Claudine Longet

Meditation

Claudine
Claudine Longet
Producer: Tommy LiPuma
Arranger: Nick De Caro
Engineer: Bruce Botnick
Album Design: Peter Whorf Graphics
A&M Records M&M 121
1967

A Man And A Woman (Un Homme Et Une Femme)
Here, There And Everywhere
Meditation (Meditacao)
Tu As Beau Souriere
A Felicidade
Wanderlove
Hello, Hello
Sunrise, Sunset
Until It's Time For You To Go
My Guy

Sunday In New York - Peter Nero

The Philosopher

Sunday In New York
Peter Nero
Music Composed, Conducted, Arranged and Performed by Peter Nero
Associate Conductor: Jack Pleis
Orchestrations by Peter Nero and Bobby Van Eps
Album Produced by Jack Somer
Pianos by Steinway
RCA Victor LSP-2827
1964

From Billboard - April 4, 1964: Peter Nero who has seven hit albums under his belt at RCA Victor, is now casting his eyes toward the singles field. Nero, who was in New York recently for a college date and to sign a new long-term contract with Victor, feels that the singles market is now ripe for his type of material and he's now looking into the possibilities of turning out more singles product during the course of the year.

The Nero drive into the singles field will not affect his album production, however, Nero says that he'll continue putting out three LP's a year as he had been doing under his pervious arrangement with Victor. The material for the singles, he says, will be original, and not culled from album tracks.

Meanwhile, Nero is hitting the college trail with a vengeance. He played about 200 campus dates tin 1963 and reports that this year he's well ahead of the 1963 pace. Of the college scene, Nero said, "I'd have to do 20 years of one-nighters to cover all the colleges."

In addition to his campus concertizing, Nero is also extending his efforts into composing for the movies. His initial effort was "Sunday In New York" and he's under contract for three more pic scores to Seven Arts Productions.

The "Sunday In New York" album is his current click release for Victor. His previous LP's were "Then Colorful Peter Nero," "For The Nero Minded," "Hail The Conquering Nero," "New Piano In Town," "Young And Warm and Wonderful" and "Peter Nero In Person."

Sunday In New York
Taxi!
More In Love
The Cookie Crumbles
Hello
Hello Hop
Don't Speak Of Love
The Philosopher
Eileen's Theme
Wonderful You
On Frantic Fifth
Finale

Popular Themes From The Classics - The Tiffany Strings

I Love Thee

Popular Themes From The Classics
The Tiffany Strings
Cover Design: Lee
Photo by Photo International, Inc.
Tiffany Records 1011
1960

Grieg - I Love Thee
Liszt - Etude, D Flat
Saint Saens - My Heart At Thy Sweet Voice
Chopin - Prelude, B Flat
Rubinstien - Romance
Chopin - Etude, E Major
Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto #2, C Minor

The Fisher Fidelity Standard

Introduction/Sound Demonstration/Othello

The Fisher Fidelity Standard
A Low-Distortion Musical Program Source For Evaluating High-Fidelity Equipment
Producer, composer, arranger and soloist: Lenny Hambro
Producers: Vardi & Hambro, Productions, Inc.
Recording Studios" Mediasound, Inc. - New York, N.Y.
Art Direction and Cover Design: Edward Rostock (Muller Jordan Herrick, Inc.)
Cover Photography: Steve Nichols
Executive Producer: Peter Aczel (Muller Jordan Herrick, Inc.)
1972

Rock Band (3, 6 and 9):
Mike Zager: piano and Organ (also leader in 3 and 6)
Emanuel Vardi: Viola (also leader in 9)
Russel George: Bass (Fender)
Jay Berliner: Guitar
Aram Schefrin: Guitar
Randy Brecker: Trumpet
Lenny Hambro: Alto Sax, Soprano Sax, Alto Flute and Piccolo

