Jazz For Jean-Agers - Claude Gordon

Jazz For Jean-Agers
The Dazzling Trumpet Of Claude Gordon And His Orchestra
Liberty LRP 3022
1957

Available from online vendors so I will not be posting a sample.

Billboard liked this set, however the sound to my ears, is dated for 1957 when this market had begun to be influenced by more "exotic" music, more "flamboyant" arrangements and better engineered projects.

From the back cover: Claude began acquiring his musical proficiency at the age of eight while attending grade school in Helena, Montana. A few years later, he became cornet soloist for the Helena School Band – an amazing feat for a fifth grader!!! Claude subsequently played professional engagements with the Gordon Family Orchestra, a group composed of his father, mother, two brothers and a sister – all accomplished and polished performers.

Claude led many groups in the Montana and North Dakota regions until 1938 when the inevitable Hollywood lure brought him to California. Word of Claude's amazing trumpet technique preceded him to the "big town" and led to featured spots with the Matty Malneck, Ronnie Kemper and Frankie Masters bands. His flawless performances soon caught the ear of Lud Gluskin, CBS musical director, and he was signed to the coveted first trumpet chair with the Columbia Broadcasting System staff orchestra.

In 1949, Claude Gordon became restless with the studio routine and organized his first commercial dance band. Claude made a series of Capitol transcriptions with the group, but the band business was slumping in 1950 and he returned to the security of CBS. Claude formed his present aggregation in 1955 and has been one of the most sought-after groups in the business – smashing box-office records at college and ballroom dates on the Pacific Coast.

– Dick Whittinghill - One of Southern California's favorite disc jockeys. His witty morning show on KMPC, Los Angeles, is a must for early risers. Dick abandoned a promising singing career (he was a member of the famed Pied Pipers along with Jo Stafford) and has since become a top radio personality.

From Billboard: March 2, 1957: Big band dance music, a great swinging beat, and attractive packaging combine to make this one an eye and ear-catcher. Claude Gordon, gaining in popularity among the college set, plays great trumpet, with arrangements much in the manner of old Bobby Sherwood band. The music is as fresh and interesting as the title, and deserves adequate stocking and air play.

Makin' Whoopee!
Rhapsody For Trumpet
My Baby Just Cares For Me
Stormy Weather
Gypsy In My Soul
Bavarian Bounce
Purple Shades
It's Easy To Remember
It Happened In Monterey
Nice Work If You Can Get It
Lullaby Of Broadway
Great Day

The Greatest For Dancing - George Evans

I Love Paris

The Greatest For Dancing

Volume 1
George Evans And His Symphony Of Saxes
London Records LL 3119
1959

Nicely crafted big band dance set.

Quick-Steps

Chicago
The Lady Is A Tramp
You're In Kentucky (Sure As You're Born)
Dapper Dan
Believe It, Beloved
Whispering

Fot-Trots

Peg O' My Heart
It's All In The Game
You Made Me Love You
I Love Paris
Manhattan
C'est Si Bon

Concertos From Hollywood - Bill Butler

Maria

Concertos From Hollywood
Bill Butler At The Piano
Arranged and Conducted by Jack Pleis
Produced by Ernie Altchuler
Cover Photo Columbia Records Photo Studio – Henry Parker
Epic LN 24014
1962

From the back cover: Toronto-born Bill Butler is one of Canada's most talented and popular young pianists. He began his musical training at the age of six at Toronto's Conservatory of Music. Some dozen years later, he was playing and arranging for the city's top orchestras and radio programs. After a highly successful five-year engagement at Toronto's Club One-Two with his own group, he was asked to form an orchestra for the opening of the Lord Simcoe Hotel's fabulous Pump Room. Bill's unique piano artistry immediately won many fans. He has also found admirers in the United States through frequent appearances on the Dave Garroway and Arthur Godfrey shows and through his previous album for Epic Records, Portrait of a Piano: The Exciting Sound of Bill Butler (LN 3826/BN 621).

From Billboard - September 8, 1962: Bill Butler, the Canadian pop pianist who has made a bit of a dent with his single records, does very well on this new album and could rack up some sales if the disk is exposed. He plays a very warm and attractive piano stylings on this collections of evergreens, over fresh and catchy arrangement by Jack Pleis. Strongest of the tracks are "Willing and Eager," "Maria," "The Terry Theme," "Moon River" and "La Dolce Vita."

Theme From "My Geisha"
Willing And Eager
Just For Tonight
Till There Was You
Maria
The Terry Theme
The Most Beautiful Girl In The World
Love Theme From "Lolita"
Moon River
Theme From "Advise And Consent"
La Dolce Vita
Theme From "The Apartment"

Moon Light Memories - Dan & Dale

I Wished On The Moon

Moonlight Memories

The Sensational Guitars Of Dan & Dale
Diplomat Records DD-1(D 2391)

The sample is from the bad Diplomat pressing found inside of this minty fresh jacket. You may or may not hear some noise during play. As is the norm with Dan & Dale sets, this LP features the kind of inventive arrangements that make the "sensational guitars" fun to listen to.

Moonlight Memories
Moonlight On The Sunset Trail
Moon Love
I Wished On The Moon
Harvest Moon
By The Light Of The Silvery Moon
Moonlight Becomes You
Moonlight Bay
Moonlight & Shadows
Moon River

All Time Junior Pops

Gum Drop

All Time Junior Pops
For Party, Play and Active Participation
Hollywood Records LPH-117

Not just a "junior pops" set, but rather a compilation that the adults watching the children do "active participation" might enjoy as well.

