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1. Battle of New Orleans

2. Unfortunate Man

3. Fair Rosamond's Bower

4. Soldier's Joy

5. Country Boy

6. I'm Too Young To Marry

7. Pretty Mary - Listen Below

8. Sailor Man

9. Zelma Lee

10. Rattlesnake Song

11. Old Joe Clark

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Yoshiaki Masuo - 1969 - Winds of Barcelona

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Yoshiaki Masuo
1969
Winds of Barcelona

01. Winds of Barcelona 4:09
02. Scarborough Fair 6:50
03. Stoned Soul Picnic 4:28
04. One For Wes 5:32
05. I Say A Little Prayer 4:05
06. Gary's Tune 5:03
07. What The World Needs Now Is Love 5:20
08. Winds of Barcelona - Theme - 2:52

Bass – Yoshio Suzuki
Drums – Fumio Watanabe
Flute – Hideo Miyata
Guitar – Kiyoshi Sugimoto, Yoshiaki Masuo
Organ – Kazuo Yashiro
Percussion – Larry Sunaga
Vibraphone, Marimba – Nobuhiro Suzuki

Tracks A1 to A3 recorded 19th February 1969.
Tracks A4 to B4 recorded 1st May 1969.

Born in Tokyo, Japan on October 12 1946 as a son of a jazz band leader and pianist, Yoshiaki Masuo grew up surrounded by jazz music, although he never had any formal musical training.

At the age of 15, he started playing the guitar on his own. Prominent among his early influences were Wes Montgomery and Grant Green.

While in Waseda University Jazz Club, Masuo was discovered by alto saxophonist Sadao Watanabe, and joined his group at the end of 1967. Masuo thus started his professional career on top as a regular of Japan's leading jazz group. He was in the group for three years, and experienced tours outside of Japan with Sadao, playing at Montreux and Newport jazz festivals. He was 1970's number one guitarist in the readers' poll of Swing Journal, Japan's most popular jazz magazine. He won the readers poll in the following years even after leaving Japan, five times in total.

Masuo moved to New York City on June 13, 1971. There he played with Teruo Nakamura, Lenny White, Michael Brecker, Chick Korea, drummer Elvin Jones (Masuo took part in the recording of Merry Go Round) . He also played as a regular of Ashford and Simpson. In 1972, he was a member of Lee Konitz's group.

In the spring of 1973, he joined the Sonny Rollins group. He was with Sonny three years the first time and three more years from 1982. He toured with the group all over the United States as well as Japan and Europe. He participated in recordings of four Rollins' albums including The Cutting Edge (of the five, one is released in Japan). One of the albums "Reel Life" contains a composition by Masuo "Sonny side up" being played by Rollins' band.

Between the two periods of his playing with Sonny Rollins, Masuo toured with drummer Elvin Jones in Europe, played with organist Larry Young, and formed his own electric fusion group. He recorded his fourth leader album in 1977 for the newly-established Electric Bird label (King Records of Tokyo). Released the next year as the label's first issue, this album turned out to be a remarkable success. He continued to make fine jazz fusion albums one after another over the following several years, winning new fans. He made tours with his own band in Japan and on the West Coast of the U.S., as well as appearing sometimes in NYC night clubs including Seventh Avenue South and Mikell's. On one tour in Japan, Jan Hammer played with him as a special guest.

After the second period with Sonny Rollins' group in the mid 80s, Masuo acquired his own studio in SoHo in NYC, and there he began experimenting with electronic instruments to create sound all by himself. This took shape as an album titled "Masuo," on which he not only played but also did the roles of composer, arranger, engineer and mixer. This was released in May, 1989. A couple of years before this release, his owning a studio happened to make him get involved as a producer of recordings for JazzCity (and later JazzCity Spirit) for a Japanese record company. He produced dozens of albums over the next ten years. As he got deeply into production, his career as a musician was virtually put on hold. 

