Love In Any Language By Anamorena

Love Me Or Leave Me (English - Italian)

Love In Any Language By Anamorena
Vik LX-1094
1957

From the back cover: Anamorena is such a singer of songs. Even as a child in her native Argentina, where the exotic, ancient mysteries of the Andes were her fairy tales, she was attracted to words and sounds with a poetic adoration.

Sessions conducted by Marty Gold, Russ Case and Sid Bass.

Anamorena switches between English, French, German, Spanish and Italian in her unusual soft almost spoken word approach. This is her "first recording".  I can find no other online information on the artist. This is an odd LP that tries to be a more consumable period torch album.

A curious side note. The album jacket opens on the left hand side (the opposite side from normal) and when you flip the album over to read the notes (as you would normally)... the copy is totally upside down.

My Man
Made For Each Other
Come Closer To Me
I'll Be Yours
When All The Lights Are Low
What A Difference A Day Made
Besame Mucho
Autumn Leaves
Need Me
You Belong To My Heart
Love Me Or Leave Me
Auf Wiedersehen Sweetheart

Gloria A-Glo

Midnight In Moscow

Gloria A-Glo
Featuring The Instrumental Sounds Of Gloria Tracy
Arranged by Jud De Naut

Produced by Larry Goldberg

Art Direction: H. C. Pennington

Photography: Studio Five

Typography: ACC-Headlines Of Los Angeles
Hanna-Barbera Records HLP-8501

1965

From the inside cover: "It sounds like the angels are having a jam session... That's what I thought the first time I heard Gloria Tracy's harp. I walked into the big room at the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas, heard this swinging music, looked up and saw this angel... and for a second wasn't sure if this was heaven or the hotel." 

Gloria makes music easy to listen to. And Gloria is easy to look at too. After meeting her at the Tropicana, I introduced her to network television on my "Hollywood Talent Scouts" show, and she was such a smash success that we introduced her to the daytime audience on our network "House Party" radio and TV show and got bundles of letters from people across the country, all wanting to know about this 'new' sound. – Art Linkletter

From a 1964 Sarasota Herald-Tribune article: Unlike most harpists, Miss Tracy doesn't concentrate on classical music. She prefers jazz. "But it's not progressive jazz," she said. "It's music that people can understand. I'm trying to bring the harp down to where people can understand it."

Excellent early 60s light pop/jazz.

1965 press photo

A Walk In The Black Forest

Skyliner

Eleven Thirty Saturday Night

Midnight In Moscow

Summit Ridge Drive

Alley Cat

Hawaii

The Girlfriend 

Cast Your Fate To The Wind

Sweetheart Tree

Hot Toddy

City By The Sea

Holiday In Rio

Holiday In Rio
Riviera R0035

Budget studio release featuring a colorful cover. The record may also have been released on Crown. The tracks are being sold online under the Crown label by a company that seems to have digitized the entire Crown catalog even if the pressing was creatively mediocre when originally released.

The music on this album is small combo lounge Latin that, for the most part, doesn't match the cover model's sparkle.

Computer Music - Realized In The Computer Centers Of Columbia & Princeton Universities

Synthesism

Computer Music

Realized In The Computer Centers Of Columbia & Princeton Universities
Nonesuch Records H-71245

From the back cover: Four different sound-synthesis programs were used to perform the works on this record: MUSIC IV (written by Max V. Mathews and Joan Miller at the Bell Telephone Laboratories) for Quartets in Pairs; MUSIC IVB (a greatly revised and expanded version of MUSIC IV) by Godfrey Winham and Hurbert S. Howe at Princeton) for Mudgett; a Fortran-language version of MUSIC IVB (written Godfrey Winham) for Quartensines and Changes; and MUSIC 360 (an assembly-language program for IBM/360 computers written by Barry Vercoe) for Synthesism. All of the works used a digital-to-analog converter at the Bell Telephone Laboratories, and all were computed at the Princeton Computer Center with the exception of Changes, which made use of the Columbia Computer Center as well. The vocal parts for Medgett were recorded at the Hebert H. Hagens studio in Princeton.

Side One

J. K. Randall (b. 1929)
1. Quartets In Paris
2. Quartersines
3. Mudgett: monologues by a mass murders (Melinda Kessler, soprano)
Barry Vercoe (b. 1937
4 Synthesism

Side Two
Charles Dodge (b. 1942)
Changes

Moonlight Dance Time By The Velvet Sounds

Velvet Theme

Moonlight Dance Time

By The Velvet Sounds

International Award Series AK-189

Budget label album sporting a pretty dull cover. Surprisingly, you'll music that has a "The Three Suns" vibe to it.

