Percussion Parisienne - David Carroll

Alouette

Percussion Parisienne
David Carroll And His Orchestra
Mercury Records PPS 6008
1961

From Billboard - May 22, 1961: Here's a fine-sounding new entry in Mercury's Perfect Presence series, with maestro Carroll offering a flock of Parisian-oriented tunes in danceable, handsomely recorded fashion. Strings and various percussion are used with harpsichord and concertina much in the spotlight. Attractive book-fold set shows colorfully garbed can-can girls on the cover. Good sound all the way, and a highly displayable package.

About half of the tracks offer above average creative space-age arrangement twists. These tracks are blended with a number of more traditional, period, big band arrangements.

Percussion: Bobby Christian, Jerry Slosberg, Bob Westberg, Sam Denorv, Gordon Peters
Reeds: Howard Davis, Mike Simpson, John Cameron, Wally Pressing, Hoby Grimes, Bob Tootelian, Lee Knight
Trombone: Paul Crumbaugh
Trumpet: Rudy Stabber
Harpsichord and Piano: Bobby Acri
Accordion and Concertina: Vince Gerace
Guitar: Johnny Frigo
Strings: Dave Chausow, Theodore Silavin, Joseph Goodman, Jerry Sabransky, Albert Muenster, Sol Bobrov, Oscar Chausow, Irving Kaplan, Arthur Tabachnick, Fritz Siegal, Karl Fruh, Jr., OrlandoNardulli, Harold Kupper, Shirley Tabachnick
Recording Engineer: Bernie Clapper
Mastering: Doug Hawkins
Editing: Carole Schreier
Percussion Instruments: Frank's Drum Shop, Chicago

The Poor People Of Paris
Mimi
Alouette
My Uncle
Petite Fleur
Blue
The Petite
Twentieth Century Drawing
Dites-Mos
Can-Can

Parakeet Training Record - Hartz Mountain

Rubber Duckie - Billie Bubbles

Duck Soup

Rubber Duckie
Design SDLP 323
1970

A set Design cobbled together for the kiddie market that includes the rather adult Hammond/vibraphone/jazz-flavored lounge track featured above.

Rubber Duckie
Different
Fine & Fancy
Monkey
Always Leave The Laughing
Everyone's Archie
Duck Soup
Sissy
Quackey Duck

For You - The Anita Kerr Quartet

Come Love

For You
The Anita Kerr Quartet
Vocalion VL 73899
A Product of Decca - A Division of MCA, Inc.
1970

Cover photo: Hal Buksbaum

From the back cover: Anita Kerr, Dottie Dillard, Gil Wright and Louis Nunley received their first-acclaim as The Anita Kerr Quartet when they won honors on the Arthur Godfrey Talent Scout Show. (Originally, they had been members of the eight-voiced Anita Kerr Singers). Their present busy schedule includes radio and television appearances and numerous recording sessions.

For You
I'll Never Be The Same
You And The Night And The Music
Once In A While
People Will Say We're In Love
You're My Everything
With The Wind And The Rain In You Hair
Be Fair
Comes Love
Mama's Gone, Goodbye

Disco Gold #2 Dimensional Sound

Go Your Own Way

Disco Gold #2
Top Tunes Of Today
All Music By Dimensional Sound

Concept & Design: R. K. Herrington
United Superior Records - Los Angeles, California
US-7808

Dancing Queen

Night Moves

Boogie Child

Go Your Own Way

Rubberband Man

You Don't Have To Be A Star

Cherchez La Femme

Muskrat Love

Play The Funky Music

Car Wash

Go, Mongo - Mongo Santamaria

Congo Blue

Go, Mongo
Mongo Santamaria And His Afro-Latin Group
Produced by Bill Grauer
Riverside RLP 9423
1962

Mongo Santamaria, Conga Drums (also bongos on Carmela and Chombolero); Paul Serrano, Trumpet; Pat Patrick, Saxophones and flute; Al Abreu, Tenor Sax and Flute; Armando Corea, Piano; Jose De Paulo, Guitar; Victor Venegas, Bass; Julio Collazo, Timbales; To-Tiko and Jose De Paulo, Latin Percussion. Vocals on Tumba Le Le by Carmen Costa and Chorus; on Country Song by Marcellino Guerra and Elliot Romero; on Hombre by Guerra and chorus.

From the back cover: The material here (much of it written by Mongo himself) reflects the musical qualities and influences of several different countries, although most of the numbers build from an underlying base that is essentially African. These selections feature added voices.

From Billboard - November 3, 1962: This new album shows off some fine percussion work by Mongo Santamaria, who plays both conga drums and bongo on this swinging collection of Afro-Latin works. Most of the tunes in the set were penned by Santamaria and they reflect music of Brazil, Haiti and Cuba. The most exciting side is the wild samba "Tumba Le Le," and the prettiest is the Cuban tune "Country Song." Striking work here by the drummer.

