Howdy Folks! Welcome to The UnEarthed In The Atomic Attic album blog! Here you will find a wide variety of unusual Space Age Vinyl finds that feature good quality cover scans, jacket notes and audio samples for you to enjoy. I'm here to have fun and hope you will share in my process of discovery!
A Taste Of Honey
The Monterey Brass
Diplomat D 2370
The taste of cheap sounding budget brass…
A Taste Of Honey
Stranger On The Shore
Wonderland By Night
Deliah's Delight
Chiribiribin
La Paloma
Oh My Papa
La Cucaracha
Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White
When The Saints Go Marching In
30 Hawaiian Favorites
The Hawaiian Islanders
Wyncote Stereo/Mono W9109
Beautiful Lanihuli Sweet Lie Mama Awaiulu Imi Au Ia Oe Puna Paia Aala Island Song Hawaiian Ukulele Crystal Lagoon Hawaiian Enchantment Island Serenade Paahana Maunawili Ka Moe Koni Au Ika Wai Moani Ke Ala Wiliwili Wai Nuuanu Waipuna Mai Poina Oe La'u Akahi Hoi Ua Like No A Like Moani Ke Ala Sunny Manoa Oi Hio Ha Maui No Ka Ol Honolulu Maids Aloha Oe Wai O Punalau Ainahau Maikai Waipio Na Lei O Hawaii
Sold as a "dance party" album with Desmond mentioned as a side note on the back cover: And as an added attraction, this album features Singer-Dancer-Actor-Composer Johnny Desmond to add zest to the listening and dancing. All you need now are fun-minded people (or, at least, a partner), and a floor (any one will do) – and this album will do the rest.
This budget Golden Tone press is all about Desmond and his excellent lounge vibe vocals.
All Of You
The Last Time I Saw Paris
You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
This Can't Be Love
That Old Devil Moon
There's A Small Hotel
It Ain't Necessarily So
I Can't Get Started With You
My Happy Time
It's The Talk Of The Town
I Got Plenty O' Nuttin'
Live Burlesque Live
Produced and Arranged by Jack Hansen
Candy Butcher & Master of Ceremonies - Danny Crystal
Material by Lee & Jack Hansen
United Artists
UAS 6613
Attempt to recreate a Burlesque show without the visuals… except for the cheesecake cover.
International Pop Orchestra
110 Musicians
Wyncote/Cameo SW-9005
1964
Songs play through as listed on the cover.
From the back cover: Consisting of 110 hand-picked musicians, the International Pop Orchestra is almost unique in the world today – a full-fledged symphonic orchestra created solely for the purpose of playing popular music. It's string section alone numbers 58 members and is augmented by such unsymphonic instruments as guitars and mandolins. Also contributing to the almost-overwhelming sound of this unusual ensemble are bongos, timbales, a variety of unusual rhythm instruments and a grand theatre organ!
Apparently this album concept was designed to lure mathematicians and people who don't subscribe to the theory that "less is more". If you are counting, this budget "lush string" album sounds LP pretty good compared to many of the period.
Leroy Anderson In Latin America
Marco Rizo, His Piano & Orchestra
Forum F 9039
From the back cover: Marco Rizo, his piano and orchestra have taken some of Leroy Anderson's best known melodies and without losing any of its flavor have added a beguiling Latin touch that enhances the original songs. He keeps Anderson's flowing, melodic warmth and then heats it with his Latin piano styling.
Marco Rizo has shown a high degree of originality in his own right in arranging the Anderson melodies included here. He takes "Blue Tango" and turns it into a slow cha cha which effectively turns back to a tango rhythm in the release and then back again to a slow cha cha in the main theme. Anderson's delightful "Jazz Pizzicato" is given new expression as a merengue and the snappy, humorous "The Typewriter" with its tapping of the machine becomes a mambo dance number. "Belle Of The Ball" sounds as natural as a slow rumba as it originally did as a waltz. Many of Leroy Anderson's compositions fit perfectly into place and can be done no other way. "The Syncopated Clock" is constructed to be just what Marco Rizo has made it here, a natural cha cha melody.
Blue Tango
Jazz Pizzicato
The Typewriter
Belle Of The Ball
Sleigh Ride
Sandpaper Ballet
The Syncopated Clock
Forgotten Dreams
The Waltzing Cat
Jazz Legato Plink Plank Plunk
Summer Skies
Love Songs For A Late Evening
Columbia House 1P 6114
1974
Brian's Song - Peter Nero
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - Boots Randolph
Morning Has Broken - John Gregory
Serenade In Blue - Glenn Miller Orchestra
Music Until Midnight - Percy Faith
Moonlight Serenade - Ray Conniff
As Time Goes By - Liberace
My Sweet Lord - Terry Baxter
The Nearness Of You Andre Kostelanetz
Moonglow - Harry James & His Orchestra
Perfect For Dancing Mambos
Produced and prepared under the direction of the Fred Astaire Dance Studios
RCA Victor LPM-1067
1955
Plays through like a decent mid-50s Mambo album, rather than a background dance music disc.
From the back cover: It is interesting to note that a recent mambo contest in Arequipa, Peru, was won by an 18-year-old girl in partnership with a gay blade of 75. If, as doctors continually remind us, our sedentary nation needs more exercise to attain longevity, the mambo may very well be the perfect, most pleasant-tasting prescription.
Me lo Dijo Adela - Tito Rodriquez
Sugar Blues - Tito Rodriquez
Ran-Kan-Kan - Tito Rodriquez
Donde Estabas Tu - Tito Rodriquez
Un Chivirico Mas - Aldemaro Romero
Mambo In Brass - Aldemaro Romero
Piel Canela - Noro Morales
Tropical - Noro Morales
Hollywood Mambo - The Tony Martinez Quintet
La Enganadora - Perez Prado
Mario el Limpiabota - Perez Prado
Perdido - Perez Prado
Rhythm Was His Business
A Salute To Jimmie Lunceford
George Williams And His Orchestra
RCA Victor LPM-1301
1957
From the back cover: George Williams, a onetime Lunceford arranger who has also written for Glenn Miller, Gene Krupa, Lionel Hampton, Ray Anthony and Harry James, knows better than most musicians that there is slight chance of accurately copying the old Lunceford band. Instead, he has tried to present this set of tunes, because they are so closely associated with Lunceford, as the Lunceford band might play them if it were still together today and still evolving.
"They are interpretations," Williams says, "rather than re-creations."
I Wanna Hear Swing Songs
For Dancers Only
Lunceford Special
I'll Take The South
Margie
Yard Dog Mazurka
Rhythm Was His Business
Swingin' On C
Uptown Blues
White Heat
'Tain't Whatcha Do
Harlem Express
