Gather around the radio, kids, it’s story time. My first radio job was on a historical frequency in the Cleveland market, 1260 AM. I learned from some radio legends. During that time, the station put out an album of big band music from a local group. So get ready for lots of reminiscing while listening to Music of Your Life standards in Volume 118: Big Band Grandstand.

You can hear the full nearly 45 phone conversation with Ted Alexander on YouTube here.

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Harry Hershey And The WBBG Orchestra – Big Band Grandstand
Label: Peters Sound – PSLP 102
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Released: 1982
Genre: Jazz
Style: Big Band

Chattanooga Choo Choo
I Can’t Get Started
Shoo Shoo Baby
Why Don’t We Do This More Often
Anniversary Waltz
Well Dressed Man In Harlem
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy

A phone call with Ted Alexander

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Welcome to a 78 RPM Sunday. Yes, I know 78 RPM records were made from shellac, not vinyl. But I wasn’t going to completely ignore the more than 100 of the original record format – disks in his collection. I even played them back for the digitizing process using a manual 1917 Victrola. So get ready to crank that handle up to get the disk spinning in Volume 117: 8 Sides From Victor.

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Since Henry Ford Apologized to Me – The Happiness Boys
Pastafazoola – The Happiness Boys

Down by the Sheltering Palms – Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye
Lavender Blue – Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye

Just for now – The Three Suns
A Lovely Rainy Afternoon – The Three Suns

And the Angels Sing – Benny Goodman
I Sent for you Yesterday and Here You Come Today – Benny Goodman

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Back to one of my favorite voices in my dad’s collection. He was a singer I was supposed to see, however he got sick before the show, which included Sammy and Frank. He’s often referred to as the King of Cool.

So get ready to hear the stereo copy of the two my dad had of this album with Volume 116: Dean Hits Again.

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MDA Telethon: https://youtu.be/K3KAMg9LIzw

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Dean Martin – Dean Martin Hits Again
Label: Reprise Records – R 6146
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
Released: Feb 2, 1965
Genre: Jazz, Pop
Style: Easy Listening

Accompanied By – Ken Lane
Arranged By, Conductor – Ernie Freeman
Engineer – Eddie Brackett
Liner Notes – Stan Cornyn
Photography By [Cover And Liner Photos] – Ed Thrasher
Producer – Jimmy Bowen

You’re Nobody ‘Til Somebody Loves You
Written-By – James Cavanaugh, Larry Stock, Russ Morgan

My Heart Is An Open Book
Written-By – Hal David, Lee Pockriss

Send Me The Pillow You Dream On
Written-By – Hank Locklin

Send Me Some Lovin’
Written-By – John Marascalco, Leo Price

In The Chapel In The Moonlight
Written-By – Billy Hill

I’ll Be Seeing You
Written-By – Irving Kahal, Sammy Fain

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My dad’s record collection is filled with plenty of albums of previously released music from various artists that were put into a set for various reasons. This record was released to sell toothpaste. So get ready to hear a cross section of hits from the late 1950s with Volume 115: Great and New Sounds.

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Various – Colgate Presents Great Sounds And New Sounds
Label: Columbia – none
Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation
Country: US
Released: 1959
Genre:Jazz, Brass & Military, Folk, World, & Country, Stage & Screen
Style:Brass Band, Big Band

We will hear 6 of the 12 songs from the album.

Les Elgart– When I Take My Sugar To The Sea
Written-By – Irving Kahal, Pierre Norman, and Sammy Fain in 1931. First recorded by Melotone Boys.
Recorded in 1959

Andre Kostelanetz– I Enjoy Being A Girl
Written-By – Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers
from the 1958 musical Flower Drum Song.
Recorded in 1959

Tony Bennett with Percy Faith & His Orchestra– Just In Time
Written-By – Adolph Green, Betty Comden, and Jule Styne
Recorded in 1956

Johnny Cash–The Troubadour
Written-By – Cindy Walker
Recorded in 1958

Luther Henderson– Stay As Sweet As You Are
Written-By – Harry Revel, and Mack Gordon
Recorded in 1959

Mitch Miller–The Band Played On / Oh! You Beautiful Doll
Written-By – A. Seymour Brown, Charles Ward, John Palmer, and Nat Ayer
Recorded in 1959

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Here’s a beautiful voice we have not heard yet although we did hear a tune she wrote. And even better, this recording is in a live setting. She sings softly with feeling because of her nightclub experience. So get ready for the Queen of American pop music in Volume 114: Peggy at Basin Street East.

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Miss Peggy Lee – Basin Street East Proudly Presents Miss Peggy Lee Recorded At The Fabulous New York Club
Label: Capitol Records – T 1520
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
Country: US
Released: 1961
Genre: Jazz
Style: Big Band, Swing

Recorded live at Basin Street East in an after-hours performance with an invited audience on February 9 and at a New York studio on March 8, 1961.

Day In – Day Out
Written By – Johnny Mercer, Rube Bloom

Moments Like This
Written By – Burton Lane, Frank Loesser

Fever
Written By – Eddie Cooley, John Davenport

The Second Time Around
Written By – James Van Heusen*, Sammy Cahn

I Love Being Here With You
Written By – Bill Schluger, Peggy Lee

Them There Eyes
Written By – Doris Tauber, Maceo Pinkard and William Tracey

A Tribute To Ray Charles
Just For A Thrill
Written By – Don Raye, Lil Armstrong
Yes Indeed!
Written By – Sy Oliver

Bass – Max Bennett
Bongos, Congas – Chino Pozo
Conductor, Piano – Joe Harnell
Drums – Stan Levey
Flute – Bob Donovan
Guitar – Dennis Budimir
Harp – Abe Rosen
Trombone – Mickey Gravine, Ray Desio
Trumpet – Danny Stiles, Phil Sunkel, Willie Thomas
Producer – Dave Cavanaugh
Cover [Photo] – Lee Friedlander

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We return to a box set and a record filled with music from my dad’s favorite trumpet player, and we’re going to hear him sing every song. It comes from the first of 12 box sets in the Franklin Mint collection, the greatest jazz recordings of all time. And this musician has the first two records all to himself. So get ready to hear the man once billed as the world’s greatest trumpeter…by his wife…in Volume 113: Louis THE Jazz Masterpiece Part 2.

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Louis Armstrong Roy Eldridge Jazz Masterpieces
Label: The Franklin Mint Record Society – JAZZ 001: 1/2/3/4
Series: The Greatest Jazz Recordings Of All Time, Institute Of Jazz Studies Official Archive Collection – JAZZ 001
Format: 4 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Red vinyl Box Set, Red Box
Country: US
Released: 1982
Genre: Jazz
Style: Swing

As usual for a Franklin Mint record we will hear 8 of the 12 songs from record two, which is sides 3 and 4.

Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra – Dusky Stevedore
Written by J.C. Johnson

Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra – Swing That MusicLouis Armstrong & His Orchestra – Swing That Music
Written by Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra – Alexander’s Rag Time Band
Written by Irving Berlin

Louis Armstrong With Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five – You Rascal You
Written by Sam Theard

Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra – Solitude
Written by Duke Ellington

Louis Armstrong & The Mills Brothers – Darling Nellie Gray
a 19th century anti-slavery ballad written and composed by Benjamin Hanby in 1856.

Louis Armstrong & The Dukes Of Dixieland – Avalon
a 1920 popular song written by Al Jolson, Buddy DeSylva and Vincent Rose

Louis Armstrong & The All Stars – Someday, Sweetheart
written by Los Angeles-based musicians John and Reb Spikes

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