Show Biz - Muriel Millard

Garde-Moi

Show Biz

Muriel Millard

Arrangements musicaux et chefs d'orchestre: Maurice Durieux, Buck Lacombe

Supervision Technique: Harry Bragg

Realisation: André Perry

Studios: RCA Victor (Montréal), Venus (Montréal)

Venus Records VL 315
Distributed In Canada By London Records
1962

Garde-Moi

L'Homme Aux Guenilles

Une Chanson C'est Tout Et C'est Rien

Les Chute Niagara

Il N'y A Plus De Sauvages Au Canada

Mon P'tit Ar Rigolo

Le Bonheur, C'est Ca

Anniversaire

Les Noces De Ma Soeur

Show Biz

Kaleidoscope - Les Baxter His Orchestra And Chorus

Tropicana

Kaleidoscope
Instrumental Varieties By Les Baxter His Orchestra And Chorus
Capitol Records T594
1955

Tropicana

April In Portugal

Julie

Cornflakes

Elaine

Invitation 

Blue Tango

Festival Hop

Ruby

Gigi

Atlantis

The High And The Mighty

The Enchanted World Of Ferrante & Teicher

Sirocco

The Enchanted World Of Ferrante & Teicher
United Artists UAL 3375 & UAS 6375
1964

From Billboard - June 6, 1964: Messrs. Ferrante & Teicher continue to make beautiful music even more beautiful with their dual pianos. Backed by a large orchestra, big arrangements and an impressive list of songs, it all adds up to first-rate entertainment. Selections include" "Aloha Oe," "Mexican Hat Dance," and "Samson & Delilah."

Scheherazade 

Sirocco

Samson And Delilah

Procession Of Sardar

Skaters Waltz

Happy Sleigh Ride

Aloha Oe

Japanese Garden

Mexican Hat Dance

Loch Lomond

Possessed

Dream Of Love (Liebestraum)

Soundblast - Ferrante And Teicher

Brazil

Soundblast
Ferrante And Teicher
Westminster WP 6041
1956

This is a re-release of Soundproof (1956). According to spaceagepop.com this is the mono release of the stereo release of Soundproof (same songs). I will assume the the stereo version of Soundproof features the same songs as the mono version of Soundproof. Confusing.

Added is the full color version of the jacket as seen above. I assume that this jacket is the original version, followed by the monochromatic cover.

From the back cover: The Artists - What other duo-pianists can boast that they have played together since the age of six? Arthur Ferrante and Louis Teicher were fellow prodigies at New York's famous Juilliard School of Music, and even while students they appeared as a team. Their professional debut as a team took place quite a distance from the concert hall, for they bowed in as a popular piano duo at New York's sophisticated penthouse night club, Spivy's Roof. They were such a hit with the starlight crowd that they went on to more cosmopolitan boîtes like the Blue Angel, the Little Club and the Ritz-Carlton Terrace. Since 1947 they have been criss-crossing the county annually, winning laurels everywhere for what The New York Times called their prodigious technical feats." Their gift for blending he classic with the modern and the "heavy" with the "light," their extraordinary sensitivity, their technical perfection – these are just a few of the reasons who one stern Manhattan critic, echoing the national consensus, called Ferrante and Teicher "the most exciting piano team of our time."

Peg-leg Meringue

Brazil

Poinciana

Mama yo Quero 

Orchids In The Moonlight

Cumana

Tico-Tico

Frenesi

Mexican Hat Dance

Siboney

Loose Ends Meringue

La Cucaracha

Cugat Cavalcade - Xavier Cugat

Brasil

Cugat Cavalcade
Xavier Cugat And His Orchestra

His Greatest Hits

New in High Fidelity
Columbia CL 1094
1958

Brazil

Besame Mucho

What A Diff'rence A Day Made

My Shawl

La Cumparsita

Tico-Tico

Orchids In The Moonlight

Yours

Miami Beach Rhumba

Jalousie

Guitara Romana

Dengoza

David Rose And His Orchestra

Satan And The Polar Bear

David Rose and His Orchestra
In HI FI-ddles
MGM Records E3481
1957

The Portuguese Washerwomen (Les Lavandiéres du Portugal)

Bordeaux 

Pam Pam

Roman Holiday

Cool Tango

Banjo And Fiddle

Holiday For Trombones

Lovable Clown

Satan And The Polar Bear

A Frenchman In New York

The Dancing Cane

Nacio Herb Brown's Dance Of Fury

Allen Hanlon Picks Leroy Anderson

Serenata

Allen Hanlon Picks LeRoy Anderson

Allen Hanlon play guitar    

Cover Photos by Pegler

Golden Crest CR 3012
1957

From Billboard Magazine May 6, 1957: LeRoy Anderson tunes like Sleigh Ride, Syncopated Clock, etc. are well known enough but they are better suited to bigger and more colorful ork groups than that obtained by multi-track guitar disking. Hanlon's technique is tops but it doesn't add up to much of a commercial LP package. Cover seems to have little connection with the contents.

