Strip Tease And Other Delights

 

Tempest's Moon

Strip Tease And Other Delights

Coronet CXS-286

Premier Albums, Inc.

The Stripper

A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody

How To Keep A Guy At Home

The Southern Shake

I Want A Girl

Temptacious

Tempest's Moon

Strip Girl

Shifty Gypsy

Sahara Jewel

Plastic Dreams - The Modern Jazz Quartet

England's Carol

Plastic Dreams

The Modern Jazz Quartet

Produced by Arif Mardin

All selections were composed by John Lewis

Recorded at Atlantic Recording Studios, New York, N.Y.

Recording Engineer: Lewis Hahn

Re-mix Engineer: Ed Barton at Wally Heider's Studio, Los Angeles, California

Cover Art & Album Design: Stanislow Zagorski

Atlantic Recording Corporation 

SD 1589

1971

Members of The Modern Jazz Quartet are:

John Lewis - Piano and Harpsichord

Milt Jackson - Vibraharp

Percy Heath - Bass

Connie Kay - Drums and Percussion

On "Variations On A Christmas Theme" and "Piazzo Navona: 

Snookie Young and Joe Newman - Trumpets

Garnett Brown - Trombone

Jim Buffington - French Horn

Don Butterfield - Tuba

From the inside cover:

It (MJQ) began, actually, as the rhythm section of Dizzy Gillespie's 1946 - 48 big band. Indeed, in 1948, its members made a rather obscure record date, under Milt Jackson's name, and with the celebrated Cuban bongo player, Chano Pozo.

As John Lewis has modestly explained, it was the quality of their work on this and subsequent recording dates together (done in 1951 and 1952) that convinced the members of the group that they liked playing together and wanted to continue to.

Of course it was not that easy. The musicians had to bide their time and take other jobs before they could persuade the rest of the world of what they had already discovered for themselves about their potential. Jackson worked with Woody Herman and was back with Gillespie. John Lewis accompanied Ella Fitzgerald and worked with Charlie Parker and Lester Young.

But the recordings together continued, and, with John Lewis appointed musical director of a co-operative group, the style grew. Then, in early 1953, one of the group's LPs caught on with record buyers, and the Modern Jazz Quartet became a going thing in nightclubs and concerts.

There was one change in personnel. In early 1955, the great drummer Kenny Clarke decided to leave the United States and take permanent residence in Paris. Connie Kay, whose work John Lewis had known with Lester Young, was brought in, with little preparation, for a job in Philadelphia. He has been with the group ever since.

Walkin' Stomp

Dancing

Plastic Dreams

Variations On A Christmas Theme

Trav'lin'

Piazza Novona

England Carol

After Hours - Lloyd Glenn

 

Hyde Park

After Hours

Lloyd Glenn

Cover Photograph by Ovid Neal

Artwork by Sharon Pose

Score Star Series

Score SLP-4020 

1958

After Hours - Parts I & II

Strollin'

Tipsy

Hyde Park

Love For Sale

Rompin'

The Vamp

Ballroom Shuffle

Wildfire

The Bobby Darin Story

 

Beyond The Sea

Lazy River

Mac The Knife

The Bobby Darin Story

Cover Design: Loring Eutemey

Supervision: Ahmet Ertegün

ATCO Records 33-131

1961

From the back cover: Bobby Darin, born May 14, 1936 in New York, N.Y. Real Name: Walden Robert Cassotto. Grew up in New York, attending public schools there. Went to Bronx High School of Science, which accepted pupils only after rigid entrance examinations and personal interviews. Graduated with a scholarship to attend Hunter College in New York.

After one term at Hunter, Bobby decided that further formal education could not help him to achieve his ambition, which was to become an actor. He left school, and almost immediately got a job playing an Indian Chief with a traveling group. Began to write songs. Taught himself to play the piano, previously only played drums in his high school band. Was first heard on records as singer of commercial jingles and on demos of songs he wrote. Signed his first record contract in 1956.

