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O Komm im Traum

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O Komm im Traum (Franz Liszt) 30 cm Grammophon 27203 Matrix Nr. 941 1/2 bi Theodor SCHEIDL - Bariton Franz RUPP - Klavier recorded / Mechanical Copyright: 1930.

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Die drei Zigeuner

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Die drei Zigeuner (Franz Liszt) 30 cm Grammophon 27203 Matrix Nr. 947 1/2 bi Theodor SCHEIDL - Bariton Franz RUPP - Klavier recorded / Mechanical Copyright: 1930.

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Boyd Senter – Down Hearted Blues (feat. Eddie Lang on guitar)

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Getting his start playing clarinet in Glenn Miller’s big band in 1921, Boyd Senter eventually moved to Chicago in 1923 and managed to make several recordings with Jelly Roll Morton’s Steamboat Four. Soon thereafter he struck out alone as the “Jazzologist Supreme” (sometimes with his band, the Senterpedes) and recorded a string of sides for various labels in the 20s and 30s, all in the hot jazz/New Orleans idiom that was the rage during those decades. Sometimes the playfulness of his approach, especially the “laughing” or “whining” phrasing that became a signature of his clarinet style, was criticized by some as gimmicky, but he sold a lot of sides and was very popular in the public nevertheless.

What makes this 1927 trio take of “Down Hearted Blues” (a Lovie Austin/Alberta Hunter tune) so great is the guitar playing of the iconic Eddie Lang, an innovator who really raised the bar on guitar approach and its place in popular music, and also paved the way for giants like Django, Lonnie Johnson and Wes Montgomery. This performance is just so beautifully toned and nuanced, and to my ears sounds like he was playing from about 15-20 years into the future. Lang’s genius was very unfortunately cut short at 30 years old, a bad surgery in New York in 1933 seeming the culprit. His impact on Jazz cannot be underestimated.

Boyd Senter left music in the late 30s after his popularity waned, became a sporting goods salesman, settled down, and lived into old age, retiring to Oscoda, Michigan, and finally giving up the ghost in 1982 at 84 years old.

This Velvet Tone 7070 is a reissue copy of the original Okeh pressing, matrix no. W81001.

 

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Silver Spurz Orchestra - Silver Spurz Orchestra 1979 Complete Lp

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Tracklist :

A1   Tumbling Tumbleweeds
A2   Back In The Saddle Again
A3   Cowboy (Come And Love Me Tonight)

B1   Happy Trails
B2   I Wanna Be A Cowboy
B3   Cool Water

Backing Vocals – Beegie Adair, Donna Sheridan, Janie Fricke, Karen Taylor, Sherri Kramer
Banjo – John Clausi
Bass – Billy Adair
Coordinator [Album] – Ron Beigel
Dobro, Steel Guitar – Doyle Grisham
Drums – Bob Mater, Dave Humphries
Executive-Producer – Bill Radics, Richard Bradley
Flugelhorn – George Tidwell
Guitar – Fred Newell, John Clausi, Billy Adair
Keyboards – Beegie Adair, Shane Keister
Lead Vocals – Alan Moore, Karen Taylor 
Percussion – Mark Morris
Photography By – John M. Lesnick
Producer, Arranged By – John Clausi
Recorded By, Mixed By – Al McGuire
Saxophone, Flute – Billy Puett
Strings – The Shelly Kurland Strings
Synthesizer – Shane Keister
Trombone – Dennis Good, Roger Bissell, Terry Williams
Trumpet – Don Sheffield, George Tidwell, Ron Keller
Typography [Type Design] – Steve Karras



Style : Electronic Disco,Funk/Soul,Orchestral

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Sarah Mai - I Ain't Gonna Hush

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1. Sarah Mai - Sentimental Journey (2:34) 2. Sarah Mai - Bop Ting A Ling (2:47) 3. Sarah Mai - Feel Fi Fo Fum (2:36) 4. Sarah Mai - Come On A My House (1:57) 5. Sarah Mai - Mama He Treats Your Daughter Mean (2:04) 6. Sarah Mai - Hound Dog (2:48) 7. Sarah Mai - I Ain't Gonna Hush (2:28) 8. Sarah Mai - As Long As I'm Moving (2:39) 9. Sarah Mai - This Train (2:59) 10. Sarah Mai - Whipper Snapper (2:08) 11. Sarah Mai - Hello Little Boy (2:32)

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A Symposium Of Major Rarities : 1901 - 1909

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Tracklist: 1. Cachés Dans Cette Asile - Capoul, Victor 2. Cachés Dans Cette Asile - Capoul, Victor 3. Ich Grolle Nicht - Litvinne, Felia 4. J'ai Pardonné - Van Dyck, Ernest 5. Walter Devant Les Mâitres - Van Dyck, Ernest 6....