I love the cover, but there isn't much of a relation, images to content. And use of multi-track recording didn't help much to fatten up the sound. The engineering on most tracks makes the audio sound thin and restrained. Serenata (track 3 on the B side) features a touch of personality.

From the back cover: An acknowledgment of Allen Hanlon's contributions to the popularity of modern day guitar playing, can perhaps best be expressed by listing some of the groups and "names" he has played with in the past and present. Among the "name bands" are those of Benny Goodman, Red Norvo, Claude Thornhill and the Adrian Rollini Trio. Came the day when the "road" paled and the comfort of remaining in one place beckoned, and Allen joined the ranks of those fortunate to be known as "free-lance studio men." Fortunate, because his ability and flexibility placed him in great demand. Remember the radio shows of Kate Smith, Perry Como, The Chesterfield Show and the Hires Root Beer Show? If so, you heard Allen's guitar. After TV took over, Allen went along with such shows as Jimmy Durante, Danny Thomas, Jack Benny, Eddie Fischer, Howdy Doody, Producer's Showcase, Kraft Theatre, and the Robert Montgomery Show. As for Records, many of those bearing the names of Johnny Ray, Guy Mitchell, Frankie Lane, Jill Corsey, The Four Lads, McGuire Sisters, Mills Brothers, Steve Allen, Don Cornell and Julie Wilson have had the Hanlon guitar "speaking the beat."

Plink Plank Plunk

Syncopated Clock

Horse & Buggy

Song Of The Bells

Jazz Legato

Sleigh Ride

Jazz Pizzicato

Fiddle Faddle

Serenate 

Belle Of The Ball

Pennywhistle Song

African Safari - 101 Strings

The Trek Back

African Safari By Edmund De Luca

The Activity And Excitement Of An Actual Big Game Hunt!
101 Strings
Alshire S-5171
1969

Port Pangani
Bantu Village
Mt. Kilimanjaro
The Trek
The Chase And Kill
The Trek Back
Borodin
Polovtsian Dances
From "Prince Igor"
Manuel de Falla
Ritual Fire Dance

Dance With Xavier Cugat

Bim Bam Bum

Dance With Xavier Cugat

Xavier Cugat
Columbia CL 537
1953

From the back cover: Born in Spain, Cugat moved with his family to Cuba as a youngster, and studied the violin with great acumen. After several important engagements with local orchestras, he came to the United States and went on tour as an assisting artist with Enrico Caruso. Then, suddenly deciding music was not for him, he became a cartoonist on a Los Angeles newspaper, developing the style that is even today one of the most trenchant and recognizable around. But even the lively atmosphere of a newspaper office could not keep the irrepressible Cugat contented, and her returned to  music on a somewhat different level. He organized a small group of instrumentalists with the modest intention of supplying relief music for regular orchestras. His success, however, was even more modest then his intention, and several lean years followed. Then, suddenly, people began to learn the dances he was playing, to become fascinated by the orchestration, by the exotic rhythms, and the Cugat bandwagon was under way. For years his orchestra was a fixture at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York, his records were best-sellers, he appeared on the radio, in theaters and in the movies. As each successive dance came along – the rhumba, the conga, the samba, the mambo – he helped in pioneering its acceptance, and became one of the most successful maestros in the business.

Rhumba: Oye Negra

Tango: El Choclo

Conga: Cuba Libre

Beguine: Begin The Beguine

Mambo: El Barijuano

Paso-doble: Touradas en Madrid

Afro-Cuban: Babalu - Vocals by Miguelito Valdez

Guaracha: Bim Bam Bum

Bolero: Nightingale

Samba: Good, Good, Good

Habanera: I'll Never Love Again - Vocals by Dinah Shore

Mexican Hat Dance: Jarabe Tapatio

An Hour Of Piano Dance Music - Frank Froeba

Hindustand

An Hour Of Piano Dance Music
Nat Brandwynne And His Orchestra
Frank Froeba at The Piano
Allegro/Royale 1285

1953

The jacket is a two color cover, printed in a red with "unusual" gray/silver (in metallic or reflective ink) ink highlights.

An "Allegro" labeled jacket featuring a "Royale" labeled disc inside. Royale's catalog included re-releases of Allegro Records.

Froeba was a house pianist for Decca in the 1930s and 40s.