Debut album in the Montgomery's style from the japanese boss of guitar featuring Kiyoshi Sugimoto, Kazuo Yashiro, Larry Sunaga,  Yoshio Suzuki & Fumio Watanabe from the Takehiro Honda Trio. Influenced by Wes Montgomery and the Grant Green's works, Yoshiaki Masuo has been spotted by saxophonist Sadao Watanabe who launched his professional career in joining up his quartet from 1967. In the late sixties, he was enrolled in the Sharps & Flats by band leader Nobuo Hara and played for pianist Takehiro Honda on his debut album within Sadao Watanabe Quartet. In 1971, he moved to New York where he played for his fellow countryman bassist Teruo Nakamura, prestigious musicians like Lenny White, Michael Brecker, Chick Korea or Elvin Jones, and later in 1973 within the Sonny Rollins group. Titles include pop cover songs by Laura Nyro (Stoned Soul Picnic), Simon & Garfunkel (Scarborough Fair), Bacharach & David  (I Say A Little Prayer, What The World Needs Now Is Love), tribute to Wes Montgomery (One For Wes) and the Sadao's Bossa tune "Gary's Tune".

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Parsifal: Vorspiel (2 parts, incomplete) (Wagner) 30 cm Electrola DB 3445 Matrix Nr. 2 RA 2741-2 /  2 RA 2742-2 BERLINER PHILHARMONIKER, Wilhelm FURTWÄNGLER - Dirigent rec. 15.III.1938 Note: After having digitized this recording I learnt that it was part of a set of three records (DB 3445 - 3447)....

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Dick Charlesworth born 8 January 1932

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Richard Anthony "Dick" Charlesworth (8 January 1932 – 15 April 2008) was an English jazz clarinettist, saxophonist and bandleader who remains one of the most popular and enduring exponents of the traditional jazz renaissance that captivated British audiences in the pre-Beatles era.

Charlesworth was born and brought up in Sheffield and attended King Edward VII School. At 16, he became a clerk in the Ministry of Labour and was in due course transferred to London. After trying the harmonica, he spotted a clarinet in a shop window, sold his bicycle and fishing rods to fund its purchase and began his jazz career.

He bought a clarinet and started playing jazz as a hobby in 1952-53. He was entirely self-taught, but became good enough to play clarinet and saxophone in a dance band and perform with jazz bands in south London including Jim Weller’s Jazzmen. He formed his first group in 1956 while still doing his day job, and his 'Dick Charlesworth's Jazzmen' won the South London Jazz Band Championship in 1957. 

Charlesworth's group was signed by the Melodisc label, and they recorded an EP in December 1957 and produced an album for Doug Dobell's 77 Records.

Charlesworth left the Civil Service in 1959 and became a professional musician. He signed a recording contract with EMI and his group was remarketed as 'Dick Charlesworth's City Gents'. This was the time when light jazz was popular in the British charts as typified by Acker Bilk and Kenny Ball, also attired in distinctive costumes. Charlesworth's group sported pin stripes and bowler hats, and had a Latin motto, Dum vivimus vivamus, (“While we live, let us enjoy life”).

                             

Their only chart single was "Billy Boy”, which reached 43 in the UK Singles Chart in May 1961. The City Gents often appeared on television including The Morecambe and Wise Show and Sunday Night at the London Palladium. Charlesworth sang the title song of a comedy film, In the Doghouse, starring Leslie Phillips and 

featured in his own 15 minute musical short in 1963.

However the British pop scene changed significantly in the early sixties and jazz went out of vogue. Charlesworth broke up his band, and from 1964 to 1969 worked for P & O fronting a band on the cruise liners Canberra and Orsova. He then settled in Mojacar, in Spain where he ran a music bar until he returned to Britain in 1977.

After returning to the UK permanently in 1982, he worked with like-minded musicians such as trumpeters Keith Smith and Rod Mason and reformed the City Gents. He also appeared with the Legends of British Trad show, fronted Hot Stuff, a band formed by trumpeter Chez Chesterman, while playing pub and club gigs. He was also a funny and laconic chairman of meetings of the Brothers, a loose network of musicians who got together for hilarious, quasi-masonic rituals. He appeared on the BBC Radio series, Jazz Score, a quiz show which encouraged its participants to relate anecdotes about their lives in jazz.