Tumblr Le Le
Happy Now
Country Song
Congo Blue
Carmela
Hombre
Chombolero
Not Hardly
African Song

Jumping' At The Executive Suite - Chris Ibenez

This Is Bordeaux

Jumpin' At The Executive Suite
With The Chris Ibenez Trio
Decca DL 74347

Well executed live jazz flavored lounge set from an obscure artist. Ibanez wrote one track on the LP, the sample tune above titled This Is Bordeaux.

From the back cover: In France – whence comes popular jazz pianist Chris Ibenez – they say he does more than play the piano. "True Frenchman that he is," they insist, "he caresses the keys with gentle passion" ...all of which means, quite simply, that this skillful, sensitive and imaginative young instrumentalist plays a whole lot of piano

Chris, who to this day refuses to read music, lost his first piano teacher for that very reason. He trained himself by first imitating, ultimately surpassing, the variety of jazz sounds available to him on radio and recordings. By the time he reached his teens, he was performing professionally at jazz clubs in and around his native Bordeaux.

Making the San Francisco jazz scene via French radio, night clubs, recordings, and motion pictures, Chris later appeared at Las Vegas' Desert Inn and Flamingo, then Lake Tahoe's Nevada Lodge and Wagon Wheel. He returned to San Francisco for the opening of Dave Young's Executive Suite – a "limited" engagement that has to date lasted three years, and if the 'Suite' audiences have their way, will last forever.

Tangerine
Misty
Exactly Like You
Poinciana
The Trolley Song
Perdido
On The Street Where You Live
How High The Moon
But Not For ME
This Is Bordeaux

Sterling Blythe Sings

Love For Gold

Sterling Blythe Sings
Crown CST 203

Cover photo: Joseph Tauber
Cover Designer: Hobco Arts
Recorded in Hollywood, Calif.

From the back cover: Sterling Blythe is a man of many talents

He is a movie actor. He has been featured in "Battle Hymn," "Navy Blue," "Battle of the Bottle," "Walk the Proud Land," and 18 Gene Autry flicks.

Over the TV tube, his starring-stints were with Gary Moore and Red Foley.

His country comes first. He interrupted a flourishing career to serve in the United States Navy from 1941 to 1945.

He is a fast-draw artist.

He is considered one of the top pros in the country and western songwriting field. Eddie Arnold and Red Foley are his biggest boosters. Some of their hottest-hits were penned by Blythe.

He is arranger, orchestrator, conductor, and m.c.

In the glittering, gaudy show capitol of the world – Las Vegas – his name is as familiar as "7-come-11." The fabulous voice of Sterling Blythe has been knockin' them in the aisles at the "Fabulous Showboat" for years. – John Marlo

Ghost Town
Little Town Of St. Marie
Nothing But The Night
Three Miles Out Of Town
Everybody Knows
Love For Gold
Hello Sweet Thing
Gate Post
Cabaret Queen
Our Folks
Gunslinger
Picture On The Wall

Mariano Mores

Cuartito Azul

Mariano Mores
y su Gran Orquesta Lirica Popular
Vol. No. 5
Odeon LDM-874
Industria Argentina

El Firulete
Yo Tengo Un PEcado Nuevo
La Flor De La Canela
El Estrellero
Serenata Orillera
Perdonemos
Marinera
La Calesita
Anoche
Mulatada
Cuartito Azul
Luces De Mi Ciudad

Wood By The Fire - Gloria Wood

The Wrong Blues

Wood By The Fire
Gloria Wood
Music Arranged And Conducted By Jerry Fielding
Columbia CL 1286
1959

Fielding finely tuned his excellent arrangements to Wood's vocal style as did Columbia's engineering staff. This is one well thought out set.

From Billboard - March 23, 1959: The steamy-voiced canary serves up a batch of memorable standards in a rich, warmly romantic style. Spinable jockey wax.

From the back cover: This kind of mastery has been Gloria Wood's for some time now, for despite her youth she has been swinging for more than a decade. In the very beginning, she lied about her age to enter a Horace Heidt competition, and won the contest handily. Thereafter she sang with bands like those of Frank DeVol, Lex Baxter, Hal McIntyre and Kay Kyser, and, believe it or not, it was her voice on the multi-million Kyser recording of Woody Woodpecker. She has also sung with Jud Conlon's Rhythmaries, and in Hollywood has been the singing voice of Marilyn Monroe, Vera-Ellen and Betty Grable. In addition, she has done countless commercials for radio and television. With such a background it is not surprising that she can inflect her songs so accurately; it is only surprising that she remained relatively unknown.

This was taken care of when she made a record with jazz trumpeter Pete Condole, called Hey, Bellboy. In this record, she used her range and warmth to echo the trumpet phrases with extraordinary agility, and found herself widely-known almost overnight. That same vocal technique is put to use here on less pyrotechnic material, but with perhaps even more exciting results. There is more than a touch of jazz in her work, a quiet humor and a genuinely engaging personality. It has been remarked that listening to her is a little like having one's temples rubbed...

Painting The Town With The Blues
It's Monday Every Day
A Stranger In Town
It's The Talk Of The Town
But Not For Me
In A Sentimental Mood
Penny Dream Blues
Mean To Me
I Got It Bad
I Don't Want To Cry Anymore
The Wrong Blue
Good-bye