Fly My Love - Arthur Prysock

Yesterday

Arthur Prysock
Fly My Love
Arrangements and Orchestra Direction by Bill McElhiney
King KS 1088
1970

Secret Love
More Than You Know
Jean
Didn't We
I'll Get Along Tomorrow
How Do I Tell Her
Sunny
Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye
I Want To Talk About You
Go Ahead And Fly
Yesterday
Our Day Will Come

Elvis We Still Love You - Song Poem

Elvis We Still Love You

Elvis We Still Love You
Royal Master Records RM 3003

Elvis Our Special Star by Clara Nunnery

It's Elvis by Viola Mann

To Elvis With Love by Mozelle Zuelzke

Elvis by Nadine Bunger

Elvis, From Childhood To Fame by Mildred Jean Brown

We Miss Elvis by Phebie Bush

May The King Still Reign by Winston Feser

The King Of Rock & Roll by Virginia L. Christner

Elvis, Awake To Sleep No More by Wayne Davis

To The Memories Of Elvis Presley by Isaac Machuca, Jr.

Elvis by Loretta Garret

In Memory Of Evis by Kenneth Leon Brandt, Sr.

SMILE - The Funnies

Wanted

Do You Know What Time It Is

You've Got A Friend

SMILE

Sung And Played By The Funnies

Picwick/33

SPC-3288

Some Like It Modern - The Three Sounds

Caesar And Cleopatra

Some Like It Modern
The Three Sounds
Mercury Records
MG-20839 (Broadcast Promotional Copy)
1963

From the back cover: Gene Harris, Andrew Simpkins and Dill Dowdy are good musicians who enjoy playing together. The feelings and moods which they express musically are projected to their audiences with an ease and assurance that could only come from seven years of rehearsing, working, and paying dues together. Their repertory is wide, varied and flexible enough to make them equally at home in a "soulful jazz cellar" as in a sophisticated eastside type restaurant or night club.

Lazy River
Sentimental Journey
There's Something Nice About The Rain
Let's Dance
Elbows And Armpits
Caesar And Cleopatra
After Hours
On The Sunny Side Of The Street
Mr. Lucky
I'm Getting Sentimental Over You
Rat Down Front

Modern Sound MS 1009

First Impressions

Modern Sound
MS 1009

Modern Sound 1026

Dr. Feel Good

Modern Sound
MS 1026

Modern Sound MS 1020

Day Tripper

Modern Sound
MS 1020

The Johnny Hamlin Quintet featuring Marci Miller

Why Was I Born

The Johnny Hamlin Quintet
Featuring Marci Miller
Cover: Don Bronstein
Engineer: Ron Malo
Supervision: Jack Tracy
Argo LP 4001
Recorded in June 1960, at Ter-Mar Recording Studios, Chicago
1960

Personnel: Johnny Hamlin, accordion and piano; Art Mooshagian, trumpet and trombone; Charlie McFadden, tenor and baritone saxophones and flut; Bob Saravia, bass; Gary Frommer, drums.

From the back cover: I first heard Johnny Hamlin about eight years ago when he was playing a gig at the Pla-Bowl, a night spot way south of Chicago's Loop. The Pla-Bowl was the place where Stan Kenton discovered the Four Freshmen, and was always a nice booking for small, integrated groups who appealed to young moderns. I'll always remember Johnny's first album for some small midwest company which was cut, of all places, in a bowling alley in Des Plaines! Some engineer had boasted of the acoustics in the lanes, and the session had come off quite well. Of course, the recording started after the last bowling fanatic and pinsetter had left for the night. 

One of the tunes in that first album is one resurrected here for this set, and I might add, one of the group's most requested, Mighty Mike. It was written by Johnny's drummer at the time for his little son, and the dual-talented Art Mooschagian appeared then, too, on valve trombone and trumpet, his tourp-de-force today.

In fact, the Johnny Hamlin crew abounds with personnel of multiple talents to achieve that big band sound. San Diego-born Hamlin employs his accordion almost as a band's reed section and flashes in and out of some of the charts with all-too-short jazz solos. On Mighty Mike, Johnny moves to the piano for a punching, crisply-swinging solo. Mooshagian is a standout on both trumpet and trombone. Charlie McFadden romps on tenor sax, baritone sax, and flute. Bob Saravia, bass, and Gary Frommer, drums, complete this top-drawer group.

– Mike Rapchak - Station WCFL, Chicago

Just Squeeze Me
Jumpin' Jack
Don't Worry 'Bout Me
Mighty Mike
I'm Shooting High
Li'l Darlin'
All Of You
Serenade In Blue
Why Was I Born
Strike Up The Band

And So To Sleep - Hugo Peretti

Hypnosis

And So To Sleep
The Music Of Harry Revel
Arranged and Conducted by Hugo Peretti
Mercury Records 20179
1957

From the back cover: The song, Voices In The Night, features the soothing solo voice of June Winters. Phil Bodner plays the moving clarinet solo on While The City Sleeps, and the Whistling Of Dawn comes from the puckered lips of Dick Kuhn.

Solid "concept-mood" set. I think the copy I found came from a disco jockey's collection. The DJ made notations on the back to help him remember certain aspects of the set including "mood music" and "good sound - a la David Rose". The DJ also thought the tracks titled "Counting Sheep" and "The Milkman Cometh" were "out of place".

After Midnight
While The City Sleeps
Hypnosis
Relaxation
Counting Sheep
Smoke Another Cigarette
Voice In The Night
Girl On My Mind
Revel's Nocturne
Whistling At Dawn
The Milkman Cometh
And So To Sleep

White Heat - Henri Rene

White Heat

White Heat
Henri Rene´ and his Orchestra
IR Imperial LP 12021
1959

From the back cover: So there's your title (White Heat). It has many diversified meanings as definitions in the dictionary and probably will mean as many things to as many different people. If you get the message, slip your manicured finger or tattooed hand, whichever the case may be, along the protective, germ-free cellophane cover-all. It's as simple as opening a pack of filter tips… and less controversial. Try it. – Henri Rene´

From Billboard - June 15, 1959: Henry Rene has put together a very bright package of instrumentals here. Instrumentation and arrangements are most unusual, being modern, creative; and packed with style.

A bridge between the more "exotic" albums that were hitting the market at the time and big band mood. Like many of Jackie Gleason's excellent albums, this set looks and sounds like a concept project rather than just a collection of tunes.


Isn't It Romantic
Lullaby Of Birdland
Hot Gavotte
White Heat
Runnin' Wild
I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles
I Know That You Know
Syncopated Clock
Lazy Bones
Limehouse Blues
Ja-Da
Woody Woodpecker