Realistic Country-Pop Hits Of The '70s

 

L. A. International Airport

Realistic Country-Pop Hits Of The '70s
Album Director: Ernest K. Dominy
Art Direction: Roy Kohara
Custom Manufactured for Radio Shack
A Division of Tandy Corporation
From The Sound Capitol Of The World
Capitol Record SL-8022

All I Have To Do Is Dream - Glen Campbell & Bobbie Gentry
Easy Loving - Freddie Hart
Snowbird - Anne Murray
Like Old Times Again - Ray Price (Courtesy of World Records, Inc.)
Wolf Creek Pass - C. W. MaCall (Courtesy of Polydor, Inc.)
L. A. International Airport - Susan Raye
Silver Threads And Golden Needles - Linda Ronstadt
Walk A Mile In My Shoes - Joe South
Danny's Song - Anne Murray
Bonaparte's Retreat - Glen Campbell

The Rockin' Strings Of Ray Martin

 

Blueberry Hill

The Rockin' Strings Of Ray Martin
RCA Victor LPM-2130
1959

From Billboard - September 28, 1959: Ray Martin, the English arranger, has a rocking album that should appeal to the teens as well as the adults. The tunes move, sparked partly by the triplet beat behind the ork and the attention-getting string work. The selections are all standards, ranging form "Who's Sorry Now?" and "I'll Always Be In Love With You" to "Too Young" and "Blueberry Hill," It's both exciting and swinging.

Who's Sorry Now?
I'll Always Be In Love With You
Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing
You Always Hurt The One You Love
Smile
Too Young
Blueberry Hill
A Lovely Way To Spend An Evening
Girl Of My Dreams
C'est si bon (It's So Good)
When I Grow Too Old To Dream
Oh! My Pa-Pa (P Mein Papa)

In A Mellow Mood - Bobby Hacket

 

Flamingo

In A Mellow Mood
Bobby Hackett
With Orchestra Conducted By Glenn Osser
Capitol Records T575
1955

From the back cover: Bobby Hackett, spent the first twenty years of his life growing up and learning to play the trumpet. The next twenty years was a quiet period during which he became – quite simply – one of the finest soloists in popular music. Although relatively unknown to the general public, Hackett built a reputation in the trade. Playing with Horace Heidt, Glenn Miller, Glen Gray, and Paul Whiteman, he became recognized as a "musician's musician," one who played "all the pretty notes." He was the man behind some of the loveliest choruses on record, notably his now-classic version of Embraceable You. Lately, Hackett has gained wider recognition, his featured trumpet work on the popular Jackie Gleason albums lifting him into higher echelons of recording artists. He is now a man in demand. And to satisfy that demand, Capitol happily offers this new album of Bobby Hackett "In A Mellow Mood."

From Billboard - August 13, 1955: Bobby Hackett, the fine jazz trumpeter, featured heavily in the Jackie Gleason mood albums, has this show all to himself. It's still mood music, tho the trumpeter is allowed more freedom to improvise, utilizing a batch of pretty standards. Hackett has managed to fine a few items off the well-trodden track. Relaxing listenable stuff for the mood music buyer with a jaded pallet.

Serenade In Blue
Deep Night
In A Sentimental Mood
Lazy River
Carefree
Mood Indigo
Get Out Of Town
All Through The Night
Stars In My Eyes
Rain
Flamingo
You're My Thrill

Promises, Promises - Aimi Macdonald & Ronnie Carroll

 

Knowing When To Leave

Promises, Promises

Aimi Macdonald & Ronnie Carroll

Music by Burt Bacharach

Lyrics by Hal David

Orchestra directed by Keith Roberts

Fontana Special SFL13192

1969

From the back cover: On this record the two leading roles are sung by Aimi Macdonald and Ronnie Carroll. After starting in ballet in France and America, Aimi returned to England to appear in "One The Town" and "Boys From Syracuse". Following these shows came her really big break in the TV comedy series "At Last The 1948 Show", which made the lovely Aimi Macdonald a nationwide catch-phrase. Soon after the series finished, she starred with Lionel Blair in the Gershwin-scored "Lady By Good". Ronnie Carroll has been a recording star now for some twelve years, with a string of successful hits such as "Say Wonderful Things", "Roses Are Red" and "Dear Heart", and with his relaxed style of singing, has appeared in very many radio and television shows over the years. Just recently his recordings have been rather intermittent, and it is very gratifying to hear him singing as well as ever. Acclaimed by the critics as one of the best musicals of the decade, the success of "Promises, Promises" lead the way for many more Bacharach-David scores for the future. We will look forward to them.