Love Walked In

Lovely To Look At

Sweet And Lovely

Easy To Love

Love For Sale

Take Me In Your Arms

I'll See You In My Dreams

Lover Come Back To Me

After You've Gone

12 Street Rag

Sweet Lorraine

Hindustan

A Lover's Lullaby

Sunrise Serenade

Estelle

Stumbling

The One I Love

Topicana - Monty Kelly

Bali Hai

Tropicana
Monty Kelly
Somerset P-7300
Miller International Co.
1958

Excellent early exotica orchestral set. The same jacket design was featured on a 1955 Essex label release,  catalog number is ESLP-203.

A 1953 Billboard article explains that Kelly signed a two year non-exclusive contract with Essex to make 32 non-exclusive instrumental sides. The tune Tropicana, from this album, was done to full fill part of this contract.

Granada

Tropicana

Cubamba

Life In New York

Neapolitan Nites Mambo

Monte Carlo

Three O'Clock In The Morning

Glocca-Morra

Bali Hai

Under Paris Skies

Shangri La

Doreen

Christmas With Chippy The Chipmunk

Santa Claus Is Coming To Town

Chirstmas With Chippy The Chipmunk
Silver Seal UT-1006
Premier Albums

This is a great album cover. Chippy is a two color (red & white) print on embossed die cut foil and then applied to the cover, like a sticker.

I can find almost no mention of this album online. At first, I thought that this may be a rip off of the "real" Chipmunks. It is and maybe worse is than that the Chipmunk Song found on this record is an direct copy of the Ross Bagdasarian song released in 1958. I'm not a Chipmunk scholar... but I don't think the other tracks are direct copies. They seem to be far more budget basement chipmunks. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town is not a copy.

Sounds To Make You Shiver!

Sounds To Make You Shiver
Black&White SPC-5101
Product of JKL Entertainment Productions

This album is a great collectable for the lurid and garish cover art.

Side one, A Night In A Haunted House is one long wind storm with other FX thrown in. At one point there is even a little music which is nice. The recording drifts and the use of FX is sparse making this a good recording for use in other audio projects or for video presentations.

Side two has some nice creepy sound effects. Phantom Piano is very cool.

I think this is a re-release of a Pickwick album (same cover art, but no "Pickwick" logo). The album may also have been released on the SOMA label. I've seen the album on another blog sporting the same name but with a different and very fun cover imagine.

Songs From Sesame Street

Yellow Submarine

Songs From Sesame Street
Another Peter Pan Original
Peter Pan 8092

Here is another incredible Peter Pan record. A while back I featured a Peter Pan "Disney" knock off record. On that record Peter Pan used illustrations on the jacket that looked like very much like Disney characters. I don't know how they got away with infringing on the Disney brand.

Now I find this "Sesame Street" album. Interestingly enough, this album is labeled "Another Peter Pan Original" while at the bottom of the cover (out of the frame on my scan) there is a line of copy: Not affiliated with the T.V. program "Sesame Street". At the same time, the back cover is loaded with copy explaining the actual T.V. program mentioning Jim Henson and actual character names.

The songs are by the "Peter Pan Orchestra and Chorus". For the most part, the sound is total early and not so great 70s adult easy listening. Any kid who thought he was going to hear The Cookie Monster sing a song was in for a hugh disappointment.

Apparently, according to the back jacket, the song "Yellow Submarine" (not this version, of course) was actually used on shows number 17, 62 and 102.

Sound For A Picture Evening

Gay Party

Sound For A Picture Evening
Popular Photography
1965

This an LP marketed by Popular Photography magazine. I'm assuming sales were largely made through advertising in found in the magazine.

There is a Capitol Records logo on the record label.

Apparently, the record was made to accompany home movies and slide shows. There are a variety of easy listening selections and some sound effects with suggestions as to what type of slide show the track would best work with. Gay Party, for instance, "fits just about any party".

Doin' The Twist - The Twisters

Twister's Blues

Doin' The Twist
The Twisters
Treasure TLP 890

I can not find any information on who The Twisters were. Treasure Records, as far as I can tell from the back cover, was a budget label operating out of Mount Vernon, New York.

The "Peppermint Lounge" is mentioned, as an advertising gimmick on the front cover. This dates the album to 1960 - 62 when the Twist fad was in full swing.

Let's Dance Again - David Carroll

Swamp Fire

David Carroll and His Orchestra
Let's Dance Again
Mercury SR 60152
1962

Trumpets - Rudy Stauber, Dom Geraci, Milt Hubatka

Trombones - Paul Crumbaugh, George Jean

Saxophones - Howard Davis, Mike Simpson, George Newquist, John Cameron, Bill Calkins

Pianos - Caesar Giovanini, Dick Boyell

Guitars - Earl Backus, John Gray

Bass - John Frigo

Percussion - Frank Rullo, Bobby Christian, Hugh Anderson

From the back cover: Mercury started blueprinting this album when Ampex, a giant in the professional tape recorded business, ordered two dozen of the stereo tape version (MDS2-3) of the first David Carroll album, Let's Dance (MG-2081 monaural and SR-6001 – stereographic).