In his later years, Charlesworth lived in Thames Ditton, Surrey, and played a residency at the George and Dragon pub every Tuesday and also at various other local pubs.

He died following a heart attack in April 2008, at the age of 76.

(Edited from Wikipedia & The Guardian)

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Die Zauberflöte: Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön (Mozart) 30 cm Homocord 8176 Matrix Nr. M 50803, Otherwise engraved: A11C (Date Code), A 20 1 23 (Probably date of Pressing master) Bernhard BÖTEL - Tenor (& Orch.) rec....

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Hoffmanns Erzählungen: Es war einmal am Hofe von Eisenack (Offenbach) 30 cm Homocord 8176 Matrix Nr. M 50804, Otherwise engraved: A11C (Date Code), A 14 4 23 (Probably date of Pressing master) Bernhard BÖTEL - Tenor (& Orch.) rec....

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Die Weisse Dame (Bötel xxBo 7153)

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Die weiße Dame: Komm, o holde Dame (Boieldieu) 30 cm Odeon AA 57718 Matrix Nr. xxBo 7153 Bernhard BÖTEL - Tenor (& Orch.) rec. 1920.

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Hoffmanns Erzählungen: Es war einmal am Hofe von Eisenack (Offenbach) 30 cm Odeon AA 57717 Matrix Nr. xxBo 7152 Bernhard BÖTEL - Tenor (& Orch.) rec. 1920.

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Martha: Ach, so fromm (Bötel xxBo 7405)

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Martha: Ach, so fromm (Flotow) 30 cm Odeon AA 79239 Matrix Nr. xxBo 7405 Bernhard BÖTEL - Tenor (& Orch.) rec. 1921.

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Der Postillon von Lonjumeau: Postillon-Arie (Freunde, vernehmet die Geschichte - Adam) 30 cm Odeon AA 79238 Matrix Nr. xxBo 7404-II Bernhard BÖTEL - Tenor (& Orch.) rec. 1921.

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Nice Strong Arm - Reality Bath (1987, Homestead)

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And so I present you with the final piece of the Nice Strong Arm puzzle, their debut, Reality Bath.  I've featured their subsequent platters Mind Furnace and Stress City eons ago, and a convenient thing that since both were extractable from CDs.  Reality Bath, on the other hand, was a vinyl/tape-only proposition.  Those in the know about these angsty New Yorkers, fronted by one Kevin Thomson, will no doubt boast their noisenik credentials, and rightfully so I suppose, but these folks were emanating from points of catharsis and artful sensibility, not so much full bore aggression. 

On second thought, it's damn near impossible to deny that Reality Bath isn't chockablock with raging, dissonant notions and eardrum-frying sprawl.  Even relatively likeminded contemporaries Live Skull and Red Temple Spirits couldn't quite compete with NSA's near-disorienting sonic alchemy that often fell just shy of surreal.  No, taking this proverbial Bath won't be of Calgon proportions in the least, and dare I say there's not much here that's "fun," but despite it's miles-deep layers of sinewy latticework, the going rarely gets difficult.  Furthermore there’s more guttural, emo pathos at play here than Rites of Spring ever thought to fling in our direction.  If you're looking for some comparatively melodic respites, you may want to dive in at "When Truth Comes Around," "Minds Lie," and "Free At Last."  This one's an acquired taste that's well worth acquiring, and check out NSA's second and third records linked above

01. Life of the Party
02. Date of Birth
03. Copperhead
04. Disenchanted
05. When Truth Comes Around
06. Life is So Cool
07. Minds Lie
08. Free at Last
09. Notes From a Gut
10. Dying Skin

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Connie Francis ‎– Sentimental Favorites (LP 1984)

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Connie Francis ‎– Sentimental Favorites (LP Suffolk Marketing, Inc. ‎– SMI 1-51, 1984). 

Género: Pop. 

