Strictly From Dixie

Dippermouth Blues

Strictly From Dixie
Hollywood Records
A Blue Ribbon Product
LPH-3
1956

From The Hollywood Album Discography: Strictly from Dixie [aka Dixieland Jazz] - Hot Rod Six Plus Two/Dixieland Five Plus Two [1956] Album cover gives the group as the Dixieland Five Plus Two, while the label credits the Hot Rod Six Plus Two. Either way, the real band was The Cy Laurie Jazz Band. Because the label also has the working title, "Dixieland Jazz," even though the actual title of this album is "Strictly from Dixie," this album is sometimes listed as "Dixieland Jazz". (This album may have originally been issued with a different cover showing the Firehouse Five Plus Two.) It was also issued as Westchester LPH-3. These songs were originally issued in 1955 on four four-song EPs by the Hot Rod Six Plus Two on the Gateway label (Gateway 9008-9011).

That's The Way I Want It
Snake Rag
Careless Love Blues
Millenberg Joys
St. Louis Blues
Just Go On
Willie The Weeper
Dippermouth Blues
When The Saints Go Marching In
St. James Infirmary
When You And I Were Young Maggie
Tiger Rag
The Way I Ride
Weary Blues
Dixieland Rag
Royal Canadian Blues

Tea And Trumpets - Stanley Applewaite & Roy Freeman

If I Had A Love That Loved Me

Stanley Applewaite Plays
Tea And Trumpets
Featuring Roy Freeman, trumpet
Cover Photo by Philip Lustig
Design Records DLP 40
1957

From the back cover: A student of Maurice Fitzwarren of the Royal Farnsworth Orchestra School, Roy Freeman has received recognition from all of England's music critics for the fine mellow tone he achieves on his instrument. Notice the control on the unusual opening passages of Moritat. The ethereal qualities of the low register vibrato. Shades of Bobby Hackett. This is an album to be played and relaxed to.

From Billboard - October 7, 1957: Routine pop item by English work with trumpet featured throughout. Program includes items possibly more familiar to English audiences than ours. The sound inclines toward an unpleasant "boominess" in spots but bargain-hunters won't wince. At the $1.49 price, it should have more than a few takers.

Moritat
(Medley) Darling My Heart, Its Yours, Standing In The Rain, Sing Nightingale Sing
(Medley) You Make The World Beautiful, Virginia Blues, Two Hearts In May
If I Had A Love That Loved Me
Please
(Medley) Love Is A Story, Missouri, Two Blue Eyes
John And Julie

Lovely Lady - Joe Leahy

Masquerade

Lovely Lady
Joe Leahy And His Orchestra
Unique
A Subsidiary Of RKO Teleradio Pictures, Inc.
LP-106
1956

LP-106 was marketed in a 1956 issue of  Billboard featuring different cover art.

From the back cover: While still in his teens, with his high school diploma tucked under one arm, his one arm, his trumpet under the other, young Leahy left his home town of Boston to hi the road with a band, on a cross-country tour of one-nighters and theatre dates. Having worked up to the lead trumpet spot in the band, he was soon spotted by Les Brown, who hired Joe to play with his band. After a tour with the "Band of Renown," Joe joined Charlie Barnet's band, and later, Artie Shaw's. With the breaks steadily coming his way, the ambitious young musician formed his own orchestra with which he booked cross-country tours of big ballrooms, hotel circuits, college proms, and the usual one-nighters.

During the years of the war, 1941-1945, Leahy's musical abilities were utilized by the Army. There he headed the Air Force Orchestra of the Air Transport Command, an orchestra of forty men. What with arranging and conducting for concerts, variety acts, and weekly CBS broadcasts for the Air Force (for which he wrote all the arrangements and conducted the orchestra), there was little idleness for Sgt. Leahy, whose chores also included a two-year world tour arranging and conducting music for variety shows featuring movie stars who entertained the troops.

Trading khaki for blue serge, Civilian Leahy settled in the center of the music industry, New York, signed with CBS as a staff conductor-arranger, and went to work doing script-show music, background music for radio dramas and conducting the Sketch Henderson orchestra.

A little over a year after signing with CBS, Joe decided to become a freelance arranger-conductor. In the following six years he wrote orchestrations for a hundred radio programs, including the longstanding favorite "The Breakfast Club" in Chicago. During those years Joe Leahy's name became on of the best known in conductor-arranger circles for his background music for shows starring Rita Hayworth, Orson Wells, Eddie Cantor, Tony Martin, Ethel Waters, Constance Bennett and many more big names in show business. Radio audiences throughout the country were listening to more of Joe Leahy's arrangements on their favorite shows than all the other writers' works combined!

With the recording industry's swift rise, Joe moved into the record field in 1954 with the formation of his own company, and the company's first release was another chapter in the Leahy success story. Denise Lor's "If I Give My Heart To You" was an overnight hit. The Leahy arrangement of the recording had such impact on the trade that eighteen versions of the song were on the market within a few short weeks. Leahy followed up with "Unsuspecting Heart" by Terri Stevens, "The Song From Desiree," "Green Fire," and introduced "How Important Can It Be" with Jack Smith, which started the song on its way to the top of the popularity charts.

Practically every major record company in the business was seeking the talents of Mr. Leahy when he went into another company in 1955 under the Unique label. His flair for spotting potential hits was again demonstrated when Unique released "The Man In A Raincoat" by Pricilla Wright, which skyrocketed a young singer and her first recording into stardom and top ten across the nation!