Overture

Half As Big As Life

Upstairs

You'll Think Of Someone

She Likes Basketball

Knowing When To Leave

Turkey Lurkey TIme

A Fact Can Be A Beautiful Thing

Whoever You Are

Where Can You Take A Girl

I'll Never Fall In Love Again

Promises, Promises

Singin' For Fun - The Krater Brothers

 

Mornin' Train

Singin' For Fun
The Krater Brothers
Pacific Northwest Sound Productions - Salem, Oregon
Recording Engineer: Ray Connelly
Flight 7 - 10006

From the back cover: The Krafter Brothers were born in the Southwestern part of Oklahoma near the little town of Hobart, where they spent the early part of their childhood. In 1945 they moved to Salem, Oregon. The Krafter Brothers, who, as a matter of fact, really are brothers, began singing together around their home community and local church. At that time, Jack, the tenor, was the only one who played any instrument, the Spanish Guitar. Things went on that way for a number of years, until the folk singing trend came along. This type of music, with its close harmony, smooth blending, powerful lyrics and exciting rhythm, became very appealing to the Krafter Brothers. As a result, they began to work out various arrangements of those gutsy and lyrical tunes. With the added concentration on folk songs, Thurm, who sings the lead, took up the string bass to supply the rhythm. Not long after, another guitar was strummed bu Jess, who also sings baritone. Before long, the Krater Brothers were kept quite busy singing throughout their home state of Oregon. So, if you are one who enjoys music which contains blending, harmony, and a lot of rhythm; listen, as the Krater Brothers go, "Singin' For Fun."

Swing Down Sweet Chariot
All My Trials
Jesus Met The Woman
Jordan River
Where No One Stands Alone
Mornin' Train
This Land Is Your Land
Man Of Constant Sorrow
Maple On A Hill
Pastures Of Plenty
Cruel War
Long Ago And Far Away

Hawaii Across The Sea - June Ululani, Genoa Keawe & Benjamin Rogers

 

Across The Sea

Beautiful Mahealani Moon

Hawaii Across The Sea
Genoa Keawe and Her Hawaiians
Hawaii's Most Popular Television Artists
Enchanting Melodies with Benjamin Rogers at the Hawaiian Steel Guitar
Authentic Hawaiian Melodies
Recorded In Hawaii
49th State Hawaii Record Co.
HI-FI LP-3404

Vocals In Hula Tempo

June Ululani Leite sings with John K. Almeida and His Hawaiians

Across The Sea
I Will Remember You
Beyond The Reef

Genda Keawe and Her Hawaiians
Kealoha
Naka-Pueo
Royal Hawaiian Hotel

Instrumentals For Listening

Benjamin Rogers at the Hawaiian Steel Guitar with The Harmony Isles Group

Lovely Hula Hands
It's Just An Old Hawaiian Custom
Pagan Love Song
King's Serenade
Beautiful Mahealani Moon
Anapau

Nat King Cole At The Sands

 

Miss Otis Regrets

Nat King Cole At The Sands
Musical Direction: David Cavanaugh
Orchestra conducted by Antonio Morelli
Produced by Lee Gillette and David Cavanaugh
Cover Photo: Capitol Photo Studios / Ken Veeder
Capitol Records SMAS 2434
1966

From the inside cover: On this morning of January 14, 1960 (2:30 to 5:00 A.M.), Nat responded to their enthusiasm in kind. Always in top form, he topped even his own top, with a warm, wise, witty, debonair, exciting, wonderfully carefree show.

From Billboard - January 22, 1966: The late Nat King Cole was in rare form that day in 1960 when he was working at the Sands, and the Capitol engineers were on hand to preserve the performance. The performance was as smooth as ever and the release of the album, even at this late date, is a fine tribute.