"Sentimental Favorites" é uma excelente compilação que reúne alguns dos sucessos de Connie Francis gravados entre o final dos anos 50 e durante os anos 60. O álbum é constituído por várias e belas baladas românticas muito doces, interpretadas pela excelente voz suave de Connie Francis . 

Connie Francis (nascida Concetta Rosa Maria Franconero, 12 de dezembro de 1938) é uma cantora pop americana de origem italiana e uma das vozes femininas mais famosa das décadas de 50 e 60. Embora o seu sucesso nas tabelas de êxitos tenha diminuído na segunda metade da década de 60, Francis manteve-se em actividade como uma das principais vozes da época, apresentando-se em concertos. Mais informação sobre esta excelente artista, já se encontra inserida neste blog. 

Faixas/Tracklist: 

A1 - The Last Waltz (L. Reed, B. Mason) 

A2 - Somewhere My Love (M. Jarre, P. F. Webster) 

A3 - Till We Meet Again (R. Whiting, R. Egan) 

A4 – Fascination (F. D. Marchetti, D. Manning) 

A5 - Loveliest Night Of The Year (Rosas, Aaronson, Webster) 

A6 - True Love (C. Porter) 

B1 - Melody Of Love (T. Glazer, H. Engleman) 

B2 - Three O'Clock In The Morning (D. Terriss, J. Robledo) 

B3 - Don't Say a Word (L. Reed, G. Stephens) 

B4 - Tennessee Waltz (P. W. King, R. Stewart) 

B5 - I Want To Be With You (L. Adams, C. Strouse) 

B6 - You Don't Have To Say You Love Me (Wickham, Napier, Bell, Donaggio) 

LP gentilmente cedido pelo nosso amigo Steve Ray, a quem agradecemos. 

Weinlied (Fritz Werner)

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Der lachende Ehemann: Fein, fein, schmeckt uns der Wein (Weinlied - Eysler) 25 cm Concert Record Gramophone 12850 Kat. Nr. 942434, Matrix Nr. 15427 L Fritz WERNER - Tenor (& Orch.) rec. ca. V. 1913 On the other side: Ich bin damisch verliebt in meine eigene Frau (15426 L) Genre: Operette.

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Ich bin damisch verliebt in meine eigene Frau

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Der lachende Ehemann: Ich bin damisch verliebt in meine eigene Frau (Eysler) 25 cm Concert Record Gramophone 12850 Kat. Nr. 942433, Matrix Nr. 15426 L Fritz WERNER - Tenor (& Orch.) rec. ca. V. 1913 On the other side: Weinlied 15427 L Genre: Operette.

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Epic #E-30660

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1. My Baby Used To Be That Way

2. Honky-Tonk Season

3. Rosie Bokay - Listen Below

4. Before I Found The Wine

5. God Save The Queen (of The Honky Tonks)

6. Let's Go Fishin' Boys (The Girls Are Bitin')

7. A Honky Tonk In Dallas

8. Honky Tonk Women

9. A Bad Girl

10. Don't Put Down The Honky Tonks

11. Good Ole Mountain Dew

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Summit (KY) 45rpm Rockabilly, Gospel, Hillbilly Bop, R'N'R Instrumental Rockers, Teen

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Summit (KY) 45rpm Rockabilly, Gospel, Hillbilly Bop, R'N'R Instrumental Rockers, Teen

Owner : Bobby Anderson

Location : Central City, KY

Track List

Summit (KY) 45 - 101 : Eddie Gaines & The Rockin' Five - Be-Bop Battlin' Ball (1958)

Summit (KY) 45 - 101 : Eddie Gaines & The Rockin' Five - Try This Heart For Size (1958)

Summit (KY) 45 - 102 : Noble Stewart & The Sunnyside Gospelaires - I Was Determined (1958)

Summit (KY) 45 - 102 : Noble Stewart & The Sunnyside Gospelaires - The Lord's Watching You (1958)

Summit (KY) 45 - 103 : Bob Bethel - Millie (From The Mountain) (1958)

Summit (KY) 45 - 103 : Bob Bethel - Can You (1958)

