My Mom Loved It

If you look at this blog's header photo of my beloved dog Spock in the headphones, you see a few records behind him.  The photo was taken at our house, but those records are ones I had borrowed from Mom.

Here's another one, left behind when she went to meet the Author of music.  It's not to my tastes as much as the Texas Playboys or Ragtime Piano ... but here 'tis.

DISC ONE:
01. That's a Plenty - Wild Bill Davison and His Commodores (4:14)
02. Tin Roof Blues - George Brunis and His Jazz Band (2:54)
03. Panama - Jelly Roll Morton's Hot Seven (2:30)
04. Tiger Rag - Eddie Edwards and His Original Dixieland Jazz Band With Tony Sbarbaro (3:06)
05. Zulu's Parade - Johnny Wiggs and His New Orleans Band (3:11)
06. Weary Blues - Muggsy Spanier and His Ragtimers (2:58)
07. At the Jazz Band Ball - Wild Bill Davison and His Commodores (2:55)
08. Black and Blue - DeParis Brothers Orchestra (3:11)
09. Jelly Roll Blues - Sidney Bechet and His New Orleans Feetwarmers (2:46)
10. Jazz Me Blues - Wild Bill Davison and His Commodores (3:16)
11. Eccentric (The Eccentric Rag) - Max Kaminsky and His Jazz Band (3:00)
12. Shake It and Break It - Eddie Edwards and His Original Dixieland Jazz Band With Tony Sbarbaro (2:37)
13. Ballin' the Jack - Eddie Condon and His Band (2:53)
14. Sensation Rag - Wild Bill Davison and His Commodores (2:39)
15. Basin Street Blues - Eddie Condon and His Band (4:14)
16. Skeleton Jangle - Eddie Edwards and His Original Dixieland Jazz Band With Tony Sbarbaro (3:03)
17. At Sundown - Bobby Hackett and His Orchestra (3:53)
18. Lazy Daddy - Eddie Edwards and His Original Dixieland Jazz Band With Tony Sbarbaro (2:24)
19. Everybody Loves My Baby - Max Kaminsky and His Jazz Band (2:25)
20. Muskrat Ramble - Wild Bill Davison and His Commodores (3:05)
21. I've Found a New Baby - DeParis Brothers Orchestra (2:53)

DISC TWO:
01. Memphis Blues - Muggsy Spanier and His Ragtimers (4:15)
02. Struttin' With Some Barbecue - George Wettling and His Rhythm Kings (3:06)
03. Wabash Blues - Wild Bill Davison and His Commodores (2:49)
04. I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None of My Jelly Roll - Eddie Condon and His Band (2:56)
05. Barnyard Blues - Eddie Edwards and His Original Dixieland Jazz Band With Tony Sbarbaro (3:07)
06. At a Georgia Camp Meeting - Sidney Bechet and His New Orleans Feetwarmers (3:12)
07. Original Dixieland One-Step - Wild Bill Davison and His Commodores (3:07)
08. I'm Coming Virginia - Wild Bill Davison and His Commodores (2:34)
09. Rosetta - Muggsy Spanier and His Ragtimers (3:12)
10. Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland - Eddie Condon and His Windy City Seven (3:07)
11. Darktown Strutters' Ball - Muggsy Spanier and His Ragtimers (3:01)
12. Royal Garden Blues - George Brunis and His Jazz Band (2:57)
13. I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate - Wild Bill Davison and His Commodores (3:10)
14. High Society - Wild Bill Davison and His Commodores (2:39)
15. Baby Won't You Please Come Home - Wild Bill Davison and His Commodores (2:52)
16. Georgia Grind - Eddie Condon and His Windy City Seven (2:52)
17. Chinatown My Chinatown - Jack Teagarden and His Swingin' Gates (2:49)
18. Riverboat Shuffle - Wild Bill Davison and His Commodores (2:49)
19. How Come You Do Me Like You Do - George Wettling and His Rhythm Kings (3:01)
20. Ja-Da - Eddie Condon and His Windy City Seven (2:39)
21. The Sheik of Araby - DeParis Brothers Orchestra (2:44)

Now do some struttin' and janglin' yourself!

