii In Hi-Fi
Leo Addeo and His Orchestra

Produced by Chick Crumpacker

Recording Engineer: Ernest Oelrich

Recorded in Webster Hall, New York City

RCA Camden CAL-594
1960

the Sheik Of Araby

Isle Of Paradise

Near You

Song Of India

Harbor Lights

Third Man Theme

Moon Of Manakoora

To You, Sweetheart, Aloha

Song Of The Island

Red Sails In The Sunset

Sabroso y Picante!

Sabroso y Picante!

Sabroso y Picante!

38 minutos de ritmo bailable con

Los Cuatro Amigos

Serie Bailable Especial
Columbia Records 8152
Industria Chilena
1959

Baion De Madrid - Boión

Ritmo Fascinador - Fox-trot

Saxofon De Juguete - Fox trot

Volve Mimosa - Tango

Baion De Carmen - Fox trot

Humoresque - Fox-trot

Vivendo En Las Estrellas - Fox trot

Palmaditas - Fox-trot

Baion Guarani - Baión

Y Decime Que Paso - Tango

Papa Silbido - Fox-trot

Cachito - Baión

La Puerta Verde - Fox trot

Fiesta Chilena

Fiesta Chilena

Fiesta Chilena

Vo1. 1
Alta Fidelidad
Industria Chilena LDC-36027

La Batelera vals - Silvia Infantas y Los Baqueanos

Septembre, tonada - Los Yunbelinos

La Enaguita, tonda - Esther Soré

Callisto De Ave., tonda - Silvia Infantas y Los Baqueanos

El Sacristan, polca - Violeta Parra

Mi Banderita Chilena, conción - Los Cuarto Hermanos Silva

Yo Vendo Unos Ojos Negros, tonda - Lucho Gatica

Cocoroco, estilo - Los Huasos Quincheros

Que Pena Sientenles El Alma, vals - Violeta Parra

Pongale Que Es De Uva-Los Parientes, cueca - Hermanos Lagos

Te Juiste Pa' Ronde, tonada - Los Huasos Quincheros

Los Lagos De Chile, cueca - S. Infantas y Los Baqueanos con V. Bianchi y su Orq.

Digno Garcia

Digno Garcia
y su trio del Paraguay
Canciones De America Latina
Philips 1954(?)

10 inch 33 1/3. This record is outside of what I collect. But I post it because I can't find an image of this album cover online and thought Garcia enthusiasts might find it interesting.

Digno Garcia was born in the city of Luque, Paraguay in September 22, 1919. He started playing the guitar at a very young age. By twelve years old he was already a very proficient guitar player without having any formal musical instruction. Soon after, he also thought himself how to play the Paraguayan Harp (Arpa Paraguaya).

When he first began playing the harp he was part of various music groups. He played with other accomplished Paraguayan harpists such as Tito Fernandez, Ignacio Melgarejo, Demetrio Ortiz. He then became part of the well known group, Guaireno de Gumercindo Ayala Aquino. As part of this new group, he toured throughout Latin America for the first time.

In 1942 he formed the trio, Los Paraguayos, which also included Augustin Barboza and Luis Alberto del Parana.

In 1944 he created his first composition Cascada, inspired by the time he spent admiring a waterfall in the town of Chololo Paraguay. This composition later became a standard piece for all Paraguayan harpists.

By 1954 the Paraguayan government decided to sponsor the trio as a sort of cultural representative of Paraguayan folkloric music to Europe.

When this mission was over, Digno Garcia formed yet another trio, this time called, Digno Garcia y sus Carios. With this group he began recording what would be a long series of albums. They played traditional Paraguayan folkloric pieces, as well as many compositions by Digno. Many of the albums that followed went on to be marketed and sold not only throughout Paraguay, but in more then fifteen other countries.

Digno played in over forty five countries. In 1962 he moved to Belgium. Some of his most prominent fans included King Baudouin I of Belgium and the Spanish artist Salvador Dali.

He received many honours and awards at home and abroad. In his hometown he was presented a gold medal naming him a Distinguished Son of the City of Luque. And in Barcelona he received a trophy from a Spanish recoding company (Belter) for his composition Costa Brava.

After recording 8 albums, of all which included numerous original compositions, Digno Garcia died in 1984 in Belgium.

Cantan los Cuarto Hermanos Silva

Cantan los Cuarto Hermanos Silva

Cantan los Cuarto Hermanos Silva
RCA Victor CML-1016

Corporation de Radio de Chile, S.A. (Santiago)

10-inch 33 rpm
1966

Ay, Ay, Ay

Enganada

Despertar de Chille (Piano: Jorge Astudillo)

Quiero Estar En Ti (Piano: Jorge Astudillo)

Eres Mi Anhelo

Corazones Partidos

Senorita Luna

Fascination

Ya Salió La Luna (Piano: Jorge Astudillo)

Yma Sumac Mambo!

Yma Sumac
Mambo!
Capitol Records L564
1954

10 inch 33 1/3 LP packaged in a thin cardboard jacket.

Taki Rari

Yma Sumac
Mambo!
Capitol Records M-11892
1955

This copy is an "abridged" version that apparently includes additional tracks from the 1954 session.

Side one

Bo Mambo
Taki Rari
Gopher (Mambo)
Chicken Talk
Goomba Boomba

Side two

Malambo No. 1
Five Bottles Mambo
Indian Carnival
Jungla
Carnavalito Boliviano

The Colorful Percussions - Arthur Lyman

Carabunta

The Colorful Percussions of Arthur Lyman

Produced by Richard Vaughn

A&R Direction: Sonny Bono

Recording Supervisor: Richard Vaughn

Cover Photo: Camera Hawaii

Cover Design: Jax Brahm

HIFIRECORDS Life Series L-1005
1961

From the back cover: With Arthur Lyman are his friends and fellow musicians: Harold Chang, percussionist; Allan Soares, Pianist; and John Kramer, Bass and Flute. Together they generate the power of a 20-piece band.

