The Talents Of Bud Shank

 

You Don't Know What Love Is

The Talents Of Bud Shank

Kimberly Records Jazz Series 2025

1962

From Billboard - March 31, 1962: Precision Radiation Instruments Corporation, which is responsible for Tops Records, has issued a flock of jazz disks on its low price Kimberly label. LP's comprise jazz items previously issued on the World Pacific and Pacific Jazz labels. Front line artists like Chet Baker, Bud Shank, Hoagy Carmichael, Gerry Mulligan, Chico Hamilton, Bobby Brookmeyer, and Paul Bryant make up the first batch of 10 albums.

For the jazz trade, the low price and high quality of material should prove a potent factor in sales. Among the albums some of the top names in West Coast type jazz are magnificently represented as sidemen. Among them are Art Pepper, Shelly Manne, Curtis Amy, Jim Hall, singer Annie Ross, Freddie Gambrell and Russ Freeman.

Side One:

Bud Shank - Alto

Bob Enevoldsen, Stu Williamson & Maynard Ferguson - Valve Trombones 

Claud Williamson - Piano

Joe Mondragon - Bass

Shelly Mann - Drums

Side Two:

Bud Shank - Alto Sax, Alto Flute

Shorty Rogers - Flugel Horn

Jimmy Rowes - Piano

Roy Harte - Drums

Harry Babasin - Bass

Wailing Vessel

Cool Fool

Little Girl Blue

You Don't Know What Love Is

Valve In Head

Casa De Luz

Lotus Bud

Jasmine

Just A Few

Ames Brothers Concert

 

Blue Prelude

Ames Brothers Concert

Coral Records High Fidelity CRL 57031

1956

From the back cover: This collection once more proves the versatility of this amazing quartet. The group now known as the Ames Brothers are the youngest of nine children. They are in chronological order: Joe, Gene, Vic and Eddie – all of them still in their twenties. All of them went through the usual schooling. Joe and Ed went on to Boston Latin School; Joe also studied engineering at UCLA. But when he resumed his studies at Boston University, he found that music was to  be the career he wanted most.

Meanwhile the three younger boys had organized a quartet which included a friend, and they toured around New England. When the friend took sick, Joe – who had auditioned for the Metropolitan Opera in New York, and had just finished an engagement singing Mozart in Montreal – decided to join them.

Their first real break came when they went up to Leeds Publishing Company in search of an old song called "Should I," which their mother had suggested their rediscovering. Milt Gabler happened to walk into the office and heard them sing. He was so impressed that he had them cut a few sides for Decca just before January, 1948. The following year the Ames Brothers were the first artists to record for Coral Records. Their recordings swept into national top billing with their first huge hit record, "Rag Mop," in January, 1950.

The Ames Brothers' career in radio has been as sensational as on records. They have appeared in connection with many different types of entertainment and have been uniformly successful in everything they have undertaken.

From Billboard - February 11, 1956: The foursome has put together a representative and most salable assortment of a dozen tunes for this package and no doubt dealers will move plenty of copies. Most of the group's biggest past hits are here, including "Sentimental Me," "Can Anyone Explain," "Rag Mop" and "Undecided." Shapes up as an active entry among both retailers and jockeys.

Sentimental Me

Can Anyone Explain?

Rag Mop

Because

Hawaiian War Chant

Lonely Wine

Undecided

Star Dust

Dry Bones

String Along

Blue Prelude

Sentimental Journey

Good Music For People Who Hate Good Music - Symphonic Pops

 

Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2

Good Music For People Who Hate Good Music

Symphonic Pops

With Famous Conductors: Harry Weber, Erick Leinsdorf, George Enesco

And The World Famous Chicago Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra

Hollywood Records LPH-120

Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 - Parts 1 and 2

Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 - Parts 1 and 2

Nocturne

Prelude To The Afternoon Of A Faun

Marchie Slav

Brahm's Hungarian Dance Nos. 1 and 5

Air On The G String

Left Bank Of Paris - Hector Delfosse

 

Singing The Blues

Left Bank Of Paris

Hector Delfosse

Accordion and Rhythm Goup

Richmond High Fidelity B 20054

A Product of London Records

1959

La Marie-Vision

Carousel Waltz

Ea! Canastos

Un Fil Souls Les Pattes

Singing The Blues (C'est Beau Ca)

Guaglione 

Pepita De Majorca

Si, Si La Vie Est Belle

Port-Au-Prince

La Vie Me Pousse

Psychedelic Shack - The Temptations

 

Take A Stroll Thru Your Mind

The Temptation 

Psychedelic Shack

Pickwick  SPC-3540

Previously Released by Motown Record Crop.

1975

Psychedelic Shack

You Make Your Own Heaven And Hell Right Here On Earth

Hum Along And Dance

Take A Stroll Thru Your Mind

It's Summer

War

You Need Love Like I Do (Don't You)

Friendship Train