 

Environments, disc 1

In the 1970s there was a series of records called Environments that featured various "natural" sounds, fitting right in with the whole "ambient sound" movement.

Each LP usually had a different theme on each side, which was a single uninterrupted "field recording."

This dose of cosmicness is a combo of Side One of Volume 7, and Side One of Volume 2.

1)  Intonation
2)  Tintinnabulation

And here's your ticket to "oommm."

See you Monday!

 

"The Jazz All-Stars" -- or "The Secret Agents" -- Play Just for You!

This set of session musicians knew when they found a gold mine: the spy craze of the 1960s.  These guys were in such a hurry to make a few bucks that they grabbed a handful of secret agent tunes, dashed off homemade arrangements on the back of a piece of wallpaper, and got to work.

They rented a wetsuit to imitate James Bond in Thunderball, got somebody's girlfriend to suck in her stomach, and dressed the blond guy in black to imitate Illya Kuryakin.

(Note the bombs with their labels THRUSH and SPECTRE.)

They figured they could make even more money by releasing ANOTHER record, with many of the same tracks, and credit the LPs  to TWO DIFFERENT COMBOS -- The Secret Agents and The Jazz All-Stars.  And so they did!

And they would have gotten away with it, too -- if not for those meddling kids and their stupid dog!


The first 10 tracks are from the THUNDERBALL The Man from U.N.C.L.E. & Other Secret Agent Themes album.  The last three tracks are the only ones not common to BOTH albums!

1     -     Thunderball

2     -     From Russia With Love

3     -     The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

4     -     Win, Lose or Spy

5     -     Under Cover Agent Theme

6     -     I Spy

7     -     Ipcress File Theme

8     -     Theme from The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

9 - The Saboteur

10 - Majorca Express

BONUS TRACKS

(as “The Secret Agents”)

11 - Mission Impossible

12 - Theme from Star Trek

13 - Theme from Mannix

Spy out, kiddies! 

See you Thursday.

 

 

Grown' in the Sun

My guess is pre-1960 for this record.

01  Lovely Hula Hands - Ray Kinney
02  Huki Lau - Mel Peterson
03  Blue Lei - Mel Peterson
04  The Cockeyed Mayor  - Andy Cummings
05 Hawaiian Hospitality  - Ray Kinney
06 Little Brown Gal - Bill Akamuhou
07 To You Sweetheart Aloha  - Ray Kinney
08 Hapa Haole Hula Gal  - Andy Cummings

The rear CD case art is the LP liner notes, and the disc art is the LP sticker.  Then you will know as much as I do!

Aloha!

"Major" in Awesome!

As you might assume from the title and illustration, these are recordings made during MIller's serivce in WWII, with the Air Force Orchestra.  Those guys can swing!

01 - Over There

02 - The G. I. Jive

03 - Peggy the Pin-Up Girl

04 - Speak Low

05 - Tail-End Charlie

06 - Anvil Chorus

07 - Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'

08 - There Are Yanks

09 - Pistol Packin' Mama

10 - Everybody Loves My Baby

11 - Enlisted Men's Mess

12 - I'll Be Around

13 - There'll Be a Hot Time in the Town of Berlin

14 - People Will Say We're in Love

15 - Pearls on Velvet

16 - St. Louis Blues March

17 - Poinciana

18 - It Must Be Jelly ('Cause Jam Don't Shake Like That)

19 - Jeep Jockey Jump

20 - Victory Polka

21 - Farewell Blues

Never give up. Never, never, never give up.

See ya, pardners!

 

McCallum Conducts What Is Now Cheesy

In 1966-1967-1968, our favorite Russian U.N.C.L.E. agent branched out into sharing his love for music. no doubt collecting a bit of cash along the way.  Working with producer David Axelrod at Capitol Records, the dreamy Scot conducted from Axelrod arrangements.

Young fans of the show would have sniffed in scorn and called it "elevator music" or worse.  But ah! their parents would have called it "Adult Contemporary" or "Easy Listening."

Tracks 1-12 are the first LP, and Tracks 13-24 comprise the second.

