India Treasures In Sound

Tritala

India Treasures In Sound

Produced, Recorded & Edited by Deben Bhattacharya

Produced for Philips, Holland

Recorded in India
UA International
UNS 15532
1967

Tritala: The rhythm of four bar with four beats in each. It is played by hands on a pair of drums called TABLA and BANYA. The right hand drum, which is made of wood, is called TABLA and the left hand one, made of copper or clay, is called BANYA. The sharp and clear beats are produced by the right hand, while the left hand, showing the end of the bar, sometimes moves its whole palm across the drum head, producing a dull sound. In this recording of the Tritala rhythm, a string and bow instrument called SARANGI has been used in order to give a melodic background to the TABLA. The string instrument repeats a melodic phrase over and over again while the drummer takes the lead. This is played in the North Indian Style.

Tritala
Pancham Raga
Bhairavi
Kafi
Analysis Of Bihag

Smoky Hill High School - Breaking Up Is Hard To Do

Breaking Up Is Hard To Do

1981 - 82
Smoky Hill High School
Wind Ensemble
And Jazz Ensemble I
Soundmark R968

Smoky Hill High School - Rituale

1981 - 82
Smoky Hill High School
Wind Ensemble
And Jazz Ensemble I
Soundmark R968

You never know if you will find a gem when you buy a recording made by High School kids. Especially when the back cover is blank. There is no information to share.

I did find a few treasures on this LP.  Check out this wonderful dark and dramatic track titled: Rituale by Del Borgo (Del Borgo was a prolific publisher of music for junior high and high school bands). This is a complex piece of music. The tune is sort of exotica or soundtrack-like. Great stuff!

Tijuana Taxi - Guadalajara Brass

Tijuana Taxi

Tijuana Taxi

Guadalajara Brass
Spinorama Records M-164

Premier Albums, Inc.

Tijuana Taxi

Lonely Bull

Sombreo 

After The Aztecs

Serape

Ole!

Holiday In Mexico

Siesta

The Conquistadors

Victory Of The Matador

Korla Pandit - Music Of The Exotic East

Tales Of Underwater Worshippers

Korla Pandit
Play Music Of The Exotic East
Fantast 3272
1958

From the back cover: Mr. Pandit, born in New Delhi, India, was a musically gifted child. His father, a member of one of India's first families, and his European-born mother nurtured the talent, allowing it to expand and ripen in an international atmosphere, Journeying to Europe, England, and eventually to America, the handsome prodigy continued his formal study, finishing at the University of Chicago.

The professional career of Korla Pandit has been a succession of impressive "firsts" in concert and television presentations, nationally as well as locally, in Hollywood and New York. He is responsible for several innovations in organ construction and interpretation, including Indian drum and percussion effects previously untried. His greatest success has been in television (Mr. Pandit gave the first all-musical TV program in Hollywood in 1949), and his one-hour weekly show in California won countless admirers and many awards. He has performed, too, in churches and temples on numerous occasions.

Korla Pandit brings deep spiritual contemplation to his music, but his primary goal is to create beautiful music for you, the listener. His skill and finesse, combined with a profound conviction in the divine nature of music, explain why listening to his music is a refreshing emotional experience. In Korla Pandit's own words: "Music may not save your soul, but it will cause your soul to be worth saving."

Kartikeya

Love Song Of The Nile

Harem Bells

Procession Of The Grand Moghul

Kumar

Tale Of The Underwater Worshippers

Misirlou

Kashmiri Love Song

Song Of India

Disco Duck

Silly Love Songs

Disco Duck
Dance Party
Iwrin The Disco Duck and the Wibble Wabble Singers and Orchestra
Peter Pan 8191
1976

Disco Duck
A Fifth Of Beethoven
Love Will Keep Us Together
Silly Love Songs
That's The Way I Like It
Fly, Robin, Fly
December 1963 (Oh What A Night)
Shame, Shame, Shame
Kung-Fu Fighting
The Hustle

Puff The Magic Dragon

Chip The Chimpanzee

Puff The Magic Dragon
Peter Pan N8072

One of the better Peter Pan releases I've stumbled across. Creative songs with a space age feel that make the set fun for any age.

