Twist Party - Joe Barragan

 

Samba Twist

Twist Party

Joe Barragan And The Twist Stompers

Crown Records CLP 5223

Paramount Twist

Twistin' With Joe

Irish Twist

Let's Twist

Twistin' At Dino's

Guitar Twist

Twistin' With Joe

Twistin' The Twist

Luckey's Twist

Samba Twist

Georgia Gibbs

 

I Feel So Smoochie

Georgia Gibbs and Orchestra

Royale 19160 (10 inch 33 RPM)

1955

I Feel So Smoochie

You Keep Coming Back Like A Song

The Things We Did Last Summer

Willow Road

Anvil Chorus

Flow Gently

Long Long Ago

Old Black Joe

The Drums Of Rodriguez

 

Carioca

The Drums Of Rodriguez
Wille Rodriguez
Cook Laboratories, Inc.
1086 (10 inch 33 RPM)

From the back cover: "I (Rodriquez) was born in Puerto Rico in 1918. Been playing drums since I was 17 years old. Come to New York in 1938, and have been playing steady since then (thank God). The Latin bands I have worked with are Jose Curbelo, Noro Morales, Miguelito Valdes and a few other bands. Worked for two consecutive years with Paul Whiteman as only and featured drummer, in his band when I was 20 years old."

Carioca (from Flying Down To Rio)
Mambo A La Basie (based on Jumping At The Woodside by Count Basie)
Frenesi
Hi Fi Mambo by Al Romero
Willie's Drums by Willie Rodriguez and Al Romero
Nocturnal by Jose-Sabre Maroquin
Alamac by Al Romero
Lullaby To Frances - Improvisation by Willie Rodriguez

Planet Of The Apes

 

Battle For The Planet Of The Apes

Planet Of The Apes

4 Exciting Stories

Produced by Arthur Kolb

Power Records 8147

1974

Planet Of The Apes

Beneath The Planet Of The Apes

Escape From The Planet Of The Apes

Battle For The Planet Of The Apes

Polynesia - The Polynesians

 

Vana Vana

Polynesia
The Music Of Hawaii - Tahiti - Samoa
The Polynesians featuring Harry Baty, Sam Kaapuni & Bob Nichols

Photography: Joe Tauber

Cover Design: Hobo Arts

Crown Records CST 169
1960

From the back cover: Crown Records wishes to thank the owners of the Polynesian Restaurant (Torrance, California) for their invaluable assistance in making the stunning cover shot available to us.

Also from the back cover: The Polynesians, Harry Baty, Sam Kaapuni and Bob Nichols are of the background to perform perfectly the exotic melodies and rhythms of the Islands.

Harry Baty, leader of the gourd, is of Hawaiian-English ancestry. Today he ranks with such other greats of the Polynesian music field as Alfred Alpaka, Andy Iona and Augie Goupil. Harry Baty has achieved success not only on recordings but in motion pictures as well.

Sam Kaapuni, the arranger and guitarist, is of Hawaiian ancestry. Besides backing such stars as Alfred Alpaka and Dorothy Lamour, he has been a member of the famed Harry Owens Orchestra at the world-renowned Royal Hawaiian Hotel.

Bob Nichols is also of Hawaiian descent. Bob has toured throughout the world with Lani McIntrye.

Ben Chapman (with Freddie and Ernie Tavares), vocal guest artist with The Polynesians, is of Tahitian French and English extraction. He extends a true flavor of the peoples of French Oceania and the Puamota's. A new rising personality who is now being featured in motion pictures and television.

From Billboard - February 1, 1960: Authentic, both from the standpoint of material and performance. Cover is a good one, suitable for display. The instrumentalists are three, and there are guest vocalists who sing in their native languages.

Tahitian Festival
Tamure
Marchelle A Vahini
Mine Minoi
Vana Vana
Cafe Au Lait
Papio
Vahine Anamite
Tanga Tika
Marry A Vau

Cool Coleman - Cy Coleman

 

Alley Cats

Cool Coleman
Cy Coleman
Westminster Hi-Fi WST 15001
1958

Cy Coleman - Piano
Aaron Bell - Bass
Charlie Smith - Drums

From the back cover: Cy Coleman, one of the fastest rising young performers in the jazz field, got his start as a youngster playing in bars on New York's Third Avenue, at weddings and at private parties, and by the time he had reached seventeen he was already making important professional appearances. Two years later he gave up playing solo to form a trio, and has since gone on to bigger and more numerous engagements. He has appeared at many of New York's best night spots – The Copacabana, Little Club, Shelbourne Hotel, Cafe Society, Bop City, The Embers, La Vie en Rose, and the Waldorf-Astoria – at The Sahara in Las Vegas, and at Eden Roc Hotel and L'Aiglon in Miami Beach. He has made thirty-five appearances on the Kate Smith Television Hour, and has been featured on the Steve Allen Show, the Stork Club Show, the G.E. Theatre, the first Morning Show on NBC (three years), and had his own Cy Coleman Show on the Dumont Network for one year. Most recently he has been appearing on Art Ford's Greenwich Village Show.

