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!
Jazz Festival
With Maynard Ferguson, Clark Terry, Teddy Wilson, Rufus Jones
Wyncote W 9031 Stereo
1964
Various artist set featuring tracks that compliment each other. Nice budget release from Wyncote.
Bossa Nove De Funk - Maynard Ferguson
Rollin' - Rufus Jones
Sid's Mark - Clary Terry
Just About That Time - Rufus Jones
Tread Ye Lightly - Clark Terry
Sidney's Soliloquy - Teddy Wilson
Danny Boy - Maynard Ferguson
Aluminum Baby - Rufus Jones
I Only Have Eyes For You
America's Greatest Popular Guitarist
Tony Mottola
Producer: Enoch Light
Associate Producers: Tony Mottola and Jeff Hest
Arrangements: Tony Mottola
Project 3 PR 5094SD
1975
Budget set released after Enoch Light retired from the music business in 1974. Cheaply produced jacket with a sticker pasted over and replacing the Total Sound address on the back cover with the name and address of the "new" manufacture and distributor: "Seagull Enterprises".
Even though the entire project is "budget-minded" small combo lounge pop you are still treated to Mottola's amazingly clean, rich-sounding guitar work.
I Only Have Eyes For You
One
Send In The Clowns
I Don't Stand A Ghost Of A Chance With You
What I Did For Love
Jelly Belly
Our day Will Come
Time In A Bottle
The Most Beautiful Girl
Solace
A Stranger In Town
Love Won't Let Me Wait
Jequibau
Mario Albanese
His Piano And Orchestra
Epic LN 24192
1965
From the back cover: Jequibau was created by pianist-composure Mario Albanese and Ciro Pereira, and it has been hailed by Brazil's most celebrated musicians and composers as one of the most exciting and important rhythms they've ever heard. Noted conductor Luis Arruda Paes cites the unusual 5/4 beat as "a fluent melodic sound, which one can hear and follow in a natural way, without contriving any strong beat."
Tarde Quente
O Fim
Sim
Foi Assim
No Balanco Do Jequibau
Modulando
Ciranda
Se Nao
Jequibau
Experando O Sol
I Know How It Feels to Be Lonely
Morgana King
Produced by Pete Spargo
Arranged and Conducted by Jimmie Hazard
Engineer: Lee Herschberg
Remix Engineer: Dave Greene
Cover Photo: Don Ornitz
Liner Photo: John Engstead
Art Direction: Any R. Lehman
Verve V6-5061
1968
From the back cover: Morgana King sings sotto voice but her impact registers on the seismograph at Cal Tel. She is, as the French say, "a friend of the heart."
The ingredients are there: the musical soul of her Sicilian heritage, early dramatic training; long and educating maturation as an artist; the minor key wail of Hebrew chants absorbed as if by osmosis from her nearness to a neighborhood synagogue; an ear-opening exposure to the rhythms and quiet style of South America; a life of highs of total acceptance and the soul-tearing lows of tragedy. All of these are in the interpretations of the songs she sings. She is, like all great singers, first and foremost an interpreter, a sensitive actress with the added, blessed lagniappe of a classic vocal instrument.
Tomorrow Never Knows
Since I Fell For You
Sunshine Superman
Warm Eyes And Bright
Didn't We
Feelin' Groovy
I Know How It Feels To Be Lonely
Eleanor Rigby
I Can Do A Trick
Where Am I Going
Got To Get You Into My Life
Only Know I Loved You
This package is a bit dated when compared to other current 1960 "mood" releases. None-the-less, Hamilton created a very good budget priced mood set that was made special by the addition of Paul Horn's sexy woodwind solos.
From the back cover: Paul Horn is an extremely talented young artist with virtuoso ability in the entire family of woodwind instruments. A serious student of music (with a Bachelor's Degree from Oberlin College, and a Master's from the Manhattan School of Music). Paul is equally adept as a jazz soloist, having performed with distinction in the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra and with the Chico Hamilton Quintet. Woodwind solos by Paul Horn.
From Billboard - March 14, 1960: Good mood album with Hal Match's name value possibly accounting for some additional business. Lush string sound is applied to the likes of "I'll Be Around," "Moonlight Becomes You," "Please" and "Don't Blame Me." Arrangements are relatively simple, and tho not especially varied do make the disk suitable for background use.
