A Little Bit Lonely - Jeanne Black

I Almost Lost My Mind

Jeanne Black

A Little Bit Lonely

Arranged and Conducted by Billy Liebert

Produced by Ken Nelson

1960

From the back cover: I first met Jeanne (and Janie - Jeanne's sister) when the Black Sisters began performing on Cliffie Stone's television show in Los Angeles. It didn't take long for Cliffie to realize that Jeanne was definitely headed for the big time. This idea took form when Cliffie arranged a meeting with Jeanne and Capitol Records' producer Ken Nelso. Ken was struck immediately by this exceptional talent, and Capitol proceeded to sign Jeanne to a long-term recording contract.

From Billboard - October 24, 1960: Jeanne Black, the pretty, red-haired Mount Baldy, Calif., girl who was unknown a few months ago, is the subject of a new Capitol Records album titled A Little Bit Lonely. It's Jeanne's initial album release and includes, of course, her two hits, He'll Have To Stay and the more recent, Lisa.

Jeanne Black was married to guitarist songwriter Billy Strange.

Hello, Mister Misery

He'll Have To Stay

I Almost Lost My Mind

How Many

A Little Bit Lonely

My Baby's Gone

You Win Again

The Loneliest Heart In Town

Beautiful Lies

I Know I Can't Forget

But You Don't Know Me

Hello Hawaii! - Hawaiian Islanders

I Found A Little Grass Skirt

Hello Hawaii!
Hawaiian Islanders
Evon 304

This is a good budget Hawaiian set featuring quality engineering and creative arrangements/variation of approaches for this type of music that will hold your interest.

Hawaiian War Chant
Moana Chimes
I Found A Little Grass Skirt
Malahine Mele
South Sea Moon
Ke Ahi Kuu Ipo
Hilo (Hawaiian March)
Ua Like No A Like
Sacred Hula
On The Beach At Waikiki
Luana
Aloha Oe

Drum Magic - George Jenkins

Drum Magic
George Jenkins And His All Stars
Tampa Records TP-29
1956

Artwork - Johnny Miller
Photography - Dave Pell
Model - Shelby Benson

Online sources date this album release as 1955. However, "1956" is mentioned in the album notes.

Digital files are available online so I will not be posting a sample. "Alternative tracks" are also available from this set.

Something I didn't know was that Dave Pell "one of the founding fathers of West Coast jazz" was also a photographer who documented the jazz scene, earning extra cash as he produced cover art to include the cover on this album.

From the back cover: The first album released by George Jenkins entitled "Drum Stuff" created quite a splash wise and was accepted as well with those disc jockeys who specialize in jazz. It was nice to know that George was remembered more than I thought possible. Fans who knew him from the days when he worked with Lionel Hampton were glad to hear that he had recorded again and that there was an album available. Then too, George had a singe entitled "Last Call" and "Caravan" that sold well during the first quarter of 1956. George Jenkins has that particular knack of knowing just what beat to lay down for any type of rhythm needed. This seems to be a sense that is lacking in some drummers. You don't have to write anything for George. He hears it before he looks at the notes.

Bar-B-Que Port Side
It Had To Be You
Nightingale
G.J.'s Drums
Air Mail Special
Bullfrog
Antipathy

There Goes My Harp - Mimi Allen

September Song

There Goes My Harp
Mimi Allen
Decca Records DL 8825
1959

From the back cover: Mimi Allen's background is a varied as her music. As a pianist, she was recognized as a child prodigy. Later fascinated by the harp, and after assiduous study, she was proclaimed in classical circles as the outstanding harpist of her generation. She then began exploring the facets of jazz, and from this has evolved the "delicious artistry of Mimi Allen".

My Blue Heaven
Willow Weep For Me
Spring Is Here
Mimi
When The Wind Was Green
The Breeze And I
The Continental
September Song
If I Should Lose You
Ain't Misbehavin' (I'm Savin' My Love For You)
Thinking Of You The Peanut Vendor (El Manisero)

Shrine Steel Band

When The Saints Come Marching In

Shrine Steel Club of Puerto Rico Steel Band

Compadre Pedro Juan-Merengue
Yellow Bird
Pachanga
Tie Me Kangaroo Down
Coqui-Merengue
Limbo
Merengue Universal
Jamaica Farewell
Marinero Merengue
Mary ann
When The Saints Come Marching In

Here Come The Doodletown Pipers

Yesterday

Here Come The Doodletown Pipers
Conceived and Directed by Ward Elis
Produced and Arranged by George Wilkins, Al Capps and Stu Phillips

WE-1
1965

Jacket marked as "promotional use only". The track list is slightly different than the "Epic LN 2422" release.

Enjoy the sample from the minty fresh sealed copy I found.

The Rhythm Of Life
Cherish
Blowin' In The Wind
Wait Till You See Her
What The World Needs Now
Yesterday
Up, Up And Away
You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling
There's A Kind Of Hush
Don't Rain On My Parade
Lover's Concerto
Somewhere, My Love

Up, Up & Away - The Billy Vaughn Singers

Up, Up And Away

Up, Up & Away
The Billy Vaughn Singers
Pickwick SPC-3146
1968

The Now Clothes Courtesy Of Gimbels, N.Y.C.

From the back cover: …Vaughn trims the thorns from the blossoms and adds to the bouquet with some hardy perennials. Then, voila! A Nosegay of the sweetest music from lovers and love children – a flower to bridge generations.

Misty Blue
This Is My Song
I Got Rhythm
Turn The World Around
Wish Me A Rainbow
Up, Up And Away
Release Me
Cherish
If You Go Away

South Pacific - Lew Raymond

Bali' Ha'i

South Pacific
The Lew Raymond Orchestra and Chorus
Album production by Dave Pell
Tops L1634

From the back cover: In conductor Lew Raymond we have a master craftsman, unerringly sensitive to his art; in singers Marni Nixon, Gene Marline, Norma Zimmer, Bonnie Lou Williams and Charles Peck, Tops is privileged to present some of the for most vocal talent on records today. Miss Nixion to cite one example, has "ghosted" many motion picture soundtracks for the brightest stars in movies and now is building a noteworthy career in light opera.

Bali' Ha'i
There Is Nothing Like A Dame
Younger Than Springtime
Happy Talk
A Wonderful Guy
I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair
Some Enchanted Evening
A Cock-Eyed Optimist

Alfred Newman Conducts The Hollywood Symphony Orchestra

Jamaican Rhumba

Alfred Newman Conducts The Hollywood Symphony Orchestra
Music For Orchestra
Invitation To The Ballet
Mercury Records MG 20036
1950

From Billboard - December 23, 1950: One of two new Newman long-play collections, this is a collection of alternately lush and blood and thundering standards – on one side selected from the ballet literature and the other from miscellany. This is just the kind of thing which made Newman's Majestic recordings of a couple of years ago so tremendously popular. These sides have the same vigorous qualities which set up Andre Koslelanetz on record. They are beautiful recorded, incidentally, with an accent on startling detail achieved with reverberation. This is ideal middlebrow stuff with a decided pop market appeal.

'77 Super Sounds Of The Seventies

Sounds Of The Beatles

'77 Super Sounds Of The Seventies
Big Bells Incorporated
1976

Promotional material created to market arrangements to school band directors.

LP jacket also contains a folder that features on 9 inch "sound sheet" (thin plastic record) along with 8.5 x 11 copies of sample scores copies with an order form.

Arrangements by Bob Lowden (arranger/composer for 101 Strings. Also see Motion In Percussion), Jerry Nowak and Bill Holcome.