Percussion In A Tribute To The Big Bands

Percussion In A Tribute To The Big Bands

Percussion In A Tribute To The Big Bands
Featuring The Frankie Capp Percussion Group
Kimberly Records 11011

From the back cover: Frankie Capp is not a newcomer to the percussion world. He is one of the top men in the jazz field today, being featured as the third man in the Andre Previn Trio and as featured soloist with the Dave Pell Octet. He has also been with such aggregations as Neal Hefti, Billy May, Harry James, Shorty Rogers and Stan Getz. He has at various times worked with Peggy Lee, Ella Fitzgerald, and David Rose. At present he is one of the busiest studio musicians in Hollywood and we are very happy to present him as a bandleader in his own right.

Emil Richards, one of the outstanding vibraphone players of our day, started as a legitimate concert and symphonic percussion player in the Hartford and The New Britain Symphonies. In 1956 he joined the George Shearing Group and stayed with him until he made his home on the West Coast in 1960. Since that time he has played with the Paul Horn Group and has been very busy as a free-lance studio musician.

Les Brown - Leap Frog

Jimmy Dorsey - The Breeze And I

Tommy Dorsey - Song Of India

Benny Goodman - Clementine

Count Basie - Cute

Glenn Miller - Anvil Chorus

Artie Shaw - Nightmare

Henry Mancini - Peter Gunn

Perez Prado - Mambo Jambo

Lawrence Welk - Loch Lomond

Duke Ellington - Gal From Joe's

Harry James - Ciribiribin

Lawernce Welk - Moments To Remember

Lawernce Welk And His Sparkling Strings
Moments To Remember
Coral Records CRL 57068
1956

I take it that Welk made so many records that it would be impossible to build a complete discography. I can't find one so I don't know where this record falls in with the rest.

This wonderful and sexy space age cover on this LP grabbed me and now I have a Welk in my collection.

The music is still pretty schmaltzy.

Ferrante & Teicher - Star Wars

Ferrante & Teicher
Star Wars
United Artists
1978

No matter what you think about hybridizing easy listening and disco... you have to admit that Ferrante & Teicher had great taste in suits. This is a fab cover.

If you don't know Ferrante & Teicher, google them and check out their early experimental work.

And if you aren't into the disco-easy-listening-hybrid-monster... then the B side is pretty much straight forward easy listening.

Doggie Daddy And Augie Doggie

Drip The Drop-Out

Doggie Daddy And Augie Doggie
Pinocchio In Story And Song
Columbia Special Products
1977

Doggie Daddy and Augie Doggie was a cartoon that ran from 19 September 1959 through October 1961. Apparently, in reruns, the cartoon had enough staying power to motivate Hanna-Barbera to re-release this 1965 album in 1977.

I remember watching this show as a kid. The script was written, I think, as much for the adults as it was for children.

Party Time - Dance & Game Songs

Cha Cha Cha

Party Time

Dance & Game Songs
Peter Pan

Peter Pan records found a vintage 40s illustration and a few old songs and threw this record together... maybe as late as the early 70s. Most of the songs on this LP are those great 40s/50s children songs recorded when kids songs were created with real instruments.

Most of these tunes sound like somewhat like children's tunes, but there are several songs on the album that are way out of place in comparison. Check out Cha Cha Cha! I swear this song is the 4th track on the A side. On the B side there is a Hawaiian tune, Aloha, that is also very much out of place.

Galloping Fingers - Ethel Smith

Sleigh Ride

Ethel Smith
Galloping Fingers
Decca Records DL 5327 (10-inch, 33 rpm)
1951

From the back cover: By virtue of her amazing versatility and artistry, Ethel Smith has become one of the foremost organists of our time. She is expert at interpreting every kind of music from classical to swing – from the legato of the ballad to the torrid tempo of the rumba. "Galloping Fingers" offers ample evidence of her mastery of the organ, for Ethel is equally at home in such classic standards as "Maple Leaf Rag" and "By The Waters Of Minnetonka" as well as the more recent, haunting "Third Man Theme" and Leroy Anderson's crisp and captivating "Sleigh Ride."


