Dance To The Lester Lanin Beat

 

Two Guitars - Dark Eyes

Dance To The Lester Lanin Beat
The Lester Lanin Trio
Volume 10
Epic LN 3656
1960

From the back cover: The Lanin beat comes in many sizes, a full orchestra for a coming-out party, a cocktail trio for less formal entertaining, a Latin-American group for lively affairs; just about any combination for any party imaginable. This flexibility in size, together with the instinctive Lanin way for sensing the mood and color of a party, has made the beat a fixture wherever tasteful, tuneful dance music is the order of the evening.

Not the least of the Lanin engagements, in addition to his constant round of private parties, are the numerous benefits for which his orchestra is hired. Throughout the entire social season, in New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Chicago, Boston and many other cities, Lester Lanin is called upon to play at charity balls, fund-raising parties and other occasions. He is called upon by the various great medical foundations, civic groups, church organizations and many others to supply the music for their charitable parties, and the disparate dancing couples of all ages and tastes find the Lanin beat a further bright spot in the evening.

I Got Rhythm - Of Thee I Sing - Poor Butterfly - Oh, You Beautiful Doll - Begin The Beguine

It Had To Be You - Love Is The Sweetest Thing - I Guess I'll Have To Change My Plan

Gold and Silver Waltz - Skaters' Waltz - Over The Waves

Down In Jungle Town - Goodbye, My Lady Love - Coney Island Baby - Hello Ma Baby - I Want To Be Happy - You've Got That Thing - Deep In My Heart, Dear - Get Happy

Dance Of The Hours - Theme From Beethoven's Fifth Symphony

Let's Do It - Do It Again - You're The Top - Who Cares - I Found A Million Dollar Baby - But Not For Me - Something To Remember You By

Meet Me In St. Louis, Louis

Ain't She Sweet - Thinking Of You - What Is This Thing Galled Love? - Love Is Sweeping The Country - The Kerry Dance - You're An Old Smoothie - The Man I Love

Lover, Come Back To Me! - The Very Thought Of You - Pretty Baby

Liza - Lullaby Of Broadway - Jeepers Creepers - I Like The Likes Of You - If You Were The Only Girl - Tip-Toe Thru The Tulips With Me

Two Guitars - Dark Eyes

Don't Fence Me In - I'll See You Again - I May Be Wrong - If I Love Again - I'm Just Wild About Harry - Hallelujah!

When Your Love Has Gone - Bidin' My Time - You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby - Three Little Words - Beautiful Dreamer - High Society

50 Guitars Visit Hawaii - Tommy Garrett

 

Song Of The Island

50 Guitars Visit Hawaii
The 50 Guitars Of Tommy Garrett
Arranger: Hank Levine
Producer: Tommy "Snuff" Garrett
Engineers: Eddie Brackett and Jim Economides
Cover Design and Photography: Studio Five
Guitars through the courtesy of Gibson, Inc.
Liberty Records
Visuals Sound STEREO LSS 14022
1962

From Billboard - August 25, 1962: This album should appeal to hi-fi sound buyers devotees of the Hawaiian sound, and those who like their music done in tasteful production. The set is a solid catalog item that features such standards as "Sweet Leilani," "Pagan Love Song," "Hawaiian War Chant" and "Aloha Oe," The music is gentle and string-filled and should show steady sales.

