Mel Torme & Buddy Rich.

Just got another box of goodies from friends...so here is the first one !..and there are some more greats later !!....Mel's Smooth voice with the driving drums of Buddy Rich...that's something !! 

Also a great tribute to "The First Lady of Jazz"...ELLA !!

1. When I Found You
2. Here's That Rainy Day
3. Blues In The Night

1. Bluesette
2. You Are The Sunshine Of My Life
3. I Wont Last a Day Without You
4. Lady be Good

4. Lady Be Good

Dana Valery

Another female voice that I have not heard of....so off once again To Wikipedia and found out that she is Italian hence the inclusion of the Italian sung songs that are included every other track....Voice ok nothing spectacular just a pleasant set of songs sung well...


 Dana Valery Catalano (born 1944, Codogno, Italy, as Fausta Dana Galli) is an Italian-born singer, actress, and television performer who started her career in the entertainment industry at the age of 16 in Johannesburg, South Africa where her family emigrated from Italy in 1947. She has performed on television, radio, Broadway and in live concert performances worldwide, including major cities such as New York, London, Monte Carlo, Las Vegas, Atlantic City and Johannesburg. She is the sister of the late singer and actor Sergio Franchi.

10. Ritornerai

Johnny Mathis.

 An early 70's live performance of Johnny's from Las Vagas doing most of his hits and then some !...It is a double L/P and as with most live performances not any break between the tracks so I've recorded them as they are played....

 Side 1.                                                                  Side 2.

1. In The Morning                                              1. Where Do I Begin (Love Story)
2. They Long To Be Close To You                    2. April In Paris
3. We've Only Just Begun                                 3. Day In Day Out
4. Dreamy / Misty
5. Come Runnin'

Side 3.                                                                 Side 4.

1. Twelfth Of Never                                          1. I Got Love
2. Wild Is The Wind                                         2. Maria
3. When Sunny Gets Blue                                3. If We Only Have Love
4. It's Not For Me To Say
5. Love Theme Romeo & Juliet
6. Tonight
7. Dulcinea
8. The Impossible Dream
9. Wonderful Wonderful
10. And her Mother Came Too

Don McLean.

The lyrics to any Don McLean song are well worth taking note and listening to they make perfect sense and do tell a story if you listen to the tracks on this L/P they all seem to follow on and tell a story...I supose you could call it a concept album....he definatly has a way with words...

 1. Winter Has Me In Its Grip
2. La La Love You
3. Homeless Brother
4. Sunshine Life For Me
5. The Legend Of Andrew McCrew

1. Wonderful Baby
2. You Have Lived
3. Great Big Man
4. Tangled
5. Crying In The Chapel
6 Did You Know

5. The Legend of Andrew McCrew

Julie Andrews & Carol Burnett At Carnegie Hall

 

This sounds like Julie & Carol were having a ball !!....If you like Live Concerts then you will love this one ....Cheers John !

 

Joan Regan & Edmund Hockridge

We are getting some real rare L/P's from John's Record Store in New York and I should think that this is one of them !...Two 50's singers  dueting and doing their own thing !

8. You're Awful

Patsy Ann Noble

This selection of 45's comes via New York...I wonder how an Australian Singer and an English singer below 45's got there !...glad they did otherwise you wouldn't get to know their music !! (that is if you decide to give it a download ) !!...Thanks  John for these rare nostalgic 45's !

Patricia Ann Ruth Noble (born 3 February 1944) is an Australian singer and actress. Initially performing as Patsy Ann Noble, she was a teenage pop singer in the early 1960s, with regular appearances on the music and variety television series Bandstand. In November 1961, she released her biggest hit single, "Good Looking Boy", which reached the Top 10 in Melbourne and Top 20 in Sydney.

Noble rose to fame as a teenage singing star in the 1960s under the name Patsy Ann Noble. Her singing career was encouraged by Brian Henderson, the compere of the Australian version of Bandstand, where she made regular appearances. She was signed to the Australian HMV Records and released her first single "Like I'm in Love" / "I Love You So Much It Hurts" in November 1960.

1. Accidents Will Happen
2. Green Eyed People
3. I love You so Much It Hurts

4.  He Tells Me
5. Kooky Little Paradise 
6. Private Property
7. It's Better To Cry Today
8. Busy Lips
9. I Did Nothing Wrong
10. I Fall To Pieces
11. If You Wanna be more Than Friends 
12. Heartbreak Avenue
13. Don't You Ever Change Your Mind
14. Better late Than Never
15. Ordinary love
16. Like I'm In Love

  12. Heartbreat Avenue

Marion Ryan

 

In the land of the 45's we have a selection of songs from the 50's

 She was once called "the Marilyn Monroe of popular song", Marion Ryan was a pop singer of the 1950s in the early years of British Independent Television. Her song "Love Me Forever" peaked at number five on the UK Singles Chart in 1958. She was the regular singer in the popular musical quiz Spot the Tune on Granada Television for seven years from 1956, with a total of 209 half-hour programmes.

1. Too Much 
2. An Occasional Man
3. Sixteen Reasons
4. Mangos
5. Love Me Forever
6. Its You That I love
7. Make The Man Love Me 
8. Jo Jo The Dog Faced Man
9. Stairway Of Love
10. Better Use Your Head 

3. Sixteen Reasons

Tony Bennett.

