Please Tell Me A Story - Aunt Theresa

The Haunted House

Aunt Theresa
Please Tell Me A Story
Zondervan Recordings ZLP 678

The Leopard
The Haunted House
Not So Silly
The Piece Of Wood That Talked
Lost Mittens
Pickling Berries
Driving The Car

Stanley Applewaite Plays In The Still Of The Night

Long Ago And Far Away

Stanley Applewaite Plays
In The Still Of The Night
Music Of Cole Porter
George Norman Orchestra
Cover Photo By Philip Lustig
Design DLP 36
1957

From the back cover: When you think of the greats of the music world you never have to spend too long pondering before the name Cole Porter skyrockets across your mental skies. Taking his place with the other greats of our modern music scene, men like Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, Dick Rodgers, Larry Hart and Oscar Hammerstein, Cole Porter personifies smart, easy to listen to popular music. His lyrics, without having the more intricate quality that Larry Hart seemed to favor, flow like honey from the vine. When combined with his often lovely, often enchanting, and often spirited music they are an unbeatable combination. Even the simplest... Like the lyric to "All Of You"... and how many of us have listened to that one and said... "Gee, I could have written that lyric"!

Why not?... I love the west of you**** the rest of you... or... the south of you**** the mouth of you simple... Sure it's simple... but it is also true poetry, and after all that's the test of a fine lyric... If you can read it as a poem and it stands up... It's a good lyric... Try that on most of today's music and you will find that the words lose context without the music Try it with a Cole Porter or Larry Hart lyric and find that each lyric will stand by itself for context, flow, meter... and ... most importantly, each line will tell its story.

ABOUT THE CONDUCTOR

DESIGN RECORDS are very proud to present the first American recordings of one of England's most talented and versatile composer-conductor-arrangers. Stanley Applewaite' has conducted some of the finest and most popular orchestras on the continent and has a reputation second to none as an arranger of popular and semi-classical music.

Born in Sheffordshire in 1925, this young pianist made his professional debut at the local music hall at the tender age of nine. He played piano and recited "The Ballad of Lower Ipswich," a twenty minute long piece of saccharine prose written by his great uncle Harry Applewaite. The short piano selection was met with an enthusiastic response. The long dissertation concerning the problems of a horsecarman in Lower Ipswich was greeted with nothing but a dull lull. At that moment young Stanley decided that music was a far more satisfying life than acting, reciting (certainly a lost art), or even following in his great uncle's footsteps and writing. We are inclined to agree. Harry Applewaite is certainly not ranked with the literary elite of the British Commonwealth. His great nephew, Stanley, is now a household name throughout the provinces. He is currently conducting the Norton Green Symphonia and has recently signed to score and conduct a new musical movie based on the life of Henry the Eighth. – ROY FREEMAN

You're The Tops
Begin The Beguine
In The Still Of The Night
Long Ago And Far Away
Just One Of Those Things
Dancing In The Dark
Anything Goes
I've Got You Under My Skin
All Of You
C'est Magnifique/Paris Night
I Only Have Eyes For You

Dance Break - Luis Arcaraz

Un Minuto

Dance Break
Luis Arcaraz And His Orchestra
RCA LPM-1612
1958

From the back cover: ...Luis has on three occasions received Gold Records, the greatest tribute for an artist, from RCA Victor Mexicana. In addition, Luis has won three prizes for outstanding merit as a composer.

In Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, the United States and other countries of the Americas this sensational orchestra has been overwhelmingly received.

Mar
Deseperadamente
Usted
Noche
Un Minuto
De Corazon a Corazon
Bonita
As de Corazones
Quinto Patio
Munequita de Esquire
Sombra Verde

La La La - Raymond Lefevre

I'll Never Leave You

La La La
He Gives Me Love
Raymond Lefevre And His Orchestra
Four Corners Records FCS-4250
1968

Engaging string based mood featuring lots of 60s space age touches. This album was released on the heels of Lefevre's hit "Soul Coaxing".

La La La
I'm Coming Home
San Francisco
I'll Never Leave You
Angelica
Delilah
The World We Knew
I Love You. You Love Me
The Days Of Pearly Spencer
If I Only Had Time
The Last Waltz

The Steel Bandits

Downtown

The Steel Bandits
Play
Decca DL4794

From the back cover: Murray Narell, the father of the first and second lead players, is a social worker who was the director of "Operation Street Corner" at Lower East Side settlement house. He saw in steel drums – the making and playing of them – a way to channel the vast energies of street gangs into constructive ends. In a short time, twenty different bands composed of boys and girls of various ages were making music within the walls of the settlement house. Eventually, some of the bands went out into the community to give benefit performances, to gather applause and give pleasure to their friends and neighbors. Other settlement houses followed suit.

Medley
A Taste Of Honey
I Wish You Love
Malaguena
Downtown
Compare Pedro Juan
Spanish Flea
Begin The Beguine
Yellow Bird
Waltz Of The Flowers
Love Me With All Your Heart
The Happy Bandit

Echoing Voices And Trombone - Don Costa

Skyliner

Echoing Voices And Trombones
Don Costa
Arranged and Produced by Don Costa
Ultra Audio WWS 8501

From the notes: This album was one of the biggest challenges Costa ever faced As Costa states it, "I didn't want to record merely another percussion album. Instead I tried to create a truly exciting musical album, one that would be a pleasure to listen to for its musical ideas, as well as one that would interest hi-fidelity and stereo fans. In this album I used voices as a section of the orchestra and treated them as I would treat the brass or reed section of a large band.

Don Costa - Leader
Bob Rosengarden, Don Lamond Terry Synder and Jerry Bruno - Drums
Moe Wechsler - Piano
George Devens and Joseph Venuto - Percussion
Al Caiola and John Piaazrelli - Guitar
Thomas Mitchell, Bobby Byrne, Bobby Alexander, Chauncey Welsch, Urbie Green and Richard Hixon - Trombone

Day In And Day Out
Deed I Do
The Breeze And I
Just In Time
But Not For Me
I'm Beginning To See The Light
Skyliner
Echo Of Love
Opus No. 1
Adios
Thou Swell
Nice Work If You Can Get IT