Blue Hawaii
Hawaiian Wedding Song
Pagan Love Song
My Little Grass Shack
Now Is The Hour
Hawaiian War Chant
The Hukilau Song
Song Of The Islands
Lovely Hula Hands
Sweet Leilani
Moon Of Manakoora
Aloha Oe

Caribbean Nights - Lush Strings

 

Night In St. Thomas

The Gaiety And Romance Of Caribbean Nights

A Musical Cruise To The Fun Filled Islands Of The Caribbean

Tropical Rhythms - Lush Strings

Recorded under the direction of D. L. Miller

Cover Design: Chic Laganella

Somerset STEREO FIDELITY ALBUM SF-29300

Guantanamera

Ocho Rios

Mentiras

Night In St. Thomas

Shipboard Romance

Yellow Bird

Cantina San Juan

Tus Besos

Casino Antigua

Accordeon de Paris - Francois Chantal

 

Adieu Lisbonne

Accordeon de Paris

Music Of The French Cafe with Francois Chantal

Coronet Records CX 52

Gamin De Paris

Place Pigalle

Le Gondolier

La Mer

Arriverderci Roma

Padre

Complainte Des Infidèles

Julie La Rousse

Avec Celui Qu'on Aime

Historie D'un Amour

Adieu Lisbonne

I've Never Been Scared In A Race Car - Richard Petty

 

The Cost Of Racing

"I've Never Been Scared In A Race Car"

Richard Petty

And The Roaring Sound Of NASCAR in STEREO

STP Corporation is proud to present this special album in thanks for your help in the fight against Muscular Dystrophy

Allendor LTD.

Italiano - Frankie Avalon

 

Cappuccino

Italiano
Frankie Avalon
Produced by Marcucci & Faith
Consultants for Italian lyrics: Carlo Menotti and Argentina Brunetti
Cover Photo: Gene Trindl
Cover photo taken at Via Veneto - Hollywood, California through the courtesy of Ambrose Pasquini, Prop.
Jacket Design: Chic Laganella
Chancellor CHL-5025
Distributed by Am-Par Record, Corp.
1962

From Billboard - March 10, 1962: Avalon hops on the international market band wagon in this collection of popular Italian tunes. He sings with ease and showmanship in Italian and English on a group of pretty melodies, including "You're Breaking My Heart," "Capuccian," "Solo Tu," Non Dimentlcar" and "Just Say I Love Her." Avalon improves vocally with every album.

Italiano
No Ti Scordar Di Me
Anema E Core
Non Dimenticar
Don't Ever Leave Me
Just Say I Love Her
Zingarella
You're Breaking My Heart
Solo Tu
Tornerai
You're My Rose
Capuccina

Presenting The Buddy DeFranco - Tommy Gumina Quartet

 

On Green Dolphin Street

Presenting The Buddy DeFranco - Tommy Gumina Quartet
Recorded October 17 and 18, 1961, in Chicago
Mercury Records STEREO SR 60685

Personnel:

Buddy DeFranco: Clarinet
Tommy Gumina: Accordion
Bill Plummer: Bass
John Guerin: Drums

From the back cover: The partnership started in a curious manner. Buddy was looking for a pianist to play a date with him. Frank DeVito, his drummer, suggested that an accordion might make an interesting substitute. DeFranco reacted much the way Chief Justice Warren might if he were asked to join the John Birch Society. But he was finally convinced, first verbally by DeVito and later musically buy Gumina, that this was not an ordinary accordion player. Unlike most exponents of the instrument, generally held in low esteem by jazzmen, Gumina has the harmonic sense and rhythmic feeling of a genuine modern swinging musician.

The result was not just an isolated gig but a partnership that has persisted and progressed, reaching a new plateau of togetherness with the taping of the quartet's first Mercury album.

To recapitulate in the backgrounds of these two strikingly sympathetic artists: DeFranco was born in 1923 in Camden, New Jersey; Gumina in 1931 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Camden being virtually a suburb of Philadelphia, it was in sessions around Philly that Buddy first began to attract attention. While still in his teens, he won a Tommy Dorsey amateur contest and worked in the bands of Scat Davis, Gene Kruppa and Ted Fio Rito. At 20 he joined Charlie Barnet; in 1944 he began his first stint with the Dorsey band, remaining until 1946, then worked for a while with the fine Boyd Raeburn orchestra of '46 - '47, after which he rejoined Dorsey for a year. Aside from a year with Count Basie in 1950 - '51, he has led various groups of his own since then. Since 1955 he has been a Southern California. In recent years he has been very active as a participant in college jazz clinics and concerts.