From Billboard - December 18, 1961: Arthur Lyman has another fine package to follow up on his potent "Yellow Bird" set that hit the charts. This album is loaded for bear with strong material. Included are ear-delighting performances of "Exodus," "Never On Sunday" and "Blue Hawaii." A swinging change of pace in the program is provided by the group's jazz interpretation of "Moaning." A solid potential seller.

Exodus

I Talked To The Trees

Carabunta

Blue Hawaii

Rhumba Rhapsody

Aloha No Honolulu

Never On Sunday

(The Wreck Of The) John B

Tangi Tika

Geisha Waltz

Red Sails In The Sunset

Moanin'

Hypnotique - Martin Denny

Jungle Madness

Hypnotique
Martin Denny

Producer: Si Waronker

Vocal Arranger: Hal Johnson, Musicologist

Color Photography: Garrett-Howard

Engineers: Bob Long and Ted Keep
Liberty LRP 3102
1959

Martin Denny - Arranger-Composer, Piano, Celeste

Julius Wechter - Vibes, Marimbas, Percussion

Harvey Ragsdale - String Bass, Marimba

August Colon - Bird Calls, Percussion, Bongos, Congos

Guest Artists:

The Jack Holloran Singers

Barbara Smith - Japanese Koto

John Mechigashari - Japanese Flute – Shakahashi

Francis "Bud" Lee - Japanese Samisen

Jungle Madness

On A Little Street In Singapore

Voodoo Dreams

Chinese Lullaby

Hypnotique

St. Louis Blues

We Kiss In A Shadow

Summertime

Scimitar

American In Bali

Japanese Sandman

Korla Pandit - Love Letters

Love Letters

Korla Pandit
Love Letters
Fantasy Records 3327 - 8070
1960

Pandit is accompanied by Arthur Bergman on the guitar.

I think the model featured on the album cover is Pandit's wife, Beryl. She would have been 40 years old when this album was released.

Korla Pandit
Love Letters
Fantasy Records 8070 & F-8070

The notation on the reissue (lower jacket scan) appears to be: Greetings to Elizabeth & Harold G---, May 19, 1981

Love Letters

I'll Always Be In Love With You

Take Me In Your Arms

You Belong To Me

The Very Thought Of You

These Foolish Things

Trust In Me

I Was Wrong

It's The Talk Of The Town

Where Or When

I Want You For My Own

There's A Small Hotel

Keep Fit Be Happy

Keep Fit Be Happy

Keep Fit Be Happy
With Bonnie Prudden

Exercise Clothes by Danskin

Cover Photo by Charles H. Stewart
Warner Bros. STEREO WS 1358
1959

From the back cover: Bonnie Prudden's report to President Eisenhower showing American children to have fitness level far below that of Europeans led to the formation of the President's Council On Youth Fitness. The original study was prompted by concern for the health of her own two children.

She head the Institute For Physical Fitness, is Fitness Editor for both Sports Illustrated and the NBC Today Show and directs the AMVET fitness program. She has received the YMCA Award for Service to Youth, recognition by the American Medical Association and an honorary Masters Degree from Springfield College.

She has planned fitness programs for Public, Independent and Parochial schools, colleges, universities, YMCA's, PTA's, Prisons, Women's Clubs, Camps and for the handicapped and the aged.

She has been a regular attraction of Dave Garroway's Today Show and is the author of several books and innumerable articles on fitness.

Forbidden World

Forbidden World
WEB Records ST 107
Music By Susan Justin
Electronic realization by Craig Hundley
1982

Soundtrack from a great budget Roger Corman film.

Amongst the more standard 80s sounding electronic there is some great creepy music. Especially the second to last segment found on the B side.

Music scored by "new wave" song writer Susan Justin

Saturday Night Fiedler

Saturday Night Fiedler
Boston Pops Orchestra
Midsong International Records MS1011
1979

Arthur Fiedler (pictured on the album cover), conductor for The Boston Pops Orchestra, is pictured above in his Saturday Night Fever John Travolta suit.

From the back cover: I wish you the joy of listening and dancing to the first disco record with the Boston Pops.

Basically, this is a record of the orchestra doing it's thing with that annoying disco beat driving the music on and on and on throughout the entire recording. Never stopping for one single instant.

Amazing.

Cha Chas For Dancing By Montenegro

Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps

Cha Chas For Dancing
Arranged and Conducted by Hugo Montenegro
Time Series 2000 S/2018
1960

Terrific space age big band Cha Cha record by Hugo Montenegro. Montenegro would go on to make a number of trend setting records using the moog which influenced future generations of electronic musicians. He also scored the main theme to Sergio Lenone's film, The Good, The Bad And The Ugly.

The jacket is a book-fold design influenced by Enoch Light's Command Label who created a style of  book-fold jackets that featured minimalist art on the covers. I also have this album issued a single jacket.

Patricia
Tea For Two
Perfidia
Guaglione
Sweet And Gentle
Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps
Having A Ball
Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White
Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise
Boo Qui, Woo Qui
Mack The Knife
Theme From A Summer Place

Cha Cha Cha - Merengues And Mambos

Cha Cha Cha
Merengue & Mambos
Pupi Lopez And His Orchestra
Design Records/Spectrum/Pickwick SDLP 31
1957

Doing a search for Pupi Lopez returns almost no information. There is no information on the back cover. Songs from this LP are available by the download on iTunes, so I'm assuming someone renewed the copyright at some point.

This is a great space age Cha Cha record on a budget label. A number of tracks rise above the norm with the addition of clarinet, flute and accordion flourishes.