Music From The Happiest Girl In The World - De Vol

Adrift On A Star

Music From The Happiest Girl In The World
Music By De Vol
Cover Photo: Columbia Records Photo Studio - Henry Parker
Columbia Records CS 8429
1961

From the back cover: Frank De Vol is a conductor, arranger, composer and performer. He wrote the scores for the movie Pillow Talk, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award, and The Big Knife, and for his work as conductor and actor on the Rosemary Clooney TV Show he was nominated for an Emmy Award. Mr. De Vol is an able performer on every instrument except the oboe, the English horn, the bassoon and the harp. He began his musical career at the age of nine, helping his father in the music library of the Canton, Ohio, Grand Opera House. Young Frank soon learned to play the violin and piano, later mastered several other instruments and wrote his first score at sixteen. A lengthy period of arranging for various dance orchestras followed, until he moved to Hollywood to compose and conduct for movies, radio, television and recordings. He joined Columbia Records in 1957.

From Billboard - June 12, 1961: Composer-arranger Frank De Vol and his orchestra offer sparkling instrumental arrangements of the bright and lively Jacques Offenbach score from the hit Broadway show, "The Happiest Girl In The World." Some of the highlights are "Vive La Virtue," "Never Trust A Virgin," "Adrift On A Star" and "The Happiest Girl In The World." This pleasantly listenable package has solid sales potential. Excellent item for show music enthusiasts.

The Happiest Girl In The World
Eureka
Viva La Virtue and Never Trust A Virgin
How Soon, Oh Moon?
Shall We Say Farewell
Never Bedevil The Devil
Cheers For The Hero And The Oath
Adrift On A Star
The Glory That Is Greece/The Greek Marine Hymn
Five Minutes Of Spring
Whatever That May Be
Hup-Two-Three

Bossa Nova With Strings Attached - Bill Perkins

Amor Em Paz

Bossa Nova With Strings Attached
The Tenor Sax Of Bill Perkins
Produced and Arranged by Bob Florence
Engineer: Bones Howe
Cover Design and Photography: Studio Five
Liberty LRP-3293
1963

Outstanding jazzy tenor sax driven Bossa Nova arrangements. The addition of "lush" strings helps to mellow the sound which flows smoothly from one tune to another in this creative Latin set.

Meditation
Tres Palabras
Little Bird
Amor Em Paz
Obscurity
Joao
Samba De Orfeu
Baia
Little Boat
Pensativa
Out Of This World
Summer Festival

G.I. Joe Castle Of The Doomed

G.I. Joe
A Real American Hero
Castle Of The Doomed
Written, Produced and Performed by Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan with John Holer.
Additional voices by Joe Holer.
All material published by Gabrielle Amanda Music, Inc. (BMI), except The G.I. Joe Theme.
Words by Ford Kinder, Spence Michlin and Joe Bacal.
Music by Ford Kinder and Spence Michlin
Kid Stuff Records & Tapes KSS 5044
A Division Of IJE, Inc.
1983

Songs Of Loretta Lynn - Rita Remington

Coal Miner's Daughter

Sounds Like Songs Of Loretta Lynn
Performed By Rita Remington
Cover Design: Kayth Horan-Grambach
Pickwick SPC-3737
1980

Coal Miner's Daughter
Don't Come Home A Drinkin'
You Wanna Give Me A Lift?
Wings Upon Your Horns
You're Lookin' At Country
You Ain't Woman Enough To Take My Man
Your Squaw Is On The Warpath
I'm Dynamite
Rated "X"

Country Giants - Nashville Fiddles

Norwegian Wood

Country Giants
Nashville Fiddles
Producer: Aubry Mayhew
Certain Corporation Music Divison
CS-7017
1970

From the back cover: This album will be the first of a series featuring Nashville Fiddles.

Orange Blossom Special
Black Mountain Rag
Galveston
Touch My Heart
In The Ghetto
Norwegian Wood
Days Of Sand And Shovels
Gentle On My Mind
Folsom Prison Blues
Kawliga
Rocky Top
Apartment #9

Swingin' With Prince Igor

Symphony For Jazz - Part 4

Swingin' With Prince Igor and Tannhauser
Skip Martin's adaptation for Symphony and Jazz Band
Recorded in Hollywood at United Recording Studios, October 7-8, 1959, under the direction of D. L. Miller
Audio Mix: Bill Putnam, Tape, Edit and Assembly: Belinda Putnam
Package Art: W. Dressler
Produced in U.S.A. by Miller International Co., Swathmore, PA.

Reissued as Somerset SF16000

Creative blend of classical and swing, arranged by Skip Martin. The disc comes packaged in a lushly produced book-fold jacket featuring a plastic "winking" insert on the cover.