Gumina, like DeFranco, was in his twelfth year when he began studying seriously. He credits much of his success to Andy Rizzo, an accordion teacher whom he describes as the greatest who ever lived, and with whom he spent five years studying in Chicago. After beginning as a solo recitalist at the age of 14 and clubbing around Milwaukee, he was heard by Harry James, with whose band he was seen in television and on tour from 1952 - '55. He then went on the road as a single act, and in 1956 started a combo of his own, which worked successfully in Las Vegas lounges.

Completing the quartet for the present session were Bill Plummer, 23, from Boulder, Col., a promising bassist who has been heard with Paul Horn and other combos around Los Angeles; and drummer Johnny Guerin, 21, from San Diego, discovered by Buddy at a college clinic.

From Billboard - March 17, 1962: The combination of Buddy DeFranco with the Tommy Gumina Quartet adds up to a very pleasant pairing. The clarinetist and accordionist perform a flock of standards and a few originals in showmanly fashion here. DeFranco swings heartily and Gumina handles the accordion in swinging jazz fashion too. Tunes include "When Lights Are Low," "Street Of Dreams" and "Gone With The Wind."

When Lights Are Low
Street Of Dreams
Runaway
Never On Friday
Gone With The Wind
'S Wonderful
On Green Dolphin Street
Scrapple From The Apple
Playin' It Cool
You Are Too Beautiful

The Country Hit Parade - All Star Artists

 

Old Moon

The Country Hit Parade
18 Top Country Hits by All Star Artists
Starday Records SLP 110

From the back cover: Starday Records has selected the eighteen most popular country songs of the year and they have been recorded by top vocalists and musicians with the sound and arrangement which made the songs so successful.

Under Your Spell Again
Old Moon
Family Man
Black Land Farmer
Tell Me Why
Who Shot Sam
I Ain't Never
Johnny Reb
I Got Stripes
Country Girl
Jimmy Brown The Newsboy
The Battle Of New Orleans
Soldier's Joy
Nothing But True Love
Partners
Poppin Johnny
Igmoo
Three Bells

The Wide, Wide World Of Jazz - Dave Garroway

 

Havana After Dark

Dave Garroway Presents
The Wide, Wide World Of Jazz
RCA Victor LPM-1325
1956


From the back cover:

Flying Down To Rio
Tito Puente and His Orchestra
Side One comes up first with Flying Down To Rio by the Tito Puente band – a solid, but not heavy, mambo sound with a strange, exotic flavor given it by one tiny change in the chorus.


Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans
Lee Wiley with Deane Kincade's Dixieland Band
There are probably only a dozen jazz singers who have their own individual sound, quite apart from the sounds that other have made before them, and surely Lee Wiley is one of these. On Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans, and on everything else she does, there is a marvelous texture to her voice, something like running your hand over a piece of fine Harris tweed – and both tickle. Many another singer is just discovering the importance of the sense of the words in a lyric. Lee has known about words for some time now. Cutty Cutshall give her some delightful, sensuous help in the background.


California, Here I Come
Barbarar Carroll Trio
I think that, head over heals, Barbara Carroll is the freshest most creative pianist in the bushes today. Her themes are always simple and directly stated, and then, when she goes into variations on them, it becomes a fascinating exercise for the listener to follow, and to relate the variation to the theme. There is a great precision and crispness about her thinking and originality that makes the listener a happy one. And with all this, she never stop swingin' – never! My favorite pianist, you may gather.


Wonderful, Wonderful Copenhagen
"Peanuts" Hucko's Swing Band
The wonderful old band sounds of '35-'42 are here photographically recreated with a spirit the tmakes you think for a moment you have put on the Goodman Carnegie Hall record – and, of course, the fidelity is something else again. There's a brilliant trumpet interlude that cane be used to shave with if you run out of other sharp things. Song writer Frank Loesser may be somewhat surprised at what happens here to his lovely waltz from "Hans Christian Andersen."


