High Steppers

This album is a wild ride and for me a mixed bag.

01 - They Are Valiant - Boris Alexander- The Red Army Ensemble

02 - Under the Oak Tree - Boris Alexander- The Red Army Ensemble

03 - Procession of the Sardar, from Caucasian Sketches - Siegfried Landau- Music For Westchester Symphony Orchestra

04 - Credo - Sergei Horbenko- The Black Sea Cossacks

05 - Kalinka - Nicolai Tripolitoff- The Cossacks of the Volga

06 - Polovtsian Dances, from Prince Igor - Siegfried Köhler- Philharmonia Hungarica

07 - Meadowland - Boris Alexander- The Red Army Ensemble

08 - Song of the Volta Boatmen - Sergei Horbenko- The Black Sea Cossacks

09 - Cortege, from Mlada - Richard Kapp- Philharmonia Hungarica

10 - Nightingale Song - Boris Alexander- The Red Army Ensemble

11 - Legend of the 12 Robbers - Sergei Horbenko- The Black Sea Cossacks

12 - Nights of Moscow - Nicolai Tripolitoff- The Cossacks of the Volga

13 - Along the Volga - Sergei Horbenko- The Black Sea Cossacks

14 - Sabre Dance, from Gayenne - Sandor Rekai- Bregenz Festival Orchestra

This 1992 release is music only a Cossack could love?!? At least some of it—the tracks with overwhelmingly schmaltzy male chorus, sometimes overridden by fruity solo vocals.

Cossacks!

See you Monday.

  

More Tales from the Table Round

I don’t know if these selections are truly “medieval music” as the tray inlay proclaims, but the project is indeed enchanting, in a low-key sort of way. Though after awhile it becomes a lot of the same. I could do without the synth-voice reverbs I heard in Tracks 1 and 10.

01. La Magdalena (3:48)

02. Bransle De Poitou (1:28)

03. Pavane (1:40)

04. Pierre Attaignant Suite 1 (3:17)

05. Allons Faire Nos Barbes (2:15)

06. Allemande and Tanz (4:47)

07. Bransle Medley (4:27)

08. Five Villancicos (4:52)

09. Allemande (2:36)

10. Kurtzweilige Teutsche Lieder (4:53)

11. Pierre Attaignant Suite 2 (4:19)

12. Pierre Attaignant Suite 3 (4:35)

Songs of the Round Table

It’s my guess that the “Apollonia Orchestra” is either a bunch of studio musicians, or a guy with a talented synth.

See you Thursday, knights and knighties!

  

Hear the Legends

I probably bought this 1988 cassette at Starwinds in OKC.

It's pretty cool.

01. Avalon (3:19)

02. Ynis Gutrin (3:17)

03. Merlin the Magician (3:55)

04. Morgan le Fay (3:33)

05. Sacred Wells (3:46)

06. The Lady of the Lake (3:35)

07. Beltane Fire (3:12)

08. Vale of No Return (4:19)

09. Broceliande Forest (4:36)

10. Round Table (2:46)

11. The Crescent Moon (3:53)

12. King Arthur's Dream (2:59)

It's a great combo of lilting, dreamy, and cosmic.

Legends of Avalon

See you Monday, fellow legendeers!

   

Not for the High Strung

This is a 1999 cassette. And what a chore it was to dub for you, my friends!

Every track stopped abruptly.  There was studio noise at the beginning and end of the tracks.  I added some ending reverb and fadeout to every track.  As far as I can determine, this is the correct tracklist:

01. Alman (1:29)

02. Las Vacas (2:04)

03. Greensleeves (3:00)

04. Go from My Window (1:41)

05. Bianco Fiore (1:09)

06. Galliard (2:23)

07. Minuet (1:19)

08. Sarabande 1 (2:15)

09. Sarabande 2 (2:58)

10. Prelude in Dm (1:46)

11. Etude in Em (1:39)

12. Etude in C (1:06)

13. Etude in Am (2:38)

14. Etude in A (2:22)

15. Andantino (2:12)

16. Lagrima (1:42)

17. Waltz (2:02)

18. El Noy de la Mare (2:23)

19. Etude in Em (2:53)

20. The White Beach (3:11)

This release's track listing from his archived online catalog is incomplete and wrong.

Selections from Five Centuries 

For further info, try:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Christian_Hammer

or

https://web.archive.org/web/20031130005137/http://sircharleshammer.com/index.html

And that's it for today, campers! See you Thursday.

 

Out of the Twilight

This is my own assembly, from several sources, of the amazing score to this 1983 film.