Summit (KY) 45 - 104 : Eddie Gaines With The Spartones - I Quit Livin' (1958)

Summit (KY) 45 - 104 : Eddie Gaines With The Spartones - Out Of The Shadows (1958)

Summit (KY) 45 - 105 : J. D. Orr & The Lonesome Valley Boys Vocal By Elzie Asbridge - Lonesome Hearted Blues (1958)

Summit (KY) 45 - 105 : J. D. Orr & The Lonesome Valley Boys Vocal By Elzie Asbridge - Hula Hoop Boogie (1958)

Summit (KY) 45 - 106 : Tag & Effie - Baby, You Done Flubbed Your Dub With Me (1958)

Summit (KY) 45 - 106 : Tag & Effie - There’s Only One Star (1958)

Summit (KY) 45 - 107 : Cheryl Orr With The Lonesome Valley Boys - Why Does My Daddy Come Here? (1958)

Summit (KY) 45 - 107 : Cheryl Orr With The Lonesome Valley Boys - What I Saw on Christmas Night (1958) (missing)

Summit (KY) 45 - 108 : Jimmie Piper - Don't Play Around (With My Heart) (1959)

Summit (KY) 45 - 108 : Jimmie Piper - Down By Moonlight Bay (1959)

Summit (KY) 45 - 109 : Eddie Gaines - She Captured This Heart Of Mine (1959)

Summit (KY) 45 - 109 : Eddie Gaines - Your Welcome Back (1959)

Summit (KY) 45 - 110 : Dwain Bell & The Turner Brothers (Kenneth & Wayne) - I'm Gonna Ride (1959)

Summit (KY) 45 - 110 : Dwain Bell & The Turner Brothers (Kenneth & Wayne) - Rock & Roll On A Saturday Night (1959)

Summit (KY) 45 - 111 : Gus Pate & The Jokers - Kick Off (1959)

Summit (KY) 45 - 111 : Gus Pate & The Jokers - Man Alive (1959)

Summit (KY) 45 - 112 : Dude Rhomberg - Either You Do Or You Don't

Summit (KY) 45 - 112 : Dude Rhomberg - How Many Times (1959) (missing)

Summit (KY) 45 - 113 : Junior Ferguson - Lonely Street (1959)

Summit (KY) 45 - 113 : Junior Ferguson - Flooding My Heart (1959) (missing) (Need Label)

Summit (KY) 45 - 114 : Shadie Oller - You Sure Look Good To Me (1959)

Summit (KY) 45 - 114 : Shadie Oller - Come To Me Baby (1959)

Summit (KY) 45 - 115 : Gayle Russ - Stairway To Your Heart (1959) (missing)

Summit (KY) 45 - 115 : Gayle Russ - She Didn’t Even Say Goodbye (1959) (missing)

Summit (KY) 45 - 116 : Bill Russ - The Thing For Me To Do (1960)

Summit (KY) 45 - 116 : Bill Russ - You Changed Your Name (1960)

Summit (KY) 45 - 117 : Rhythm Playboys Featuring Norman Herman's Guitar - Wildfire (1960)

Summit (KY) 45 - 117 : Rhythm Playboys Vocal By Dewey Rothering - Wild Side Of Life (1960)

Summit (KY) 45 - 118 : Rhythm Playboys - Dick’s Polka (1960) (missing) (Need Label)

Summit (KY) 45 - 118 : Rhythm Playboys - Banjo Waltz (1960) (missing) (Need Label)

EP’s

Summit (KY) EP - 550 : Gospeltone Quartet - The 11th Commandment (1959) (missing)

Summit (KY) EP - 550 : Gospeltone Quartet - The Artist (missing)

Summit (KY) EP - 550 : Gospeltone Quartet - No Matter (missing)

Summit (KY) EP - 550 : Gospeltone Quartet - Let Your Conscience By Your Guide (missing)

Summit (KY) EP - 551 : Harmony-Aires - I’m Feeling Fine (1959) (missing)

Summit (KY) EP - 551 : Harmony-Aires - A House Of God (missing)

