Crazy Calliope Music Featuring Margie Meinert

Beautiful Dreamer

Crazy Calliope Music Featuring Margie Meinert
In Adaptions On The Wurlitzer Steam Calliope
Fraternity Records - Cincinnati, Ohio
21141

From the back cover: Recorded April, 1957 at Universal Recording Studios, Chicago, Illinois. Calliope courtesy of Horn's Cars Of Yesterday, Sarasota, Florida. Cover painting and design by Louis Spiegel.

Also from the back cover: On this calliope session, she was accompanied only by drums. The unwavering and infectious beat of these drums is not supplied by a mechanical robot as might be expected, but by a human automaton, Tommy Thomas.

Several years later Margie or Marjorie would release this curious album: Hi-Fi And Mighty on RCA.

The Other Side Of This Side - Cecilia

Balboa Island

The Other Side Of This Side
Cecilia
Aztlan Records - Buena Park, California
1986

Irma Loera - 1958 - 2008

Moody 80s LP featuring a mixture of spoken word/poetry/experimental and vocals.

Limbo Dance Party - Ernie Freeman

How Low Can You Go

Limbo Dance Party
Ernie Freeman
Liberty LRP-3283
1962

Light pop Limbo featuring another fun cover design from the folks at Liberty who had a hard time making a bad album.

Nothing fancy here, just a nice simple light space age small combo.

Read about Freeman on his wiki page.

All-Time Children's Hits Vol. II

American Pie

All-Time Children's Hits Vol. II
Performed By The Puff 'N Toot Singers and Orchestra
Peter Pan Records 8178

American Pie... Nothing like whiskey and rye and Unicorns to keep the youngsters occupied.

Space Experience - John Keating

The Unknown Planet

Space Experience
Created and Produced by John Keating

Engineer: Peter Vance

Featuring the E.M.S Synthi VCS3 Music Synthesizer
Columbia CO 32382
1972

I Feel The Earth Move
The Unknown Planet
Rocket Man
Prelude To Earthrise
Star Trek
Space Agent
Jesus Christ Superstar
Upon Another Earth
The Sound Of Silence
Signal To Saturn

Mambo Bongo Bash! - Al Stephano And His Trio

Bongo Bash

Mambo Bongo Bash!
Al Stephano And His Trio

Wardrobe and background by Giovanni Feragamo. Shoes by Feragamo.

Photography: Garrett/Howard
Tops L1722

From the back cover: Al Stephano, a new name to most people in this country, will not remain that way long. With the release of this album and two others: "Latin Dance Carnival" (TOPS - L1718) and "Rhumba Reflexiones" (TOPS-L1721) Stephano makes his American debut. For years he has been a favorite all over Europe, featured in the finest night clubs and restaurants, selling records into the millions, broadcasting constantly all the way from the B.B.C. to the Armed Forces Network.

Mambo #5

Si

Why Wait

Tulo Que Estas

Borracho

Perfidia

Anabaccoa

Un Poquito De Tu

Amor

Bongo Bash

Mambo Falcon

Electronic Music

Electronic Music

Turnabout - TV 34046S
1966

Side One

Band One: Ilhan Mimaroglu: Agony
Band Two: John Cage: Fontan Mix

Side Two: Luciano Berio: Visage

Side one is comprised of short "electronic" sounds strung together in a sort of loose collage style. Interesting but side two features wild vocals by Cathy Berberian and is a fantastic sonic journey.

From the back cover: Cathy Berberian, whose stunning vocal artistry defies classification, was born in the United States of America. She completed her vocal studies in Milan with Giorgina del Vigo. Since 1953 she has appeared in concerts, particulary of avant-grade music both in Europe and in the United States.

My World - Jo Basile And His Orchestra

My World
Jo Basile And His Orchestra
Columbia CS 9431
1967

This is a very good space age accordion album. Read about Basile on Space Age Pop.

Hi-Fi And Mighty - Marjorie Meinert

Un bel di, verdremo (One Fine Day)

Hi-Fi And Mighty
Marjorie Meinert At The Allen Organ
Produced by Herman Diaz, Jr.
RCA Victor LPM-2169
1960

This is an album that I struggle to define. What the cover art suggests, I have no idea. I can't figure out what the "exercise" or "weightlifting" tie-in is all about.

The music is played on an electronic organ that sounds much like a pipe organ. So the music, even though well executed, is slow... sometimes VERY slow and heavy. This is strange especially when you are listening to "pop" song covers, like A Song Of India.  After some adjustment in my expectations... the recording did grow on me.

Check out the last track as found on side 2 that I've posted above. It's a long, quite, slow, strange experiment in recording.

The Movie Hits - The Film Festival Orchestra

Black Sunday

The Movie Hits
The Film Festival Orchestra
Springboard Records SPB-4077
1977

Volume 1. Check out a sample from Volume 2.

Budget movie theme covers album with no real focus. You've got your disco to easy listening to a moog piece (The Sorcerer). The Theme From Rocky sounds like a high school band made the recording. Fun. If you make it to the end of side 2 to you'll enjoy what I thought was the best track, a moody cover of the theme from Black Sunday.