Liner Notes

The four letter album title in large yellow font along with the same color silhouette of a pair of hands playing a trumpet over a black background immediately sets the tone for this LP.

It’s familiar music played a little more sparsely than you are used to hearing it. But fear not, there are some great treatments of music you may know on this disk, and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did listening to this unfamiliar trumpet player.

So get ready to hear a honeyed horn from a musician who actually was more popular in another profession in Volume 189: Jim’s Java.

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Jim Collier – Java
Label: Wyncote – W-9013
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
Released: 1964
Genre: Jazz
Style: Easy Listening

We will hear 7 of the 10 songs on this album.

Java
written by Allen Toussaint, Murray Sporn, Alvin “Red” Tyler, and Danny Kessler

Miss Daisy De Lite
Written by Kal Mann and Dave Appell

Happiness Is A Thing Called Fun
Could not find any information on this song

Honey In The Horn (which according to the front cover is the featured song even though it’s number one on side two.)
written by Fred Wise, Ben Weisman, Kay Twomey, Al Alberts

Anymore
written by Roy Drusky, Vic McAlpin, and Marie Wilson

Chills
written by Jack Keller, and Gerry Goffin

Get It Movin’
Could not find any information on this song

I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

Liner Notes

Let’s get back to some of the big band and early swing my dad listened to a lot. And this record is a real find because of the two main musicians.

One played a brass instrument, one played reeds. One ended up just a little more famous than the other. But they were brothers. And they had their famous beginnings in a band with the family name that recorded in the early to mid-1930s.

So get ready to hear a compilation of some of the last studio recordings for this sibling duo that began on 78 RPM Shellac and ended up on this 33 ⅓ RPM Vinyl in Volume 188: The Brothers Dorsey Shine.

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The Dorsey Brothers’ Original Orchestra – Their Shining Hour
Label: Design Records – DLP 20
Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Mono
Released: 1957
Genre: Jazz

We will play 7 of the 11 songs from this album.

By Heck
music by S. R. Henry

Solitude
written by Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Eddie DeLange

Rhythm Of The Rain
written by Jack Meskill, Jack Stern

Night Wind
Written-By – Bob Romberg, Dave Pollock and Harry Link

Eccentric is actually cut 3
written by J. Russel Robinson

Sugar Foot Stomp
written by Louis Armstrong, King Oliver

The Weary Blues
written by Artie Matthews

I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

Liner Notes

Like I’ve mentioned before, my dad liked his cowboy music too. So, we’ll go back to a box set where we’ll pull out the fourth of its seven records.

The title of each of these sides is Deep in the Heart of Texas and Western Landscapes, hence the mashup title of this episode.

Four songs from side one were all big hits and reference our second biggest state. The selections from side two are lesser known but paint a beautiful picture of the old west.

So get ready to hear what is really Tumbling Tumbleweeds part 4 in Volume 187: Texas Landscapes.

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Various – Tumbling Tumbleweeds
Label: Reader’s Digest – RDA-229 / A
Format: 7 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation Box Set
Released: 1982
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Country

We will be listening to record 4, sides 1 and 2. We will hear 7 of the 11 tunes from this disk.

Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys – Deep In The Heart Of Texas
written by Don Swander, June Hershey

George Hamilton IV – Abilene
written by John D. Loudermilk, Bob Gibson and Lester Brown

Gene Autry – The Yellow Rose Of Texas
It’s a traditional song with lyrics added by Don George

Jerry Reed – El Paso
written by Marty Robbins

The Sons Of The Pioneers – Moonlight On The Colorado
written by Billy Moll, Robert King

Jimmy Wakely – The Call Of The Canyon
written by Billy Hill

Hank Snow – Cross The Brazos At Waco
written by Kay Arnold

I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

Liner Notes

We’re going to take a little side road along our musical journey for this episode. It’s not something I often do, especially in my youth, but I’m going to make a big deal out of my birthday this year, since it actually falls on a day I publish my episodes.

62 is not a milestone. There is no special celebration with my high school classmates, since next year we’ll be celebrating at our 45-year reunion. In fact, I better get busy and call a meeting since I am currently the chair of the reunion committee.

In that vein, I am going to pull out an album filled with plenty of songs you’ve already heard on this show, but they all appear on this one disk.

I keep circling back to Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. Back to the music that made my household so much fun to grow up in. Back to an album that was permanently in the To Play pile next to the living room record player.

So, get ready to hear the entire album of music that always went along well with my mom’s lasagna, a house full of friends, and bocce ball in the backyard and help me celebrate with some favorite memories in Volume 186: Best of TJB (Happy Birthday to Me).