In 1957 Bobby was signed by Atco Records. First records commercially unsuccessful. Almost a year passed before his first smash hit, Splish, Splash. Hit followed in quick succession: Queen Of The Hop, Early In The Morning, Dream Lover. Began working a few important night spots.

Following overwhelming success of Queen Of The Hop, recorded his first LP: That's All. In it was Mack The Knife. Taken from the album and issued as a single, it became the biggest record of 1959, selling over 2,000,000 copies. Opened in Las Vegas with George Burns at the Sahara. An engagement at The Cloister in Los Angeles followed. This brought him to Hollywood, his original goal; but he was there as a singer, not as an actor. He played ever major nightclub in America, culminating in an engagement that had long been hi highest ambition as a singer: the Copacabana in New York (preserved "live" in Darin At The Copa).

TV appearances became more and more frequent. In 1959 he was singed by Paramount Pictures and by Universal-International. At long last he was an actor. And this earliest objective of his had been achieved as a result of his singing. At this point in his career many people thought Darin would stop singing. Bobby's answer to that: "It'll never happen."

Splish Slash

Early In The Morning

Queen Of The Hop

Plain Jane

Dream Lover

Mack The Knife

Beyond The Sea

Clemetine

Bill Bailey

Artificial Flowers

Somebody To Love

Lazy River

Don Gibson

 

That's What I'll Do

Touch The Morning

That's What I'll Do

Don Gibson

Produced  by Wesley Rose

Director Of Engineering: Ronnie Gant

Hickory Records HR-4501

MGM Records

1973

From Billboard - September 15, 1973: The writers on this one, including the late Fred Rose, read like a Hall Of Fame list, and with that with which to work, Gibson can certainly do the rest. Naturally, he's among the writers. After all, everyone else records his songs; why shouldn't he? Probably no one in the business has more real feel for a song than Gibson, and he presses that right into the record. It's another of his classics. Best cuts: "Made For The Blues," "Blue Darlin'," "Just Another Reminder," "That's What I'll Do," Dealers: No frills, just simple Gibson, and that should do it.

Touch The Morning

If You're Goin' Girl

Made For The Blues

Country Sunshine

Sweet Dreams

Love Is A Lonesome Thing

Drinking Champagne

You've Still Got A Place In My Heart

Blue Darlin'

Just Another Reminder Of You

That's What I'll Do

Kay Starr With Harold Mooney And His Orchestra

 

The Prisoner's Song

Kay Starr

With Harold Mooney and His Orchestra

RCA Camden CAL-567

1960

From the back cover: Launched with this Indian heritage at Dougherty, Oklahoma, in 1922, as Kathryn Starks, the girl who became famous as Kay Starr first moved to Dallas and then to Memphis, absorbing all the exciting musical sounds she heard along the route. She got her first money for singing when she was thirteen by winning five dollars on a radio amateur program in Dallas. In those days she was a hillbilly singer – "authentic hillbilly," she explains, "that is, yodeling."

She became a professional vocalist in high school, singing on Memphis station WREC. Just turned eighteen, Kay and two records with Glenn Miller's orchestra (Baby Me and Love With A Capitol "You"). This was a fill-in stint for Glenn's regular vocalist, Marion Hutton, but it led to regular singing with Bob Crosby's band and Joe Venuti's band. In 1943 she joined Charlie Barnet for a two-year run that brought her to the attention of dancers and jazz fans all across the country, for this was a period when Mad Man had one of his best bands.

A serious throat ailment in 1945 kept her from sining for more than a year. When Kay recovered , she struck out as as single with a voice which had acquired an interestingly rough quality from her illness and an understanding of what she wanted to do in music that had been deepened by a year of careful, honest thought.

"I have a great love for lyrics," she once said, describing her approach to music. "It's hard for me to sing any song in which the lyrics don't make sense to me. And I like songs which have to do with life. After all, a singer is no more than an actor or actress set to music."