1    1-2-3 (2:12)
2    Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season) (2:33)
3    The "In" Crowd (3:12)
4    A Taste of Honey (2:56)
5    Yesterday (2:37)
6    (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (2:33)
7    We Gotta Get Out of This Place (2:13)
8    Downtown (2:17)
9    The Far Side of the Moon (2:30)
10    Louise (2:22)
11    Insomnia (2:16)
12    The Sugar Cane (2:21)
13    Uptight (2:44)
14    Michelle (2:32)
15    Batman Theme (2:10)
16    Call Me (2:43)
17    Isn't It Wonderful (2:31)
18    My World Is Empty Without You (2:20)
19    Five O'Clock World (2:23)
20    The Shadow of Your Smile (Love Theme from "The Sandpiper") (2:59)
21    It Won't Be Wrong (2:05)
22    Far Away Blue (2:30)
23    The Edge (2:53)
24    Final (3:12)

Take a listen.  Just close your eyes and pretend you're in a dentist's office!

See ya.

 

From an Old Cassette to You

I bought this cassette off a clearance table at Peaches Records in around 1984.  You can probably tell  that it's "old media," if you choose to listen with a nit-picky attention. 

But for me it's a lot of fun.  I don't know if these are "disco" arrangements, or just rockin'  ones.

1)  Themes from E.T. The Extraterrestrial
2)  Themes from Close Encounters of the Third Kind
3)  Themes from Jaws
4)  Themes from Star Trek
5)  Themes from Raiders of the Lost Ark
6)  Themes from Superman
7)  Theme from Poltergeist

And now, coming to you from 1982, here it is!

 

I Was There! in 1972

My wonderful parents were gracious enough to let me be part of a group that went to Explo '72 in Dallas, in June 1972.

I was a part of the Bartlesville Youth for Christ contingent that bused down together and were put up in dorms somewhere.  My conscious memories of that week would fill up about fifteen minutes.

I know now that a lot of my behavior was typical teen dumbness -- smarting off, sarcasm, show-offery -- that didn't show much evidence of a life changed by God's love.  I hope and pray that I'm a bit more reformed now!

The purpose of the conference was to give young folks like us a few tools to share God's love with our classmates, family, and anybody else we met. 

One constant was the little booklet "The Four Spiritual Laws" , along with a pocket-sized Gospel of John with floral cover art.

There were workshops/discussion groups during the day, and nightly rallies/services in the Cotton Bowl.  The big wind-up was a daylong concert that featured all kinds of music, from straight "your parent's gospel music" to then with-it acts such as Andrae Crouch and Larry Norman.

I was at Explo, and I was at that concert for four or five hours.  I have NO IDEA who was playing while I was there.

But I got this cool record (several months later) as a memento!

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The Jesus Sound Explosion LP contained 12 cuts.  To round out the CD, I've added six songs from a 1974 "sampler" album from Myrrh Records.  A complete listing of the Love Peace Joy LP's contents can be found about halfway down on this page.

01 -  Johnny Cash  -        I See Men As Trees Walkin’     3:26

02   - Armageddon Experience  -        One Way      3:32

03   - Randy Matthews  -         Didn't He         4:26

04   - Andraé Crouch & the Disciples  -     I'm Satisfied    3:37

05   -Larry Norman   -  Sweet Song Of Salvation 3:51

06 -Great Commission Company  -  Anticipation 3:05

07 - Danny Lee & the Children Of Truth - Spread A Little Love Around 2:54

08 - Connie Smith  -  Plenty of Time 4:12

09 - Forerunners  -  Lord 2:48

10 - Willa Dorsey  -  I Have the Joy in My Soul 2:40

11 - Love Song  - A Love Song 5:34

12 - The Speer Family  -  The King Is Coming 3:50

BONUS TRACKS

(from Love, Peace, Joy - Myrrh)

13 - 2nd Chapter of Acts - Love Peace Joy   2:30

14 - Malcolm & Alwyn - Fool's Wisdom   3:05

15 - Eddie Robinson - I Give My All to Thee  3:36

16 - Randy Matthews - It Ain't Easy  2:37

17 - Love Song - A Love Song  1:45

18 - Petra - Parting Thought  1:22

So, Happy Easter!