Liner NotesMovie Magic We now pull out yet another one of the seven Henry Mancini albums my dad had. He’s one of my favorites too. This one is a follow up to Mancini Plays The Great Academy Award Songs, the album you heard in Volume 43: Mancini and the Oscar Winners....

Liner NotesHistoric Concert Appearance I attended the Wednesday, March 26, 2025 Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass concert at the Goodyear Theater in Akron, Ohio. Yes, Herb is still touring at 89 years old. Yes, I was excited to see him again. Obviously, I can’t can’t...

Liner NotesThe Versatile Twist This is going to be an extra fun episode. Many of the tunes have melodies you already know. Some tunes were created for this album. The trumpet player leading the band was part of some great music history in the form of some famous big...

Liner NotesRed Hot Ragtime Gee, imagine that! Another album featuring a trumpet player from my dad's collection. And a trumpet player we've heard from before. This time, we get to hear some great ragtime. This artist not only fronted his own band, but got his pedigree...

Liner NotesBach's Greatest Hits There’s an old business saying that goes, how do you eat a whale? One bite at a time. In this episode we take several small bites and a couple of big ones from the incredible output of the composer Johann Sebastian Bach. Ahhhh Bach. And...

Liner NotesEarly rock and roll female Episode dedicated to Dino Baskovic (1974-2025) This is the third of four records from Connie Francis that my dad has in his collection. She WAS the top charting female US artist of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Her popularity...

Liner NotesBirth of the Cool Here’s an album I thought was going to be unplayable when I saw the condition of the cover. I have no idea why the back and front are completely separated. And the bigger surprise is that my dad didn’t put it back together with his usual...

Liner NotesClassical Music from a Classical Town Talk about your complete coincidences. The numbers 2-1-6 come up three times in regards to this episode. It’s the episode number. It’s the date this episode drops. The US version of dating things. And it’s the area code...

Liner NotesRomantic Voice for Valentines It's special Valentine’s Day episode of Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl. That means, of course, my girlfriend Karen gets to join me as we once again grab some music from one of the most romantic voices ever recorded. We featured this...

Liner NotesUnique 78 RPM Shellac Records Welcome to a 78 RPM Sunday! As I was flipping through my dad’s shellac collection looking for patterns to create a few 78 RPM episodes for this season, I found these 7 disks. What they had in common was their one-sidedness....