Samantha Jones

The distinctive voice of Sam Jones singing her heart out with 12 tracks...She definatly should have been more successful than she was....Another great L/P from Bob thanks !!

3. This I Find Is Beautiful

Mel Torme

Some Live performance now from "The Velvet Fog" himself from December 1954 !.....He also recorded again at the Crescendo in Feb 1957...the tracks below are from the 1954 performance..
there is a CD available that has both dates on and it contains 41 Tracks !...

1. From This Moment On
2. That Old Black Magic 
3. Get Out Of Town
4. Goody Goody
5. Love Is Here To Stay
6. Blue Moon
7. Old Devil Moon

1. Get Happy
2. Mountain Greenery
3. The Country Fair
4. The Christmas Song
5. Jeepers Creepers
6. You're Driving me crazy
7. Bernies Tune

  2. Mountain Greenery

Frank Sinatra

Some classy songs !!!.....The back sleeve says it all !!!

 
1. The Coffee Song

Mario Lanza

The glorious voice of Mario Lanza not a "Lost" voice but a well missed one !!

5. I'll See You Again

Joan Regan

Here we have nostalgia by the bucketfull !!...a singer from the 50's and if my memory is working on full power her voice was likened to "Gracie Fields " so that gives you an idea of the quality of her voice.

1. It Could Happen To You
2. When I Grow To Old To Dream
3. I Know Why And So Do You
4. Iv'e Got A Feeling Your Fooling
5. Deep In A Dream
6. Home

1. Sinner or Saint
2. That Old Feeling 
3. All The Things You Are
4. Someone To Watch OverMe
5. Never In a Million Years
6. For All We Know

3. I Know Why And So Do You

Skeeter Davis

This one and the two below come all the way from New York via Johns record store... so thanks John for all the contributions to this Blog in 2017 !!....And when the weather gets a bit warmer and not too windy I'll get the carpet out for one or two visits....cheers John !!

7. Gonna Get Along Without You Now

Clinton Ford

How's about some Razz-a-ma Tazz !!.....some great swingin' tracks that moves along like a runaway train !!...and a great voice !!...including "Fanlight Fanny" a knockout track !! and a great different L/P..well worth a download !!...If you like different & quirky!!

 Clinton Ford (4 November 1931 – 21 October 2009) was an English popular singer of the 1950s and 1960s.He began his recording career as Clinton Ford with the Oriole record label, changing his name because his own did not fit some of his American songs. He performed skiffle in the Backwoods Skiffle Group and recorded some unsuccessful singles with the Hallelujah Skiffle Group. He appeared at the Royal Albert Hall, and with Ken Dodd on Dodd's television shows. He also appeared in Stars and Garters, The Billy Cotton Band Show, and The Good Old Days.Ford had his first success with a cover of the Red Foley song "Old Shep", which appeared on the chart in 1959. Ford donated all his royalties from this recording to the Guide Dogs for the Blind. It was the only version of the song ever to chart in the UK. His next singles were "Too Many Beautiful Girls" followed by "Fanlight Fanny" which was his most successful single, reaching 22 in the UK Singles Chart in March 1962. His album Fanlight Fanny (1962) reached number 16 in the UK Albums Chart. He toured with Kenny Ball & His Jazzmen and played at the Cavern Club in Liverpool around the time that the Beatles were starting to become popular.

 1. Everthing Is Peaches Down in Georgia
2. And he'd say Oo-La-La- Wee-Wee
3. Sleepy Time Girl
4. I Wouldn't Leave My Wooden Hut For You
5. A Little White Gardenia
6. What More Can I Say
7. Fanlight Fanny

1. Where Did Robinson Crusoe Go With Friday On A Saturday
2. Louise
3. What A Little Moonlight Can Do
4. Yaaka Hula Hickey Dula
5. Please
6. Huggin' And a Chalkin'
7. My Little Bimbo

1. Where Did Robinson Crusoe Go With Friday On A Saturday Night

Shirley Bassey

So now we have a "Dame" so we are in good company and "Posh" with it !
Dame Shirley at her best ! doing the title song with a slight "Disco " beat !!