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January Re-ups, Part 1

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Waldirene ‎– Waldirene (LP 1968, Brasil)

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Waldirene ‎– Waldirene (LP RCA Victor ‎– BBL-1447, maio de 1968, Brasil). 
Produção Artística: Wilson Miranda. 
Género: Jovem Guarda. 

Waldirene” é o álbum de estreia homónimo da cantora, originalmente lançado em LP em 1968, pela RCA. Waldirene foi uma das cantoras convidadas por Roberto Carlos para actuar no programa "Jovem Guarda" da TV Record, e foi anunciada carinhosamente por Roberto Carlos como "Garota Papo Firme". Em 1966, lançou o seu primeiro disco, um single (compacto simples) com "Eu Te Amo, Tu Me Amas". Em 1967, gravou "Garota do Roberto", o seu maior sucesso, de Carlos Imperial e Eduardo Araújo, e "Só Vou Gostar de Quem Gosta de Mim", de Rossini Pinto. Em maio de 1968, lançou o seu primeiro LP homónimo (também conhecido como “Sempre”), que aqui apresentamos, no qual destacamos o seu grande êxito, " Garota do Roberto" e ao qual acrescentámos duas faixas bónus. 
Com o fim do programa "Jovem Guarda" e o declínio do movimento, a cantora enveredou pela música romântica. 

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Waldirene Fraraccio (São Paulo, 24 de novembro de 1948), mais conhecida apenas por Waldirene (chamada a “A Garota do Roberto”), é uma cantora brasileira que integrou o movimento da Jovem Guarda na década de 60, tendo participado no programa com o mesmo nome, e feito muito sucesso com a música intitulada “A Garota do Roberto”. 
Com o nome artístico de Waldirene, começou a apresentar-se sozinha em 1966, cantando em clubes como o Santa Mônica, Congregação Israelita e Hípica Paulista, em São Paulo. Foi atracção do programa de Sílvio Santos. Ganhou alguns dos principais prémios da época, além de ter participado em vários programas de televisão. 
A cantora nasceu no bairro da Lapa, em São Paulo e foi descoberta pelo radialista Ademar Dutra (já falecido) quando participou na festa do “Dia das Mães”, de 1966, no colégio em que estudava. Ademar propôs levá-la à RCA Victor para gravar uma música que tinha em mãos "A Garota do Roberto". Para Waldirene era a sua oportunidade. Este disco continha também no lado B, o tema "Só Vou Gostar de Quem Gosta De Mim", de Rossini Pinto, posteriormente regravada com sucesso por Roberto Carlos. Ainda em 1967 gravou numa colectânea o tema "Vem Quente Que Eu Estou Fervendo", considerada uma ousadia para a época. 
Actualmente apresenta-se como “Waldireni” mas será a eterna Garota do Roberto como Waldirene. 

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Faixas/Tracklist: 

A1 Sempre (David Miranda, Gilberto Pereira) 
A2 Meu Travesseiro (Osmar Navarro) 
A3 Vôa Passarinho (Alemão, Newton de Siqueira Campos) 
A4 Garota Do Roberto (Carlos Imperial, Eduardo Araújo) 
A5 Você Entendeu Meu Olhar (Marcos Roberto, Dori Edson) 
A6 Nunca Mais Eu Voltarei (Antônio Marcos, Mário Marcos) 
B1 Suas Mãos (Alemão, Newton de Siqueira Campos) 
B2 Amor Certinho (Eduardo Araújo, Chil Deberto) 
B3 Não Era Amor (David Miranda) 
B4 Nem Sei o Que Faço (Roberto Corrêa, Sylvio Son) 
B5 Este É Seu Lugar (Reynaldo Rayol) 
B6 Eu Quero Ser Sua Namorada (Erasmo Carlos) 
BONUS: 
C1 - Só Vou Gostar de Quem Gosta de Mim (Rossini Pinto) (single 1967) 
C 2 - Vem Quente Que Eu Estou Fervendo (Carlos Imperial, Eduardo Araújo) (1967) 

LP cedido por gentileza por Marlon Sabino (Brasil), a quem agradecemos.
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UC308a/b/c - 60s (mostly) Uncomped, Swe-Dish Delights, pt. 4

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It’s one and a half year back since Vol. 3, so that’s why you’ll be welcomed to a triple set of 72 more uncomped tidbits from Sweden’s 60s scene. If you’re an aficionado of Swedish Beat you might be familiar with some of the tracks I selected, but I’m sure they will sound fresh to you if you’re not a Swedish resident. At any rate, I’ve sorted out all of the famous groups (like Shanes, Tages, Mascots, Lee Kings et al) as complete anthologies are widely available on the shelf. So again, this set presents the lesser known ensembles, or at least, the lesser known tracks of the better known ones, starting from 1962 to 1969, in chronologic order. The fact the Swedes speak excellent English (most of them, that is) explains why the Swedish groups are as close to the British Beat as you can get, since the Dada English you can enjoy listening to, say, German bands, is mostly missing. I wonder though why none of the groups I’ve selected (and not even a single band of the famous ones I left out) has ever made it to international stardom and not even one song has hit the charts outside Scandinavia. I guess we have to wait until Abba…. In the meantime, enjoy the Swe-Dish Delights!