With this insight and a flexible, vital voice with which to project her songs, Kay moved rapidly to that special top rung of popular singers and has stayed there ever since.

Nowadays Kay tries to stay within easy commuting distance of her comfortable California home and her 12-year-old daughter, Kathy. There she cooks, paints, sails her sloop and plays golf. ("I can break 100 if I break my back.") She limits her professional work to records, an occasional TV appearance and engagements at clubs that are not too far from the home around which her life now revolves because, as she says, "I've served my apprenticeship as a gypsy." – Notes by Ramsey Stuart

From Billboard - February 1, 1960: The thrush packs plenty of lusty vitality and rich vocal quality into a group of memorable standards and oldies – "Fit As A Fiddle," "I'll Never Say Never Again Again," "Wrap Your Troubles In Dream," etc. Excellent jockey wax and a solid rack item.

Fit As A Fiddle

A Hundred Years From Today

Once More

The Prisoner's Song

Without A Song

I'll Never Say "Never Again" Again

I Want A Little Boy

Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams

Georgia On My Mind

You Can Depend On Me

The Fabulous Favorites - Kay Starr

 

So Tired

The Fabulous Favorites

Kay Starr

Newly Recorded In Today's Finest Sound

Capitol Records

The Star Line ST 2106

1964

Side By Side

So Tired

Mississippi

I'm The Lonesome Gal In Town

Half A Photograph

Comes A-Long A-Love

Bonaparte's Retreat

Wheel Of Fortune 

The Rock And Roll Waltz

Hoop-Dee-Doo

Allez-Vous-En, Go Away

Foolin' Around

Nat King Cole Sings My Fair Lady

 

Show Me

Nat King Cole

Sings Selections From Lerner And Loewe's My Fair Lady

Produced by Lee Gillette

Cover Photo: Werner Wolf/Black Star

Capitol Records SW 2117

1946

From Billboard - September 5, 1964: The motion picture version of the hit play has given rebirth to several outstanding albums of "My Fair Lady Music," The commercial coupling of Nat King Cole with the Lerner & Lowe score couldn't hold more sales promise. Cole gives the well-known tunes a fresh and vibrant treatment that adds up to top listening enjoyment. Excellent in stereo.

With A Little Bit Of Luck

I Could Have Danced All Night

The Rain In Spain

On The Street Where You Live

I'm An Ordinary Man

Get Me To The Church On Time

Show Me

I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face

You Did It

Wouldn't It Be Loverly

Hymn To Him

The Genius Of Ray Charles

 

Two Years Of Torture

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Atlantic Recording Corporation 

Record Engineers: Bill Schuartau and Tom Dowd

Cover Photo: Lee Friedlander

Cover Design: Marvin Israel

Supervisions: Nesuhi Ertegun and Jerry Wexler

ATLANTIC 1312

1960

Personnel 

On "Let The Good Times Roll," "Alesander's Ragtime Band" and "Deed I Do" is Ray Charles, piano and vocals; Clark Terry, Ernie Royal, Joe Newman, Snookie Yong, Marcus Belgrave and John Hunt, trumpets; Melha Liston, Quentin Jackson, Thomas Mitchell and Al Gray, trombones; Frank Wess, flute, alto sax or tenor sax; Marshall Royal, alto sax; Paul Gonsalves, Zoot Sims and David Newman, tenor saxes; Charlie Fowlkes and Bennie Crawford, baritone saxes; Freddie Greene, guitar; Eddie Jones and Edgar Willis, basses; Charlie Persip and Teagle Fleming drums. On "Alexander's Ragtime Band, Jose Mangual, bongo and drums, is added.

On "It Had To Be You," "Two Years Of Torture" and " When Your Lover Has Gone," the personnel is the same except that Billy Mitchell replaces Zoot Sims on tenor sax.

