Gordon MacRae and Orchestra

 

Gordon MacRae

Gordon MacRae and Orchestra

Royale 18155 (10", 33 ⅓ RPM)

1955

You Go To My Head

Full Moon

It's Anybody's Spring

You Keep Coming Back Like A Song

Erin's Song

The Dreamer

I'm Taking A Fling

A Lover's Farewell

Babes In Toyland / The Red Mill - Alexander Smallens / Jay Blackton

 

Babes In Toyland / The Red Mill

Selections from The Operetta

Babes In Toyland

Music by Victor Herbert

Lyrics by Glen MacDonough

Kenny Baker - Karen Temple

Chorus and Orchestra Directed by Alexander Smallens

Decca Records DL 8458

Selections from

The Red Mill

Music by Victor Herbert

Lyrics by Hanry Blossom

Wilber Evans - Eileen Farrel - Felix Knight

Chorus and Orchestra Directed by Jay Blackton

From the back cover: About Victor Herbert - Born in Dublin, in 1859, Hebert came to America with his wife, Therese Foerster, in 1886. He remained here the rest of his life, becoming a naturalized American citizen and one of the country's most beloved figures. He died on May 26, 1924, leaving to his adopted nation and to the world a priceless heritage of music which continues to be piquant, spontaneous and always captivating.

Fun With The Clarinet - Leon Breeden

 

Fun With The Clarinet

Fun With The Clarinet

An Audio-Visual Adventure In Jazz Music Education

By Leon Breeden

Cactus Music Publishers - Denton, Texas

Leon Breeden - Director of Lab Bands, North Texas State University; Denton, Texas. Member of Faculty National Stage Band Camps. Extensive experience as clinician, adjudicator and performer.

Dave Dudley Sings - Renfro Valley Boys

 

I Feel A Cry Coming On

Crazy

Dave Dudley Sings

Also Staring The Renfro Valley Boys

Spinorama Records M-172

1967

Dave Dudley

Six Days On The Road

Taxicab Driver

I Feel A Cry Coming On

Last Day In The Mines

Before My Time

The Renfro Valley Boys

Doin' Down The Road

Red River Valley

One Is A Lonely Number

Henry's Boogie

Crazy

Billy Taylor At The London House

 

Midnight Piano

The Billy Taylor Trio

At The London House

Produced by Creed Taylor

Engineering: Bill Putnam

Cover Photo by Alan Fontaine

Cover Design by Bob Crozier

ABC-Paramount ABC-134

Recorded July 1956

Billy Taylor - Piano

Percy Brice - Drums

Earl May - Bass

From the back cover: It is extremely difficult to capture, in a recording studio, the spirit which the Billy Taylor Trio communicates when they are making a personal appearance. These three talented musicians obviously enjoy playing together, and the many varied moods they create are influenced and often enhanced by receptive audiences. With this in mind ABC-Paramount moved their microphones and equipment into Chicago's London House and under the direction of Bill Putnam, taped several of the trip's sets.

There are far too few night clubs and restaurants which present the music of groups like the Billy Taylor Trio under conditions which are as ideal as those of the London House. The well-tuned Steinway, the roomy bandstand, the excellent sound system and the unique arrangement of spotlights make this a great room for performer and listener alike. Even the staff does its part to help create a convivial atmosphere. It is not only a pleasure but a rarity to see waiters and waitresses, who hear the music every night, join the applause after a particularly enthusiastic rendition of Billy Taylor specialty. 

Billy Taylor has, of course, made many different types of albums but we think that this "in person" presentation of the way the trio sounded in July 1956 comes closer to what Billy Taylor fans are accustomed to hearing when they hear the group in a night club than anything else he has on records.

"Billy Taylor At The London House" has always meant standing room only and the applause following each number is ample evidence of the unique rapport Billy achieves, not only with the trio, but with his listeners as well. – Dan Sorkin, Station WCFL, Chicago, Ill.

The London House

It Might As Well Be Spring

Gone With The Wind

Love Is Here To Stay

Midnight Piano

I Cover The Waterfront 

Stella By Starlight

Vibrations - Don Elliott & Cal Tjader

 

Sunday Kind Of Love

Stranger In Town

Vibrations (Vib-rations)

Don Elliott, Cal Tjader

Mastered: R. Van Gelder

Production: Ozzie Cadena

Savoy Record Co. MG 12054

1956

From the back cover: Cal Tjader - Following the path of experimentation set by Lionel Hampton, Red Norvo and then Milt Jackson, Cal Tjader, 20 year-old San Franciscan ranks high among today's exponents of the mallet art as applied to Jazz. The two groups featured with Cal on this album give a varied and kicking "boot" to the choice material. All are standards with the exception of "Minority" (incidentally, Cal's own favorite recording to date). Cal's work reflects a great joy in performance, from the humorous sidebars he interpolates into each performance to the vital, swinging enthusiasm projected into the performance of all concerned! His technique is superb and harmonic invention parallels the modern idiom he utilizes. Born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1925 of show business parents, Cal studied at San Francisco State, graduating with a major in Music and Education. His first break to fame came with the original Dave Brubeck combos, where he played vibes, drums, bongos with the trio and octet, with George Shearing on vibes, and has since returned to San Francisco where he leads his own groups. Of late, his experiments are more towards the Latin American idiom, though retaining the essential jazz flavoring. Al McKibbon is another Shearing-ite. Hank Jones and Kenny Clarke need no introduction to Savoy Record fans. Dick Wyands is a member of the Vernon Alley group in San Francisco and Roy Haines is the well-known modern drum star. I'm sure you'll agree that Cal deserves a high place in the jazz "sun" after listening carefully to the enclosed 7 tracks.

