8 Top Hits - Waldorf MH 3319

8 Top Hits

8 Top Hits
Waldorf Music Hall Records

MH 3319 (10 inch disc - 33 rpm)
1956

Same Old Saturday Night - Enoch Light Orchestra

Suddenly There's A Valley - Dottie Evans with The Brigadiers Quartet

Love And Marriage - Loren Becker & Enoch Light Orchestra

Only You - Jerry Duane & The Deerhill Dudes

Shifting Whispering Sands - Loren Becker & The Deerhill Dudes

Black Denim Trousers - Artie Malvin & The Brigadiers

Someone You Love - Artie Malvin

He - Artie Malvin with Orchestra & Chorus

The Wild Angels

Midnight Rider

Music From The Soundtrack Of The Motion Picture

The Wild Angels

American International Presents 

Peter Fonda & Diane Ladd

And Members Of The Hell's Angels Of Venice, California

Arranged and Conducted by Mike Curb

Produced by Mike Curb for Sidewalk Productions

Recorded at American Recording Studio

Music Editing: Eddie Norton

Music Supervision: G.P. IV Productions

Lyric to the title song "The Wild Angels Ride Tonight" by Harley Hatcher

Tower Records DT 5043
1966

In his capacity as Artists and Repertoire director, the opulently gifted twenty-year-old Mike Curb has produced hit record by the Walker Bros., the Hondells, the Paris Sisters, Timmy Yuro and others. Mike scored the delightful "Skaterdater," an Academy Awards nominee and top prize winner at the Cannes Film Festival this year in the short subjects classification. The exciting new group, The Arrows, featuring Davie Allan on lead guitar, also performed in "Skaterdater."

Theme From "The Wild Angels" - Vocal: The Visitors featuring Barbara

The Chase - Instrumental: Davie Allan and The Arrows

Lonely In The Chapel - Vocal: The Hands Of Time

Bongo Party - Instrumental: Davie Allan and The Arrows

Blue's Theme - Instrumental: Davie Allan and The Arrows

Theme From "The Wild Angels" - Instrumental: Davie Allan and The Arrows

Midnight Rider - Vocal: The Hands Of Time

Rockin' Angel - Instrumental: Davie Allan and The Arrows

The Lonely Rider - Instrumental: Davie Allan and The Arrows

The Unknown Rider - Instrumental: Davie Allan and The Arrows

The Wild Angels Ballad (Dirge) - Instrumental: Davie Allan and The Arrows

Organ Stop Pizza & Wurlitzer

Organ Stop Pizza
Wurlitzer Theater Pipe Organ
Presents Ron Rhode
Swartwout Productions SPS 5886-42
197?

Yes, you are looking at an autographed copy of Organ Stop Pizza. Terrific cover of Rhodes (not a stunt double) fearlessly perched on top of a step ladder in front of the Organ Stop Pizza

Organ Stop Pizza is an actual operating pizza parlor located in Mesa, Arizona.  They still engage excellent organ artists to entertain guests.

Never in my life would I have guessed this record, found in an antique store, would amount to more than  an oddball event lost to history. Now I know that some good things in life persist and feature a salad bar!

Check out their website here: Organ Stop Pizza

MacArthur Park - Living Marimbas

Eleanor Rigby

MacArthur Park And Other Favorites
Living Marimbas Plus Strings
Arranged and Conducted by Leo Addeo

Recorded in RCA's Studio B, New York City

Recording Engineer: Bob Simpson

BMW Motorcycle Courtesy of Butler & Smith, Inc., New York, N.Y., Exclusive U. S. Importer
RCA Camden 1968
CAS-2283

MacArthur Park

Mrs. Robinson from the film "The Graduate"

This Guy's In Love With You

Lullaby from "Rosemary's Baby"

A Man Without Love (Quando m'innamoro)

Eleanor Rigby

The Odd Couple

Gramercy Park

Red Wing

The Dove

Richard Hayman - Only Memories

Only Memories

Only Memories

Richard Hayman and His Orchestra

Wacker Series
Mercury MG 20428 (SR 60100)
1959

Alone At Last

If I Spent A Lifetime

Night Love

Prancing

Live Just For Tonight

Only Memories

Out Of Space And Time

Come To My Arms

When I Recall

You Look Good To Me

The Frustrated Clown

The Miracle At Christmas

Have A Very Merry Christmas

The Miracle At Christmas
Bill Walters Sings Ruth Lyons Christmas Songs
Jewel Records JRC 86044

This is a great local lounge styled album.