On "Just For A Thrill," "You Won't Let Me Go," "Tell Me You'll Wait For Me," "Don't Let The Sun Catch You Cryin'", "Am I Blue" and "Come Rain Or Shine," Ray Charles, piano and vocals, is accompanied by Allen Hamilton, guitar; Wendell Marshall, bass; Ted Sommer, drums; Bob Brookmeyer, trombone; and a large orchestra of woodwinds and strings (Harryt Lookofsky, concert master).

On "Alexander's Ragtime Band," trumpet solo is by Marcus Belgrave.

On "Two Years Of Torture," the tenor sax solo is by Paul Gonsalves.

On "Let The Good Times Roll," "It Had To Be You," "When Your Lover Has Gone" and "Deed I Do," the tenor solos are by David "Fathead" Newman.

From the back cover: Ray was Quincey's (Jones) first influence as a an arranger. Charles had been born in Albany, Georgia, in 1932, was moved to Greenfield, Florida, when he was a baby. At six, he was left blind after an illness. He studied music at a school for the blind in St. Augustine, Florida. Ray was orphaned at 15, and began playing professionally around Florida. For the next two years, he also began to gain experience as a singer and arranger.

At 17, he settled in Seattle and instituted the Maxim Trio. Quincy, who grew up in Seattle, remembers the trio as being "very modern." He sang like Nat Cole with a little Charles Brown. Although he wasn't singing blues as much then, he always sang with that feeling. He also was playing clarinet and alto then, and he was writing. He did some arranging for a band I was in then, Bumps Blackwell's junior band, whose singer was Ernestine Anderson. I remember even then that when Ray came into a session, it came to life."

"He showed me how to voice the first bass section writing I ever did", Quincy adds. "He really showed me the function of an arranger, what he was capable of doing. He made everything breathe for me. When he wrote, he put life into every note."

Among Ray's other qualities, Quincy underlines "hi fantastic sense of humor and his basic honesty. And he's so direct and unselfconscious."

Let The Good Times Roll

It Had To Be You

Alexander's Ragtime Band

Two Years Of Torture

When Your Lover Has Gone

Deed I Do

Just For A Thrill

You Won't Let Me Go

Tell Me You'll Wait For Me

Don't Let The Sun Catch You Cryin'

Am I Blue

Come Rain Or Come Shine

Frankie Avalon

 

Young Love

Frankie Avalon

Arranged and Conducted by Al Caiola

Produced by Peter DeAngelia

Cover and Liner Photographs by Bob Ghiraldini, Arsene Studios, New York

Chancellor CHL 5001

Distributed by Am-Par Record Corp.

1958

From the back cover: Here, in all his glory, is Franki Avalon, idol of the teen-age tempest, the rock 'n' roll revelers and the sentimental set, as well. For the 18-year-old song star is no tyro to the performing art, having basked in the light of national acclaim when he was but 12, his recording of Trumpet A Sorrento having hit the best-seller list within weeks after the youngster had had his first trumpet effort released on wax. The fact that Frankie had been studying the trumpet for only about three years at the time he was signed to record the selection attests to the remarkable zest which surrounds the handsome Italian youngster in all his endeavors.

From Billboard - May 24, 1958: Rock and roll warbler demonstrates versatility on a group of r&b hits, and standards (including his own best-selling singles "De De Dianh," "Diana," "Short Fat Fannie," "Oooh! Look-A There, Ain't She Pretty?," etc. Avalon has strong appeal for fem fans, and this package could move out, a la "Pat," "Ricky," etc.

Oooh! Look-a There, Ain't She

Short Fat Fannie

Young Love

Young And Beautiful

Diana

At The Hop

Honey

I'm Walkin'

Little Bitty Pretty One

De De Dinah

The Stroll

My Mom

You're My Girl

All In My Mind - Maxine Brown

 

It's A Lonely World (Alice Darr)

All In My Mind

Maxine Brown & Alice Darr

Guest Star Records G-1911

There are only two tracks on this album credited to Brown. Alice Darr's 8 tune set is top notch.

