Dance Into Your Sultan's Heart - Ozel

 

Ali Baba

Dance Into Your Sultan's Heart

Belly Dance With Ozel

Orchestra Conducted by Tank Bulut

Executive Producer: Ayhan Turkbas

Associate Producer: Jesse Kornbluth

Design Consultant: Sait Sarsan

Photography: Paul Frankian

Hair Dresser: Marcello of Italy

Costumes: Miss Yurdaul Yuksel

Recoding Engineers: Mike Moran & Pay Martin

Record Cover Design: N. B. Ward, Assoc.

Recorded at the RCA Recording Studios, New York, N. Y.

El-Ay STEREO 2877

Personnel: 

Violin: Yavuz Ozustun

Bouzokia: John Tatasopoulos

Kanun: Orhan Yeginsoy

Organ: Jimmy Linardos

Bass: George Manikas

Battery/Drums: Dinitrios Dais

Electric Guitar: Errol Bulut

Finger Cymbals: Ozel Turkbas

Vib - Tympany - Piano - Darbuka: Tank Bulut

From the back cover: Ozel has repaid her American fans with an outpouring of creativity – in two years, she has released two records and the definitive lesson book, The Art Of Belly Dancing. The success of these efforts is the direct result of Ozel's authenticity as performer and teacher – she does not offer watered-down, commercialized versions of dances and music (too complicated) for Americans. The final stamp of authenticity came early this year when her first album, How To Belly Dance For Your Sultan, sold its millionth copy in Turkey.

This is the third of a series of records Ozel is releasing to help American women learn a new way of exercise while they are (simultaneously) learning to please and excite their male audience. Once again Ozel has assembled the finest musicians from the middle east made them comfortable in the most sophisticated New York Recording Studios, and turned the tape recorders on.

Ozel's Belly Dance Routine

Ali Baba - Karsilama (Vocal by Ozel Turkbas)

The Dance In The  Garden (Vocal by Ozel Turkbas)

A Wedding Song - Karam (Vocal by Ozel Turkbas)

Organ Improvisation by Jimmy Linardos

Halime Is A Coquette (Vocal by Ozel Turkbas)

Azeri Dance Number

Popular Circle Dance - Kasap Havasi

Violin Kanun - Bouzoukia Solo (Yavuz Ozustun/Orhan Yeginsoy/John Tatasopoulos)

Bali Ha'i - Earl Grant

 

Green Dolphin Street

Bali Ha'i

Earl Grant

Produced by Charles Bud Dant

Cover Photo: Marc Brady

Decca Records DL 4806

1966

From Billboard - October 1, 1966: "Yesterday," "A Hard Day's Night" and "What Now My Love," give this album an added attraction for sales. Grant provides some smooth versions, great for relaxed listening.

What Now My Love

Summertime

Yesterday

Green Dolphin Street

Laura

A Hard Day's Night

Bali Ha'i

September In The Rain

Love Is A Many Splendid Thing

I'll Close My Eyes

Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars

Love Walked In

The Best Of Ramsey Lewis

 

Les Fleur

The Best Of Ramsey Lewis

Cover Photo: Robert Boldt

Art Direction: Dick Fowler

Mr. Lewis clothes by Fox Bros., Chicago, Illinois

Cadet Records - A Division of GRT Corporation

Cadet STEREO LPS-839

1970

Julia - from LPS-821 Mother Nature's Son

Hang On Sloopy - from LPS-761 Hang On Ramsey

Les Fleur - from LPS-811 Maiden Voyage

Wade In The Water - from LPS-774 Wade In The Water

Return To Paradise - from LPS-782 The Movie Album

Jade East - from LPS-799 Up Pops Ramsey

Dancing In The Streets - from LPS-794 Dancing In The Streets

The In Crowd - from LPS-757 The In Crowd

Theme From The Pawnbroker - from LPS-782 The Movie Album

Up Tight - from LPS-744 Wade In The Water

Maiden Voyage - from LPS-811 Maiden Voyage

Function At The Junction - from LPS-790 Goin' Latin

Soul Man - from LPS-799 Up Pops Ramsey

Stay As Sweet As You Are - Nat King Cole

Angel Eyes

Stay As Sweet As You Are

Nat King Cole

Pickwick/33 SPC-3105

By Arrangement with Capitol Records

Stay As Sweet As You Are

You Stepped Out Of A Dream

Angel Eyes

If I Give My Heart To You

On The Street Where You Live

Get Me To The Church On Time

What Is There To Say

Don't Get Around Much Any More

Paradise

When Your Lover Has Gone

Dick Campbell Sings Where It's At

 