Come Sail With Me - 101 Strings

Malibu Sun

Come Sail With Me
101 Strings
Alshire S-5157

I've featured the sample track before (101 Strings - Guitars Galore), but the tune is a great light pop track and the best off this album. That's not to say the remaining tracks aren't fun easy/light pop fare. The LP plays through nicely.

Blue Hawaii
They Call The Wind Maria
Bahia De Acapulco
The Shadow Of Your Smile
Malibu Sun
Bali Hai
The Breeze And I
Mykonos Sunset
Puerto Vallarta
Romance

Hawaiian Magic - Johnny Oahu

Tahu Wahu Wahi

Hawaiian Magic

Johnny Oahu & His Orchestra

Photography Courtesy Of United Air Lines

Cover Design: Pastarnack/Richee

International Award Series

AK-191

Aloha Oe

Ua Like Noa Like

Makalapua

Pretty Mermaid Of The Souther Sea

Tahu Wahu Wahi

One, Two, Three, Four

Hilo March

My Hawaiian Kula La Ni

Kila Kila Haleakala

Aloha Oe E Kuu Lei

Tom And Jerry - Guitar's Greatest Hits

Green Onions

Tom And JerryGuitar's Greatest Hits
Arranged by Bill Justis
Mercury WC 16332

One of, apparently, four albums Tommy Tomlison and Jerry Kennedy made for Mercury. This is "Volume II". I blogged their first release that features a rocking cover of Caravan. You can find additional links on that page.

This is another engaging effort that features a blend of approaches.

From the back cover: Born 12 years apart and following separate musical careers until Mercury teamed them to record Golden Wildwood Flower (which became their first hit), Tom and Jerry had little in common except their home state, Louisiana, and their virtuosity on the guitar.

Songs Of The South Seas

Wiki Wiki Mai

Songs Of The South Seas
Played By Popular Hawaiian Orchestra
Audition AUD-33-5930

Flutes And Percussion - Hal Mooney

Summertime (Stereo)

Maria (Mono)

Flutes And Percussion

Arranged and Conducted by Hal Mooney

Artist & Repertorie Director: Bob Shad

Original Recording Engineers: Frank Abbey & Earle Brown

Re-Recording Engineer: Victor Brainard

Mastering: Saul Kessler

Liner Notes: Nat Hentoff

Album Coordination: Arpean Spargo

Album Design: Murray Stein
Time Series 2000 

52001 & S/2001

1960

Personnel and Instrumentation:

The following were the musicians who performed on Maria, Moonglow, Comes Loe, Mountain Greenery, Let There Be Love and Liza:

Walt Leinsky - Clarinet & Bass Clarinet

Stan Webb - Flute, Alto Flute, Oboe & English Horn

Don Hammond: Flute, Alto Flute & Bass Flute

Phil Bodner - Flute

Dave Kurtzer - Clarinet, Bass Clarinet & Bassoon

Romeo Penque - Flute & Alto Flute

Wallace Richardson - Fender Bass

Moe Wexler - Celeste & Piano 

George Duvivier - Bass

Phil Kraus - Percussion

Eddie Costa - Vibes, Xylophone, Bells, Marimba & Chimes

Barry Galbraith - Guitar

On Moonlight Becomes You, My Reverie, Small World, Summertime, The Best Thing For You and Little Girl Blue the following performed

Waltz Levinsky - Flute & Alto Flute

Al Klink - Flute & Alto Flute

Stan Webb - Flute & Alto Flute

Stan Webb - Flute, Alto Flute, Oboe & English Horn

Don Hammond - Flute, Alto Flute & Bass Flute

Moe Wexler - Piano, Celeste & Organ

Milt Hinton - Bass

Ted Sommer - Percussion

Bob Rosengarden - Bongos

Eddie Costa - Vibes, Xylophone & Bells

John Pizzarelli - Guitar

From Billboard - July 11, 1960: A handsome exhibit of top-notch recording techniques. The instrumentation consists of woodwinds, mainly flutes, with chimes, bongos, drums and numerous other percussion cleverly scored for maximum stereo effects. Tunes are familiar for the most part – "Maria," "Little Girl Blue," "Moonlight Becomes You," etc. – but they are certainly given new and unique voicings. A quality package of sound that can find a healthily market.

My Reverie
Mountain Greenery
Little Girl Blue
Summertime
The Best Thing For You
Moonlight Becomes You
Liza
Maria
Comes Love
Let There Be Love
Small World
Moonglow