1. You Take My Heart Away
2. Perfect Strangers
3. Sometimes
4. This Ones For You
5. Silly Love Songs
6. Stargazer

1. Can't Help Falling In Love
2. I Let You Let Me Down Again
3. If
4. Come In From The Rain
5. I Need To be In Love
6. C'est La Vie

  1. You Take My Heart Away

Ken Dodd

This is a very early incarntion of the then singer "Ken Dodd", don't know what came first Ken the singer or Ken the comedian...So to those who don't know who he is then the Photo above is the singer and the one below is the comedian !!

 Sir Kenneth Arthur Dodd, OBE (born 8 November 1927) is an English comedian, singer-songwriter and actor, identified by his unruly hair and protruding teeth, his red, white and blue "tickling stick" and his upbeat greeting of "How tickled I am!". He also created the characters of the Diddy Men ("diddy" being an informal British word for "small").
 Dodd has had many recording hits, charting on 19 occasions in the UK Top 40, including his first single "Love Is Like a Violin" (1960), produced on Decca Records by Alex Wharton, which charted at number 8 (UK), and his song "Tears" (Columbia), which topped the UK charts for five weeks in 1965, selling over a million copies. At the time it was the UK's biggest selling single by a solo artist, and remains one of the UK's biggest selling singles of all time. 

6. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone

Stereo 99.VA.

 Here we go again with the record company's trying to get people to buy more records by putting together tracks from different L/P's....a good sales idea and it works !!!

1. Happy Music...James Last Orchestra
2. Pata Pata...Robert Delgado Orchestra
3. Guantanamera...Ladi Geisler
4. Those Were The Days...Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra
5. Lara's Theme From Dr Zhivago...T W Ardy
6. Moonlight And Roses...Kai Warner Singers

1. O Cangaceiro...James Last Orchestra
2. Strangers In The Night...Max Greger Orchestra
3. Soul Limbo...Roberto Delgado Orchestra
4. Delilah...John Scott Orchestra
5. This Guy's in Love With You...Bert kaempfert Orchestra
6. The Legend of Xanadu

1. O Cangaceiro

Vic Damone.

Back home now in "The Computer Room"  found that "Carpet"in the corner of the store so I'm a bit wind swept at the moment !!....Thanks "John" for the L/P's hope I remembered to lock up...anyway here is some Re-Ups for you to enjoy once more..The cover say's MONO but this recording is in STERO !!

1. Strange Enchantment
2. The Hawaiian Wedding Song
3. Shangri La
4. Humming Waters
5. Poinciana
6. Flamingo

7. Beyond The Reef 
8. You're Lovable
9. The Moon Of Manakoora 
10. Bali Ha'i
11. Forevermore
12. Ebb Tide

7. Beyond The Reef

Ray Conniff Singers

 

Ray Conniff's Singer's Circa 1968....doing the song's from the late 60's...

So now here is a re-post Double Bill of the great Ray Conniff Singers !!!

1. Music To Watch Girls By
2. Yesterday
3. Something Stupid
4. It Must Be Him
5. A Man And A Woman

1. Release Me
2. There's a Kind Of Hush
3. What The World Needs Now Is Love
4. Don't Sleep In The Subway
5. Up Up And Away
6. The Impossiblw Dream 

7. There's A Kinda Of A Hush

Ray Conniff Singers.

 The Ray Conniff Singers doing justice to some 70's songs....It's a cool L/P and "Ray's" Singers are still one of the best on record....But I miss that "shuffle beat" that is featured on his earlier recordings !!