Summit (KY) EP - 551 : Harmony-Aires - When He Reached Down His Hand For Me (missing)

Summit (KY) EP - 551 : Harmony-Aires - I’m Satisfied With Jesus (missing)

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Led Zeppelin - 1970 - Royal Albert Hall The Initial Tapes

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Led Zeppelin
January 9, 1970
Royal Albert Hall
London, UK

Royal Albert Hall The Initial Tapes

The Godfatherecords ‎– G.R. 286/287

101. We're Gonna Groove
102. I Can't Quit You Baby
103. Dazed And Confused
104. Heartbreaker
105. White Summer / Black Mountain Side
106. What Is And Should Never Be
107. Moby Dick

201. How Many More Times Medley
202. Whole Lotta Love
203. Communication Breakdown (Longer Version)
204. C'mon Everybody
205. Something Else
206. Bring It On Home
207. Long Tall Sally Medley
208. Communication Breakdown (Shorter Version)

Led Zeppelin’s January 9th, 1970 appearance at the Royal Albert Hall is one of their most important gigs in their career.  This was their first high profile concert in London after Led Zeppelin II displaced The Beatles’ Abbey Road from the number one position in the charts and drew much attention.  The band also understood its significance by professionally filming and recording with the intention of releasing it as a film later in the year.  That plan was scrapped and the footage wouldn’t be officially issued for another thirty-three years.  The soundtrack for a video and a radio broadcast are sources for all of the older releases including the very first on vinyl found in Strange Tales From The Road and The Final Option on RSR International.  On CD the original Tarantura issued both sources on Jimmy’s Birthday Party – The Royal Dragon (Tarantura RAH 1/2 / – / 1995).

Later a much clearer soundboard tape surfaced with “How Many More Times” and the encores that sounded fantastic and was issued on Royal Albert Hall (Red Robin), but running much too slow.  This tape was subsequently used on Historical Birthday (Shout To the Top STTP-034), Strange Tales From the Road (STFTR 001-008).  A nice sounding edit of the two sources was released on Royal Albert Hall 1970(Celebration SOBO-015), running at the correct speed and coming with a VHS cassette with a high generation copy of the then existing footage.  A bulk of this show was finally released by the band in 2003 on the DVD (minus “Since I’ve Been Loving You,” “Long Tall Sally,” and with “Heartbreaker” and “Thank You” only in fragments).  Several years afterwards Empress Valley issued the four-disc Live At Royal Albert Hall(EVSD-421/422/423/424) with an edit of the DVD audio with the radio broadcast on the first two discs and the DVD audio alone on the second two.  The virtue of this set is the debut of the solo in “Heartbreaker.”  However, this set has been described as “a mess” with numerous problems. 

Royal Albert Hall:  The Initial Tapes on Godfather is similar to the second two discs of the Empress Valley set by presenting the soundboard with the edit in “How Many More Times.”  The sound on Godfather is excellent sounding, very powerful, and sounds better than many official releases and is a significant upgrade over EV.  The gain has been increased over the Empress Valley which also raises the level of noise in the quieter passages in the early part of disc one.  This is only really apparent in Robert Plant’s introduction to “Heartbreaker” though and isn’t an issue.

Zeppelin played at the Royal Albert Hall six months before on June 29th, 1969 for the “Pop Proms,” supported by The Liverpool Scene and Bloodwyn Pig.  This was the third show of a short eight date tour of the UK with only Bristol and this show having documents available. A review of this show in the New Musical Express states:  “It isn’t hard to understand the substantial appeal of Led Zeppelin. Their current two-hour plus act is a blitzkrieg of musically-perfected hard rock that combines heavy dramatics with lashings of sex into a formula that can’t fail to move the senses and limbs. At the pace they’ve been setting on their current seven-town British tour there are few groups who could live with them on stage.  I spoke to Jimmy Page after the show and he confessed that the whole band had suffered extreme nerves beforehand, mainly because people like John Lennon, Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck had requested tickets.  ‘But it was just like it was at the Albert Hall in the summer,’ said Jimmy, ‘with everyone dancing around the stage. It was a great feeling. What could be better than having everyone clapping and shouting along? It’s indescribable; but it just makes you feel that everything is worthwhile.”  (“Zeppelin Put the Excitement Back Into Pop” N. Logan).