PS. I must correct the booklet, as I read the first Lunik space probe was launched by the Soviets as early as 1959…
PPS: I have re-upped parts 1- 3, see comments and original lj-pages

CD#1
01/ Demons - Too much for me (live)
02/ Demons - Hippy Hippy Shake (live)
03/ Caretakers - Along came Linda
04/ Stranglers - Trust me
05/ Shamrocks - We gonna make it
06/ Beautifuls - Take a Heart
07/ Fools - Bullmoose
08/ Best - Get off of my cloud (live)
09/ Best - Hang on Sloopy
10/ Beathovens - Where do you hide?
11/ Vergers - Gud Som Haver Barnen Kär
12/ Streaplers - Making Love
13/ Streaplers - Gonna do something about you
14/ Daimlers - Johnny Mercer
15/ Daimlers - Born a Woman
16/ Guy Bates - Just a little bit better
17/ Nursery Rhymes - Cool Jwerk (live)
18/ Monx - Believe me
19/ Armas - A Piece of Love
20/ Armas - You only pretend
21/ Longboatmen - Trouble and Tea
22/ Ragges - If I had something
23/ Vat 66 - Sixty Six - Morning comes after Night
24/ Gonks - Loppan

CD#2
01/ Timebeats - Dance With The Guitar Man
02/ Jane Swärd & Tigers  - Tallahassee Lassie (live)
03/ Jane Swärd & Tigers  - Huond Dog (live)
04/ Spotnicks - Great Balls of Fire
05/ Beat Incorporated - Be my Date
06/ Beat Incorporated - Oh little Girl
07/ Gaggas - Long tall Shorty
08/ Panthers - Bad Blues
09/ Michael & Playmates - It's my Life
10/ Streaplers - You be my Baby
11/ Streaplers - I'm coming Home
12/ Violents - We've Gotta Get Out Of This Place
13/ Spotnicks - Little Things
14/ Speaders - With a Girl l ike you
15/ Sunspots - Romance
16/ Moonlighters - Hi Lilli Hi Lo
17/ Shakers - Shake!
18/ Caretakers - Lies
19/ Hounds - A Car, A Boat, A House, A Girl Like You
20/ Hounds - Hi Ho Silver Lining
21/ Bates - Key to love
22/ Vat 66 - Pretty Childern
23/ Vat 66 - Lady Lady
24/ WWH / We Want Help - Tell Me Why People Dont Like Me

CD#3
01/ Bob Lander & Spotnicks - Midnight Special
02/ Violents - Fourty Days
03/ Spotnicks - Blue Blue Day
04/ Spotnicks - I'm goin' home
05/ Caretakers - Come back (live)
06/ Caretakers - Thrill me (live)
07/ Beat Incorporated - Set me free
08/ Beat Incorporated - The Destination
09/ Nashmen - Tenderly and Closely
10/ Teenagers - Stay
11/ Teenagers - I can hear them play
12/ Con's Combo - Conseguire una Mujer (I Got A Woman)
13/ Con's Combo - Quiero (Coca Cola ad)
14/ Beachers - It's lLove Baby
15 Beachers - What a Shame
16 Jackie Fountans - Let's make a Love
17 Bootjacks - My Bass Guitar
18 Hi-Balls - Can't you see
19 Hi-Balls - Cause I want to know
20 Night Caps - You've been cheating
21 Shakers - The “46” In Wind Street
22 Slam Creepers - Cash Box Ladies Behavior
23 Atlantic Ocean - My Sister Juliet
24 Spacemen - Lunik

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UC308a/b/c - 60s (mostly) Uncomped, Swe-Dish Delights, pt. 4

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It’s one and a half year back since Vol. 3, so that’s why you’ll be welcomed to a triple set of 72 more uncomped tidbits from Sweden’s 60s scene. If you’re an aficionado of Swedish Beat you might be familiar with some of the tracks I selected, but I’m sure they will sound fresh to you if you’re not a Swedish resident. At any rate, I’ve sorted out all of the famous groups (like Shanes, Tages, Mascots, Lee Kings et al) as complete anthologies are widely available on the shelf. So again, this set presents the lesser known ensembles, or at least, the lesser known tracks of the better known ones, starting from 1962 to 1969, in chronologic order. The fact the Swedes speak excellent English (most of them, that is) explains why the Swedish groups are as close to the British Beat as you can get, since the Dada English you can enjoy listening to, say, German bands, is mostly missing. I wonder though why none of the groups I’ve selected (and not even a single band of the famous ones I left out) has ever made it to international stardom and not even one song has hit the charts outside Scandinavia. I guess we have to wait until Abba…. In the meantime, enjoy the Swe-Dish Delights!

