Meet The Brothers & Sisters

Kids Of America

Jean

Get Together

Meet The Brothers & Sisters

From the back cover: Last year in Las Vegas where superstars, roulette wheel and big wheels vie with slot machines for customer's attention, there were two acts that rated spontaneous standing ovations: Danny Thomas and Bob Simpson's "The Bothers and the Sisters".

If descriptions like "wholesome" and "clean-cut" sound too much like a Boy Scout rally, then substitute "swinging" and "kicky". After all, there's nothing campy about sex appeal and this troupe of ten gals and seven guys is loaded. Not excluding their 20-year old director, Gregg Perry, who paces them, according to more reviewer, "to come on like gangbusters and blast an audience into clapping, whistling, screaming appreciation."

Their average age is 19, but this youth-in-motion group is professionally seasoned by appearances at glossy spots like Caesar's Palace in the company of Sarah Vaughan and Red Buttons; state fairs where they shared the stage with such luminaries as Bob Hope and Frank Sinatra, Jr.; TV spots with the likes of Tennessee Ernie Ford; and dozens of convention and club dates which evoked unsolicited written testimonials bristling with words like "exciting" and "inspiring".

In this album – a first edition which could conceivably become a collector's item – "The Brothers and the Sisters" prove they can move smoothly from far out arrangements of classic top tens to red-white-and-blue or solid rock. Their selections include originals from contemporary composers, including their own conductor.

This singing/dancing act has one further distinction: They are the only big league touring group with one home base. Swept together as a one-time act for a local newspaper promo in 1968, they have remained together to create the second product that make Milwaukee famous.

Kids Of Amercia
This Little Light Of Mine
Born Free
Natural Man
McArthur Park
Get Together
Jean
Suzanna
Scarborough Fair
Medley

Reflections In A Golden Horn - Steve Douglas

Poet

Reflections In A Golden Horn
Steve Douglas
Mercury SR 61217
1969

From the back cover: In making this album, I tried to pick songs that I felt represented some of the better contemporary songs done over the past several years and songs that had not been recorded very much, if at all, as instrumentals. They also had to be songs that would lend themselves to being arranged for the qualities of the saxophone. I wanted to make a pretty album and still do some of the songs that had been recorded as harder rock songs vocally. I think you will find some interesting contrasts in this album.

And indeed you will. This album is packed with creative and somewhat trippy space age arrangements including "Poet... from the movie soundtrack Hell's Angels On Wheels."

Session musicians include: Dave Cohen - guitar, Hal Blaine - drums and Larry Knechtel - piano and organ.

Poet
This Guy's In Love With You
Caroline No
The Look Of Love
Good Vibrations
Wear You Love Like Heaven
Walk On By
Never My Love
God Only Knows
Leyanda

Let's Walk Together In This Land - Kittie Rippy

Never Grow Old

Let's Walk Together In This Land
Kittie Rippy
Mustard Seed Record Co.
BMC5081
1972(?)

Here is a sample from an obscure album featuring a gospel belter with a unique sound.

From the back cover: In the great tradition of Mahalia Jackson, Kittie Rippy of the Union Baptist Church Gospel Choir and the Episcopal Theological School staff in Cambridge, Massachusetts, "lives the life she sings about in her song." Born just outside of Nashville, Tennessee, the music capitol of the Southwest, Kittie Rippy has lived, worked, and sung God's praises in the Boston area since 1945. She and her accompanist, Mrs. Beatrice Scott, have toured the East from Montreal, Canada to Pennsylvania and into Ohio bringing the Gospel message in song to many congregations.

He Brought Me Out
What A Wonderful God He Is
Where Jesus Leads Me I Will Follow
Never Grow Old
Let's Walk Together In This Land
Tell The Angels
Lead Me, Guide Me
My Heavenly Father Watches Over Me
I Believe In God The Father And The Son
What Could I Do Without The Lord
Precious Lord

Midnight Cowboy - Peter Nero

Hair

Midnight Cowboy
Peter Nero
Columbia CS 9907
1969

This album is filled with all your favorite space age audio whiz-bangs which accent Nero's keyboard mastery. Outstanding arrangements by Nero and Stan Applebaum. Conducted by Stan Applebaum.

From the back cover: The Moog synthesizer, heard on Midnight Cowboy, The Windmills or Your Mind, Let the Sunshine In and Be-In, is played by Peter Nero

Drum, Quica and Police Whistle solos on Be-In courtesy of Bobby Rosengarden, whose drumming also provides the only sound on The Windmills Of Your Mind not created by the synthesizer.

Midnight Cowboy/Everybody's Talkin'
Love Theme From Romeo And Juliet
The Windmills Of Your Mind
The April Fools
Theme From Picasso Summer
Aquarius
Let The Sunshine In
Be-In
Where Do I Go
Hair
Good Morning Starshine

Lonely Night - Eddie Calvert

What Is This Thing Called Love?

Lonely Night
Eddie Calvert
The Man With The Golden Trumpet
With Norrie Paramor
His Strings And Orchestra
Capital Records T10007
1956

Nice cover that nicely sets the tone for the music.

Also check out the Calvert 10 inch, "I Love" on Essex.

From the back cover: The Man With The Golden Trumpet, England's Eddie Calvert, needs little introduction to U.S.A. and Canada listeners.

Calvert has conceived a powerful, emotion-packed album with "Lonely Night." Playing his soulful solo trumpet against the rich and resonant orchestra of Norris Paramor, Eddie achieves the moods and vagaries of a lonesome lover with sensitively performed arrangements of the best of Cole Porter, Vernon Duke, Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, Rodgers and Hart, and other topflight composers – all best this twentieth century has yet produced. 

