Congas Rumbas - Lecuona Cuban Boys - Antobal

Cubanakan - Lecuona Cuban Boys

La Conga - Antobal And His Orchestra

Columbia Presents Congas Rumba
Lecuona Cuban Boys
Antobal And His Orchestra
Set Number C-65
1949

Cubanakan
Dime Adios
Rumba Tambah
La Guajira
La Conga
El Maraquero
Panama
Ay Si, Ay No

Cubano Rhythms - Arturo Arturos

Jungle Drums

Cubano Rhythms
Arturo Arturos
A Victor Musical Smart Set
Victor P-105
1942

From Billboard - February 14, 1942: Backed by the rhythms of the characteristic drum instruments of the Latin Americas, this album showcases the piano playing of Arturo Arturos. Eight sides are variated to provide the rumba, Afro-Cubano, beguine and bolero rhythms, titles including Jungle Drums, Misirlou, The Lady in Red, Lumento Borincano, Begin the Beguine, Silencio, Isle of Capri and Taboo. While the setting is authentic enough and Arturos follows the melodie line nicely, there are none of those intoxicating improvisations from the melody instrument, with attending changes in the melody and mood to match the changing maze of drum beats, akin to the jam sessions of our own musicians.

Jungle Drums
Misirlou
The Lady In Red
Lamento Borincano
Begin The Beguine
Silencio
Isle Of Capri
Taboo

Manhattan Spiritual - Reg Owen

The Swinging Brigade

Manhattan Spiritual
Reg Owen And His Orchestra
Produced by Jack Kluger
Recorded in Europe
Cover and Liner Printed by MacMurray Press, N.Y.
Palette - Color In Music
LPZ 1001
1959

From the back cover: There are no set of patterns of rules for getting a start in the entertainment business. The stories are numerous – running from the old fashion "horn in a truck" routine to the dramatic last-minute replacement of an understudy for an ailing star. It's usually some little trick of fate that sets the wheels in motion and changes the course of a person's life.

In Reg Owen's case it was a gift of a saxophone, when he was a boy of 15, that shaped his future. He was recovering from a serious attack of peritonitis when his father brought him the sax as a get-well-quick token. He started playing it during his convalescence and hasn't stopped in the more than two decades that have followed.

Instead of going into the textile business in London, as his parents desired, he decided to use his self-taught knowledge of the sax as a stepping stone to a musical career. The career began inauspiciously with a group called the Royal Kiltie Juniors Band. The salary was only one pound a week, with free board thrown in, and it only lasted six months but it was enough to whet his appetite to get into the music business more seriously. He studied saxophone with Benny Goodman's famous band, and then went on to the Royal College of Music in London.

In 1938 he was ready to start on his own and formed a group called "The Local Gig Band." He made the rounds of the London clubs for the next year and then organized the eight-piece outfit which set up shop at the Montague Ballroom at Ealing. He was playing with Harry Roy's band at the Embassy Club a year later when he was called into the RAF. During his five years in the service, as a member of the RAF Band, he taught himself arranging by transcribing all the works of Artie Shaw, Tommy Dorsey and Benny Goodman.

Reg learned his lesson well because on the day of his discharge from the service in 1945, he received a call from Ted Heath and became one of the founder members of the Heath organization. He stayed with the Heath outfit for 10 years as a sax sideman and then gradually taking over all the writing and arranging for the band's library.

An automobile accident in 1954 put him out of action for about six months. At the same time his contract with Ted Heath expired and he didn't know which way to turn. But just as the gift of the saxophone affected his life as a boy, so did the meeting with a Belgian named Jack Kluger reshape his life as a man. With Jack Kluger's confidence and backing, Reg regained his courage and ambition and began working on his own again, developing a new pop sound which was to become an Owen trademark. With this new inspiration, he wrote music for Cyril Stapleton's Show Band and recorded LPs for numerous record labels in the United States. At present he is working on the ABC-TV Michael Bethine series, "After Hours." – Mike Gross

From Billboard - March 30, 1959: Reg Owen and his Ork. the English crew that recently had the big hit "Manhattan Spiritual," have a swinging driving album here that could also turn into a runaway best-seller. The set contains the hit tune, plus the band's new release "Down By The Riverside" and 10 other tunes played with an exciting rocking beat. "Jericho," "The Petite Waltz Bounce" and "Swing Low Sweet Chariot" could easily become single hits themselves. The stereo sound is outstanding. This set swings.

