Liner Notes

We begin a month of travel-related music in what I am calling World Tour November. And what better way to begin that month than with a tour of the world all in one album. This episode will serve as the month’s Overture, so to speak.

The movie, based on a Jules Verne novel, was an epic screen hit that won eight Academy Awards. Not only was the lead character a trailblazer in the film, but the entire production was considered a trailblazer itself in many ways.

So, get ready to hear the soundtrack that won the 1957 Oscar for Best Original Score in Volume 201: 80 Days with Passepartout.

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Victor Young – Michael Todd’s Around The World In 80 Days – Music From The Sound Track
Label: Decca – DL 9046
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Gloversville press
Released: 1957
Genre: Stage & Screen
Style: Soundtrack

Around The World – Part 1
Passepartout
Invitation To A Bull Fight/Entrance Of The Bull March
India Country Side
The Pagoda Of Pillagi
Prairie Sail Car
Land Ho

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Liner Notes

Well, here’s a milestone for you. I can’t believe that I have reached 200 shows with no intent of stopping.

While I’ve played over 12 hundred songs on this show over those more than three and a three quarter years, I have several that have stuck in my brain or keep coming up in conversation and memories.

They may not be the most popular of the songs I’ve played, the biggest hits or even necessarily among my favorites, but they had a catchy melody or rhythm that I couldn’t get out of my head.

So get ready to hear a dozen extra memorable tunes you’ve heard on this show before in Volume 200: Frank’s Earworms Take 2.

Listen to the Ted Alexander unedited phone interview. 
Read Frank’s REO Speedwagon story. 

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The Lady Is A Tramp – Buddy Greco
Written by Richard Rodgers, and Lorenz Hart

Take the A Train – The Duke Ellington Orchestra
Written by Duke Ellington

Day-O – Harry Belafonte
Written by Harry Belafonte, Lord Burgess, and Bill Attaway

Java – Al Hirt
Written by Allen Toussaint, Alvin Tyle, and Freddy Friday

Let’s Cha Cha – Tito Puente
Written by Ray Coen

Debbie Reynolds and the cast of The Unsinkable Molly Brown – Belly up to the Bar, Boys
Music And Lyrics written By Meredith Willson

(Running Around in Circles) Getting Nowhere – Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra
Written by Irving Berlin

Ye-Me-Le – Sergio Mendez & Brasil ‘66
Written by Chico Feitosa, and Luis Carlos Vinhas

Sing, Sing, Sing – Henry Mancini
Composed by Louis Prima

Spinning Wheel – Sammy Davis Jr.
Written by David Clayton-Thomas

Che La Luna – Louis Prima With Sam Butera And The Witnesses
Written-By – Kopak, and Louis Prima

Taste Of Honey – Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass
Written by Bobby Scott and Ric Marlow

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Liner Notes

Most of the albums so far in my father’s collection were of popular artists from the US. This record is the first of four my dad had from an orchestra leader who reportedly was from England, featuring a trumpet player, who reportedly has the same name as the guy who writes all the liner notes for the orchestra leader.

Meanwhile, there were a number of musicians who really recorded this album. Who they were is a budget record label mystery.

So, get ready to hear some pretty melodies while you’re having your afternoon crumpets in Volume 199: Tea and Trumpets.

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Stanley Applewaite, Roy Freeman – Stanley Applewaite Plays Tea And Trumpets Featuring Roy Freeman
Label: Design Records – DLP 40
Format: Vinyl, LP
Released: Oct 1957
Genre: Pop
Style:

If I Had A Love That Loved Me

Medley: Darling My Heart Is Yours/Standing In The Rain (written by Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal)/Sing Nightingale Sing (written by Bob Iller, Bruno Balz, Michael Jary)

Please
written by Leo Robin, Ralph Rainger

Moritat
written by Kurt Weill, Bertolt Brecht

Medley: You Make This World Beautiful / Virginia Blues (written by Ernie Erdman, Fred Meinken) / Two Hearts In May (Michael Jary)

John And Julie (fitting to end the show with a song written by another trumpet player.)
by Eddie Calvert

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Liner Notes

Here’s an album filled with some of the biggest big band jazz orchestra leaders there ever were. And they’re the songs that each leader was most identified by.

It’s also a special promotional copy with a Cleveland area connection, which is probably why it’s in my dad’s collection. Plus it brought back some memories of TV commercial gold.