You've Got To Be Kidding

Dick Campbell

Sings Where It's At

All selections written by Dick Campbell

Produced by Lou Reizner

Mercury Records MG 21060

1965

Personnel:

Dick Campbell - Rhythm Guitar

Mike Bloomfield - 12 String Guitar (courtesy of Columbia Records)

Jimmy Vincent - 12 String Framus Guitar

Pete Cetera - Electric Bass

Mark Naftalin - Organ

Marty Grebb - Tambourine, Piano, Finger Cymbals and various other instruments

Artie Sullivan - Tambourine and Vocals

Paul Butterfield - Harp (courtesy of Electra Records)

Billy Herman, Sam Lay, Larry Wrice - Drums

The Blues Peddlers

You've Got To  Be Kidding

Sandi

The People Planners

Aphrodite's Child

Despairs Cafeteria 

Approximately Four Minutes Of Feeling Sorry For D. C.

Object Of Derision

Where Were You

Girls Named Misery

Ask Me If I Care

Don Juan Of The Western World

The Most Beautiful Girl - Bert Kaempfert

 

In The Everglades

The Most Beautiful Girl

Bert Kaempfert

Produced by Milt Gabler

Cover Photo: Robert Blakeman

Engineer: Peter Klemt

Recorded in Hamburg, Germany

MCA Records MCA-402

1974

From the back cover: At this point in time it does not take a musical prophet to discern that The Most Beautiful Girl will most likely be the number one song of the year and rightfully so. This album by Bert Kaempfert which is dedicated to all beautiful girls is a fitting tribute to the song as well. Here you have the latest creations of the man who gave you "Strangers In The Night," "Spanish Eyes," "Danke Schoen,"  "LOVE," "Afrikaan Beat," "Red Roses For A Blue Lady" and dozens of other impeccable arrangements and hauntingly beautiful melodies. Every Kaempfert styling is distinctive and immediately recognizable. That is why his recordings are the most played big band sounds heard on radio broadcasts throughout this land as well as the rest of the world. So much so that his fans and promoters in England have induced him to give his first concert in London, at the Royal Albert Hall, on February 28, 1974. Just as every new Bert Kaempfert album is an event the appearance should be the highpoint of his illustrious career.

The Most Beautiful Girl

Why Can't You And I Add To Love

Touch The Wind (Eres Tu)

Jumpin' Blue

Opus One

I Found My Love

Let Me Be There

Easy Glider 

Tuxedo Junction

Moon Over Baja

I Cover The Waterfront

In The Everglades

The Latin Album - Trini Lopez

 

Besame Mucho

Trini Lopez

The Latin Album

Produced by Don Costa Productions, Inc.

Cover Photo by John Engstead

Reprise STEREO RS-6125

1964

From the back cover: Back before his guitar turned golden, Trini Lopez was a fifteen year on singing star at a club called Ci Pango in Trini's home town, Dallas. Trini, from Spanish and Mexican parents, was a thin but infectious performer who had a way with the songs of the Spanish language. And that "way" communicated to Texans whose Spanish vocabulary consisted of "Ole," "Arriba," and "Whatcha Put In This Taco, Amigo."

Now, Trini's guitar is a golden one. He's an international celeb. His recording of "If I Had A Hammer" started it, selling 1,400,000 copies at a time when so-called gold-record-singles were lucky to sell 400,000. He quickly became the hottest international artist on earth, and America's newest Ambassador-at-large.

With this album, Trini returns to the latin lingo that gave him his start. With an armada of latin percussion – strictly genuine, played on hand-hewn instruments – backing him up, Trini swings through some of the most exciting latin singing in decades.

Don Costa, who produces Trini's albums and is understandably enthusiastic about this project, details the background of this album this way:

"This set of choice Latin favorites may present a new Trini Lopez to most of his fans, but the tunes are certainly not new to Our Hero, for he was weened on most of them. Trini's father, Trinidad Sr., could be heard at any hour of the day or night singing and playing them on his guitar. Trini was probably humming "Cu Cu Rru Cu Cu, Paloma" before he could say 'tobacco,' which is positively the first word he ever spoke.

From Billboard - August 15, 1964: Trini Lopez has had several top-selling singles. His appeal is to both adult and teen-ager. His recent appearances in N.Y.C.'s Basin Street was a SRO success. Lopez is certainly within his niche signing Latin songs. In fact, he's expert. His growing number of fans will be pleased with his renditions of "Granada," "Perfidia," "Cu Cu Rru Cu Cu, Paloma," "La Malaguena" and others.

