Sheila Buxton

This is definitely a "Blast From The Past"!!!..I remember her voice from the radio all those years ago the 50's to be precise !....and here's what I found about her from the Net !!! boy was she a busy girl !!

  Sheila, a Lancashire lass born the early thirties and daughter of concert singer William Buxton, started her working life in a leather handbag factory, while singing evenings with the semi-pro. Phil Phillips Band at the Plaza Ballroom Swinton, Manchester and the Lido in nearby Sale.
 For much of 1958 Sheila was to be heard on either radio or T.V. almost daily.  Midday on Mondays it was 'Make way for Music', Tuesday afternoons 'Melody on the Line', 'On Tour' on Thursdays and 'Saturday Night on the Light', all with Alyn Ainsworth and the BBC Northern Dance Orchestra. Later Saturday evenings it was over to ITV`s 'Late Night Show'. She was also resident vocalist on ITV`s 'Rainbow Room' with the Jerry Allen Trio and radio`s 'Laughter Incorporated' on which she joined funsters Morecambe & Wise.  Sheila later had her own TV series 'Little Miss Music'.  With her shows originating from both Manchester and London, Sheila was no stranger on the overnight train between these two cities.
   In early 1959 Sheila changed her recording company to the new Top Rank label, where she continued to produce some pleasant but quickly forgotten discs.  The year brought another film appearance, playing a night club scene in 'The Shakedown', recording the title song.   Four 'Sheila Buxton Shows' were broadcast by Children's Hour during October 1959, on which she sang and talked with presenter Judith Chalmers and 'Make Way For Music' returned for a 21 week series that ended on Christmas Day.  During the year Sheila played several weeks in variety, closing the decade playing lead role in 'Cinderella' at Blackpool Winter Gardens with The Dallas Boys and Jack Storey.

So here are 4 tracks which I assume are Two 45's !!....Ive' been rumaging around John's record store for this one and the couple below !!...Ta John !!

1. Shakedown
2. Hurry Home To Me
3. A Tear Fell
4. The Inbetween Age

3. A Tear Fell

Vikki Carr

The Way Of Today is 1966 !! and...Florencia Bisenta de Casillas-Martinez Cardona, 
Belts out some songs of that time in her crystal clear voice !!

1. Can I Trust You
2. Anyone who Had A Heart
3. My Prayer
4. My Heart Reminds me
5. You Don't Have To Say You Love Me

1. Nowhere Man
2. If You Love Me
3. Strangers In The Night
4. I Will Wait For You
5. My World Is Empty Without You
6. I Hear A Rhapsody

3. My Prayer

Susan Maughan

Not a sign of "Bobby's Girl" !!..just a selection of standard swingin' song's !!!..that lives up to its L/P title !!....and she's good at Swingin' !!!!


1. A lot Of Livin' To Do
2. If I Were a Bell
3. The Lady's In love With You
4. Poppa Don't Preach To Me
5. When Lights Are Low
6. Just one Of Those Things

1. The Gypsy In My Soul
2. Old Devil Moon
3. It Might as Well Be Spring
4. Thing's Are Swingin'
5. Ca C'est L'Amour
6. Gone With The Wind

1. A Lot Of Livin' To Do

Ann Richards

We now have another lesser known voice...and its a good one !!

 Ann Richards (October 1, 1935 – April 1, 1982) was an American jazz singer and the wife of pianist Stan Kenton.

She was born Margaret Ann Borden on October 1, 1935 in San Diego, California. Richards began taking singing lessons at ten and was self-taught on the piano. She appeared on the West Coast music scene in 1954. She had a short stint with Charlie Barnet's band, and was later brought to the attention of Stan Kenton by songwriter Eddie Beal. Richards was with Kenton's band for a few months in 1955, and the couple married.
Kenton helped her secure a contract with Capitol Records. She was paired with conductor Brian Farnon and arranger Warren Baker for her debut album, I'm Shooting High (1958).
And Here It Is !!!!!

11. Lullaby Of Broadway

Fats Waller

You can't beat a bit of thumping piano and the distinctive voice of Mr FW !!..

 
6. Sweet Sue

Malcolm Roberts

Another dip into the repertoire of Malcolm Roberts...I guess that he should have been more successful than he was...But the record business and the promotion of artists in the 60's / 70's was nothing like it is today !!...and of course the "Music Scene" is forever changing !!