All In My Mi

I Only Know How To Cry

Yes, He's Gone

Leave Me Alone

It's A Lonely World 

Funny

There He Goes

I Can't Find My Way Home

Under This Smile

Try, Try Again

Spanish Album - The Sandpipers

Michelle

The Sandpipers

Spanish Album

Produced by Tommy Li Puma

* Arranged by Mort Garson

** Arranged by Perry Botkin, Jr.

*** Arranged by Bob Thompson

**** Arranged by Nick DeCaro

Art Direction: Tom Wilkes

Photography: Guy Webster

A&M Records STEREO SP 4159

1968

Guantanamera*

La Bamba*

Estranos En La Noche*

Llevame A La Luna**

Concion De Amor***

Louie, Louis*

Cuando Sali De Cuba (The Wind Will Change Tomorrow)****

Ayer (Yesterday)*

Michelle*

Y La Quiero (And I Love Her)**

Enamorado*

Ojos Españoles***

Viva - Francis Bay

 

Mambo No. 8

Viva

Francis Bay And The Big Dance Band

Epic Stereorama CSRP 561

Columbia Special Products

Special Archives Series

1960

From the back cover: Francis Bay's ability to play practically every important wind instrument in virtuoso fashion make him a particularly authoritative orchestra leader, and it is no surprise to learn that when he won the International Song Festival in Venice his orchestra had then existed merely 175 days.

This Belgian musician's career began early, for at the age of seven he was already playing the clarinet in local orchestras, at the age of fourteen he was busily getting down to composition, at fifteen he was fast becoming an intense jazz addict, and at the age of sixteen he won a first prize in clarinet playing at the Conservatoire of Malines. From then on he broadened his technical accomplishments by learning to play the other reeds and saxes, and gained valuable orchestral experience buy playing the ensembles of Paul Godwin (1936) and Boyd Bachman (1939). From then until 1952 he was to be found playing in orchestras of many nationalities (Swiss, Dutch, Swedish, German and Belgian), writing, arranging and composing film music and interesting himself in "trick" recordings and jazz of an advance nature.

More recently, he has led the I.N.R. Dance Orchestra (this was the team which won the Golden Gondola in Venice) in co-operation with producer Bob Boone. This orchestra, as you would expect, contains some true virtuoso soloists, among whom are the tenor saxophonist Benny Couroyer, the "high blower" Edmond Harnie, the "bop" soloist Charlie Knegtel, the alto saxophonist Francois l'Elise, the astonishing drummer Armand van de Walle, and the pianist Jean Evans. Francis Bay has been lately causing quite a stir with his versions of "Tequila" – proving that a Latin-American melody in a swingy vein can be played with as much gusto by a Continental band as by any of its transatlantic counterparts. On this record he continues in this vein, presenting hi ideas in his inimitable style, combining a Latin beat, a hard-driving swing, and that flawless precision which is his hallmark.

O Cangaceiro

Mambo No. 5

Rico Vacillon

Andalucia

Tico-Tico

El Millonario

Nicolasa

Anna

Brazil

Rumba Negra

Mambo No. 8

Cachito

Lie To Me - Brook Benton

 

Valley Of Tears

Lie To Me

Brook Benton

Singing The Blues

With The Merry Melody Singers

Mercury Records MG 20740

1962

Billboard - September 22, 1963: Benton's current single hit is the lead item on this powerhouse LP. The lad sings "Lie To Me" in strong fashion and comes through with 11 other topflight performances, many of which have a touch of the blues mixed with a touch of the country. Strings, vocal chorus and other special instrumental effects enliven the ballad album which contains such potent material as "Chains Of Love," "Valley Of Tears," and "Got You On My Mind." Two big ones for Brook, "Send For Me" and "Looking Back" are also included.

