Spock’s Record Round-Up

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Wagner for Band

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I am a big sucker for transcriptions and rearrangements, and these are fine. Once again this is a great album that is not out on CD.  Thes...
Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Thomas Moore's Irish Melodies

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This wonderful collection of "folk" type songs were collected by Moore in the 1800s. There's a current version out, on the H...
Monday, March 7, 2011

A Bit of a Vanity Project . . .

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In the mid-1980s I put together this 90-minute cassette of, as it says SF & Fantasy Themes.  I still have the cassette.  But I pared awa...
Sunday, March 6, 2011

Music That's "Mostly Ghostly"

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In the 1960s, Hans Conried and Alice Pearce teamed up for a very silly, yet very fun LP called Monster Rally . The song "Mostly Ghost...
Friday, March 4, 2011

Heliotrope Bouquet

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Here's a fine collection of piano rags performed by William Bolcom. Here are the tracks: 1 A Ragtime Nightmare 2 The Easy Winners 3...
Thursday, March 3, 2011

The A-Bomb B-List

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Inspired by the wonderfully eclectic soundtrack to the film The Atomic Cafe , I have put together a disc of 20 songs and one "hidden...
Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Burning Like Fire

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This is a great movie, really doing a great job of bringing Richard Adams's book to life. My copy of the Watership Down soundtrack LP...
Tuesday, March 1, 2011

If You Love the Beatles (and I Know You Do) . . .

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Have you heard of the Beatles Remixers Group?  They are a fine bunch of music-lovers and technicians who love deconstructing and reassemblin...
Monday, February 28, 2011

Meet One of My Oldest Friends

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When I was ten years old and my mom bought me this record, I didn;t know it was a cheap knockoff.  I didn't know that "The Supermen...
Sunday, February 27, 2011

Grungy Proto Prog Rock

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In the mid-1970s I became a fan of Emerson, Lake and Palmer.  Their music, like me, was by turns literary, showoffy, introspective, and chee...
Friday, February 25, 2011

Let's Go Psychedelic!

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One of the advantages at working at a thrift store was seeing all kinds of wild-n-crazy things.  Sometimes you could buy an item; sometimes ...
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Thursday, February 24, 2011

Kind of Calming

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I bought the cassette from which this was dubbed in the 1980s, at a "New Age" store.  They were the only store carrying some of th...
Wednesday, February 23, 2011

The Adventures of Superman!

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A million years ago, STARLOG magazine happened to run a feature about the "library" music used in George Reeves' Adventures o...
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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Supermusic

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Back when I used to frequent thrift stores and before I spent 15 years living in them (working 50 hours a week at a few), I always kept my e...
Monday, February 21, 2011

Dvorak's 16 Slavonic Dances

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This LP I bought at a used record shop in about 1977. Man, there is so much ENERGY going on here, for example in the first cut. BA-BANG! ...
Sunday, February 20, 2011

Some Cowboy Songs

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I founds these from all over the place.  Some of my favorites are "I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart" and "Cowboy Yod...
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Saturday, February 19, 2011

Howl-oween

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This is my 2009 Hallwoeen music compilation, including some of the scary undersores used in Jonny Quest . Here are the tracks: 1 Alice C...
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Friday, February 18, 2011

The 2010 Spook-Tacular

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I love somebody else's idea of making Halloween compilations.  I tried my best to come up with things not as readily available as some o...
Thursday, February 17, 2011

Book! It's a Book!

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With permission, here is available The Final Affair , written by fan favorite David McDaniel as a sort of tie-up to the show. Here's t...
Wednesday, February 16, 2011

At Least He Didn't Sing "Mr Tambourine Man"!

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When people become famous, they do interesting and sometimes stupid things (Charlie Sheen, LiLo). Sometimes these people get offered the c...
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Saturday, February 12, 2011

The Girl from U.N.C.L.E.

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Word was that lots of fans considered this "official" album as more authentic to the show's sound than Montegro's arrange...
Friday, February 11, 2011

Pulsating Big Band Sounds

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Well, perhaps the pulse has worn off.  I dubbed this LP only last week, but now its performances have faded into the mists of memory, and ...
Thursday, February 10, 2011

Dick Hyman IS "The Man from O.R.G.A.N."

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Dick Hyman was famous for all kinds of keyboard playing, including recordings of silent-movie accompaniments and other things.  But in 1965,...
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Wednesday, February 9, 2011

David Lloyd - Sounds for a Secret Agent

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One of the myriads of guys who had an "and his orchestra," Lloyd lays down some medium-nifty arrangements. Here are the songs: ...
Tuesday, February 8, 2011

2001: A Musical Odyssey

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Here I got all excited and tried to find lots of different arrangements of Also Sprach Zarathustra 's opening. Here's what I found...
Monday, February 7, 2011

The Saga of Battlestar Galactica

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This is a music-and-soundtrack presentation of the story from the pilot episode/movie of the REAL Battlestar Galactica , dubbed from a casse...
Sunday, February 6, 2011

More Music from The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

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Here is Montenegro's second album of U.N.C.L.E. music. Tracklist: 01. Sandals Only 02. Solo Bosanova 03. Off And Running 04 Boo-Ba...

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

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The first "official" album.  All tracks on this LP did appear in the show, except for Lalo Schifrin's "The Man from Thrus...
Friday, February 4, 2011

Paper Moon original soundtrack LP

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As noted above, this is the LP.  It doesn't have the newly added tracks from some guy named Jango Pango and his Band of Bund (or whateve...
Thursday, February 3, 2011

William Albright's ragtime music

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This is a dub from a 1970s Musical Heritage Society LP, of some really fun original piano rags. Here's where it is:  Albright Plays Al...
Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Enesco - Liszt Rhapsodies

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The original LP and CD issues had Enesco's Roumanin Rhapsody 1 but not number two. Since there is *just* enough time on a CD two add t...

Al Hirt: The Horn Meets the Hornet

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from the liner notes: At a TV rehearsal not too long ago, I listened to big Al run over September Song. He was seated in a rocker and a...
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