 
4. Laura

Cilla Black

Is It Love? is Cilla Black's 1965 first US album (Capitol (S)T 2308). Originally the ballad, "Is It Love?," written by her future husband and manager, Bobby Willis, was recorded for the Ferry Cross the Mersey LP and film of the same name. Instead "Is It Love?" became the title track of her first and only album for Capitol Records.

1. Is It Love

2. I'm Not Alone Anymore

3. You've Lost that Lovin' Feeling

4. Goin' Out Of My Head

5. Whatcha Gonna Do 'Bout It

6. You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To

1. Love Letters

2. Heatwave

3. Ol' Man River

4. This Empty Place

5. Anyone Who Had A Heart

      5. Whatcha Gonna Do 'Bout It

Enoch Light &The Brass Menagerie

A bit of "Enoch" always goes down well !!...and we have a "New Stereo 4" process !!!....I would guess that it would be the same process as "Decca's Phase 4 Stereo"....can't seem to see a date on the sleeve but I would guess the 60's !!.....Oooop's Wrong !!....All you electronic experts out there here is the definition !!!...It's Gobbly-Gook to me !!!!...but it makes interesting reading !!!
Oh Yea ! there are some great arrangements and sounds on this L/P !! and plenty of loud "Brass" !!

 
Stereo-4, also known as EV (from Electro-Voice) or EV-4, was a matrix 4-channel quadraphonic sound system developed in 1970 by Leonard Feldman and Jon Fixler.
The system was heavily promoted by RadioShack stores in the USA, and there were quite a few companies that released albums encoded in this format. It is said it was the first commercial quadraphonic matrix system in the market. In America it was the first commercial quadraphonic system.
EV used different sets of coefficients for encoding and decoding. Most other systems have decode coefficients that mirror the encode coefficients. Therefore the EV Stereo-4 matrix was something in between a 2-2-4 derived system and a 4-2-4 matrix system. EV decoders were sometimes used to produce pseudo 4-channel effects from 2-channel stereo recordings.
The original EV system was compatible with the Dynaquad DY system, and is closely related to Sansui's QS Regular Matrix system. The EV and QS records are very close to each other—it would take an expert to tell them apart by ear.

1. Blowin' In The Wind
2. I'm Gonna Make You Love Me 
3. My Favourite Things
4. Wichita Lineman
5. The Fool On The Hill
6. I've Gotta Be Me

1. Touch Me
2. California Dreaming
3. Both Sides Now
4. Happily Ever After
5. Put Your Head On My Shoulder
6. Soulful Strut

     3. My Favourite Things

The Stan Tracy Quartet

We are now in the land of the "Jazz" mode !!  for a while so you Jazz lovers are in for a treat !!


 Jazz Suite Inspired by Dylan Thomas's "Under Milk Wood" is an album by the English pianist Stan Tracey and his quartet, that was released by the Columbia subsidiary of EMI in 1965. The music was written in response to the 1953 BBC radio play Under Milk Wood, by the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. It has often been cited as one of the best jazz recordings made in the United Kingdom.

In a review of the album for BBC Music Magazine, Chris Parker wrote: "Tracey’s startlingly percussive, eccentric piano style and his close rapport with tenorman Bobby Wellins do bring Thelonious Monk and Charlie Rouse to mind, but the cogent pungency of the compositions (in catchy mid-tempo tunes or in haunting ballads like ‘Starless and Bible Black’ and the title-track) is all his own"

3. I Lost My Step In Nantucket

Ted Heath & His Music

Another Ted Heath Phase 4 studio recording !...not the driving band of his concert days but nevertheless a good set of recordings !!..It should please the Big Band Fans !!

1. Do-Re-Mi

Bee Gees.

 Here's a selection of tracks over 2 L/P's...The BG's in their Disco moods....

1. Jive Talkin'
2. Night Fever
3. Tragedy
4. You Should Be Dancing
5. Stayin' Alive

1. How Deep Is Your Love
2. Love So Right
3. Too Much Heaven
4. Our Love Don't Throw It all Away
5. Fanny

1. If I Can't Have You
2. You Stepped Into my Life
3. Love Me
4. More Than a Woman
5. Rest Your Love On Me

1. Nights On Broadway
2. Spirits having Flown
3. Love You Inside And Out
4. Winds Of Change
5. Children Of The World

2. Night Fever

ABBA

Everybody's favourite Swedes !!!.....thought I'd better bring the Blog up to date even tho' its the 70's !!!... and we are 50 years lagging behind !!!...Ta Bob !!

                                           

     8. The Piper