PS. I must correct the booklet, as I read the first Lunik space probe was launched by the Soviets as early as 1959…
PPS: I have re-upped parts 1- 3, see comments and original lj-pages

CD#1
01/ Demons - Too much for me (live)
02/ Demons - Hippy Hippy Shake (live)
03/ Caretakers - Along came Linda
04/ Stranglers - Trust me
05/ Shamrocks - We gonna make it
06/ Beautifuls - Take a Heart
07/ Fools - Bullmoose
08/ Best - Get off of my cloud (live)
09/ Best - Hang on Sloopy
10/ Beathovens - Where do you hide?
11/ Vergers - Gud Som Haver Barnen Kär
12/ Streaplers - Making Love
13/ Streaplers - Gonna do something about you
14/ Daimlers - Johnny Mercer
15/ Daimlers - Born a Woman
16/ Guy Bates - Just a little bit better
17/ Nursery Rhymes - Cool Jwerk (live)
18/ Monx - Believe me
19/ Armas - A Piece of Love
20/ Armas - You only pretend
21/ Longboatmen - Trouble and Tea
22/ Ragges - If I had something
23/ Vat 66 - Sixty Six - Morning comes after Night
24/ Gonks - Loppan

CD#2
01/ Timebeats - Dance With The Guitar Man
02/ Jane Swärd & Tigers  - Tallahassee Lassie (live)
03/ Jane Swärd & Tigers  - Huond Dog (live)
04/ Spotnicks - Great Balls of Fire
05/ Beat Incorporated - Be my Date
06/ Beat Incorporated - Oh little Girl
07/ Gaggas - Long tall Shorty
08/ Panthers - Bad Blues
09/ Michael & Playmates - It's my Life
10/ Streaplers - You be my Baby
11/ Streaplers - I'm coming Home
12/ Violents - We've Gotta Get Out Of This Place
13/ Spotnicks - Little Things
14/ Speaders - With a Girl l ike you
15/ Sunspots - Romance
16/ Moonlighters - Hi Lilli Hi Lo
17/ Shakers - Shake!
18/ Caretakers - Lies
19/ Hounds - A Car, A Boat, A House, A Girl Like You
20/ Hounds - Hi Ho Silver Lining
21/ Bates - Key to love
22/ Vat 66 - Pretty Childern
23/ Vat 66 - Lady Lady
24/ WWH / We Want Help - Tell Me Why People Dont Like Me

CD#3
01/ Bob Lander & Spotnicks - Midnight Special
02/ Violents - Fourty Days
03/ Spotnicks - Blue Blue Day
04/ Spotnicks - I'm goin' home
05/ Caretakers - Come back (live)
06/ Caretakers - Thrill me (live)
07/ Beat Incorporated - Set me free
08/ Beat Incorporated - The Destination
09/ Nashmen - Tenderly and Closely
10/ Teenagers - Stay
11/ Teenagers - I can hear them play
12/ Con's Combo - Conseguire una Mujer (I Got A Woman)
13/ Con's Combo - Quiero (Coca Cola ad)
14/ Beachers - It's lLove Baby
15 Beachers - What a Shame
16 Jackie Fountans - Let's make a Love
17 Bootjacks - My Bass Guitar
18 Hi-Balls - Can't you see
19 Hi-Balls - Cause I want to know
20 Night Caps - You've been cheating
21 Shakers - The “46” In Wind Street
22 Slam Creepers - Cash Box Ladies Behavior
23 Atlantic Ocean - My Sister Juliet
24 Spacemen - Lunik

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Santa's Magic Mirror (Avon/Eva-Tone; 1982)

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A repost from last year of a very fun Avon flexi disc, a disc which answers an age-old question: how does Santa get toys to all the children in the world when there's only one of him?  When there's just a single Santa?  Ahhhh, but is there only one Santa?  Listen and find out.  (Hm.  I think I just gave away the plot....)

Flexi discs, being paper-thin, often turn up with bends in them--a real problem during playback.  Luckily, whoever owned this Eva-Tone record kept it in the booklet's pocket--hence, its excellent condition.  The magic mirror on the cover, however, is pretty scratched up, so I photo-edited it.  As a result, it looks pitch-black, though in real life it's silver.  It actually works as a mirror, too, and the image is only slightly distorted.  In the event you wanted to know.

To the Avon Christmas story....



DOWNLOAD: Avon Presents Santa's Magic Mirror (1982)



Created By MacDonald Creative Marketing, made by Eva-Tone, 1982


Lee

We Have Seen His Star...--The Mennonite Hour A Cappella Choral Groups

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Right after I had ripped and labeled this, I realized that, though I'd checked Ernie's blog, I hadn't checked Buster's.  Luckily, this is not a dupe of either's work.  (Sigh of relief.)

Even if I didn't know from Ernie and Buster's posts that the Mennonite Hour was a radio program, I'd have guessed--it sounds like one.  Also, on the enclosed sheet music of Charles H. Gabriel's marvelous The Star and the Wise Men, it say "Mennonite Broadcasts, Inc."  Big clue, there.