Adalita

Perfidia

Besame Mucho

Angelito

La Malaguena

Piel Canela

Granada

Chamaka

Cu Cu Rru Cu Cu, Paloma

Quizas, Quizás, Quizás

El Reloj

Cuando Calienta el Sol

Belly Dancing At The Cafe Feenjon - The Feenjon Group

 

Erev Shel Shoshanim

Belly Dancing At The Cafe Feenjon

The Feenjon Group

Produced and Directed by Menachem Dworman

Monitor STEREO MFS 497

From the back cover: The Feenjon Group can be heard nightly at the Cafe Feenjon, located on Macdougal Street in New York's Greenwich Village. From the very beginning, the Feenjon has been a mecca for lvoers of Israeli, Greek, Arabic, Turkish and Armenian song and dance. Many notables of the entertainment world, too, attracted by the informal atmosphere and musical excitement of the Cafe, have become late-late habitués and frequently participate in the performances. Such celebrities include Herschel Bernardi, Theodore Bikel, Eartha Kit, Yaffa Yarkoni, Shoshana Damari, Jose Feliciano, Allan Sherman and others.

Erwin Frankel, host of WFRM's Music From Around The World, has described the unique Feenjon sound as "at time sensuous, often lilting, always passionate... seduces the listener into hand-clapping, shoulder-weaving, foot-hopping participation."

Menachem Dworman is the founder of the Cafe and leader of the Group. His self-taught guitar and out are the sparks that give Feenjon performances their warmth and excitement. He has take the Group to countless concerts which include Carnegie and Town Halls and the New York World's Fair. Manny has recorded Near Eastern and Greek as well as Israeli music.

Margalit Ankory is a fifth-generation Sabrah. Her professional background includes theater, musical comedy and two movie appearances. She was selected by Harold Prince to play one of the leads in the forthcoming musical based on "Zorba the Greek." Her recorded version of Jerusalem Of Gold has been widely acclaimed as one of the most sensitive renditions of this beautiful song.

Jerry Sappir dates back to "the old Feenjon." His musical warmth and sensitivity as well as his wit and charm add greatly to the Group's personality. A graduate of the School of Performing Arts and Brooklyn College, singer-guitarist Jerry has toured with a contorial choir, made many TV appearances and displayed his versatility on several records albums.

Angelo Saridis, the newest member of the Feenjon Group, was born in Athens, where he perfected his guitar virtuosity. He has played in many clubs in Greece and toured in Israel where he was noted for his Italian as well as his Greek Music. Angelo Came to the United States in 1961 and performed in many parts of the country until he joined the Feenjon Group.

Ali Hafid, the only Arab member of the Feenjon Group, was brought to the United States to perform at the Moroccan Pavilion at the New York World's Fair. Ali is considered to be the outstanding drummer in the field of Near Eastern music.

Jimmy Linardos received his musical training in conservatories in Corfu (where he was born) and Athens. He has recorded for Monitor an album of his own original compositions entitled "Ballads Of A Greek Cafe." His magnificent accordion playing on the present recordings as well as the previous Feenjon Goes Greek rounds out the Feenjon sound.

Includes Steve Knight: Guitar & Lou Mavrogian, Bass

Bei Mein Rebbe Is Gavaizin A Ganaya

Beryuzovye Kalyuchki

Erev Shel Shoshanim

Aina Zorga

Lomer Alleh Singen

Biklibidia

Marinella

Donna, Donna

Shishelai

Efiges

Mach Mach

Doce Cascabeles

Waltzes For Dancing - Enoch Light

 

Always

Waltzes For Dancing

Enoch Light and His Orchestra

Colorful and Romantic arrangements of America's most popular waltzes

Brigade Records P1372S

Always

The Waltz You Saved For Me

Alice Blue Gown

Missouri Waltz

Beautiful Ohio

I Love You Truly

Three O'Clock In The Morning

Let Me Call You Sweetheart

All Alone

Remember

Wonderful One

Sleep

When It's Springtime In The Rockies

In A Little Spanish Town

Harbor Lights - John Gart

 