But let's go back to the beginning – back to Pittsburgh, for it was here that Ethel received much of her sound musical background at Carnegie Tech. Institute where she studied piano, organ and, incidentally, Spanish. After graduation she got a job playing in the pit for a Shubert show. It was her first taste of commercial music life and she liked it well enough to tour with the company for twenty-eight weeks.


Next came an offer to accompany a singer in one of Hollywood's studios. One day, on the set, she noticed a Hammond Electric Organ – at that time, only recently developed. She took to it immediately. Apparently, it took to her, too, for an alert and advertising-wise dealer saw in her nimble-fingered playing an excellent way to demonstrate the new Hammond. He not only let her practice on it to her heart's content, but also allowed her to take it with her to Florida where she was booked for an engagement playing accompaniment for a trio in a little Barvarian restaurant. Ethel soon adopted the electric organ as her chosen solo instrument – mainly because it responded so sensitively to the highly colorful tropical rhythms she loved so well.


When Cordel Hull sailed southward to attend the first Pan-American conference, Ethel was one of the few women who traveled with his party. She had managed to snare the post of chairman of the entertainment committee. Her first and long-dreamed-of South American trip, it served to whet her appetite for other more extensive expeditions – for she had decided to make a first-hand study of the native music. Her travels below the border eventually encompassed some seventeen Caribbean and South American countries. "For a while," she says, "I became a regular tropical hep chick. I stuck my nose into every smoky cabaret that boasted a native orchestra. Whenever they let me, I'd sit in with the boys for a little Latin jam session. That way it didn't take long to collect a trunk-load of authentic and out-of-the-way rhythms and melodies – including such lush and sultry-sounding ones as chacareras, milongas, bambucos, pasillos, guarachas, habaneras and, of course, the traditional sambas, rumbas and congas."


So well did Ethel learn to interpret the music of South America that she was offered an engagement at one of its most celebrated night spots – Rio De Janeiro's Copacabana. While she was playing here, an executive of a tobacco company invited her to return to New York for the "Hit Parade" radio show. Ethel was featured as one of its stars for over a year. Then a talent scout from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer suddenly awoke to the fact that not only was Ethel's music a delight to the ear, but that Ethel, herself, was extremely photogenic. She was offered a contract, at what she considered a "fantastic figure" and naturally accepted. 

Her first film for MGM was "Bathing Beauty," in which Ethel traded musical punches with Harry James to a delightful draw. Since then she has appeared in many motion pictures and made frequent personal appearance tours to the delight of her countless followers. To the world, and rightly so, she is known as "The Empress Of The Hammond Organ."

Sleigh Ride

The Galloping Fingers

The 3rd Man Theme

The Cafe Mozart Waltz

Fiddle Faddle

By The Waters Of Minnetonka

Maple Leaf Rag

Steamboat Rag

Ethel Smith - Souvenir Album

The Parrot

Ethel Smith
Souvenir Album
Organ Solos With The Bando Carioca
Decca DL 5016 (10-inch, 33 rpm)
1949

From the back cover: You couldn't call Ethel Smith a "Latin from Manhattan," because she's originally from Pittsburgh. But if she had decided to be born on Father Knickerbocker's island, the phrase would have fitted her perfectly – for Ethel has been in love with Latin American and its music since she was ten. Her most ardent childhood desire was to someday to go south of the equator. Not only did she realize that wish before she was twenty-three, but she also became the foremost exponent of Latin rhythms on the electric organ.

But let's go back to the beginning – back to Pittsburgh, for it was here that Ethel received much of her sound musical background at Carnegie Tech. Institute where she studied piano, organ and, incidentally, Spanish. After graduation she got a job playing in the pit for a Shubert show. It was her first taste of commercial music life and she liked it well enough to tour with the company for twenty-eight weeks.