Not all of Calvert's playing is depictive of unrequited love, moreover. For no matter how blue the night, how alone the lover, Calvert's music reflects the unflagging optimism and hope that all sweethearts hold dear. "Falling In Love With Love" is a prize example. In Calvert's skilled hands this classic Richard Rodgers melody adds warmth – brightness – to the "Lonely Night" atmosphere.

Calvert's life has always centered around music, and musicians. His father was a Preston cobbler who played cornet in the village brass band. At 5, Eddie started music lessons. Throughout World War II he piloted a tank in the British Army. Discharged with an injury, Eddie first began to attract attention in music as featured trumpet soloist with the Joe Loss orchestra in London.

Then came his first records, in 1951, for the British Columbia label all under his own name. Not yet 35, Eddie by now has dominated the best selling record charts for several years not only in England, but in France, Germany, Switzerland and Italy. In the vast North American market his "Oh Main Papa" sold in excess of one million copies.

Now, Eddie Calvert offers his first long-playing album to further establish his golden trumpet. "Lonely Night" reflects just that, a lonely night, and the music that flowingly emanates from the compatible Calvert-Paramor collaboration carefully depicts the long and lonely nocturnal hours experienced by everyone who has loved, or been loved.

Easy To Love
What Is This Thing Called Love?
Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man
Taking A Chance On Love
Falling In Love With Love
Love In Bloom
The Man I Love
Why Do I Love You?
One Night Of Love
A Little Love, A Little Kiss
Love Is The Sweetest Thing
Love Me Or Leave Me

Children's Missionary Adventure Stories

David Livingston And The Savages/Lion

Children's Missionary Adventure Stories
Zondervan Recording ZLP-638

The Tender Touch - Sunset Strings

Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

The Tender Touch
Sunset Strings
Synthetic Plastics - NS 2500

One of a series of Sunset Strings albums produced by Synthetic Plastics. No musical surprises, but the covers feature fun period portraits.

Rhumba With Cugat

Anna Boroco Tinde

Rhumba With Cugat
Xavier Cugat And His Orchestra
Columbia Records B-54

This is 3 record 45 EP set (although the side numbers suggests 4) featuring early Cugat instrumentals and vocal tracks.

2. Yo Ta Namora - Vocal by Miguelito Valdes
3. Acerate Mas - It Must Be A Dream - Vocal by Carmen Castillo
4. Negra Leono - Vocal by Miguelito Valdes
5. La Cumparsa - Carnival Procession
6. Incertidumbre - Lamp Of Memory - Vocal by Carmen Castillo
7. Anna Boroco Tinde - Vocal by Miguelito Valdes

Please Tell Me A Story - Aunt Theresa

The Haunted House

Aunt Theresa
Please Tell Me A Story
Zondervan Recordings ZLP 678

The Leopard
The Haunted House
Not So Silly
The Piece Of Wood That Talked
Lost Mittens
Pickling Berries
Driving The Car

Stanley Applewaite Plays In The Still Of The Night

Long Ago And Far Away

Stanley Applewaite Plays
In The Still Of The Night
Music Of Cole Porter
George Norman Orchestra
Cover Photo By Philip Lustig
Design DLP 36
1957

From the back cover: When you think of the greats of the music world you never have to spend too long pondering before the name Cole Porter skyrockets across your mental skies. Taking his place with the other greats of our modern music scene, men like Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, Dick Rodgers, Larry Hart and Oscar Hammerstein, Cole Porter personifies smart, easy to listen to popular music. His lyrics, without having the more intricate quality that Larry Hart seemed to favor, flow like honey from the vine. When combined with his often lovely, often enchanting, and often spirited music they are an unbeatable combination. Even the simplest... Like the lyric to "All Of You"... and how many of us have listened to that one and said... "Gee, I could have written that lyric"!

Why not?... I love the west of you**** the rest of you... or... the south of you**** the mouth of you simple... Sure it's simple... but it is also true poetry, and after all that's the test of a fine lyric... If you can read it as a poem and it stands up... It's a good lyric... Try that on most of today's music and you will find that the words lose context without the music Try it with a Cole Porter or Larry Hart lyric and find that each lyric will stand by itself for context, flow, meter... and ... most importantly, each line will tell its story.

ABOUT THE CONDUCTOR

DESIGN RECORDS are very proud to present the first American recordings of one of England's most talented and versatile composer-conductor-arrangers. Stanley Applewaite' has conducted some of the finest and most popular orchestras on the continent and has a reputation second to none as an arranger of popular and semi-classical music.

Born in Sheffordshire in 1925, this young pianist made his professional debut at the local music hall at the tender age of nine. He played piano and recited "The Ballad of Lower Ipswich," a twenty minute long piece of saccharine prose written by his great uncle Harry Applewaite. The short piano selection was met with an enthusiastic response. The long dissertation concerning the problems of a horsecarman in Lower Ipswich was greeted with nothing but a dull lull. At that moment young Stanley decided that music was a far more satisfying life than acting, reciting (certainly a lost art), or even following in his great uncle's footsteps and writing. We are inclined to agree. Harry Applewaite is certainly not ranked with the literary elite of the British Commonwealth. His great nephew, Stanley, is now a household name throughout the provinces. He is currently conducting the Norton Green Symphonia and has recently signed to score and conduct a new musical movie based on the life of Henry the Eighth. – ROY FREEMAN

You're The Tops
Begin The Beguine
In The Still Of The Night
Long Ago And Far Away
Just One Of Those Things
Dancing In The Dark
Anything Goes
I've Got You Under My Skin
All Of You
C'est Magnifique/Paris Night
I Only Have Eyes For You