The Best Of '69 - Terry Baxter

You've Made Me So Very Happy

The Boxer

Windmills Of You Mind

For Once In My Life

 Hey Jude

The Best Of '69

Terry Baxter And His Orchestra

A Columbia Musical Treasury

P2S 5332

Here's another LP in the series of cover albums jammed full of impossible musical moments by orchestra conductor Terry Baxter and producer Betsy Cohen.

Songs are listed on the back cover by arranger:

Billy Sherrill:

I Love How You Love Me

Wichita Lineman

Still Around

Stand By Your Man

To Know You Is To Love You

Singing My Song

You Gave Me A Mountain

Don Sebesky:

Soulful Strut

This Girl's In Love With You

Traces

Windmills Of You Mind

Both Sides Now

Terry's Tune

Jimmy Wisner:

The Boxer

Galvenston

Happy Heart

Baby Driver

Don't Give In To Him

Me So Very Happy

Johnny Spence:

For Once In My Life

I've Gotta Be Me

Zazueira

Hey Jude

Les Bicyclettes de Belsize

Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In

Music To Help You Stop Smoking - Living Strings

April In Paris

Music To Help You Stop Smoking
Living Strings
RCA Camden CAL-821
1964

From the back cover: Reach for a melodious bud… instead of a butt.

Autumn Leaves
April In Paris
Medley- The Night Is Young And You're So Beautiful, In The Night, If There Is Someone LovelierThan You
Medley - Clair De Lune, Yellow Bird
Theme From Carnival
Penthouse Serenade
If Ever I Would Leave You
Love's Old Street Song
Medley - Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto In B-Flat Minor - Chopin: Polonaise In A-Flat

Disco Duck - The Homesteaders

Play That Funky Music

Disco Duck
20 Of Todays Hits
Recorded By The Homesteaders
Homestead Records H-10012

Introduction To Stereo

Tabu

Introduction To Stereo
Westminster WSS-1

Needless to say, this album is no "introduction to graphic design". Why Westminster, having published many fine album covers spent no money on this design, is a mystery to me.

The contents, for the most part, also seem "budget" or "dashed" together. The stereo engineering sounds weak to my ears. However, Ralph Font's cover of Tabu (or Taboo) is worth posting as a sample to compare with any mono versions that may floating around out there.

I thought I had the Font's LP that this track was lifted from, but I can't find the copy. Instead, check out this super fun Font project: Longhair Goes Cha-Cha

Sabre Dance - Vienna State Opera Orchestra
Espana - Vienna State Orchestra
Castaldo March - Deutschmeister
Bank Holiday - Vienna State Orchestra
Trepak - Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
Toccata In D Minor - Carl Weinrich
Sound Effects
A Good Man Is Hard To Find - Mary Lou Brewer
Tabu - Ralph Font
Dixie - Dick Leibert
Peg-Leg Menegue - Ferrante and Teicher
The Spirit Of Christmas

Yippee Ole - Western Songs The Latin Way - Melino

Along The Navajo Trail

Yippee-Ole
Western Songs The Latin Way
Melino And His Orchestra
Jubilee JLP 1042
1957

Blending traditional western song titles and Latin rhythm suggests that this is one album that I should not purchase. However, the black fishnet hose clad model on the cover demands that I must purchase the album. And so here the record is, hose cheesecake and cha cha cowboy rhythm song sample, featured now in The Atomic Attic.

Actually, the album presents a pretty decent Latin set that is only slightly "western" in sound, although the Cha Cha dance beat does sound somewhat like a horse plodding down the dirt street of some gold rush town.

From the back cover: Introduced at the world-famous Grossinger, N.Y. Country Club, where Melino has been featured with his band the past two hears, "Yodelin' Cowboy" (the only vocal number)  as greeted with such enthusiastic reaction that Melino was prompted to refashion a raft of well-known Western airs in Latin tempos.

On The Trail
Take Me Back To My Boots And Saddles
Yodelin' Cowboy Cha-Cha
Tumbling Tumble Weeds
Along The Navajo Trail
The Last Roundup
Don't Fence Me In
You Are My Sunshine
I'm An Old Cowhand
Empty Saddles
Wagon Wheels
Deep In The Heart Of Texas

Prieta Caldera - Con Guitarras

Cicatrices

Prieta Caldera
Con Guitarras
Paloma 1004

For Reminiscent Lovers - Bill Doggett

Angel Eyes

For Reminiscent Lovers
Romantic Songs By Bill Doggett
King Records 706
1960

Nice, subdued lounge set from organist Bill Dogget featuring this sexy cover of Angel Eyes.

A Sinner Kissed An Angel
My Romance
Accent On Youth
A Sunday King Of Love
For All We Know
Imagination
Angel Eyes
Trav'lin Light
My Foolish Heart
I'm Yours
If I Should Lose You
Good-Bye

Parisienne Accordion - Francois Chantal

Guitare A Napoli

Parisienne Accordio
Francois Chantal & Orchestra
Design: Sam Suliman
Coronet Records CXS 154

The set plays through like a collection of "stock" tracks. There are a few "lounge" tunes on side one, including the sample above.

Les Petites Nichons
La Fin
Guitare A Napoli
Camintio
Les Amours De Pigalle
Carnaval
Les Flics
Chemise Rouge
Tango Montmarte
Mon Petit Chou

Percussive Pineapples - Lani Royal

Beyond The Sea

The Sound Of Hawaii
Percussive Pineapples
Producer: Michael Kapp
Lani Royal With The Diamond Head Band
Medallion MS-7516

Budget Command label book-fold design. No arranger or artist credit appears in the massive amount of jacket copy. Command-like sound featuring horn bridges on most tracks. The brass works for me on some tunes, but sounded "dated" (for the time) on other tracks.

Harbor Lights
Hawaiian War Chant
The Hawaiian Wedding Song
Drifting And Dreaming
My Little Grass Shack In Kealakakua, Hawaii
Beyond The Reef
The Hulikau Song
Sweet Leilani
Beyond The Sea
Blue Hawaii
The Cockeyed Mayor Of Kaunkakai
Sail Along Silv'ry Moon

Monster - Jimmy Smith

Gloomy Sunday

Monster
The Incredible Jimmy Smith
Arrange And Conducted By Oliver Helson
Recorded January 19 & 20, 1965
Verve V-8618

Here's a fine Verve album featuring heavy organ jams by Jimmy Smith with arrangements influenced by the ever creative in-house producer, Creed Taylor.

The terrific blend of colorful cover art (Acy Lehman), funky song titles, the organ tones of Jimmy Smith and the strong sessions band make for a great package.

From the inside notes: As a result, Creed Taylor, Verve A&R Producer, commissioned Oliver Nelson to write the charts for some of New York's finest reed man. The arrangements surround the leading man with tonal clusters that add a new dimension to orchestration. These saxes have bite. To get the over-all effect you need the outstanding ability of a master arranger-conductor combined with the best musicians in the business.

Reeds & woodwinds: Robert Ashton, Danny Banks, Ray Beckenstein, George Dorsey, Harvey Estrin, Budd Johnson, Jerome Richardson and Phil Woods
Guitar: Kenny Burrell
Bass: Richard Davis
Drums: Grady Tate
Percussion: Warren T. Smith Jr.

Goldfinger (Part I)
Goldfinger (Part II)
St. James Infirmary
Gloomy Sunday
Theme From Bewitched
Theme From The Munsters
Theme From The Man With The Golden Arm
Monlope