Robin Hood - Top Cat

Top Cat

Robin Hood
In Story And Song With Top Cat
The Funtastic World Of Hanna-Barbera
Peter Pan P13864
Columbia Special Products
Inter-Continetal Music Group
1977

Top Cat
Robin Hood (Pt. 1)
M-O-N-E-Y
Robin Hood (Pt. 2)
Robin Hood
Robin Hood (Pt. 3)
Dibble
Robin Hood (Pt. 3)
Robin Hood (Pt. 4)
Buddies

The Sound Of Jeanneke

Delilah

The Sound Of Jeanneke
92 Key Orchestral Dance Organ
Joy Records - Great Britain
JOYS 231
1972

Throughly enjoyable oddball.

From the back cover: The Dance Organ to be heard on this Album was commissioned by the owners of a luxury roadhouse at Asse, near Brussels and built by the Belgian firm of DeCap Brothers in the late forties. It was acquired and fully restored for the St. Albans Organ Museum, in 1962. The pipework is housed in the main case, behind the illuminated, decorated front which carries the movable percussion, accordions and saxophones.

Release Me
Delilah
The Last Waltz
Lady Of Spain
Delicado
Blue Tango
Il Silenzio
Savoy English Medley
Play A Simple Melody
America
Spanish Flea
If I Had A Hammer
In A Persian Market
The Blue Danube

Charles Randolph Grean Sounde

Manolito

The Original Hit
Quentin's Theme
Charles Randolph Grean Sounde
Vocals by Robin Grean
Ranwood Records R 8055

Quirky set of mood/easy music. The early synth/moog and Robin Grean's (relation?) dreamy vocal touches help create Grean's "own style".

From the back cover: Charles Randolph Grean has been responsible for many great record hits. The first recording session that he ever conducted and arranged was Nat King Cole's "Christmas Song". Then followed "Riders In The Sky" with Vaughn Monroe, "The Thing" (which Grean composed_ with Phil Harris, "Sweet Violets" (another Grean composition) with Dianh Shore, "Green Door" with Jim Lowe, and many, many others. Through his many years of experience as Artist and Repertoire Director at RCA Victor and Dot Records, plus many independent productions, he has finally found a formula for his own style; a perfect blend of the old and the new, a "nostalgic" modern sound". "Quentin's Theme" caught his ear while watching "Dark Shadows" on TV, and has brought him his first hit record under his own name.

Quentin's Theme
On The Trail
Forgotten Dreams
La Golondrina
The Perfect Song
At The Blue Whale
Sunset
Manolito
Serenade To Summertime
Deep Purple
Shadows Of The Night

AMF Presents Music For Swingers

Swingers Theme

Music To Watch Girls By

AMF Presents Music For Swingers
Budget Sound, Burbank, California
6001

From the back cover: One particular song, the "Swingers Theme," originated as the music for a jingle used in a series of television commercials produced for AMF, and may well be on its way towards becoming a hit in its own right – much like another song in this album, "Music To Watch Girls By." This began as a commercial for Pepsi Cola and has since become a favorite of swingers everywhere.

Swingers Theme
Whipped Cream
A Taste Of Honey
One Strike More
Spanish Flea
Casino Royale
Georgy Girl
Music To Watch Girls By
Yellow Bird
Headin' Home
Girl From Ipanema
I Left My Heart In San Francisco

Music From The Swinging 30's

Haiti Blues

Music From The Swinging 30's
Coronet Records CXS 108

Coronet must have changed the back cover of this release at some point and removed or added the copy which indicated that Claire Howard and Ray Benton are the artists. The label was also changed as the label on this press is white and blue with Coronet in red rather the maroon and silver label.

Graphically bold cheesecake cover and a Howard's smoking blues tracks are worth the price of admission.