 Here's one of Tony's many L/P's from the 60's 1966 to be exact....and if my memory is right two of the tracks where recorded in England and released as a single the tracks I am talking about are "The Very Thought Of You" and "Sleepy Time Gal"and produced by "Vic Lewis".....The rest of the L/P is a mixture of standards and themes from films overall its a good set of tracks and if you like Tony style and voice you will be pleased with it !!

 1. A Time For Love
2. The Very Thought Of You
3. Trapped In The Web Of Love
4. My Funny Valentine
5. In The Wee Small Hours
6. Yesterdays

1. Georgia Rose
2. The Shining Sea
3. Sleepy Time Gal
4. Touch The Earth
5. I'll Only Miss Her When I Think Of Her

3. Sleepy Time Gal

Johnny Mathis.

 Year 1975....Johnny Mathis voice definatly at it's peak on this L/P one of his better ones... once again the choice of songs go a long way in making a good one... can't say much about it except that if you like Johnny then go for it !!!...

1. One Day In Your Life
2. Stardust
3. What I Did For Love
4. Midnight Blue
5. The Greatest Gift

1. 99 Miles From L.A.
2. Hurry Mother Nature
3. Feelings
4. That's All She Wrote
5. Solitaire

3. Feelings

The Sound Of The Brill Building..VA

Brill Building (also known as Brill Building pop or the Brill Building sound) is a subgenre of pop music that took its name from the Brill Building in New York City, where numerous teams of professional songwriters penned material for girl groups and teen idols during the early 1960s. 

The music conceived at the Brill Building was more sophisticated than other pop styles of the time, combining contemporary sounds with classic Tin Pan Alley songwriting. Productions often featured orchestras and bands with large rhythm and guitar sections, while its lyrics focused on idealized romance and adolescent anxieties, only rarely exploring more mature themes.

 

        15. I Love How You Love Me

      30. First Taste Of Love

Ella Fitzgerald

Who but Ella can take a silly corny juvenile song and turn it into something great as she does with the featured track !!...and also the other tracks are pure Ella !

1. Sweet Georgia Brown
2. Whisper Not
3. I Said No
4. Thanks For The Memory
5. Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most
6. Old Macdonald

1. Time After Time
2. You've Changed
3. I've Got Your Number
4. Lover Man
5. Wives And Lovers
6. Matchmaker

6. Old Macdonald

Jacques Loussier Trio

Fancy some "Bach" (Johann Sebastian) then lend an ear to this Concert !..I guess it wont be everybody's cup of tea but if you want something different then have a listen you might enjoy it !!...I did !!

 
5. Fantasy In C Minor

Johnny Mathis.

Here's Johnny doing what he does best with some classic songs of the 70's....His best tracks are the upbeat ones !

 1. Play Me
2. Alone Again
3. Where Is The Love
4. Goodbye To Love
5. Too Young

1. Make It Easy On Yourself
2. Lean on Me
3. How Can I Be Sure
4. Run To Me
5. Song Sung Blue
6. He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother

7. Lean On Me

Johnny Dankworth & His Orchestra

This one will definitely please all the serious Jazz lovers and Big Band Fans some great solo's on most of the instruments of the band and it certainly one hell of a jam session on "Take The A Train !"...Interesting reading the notes on the back sleeve will give you more details about this....and the talking explanation of "Itinerary Of An Orchestra" is really something !!

1. Adios
2. Jersey Bounce
3. Take The A Train

1. Explanation Of Itinerary 
2. Itinerary Of An Orchestra 

1. Adios

Andy Stewart

So Christmas is now over !!....next boozy celebration is celebrating the old year out and the new year 2023 in so in the Scottish tradition let "Andy Stewart" lend a helping hand !!

Sooooooooooo I'm 8 days late !...never mind hope everyone had a great New Years Eve !!

1. Nae Sae Bad
2. By The Lochside
3. Kissin' In The Dark
4. My Hameland
5. Bonnie Lass Of Fyvie
6. Cailin Mo Ruin-Sa (The Maid That I Adore) 

1. The Heart of Midlothian
2. The Road And Miles To Dundee
3. The Road To Dundee
4. That's The Reason Noo I Wear The Kilt
5. When You and I Were Young Maggie
6. The Bonnie Lass O' Dundee

4. That's The Reason Noo I Wear The Kilt

Johnny Mathis.

First track first side "Woman Woman" is one of Johnny's best tracks....Here he is singing a selection of not well known songs with the exception of "Feel Like Makin' Love"...and doing it in his own unique style...I usualy like him better singing uptempo songs but the slow ones on this one are great...it's from 1974 and I recon his voice was at it's peak....not that there is anything wrong with his today's voice....but as with everyone's voice even the ones who can't sing do change as you get older !!!

 1. Woman Woman
2. Sail On White Moon
3. It's Gone
4. House For Sale
5. Feel Like Makin' Love

1. Memories Don't Leave Like People Do
2. Strangers In Dark Corners
3. Wendy
4. The Heart Of A Woman
5. The Way We Planned It

5. Feel Like Making Love