Next came an offer to accompany a singer in one of Hollywood's studios. One day, on the set, she noticed a Hammond Electric Organ – at that time, only recently developed. She took to it immediately. Apparently, it took to her, too, for an alert and advertising-wise dealer saw in  her nimble-fingered playing an excellent way to demonstrate the new Hammond. He not only let her practice on it to her heart's content, but also allowed her to take it with her to Florida where she was booked for an engagement playing accompaniment for a trio in a little Barvarian restaurant. Ethel soon adopted the electric organ as her chosen solo instrument – mainly because it responded so sensitively to the highly colorful tropical rhythms she loved so well.

When Cordel Hull sailed southward to attend the first Pan-American conference, Ethel was one of the few women who traveled with his party. She had managed to snare the post of chairman of the entertainment committee. Her first and long-dreamed-of South American trip, it served to whet her appetite for other more extensive expeditions – for she had decided to make a first-hand study of the native music. Her travels below the border eventually encompassed some seventeen Caribbean and South American countries. "For a while," she says, "I became a regular tropical hep chick. I stuck my nose into every smoky cabaret that boasted a native orchestra. Whenever they let me, I'd sit in with the boys for a little Latin jam session. That way it didn't take long to collect a trunk-load of authentic and out-of-the-way rhythms and melodies – including such lush and sultry-sounding ones as chacareras, milongas, bambucos, pasillos, guarachas, habaneras and, of course, the traditional sambas, rumbas and congas."

So well did Ethel learn to interpret the music of South America that she was offered an engagement at one of its most celebrated night spots – Rio De Janeiro's Copacabana. While she was playing here, an executive of a tobacco company invited her to return to New York for the "Hit Parade" radio show. Ethel was featured as one of its stars for over a year. Then a talent scout from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer suddenly awoke to the fact that not only was Ethel's music a delight to the ear, but that Ethel, herself, was extremely photogenic. She was offered a contract, at what she considered a "fantastic figure" and, modestly but definitely, accepted. Since that time she has been featured in a wide variety of films, sharing musical sequences with such mean as Harry James, Gene Krupa, and Van Johnson. Whether she is heard in sweet music or swing, she is as entertaining and as authentic as she is original.

Tico-Tico
Lero Lero
Bem Te Vi Atrevido
The Parrot (Os Pintonhos No Terreiro)
Paran Pan Pin
Cachita
Toca Tu Samba
Dinorah
Allá En El Rancho Grande
Las Altenitas
The Breeze And I

Brazen Brass - Henry Jerome Goes Latin

Taboo

Brazen Brass
Henry Jerome Goes Latin!

Produced by Henry Jerome

Chief Engineer: Dick Jacobs

Mixing Engineers: Laurence McIntyre and Rudy May
Decca DL 74226

Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White

Mambo No. 4

Taboo

Brazil

Never On Sunday

Compadre Pedro Juan

Patricia

The Peanut Vendor

Anna (El N. Zumbon)

Perfidia

Sweet And Gentle (Me Lo Dijo Adela)

Come To The Mardi Gras (Nao Tenho Lagrimas)

At The St. Maritz - Irving Field Trio

Cuban Thunderbird

At The St. Maritz

With The Irving Fields Trio
Cocktail Dance Time

Produced by Sid Feller

Cover Design by Fran Scott

Cover Photography: Lester Krauss
ABC-Paramount ABC-187
1957

From the back cover: In their second album for ABC-Paramount, the Irving Fields Trio again displays the superb talents which comprise one of the foremost musical groups in the country.

Their first ABC-Paramount album (ABC-154), "Broadway Hits In Hi-Fi") demonstrated – and very well indeed – how masterfully the Irving Fields Trip performs twenty-three of the top hits of the Broadway stage. The record herein will afford the listener a delightful introduction to the composing genius of Irving Fields.

Eleven of the selections in this album are original compositions by Fields. Any song not written by him would, necessarily, have to be outstanding for Irving Fields to choose it for inclusion in his album. That song is "Sentimental Journey." A glance at the other numbers in this recording will immediately reveal their international flavor – a touch of France, Cuba, Haiti, Turkey, Cuernavaca, and other exotic foreign lands to which your thoughts many stray as you listen to these exciting rhythms, as played by the Trio. Each of the eleven original Fields compositions are guaranteed to awaken your wanderlust.

