Liner Notes

Let’s finish the first half of the year by turning up the speed. Let’s make it a 78 RPM Sunday.

What better voice to do that with than one who sold over 100 million records during a six-decade-long career. She topped the Hot 100 FOUR times and had several songs in the top 10 and 20 over the years. In fact, she was the top-charting female vocalist and best-selling female artist of the 1950s.

She was also an early pioneer of a specific recording technique.

So, get ready to hear the woman often introduced as the Singin’ Rage in Volume 183: Six Pages of Patti on 78.

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Little Crazy Quilt
Jack Rael And His Orchestra
Written-By – Hal David and Leon Carr
Released in 1955

Cabaret
Written by Al Russell – Joel Cowan
Recorded 24 April 1949 New York City – with an Orchestra Conducted by Mitch Miller.

Whispering
written by Vincent Rose, Richard Coburn, John Schonberger, Malvin Schonberger
Recorded 24 April 1949 New York City – with an Orchestra Conducted by Mitch Miller.

Hocus Pocus
from Mercury 70511 78 rpm
with Jack Rael and his orchestra – arranged by Joe Reisman
Music by David Saxon – Lyrics by Norman Gimbel

Let Me Go, Lover
Written by Jenny Lou Carson – Al Hill, which is a Pseudonym for Kay Twomey – Fred Wise – Ben Weisman
Recorded Circa October 1954

Doodle Doo Do
Ken Griffin on Organ
Jerry Wayne on Vocals
written by Art Kassel, Mel Stitzel
Released March 1948

Keep Me in Mind
This early Bacharach song was co-written with Jack Wolf and published by Famous Music. Both the different composer, Zing-Wexler, and publisher names credited on the label were erroneously referring to a different song with the same title.
Released in 1955

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

My dad had plenty of records featuring large orchestras playing classical music on both 33 ⅓ RPM vinyl LPs and 78 RPM Shellac records.

The Reader’s Digest liner notes for this seven record box set starts off…quote…the nineteenth century was just opening in Vienna when the fist of an implacable genius knocked like destiny upon the doors of music. unquote.

They were, of course, talking about the immortal Ludwig Van Beethoven.

His symphonies live on in performances to this very day. In fact we saw the Cleveland orchestra perform his fifth symphony earlier this year.

So, get ready to hear the man who is said to have set music free in Volume 182: Beethoven’s 1st & 2nd.

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Beethoven, René Leibowitz, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, The Beecham Choral Society – The Nine Symphonies Of Beethoven
Label: Reader’s Digest – RD 4-6, RCA Custom – RD 4-6 (1-7)
Format: 7 x Vinyl, LP, Box Set
Released: 1966
Genre: Classical
Style: Romantic, Choral

We will hear 4 of the 8 movements from the first record which includes Symphonies number 1 and 2.

Symphony No. 1 In C Major, Op. 21
First Movement – Adagio Molto; Allegro Con Brio
Second Movement – Andante Cantabile Con Moto

Symphony No. 2 In D Major, Op. 36
Second Movement – Larghetto
Third Movement – Scherzo
Fourth Movement – Allegro Molto

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Liner Notes

So, Dad…your last fathers day was 2019. You died that December.

In those four and a half years since, you have been dearly missed, thought of often and always toasted at family get-togethers.

I still use a lot of your tools. But no…I still don’t know where that sledgehammer went. I have your Willie the trumpet playing Hobo Melody Music maker music box where I can see it every day. I’ve replaced the batteries twice so far. And these albums keep me connected to you, your memories, and the life you started for us.

Dad…even more than others, this episode is for you.

So get ready to hear the style of music that makes up the biggest percentage of music in my dad’s collection in Volume 181: Dixieland Stars for Fathers Day.

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Various artists – Dixieland
Label: Golden Tone – C4021
Format: Vinyl, LP, Mono
Released: 1960 something
Genre: Jazz
Style: Dixieland

We will hear all 8 of the songs on this album.

Matty Matlock And His Dixie-Men – Sugar Foot Strut
written by Billie Pierce, Henry Myers, Charles Schwab

Matty Matlock And His Dixie-Men – Ida, Sweet As Apple Cider
written by Eddie Munson, Eddie Leonard

Pee Wee Hunt And His Orchestra – Royal Garden Blues
written by Spencer Williams, Clarence Williams

Pee Wee Hunt And His Orchestra – Lazy Bones
written by Hoagy Carmichael, Johnny Mercer

Morty Corb And His Dixie All-Stars – South
written by Bennie Moten, Thamon Hayes

Morty Corb And His Dixie All-Stars – Back Home Again In Indiana
written by Ballard MacDonald, James F. Hanley, Paul Dresser

Matty Matlock And His Dixie-Men – Jazz Me Blues
written by Tom Delaney

Matty Matlock And His Dixie-Men – Oh, Didn’t He Ramble
written by Bob Cole, J. Rosamond Johnson

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Liner Notes

When it came to how popular a band’s music was, it was the charts that told you. It was the charts that determined radio station song lists and how often they changed.