So get ready to hear tunes that introduced the bands that played them in Volume 198: Big Band Themes.

Correction: Lawson’s Milk Company was founded in Cuyahoga Falls, not Chagrin Falls, which is what I said in the episode.

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Various – Dance To The Themes Of The Greatest Bands
Label: Columbia Special Products – XTV 68511
Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation
Released: 1963
Genre: Jazz
Style: Big Band

Les Brown–Leap Frog
written by Joe Garland, Leo Corday in 1942
Recorded by Les Brown and his Orchestra in October 1945

Woody Herman and his Thundering Herd – Blue Flame
written by Leo Corday, Joe Bishop, James A. Noble
First recording on February 13, 1941 by Woody Herman

Claude Thornhill – Snowfall
written by Claude Thornhill, Ruth Thornhill
First recording on May 26, 1941

Kay Kyser – (I’ve Grown So Lonesome) Thinking Of You
written by Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby
recorded New York, NY, January 9, 1939 but not released until 1941.

Gene Krupa – Starburst
Composed by Eddie Finckel and Gene Krupa
Recorded February 8, 1947

Count Basie – One O’Clock Jump
written by Count Basie
First recording on July 7, 1937

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Liner Notes

Back to one of my father’s favorite trumpet players. This time, a little later in his career. It’s as if the years have slightly mellowed his sound, and he blends in more with the band.

But there’s almost never any trouble recognizing when this musician is front and center, because he had one of the smoothest sounds around.

So, get ready to hear one of the best known and easily recognized trumpet players ever in Volume 197: Jazzy James.

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Harry James And His Orchestra – Jazz Session
Label: Columbia – CL 669, Columbia – CL-669
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Hollywood Pressing
Released: 1955
Genre: Jazz
Style: Big Band

Marchin’
Soloist, Tenor Saxophone – Pat Chartrand
Written-By – Harry James and Louis Bellson

I’ll Remember April
Written-By – Don Raye, Gene DePaul and Patricia Johnson

One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)
Written-By – Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen

(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66!
Vocals – Gordon Polk
Written-By – Bobby Troup

Stealin’ Apples
Written-By – Andy Razaf and Fats Waller

Queen Of The Mambo
Written-By – Tony Martinez

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Liner Notes

Today, the day this episode drops, would have been my mom’s 87th birthday. Earlier today, I dropped ten roses on her gravestone to signify how many of those birthdays we have had without her.

I’ve said this before, that my mom’s spirit is within this album collection just as much as my dad’s, and it’s artists like this that I know she enjoyed very much.

My parents did get to see him once in concert. He is one of the world’s most recognized tenors, even years after he has been gone.

So get ready to hear Luciano sing to celebrate my mother’s birthday in Volume 196: Pavarotti for Pauline.

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Luciano Pavarotti – Verismo Arias
Label: London Records – LDR 10020
Series: London Digital
Format: Vinyl, LP, Stereo
Released: Dec 1980
Genre: Classical
Style: Opera

The portrait reproduced for the cover was done by Gerrit Greve, and was one of Pavarotti’s favorites.

We will hear 10 of the 15 songs on this album.

Amor Ti Vieta
(Fedora)
Composed By – Umberto Giordano

Dai Campi, Dai Prati
(Mefistofele)
Composed By – Arrigo Boito

La Dolcissima Effigie
(Adriana Lecouvreur)
Composed By – Francesco Cilea

L’Anima Ho Stanca or My Soul Is Tired
(Adriana Lecouvreur)
Composed By – Francesco Cilea

Apri La Tua Finestra!
(Iris)
Composed By – Pietro Mascagni

Colpito Qui M’Avete…..Un Di All ‘Azzurro Spazio
(Andrea Chénier)
Composed By – Umberto Giordano

Come Un Bel Di Di Maggio
(Andrea Chénier)
Composed By – Umberto Giordano

Ch’Ella Mi Creda
(La Fanciulla Del West)
Composed By – Giacomo Puccini

Ma Se Vi Talenta…..Tra Voi, Belle
(Manon Lescaut)
Composed By – Giacomo Puccini

Ah! Non Y’Avvicante!
(Manon Lescaut)
Bass Vocals – Neil Howlett
Composed By – Giacomo Puccini

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