My Funny Valentine
Paris
London
Goodbye Pin A Rose On Me
Bill Bailey
I Don't Care
Mr. Dooley
Hong Kong Blues
Haiti Blues

Candlelight And Wine - LeRoy Holmes

Poinciana

Candlelight And Wine
LeRoy Holmes And His Orchestra
MGM Records E3288
1955

Decent mid-50s LeRoy Holmes mood set featuring spicy cheesecake for desert.

Also checkout Lush Themes From Motion Pictures.

Snowfall
Under A Blanket Of Blue
Flamingo
Enchanted Night
Poinciana
Candlelight
My Silent Love
Moonlight
Madeira
Mediterranean Serenade
Where Or When
Amor

Pop Goes The Zither - Karl Swoboda

Hard Day's Night

Take Five

Pop Goes The Zither
Explosive New Blending Of Zither And Full Orchestra
Karl Swoboda
Philips PHM 200-183

Good quirky space age pop album.

Also check out Dancing Zither.

Fly Me To The Moon
The Girl From Ipanema
Hello Dolly
Exodus
Tennessee Waltz
A Hard Day's Night
Alley Cat
Take Five
If I Had A Hammer
Java
Moon River
Days Of Wine And Roses

The Big Bands Swing

The Big Bands Swing!
Design Records DLP-184

Nicely packaged compilation set, but uneven collection of older tunes (when published for this release). Most, if not all tracks, are available for purchase/download online, so I will not be posting a sample.

This Is Always
Gotta Get Me Somebody To Love
Clementine
When The Saints Go Marching In
Ciribiribin
Mabel, Mabel
Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen
Red Silk Stockings
Civilization
I Try

Dancing By The Firelight - The Keith Textor Singers

Wee Small Hours

Dancing By The Firelight
The Keith Textor Singers
Warner Bros. Records WS 1345
1959

Why did the cover designer place the track list over the "action"? Strange cover featuring stuff poodles as the center of attention.

From the back cover: ...there is a reality and presence which the warmth of the Keith Textor Singers brings to the mood album de luxe.

A Lovely Way To Spend An Evening
I Only Have Eyes For You
Moonlight Cocktail
Isn't It Romantic?
Polka Dots And Moonbeams
Three O'Clock In The Morning
The Nearness Of You
Fine And Dandy
Moonlight Becomes You
Dancing By The Firelight
Wee Small Hours
Dancing On The Ceiling

Exotic Music Of Ancient China - Lui Tsun-Yuen

The Elegant Orchid - Confucius (550 B.C.)

Exotic Music Of Ancient China
Lui Tsun-Yuen Plays The Pipa And Chin
Lyrichord LL 7122
1964

Compositions dating back to 550 B.C. but Space Age minimalist good!

From the back cover: Lui Tsun-Yuen was born of a musical family in Soochow, China. At the age of ten, he took up study of the Pipa and the Chin with the foremost masters in China and was coached by such musical scholars as Wang Yu-Ting and Hsia Pao-Shen. Equipped with a prodigious technique, Lui is a sensitive musician who is completely dedicated to his instruments. The only accomplished player an the Western countries, Lui is regarded at home, despite his youth, as one of the few great exponents of these classical instruments. Lui is also a composer and has written original compositions for the Pipa.

Lui has played Hong Kong both in recitals and in radio broadcasts. In Brazil, he was presented on T.V. by the Brazilian Ministry of Education. He also participated in the 1958 Sao Paolo Music Festival in a recital of Chinese classical music. Lui's performance was recorded by the B.B.C. for its permanent record collection.

In the U.S. he has given recitals in Carnegie Chamber Hall and many other places, hailed by both audiences and critics as a great virtuoso. Since 1961 has has been teaching Chinese music at the Institute of Ethnomusicology at The University Of California, Los Angeles.

Four Tokens Of Happiness
Spring Thoughts At Hans Palace
The Bird's Song
Sound Of The Temple
The Great Ambuscade
Yearning On River Shiang
The Flowing Streams
In Remembrance Of An Old Friend
The Elegant Orchid