The show begins with the new cover arrangement of “We’re Gonna Groove” which segues perfectly into “I Can’t Quit You.”  Both of these were used on Coda.  The former was treated to a new spaced out guitar solo recorded specifically for the final Zeppelin album, but this is the unedited, aggressive arrangement used to open the show in early 1970 before disappearing forever.  “Dazed And Confused” follows and this sixteen-minute version keep the intensity level up.  Plant includes a reference to “Cocaine Blues” arranged by Rev. Gary Davis, “Hey mama, won’t you come here quick / This old cocaine is makin’ me sick.”

Afterwards Plant says, “this is the second time we’ve been here and I think we had more nerves the second time than the first.  I know I did.  But anyway we got over that with Birmingham Town Hall a couple of days ago where it was quite disastrous.  The people hadn’t seen anything like it before.  That was the attendants first assignment.  Who filled their trousers?”  The recording is cut after the solo but Page includes Bouree.  “White Summer” follows and is a twelve minute masterpiece and this is one of tightest versions on tape.  Listening to the track is mesmerizing and it is easy to get lost in the eastern atmosphere of the music.  It is such a contrast to everything else played and Page comes across as a true virtuoso.

“How Many More Times” lasts twenty minutes even with the band introduction edited out.  Plant get into Neil Young’s “Down By The River” as well as the “The Hunter,” “Boogie Chillun,” “Move On Down The Line,” “Leave My Woman Alone,” and “The Lemon Song.”  The band are so focused that they don’t want to stop playing the song and even Page mentions this in the NME article when he says, “‘We’d actually finished ‘How Many More Times’ and were going into the ‘Lemon Song,’ but the audience was still clapping so we just went into another riff and carried on for a further ten minutes.'”

The long encore section follows and there are some issues regarding the proper placement of “Bring It On Home” in dispute. The Concert Filelists “Bring It On Home” as the first encore followed by “Whole Lotta Love,” “Thank You,” “Communication Breakdown,” “C’Mon Everybody,” “Something Else,” and “Long Tall Sally” and Empress Valley follow this sequence.  (This list is also odd since “Thank You” was played early in the set the previous night and wouldn’t be an encore until the following year). The official Led Zeppelin website claims that “Bring It On Home” was played fourth after “Whole Lotta Love,” “Communication Breakdown,” and “Thank You.”  The official DVD places it as the final encore after “Something Else” and Godfather uses this set list as a guide. All but Empress Valley and Godfather are titles released before the official dvd release of this show.  Overall given the packaging, availability and sound quality, Godfather produced the definitive version of this classic show and is essential to have. 

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Every year about this time, when the rest of you are busy with resolutions and revelries, I like to sink into my own little ritual and indulge a nasty viral infection. It's sort of a tradition around my place, as welcome and as comforting as being attacked by feral hogs.

And so, for the last week as I've been occupied by my physical miseries, I've had little time to inflict any musical miseries on you all. Today that changes. I have for you one additional collection of New Year's songs, two new/old transfers that have not appeared here before, and several reups. Details follow.

A Carpe Diem New Year's Eve

Just at about the time the bug hit me, David Federman graciously donated his latest collection to the comments page of my last post. While it was themed to New Year's Eve, the 35 well-chosen selections are beautifully timeless, I recommend them heartily - and let me clarify that I do not include his collection among the "miseries" threatened above.

As always, David ranges widely across pop music of the early- and mid-20th century. I noticed that he has included some favorite artists who have not appeared here before - folks such as Alice Faye, Lee Wiley, Ray McKinley, Hal Kemp and Milton Brown and His Brownies. Good stuff! The link is in the comments; David's notes are in the download.

Jack Sheldon

Trumpeter-vocalist-actor Jack Sheldon died late last year, and in remembrance I have uploaded one of his most elusive albums - The Cool World of Jack Sheldon, from 1969.