Manhattan Serenade
Helen Ward with "Peanuts" Hucko's Swing Band
I've said for a long time that if I wanted to investigate somebody for a $50 loan, I'd rather hear him sing one standard theme than talk to him for half an hour. It's this way with Helen Ward. Her essential honesty shows up in her voice like a headlight. I don't think she could wrap a note if she tired, and I hope never to find out otherwise. Her warmth on this fine Louis Alter tune is admirably backed by some poetic trumpet.


Chicago Breakdown
Deane Kincaide's Dixieland Band
Deane Kincaide and his Dixie Gentlemen, including Billy Butterfield, Cutty Cutshall, "Peanuts" Hucko, Lou Stein and Cliff Leeman, take off on this Jelly Roll opus, and don't quit till all the sheep are in the corral, if that's where you put sheep. In addition to all the most correct dixie phrasing, there creeps in a n astounding and amusing modern phrase a few times. Spice on the cake; cold beer in the glass.


Spain
"Peanuts" Hucko's Swing Band
A pristine yet warm chorus by "Peanuts" get them off the ground and the trumpet is merely exquisite with it's bittersweet tone. Incidentally, this fine arrangement, along with the other three for the Hucko band, was written by Charlie Shirley.


Paris Without You
Barbara Carroll Trio
After the title catches your throat, you are free to sink back in comfort for the "other" Barbara Carroll. Listening to her Debussyesque musings seem almost sacrilegious – as though we were violating her privacy without permission. A great tune to practice writing lyrics for.


A Foggy Day In London
Helen Ward with "Peanuts" Hucko's Swing Band
One of the Gershwin giants and Helen Ward's open-faced approach that is so refreshing in these days of the gimmick singers – the ones who are around to annoy us just to the breaking point, and then drop out, to be replaced the next week by even more weird ones.


Kansas City Stomp
Deane Kincaide's Dixieland Band
Featuring some trumpet-clarinet unison work by Butterfield-Hucko that is so precise you are left wondering if there were two instruments there. There are.


Stars Fell On Alabama
Lee Wiley with Deane Kincade's Dixieland Band
One of Lee's greatest. She thinks so too – and the lady is quite a critic. Notice the surprising sweetness in her higher notes. Sometimes I feel she is singing through a fine lace handkerchief.


Havana After Dark
Tito Puente and His Orchestra
I've never been there, but if it's like this number, I'd better not waste any more time getting to it. A hard, bright mambo – and do those dancers have as much fun as they seem to?

From Billboard - January 5, 1957: Jazz for the masses, with Garroway, who emcees NBC-TV's "Wide, Wide World" show, contributing a relaxed, I don't know anything about jazz but I know what I like" type commentary. Effective and varied talent lineup includes Tito Puente ork, the great Lee Wiley with Deane Kincaide's Dixieland Band, Barbara Carroll Trio, Helen Ward with (Peanuts) Hucko's Swing Band and Billy Butterfield. Tunes carry show's travel theme – "Flying Down To Rio," etc.

Country & Western Hits Nashville Style

 

Ring Of Fire

Country & Western Hits
Nashville Style
Producer: Bill Beasley
Assistant Producer: Ted Jarrett
Recorder: Sam Phillips Studio, Nashville
Engineer: Billy Sherrill
Compatible Mastering: Columbia Recording Studio, Nashville
Cover Design: McPherson Studio, Nashville, Tennessee
Wonder Sound MS 508

Don't Let Me Cross Over
Not What I Had In Mind
Lonesome 7-7203
Still
Act Naturally
We Must Have Been Out Of Our Minds
Roll Muddy River
Take A Letter Miss Gray
Six Days On The Road
Ring Of Fire