Sixteen Tons
The Yellow Rose Of Texas
Honey Babe
Mr. Sandman
Gum Drop
Dave Crockett
The Bible Tells Me So
Bimbo
Open Up Your Heart
Little Child
Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah
Croce Di Cro
Dungaree Doll
Rock And Roll Waltz
The Mama Doll Song

Sunrise Serenade - The Triads

Blue Prelude

Sunrise Serenade
Beautiful Music Performed By The Triads
On The Hammond Organ, Accordion and Guitar
FDR King Size
Waldorf Music, Hall Inc.
33-1229
1958

Peppy set of tunes from a group who styled themselves after The Three Suns.

From the back cover: The Triads have been playing just this sort of music throughout the country, supplying simple, yet very musical sounds for the patrons of such outstanding spots as the Piccadilly Hotel in New York (that's where The Three Suns also starred), the Sahara in Las Vegas, and for twenty-four weeks out of each year at their home base, the renowned Syracuse Hotel in Syracuse, New York.

Sunrise Serenade
Doll Dance
Saint Louis Blues
Blue Moon
El Cumbanchero
Blue Prelude
Louise
Stumbling
Daning Tambourine
Caravan
Jalousie
Wedding Of The Painted Doll

Autumn Leaves - The International Pop Orchestra

Autumn Leaves

Autumn Leaves
By The International Pops Orchestra
Wyncote W 9174

Groovy cover. The former owner of the album penciled this note on the back jacket: "Good. Relaxing."

Autumn Leaves
Roses Of Tyrol
Side Walks Of New York
Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes
Romance
Sentimental Tango
O Sole Mio
My Heart Is Yours
Moments Lost

The Basic Principles Of Kreskin's ESP

The Basic Principles Of Kreskin's ESP
SSS International LP 100
1968

From Billboard - January 20, 1968: SSS International tries to capture the success of Kreskin's "ESP" party game on the recorded disk. There are 10 tests here, along with an introduction and instruction band. Depending on the amount of exposure on radio and television and transcendental waves messages emitted, this album could catch many people's fancy.

Dance & Dream - Art Mooney

Bee Dees Twist

Dance & Dream

Art Mooney And His Orchestra
Coronet Records
A Division Of Premier Album, Inc.
CX-220

A budget complication of Mooney's work featuring a set of tunes that is so divergent that I wonder if all the tracks were actually produced by Mooney's orchestra. You will note from the sample that there is no followthrough in theme as featured on the cover.

From the back cover: Art Mooney was born in Lowell, Massachusetts. However, his family soon moved to Detroit where Art grew up. His father was a member of the police force there and Art Mooney went to a technical high school in Detroit to study to become a linotype operator. It was through his mother's urging that Art began to study the saxophone. He took to the saxophone immediately and soon got a group of his high school friends together and started a band. This group played all the local school dances around the city.

After graduation, Art Mooney gave up the idea of music and pursued his career as a linotype operator. However, he wasn't on the job very long when he started to dabble in music in his spare time. Soon Art got odd jobs playing his sax at night with local bands and he began to love it and started thinking about a band of his own. He got his first opportunity when, as a linotype operator, he was to set up an ad announcing the engagement of one of the top bands of the time, instead Art Mooney inserted his own name and, although he was fired from the job, he felt it was a good break for him because it gave him a chance to try his luck in the music world. He formed a band and started on the road but soon was drafted in the Army.

For three and a half years, Art Moony conducted the Miami Beach Air Corps band and when he was released from service he had already made a name for himself through his record hits of "Roll Out The Barrel" and "I've Been Working On The Railroad." He then organized a band and was waiting for the big chance when he finally got a two week engagement at the New York's Lincoln and Edison Hotels; the engagement extended itself for eight months. From this date, Art won a radio network contract and his future was made.

Soon after this, Art had some of his biggest hit records which included "I'm Looking Over A Four Leaf Clover", "Baby Face", "Five Feet Two", "Again", "Honey Babe" and many others.

Since that time, Art has been doing television shows and has also appeared in some motion pictures. He enjoys golf, swimming and tennis and is a classical records collector.

Last Date
Adios Amigo
Sorrento
O Sol Mio
Umpaquito
Fascination
La Paloma
Glowworm
Bee Dees Twist
Nellie Blye

Hit Movie Songs From The Exotic Islands - The Surfers

Sweet Leilani

Hit Movie Songs From The Exotic Islands
The Surfers
Warner Bros. Records
WS 1493
1963

From the back cover: The Surfers, probably the most popular Hawaiian group in the night club world, have chalked up an enviable record in appearances from Honolulu's famed Kahanamok's nitery to the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago, with multiple stops in non-tropical Las Vegas in between. Thus, they come to this recording with a wealth of background in Polynesian and Hawaiian music, but still with the vigor of youth that characterized their first appearances together at a Glendale (California) Junior College prom.

Follow Me (Mutiny On The Bounty)
Canoe Song (Donovan's Reef)
Sweet Leilani (Waikiki Wedding)
Island Angel (From Here To Eternity)
Pagan Love Song (The Pagan)
E Tupiti ( Devil At Four O'clock)
Bali Ha'i (South Pacific)
Pearly Shells (Donovan's Reef)
Diamond Head Theme (Diamond Head)
The Fishing Chant (Mutiny On The Bounty)
Farewell (Mr. Roberts)