Jazz Band (5, 7 and 8)
Lenny Hambro: Leader, Clarinet and Alto Sax
Derek Smith: Piano
Bobby Cranshaw: Bass
Grady Tate: Drums
Mel Davis: Trumpet
Harry DiVito: Trombone

Introduction
Sound Demonstration
Othello
Rock My Soul
Jazzy Jack
Let It Be
Song For Lynn
That's A Plenty
Soul Drift

String Orchestra (1, 5 and 6)
Conductor: Emanuel Vardi
Violins: David Nadien, Harry Cykman, Raoul Polakin, Paul Gershman, Mathew Ramondi, Harlod Kohon
Violas: Richard Maximoff, Hugh Loughran, Alfred Brown
Cellos: Eleanor Slatkin, Charles McCracken, Alan Shulman
Double Bass: Donald Palma
Harpsichord: Jocelyn Chaparro

Vivaldi - Concerto in C Major For Two Trumpets
Stravinsky - L'Histoire du Soldat (Suite)
Chopin - Nocturne, Opus 48, No. 1, in C Minor
Mozart - Don Giovanni
J.S. Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major

Waltzes To Remember - Frank Chacksfield

Out Of My Dreams

Waltzes To Remember
Frank Chacksfield and His Orchestra
London Records LL 1603
1957

From the back cover: He (Chacksfield) was born in Battle, Sussex, and studied music from the age of seven. First he played the piano, then the organ, passing the Trinity College exams and appearing as a soloist at Hastings Music Festival before he was fourteen. At the age of fifteen he formed his own dance band, but his parents were against his embarking on a musical career and he started working in a solicitor's office.

All day Frank worked in Law, at night he studied music. Slowly he grew convinced that music was to be his career. War broke out and in 1940 he joined the Army. After being transferred to the Southern Command Entertainments Section at Salibury, he became staff arranger to the War Office shows, "Star in Battledress," and shared an office with Charlie Chester, both being demoted on the same day. This led to a job with "Stand Easy" at Blackpool, with Frank conducting the orchestra. Later he became composer, arranger and conductor for various well-known B.B.C. shows. He made his first record in 1948, and has directed the accompaniment for a number of the leading singers of radio and records. Amongst many other very fine recordings, his version of Limelight made for Londo in April 1953, became a best-seller. The Chacksfield Orchestra began to appear regularly on T.V. in August 1954, was the forerunner of many more successful shows... and so the success story continues.

From Billboard - October 28, 1957: The set is not unlike a previous waltz entry by Mantovani. It's full of the shimmering strings effects and the recording job is clean and bright. Selection consists of entirely of evergreens like "Alice Blue Gown," "Symphony," "The Desert Song," etc.

The Desert Song
The Pink Lady Walt
Sympathy
Alice Blue Gown
The Girl That I Marry
Sweethearts
Kiss Me Again
The Count Of Luxembourg
Deep In My Heart, Dear
Out Of My Dreams
Will You Remember
I Love You So
My Hero

Say It With Music - Rubino

Blue Moon

Say It With Music
Perfect For Party Dancing
Rubino and His Continental Orchestra
Photo: Mel Mills
HI FI Telefunken STEREO TPS 12512
1960

From Billboard - February 8, 1960: A nice easy-listening program of continental-style society music. The group performs various dance tempos including foxtrots, several waltzes, a rhumba and a meringue. Tunes are strictly standards. Good sound makes a worth-while buy at the price.

I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby
In Spain They Say "Si, Si"
Avalon
Red Sails In The Sunset
The Continental
Blue Moon
I'm In The Mood For Love
Say It With Music
It's A Sin To Tell A Lie
Good Night, Irene

Happy Days Are Here Again - Will Glahe

Goody Goody

Happy Days Are Here Again
Will Glahe and His Orchestra
London MONO LL 3397
1965

From the back cover: Will Glahe, master of the accordion, was born at Elberfeld (Wuppertal). Although as a boy he learned how to play the piano his father would not let him become a musician. Will Glahe was to be a teacher but, fortunately enough (one is inclined to say), he did not get a job after World War I. So then he finally enrolled at the Cologne conservatory of Herman Abendroth which meant studying in the daytime, and working in the evenings and at night in order to earn his living as a pianist at coffee shops, or cinemas.