There's something about a waltz that suggests a beautiful woman. For this, his first album, Joe has selected twelve all-time favorite waltzes to describe his "Lovely Lady." – Notes by Larry Meeks

Lovel Lady
Champagne Waltz
I'm New At The Game Of Romance
Give Me A Moment Please
Call Me Darling
Let Me Call You Sweetheart
Masquerade
Paradise
Ramona
You Have Taken My Heart
A Kiss In The Dark
My Isle Of Golden Dreams

Jazz At The Downstairs Club - The Revelers

I Got It Bad

Jazz At The Downstairs Club
The Revelers
Rondo-lette
Rondo Record Corporation
SA 50

From the back cover: The type of jazz on this record is the simple, unsophisticated jazz, that appeals not only to young people but also to people who like quiet excitement in their music.

Budget label, Rondo-lette produced a nice package even if the bright, glossy cover art doesn't visually represent or market the set any better than the back cover illustrations or copy. Whoever "The Revelers" might have been, they produced an excellent small combo/lounge piano driven jazz set.

Stars Fell On Alabama
Flying Home
Bel Ami
Get Happy
Destination Moon
Don't Blame Me
Pennies From Heaven
I Got It Bad
I May Be Wrong
I Found A New Baby

Organ-ized - Walter Wanderley

Batucada Surgiu

Organ-ized
Walter Wanderley
Brazil's Number 1 Organist
Philips PHS 600-233
A Division of Mercury Records Productions, Inc.
Mercury Records Corporation
(All selections electronically reprocessed for stereo)
1967

From Billboard - June 10, 1967: The Wanderley organ gives something fresh to this album of bossa nova numbers and, at the same time, establishes him in the ranks of Jobim and Getz. This LP should make it big in both the pop and jazz areas. The Brazilian organist does a remarkable job on "Summer Samba," and all the other songs.

Samba De Verao (Summer Samba)
Batucada Surgiu (Chant Of The Baroque)
Vivo Sonhando (I Live Dreaming)
Mar, Amar (Sea... To Love)
Voce (You)
Reza (Lai Ladaia) (Prayer)
Garota Moderna (Modern Miss)
Menina Flor (Beauteous Lass)
Opinião (Opinion)
Deus Brasileiro (God Of Brazil)

Tamure Tahiti - Charles Mauu

The Hora

Tamure! Tahiti!
Authentic Tamures, Chants and Ballads
Charley Mauu - His Coconut Use and Roche's Tahitians
Recorded by Gaston Gilbert in Papeete, Tahiti
Dot DLP 3494

"tamure" pronounced "tai-moo-ray")

From the back cover: The cover on this album was photographed in the mountains about 10 miles from Papeete, and was so remote that only Gaston Guilbert knew the way, through all the members of the troupe were natives, except yours truly. The girl dancing was a chef at a local hotel who worked as a model for the day. She was one of the best dancers of the "tamure" in addition to being pretty. About 6 months after this picture was taken, she was chosen to star in the Mutiny On The Bounty. This girl is Tarita.

Tamure (Enjoy Yourself)
Kiri Kiri (Tickle! Tickle!)
Vini Vini (Little Bird)
Ai'a Here (Beloved Island)
Aue Ua Reka (Let's Have Fun)
Te Hora (The Hour)
Himene No Te Tamai (Tahitian War Chant)
Fare Hiau (Grass Shack)
Tau Here (My Love)
Aue Aue (Oh! Oh!)
Vainui (The Big River)
Umete (The Bowl)

The Versatile Franck Pourcel

Hey Jude

The Versatile Franck Pourcel
Studio 2 Stereo/EMI
TWO 261
Made and Printed in Great Britain
1968

Those Were The Days
Les Bicyclettes De Belsize
Hey Jude
Abacachi
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Jealousy
Black Eyes
Charleston
Valentine
Black Bottom
I Want To Be Happy
Tip-Toe Through The Tulips
La Cumparsita
Tristesse

Hammond Hit Parade 4 - Nils Tibor

In The Getto/I'll Never Fall In Love Again

Hammond Hit Parade 4
Nils Tibor (Hammond-Orgel)
Decca ND 451

Those Were The Days
Lovely
Yakety Axe
In The Ghetto
I'll Never Fall In Love Again
Summer, Summer Wind
Without You
Serenata
Havah Nagilah
Lang, lang ist's her
Sally
Something's Happening
Melody For Marion
Komm zu mir
I'm A Better Man
Release Me
Days Of Rain
Oh Happy Day
Let The Sunshine In
More
Games That Lovers Play
For People In Love
The Glow-Worm
When The Telephone Rings
Day Off
The Yellow Rose Of Texas
He's Got The Whole World In His Hand
Waltzing Mathilda

Poly Show Vol. 2

Lamento Borincano

Poly-Show Vol. 2
Continental Disco
PPL-12.068

Benefica
Lili Marlene
Zilda
Auf Wiedersehen
Claudia
Romance In Rio
Filme Triste (Sad Movies) (Make Me Cry)
Jessica
Luz E Sombra
Teresita La Chunga
Lamento Bornincano
Limbo Rock

Latin Heat Cha Cha Cha

Yama Yama Man Cha Cha Cha

Latin Heat
Cha Cha Cha
Broadway Records 1010

Budget label compilation set featuring no artist credits. Tunes from this set can be found on a number of other budget cha cha collections, including: Cha Cha For Swinging Partners - Celebrity Records UT-127.

Kiss Me Again Cha Cha Cha
In Old New York Cha Cha Cha
Yama Yama Man Cha Cha Cha
Every Day Is Ladies Day Cha Cha
Barrippi Cha Cha Cha
Scampian Cha Cha Cha
Toyland Cha Cha Cha
Twilight IN Barakeech
Bon-Boncha
Mulatas Del Cha Cha Cha