Manhattan Spiritual
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Jack The Ripper
Down By The Riverside
Solomon Stomp
Car Hop
Jericho
The Petite Waltz Bounce
The Swinging Brigade
Lullaby Of Birdland
Ritual Blues
Brainwave

Nancy Naturally - Nancy Wilson

Willow Weep For Me

Nancy - Naturally
Nancy Wilson Sings, and Sings, and Sings
Arranged and Conducted by Billy May
Produced by David Cavanaugh
Photo Courtesy of TV Guide/Prigent
Capitol Records T 2634
1967

From Billboard - January 7, 1967: It's Nancy Wilson at her swingingest, bluesiest best! Destined to be a blockbuster sales item, this package is loaded with electrified performances such as heard in the pulsating "Ten Years Of Tears." With strong support of Billy May arrangements, this Dave Cavanaugh production is one of the best in the long string of Wilson hits. Top interpretations include "My Babe" and "Alright, Okay, You Win." Her exceptional reading of "Willow Weep For Me" is second to none.

In The Dark
Ten Years Of Tears
Since I Fell For You
You Ain't Had The Blues
Willow Weep For Me
My Babe
Just For A Thrill
Alright, Okay, You Win
I Wish I Didn't Love You So
Smack Dab In The Middle
Watch What Happens

Ain't That Lovin' You

Theme From The Silencers - The Wilson Lewes Trio

Theme From Our Man Flint

The Wilson Lewes Trio
Diplomat DS 2380
1966

Theme From The Silencers
Theme From The Silencers (Reprise)
Theme From Our Man Flint
Song From The Oscar

Tops In Pops - Bobby Krane

Sea Of Love

Tops In Pops

Today's Juke-Box Parade Of Hits
Bobby Krane And His Orchestra
A BK Production
Bravo Records KC101

I'm Gonna Get Married
There Goes My Baby
Baby Talk
The Three Bells
Sea Of Love
Broken-Hearted Melody
Lavender Blue
Sleep Walk
My Heart Is An Open Book
What A Difference A Day Makes

Award Hits - The Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra

Estrellita

Award Hits
The Cinema Sound Stage Orchestra
Somerset SF-34200
1970

Windmills Of Your Mind
Reverie (Debussy)
El Choclo
Greensleeves
Chopin (Love Theme)
Romeo And Juliet (Love Theme)
Londonderry Air
Romance (Tchaikovsky)
Beautiful Dreamer
Estrellita

Percussion In A Tribute To Glenn Miller - Frankie Capp

V Hop

Percussion
In A Tribute To Glenn Miller
Featuring The Frankie Capp Percussion Group
Arranged by Jerry Gray
Sounds In Motion
Kimberly 2008

The Frankie Capp Percussion Group
Trumpet: John Best, Ray Linn, Frank Beach, John Audio, Zeke Zarchy, Al Porcino
Trombone: Jimmy Priddy, Hoyt Bohaman, Joe Howard, Ray Sims, Milt Bernhart
Sax: Wilbur Schwartz, John Rotella, Ronnie Lang, Dave Harris, Babe Russin
Piano: Ernie Hughes
Bass: Rolls Bundock
Percussionists: Frankie Capp, Emil Richards and Mel Lewis

From the back cover: Frankie Capp is not a newcomer to the percussion world. He is one of the top men in the jazz field today, being featured as the third man in the Andre Previn trio and as featured soloist with the Dave Pell Octet. He has also been with such aggregations as Neal Hefti, Billy May, Harry James, Shorty Rogers and Stan Getz. He has at various times worked with Peggy Lee, Ella Fitzgerald and David Rose. At present he is one of the busiest studio musicians in Hollywood and we are very happy to present him as a bandleader in his own right.