Glahe soon put together an ensemble of his own. In 1929, the famous band leader Dajos Bela, contracted him as a pianist of this band. A year later, Glahe got his first contract for gramophone records and concentrated on the instrument that for years to come, was to be connected with his name, i.e., the accordion.

World War II put an end to his making music. Wounded and a prisoner of war, a Scottish group who knew him as a musician found him and signed him on as a band leader. In 1947, when the SUDWESTFUNK opened at Baden-Baden, Glahe returned to German pop music and together with his Musette Orchestra, he soon reached the top as a soloist and composer.

Happy Days Are Here Again
Jeepers Creepers
Goody Goody
The Music Goes 'Round and 'Round
Bei Mir Bist Du Schon
Boo Hoo
By The Light Of The Slivery Moon
Heartaches
Peg O' My Heart
Cruising Down The River
The Band Played On
Nola

Surprise Party For Dancing - Jerry Meadows

The Last Chance

Surprise Party For Dancing
Jerry Meadows and His Orchestra
Promenade 2240

Pirouette STEREO FM 86
Manufactured by Synthetic Plastics Co.

Chattanooga Choo Choo
Lucky Lady Mambo
The Last Chance
June Is Bustin' Out All Over
East Coast Cha Cha
Londenderry Air
Swing Low
Twilight In Cuba Mambo
Fascination

Shine On Harvest Moon Cha Cha
Old Devil Moon
Every Day Is Ladies' Day Merengue

All Time Favorites - George Lewis

Lisbon Antigua

High Fidelity All Time Favorites
George Lewis and His All-Star Orchestra
Golden Tone C4011
Distributed by Radio Craftsman, Co.

Lisbon Antiqua
I Can't Give You Anything But Love
Melody Of Love
Adios Muchachos
Frenesi
The Touch Of Your Lips
All Or Nothing At All
Humoresque

Bobby Hackett Plays Henry Mancini

Peter Gunn

The Most Beautiful Horn In The World Bobby Hackett
Plays The Great Music Of Henry Mancini
Produced by Bob Morgan
Bobby Hackett's cornet as photographed on this album cover was custom made by Renold Schike

Dick Hyman appears courtesy of Command Records
Epic Stereo BN 26061
1964

From the back cover: Born in Providence, Rhode Island on January 31, 1915, Hackett's first instrument was the violin, which he studied for a year when he was ten. But, with characteristic modesty, he says, "Then I heard Heifetz and those guys and I figured that's that." When pressed about his early musical associations, he says, "Listen, I have succeeded in forgetting all that." For the record, however, Bobby provided entertainment in a few Boston speakeasys ("The people came to drink and we just happened to be there and the boss had to get rid of some money"), played guitar and cornet with Glenn Miller ("Guitar is just an ace in the hole. Somebody hits me in the mouth, I play guitar") and he worked with Horace Heidt ("for about a year – I got off for good behavior").

After coming to New York, he worked as a staff musician at the radio networks, and for a while he served as a conductor for the American Broadcasting Company. He received wide public acclaim as a result of a series of mood music albums he made with a large orchestra. (When asked how he got started playing, Hackett shot back, "Jackie Gleason taught me.") These day, when he is not recording, he is on the road with various musicians. At this writing, he is appearing in Mexico with Benny Goodman.

Theme From "Peter Gunn"
A Powdered Wig
A Profound Gass
Baby Elephant Walk
Soft Touch
Don't Forget It
Days Of Wine And Roses
Theme From "Mr. Lucky"
Joanna
Moon River
Dreamsville
Song About Love