Mennonite Hour Records operated out of Harrisonburg, VA.  And I'll go with my initial impression of this album--namely, that it's mostly magnificent.  I was highly, highly impressed.  First impressions don't always endure, but I heard some tremendous singing going on, and I was delighted to hear choral arrangements of black spirituals that were not only bearable but mostly terrific.  (I love black spirituals, but choral renditions of them typically stink.)  The singers deliver the spirituals with feeling, and--best of all--without the usual fake enthusiasm and stilted syncopation.  I'm tired of Go Tell It on the Mountain renditions that sound like they're coming over a telegraph.  No such problem here.

Charles Gabriel is my favorite gospel songwriter--a genius who did everything with nearly nothing.  His famous Send the Light, for instance, uses two entire chords--I and V.  For me, he defines musical minimalism at its best.  Even Erik Satie comes in second.  The Gabriel selection on this disc makes my point, I think.  Or breaks it.  Depends on the listener.

Not counting the Gabriel, Side 1 is all standard Christmas hymns and carols, done with a refreshing freshness, if I'm allowed to type that.  Good Christian Men, Rejoice is perfect--the Men's Quartet just gallops through, giving the classic carol the fast tempo it demands, and with perfect timing and diction, and did I mention I love this LP?

I love this LP, by the way.

A gift from Indiana from Diane, and a thousands thanks to her.  I think this is my favorite post of this season--of the "new" material, anyway.  The sheet music for the Gabriel is enclosed, and I'd rush off a recording of it on my Casio, but I haven't loaded my multi-tracking software onto this PC yet, and there's an alto obligato that requires an extra finger.  So much for that.

Please see jacket and label scans for track info.  These old hands are getting typed out....



DOWNLOAD: We Have Seen His Star--The Mennonite Hour A Cappella Choral Groups (Mennonite Hour 12)

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Christmas Party with "Two Ton" Baker, the Merry Music Maker (1946 or 1947)

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From the same thrift find that yielded the Rathbone 78 set, a two-record Dick "Two Ton" Baker 78 set, which is actual a franken-set--more on that in a bit.  Baker was a very large man, for sure, but his talent was considerably larger, to risk bringing the Understatement Police racing to my door.  Dick was a brilliant musician and a remarkably gifted comedian--sort of like Spike Jones, Doodles Weaver, Willard Scott, and the late Ron Sweed (The great, hilarious Cleveand horror host, The Ghoul) rolled into one, and then some.  Here, he demonstrates great ability as a children's entertainer.

I would have LOVED to have heard this set as a kid.  It's quite a shame that I never had the pleasure, because I was a piano student, and Dick--who, as Wikipedia tells us, enjoyed a career as a major Chicago radio and TV personality for 30 years--was one hell of a pianist.  I would have been inspired to study harder.  Wikipedia's entry on Dick contains a portion that's enough to bring a Duke Ellington fan to tears, and which confirms Baker's incredible gifts: "In 1972 Baker was selected by Duke Ellington to play piano at a symposium honoring Ellington and the history of jazz, as Ellington no longer felt he could play effectively."  This is the man we are listening to here.

Just describe me as totally and completely in awe.  I have passed up Dick's records for years, and I will never make that mistake again.  As for the frank-set aspect of this album that I mentioned earlier, it took me a while to figure out what the heck was going on, but what I got at the thrift is obviously a three-78 Uncle Don set, complete with three pockets (one empty).  On the front, someone has replaced the art with the front of the original two-78 Baker set--they literally pasted the Baker cover (which is square, not rectangular) onto this.  Make sense?  I didn't think so.  Anyway, here's what I got stuck with.  It's a modified Uncle Don front board, an Uncle Don interior write-up, and a three-pocket interior, with two of the pockets containing Baker 78s, leading me to think there was a third, missing Baker 78.  There is not.  That had me majorly confused for a while.  This is what I got:


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This is what the orignal Baker set actually looks like.  Square cover, two-pocket interior:



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I won't even try to guess what possessed someone to paste the original Baker cover onto a three-78 Uncle Don set on the Majestic label.  I could go crazy trying.

Discogs gives the year for this as 1947, while the online discographical project (for 78s) gives the year as 1946.  Either could be so, since the Mercury matrices (515-518) place this at 1946 or 1947.  If I had more precise matrix info, I could nail it, but we're close enough.





DOWNLOAD: Christmas Party with "Two Ton" Baker, 1948  1946 or 1947.



The Night Before Christmas/Santa's Toy Shop
Up on the House-Top and Deck the Halls
Jingle Bells

Christmas Party with Two Ton Baker (Mercury Miniature Playhouse MMP-5; 1948 1946 or 1947.