Emil Richards, one of the outstanding vibraphone players of our day, started as a legitimate concert and symphonic percussion player of the Hartford and The New Britain Symphonies. In 1956 he joined the George Shearing group and stayed with him until he made his home on the West Coast in 1960. Since that time he has played with the Paul Horn group and has been very busy as a free lance studio musician.

Anvil Chorus
Sunrise Serenade
Little Brown Jug
Sweet Eloise
String Of Pearls
V Hop
At Last
Tuxedo Junction
Moonlight Serenade
Crew Cut

Super Hits - Volume 5

Sweet Seasons

Runnin' Away

Stay With Me

Super Hits (King's Road Super Hits)
Volume 5
Pickwick International, Inc.
Stereo/SPC-3906
1972

Sweet Seasons
Day After Day
Heart Of Gold
The Nickel Song
Stay With Me
My World
Never Been To Spain
Mother And Child Reunion
Runnin' Away
Joy

Strings In Stereo - Domenico Savino

Stranger In The City

Strings In Stereo
Domenico Savino and His Symphonic Strings
Recorded in Europe
RCA Camden CAS-487
1959

From the back cover: Domenico Savino was born in Taranto, Italy, in 1881. He attended the Royal Conservatory of Naples, majoring in composition and piano. Arriving in the United States at an early age, he soon began making a name for himself – as a matter of fact, he began making two names for himself. Some of his works were published under the nom de plume of D. Onivas.

A growing reputation earned him an offer from one of the leading record companies. Savino became musical director for Pathe Phonograph. He functioned as a conductor, and also as a supervisor of recording sessions. He guided some of the best-known singers of the day through the intricacies of recording techniques. Among them were grand opera's famed Claudia Muzio; Tito Schipa with his modest tenor voice and memorable artistry; and the exceptionally beautiful Lina Cavalieri.

Ever alert to the promise that new technical developments held, Domenico Savino was one of first to realize that motion pictures offered a fertile field for musical expression. He penned many effective orchestral background music scores for the "silent" films. Both M-G-M and Twentieth Century-Fox utilized his talents. He did the music for the film "The Patriot," which starred one of filmdom's all-time greats, Emil Jannings.

Savino retained a deep interest of the music business, and is reputedly the first musician to arrange a popular song in symphonic style.

It would be difficult to find a phrase of the music business in which Savino was not active at one time or another. For a while, he was chief editor of one of the most prominent music publishing houses in this country, the Robbins Music Corporation. He was also an important stockholder; and when M-G-M purchased the Robbins Music Corporation, Savino was compensated in an amount that gave rise to some fantastic rumors in Tin Pan Alley. Savino admitted that the payment ran well into six figures, but declined to be too specific.

Long-time music lovers will recall Domenico Savino's work on such radio programs as the Paramount Hour, the La Paling Cigar program, and the American Telephone and Telegraph Hour. Savino also spent some time as musical director of one of the major radio networks.

The financial problem, which has proved a stumbling block for many a talented musician, was no great obstacle for Savino. After earning an excellent living for a number of years in the popular music field, he found himself in an economic position which permitted him to retire to concentrate on composing classical music. With over 900 compositions to his credit, Savino could count on a steady income from his membership in the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers – popularly known as ASCAP.

When he left the popular music field to write in a more serious view, Savino also decided to pursue the art of painting. He plunged into this new field with typical enthusiasm. Before too long, every wall in his eight-room Manhattan apartment was covered with pictures. Then he rented another eight-room apartment in the same building, and repeated his feat. And while all this was going on, Savino was busy producing piano works, choral music, cantatas, and band music. Among his better known serious compositions are Four Impressions and the Overture Fantasy. – Notes by Leonard Raphael

Granada
To A Water Lily
In The Orient
Stranger In The City
Humoresque Miniature
June Barcaolle
Notturno
To Spring
Ectasy
Norwegian Dane No. 2
Fascination
Autumn Intermezzo
Waltz From "Serenade For Strings"