I Cover The Waterfront

Harbor Lights

Dynamic Hi-Fi Organ

John Gart

KAPP Records KL-1038

Harbor Lights

Far Away Places

Over The Sea To Skye

I Cover The Waterfront

A House Upon A Rock

When My Dream Boat Comes Home

Bali Ha'i

Red Sails In The Sunset

Whispering Winds

Kon Tiki

I'm Waiting For Ships That Never Come In

Going Home

Hit Songs To Remember - Ray Anthony

 

Yesterday

Hit Songs to Remember

Ray Anthony

His Trumpet and Orchestra with new favorites for dream dancing

Capitol Records SY-4643

A Special Re-Issue

The Shadow Of Your Smile

Samba De Orfeu

What The World Needs Now Is Love

What Now, My Love

Spanish Eyes

Merci, Cheri

Michelle

Call Me

Yesterday

The Ballad Of The Green Berets

Goodbye, My Love (Ill Silenzio)

Put On A Happy Face - Oscar Peterson

 

Woodyn' You

Put On A Happy Face

Oscar Peterson Trio

Produced by Jim Davis

Director of Engineering: Val Valentine

Cover Design: Any Lehman

Recorded live at The London House, Chicago

Verve  V-8660

1966

Oscar Peterson: Piano

Ray Brown: Bass

Ed Thigpen: Drums

From the back cover: There are several very clear differences between studio and club recordings, and most of hem work in favor of the club – if, as in this case, you have truly cohesive unit. Take, for example, the matter of length. There have of course been many studio-made tracks as long or longer than 8 1/2 minutes duration of the title tune here. But in the studio that is noticeable as a real long one, with an "extended" solo; it takes on some feeling of a special event. But in the more stretched-out atmosphere of a club, where on the average tunes are played for several more choruses, this Put On A Happy Face is of normal and quite unselfconscious length.

In the studio, there are engineers and producers and friends and such, all in plain view. On the bandstand, while you certainly know that the audience is out there, the darkness and at least partial isolation makes for a closer rapport. After all, Oscar and Ray have been playing at each other almost every night for all those years in this kind of setting. Something as difficult-sounding as Brown's bowed-bass work near the start of Peterson's ballad The Lonesome One can 'happen' with comparative ease on the stand; one shudders to think how complex it could get in the studio. The tender, edged-with-soulfulness performance of Jerome Kern's lovely Yesterdays might have come off just as well in another place. It might have, but I prefer to doubt that it would; to me, this is something that has to come off best on a dim-lit bandstand. At another extreme, there is the surging treatment of another fine old standard, George Gershwin's Soon. Without stooping to measure, I am forced to at least suspect that the tempo here climbs noticeably between start and finish. If so, someone would have called for another crack at it in a studio, and this romping version would have been lost forever. Fortunately, in a club the fact that a person like this "feels" good tends to be considered more important, and all of us listeners gain thereby - Orrin Keepnews

Put On A Happy Face

Old Folks

Woodyn' You

Yesterdays

Diablo

Soon

The Lonesome One

This Time I'm Swingin'! - Dean Martin

 

Until The Real Thing Comes Along

This Time I'm Swingin'!

Dean Martin

Orchestra Conducted by Nelson Riddle

Produced by Lee Gillette

Capitol Records  ST1442

1960

From Billboard - October 3, 1960: Martin swings out on this new package to the solid, driving, band backings of Nelson Riddle. The artist is in fine form on a collection of familiar tunes, many of them from well-known shoes. Included are such things as "I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me," "On The Street Where You Live" and "Just In Time." This can be strong contender.

I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me

True Love

You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You

On The Street Where You Live

Imagination

Until The Real Thing Comes Along

Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone

I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face

Someday

Mean To Me

Heaven Can Wait

Just In Time

Hawaii - The Honolulu Guitars

Dancing Surf

Hawaii

The Honolulu Guitars

Power Apply Honey Series STEREO DS 398

1965

Red Sails In The Sunset
Hawaiian Serenade
Paradise
Red Dawn
Hawaiian Skies
Dancing Surf
Skirts Of Grass
Love Of Hawaii
Moonlight
Isle Of Dreams

The Melody Lingers On - Living Strings Plus Harp

 

Shangri-La

The Melody Lingers On

Living Strings Plus Harp

Harp: Marie Goosens

A&R Coordinator: Ethel Gabriel

Arranged and Conducted y Johnny Douglas

RCA Camden CAL-847

1964

The Song Is Ended (But The Melody Lingers On)

It Only Take A Moment

I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face

Medley: Song Of India & Estrellita

Time On My Hands

Shangri-La

With The Wind And The Rain In Your Hair

Roxanne

Blue Moon

Climb Ev'ry Mountain