Lie To Me

Chains Of Love

Got You On My Mind

Valley Of Tears

Take Good Care Of Her

My True Confession

I Got What I Wanted

Will You Love Me Tomorrow

Pledging My Love

Tomorrow Night

Send For Me

Looking Back

Columbia Retailer - Vol. 1, No. 4

 

Side 1

Side 2

Side 3

Side 4

Columbia Retailer

A New Year In Records

Convention Issue

Vol. 1, No. 4

Published by Columbia Records 

A Division of Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc.

1955

Side 1

Introduction: Jim Conkling & Goddard Lieberson

Masterworks: Goddard Lieberson & Dave Oppenheim

Side 2

Price & Packages: Jim Conkling & Goddard Lieberson

Popular and Jazz Albums: Goddard Lieberson, George Avakian & Paul Weston

Guest: Mahalia Jackson

Master Of Ceremonies: Goddard Lieberson

Side 3

Popular and Jazz Albums: Goddard Lieberson, George Avakian & Paul Westong

Guest: Mahalia Jackson

Master Of Ceremonies: Goddard Lieberson

Side 4

The Fall Plan: Jim Conkling, Goddard Lieberson, Hal Cook, Forrest Price & Stan Kavan

Master Of Ceremonies: Goddard Lieberson

Gershwin And Guitars - Al Caiola

 

Swanee

Gershwin And Guitars

Al Caiola and Orchestra

Arrangements: Al Caiola

Artist & Repertoire: Bob Shad

Original Recording Engineer: John Cue

Re-Recording Engineer: Earle Brown

Mastering: Charles McLoughlin

Liner Notes: Nat Hentoff

Album Coordination: Arpena Spargo

Album Design: Murray Stein

Typography: The Composing Room, Inc.

Recorded July 6, 7, 1960

Time Series 2000

52010

Personnel and Instrumentation

Guitars and Bass Guitar: 

Al Caiola

Bucky Pizzarelli

Mr. "X"

Don Arnone

Art Ryerson

Woodwinds (Flutes, Piccolo, Clarinet, Alto and Tenor Saxophone, Contra Bass Clarinet, Oboe & Bassoon: 

Nuncio Mondello

Phil Bodner

Stan Webb

Romero Penque

Georg Berg

Piano:

Bernie Leighton

Bass

Frank Carroll

Percussion (Xylophone, Marimba, Vibraphone, Bongos, Tunable Bongos, Congo Drum, Tympani, TOm Tom, Tambourine, Finger Cymbal, Hand Cymbal, Maracas, Bells, Bell Tree, Chimes, Jazz Chimes, Shakers, Scratchers):

George Devens

Phil Kraus

Eddie Costa

The Man I Love

Fascinating Rhythm

Stairway To Paradise

Mine

But Not For Me

A Foggy Day

Strike Up The Band

Swanee

Oh Lady Be Good

Nice Work If You Can Get It

Soon

Embraceable You

Cast Your Fate To The Wind - Vince Guaraldi

 

Samba De Orpheus

Cast Your Fate To The Wind

The Vince Guaraldi Trio

Cover Photo: Chas Weckler

Cover Design: Balzer/Shopes

Typography: Jim Melvin

Fantasy Records STEREO 8089

1965

Vince Guaraldi - Piano

Monte Budwig - Bass

Colin Bailey - Drums

Samba De Orpheus

Manha De Carnaval

Musso Amor

Generique

Cast Your Fate To The Wind

Moon River

Alma-Ville

Since I Fell For You

The Golden Hits Of The Four Aces

 

It's A Woman's World

The Golden Hits Of The Four Aces

With Chorus and Orchestra Directed by Jack Pleis

Decca Records DL 4013

1960

Stranger In Paradise

The Gang That Sang "Heart Of My Heart"

Three Coins In The Fountain 

Tell Me Why

Garden In The Rain

It's A Woman's World

Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing

(It's No) Sin

Written On The Wind

Melody Of Love

A Woman In Love

Heart And Soul