Irving Fields is not a newcomer to the halls of popular music composition. His "Managua, Nicaragua" and "Miami Beach Rhumba" achieved widespread popularity, and his "Chantez, Chantez" was a top-selling record. He has also written a symphony entitled, "An American Forest," publicly performed at Carnegie Hall.

Over the past fifteen years, the Irving Fields Trio has achieved one of the most integrated sounds in the music business. Satisfied with nothing less than perfection, the Trio – Irving Fields, piano; Henry Sargent, bass; and Michael Bruno, drums – performs with the close coordination and musical insight that comprise individually, superior musicians, and collectively, an outstanding instrumental trio.

Those of you fortunate enough to have visited the foreign spots suggested in this album will recall them with pleasure as the Trio rhythmically sparks your phantasy. But chances are, the majority of us must content ourselves with the vicarious enjoyment gained through the sparkling arrangements which emanate from our phonograph when we play this record on the turntable.

This album, then, is your ticket. Be sure to pack a good supply of imagination; board our mythical musical steamer; and embark on a melodious tour with the Irving Fields Trio. – Rick Ward

You Continental Touch

Gypsy Magic

Sentimental Journey

Cafe De La Paix

Fifi

Cuban Thunderbird

Play It Again

Holiday In Haiti 

Pom Pom

Tickle Tickle 

Turkish Delight

Cuernavaca

24 Electrifying Hits

Together by The Illusion

24 Electrifying Hits

Syndicate Products SH 930
1969

This is a Canadian release from a company that was located in Manitoba. This is a great compilation of original recordings that came inside a groovy looking jacket.

Music To Love By - Jay Wilbur

Summertime

Music To Love By
Jay Wilbur & His String Orchestra
Top L1507-149
1957

Holiday For Strings
The Touch Of Your Lips
Make Believe
One Night Of Love
These Foolish Things
They Didn't Believe Me
I'm Getting Sentimental Over You
The Very Thought Of Your
Summertime
Lady Be Good
Tico, Tico
Mamselle

Hi-Fi - Antics - Meri Ellen And Her Cohorts

Hi-Fi Antics

Hi-Fi- Antics
Meri Ellen And Her Cohorts
Featuring Guest Star Don Elliott
Design Records DLP 63
1957

5 Time "Down Beat" Award Winner

From the back cover: This is a fun album. Meri Ellen and Her Cohorts ably supported by five time Downbeat Poll winner, Don Elliott, and Howie Mann on the drums, have created the spontaneous fun, rhythm and hilarity that they are renowned for in their night club appearances. Meri and the boys play the nation's top-flight night spots and constantly "break it up." They are as versatile as group as you will find anywhere in show business. They all sing, they all play instruments and they all have a reputation for mugging and clowning that is the envy of the myriad groups that try to imitate them. I think that one of the most sensational arrangements that I have ever heard at the end of the introduction is actually Meri, reaching for a music star. It's fantastic. The animal sound and effects are products of the boy's throats. It kinda scares you... how could any one group of people have so much talent? They swing, gallop and place through as merry a melange of tunes as you're likely to hear in a month of melody. The take-off on "Blueberry Hill" is a classic. Here is a lampoon of every rock and roll artist and group that you've ever heard. After this, you'll never be able to make them seriously again... and perhaps you're better off for it. Meri shows her voice off in the haunting "Cry Me A River" and "I Cried For You." The group romps through the dixieland classic, "Back Home In Indiana" in a manner that should make the original Hoosier, Herb Shriner, quiver in his boots. In listening to this group you must be sure of one thing... What you will hear is different. This can not in any way be compared with any other album in existence. Meri Ellen and Her Cohorts have a style, a delivery, and a presentation all of their own... and it's great.

Need we say more... well... yes... We have two recommendations for you. First... listen to this album... secondly... If you ever get within hearing distance of this amazing group... Get in and hear them and see them... It will be well worth the price of admission...

Don Elliott - For five years in a row, this talented young man has won the Downbeat Jazz poll as the outstanding musician in the miscellaneous category. He is perhaps the top melophone player in the nation. (For the uninitiated a mellophone is similar to a French horn.) He is also constantly listed in the upper ranks of jazz singers, bongo players and vibraphonists. To watch Don in action is a delight. He plays vibes with one hand and plays the mellophone with the other. He sings not only well, but has recorded himself in six part harmonies. Now working on an innovation in music to be recorded for DESIGN, Don is one of the musical greats of our era.