01. The Midnight Special performed by Creedence Clearwater Revival (edit) 2:37

02. Twilight Zone Theme (Burgess Meredith voiceover) 0:40

TIME OUT

03. Nights Are Forever (performed by Jennifer Warnes) 3:36

04. Time Change - Questions - The Ledge 4:03

05. Anesthesia (performed by 213) 3:02

06. The KKK 2:34

07. Purple Haze (performed by Jimi Hendrix) 3:00

08. Yellow Star 1:21

KICK THE CAN

09. Harp and Love (performed by Dorothy Remsen) 1:27

10. Weekend Visit 1:32

11. Kick the Can 0:36

12. Night Games 1:54

13. Young Again - Take Me with You - A New Guest 10:09

IT’S A GOOD LIFE

14. I Remember - The House 2:30

15. Mouse Wreckers (Carl Stalling) 2:12

16. Bimbo's Initiation I (Sammy Timberg) 0:25

17. The Picture 0:34

18. Bimbo's Initiation II (Sammy Timberg) 0:30

19. The Sister 0:36

20. Cartoon Collage (Carl Stalling et al) 4:57

21. Cartoon Monster 3:06

22. That's All, Ethel 1:46

23. Cartoon Music 1:25

24. Teach Me - No More Tricks 3:54

NIGHTMARE AT 20,000 FEET

25. Cabin Fever - Nervous Pills 2:37

26. No Smoking 2:07

27. On the Wing 1:20

28. A Face in the Window 2:09

29. Hungry Monster - Engine Failure 1:36

30. Twilight Zone Theme - End Credits (Overture) (Marius Constant - Jerry Goldsmith) 5:55

I edited CCR's song to match the way it appears in the opening sequence, edited some versions with and without voiceovers, and also included a "Cartoon Collage" assembled by a wizard from the defunct Final Fantasy Shrine Forum.

Jerry Goldsmith was a great choice to score this film, since he'd worked on the original series.  it's a dadgum shame that the "Time Out" segment was scarred by death and scandal.

Twilight Zone - The Movie

Hope you enjoy some remimiscences of this fun experience.

  

See you Monday!

  

No "Sitar-zan" Jokes Please

Track 1 is recorded live, including coughing and applause. Track 2 – about halfway in, it starts sounding more and more like Chinese music!

01. Raga Malkauns (34:48)

02. Suite for Two Sitars and Indian Folk Ensemble, Part 1 (16:03)

03. Suite for Two Sitars and Indian Folk Ensemble, Part 2 (9:07)

04. Meditational Raga of Northern India (6:51)

Flute & Sitar Music of India

You decide how Indian it is!  See you Thursday.

  

A Guitar Serenade

I found this on a thrift-store sojourn.  Looks like it was burned and printed via a home set-up.  It’s charming and brief.

01. Mangore - Vals (4:17)

02. Berkeley - Sonatina (4:58)

03. Brouwer - Afro-Cuban Lullaby (3:03)

04. Zeromski - Ponteado (3:16)

05. Madureira - Romancario (2:24)

If you know anything about the artist, let me know.

Classical Guitar Selections

See you Monday.

  

Rated "X"-stasy

It may or may not make YOU feel ecstatic.

But certainly NOT static!

01. Wings of Love (7:18)

02. Ecstasy (11:54)

03. Night Rain (2:49)

04. Blue Waves Gold (3:33)

05. Back to a Planet (6:45)

06. Brazilian Love (6:41)

07. La Ilaha Il Allah (5:04)

Deuter - Ecstasy

It's a 1979 release which comes under the rubric "New Age" music.  Hope you feel a little somethin'!  See you Thursday.

  

Groovy Ghouls Ahoy!

This is a semi-mysterious compilation (by who knows?) of various wacky proto-rock and rockabilly-type numbers.

01 - I Don't Want to Leave the Congo - Norman “Arab” Sands

02 - The Blob - The Five Blobs

03 - Wild Girl - Orville Couch

04 - Snake Charmer - The Puddle Jumpers

05 - Screamin' Ball (at Dracula Hall) - The Duponts

06 - Fried Onions - Lord Rockingham's XI

07 - Suspicion - Los Pekenikes

08 - Pot Party - Burt Topper

09 - Sloppy Twist - Little Jr Cannaday

10 - Litle Girl of Mine - The Electras

11 - Chop Chop - Sandy Nelson

12 - Bucket 'o Blood - Big Boy Groves

13 - Dog Food - Wes Dakus

14 - The Evil Dope - Phil Phillips

15 - Chinese Maid - The Tennessee Drifters

16 - March Slav Boogie - Homer Denison Jr

17 - Lonely Teardrops - Little Dion

18 - Buzzsaw - The Turtles

19 - Day for Decision - Johnny Sea

I cleaned it up a bit, regularizing volume and the like.

Mello Jello for Groovy Ghouls

See you Monday!