While maybe not quite all of the songs on this record made the charts, even though that’s what the album title hints at, all of the artists were on the charts at one time or another.

So, get ready to hear music makers that were high up in a specific list at one time or another in Volume 180: Hit Makers.

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Various – The Original Top Hits By The Hit Makers
Label: Columbia – CL 1485
Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Mono
Released: 1960
Genre: Pop
Style: Light Music

Johnny Mathis– Starbright
written by Lee Pockriss, Paul Vance

Doris Day– Please Don’t Eat The Daisies
written by Joe Lubin

Jerry Vale– Solitaire
written by Neil Sedaka, Phil Cody

Mitch Miller– Pink Polemoniums
Written-By – Al Hoffman and Dick Manning

Greenfields
written by Frank Miller, Richard Dehr, and Terry Gilkyson (also known as The Easy Riders)

Kitty Kallen– Got A Date With An Angel
written by Clifford Grey, Jack Waller, Joseph Tunbridge, Sonny Miller

Marty Robbins – Big Iron
He wrote and was the first to record it on April 7, 1959.

Johnny Horton – Sink The Bismarck
written by Tillman Franks

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Liner Notes

I’m not sure the person who gathered the music for this record understood what the assignment was. This is not at all what I expected the music to sound like after seeing the name of the album and the text on the cover.

I mean, who hasn’t enjoyed that Latin sound from Guy Lombardo, Billy May, Ray Anthony, and Joe Leahy? Good thing there’s a song by Sergio Mendez here to lend the recording some credibility.

The closest comparison I can come up with is that the music on this record is light and bouncy, quite like the Latin music my dad and I like so well.

So, get ready to hear music from the most inappropriately titled record in my dad’s collection, so far, in Volume 179: Viva the Latin Beat.

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Various – Viva!
Label: Creative Products – SL-6650, Capitol Records – SL-6650
Series: The Capitol Stereo Showcase
Format: Vinyl, LP, Limited Edition
Released: not sure what year but sometime in the 1970s based off the Series name.
Genre: Jazz, Latin, Pop

Billy May– Spanish Flea
Written-By – Cissy Wechter, Julius Wechter

Joe Leahy–Life
Written-By – Joe Leahy, Mike Curb

Ray Anthony– Danke Schoen
Written-By – Bert Kaempfert, Kurt Schwabach, and Milt Gabler

Guy Lombardo– A Banda
Written-By – Chico Barque De Hollanda

Guy Lombardo– A Taste Of Honey
Written-By – Bobby Scott, Ric Marlow

Sergio Mendes– Muito A Vontade
Written-By – João Donato

Joe Leahy– Arriba
Written-By – Joe Leahy, Mike Curb

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Liner Notes

Here’s an album I came across while looking for a specific artist for an earlier episode. I wasn’t familiar with some of the musicians and most of the music on this record. But it represents an interesting time frame in music. Sort of between bebop and rock and roll styles seeing the most spots on the charts. There’s also one country music star here as well.

The artists I recognized I knew were deserving of having their names big and bold on the venue’s marquee in the late 1950s.

So get ready to hear various bands play a variety of musical styles in Volume 178: Headliners.

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Various – The Headliners, Volume 2
Label: Columbia Record Club – GB-9, Columbia – GB-9
Format: Vinyl, LP, Club Edition, Limited Edition, Sampler, Mono
Released: 1961
Genre: Jazz, Pop, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Country, Vocal

“Limited Edition Available to Club Members Only”

Lester Lanin And His Orchestra–This Could Be The Start Of Something
Released on the B-side of Blue Tango Rock released in 1961 by Epic Records.
song by Steve Allen, published in 1956. Yes, the Steve Allen who created the Tonight Show.

Johnny Cash–The Big Battle (cover only says The Battle)
Written by Johnny Cash and released as a single on Columbia records in 1962.

The Miles Davis Sextet (Quintet)–Drad Dog
Written by Miles Davis and appeared on his 1961 Columbia record Someday My Prince Will Come.

Dinah Washington– Somewhere Along The Line
Composed by Dinah Washington, with lyrics by Dinah and Walter Merrick
Released in 1961 on the Mercury label record Unforgettable.

Jerry Murad’s Harmonicats– Tuxedo Junction (A #1 hit for Glenn Miller in 1940)
music was written by Erskine Hawkins, Bill Johnson, and Julian Dash in 1939.

The Dave Brubeck Quartet– Slow and Easy (Lawless Mike) The Lawless Mike
Written by Dave Brubeck
This song was found on the CD re-release of the 1961 Brubeck album Time Further Out. It was not on the original vinyl LP, but made its way into this collection.

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.