Lee

A Christmas Carol--Basil Rathbone and a Hollywood Cast (Columbia M-521; 1942)

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You never know what'll show up in the thrifts for $3.99.  Such as this mint copy of the 1942 three-78 A Christmas Carol set, featuring Basil Rathbone, Jay Novello, Francis X. Bushman, Lurene Tuttle, and Tommy Cook (Scrooge as a boy).  Though this audio play is almost as condensed as the Classics Illustrated comic book version, Rathbone manages to create s convincing and (most importantly) a sympathetic Scrooge.  All in the space of about 23 minutes!  Since he's given so little time to develop the character, the transition from the "before" Scrooge to the "after" edition isn't as convincing as we'd want, but that's not Rathbone's fault, obviously.  Everyone is brilliant in this, with Jay Novello's Bob Cratchit (spelled "Cratchet"here) especially amazing.  The famous moment when Bob breaks down following his visit to Tiny Tim's grave is quite powerful here.  This shortening of Dickens' novella (a novella for which Dickens earned a whopping 230 pounds, according to the notes!) is something to admire, given the challenge of conveying the tale in the style of a radio play.  I definitely got my $3.99 worth, as much work as it took to stitch together and sound-adjust everything.

My highly regarded 78 stylus--a replacement for the D-whatever needle used by Stanton's 680 cartridge--gave an okay file, but I got a better one with my $20 after-market 500 cart needle.  You never know.

Totally irrelevant to anything is that there are two points of connection to actor Peter Lupus, the big guy from Mission: Impossible--back when it was a terrific TV series and Tom Cruise had yet to lobotomize it on the big screen.  I refer to Rathbone's 1960s work for American International Pictures--the studio which brought Lupus to the movies.  And Lurene Tuttle was Peter's acting coach.  Now you know.  Leave it to me to notice that.

Leith Stevens, who composed and conducted the incidental music for this set, was an incredibly prolific film composer, whose stock music was used in any number of movies (I assume "stock" means library music), and whose scores include Destination Moon and War of the Worlds.  And he composed music for any number of TV series.

I combined all six sides into a single, unbroken file, of course.



DOWNLOAD: A Christmas Carol--Basil Rathbone (1942)



Lee

Singles I didn't get to--Christmas Singles, 2019--Part 3

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Here are fourteen singles that were ripped and ready to go up, but which didn't get their chance at the blog (chance at the blog?) because I ran out of time.  But I still want to share them, so here they are.  And did I remember to wish everyone Christmas?  Mary Fran Ward does just that in I Wish You Christmas, a single from... I don't know.  Nothing comes up on line in reference to it, and Discog's listing on the label gives me no way to get an approximate year by comparing release numbers.  But I do wish you Christmas.  I could make out about half of the words on both sides, but maybe you'll do better.

Fiona Kennedy's Olivia Newton-John-style Father Christmas is the kind of thing I normally dislike, but oddly enough, I find it very catchy and fun.  The flip is a gorgeous version of the classic Cherry Tree Carol, the real reason to listen to this single.  Fiona sounds like Olivia, only way better.

Silver Spurs was a book and a record, but I don't know if it was a movie.  Spurs presents the standard theme of something little (an elf or tree, typically) proving its worth.  A message to children that, though they may be wee (as the Scots say), they have value.  The Silver Spurs character is also shunned a la Rudolph, so we have two closely related themes in one.  I try not to hear children's material with the ears of an adult, but this strikes me as too arty, and the payoff takes longer to arrive than the revelation in the 1966 REMC record (I won't ruin it for you if you haven't heard it).  And the John Alden Carpenter-style piano background on the story side is too much.  This was 1975, not 1924.  But kids very possibly loved this, so I should shut up.

Ernie put up the Don Wilson sides years back, but he ripped them from an LP reissue--my 45 rpm version has the fun pic sleeve you see above, and this may have been the original issue, though I'm doubting it.  I do know that the tracks go back at least as far as 1954.  If they began life as 78s, then they're earlier.  Neither story is Christmas-related, but the background music is from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker. so....  "A Child's Library of Musical Masterpieces" is the series, and apparently having Don Wilson shout at them over familiar Classical music is how you turn children on to great music.  Or have them running out of the hi-fi room.

Robert Goulet narrates One Solitary Life, which we also heard in Frank La Spina's version in the previous singles post.  Here, there is author credit, and the arrangement is in that Jesus movement style of c. 1969.  Today, we call it praise music.  As I noted before, this text has found its way around the block any number of times--here's Johnny Cash: Here Was a Man.  Cash does a far better job than Goulet, I noticed.  As noted before, the text has been traced back to a sermon given during the 1920s--it's been considerably altered from the original source.

Gene Ewing gives us a spoken Christmas message with lots of reverb, Brandae gives us Everyday Should be Christmas, and Marv Meredith and his musicians give us two Space Age Pop-style instrumentals.  SAP is not my bag, but lots of people love it.  The Christmas-all-year-round cliche probably goes back to the 1500s, and I felt like a sell-out when I inserted it into a sixth grade paper in 1968.  I got an A, the teacher circling my "What can't we have Christmas 365 days a year?" with the comment "Good!"  Or maybe it was "Excellent!"  I'd sold my soul for an A.  To the singles...