Howie Mann - Hailed as one of the finest rhythm drummers in the business, Howie provides the percussion backgrounds behind the group. For three years he has led his own orchestra at the swank Stage Coach Inn, one of the top suburban rooms in the New York area. His beat and technique are an artist's delight and have established him as one of the unusual finds in the music business, a top flight "show" drummer. – Roy Freeman

Hawaiian War Chant

Blueberry Hill

I Cried For You

Back Home In Indiana

You've Got Me

My Funny Valentine

Baby, It's Cold Outside

Cry Me A River

Red Silk Stockings

Choo Choo Ch-Boogie

Calypso Holiday

Calypso Holiday
The Norman Luboff Choir
Columbia CL 1000
1957

Very mainstream white bread calypso album featuring colorful cover design.

Fireworks - Billy Mure's Supersonic Guitars

April In Portugal

Fireworks
Billy Mure's Supersonic Guitars

Produced by Eddie Heller
RCA Victor LSP-1694
1958

Firecrackers

I Wonder, I Wonder

Peanut Vendor

Peg O' My Heart

By The Beautiful Sea

Jealous

Dancing Guitars

Crackerjack

For Me And My Gal

Guitar Theme

They Can't Take That Away From Me

April In Portugal

The Three Suns - Love In The Afternoon

The Very Thought Of You

The Three Suns
Love In The Afternoon

Arrangements: Charles Albertine

Produced by Al Nevins

Recording Engineer: Ernest Oelrich

Recorded in Studio A, 24th Street, New York, in 1957
RCA Victor LSP-1669
1959

From Billboard - February 9, 1959: While recognizable as Three Suns instrumentation (guitar, accordion and organ), this package has an additional and richer sound. Added are two violins, cello, bass guitar and mandolin – making possible more intricate scoring. Material includes standards as "Let Me Call You Sweetheart," "The Very Thought Of You," "I'm In The Mood For Love," etc. Excellent on stereo.

Let Me Call You Sweetheart
The Very Thought Of You
Lovers' Bouquet
Love In The Afternoon
Love (Your Spell Is Everywhere)
How Deep Is The Ocean
I'll Get By (As Long As I Have You)
Breath Of Spring
I'm In The Mood For Love
My Melancholy Baby
Do I Love You
Dream

Jerome Kern - Ping Pong Percussion

Long Ago And Far Away

Jerome Kern
Ping Pong Percussion
By The Famous Stradivari Strings
Designed By Harry and Marion Zelenko, Inc. (S-66)
Spinorama Records S-66
Pirouette Records RFM 66
Parade SP 349

This record is another attempt to cash in on the early 60s "percussion" fad.

The engineer added "ping-pong-like" sound effects to the beginning of each lush string track. The contrast between the space age ping pong and the easy listening is stark and pointless.

The Parade release credits Al Goodman And His Orchestra on the label.

From the back cover: Al Goodman famous conductor and musician has devoted all his life to music. Like Kern, Al Goodman's love for music and his inherent musical ability were manifest at an early age. As a youngster he sang soprano in his father's choir, became a musician in the pit of a local "movie house", and was awarded a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore.

In 1915 Al Goodman was selected by Earl Carroll to accompany him to California as arranger and conductor. That was Goodman's official entry into show business... the start of an illustrious career which brought him into personal contact with the all-time "greats" as the conductor of many shows and musical productions whose successes were due in great measure to his outstanding ability.

Al Goodman produced musical comedies with Earl Carroll... be became Al Jolson's personal conductor and arranger, J. J. Shubert made him general musical director and composer of all Shubert musical productions. He later became associated with various Radio and TV Shows as musical consultant and director.

This Song Is For You
The Way You Look Tonight
The Night Was Made For Love
The Last Time I Saw Paris
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
Look For The Silver Lining
All The Things You Are
Long Ago And Far Away
They Didn't Believe Me
I've Told Every Little Star