Candy
I'll Be Around
Contented
But Beautiful
Oh, You Crazy Moon
Moonlight Becomes You
I'll Buy That Dream
Please
Sunday, Monday, Or Aways
It Could Happen To You
Don't Blame Me
Jeannine, I Dream Of Lilac time
From the back cover: Floyd Robinson, plays something that is a cross between the blue grass music and the rock and roll beat. Floyd plays a 12 string guitar – the newest fad since the Beatles. But this is really more than a fad, it's a whole trend in music that will soon come into its own.
Walk Right In
12 String Bossa Nova
High Born Lady
Under The Double Eagle
12 String Boogie
Arkansas Traveler
Red Wing
Wildwood Flowers
Grandfather's Clock
Fingers On Fire
Cotton-Eyed Joe
Billy In The Low Ground
Mardi Gras
Andre Le Bec and his Accordeon
Exciting Music of the French Quarter
Silver Seal UTS 505
Small combo set on budget label, Silver Seal, featuring Andre Le Bec. Collectible for the cover art, but also featuring simple solid arrangements that play through with more of an "international" theme than a "French Quarter Mardi Gras" sound.
Arrivederci Roma
Gamin De Paris
Le Gondolier
La Mer
Complainte Des Infidèles
Histoire D'un Amour
Autour Du Monde
Julie La Rousse
Avec Celui Qu'on Aime
Place Pigalle
Adieu Lisbonne
Jazz Hoot
Woody Herman & The Heard
This Album Contains Previously Unissued Performances Of The Great Herd Of The 60's
Columbia C3530
1974
Discography
Recorded live at Basin Street West, San Francisco on June 28, 29, 30, 1965:
I Can't Get Started featuring Bill Chase on Trumpet / Hallelujah Time / Satin Doll/ Jazz Hoot / Watermelon Man / Greasy Sack Blues
Personnel:
Clarinet, Alto Saxophone – Woody Herman
Tenor Saxophone - Gary Klein, Salvatore Nistico, Andy McGhee
Baritone Saxophone - Tom Anastasia
Trumpet - Gerald Lamy, Dusko Goykovich, Bob Shew, Don Rader, Bill Chase
Trombone - Henry Southall, Frank Tesinsky, Donald Doane
Piano - Nat Pierce
Bass - Anthony Leonardi
Drums - Ronnie Zito
Greasy Shack Blues - Don Rader, Arranger / Wood Herman, Clarinet, Piano, Don Rader, Trumpet
Jazz Hoot - Bill Holman, Arranger
Recorded in New York
Sumptous (previously released as "Mardi Gras") – recorded October 8, 1965
The Black Opal (originally titled "The Snake") – recorded October 8, 1965
Sidewinder – recorded July 7, 1966 - Same personnel as in San Francisco - Vocal – Woody Herman
The Duck – recorded March 23, 1967
Personnel on The Duck and Boopsie: Clarinet, Alto Saxophone – Woody Herman
Tenor Saxophone - Al Gibbons, Steve Marcus, Bob Pierson (flute)
Baritone Saxophone - Joe Temperley
Trumpet - Lloyd Michaels, Lynn Biviano, Dick Ruedebusch, Bill Byrne, John Crews
Trombone - Jim Foy, Mel Wanzo, Bill Watrous
Piano - Mike Alderman
Bass - Bob Watrous, Bob Daugherty
Featuring Charlie Byrd on guitar
Boopsie - recorded March 23, 1967
Vocal - Woody Herman
Arranger - Dusko Goyovich
The Dueling Banjos
As From The Motion Picture Deliverance
Featuring Banjo by Curtis McPeak
Power Records POW-MOE-210
Cover Photo: Ray Pike
Liner Notes: Deddie Pearson
Produced: Tommy Hill (who also appears to have done most of the arranging)
Art Work: IDG
Back Liner Art: Jenny Mehlenbacher
From the back cover (which actually features only type and no "liner art"): In this album you hear the version, "The Dueling Banjos," done by Curtis Mcpeake, the featured banjo artist of The Nashville Brass.
Presented here because The Atomic Attic enjoys "exploitation" sets. This budget bluegrass set from Power Records was made to cash in on the popular opening song from the movie Deliverance. Even though, it appears that Power worked hard to make this album something to listen to, the title tune lacks the energy of the original popular song as do many of the tracks.
None-the-less, the last track on the LP (sample above), a banjo solo, manages to sound spontaneous or fresh.
Dueling Banjos
Worried Man
Brassy Bluegrass
Home Sweet Home
Fireball
Sally Goodin'
Doodling' Banjos Part 1
Red Dress
Black Mountain Rag
Old Joe Clark
Ruby
Doodling' Banjos Part II