Sheldon is best known for television appearances as Merv Griffin's bandleader and on the 70s series Schoolhouse Rock, but his background was in the West Coast cool school. The LP on offer today was made during a time when music was changing rapidly, so it includes everything from "The Whiffenpoof Song" to the Turtles, Burt Bacharach, Randy Newman and other odds and ends. It ends up being less a collage than a hodge-podge, but it is distinguished by Sheldon's lyrical trumpet and gravelly vocals.

I transferred this one for Will Friedwald about 10 years ago but never uploaded it here. No scans on this one; sorry.

Link is in the comments.

This Is Kim (as Jeanne Eagles)

This 1957 LP is another transfer from a decade or more ago. I remember working on several soundtrack records featuring composer George Duning, but put this one aside because it didn't actually include much original music. For whatever reason, rather than producing a soundtrack LP, Decca decided to market a Kim Novak exploitation album in conjunction with her starring role in the Columbia biopic Jeanne Eagels, calling it This Is Kim (as Jeanne Eagels). The resulting album includes the theme from the film, a Duning tribute song for Novak, which shows up as a leitmotif throughout the album, and a bunch of easy-listening numbers including three Duke Ellington and two Ray Noble songs.

Poor Duning is identified only on the record label - Columbia music director Morris Stoloff has his name all over things, as was his wont.

Here too, the link is in the comments.

The Two Manhattan Towers

Oh, I know there were more than two Manhattan Tower LPs, but here we have the first two versions of Gordon Jenkins' popular suite, which I've reupped on request by loyal follower Kwork.

The original Manhattan Tower was a 16-minute piece that first came out in a 78 set in 1946. My transfer is from an early Decca LP reprint. That record also included the California suite that Jenkins wrote to Tom Adair's insipid lyrics. The download includes complete scans of the LP and 78 album covers and the 78 set's insert booklet. The wonderful radio actor Elliott Lewis is the protagonist, supported by Jenkins' wife Beverly Mahr.

In 1956, Capitol asked Jenkins to expand Manhattan Tower into a full-length LP, and in response Jenkins added some of the suite's best known excerpts - "Married I Can Always Get" and "Never Leave Me." Lewis and Mahr again take the lead roles, although Lewis is not as fresh as he had been 10 years earlier.

These records are available via the original posts - Decca and Capitol.

Art Hodes - Out of the Back Room

I am preparing a piece on pianist-singer Charles LaVere, and some of his work put me in mind of Art Hodes, who appeared on one of the first posts here. Hodes' Out of the Back Room, an early Blue Note LP, collected eight sides he made with a few Chicago-style groups in 1944-45.

The sound here was always a bit rough and not well reprocessed by Blue Note - I commented at the time that the added echo made the record sound more like "Out of the Bath Room" than "Out of the Back Room." I've now remastered things and the sound is presentable for the most part.

Again, find this one via the original post.

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Catálogo: RCA - Camden ACL 1-0301
Edición: 1973
País: USA

Cara 1
01 If you knew Susie - Sweet Sue - Just you
02 When you and I were young Maggie - Listen to tje mocking bird - Coming round the mountain
03 I've been working on the railroad - Bill Bailey - And the band played on
04 My old Kentuky home - Oh dem golden slippers - Skip to me Lou
05 Sweetheart of all my dreams - I love you, I love you - Let me call you sweetheart
06 Down home rag - Spaghetti rag

Cara 2
07 Buffalo gal - Hand me down my walking cane - Polly dolly doodle
08 Way down yonder in New Orleans - On the sunny side of the street
09 Tha's my weakness now - Back home again in Indiana
10 Under the double eagle - Billboard march - When the Saints go marching in
11 Alabamy bound - yes, we have no bananas today

Catálogo: Philips 429 681 BE
Edición: 1959
País: España

Cara 1
01 Ain’t she sweet? / ¿Es encantadora, verdad?
02 Charleston

Cara 2
03 Yes, Sir, that’s my baby / Sí, señor, esta es mi nena
04 Jeepers Creepers