Links to previous spinning My Dad’s Vinyl episodes featuring the TJB:
Volume 6: Herb Alpert Lonely Bull
Volume 33: Tijuana Brass Going Places
Volume 54: Alpert’s Ninth
Volume 98: Whipped Alpert
Volume 129: Brass’ Beat for Father’s Day
Volume 156: Christmas Herb

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Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass – Greatest Hits
Label: A&M Records – SP-4245
Series: Greatest Hits (8)
Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Stereo, Terre Haute Pressing
Released: 1970
Genre: Jazz, Latin
Style: Latin Jazz

Liner Notes – Charles Champlin
Cover Photography – Jim McCrary
Producer – Herb Alpert, Jerry Moss

Comes in a “UniPak” styled gatefold cover with a inner pocket to house LP.
We will hear all 12 songs in the order they appear.

Lonely Bull
Written-By – Sol Lake
Appeared on The Lonely Bull Released in 1964

Spanish Flea
Written-By – Julius Wechter
Appeared on Going Places released in 1967

Getting Sentimental Over You
Written-By – George Bassman
Appeared on Going Places released in 1967

Love Potion #9 (first time I came across an actress by the name of Sandra Bullock…it’s hilarious.)
Written-By – Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
Appeared on Whipped Cream and other Delights Released in 1965

Never On Sunday
Written-By – Billy Towne and Mano Hadjidakis
Appeared on The Lonely Bull Released in 1964

Mexican Shuffle
Written-By – Sol Lake
Appeared on South of the Border Released in 1964

Taste Of Honey
Written-By – Bobby Scott and Ric Marlow
Appeared on Whipped Cream and other Delights Released in 1965

Tijuana Taxi
Written-By – Ervan Coleman
Appeared on Going Places released in 1967

South Of The Border
Written-By – Jimmy Kennedy and Michael Carr
Appeared on South of the Border Released in 1964

America
Written-By – Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim
Appeared on America Released in 1969

Whipped Cream
Written-By – Naomi Neville
Appeared on Whipped Cream and other Delights Released in 1965

Zorba The Greek
Written-By – Mikis Theodorakis
Appeared on Going Places released in 1967

I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

Liner Notes

Let’s jump back into one of my favorite box sets from my dad’s collection. We will listen to selections from both sides of the second to last record in this six-disk set.

I have often said I would have loved to have been around in the early days of radio. There was such a pioneering spirit in the way to entertain and inform. I know this technology made the world a smaller place. It was also basically just the newest way to sell the latest product.

So, gather around your home receiver and get ready to hear drama in both the theatrical and athletic forms in Volume 185: Golden Memories of Radio Record 5.

Promised link to CNN article. 

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Jack Benny – Golden Memories Of Radio
Label: Longines Symphonette Society – none
Format: 6 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Mono, Maroon Labels Box Set
Released: 1969
Genre: Non-Music
Style: Radioplay

We are listening to selections from record five, which is side 5 and side 8, thanks to being numbered for the automatic changing spindle.

Jack Armstrong
The Lone Ranger
Gene Tunney vs. Jack Dempsey
Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling
Jesse Owen In The 1936 Olympics
Whirl-A-Way Wins The Kentucky Derby
Bobby Thomson Home Run
The Shadow

I do not own the rights to these recordings. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

Liner Notes

Almost everybody likes to show off their singing skills whether they have some or not. Karaoke bars have made a killing off that theory for decades.

Back in the 1950s and 60s, there were a couple of TV shows that got viewers to sing along with them. Of course Mitch Miller was also all the rage with his albums.

This audience participation album is performed by the first woman in history to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1960. It includes songs most of you should know because they have been recorded more than 15 hundred times combined over the last 134 years.

So get ready to hear music that you might have heard cowboys sing around a campfire or drunkards bellow out at the bar in Volume 184: Connie’s Sing Along.

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Connie Francis And The Jordanaires – Sing Along With Connie Francis
Label: Mati-Mor Superecords – 8002
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Indianapolis Pressing
Released: 1961
Genre: Pop
Style: Vocal

Sing Along
Unknown composer

Home On The Range
music by Daniel E. Kelley and lyrics by Brewster M. Higley

In The Good Old Summertime
written by George Evans, Ren Shields

I Love You Truly
Written by Carrie Jacobs-Bond

You Tell Me Your Dream, I’ll Tell You Mine
written by Charles N. Daniels, Seymour Rice, and Albert H. Brown

Down In The Valley
written by Tom Darby and Jimmie Tarlton

My Wild Irish Rose
written by Chauncey Olcott

Auld Lang Syne
written by Robert Burns

And The Band Played On
written by John F. Palmer, Charles B. Ward

Tavern In The Town
Derived from the English ballad

I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.