Howdy Folks! Welcome to The UnEarthed In The Atomic Attic album blog! Here you will find a wide variety of unusual Space Age Vinyl finds that feature good quality cover scans, jacket notes and audio samples for you to enjoy. I'm here to have fun and hope you will share in my process of discovery!
Liszt: Hugarian Rhapsody No. 2
Grieg: In The Hall Of The Mountain King
Strauss: The Blue Dabube Waltz
Rossnini: William Tell Overture
Gliere: Russian Sailor's Dance
Tchaikovsky: Waltz Of The Flowers
Saint-Saens: Danse Macabre
Tchaikovsky: March Slav
Intermezzo
Henri Rene And His Orchestra
RCA Victor LPM-1245
1956
From the back cover: The basis of his (Rene) thorough musicianship was laid in his student days in Berlin during and just after the First World War. He received a typically thorough German classical musical education, which has stood him in very good stead in his career.
Immediately after finishing his education he returned to this country (New York is his birthplace) and got a short-lived job as part of a two-piano team. His first paying job was as banjo player in Charlie Strickland's Orchestra. Before branching out with his own orchestra at the age of twenty, he played with other with other orchestras and toured in vaudeville – experiences that made him thoroughly familiar with American pop music.
In 1926 he returned to Europe and toured with his own orchestra before settling in Berlin as star arranger with Electrola, then RCA Victor's German Affiliate. Later, as music director of UFA (Germany's biggest movie company) and Tobis Motion Picture Studios, he wrote and arranged scores for movies.
After ten years in Europe he came home and, a year later, became musical director or RCA Victor's International Division – a post for which his European experience fitted him perfectly.
After 1941, when European sources of recordings dried up, Rene formed his Musette Orchestra and started turning out records that had the true Continental flavor. During the war he served as instructor for soldier shows in the Special Services Group of the Fourth Service Command; after 1945, he returned to RCA Victor recording stars.
Bubble, Bubble, Bubble
Wunderbar
Roller Coaster
Mandolino Mandolino
Not As A Stranger
Toy Tiger
Intermezzo
Moonlight Madonna
Bon Soir, Paris
You Are The One
Theme from "Lost Weekend"
Prelude To The Stars
Boom Chicks
Joe Dixion
Golden Crest Records CR 3036
From the back cover: The man who is the moving spirit behind these great songs is Joe Dixon who will be remembered by a lot of people who loved the Tommy Dorsey group when it made the memorable recordings of "Marie" and "Song Of India". Joe was a vital part of the Dorsey organization at that time. However, Dorsey was not the only bandleader who considered him one of the most proficient clarinetists in the business. Prior to TD he played with the great Adrian Rollini group that once held forth in the Tap Room of the President Hotel in New York. Because of the high quality of the music played by that swinging outfit, the President was a favored hang-out for other musicians. One of these was the Sentimental Gentleman of the Trombone himself. Dorsey heard Dixon and lured him into his band. However, while in Hollywood on tour Dixon was offered an even better job with Gus Arnheim and joined that group on the West Coast. From Arnheim he went on to play with what many considered the hottest band in the business at that time – Bunny Berrigan. In the Berrigan band were some of the truly big names in jazz – Ray Conniff, Joe Bushkin, George Auld and the incredible little drummer man, the late Dave Tough. Yet with all that experience in music behind him, Joe Dixion was a mere 20 years of age! Oh, yes, we forgot to say that everyone who knew Joe back in Lynn, Massachusetts, where he was born in 1918, considered him a child prodigy. He was blowing great clarinet at the age of 12.
In 1938, after a great series of dates with Berrigan, Joe Dixon left to join the secure ranks of the Fred Waring organization with whom he stayed for five years. In 1943 he joined the Navy and was assigned to leadership of an 18 piece radio orchestra at the Sampson Naval Base. After the war he played for a time with Eddie Condon and countless programs over CBS and ABC. The endorsements of Joe Dixon fine clarinet style come from a wide variety of professional opinion. Metronome refers to him as one of the most outstanding of clarinetists. And so does Nick Kenny of the Mirror and Robert Sylvester of the News.
I Found A Million Dollar Baby In The Five And Ten Cent Store
It Had To Be You
Cocktails For Two
You're And Old Smoothie
All The Things You Are
Can't We Be Friends?
That Old Feeling
The Breeze And I
Say It Ain't So
Out Of Nowhere
Paradise
How Deep Is The Ocean, How High Is The Sky?
China Doll - Sound Of Leroy Anderson
La Paloma Cha Cha - Cha Cha Cha In Ping Pong Percussion
Chanting Guitars - Hawaii In Ping Pong Percussion
Espana - Percussion Espanol
Sha Sha Calor - Congo Percussion
Red Wing - Honky Tonk Percussion
Blue Tango - Sound Of Leroy Anderson
Mambo Viva - Cha Cha Cha In Ping Pong Percussion
Hawaiian Sea Chant - Hawaii In Ping Pong Percussion
Cordoba - Percussion Espanol
Asiwanda - Congo Percussion
Meet Me In St. Louis, Louie - Honky Tonk Percussion
Cha Cha Cha
Qrquesta Melodias Del 40
Recorded in Cuba buy Jesus Goris
Manufactured by Impresora Cubana de Discos, S. A. - Habana Cuba
Puchito MLP-512
Seis Lindas Cubanas
Caprichito de Verdad
Tunas Bayamo
El Nino Prodigio
Montuno Favorito
Se Va Conmingo
Me Voy pa Moron
Cruel Tomento
Igualita que La Habana
El Cachin Cachumba
Estas Equivocada
Prisionero
Beat-A-Mania!
Spectrum/Pickwick International
SDLP-172
1962
I find this album to be a "hoot" even though the set is the most unbearable Beatles exploitation effort. The studio instrumental group backing the vocals sounds sounds pretty good, sort of rough and twangy. However, apparently Spectrum could only find an incompetent college folk quartet to do the impersonations.
Spectrum even printed "AuthentiPhonic" on the label in a subtle effort to fool the record buyer.
So bad it's good, or so bad it's still pretty bad?
She Love You
In A Little While
Tell Me Now
Night Without End
Won't You Come Out Tonight
Please, Please Me
Baby You Can Do No Wrong
I Don't Need You
What Shall I Do
Don't Tell Me You Don't Know
Tierrita
Nunca Debi Regresar
Rapodiando
El Bochinca
El Oriental
Caminto
Un Tango Para
Marylin
Matutto
La Comparsa Argentina
La Guitarrita
Dejame Vivir Mivida
