Spock’s Record Round-Up

Thursday, September 12, 2013

Organic Music

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This here is a 1962 LP, old-timey music.  If you were of a certain age and remembered patronizing silent movies, then this music should r...
Monday, September 9, 2013

Re-Post: MA-55 - Adventures of Superman - More Library Recordings

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In the enclosed liner notes for this release, I tell about buying some Adventures of Superman music on cassette long ago, and my discover...
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Friday, September 6, 2013

Otherworldly

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The structured, lovely music always seems to be floating to me from a world next door.  A world that's a but removed from ours and le...
Monday, September 2, 2013

Ray Martin Thunders

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Here's another entry in the "cash in on spies" sweepstakes of the 1960s. It's titled  Thunderball and Other Thrille...
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Thursday, August 29, 2013

Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear

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Some of my younger friends may not be familiar with this time in history.  It was a different time  ... When the end of a TV show came,...
Monday, August 26, 2013

We're Goin' Galactic, Baby!

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Here we have a record from the umpteenth golden age of sci-fi cover recordings -- 1980, that it. The cover is somewhat similar in style...
Thursday, August 22, 2013

Enchantingly Diabolical!

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This guy named Francois Duchable decided he would perform Liszt's piano transcription of Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique , addin...
Monday, August 19, 2013

Shimmering Dawn Music

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This is very meditative and brooding and I recommend listening in a darkened room or, somehow, outside before sunrise. The tracks are: ...
Thursday, August 15, 2013

Big Top Sounds

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Not jus recorded outdoors, but recorded OUT OF DOORS.  I guess when you're under a tent, you don't have doors, so you are out of ...
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Monday, August 12, 2013

Renaissance Festival Music

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Here's another fascinating collection of Renaissance or medieval-type music.  This is from Decca, around 1963.  Flemish Dances and ...
Thursday, August 8, 2013

Psst ... "Mister Ragtime" Is an Alias!

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  Joe "Fingers" Carr was really a great piano player named Lou Busch.   You can also read about him here.   He died in 19...
Monday, August 5, 2013

The Now Sound Orchestra!

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  On April 8, 1980, I bought this LP.  Star Trek: Main Theme from the Motion Picture -- by the optimistically named "Now Sound Or...
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Thursday, August 1, 2013

A Smattering of Strauss

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Can you EVER have too many versions of the "Sunrise" section (that's the beginning) of Richard Strauss's Also Sprach Za...
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