Ampex's regional sales force across the 48 states reported dealers everywhere were ecstatic over consumer's delighted reaction because the David Carroll initial album was just right for any age group and equally pertinent for listening or dancing.

Carroll is the perfect artist to provide music for dancing pleasure or just plain listening. A veteran of many dance bands, wherein he worked as instrumentalist and arranger, Carroll has become in his decade of arranging and conducting an avid listener and observer of what the public desires.

Carrolls home in Plum Grove Estates, Palatine, Illinois, is an Audiophile's Eden, for David's ability to create interesting, different and yet, always melodic sound comes from his hours of working on his hi-fi rig and resultant listening.

Pretty Baby

Side Saddle

Soft Shoe Song

Adios

Irene

Hey! Chick

Cha-Cah-Panecas

Bouncing Ball

Swamp Fire

Would You Like To Take A Walk

The Doodlin' Drummer

Let's Dance Again

Play A Simple Melody

The Mellow Guitar Moods Of Los Indios Tabajaras

Nunca - Lovely Weather - St. Louis Blues

The Mellow Guitar Moods Of Los Indios Tabajaras

Produced by Herman Diaz, Jr.

Recorded in RCA Victor's Studio A, New York City

Recording Engineers: Ed Begley and Bob Simpson
RCA Victor LPS-2959
1964

Marta

Sunrise Serenade

Nunca

Always

Mapuche Soy

Lovely Weather

St. Louis Blues

Adios Mariquita Linda

Please

Amor

A Very Precious Love

Angelitos Negros

Broadway Latin America Party - Freddie Sateriale's Big Band Cha Cha Chas

Everyday Is Ladies' Day Meringue

Smoke Gets In Your Eyes Cha Cha Cha

Freddie Sateriale's Big Band Cha Cha Chas

Merengues & Mambos
Broadway Latin America Party
Spinorama Records S-22

A Product of Premier Albums, Inc.

Smoke Gets In Your Eyes Cha Cha Cha

I Love Paris Cha Cha Cha

Old Man River Cha Cha Cha

I Talk To The Trees Cha Cha Cha

On The Street Where You Live Cha Cha Cha

There's Nothing Like A Dame Cha Cha Cha

Yama Yama Man Rhumba

Kiss Me Again Cha Cha Cha

Everyday Is Ladies Day Meringue

Toyland Cha Cha Cha

Twilight In Barakeesh Mambo

In Old New York Cha Cha Cha

Learning Basic Skills Through Music - Volume II - Partners

Partners

Learning Basic Skills Through Music
Volume II
Educational Activities AR 552
1980

Learning Basic Skills Through Music - Volume II

Let's Dance

Learning Basic Skills Through Music
Volume II
Educational Activities AR 522
1980

Sounds like Palmer mixed a a touch of The Beatles into Let's Dance. The lesson? Learn the basic skill set necessary for getting down with your bad self of course!

Learning Basic Skills Through Music - Vocabulary

Kinds Of Food

Learning Basic Skills Through Music

Vocabulary
Original Words & Music By Hap Palmer
Educational Activities AR 521
1980

Panic The Son Of Shock

Panic The Son Of Shock

Panic The Son Of Shock

The Creed Taylor Orchestra
Compositions By Kenyon Hopkins

Cover Design by Viceroy

Cover Photo by Ford-Shostal

Produced by Creed Taylor
ABC Paramount ABCS-314

From the back cover: Creed Taylor, who hosts this more-than-slightly-askew soirée, is a blithely imaginative young man. (You'll recall him as the creator, along with the composer Kenyon Hopkins, of an album entitled, with some understatement, SHOCK. It is available in both AC and DC, monophonic or stereophonic.) Mild and unassuming to the naked-eye, he has constructed here an album which, to the naked ear, may sound a trifle strange. It is not, however, merely a trifle strange.

From the back cover: One point first: if you think, upon first hearing it, that this album is simply a kind of Muzak for morticians, you may disqualify yourself right from the start. It's a free country.

You're Driving Me Crazy
The Prison Break
The Operation
Wreck Of Old '97
Out Of This World
Lion Act
Heartaches
Rain
Alpine Honeymoon
A Shot In The Dark
The Fastest Gun
No Smoking

Learning Basic Skills Through Music

What Are You Wearing?

Learning Basic Skills Through Music Volume 1
Original Words & Music By Hap Palmer
Educational Activities AR 514
1969