DOWNLOAD: Christmas Singles, 2019--Part 3




I Wish You Christmas (Ward)--Mary Fran Ward  (AVC Records 101082)
Peaceable Kingdom (Ward)--Same
Father Christmas (Nick Farries-Colin Smedley)--Fiona Kennedy (Radar Records CKS 1004; 1981)
The Cherry Tree Carol (Trad., Arr. Gillinson/Kennedy)--Same
Silver Spurs: Christmas Song (Betty Knigge)--Vocal: Keith Lester; Voice of Santa: Dr. Dwayne Jorgenson (1975)
Silver Spurs: A Christmas Story (Robert Knigge)--Narrator: Dr. Dwayne Jorgenson (1975)
Chin Chow and the Golden Bird (Foster-Pierce)--Narrator: Don Wilson, w. the Continental Symphony Orch., (Capitol KASF-3193), c. 1954
Little Abou, the Camel--Same
One Solitary Life (Bock)--Robert Goulet, the Choir of Bel Air Presbyterian Church (Creative Sound, Inc. CSM 555)
My Christmas Prayer/Leave It There--Gene Ewing (Compassion Record LLP-1005)
The Christmas Letter (Lloyd P. Ratcliff)--Brandae (R&A Records 101; 1984)
Everyday Should Be Christmas (Ratcliff)--Same
Teen Sleighride (Mort Garson-Grace Lane)--Marv Meredith and His Orch. (Strand 25010; 1960)
Swingin' Sleighbells (Garson)--Same



Lee

The Christmas Album--Evanston Township High School Music Dept. (1971?)

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An album I had ready to go, but with no time to post before the big day.  The highly talented and hard-working kids from E.T.H.S. return, this time from on or about 1971, with terrific choral singing and band work, and... if only a more competent engineer had been at the helm. Augh.  The sound is hideous in spots--EQ'd into absurdity, with upper-end distortion that didn't have to be.  You'll know which spots I'm talking about when they come up--and I did my best to neutralize the audio overload in question.  This had to be post-session doodling by someone who went nuts with an equalizer, and I wish said person had not tried to "improve" the sound in this fashion, since, whatever the shortcomings of the unprocessed audio, it had to have sounded better than this.  One can't even be sure that the choral numbers which dominate this set (11 out of 13) are in stereo or... what.  Whoever mangled this sound should have been banned for life from any recording studio.  The two band tracks sound way better than the rest, with real-sounding fidelity and genuine stereo, so what the heck happened to the singing portion?  Despite this, the choral sides are well worth hearing because they are so very well done, and because it's a joy to hear high school students operating--and operating well--on this level.  And what cool gatefold-cover photos on the inside--they take me back, since they're only four years before my high school graduation (I was either in eighth grade or just starting h.s.--I have trouble calculating such things).  And scanning those sections was such fun (not).  Working rightside-up is tricky enough when you're scanning an over-sized item, and with the inner portions of a gatefold cover, you're sort of working upside down.  My first attempts were not so hot--they were either missing portions or else the results looked like Picasso when drunk--I don't remember which.  But it was great to finally get it right.  None of this will make sense if you've never done photo-stitching.  It may not make sense even if you have!

Terrific high school musicianship, a lovely stock front and back jacket, an inner-gatefold montage that takes me back (this is close to my era), and it's all worth a listen despite the engineer's inept work.  Was he having revenge on someone?  Anyway... Merry Christmas in the holiday afterglow:





DOWNLOAD: The Christmas Album--Evan Township High School Music Dept., c. 1971


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Kids' Christmas Sing-a-Long--The Maranatha! Kids (1987)--Split-track fun!

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You would know that this is for kids, even if the title wasn't Kids' Christmas Sing-a-Long.  Can't quite pin it down, but I think it has something to do with the cover art.  It suggests childhood in some subtle, hard-to-pin down fashion.

Kids, yes.  With the word apostrophized correctly, even.  Specifically, there are the eight Maranatha! Kids, and you can look up "Maranatha" at Wikipedia.  Maranatha! Music, which put this out, is the label of Calvary Chapel, which is a group of evangelical churches, and which owns a number of radio stations across the country.  It was heavily involved with the Jesus movement and Christian rock, but, in regard to the latter, no one's perfect.  I suspect Calvary Chapel is an example of what I wrote about in an earlier post--evangelicals creating their own media after being eased out of the mainstream,  thus embarrassing all the folks who'd pushed them out, few of whom, I'm sure, expected evangelicals to bounce back with their own highly successful and complex media.  Those who laugh at the fare broadcast on the alternative media of evangelicals are forgetting that it's not a matter of the messages being pushed, but the genius behind the packaging and marketing of those messages, and all of this outside of the mainstream, which makes the accomplishment very amazing.  I mention all this, because Maranatha! Music was there.  I was, too, but I wasn't paying attention to this kind of thing.