Cy Coleman is also a very talented composer, as several of his numbers heard in this album prove. Frank Sinatra has recorded Cy's Witchcraft and Why Try To Change Me Now?, Nat "King" Cole his I'm Gonna Laugh You Right Out Of My Life, Tony Bennett his Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep, The Autumn Waltz and It Amazes Me, Sylvia Sims his You Fascinate Me So, Patti Page his My How The Time Goes By, and his Tin Pan Alley appears in John Murray Anderson's Almanac. Cy also composed the background music for Compulsion, an adaptation of the Meyer Levin best-seller for Broadway.

From Billboard - October 13, 1958: Pianist Coleman plays a light, melodic brand of jazz-flavored piano, ably backed by bass and drums. Selections include Coleman's own tune, "Witchcraft," along with "Isn't It Romantic," "Gypsy In My Soul," and other standards. Pleasant mood package for jocks and well-produced item for stereo fans

Jazz Mambo
Witchcraft
Hooray For Love
Isn't It Romantic
You Fascinate Me So
Gypsy In My Soul
Alley Cats
Foggy Day
Sing You Sinners
Bess, You Is My Woman
I Want To Be Happy

A Man And A Woman - The Johnny Mann Singers

 

So Rare

Un Homme Et Une Femme

A Man And A Woman

The Johnny Mann Singers

Producers: Jack Tracy, Snuff Garrett & Dave Pell

Arranged & Conducted by Johnny Mann

Art Direction: Woody Woodward

Cover Photography: Ivan Nagy

Liberty Records, Inc. LSP-3490 & LST 7490

Mindy (Don't You Cry) - Vocal Solo by Gene Merlino

Mr. And Mrs. Millionaire 

She's Just My Style

My Baby's Gone

A Man And A Woman (Un Homme Et Une Femme) - from the motion picture "A Man And A Woman"

In The Arms Of Love (from the Mirisch-Geoffry Production "What Did You Do In The War, Daddy?")

Born Free (from the Columbia Picture "Born Free")

Cherish

So Rare

Green Hills

My Inamorata (from the Warner Bros. Picture "Not With My Wife, You Don't!")

Song For Christmas Time - Various Artists

 

Jingle Bells

Songs For Christmas Time

The Pied Piper, Martha Tilton and Other Great Hollywood Vocalists

Golden Tone Hi-Fidelity C 4047

Jingle Bells - Martha Tilton

The First Noel - Norma Zimmer

Silent Night - Bill Reeve

Deck The Halls - Pied Pipers

O, Little Town Of Bethlehem - Marni Nixon

Good King Wencesalas - Pied Pipers

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - Pied Pipers

Away In A Manger - Marni Nixon

O, Come All Ye Faithful - Pied Pipers

Joy To The World - Thuri Ravenscroft

It Came Upon A Midnight Clear - Norma Zimmer

Hark, The Herald Angels Sing - John Gabriel

America's Most Danceable Music - Griff Williams

 

Thou Swell

America's Most Danceable Music

Griff Williams And His Orchestra

Mercury Records MG 20288

1957

From Billboard - October 14, 1957: Another in the string of society dance band packages to hit the market in recent months. The band is not quite in the typical society voicing and the album contains fewer tunes than competition by the Lester and Howard Lanin bands. Still the music is well recorded and danceable and the simple cover should get good display.

Thou Swell

I Could Write A Book

Tales From The Vienna Woods

When Spring Is In The Air

Medley #1

The Lady Is A Tramp

Why 

La Golondrina

Artist's Life

Medley #2

The Romantic Rachmaninoff - The Kingsway Symphony Orchestra

 

The Silver Sleigh Bells from The Bells, Op. 35

The Romantic Rachmaninoff

Camarata Conducting The Kingsway Symphony Orchestra

Produced by Tony D'Amato

Engineer: Arthur Lilley

Phase 4 Stereo Concert Series

London SPC 21029

1968

Rhapsody On A Theme Of Paganini, Op. 43 - excerpt

The Silver Sleigh Bells from The Bells, Op. 35

Piano Concerto, Op. 18 - theme from 1st movement

Prelude In G Minor, Op, 23, No. 5

Piano Concerto No. 2 In C Minor, Op. 18 - theme from 3rd movement

Prelude In C Sharp Minor, Op. 3, No. 2

Symphony No. 2 In E Minor, Op. 27 - scherzo

The Loud Alarum Bells from The Bells, Op. 35