Don Elliott – Versatility is his middle name, so they say. No set of note, article, or discussion of Don Elliott would be complete without some reference to his amazing abilities on such a diverse collections of musical instruments. Contrary to the usual vaudeville picture of the/character playing the harmonica strapped to his mouth while one foot plays drums and the other picks chords with its toes on a piano and the elbow plucking a bass... Don really IS the one-man band! Vibes, Trumpet, baritone horn, mellophone, bongos, accordion, piano, and singer... all in one good-looking young man of 29 from Somerville, New Jersey. This wrier had the good fortune of meeting and playing with Don at Rutgers University Jazz Club Sessions and at al-night sessions with Mort Herbert (heard here), ex-Gillespie trombonist Candy Ross and the late, great blind pianist Tommy Berk in the middle-'40s, and find these new sides a complete Gas! His conception varies from instrument to instrument, yet always Swings! Although the personnel lists are large on this set, all solo work is by Don, so check the lists for the solo instrument he's using on which track. Use of multi-tracking permitted the overlapping of mellophone solos into vibes, etc. By the way of background, Don's professional background includes stints with George Shearing, Benny Goodman, Teddy Wilson and Terry Gibbs units on vibes. The past few years have found him free-lancing or fronting his own combo on all instruments, including a stylized, yet interesting vocal experimentation. – H. Alan Stein

Cal Tjader - Vibes

Hank McKibbon - Bass

Kenny Clarke - Drums

Love Me Or Leave Me

Minority

Tangerine

I Want To Be Happy

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Cal Tjader - Vibes

Richard Wyands - Piano

Al McKibbon - Bass

Roy Haines - Drums

After You've Gone

Sunday Kind Of Love

It's You Or No One

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Don Elliott - Vibes, Trumpet, Mellophone

Kai Winding - Sax

Phil Urso - Tenor & Baritone

Danny Bank - Baritone & Clarinet

Jimmy Lyons - Piano

Arnold Fishkind - Bass

Sid Bulkin - Drums

Darn That Dream

Jeepers Creepers

Oh, Look At Me Now

Mighty Like A Rose 

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Don Elliott, Vibes, Trumpet, Mellophone

Doug Duke - Organ

Mort Herbert - Bass

Sid Bulkin - Drums

Take Me Out To The Ball Game

Stranger In Town

Where Or When

Rocky Fun And Fitness

 

Rocky Fun And Fitness

Rocky

Fun And Fitness

Written and Produced by John Braden

Kid Stuff Records KSB 1018

United Artists Group

1983

Gonna Fly Now - Rocky's Theme (Warm Up)

Go For It All (Windmill)

Stronger Every Day (Deep Knee Bends)

I Love My Bike (Bicycle)

Sit Up-Wrap (Sit-Ups)

Gonna Fly Now - Rocky's Theme (Reprise) (Cool Down)

Hit Trip - Charlie Byrd

 

Man And A Woman

Hit Trip

Charlie Byrd

Produced by Teo Macero

Engineering: Frank Laico, Ray Moore

Cover Photo: Columbia Records Photo Studio - Sandy Speiser

Columbia Records CS 9627

1968

Charlie Byrd - Guitar

Joe Byrd - Bass

Bill Reichenbach - Drums

Mario Darpino - Flute (featured throughout)

Hal Posey - Fluegelhorn (featured on Shiny Stockings)

Love Is Blue (L'Amour est bleu) - Arranged and Conducted by Teo Marcero

Wait Until Dark (from "Wait Until Dark") - Arranged and Conducted by Tem Newsom

Talk To The Animals (from "Doctor Dolittle") - Arranged and Conducted by Teo Marcero

Live For Life (Vivre pour vivre) (from "Live for Life") - Arranged and Conducted by Teo Marcero

The Look Of Love (from "Casino Royale") - Arranged and Conducted by Teo Marcero

Shiny Stocking

Up, Up And Away

A Man And A Woman

Sunny

Barefoot In The Park (from "Barefoot In the Park") - Arranged and Conducted by Tom Newsome

If I Were A Rich Man (from "Fiddler On The Roof")

Held Over! Today's Great Movie Themes - Percy Faith

 

Midnight Cowboy

Held Over!

Today's Great Movie Themes

Percy Faith and His Orchestra

Arranged and Conducted by Percy Faith

Produced by Irving Townsend

Engineering: Jack Lattig

Photo: Brian Hennessey

Columbia Records CS 1019

1970

Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head - from the 20th Century-Fox Picture "Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid"

Midnight Cowboy - from the United Artists Motion Picture "Midnight Cowboy"

What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life - from the United Artists Motion Picture "The Happy Ending"

Patton Theme - from the 20th Century-Fox Picture "Patton"

Come Saturday Morning - from the Paramount Picture "The Sterile Cuckoo"

True Grit - from the Paramount Picture "True Grit"

Jean - from the 20th Century-Fox Picture "The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie"

The Theme from "Z"

Airport Love Theme - from the Universal Picture "Airport"

Ballad Of Easy Rider - from the Columbia Motion Picture "Easy Rider"

Theme From Anne Of The Thousand Days - from the Universal Picture "Anne Of The Thousand Days"

Hard Days Night - Current Hits Volume 18

 

Current Hits Volume 18

Current Hits Volume 18

Producer: William Beasley

Assistant Producer: Ted Jarrett

Recorder and Compatible Mastering: Columbia Recording Studio, Nashville, Tenn.

Engineer: Tom Sparkman

Cover Design: McPherson Studio, Nashville, Tenn.

Hit Records - Record No. 418

A Hard Day's Night

Dang Me

People Say

Little Old Lady (From Pasadena)

Rag Doll

Where Did Our Love Go

C'mon And Swim

Girl From Impanema

Because

Walk - Don't Run 64

Steal Away

Can't You see That She's Mine