For a kids-singing-Christmas-carols-songs-and-hymns LP, this is quite fun, even if you find some of the backgrounds annoying (and a tad too Disco-ish), like I do.  The arrangements are certainly very expertly done, and the Kids are great.  There's a lot of Christian stuff for kids that sounds like this, but  most of what I've heard can't compete with Maranatha! in terms of skillful production and performance and expert charts.

And... the tracks are in the "'Split-Track' format for easy sing-along fun!" says the over.  And indeed they are.  One might expect the effect to be annoying (as with the too literal channel separation in those early Beatles stereo LPs), but I find it kind of cool.  From the notes: "For sing-a-long fun, simply turn your balance dial to the left channel only--AND SING!"

I expect everyone to comply with these instructions.





DOWNLOAD: Kids' Christmas Sing-a-Long (1987)











Lee

Happy New Year! From Mark 66 (Phillips 66--White Christmas)

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I didn't think I'd be pushing it so close.  Here's a this-side-of-the-border George Garabedian Christmas, with an excellent singer who isn't named.  She could be Julie Andrews (though I doubt it) or Patti Page (nah).  I don't know who she is.  Neither did producer George Garabedian, apparently.

That has to be Walter Brennan on the first track, though--The Birth of Christ.  If I had time to look it up, I would.  But I don't.  Fun tracks, all.

Merry Christmas/Happy New Year!!  I have an entire six minutes to get downstairs and watch the ball drop....






DOWNLOAD: White Christmas (Mark 56 574)




The Birth of Christ
The Child Is Born
Oh Little Town of Bethlehem
Silent Night
Hark the Herald Angels Sing
Deck the Halls with Ivy
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Good King Wenceslas
White Christmas
Silver Bells

The Shawnee Choir--The Most Wonderful Time of the Year (1973)

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A superb 1973 "Choir Reference Recording" by Shawnee Press, Inc., and I think it's the bit where you sell your outfit's choral accompaniment by having top musical pros sing them--sort a demo disc, really.  It's the notion that, if you buy our scores, you'll sound like this.  Sure, if your choir consists of studio-quality vocalists.

So, the arrangements and performances are fantastically good, and we get to hear some material that doesn't show up on every other LP of this type, though In Sweetest Jubilee is just our old friend In Dulci Jubilo with an English text by Roy Ringwald.  I have no idea what "English text" means--a translation?  A new text that happens to be in English?  Why, for instance, designate the text to an American folks song (Sweet Mary...) as English?  But I'm only the blogger, so I typed the credits as written.  Well, except in the case of Jesus Christ Is Born Today, because "Text and music: Roy Ringwald, to a 16th century carol tune" makes no sense at all, because I can see writing a text to a tune, but not writing music to a tune.  How do you write music to music?

Mind you, they're not talking about a tune "based on" another tune, which might make sense.  Or an arrangement of a tune.  They're talking about music "to" a tune.  But you didn't come here to listen to me obsess, so.... Bottom line--these are high art performances, and this blog doesn't typically go there (high art).  This is many levels above your usual choral holiday effort, and I wonder what happened to the "complete music scores" promised on the front (the back jacket is blank)?  Kind of makes one think that this came as a package--a promotional sort of package.  That would explain the title of the third track--The Alfred Burt Carols, Set 1.  It was probably the name of a collection sold by these folks.

"Produced to assist church, school and community choir directors in the selection of new music."  Right--Shawnee's.

Oh, and we get a selection by Alec Templeton (words and music)!  And Roy Ringwald sounded familiar, and then I realized he worked as a composer and arranger for Fred Waring, among many others.  I knew him from Waring.







DOWNLOAD: The Shawnee Choir--The Most Wonderful Time of the Year (1973)






It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year (Pola-Wyle)
Christ Child, Christ Child (Marian Chaplin)
The Alfred Burt Carols, Set 1
Antiphonal Gloria (Houston Bright)
Unto Us a Child Is Born (Text: Isaiah 9:6, Music: Nancy M. Roberts)
Sweet Mary, Guard Thy Precious Child (English Text: Walter Ehret, Music: American Folk Song)
A Babe is Born in Bethlehem--Text: Latin, 14th cent., Music: Paul C. Van Dyke
Nowell Sing We--Text: From two 15th century carols, Music: Richard Dirksen
Alleluia, Sing Noel (Alec Templeton)
God Is With Us (Maxcine Woodbridge Posegate)
Christmas Calypso--Text and Music: (See label scan)
White Christmas (Irving Berlin, arr. Roy Ringwald)



Lee

Frühling in Wien

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Frühling in Wien (Robert Stolz) 25 cm Odeon 311726 Matrix Nr. xBe 2688 Bernhard BÖTEL - Tenor (& Orch.) rec. ca. IX.1921 On the other side: Liebesnacht Odeon 311739 Genre: Wienerlied.

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