Unearthed In The Atomic Attic

Saturday, July 24, 2021

2 Sides Of Winterhalter

Really O'Reilly

2 Sides Of Winterhalter

Hugo Winterhalter and His Orchestra

RCA Victor LPM-1905 & LSP-1905

1959

From the back cover: Winterhalter's experience dips back into the heart of the Swing Era. He studied violin and the reed instruments at St. Mary's High School in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and continued his musical ambitions while a student at Mount St. Mary's College in Emmitsburg, Maryland. He later became a big band musician but after several years left active playing to devote full energies to arranging. His work was played by bands such as those of Tommy Dorsey, Vaughn Monroe, Larry Clinton, Count Basie, Raymond Scott, Claude Thornhill, Will Bradley and Jimmy Dorsey. The singers for whom he has written orchestral settings include Frank Sinatra, Billy Eckstine, Dinah Shore, Tony Martin and Perry Como. – Ferris Benda

Warsaw Concerto

Gigi

Invitation

Laura

Intermezzo

Spellbound

All Of You

A Chap From Chappaqua

The Brothers Go To Mother's

Really O'Reilly

I Still Get A Thrill (Thinking Of You)

One O'Clock Jump

Buck Owens Sings Harlan Howard

Keeper Of The Key

Buck Owens Sings Harlan Howard

Produced by Ken Nelson

Capitol Records STEREO ST 1482

1961

From the back cover: I first met Buck when he came to Nashville in 1957. At the time he was virtually unknown as a singer, although he had considerable reputation as a guitar player with Tommy Collins. (Buck had played on most of Tommy's hit Capitol records and had also appeared with him on the "Grand Ole Opry" in 1954.) But in 1959 Capitol released a record called "Under Your Spell Again," and this tune (written, incidentally, by Buck himself) became the first of many hits which have helped to establish Buck Owens as a full-fledged singing star in his own right. He was named by the music industry as the "Most Promising Country and Western Male Artist of the Year" for 1960, in addition to winning many other coveted awards.

One of Buck's greatest hits in 1961 was a tune called Foolin' Around, written by Buck and a brand new songwriting talent named Harlan Howard, whom Buck had met several years before in California. This young Kentuckian also crashed the big-time in 1959, the year in which his ballad Heartaches By The Number was chosen as the number one country song of the year. That fine tune was followed by such hits as I Don't Believe I'll Fall In Love Today, Pick Me Up On Your Way Down and another Owens-Howard collaboration titled Let's Agree To Disagree.

And while their respective careers flourished, the friendship between Buck Owens and Harlan Howard (both of whom were born in 1929) continued to grow over the years. – Notes by Ralph Emery, WSM Radio, Nashville, Tennessee

Foolin' Around

Heartaches For A Dime

Heartaches By The Number

Let's Agree To Disagree

Keeper Of The Key

I Don't Believe I'll Fall In Love Today

Pick Me Up On Your Way Down

I'll Catch You When You Fall

Lyin' Again

The One You Slip Around With

Think It Over

Keys In The Mailbox

The Many Faces Of Sammy Davis Jr.

Azure

The Many Faces Of Sammy Davis Jr.

Pickwick / 33 PC 3002

Inka Dinka Doo

Smile, Darn Ya Smile

Wagon Wheels

Laura

Here Lies Love

I Ain't Got Nobody

Can't You See I've Got The Blues

You Are My Lucky Star

Dedicated To You

Azure

My Town, My Guy & Me - Lesley Gore

No Matter What You Do

My Town, My Guy & Me

Lesley Gore

Produced by Quincy Jones

Cover Photo: RAMA

Mercury Records MG 21042

1965

From Billboard - October 2, 1965: Built upon the hot sales appeal of her current hit single, "My Town, My Guy and Me," the dynamic teen favorite offers a package of strong pop material. Listening and dancing material is all here with a standout vocal performance on the pulsating "No Matter What You do" which rocks from start to finish. Single possibilities on that one.

My Town, My Guy And Me

What's A Girl Supposed To Do

What Am I Gonna Do With You

You Didn't Look 'Round

I Don't Care

No Matter What You Do

The Things We Did Last Summer

A Girl In Love

Baby That's Me

Just Another Fool

Let Me Dream

Before And After

Friday, July 23, 2021

Connie Francis Sings Modern Italian Hits

Il Cielo In Una Stanza

Connie Francis Sings Modern Italian Hits

MGM SE-4102

1962

From the back cover: In this album I am thrilled and happy to be able to present it to you. Many of these songs have been prize winners at the annual popular San Remo Festival. All of them have been smash hit songs in the past few years - hummed and whistled by every Italian from Torino to Sicily, and in almost every corner of Europe.

Al Di La

Il Cielo In Una Stanza

Quando Quando Quando

Addio Addio

Arrivederci

Come Sinfornia

Come Prima

Nessuno Al Mondo

24 Mila Bacci

Romantica

Nun E Peccato

Tango Italiano

Dance To Duke! - Duke Ellington

Satan Takes A Holiday

Dance To Duke!

His Piano And Orchestra At The Bol Masque

Columbia Special Products

Special Archives Series

CSRP 8098

From the back cover: A couple of seasons ago the Ellington band was encamped at the American Hotel in Miami Beach, playing nightly, except Sunday, in the hotel's own beautiful supper club, the Bol Masque. Duke, always adaptable to his environment, played for dancers in the best dance-band tradition and began referring to himself and his fifteen jazz-poll winners as "Duke Ellington, his piano and his orchestra." And, playing this new role to the utmost, he introduced new arrangements featuring himself at the piano, playing of all things, other people's songs.

And, inspired by the room's masquerade decor, Duke fashioned his own musical masquerade of twelve couples. Alice and the wolf, an angel and Satan, a butterfly and a peanut vendor, a satin doll and a donkey, the lady in red with her Indian and a gypsy and a clown all paraded by, while Duke, dressed like Carmen Cavallaro , sat at the piano and hosted the party. This is the recording of that famous affair, featuring the full Ellington band and soloists in a program of dozen danceable standards, all in costume, never dressed quite like this before.

Alice Blue Gown

Who's Afraid Of The Big Bad Wolf?

Got A Date With An Angel

Poor Butterfly

Satan Takes A Holiday

The Peanut Vendor

Satin Doll

Lady In Red

Indian Love Call

The Donkey Serenade

Gypsy Love Song

Laugh, Clown, Laugh