Ruth Lyons was a local fixture on TV here in Cincinnati (hosting a variety show). She and her "gang" also produced a number of Christmas LPs. According to the notes, Walters was a cast member of Lyon's 50/50 Club for 20 years.

According to the notes, the cover illustration is inspired by the "title tune of the album", The Miracle At Christmas. Not actually a song, but a poem. The drawing was done by "another warm and sensitive person and good friend", Phil Ohlms. It was meant to capture "that very special meaning of Christmas".

Miss Teal Joy

Misirlou

Ted Steel Presents
Miss Teal Joy
AAMCO Records ALPS-75

1957

From the back cover: About Teal Joy - The classic remark made by a normally unconcerned engineer on this recording session, I feel, most truly describes the unmatched excitement of everyone here at AMCO. I quote: "This album will bring back music."

New superlatives must be found to describe the talent and versatility of Miss Teal Joy. I've lived music and the music business for many more years then I would care to mention, working with giants like Perry Como, and Frank Sinatra. I've worked likewise with the newcomers, many of whom I have been fortunate enough to start on their climb to stardom.

But I have never been so positive of greatness as I am now. Miss Teal Joy: This young lady was singing in the Bamboo Club in Atlantic City, practically on the doorstep of the recording center of the world and virtually unnoticed, when I stopped in. Now I am so grateful that I was the one to come along and be completely stunned by her immeasurable talent and taste.

I have now an opportunity to create with, what I consider, the greatest new voice in the last decade.

Teal Joy is a rarity in that she has the emotion and technical "feel" for every  kind of music, as demonstrated in the variety of songs chosen for this album. Born in Seattle, Washington, Teal is of Japanese, French, and Peruvian descent, which I am sure imparts to her interpretation of these songs much of the rich emotional color and understanding, delicacy, and mystery of many cultures. And at the same time, her renditions of the bright tunes is strongly reminiscent of the jazz greats.

Because of her amazing versatilely I felt that we needed three distinctly different sounds to showcase Teal properly. Three different orchestras, comprised of the outstanding names in the music world were called in to do this album. A complete 25-piece production orchestra was used on the "Misirlou," "Sorrento," "Cumbanchero" and "Let's Fall In Love" numbers. A "wailing" jazz band for the up tunes and the simple sensitivity of lush strings – rhythm, wood-winds, horn, and harp for the delicate ballads like "Easy To Remember."

Listen to Teal Joy. You will discover, as I did, a 'once-in-a-lifetime" talent. This album is the first. You will hear Teal Joy many times again. – Ted Steele

Let's Fall In Love

Easy To Remember

Since I Feel For You

Misirlou

Don't Worry About Me

'Deed I Do

For You My Love

That Ole Evil Called Love

Who's Sorry Now

Come Back To Sorrento

Autumn Leaves

El Cumbanchero

The Young Sound '70

Venus

The Young Sound '70
Out Of Sight Hits For The Now People
Somerset SF-34400

Somerset had no idea what the 1970  "Young Sound" actually sounded like. Maybe they did, but did not have the money to spend to compile the actual hits of the period. The set is a mess. A few tunes seem to be the originals while others are not, including the lame lead track (sample above, originally recorded by The Shocking Blue in 1969).

Other songs... sound like early 60s or even 50s stock stuff, tracks that they found who knows where. They also threw in a song titled Model "T" which is a novelty instrumental as well as a gospel number that someone rearranged to be "hip".

From the back cover: A program for young people of some of the top hits of today. You can dance, sing or listen to this great album.

All New Fun Children's Songs

The Fairies Sing

All New Fun Children's Songs
Blue Duck Records 1981

Chicken Fat 1982 Aerobic Dance Party

Chicken Fat
Irwin's Aerobic Dance Party
Peter Pan 1982
BR536

This album is a totally whacked.

When you first look at the cover you think "Walt Disney", right? Wrong... these characters are complete rip offs of the well known brands. And if you listen to the record, "The Cookie Gobbler" is a rip off of The Cookie Monster (Sesame Street).

I can't believe Peter Pan took the infringement risk when they released this LP.