From the inside jacket: There are countless music arrangers with academic backgrounds who know the orchestra. There are also many unschooled arrangers with a wonderful "natural" feel. Skip Martin, however, possesses the rare faculty of knowing the orchestra and has one of the greatest natural jazz concepts of any writer on the musical scene today. At the age of 17, he played clarinet with the Indianapolis Symphony; however, as with many of our best modern composer-musicians, the love of jazz was too strong for him to remain with the Symphony. Before heading to the West Coast, Skip played saxophone with Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman and Charlie Barnett. His first arranging jobs of importance were for Count Basie. After an N.B.C. staff berth in New York, Skip moved to Hollywood where he has worked on numerous films, unusual recording projects and significant TV Shows.

Personnell:
Trumpets: Conrad Gozzo, Frank Beach, Joe Triscari, Mickey Mangano, Pete Candoli
Drums: Dale Anderson, Irv Cottler
Bass: Red Mitchell, Roland Bundock
Vibes: Gene Estes
Guitar: Al Hendrickson
Piano: Jimmy Rowels
Reeds: Chuck Gentry, Gus Bivona, Harry Klee, Jules Jacobs, Paul Horn
Clarinet: Hubo Raimondi
Jazz Flute: Paul Horn
Tuba: Clarence Karella
Trombones: Dick Nash, Dick Noel, Frank Howard, George Roberts
French Horns: Jimmy Magee, Dick Perissi, Vince De Rosa, Bill Hinshaw
Music Coordinator: Al Lapin
Concertmeister: Jacques Gasselin

Music Of Leroy Anderson - Stradivari Strings

China Doll

The Music Of Leroy Anderson
Stradivari Strings
Spinorama Records
A Product Of Premier Albums, Inc.
MK 3087

Blue Tango
Summer Skies
China Doll
Saraband
Fiddle Faddle
A Trumpeter's Lullaby
The Girl In Satin
The First Day Of Spring
Syncopated Clock
The Blue Bells Of Scotland

New Improved Full Dimensional Stereo

Intro

Prelude To Act III Of Lohengrin

Great New Sound For '65
New Improved Full Dimensional Sound
The Exciting New Sound For '65 and Complete Tracks From Selected Capitol Albums for February
Capitol Records SPRO 2797

Book-fold 1965 Capitol promotion LP that was "Not Available To The Public" featuring a visually stunning "3-D" cover which, for the most part, my scanner was able to capture the look of. The design was printed on top of some type of plastic material (somewhat like you might see on a "winking postcard") that creates the impression of about 1/2 inch of depth.

A Hard Day's Night (The Hollyridge Strings)
Six-Nix-Quix-Flix (The George Shearing Quintet)
San Francisco Bay Blues (The Travelers Three)
Stick Around (H. B. Barnum)
Yankee Doodle Dandy (The Don Scaletta Trio)
Take Good Care Of My Baby (The Lettermen)
More (Fred E. Finn And His Friends)
Prelude To Act II Of Lohengrin (Stan Kenton And His Orchestra)

Lullaby Of Birdland - George Shearing

A Sinner Kissed An Angel

Lullaby Of Birdland
George Shearing
Pickwick SPC-3039

A fine Pickwick release of Shearing material featuring a seldom seen photo of George, sans glasses, printed on the cover.

From the back cover: ...Pickwick/33 is proud to present in the ten tracks on this record which highlight the smash Shearing career.

Don't Blame Me
Easy To Love
Lullaby Of Birdland
I Remember You
I Wished On The Moon
Over The Rainbow
A Sinner Kissed An Angel
Summertime
There's A Lull In My Life
They All Laughed

Very Truly Yours - Don Ralke'

Pastel Blue

Very Truly Yours
Don Ralke' Orchestra
Photography: Todd Walker, Beverly Hills
Crown Records CLP 5018
1957

Jazz inspired arrangements and top notch guitar solos are featured in this well paced, creative mood set.

From the back cover: Don Ralke' is a composer, conductor, and pianist of unusual talent. A graduate with honors from the University of Southern California, he holds the degree of Bachelor of Music and Masters of Music. He has also studied musical composition from such prominent modern composers as Arnold Schonberg and Ernst Toch and keyboard technique from the eminent Dr. Alice Ehlers. Don Ralke' has been a successful artist in the recording field for many years, and has gathered together some of the finest talent on the West Coast to record this alum.

Bud Coleman , the featured guitarist, has been active in the radio, television and recording segments of the music industry for many years. He has appeared on CBS Radio NBC TV and, as a guitarist with Frank DeVol. Among the many vocal artists with which he has been associated as guitar accompanist are Lena Horn, Herb Jeffried, Anita O'Day and Lucille Norman. The fluid technique and rich chordal progressions displayed here by Bud Coleman are designed to please the most discerning ear.

A few of the other outstanding soloists to be heard are Ed Kusby – trombone, and Frank Flynn – Vibraphone. Gloria Wood and David Diller are among the vocal artists.

All The Things You Are
When Your Lover Has Gone
Pastel Blue
Tango Of The Roses
The Moon Is Low
Estrellita
April In Paris
Dream A Little Dream Of Me
I Cover The Waterfront
Blue Moon
Don't Blame Me
Dark Eyes