Ballerina
Funny
The Continental
I Wish You Love
You Leave Me Breathless
Thou Swell
My Kind Of Love
Surrey With The Fringe On Top
Where Or When
Miss Otis Regrets
Joe Turner's Blues

 

How Deep Is The Ocean

Who's Sorry Now
Connie Francis
With Orchestral Accompaniment
Cover Photograph: Robert Randell
MGM Records E3686
1958

From the back cover: No rise to stardom in the vocal field has been so swift – and so inevitable – within the last few years as that of pert, piquant Connie Francis. If ever the golden results of a success story were deserved, it is so in the case of the delightful young song stylist from Newark, N. J., who has come rapidly to both national and world-wide fame.

An honor student at her high school who was awarded a scholarship at New York University, Connie's interests centered on philosophy, psychology and logic – in fact, she still plans attending night school at Rutgers University to get a degree, hoping to find her true field of concentration during the course of further study. But, the teen-age miss with the beguiling voice and a fabulous sense of what to do with a song also loved music – and music might well still win out in her life. That is: if the clamoring of millions of fans have anything to do with her final decision.

Connie caught the "music bug" while writing and producing a musical in high school. This activity balanced neatly with her work as editor of the school newspaper. The fact that she made a successful appearance on NBC-TV's "Startime" at the age of twelve probably had much to do with the fact that she took a suggestion to try for a spot on "Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scout" a few years later. Winning on the video contest, she found herself in demand for such other important TV shows as the Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey "Stage Show" and guest appearances with such personalities as Milton Berle, Martin & Lewis, and Dick Clark.

Connie's record career began sensationally on MGM with "Freddy," a winsome, wistful song that attracted more attention than most first record releases. And, a string of ever increasingly more-popular releasees culminated in her phenomenally successful waxing of "Who's Sorry Now?", the record hit which is featured here and lends its name as title to this collection. At the time this album collection was issued, the disk had passed the fabled million mark in sales and Connie had received a "Golden Record" – one of diskdom's most coveted awards.

Who's Sorry Now
I'm Nobody's Baby Now
It's The Talk Of The Town
I Miss You So
I Cried For You
Heartaches
I'm Beginning To See The Light
My Melancholy Baby
You Always Hurt The One You Love
How Deep Is The Ocean
If I Had You
I'll Get By

Voices In Love - The Four Freshmen

 

Time Was

Voices In Love
The Four Freshmen
Arranged and Conducted by Dick Reynolds
Capitol Records ST1074
1958

From the back cover: Seldom has any vocal group boasted more plentiful musical talent. Bob Flanigan handles the upper vocal registers, plays trombone, and doubles on bass. Don Barbour, the second voice, plays guitar; his brother Ross sings the third part and plays both trumpet and drums, Ken Albers rounds out the group, singing bass and blowing trumpet and mellophone. Their instrumental touches drift all through the album, creating surprising accents wherever they fall.

From Billboard - October 20, 1958: The group has another likely dual-market pop and jazz click with their latest package. Backed by lush strings, they have a highly attractive sound on a fine selection of tunes. This is one of their best. Number include "Warm," "It Could Happen To You," and "In The Still Of The Night." A really fine album with excellent potential.

I've Always Chasing Rainbows
There Is No Greater Love
Moonlight
It Could Happen To You
Out Of Nowhere
In The Still Of The Night
I'll Remember April
While You Are Gone
Warm
Time Was (Duerme)
You're All I See
I Heard You Cried Last Night (And So Did I)

Richard Crooks Favorites

 

Rio Rita

Richard Crooks Favorites
Cover: Saul Mandel
RCA Camden CAL 217
1955

From Billboard - April 23, 1955: Richard Crooks is now represented by five LP's on the Camden label. The fine tenor voice still carries some charm when rendering the old standards – "Rio Rita," "I Bring A Love Song," "Neapolitan Love Song," etc. But frankly, the disk's sound, as expected, does not measure up to current top quality.

I Bring A Love Song
In My Garden
Rio Rita
Neapolitan Love Song
You Will Remember Vienna
One Alone
Only A Rose
For You Alone
How Lovely Are Thy Dwellings
Smilin' Through
Good-Bye