1. I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing 
2. Baby I'm A Want You
3. Gypsies Tramps And Thieves
4. Theme From Summer Of "42"
5. Go Away Little Girl
6. Brand New Key

1. I've Found Someone Of My Own
2. Imagine
3.An Old Fashioned Love Song
4. Hey Girl
5. Cherish

5. Go Away little girl

Ted Heath And His Music

Next few posts are courtesy of "Ye Olde Record Store" New York via John so we will start with some Big Band Sounds and carry on in the jazz mode !!...Thanks John !!

1. I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face
2. The Rain In Spain

1. On The Street Were You Live
2. I Could Have Danced All Night 
3. With A Little Bit Of Luck

4. I Could Have Danced All Night

David Cassidy

One from over the pond now Via john's record store !

1. Being Together
2. I Just Wanna make You Happy
3. Could It Be Forever
4. Blind Hope
5. I Lost  my Chance
6. My First Night Alone Without You

1. We Could Never Be Friends
2. Where Is The Morning
3. I Am A Clown
4. Cherish
5. Ricky's Tune

 
 

  1. We Could Never Be Friends

Dave Mason & Cass Elliot.

When I saw this L/P in a Junk Shop I thought I may as well get it it only cost about 50p....I was disappointed tho' "Cass" only sings one song on her own and the rest of the tracks I assume that she is singing with Dave Mason who incidentally I hadn't heard of !!.....Isn't it strange that it is only when "Cass Elliot" sings on her own that you get that rich unique sounding voice...when she was with "The Mama's And The Papa's" and on this L/P her voice seems to blend in and lose that uniqueness....The L/P as a whole is a run of the mill production nothing exiting is happening which is a pity because there is not much of  "Cass Elliot's" recordings available !!!
And Isn't that a great picture of "Cass"!!!!!

 1. Walk To The Point
2. On And On
3. To be Free
4. Here We Go Again
5. Pleasing You

1. Sit And Wonder
2. Something To Make You Happy
3. To Much Truth To Much Love 
4. Next To You
5. Glittering Facade

4 Here We Go Again

Richard Marino & Orchestra

Here's a great L/P to test your stereo system...The stereo effects are "Magic" as in the title..A must for the Stereo enthusiasts !!!

 From the inside cover: Richard Marino, the man whose baton becomes the wand for conjuring up the Magic Beat, brings to this album a rich background in classical and popular music.
Beginning his career as a violinist, Marino later traded his bow for a baton and has turned his attentions mainly to conducting. He has conducted the Glendale, California and El Paso, Texas symphony orchestras; has been associated with radio and television as a musical director and has still found time to build a fine reputation as an arranger and orchestrator.

From Billboard - February 13, 1961: This is one of the first albums in Liberty's new Premier "sound" series and a might exciting one it is, too. Smart, exciting arrangements played by the large ork make this album for stereo fans and hi-fi bugs.

1. Fever
2. High Noon 
3. Ziganette
4. Lover
5. Rots O Ruck
6. Colonal Bogey

1. The Trolly Song
2. Bagdad Express
3. Lisbon Antigua
4. Seventy Six Trombones
5. Hot Sombrero

6. Poor People Of Paris

            5. Hot Sombrero   

Dana

In 1970 at the "Eurovision Song Contest"the winning song was "All Kind Of Everything" sung by the 18 year old above singer !...Don't know whether this is her first L/P. I should think not as this was recorded in 1975...and she certainly looks different on this cover that she did on the Contest !
The tracks have a country and western feel about them.... 

1. Please Tell Him That I Said Hello
2. Dear Madam
3. Country Pie
4. Are You Still mad At Me
5. Don't let Me Know 
6. I Love How You Love me

1. Rivers Are For Boats
2. Love Me While Your Young
3. Theres Nothing You Can Do To Change me
4. The Crying Game
5. Darling Come Home Soon
6. The Goodbye Song

         6. I Love How You Love Me

Cat Stevens

The year is 1967 and this is the first L/P of Cat years before he became Yusef !!...nostalgia at it's best !!....His style seemed to changed with the name or was it just the fact that he had got older !
some great songs sung great !!

        3. Here Comes My Baby