The Boob Tube. The idiot Box. TV will only be a fad. No matter how badly that living room screen has been disparaged, there has been some great music from some great shows over the years. So get ready to run some memories through those old brain tubes of yours for Volume 58: TV’s Golden Hits.

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Frank Chacksfield & His Orchestra – TV’s Golden Hits
Label: Compleat Records – 671020-1
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Club Edition, Stereo
Released: 1986
Genre: Pop, Stage & Screen
Style: Novelty, Soundtrack, Theme

Rawhide
Hitchcock Presents
Peter Gunn
Dragnet
The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
The Jackie Gleason Show
The Dick Van Dyke Show

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Welcome to the first 78 RPM Sunday. My earliest memories of listening to and playing music in my parents’ house involved this collection. It was created to teach children the instruments in the orchestra, but definitely not be boring about it…well for 1949. So get ready to hear the instruments talk in Volume 57: Rusty in Orchestraville.

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Henry Blair And Billy Bletcher – Rusty In Orchestraville
Label: Capitol Records – DCN-115
Format: 3 x Shellac, 10″, 78 RPM Box Set, Album
Released: 1949
Genre: Classical, Children’s
Style: Educational, Story

A Introduction
B Violin / Cello / Bass
Bass – Arthur Bernstein
Cello – Kurt Reher
Violin – David Frisina
C Trumpet / Trombone
Trombone – Edward Kusby
Trumpet – Del Staigers
D Haydn’s Surprise Symphony
E Woodwind & Percussion Family
F Piano / Conclusion
Piano – Raymond Turner

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He was often billed as the “greatest living entertainer in the world”. In fact I watched him blow a slightly even more famous entertainer off the stage in 1988. His nickname was “Mr. Show Business,” and he held a grudge against JFK. So get ready for Rat Pack Style entertainment in Volume 56: Sammy is Now.

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Sammy Davis Jr. – Now
Label: MGM Records – SE-4832
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Released: 1972
Genre: Jazz, Pop
Style: Vocal, Easy Listening

The Candy Man
Songwriter – Anthony Newley, Leslie Bricusse
I Want To Be Happy
Songwriter – Irving Caesar, Vincent Youmans
This Is My Life
Songwriter – Bruno Canfora
MacArthur Park
Songwriter – Jim Webb
John Shaft
Songwriter – Isaac Hayes
Time To Ride
Songwriter – Charles, Mack David

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From Laugh In to Grace and Frankie, with many movies and a stop off for the Magic School Bus, Lily Tomlin has been a part of my entertainment life for parts of six decades. There are so many faces and voices that belong to her. But there’s one, three-word line that makes her instantly recognizable. So get ready to hear early stage comedy from Ernestine herself with Volume 55: Lily’s Ringy Dingy.

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Lily Tomlin – This Is A Recording
Label: Polydor – 24-4055
Format: Vinyl, LP
Released: 1971
Genre: Non-Music
Style: Comedy

The marriage counselor
Obscene phone call
Strike
Ernestine
The Pageant
The F.B.I.
The Mafia And The Pope

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Variety
Lincoln Center
Getty Images
Manny Carabel
People
Jack Robinson
Norman Seeff
Entertainment Weekly
USA Today
Biography.com
Hollywood Reporter

Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass was never far from the stereo in my parents’ living room. The TJB easily has the highest number of records represented in my dad’s collection with 12. The second highest is Henry Mancini with 7. And, of course, it’s the ultimate representation of the happy music I grew up with I talk so much about. So get ready for some classical brass with Volume 54: Alpert’s Ninth.

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Herb Alpert And The Tijuana Brass* – Herb Alpert’s Ninth
Label: A&M Records – SP 4134
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Terre Haute Pressing
Country: US
Released: Dec 8, 1967
Genre: Jazz
Style: Latin Jazz

The Love Nest
Written-By – Louis Hirsch, Otto Harbach
Cowboys And Indians
Written-By – Sol Lake
Flea Bag
Written-By – Julius Wechter
Carmen
Arranged By – Herb Alpert, Peter Matz
The Trolley Song
Written-By – Hugh Martin, Ralph Blaine
My Heart Belongs To Daddy
Written-By – Cole Porter
A Banda
Written-By – Chico Buarque De Hollanda

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If you are anywhere near my age and older, you’ll remember those many new years eves tuned to your TV to watch the ball drop in Times Square. And usually, you were tuned into a CBS broadcast of Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians live from the Waldorf Astoria in New York City. Now I’ll be saving his most famous song for next year’s episode that DOES fall on New Years Day. But for this episode, get ready for all the other music that made up those magical broadcasts in Volume 53: Dancing Room for the New Year.

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Guy Lombardo And His Royal Canadians – Dancing Room Only
Label: Capitol Records – T1121
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
Country: US
Released: 1959
Genre: Jazz, Pop
Style: Big Band, Vocal, Easy Listening

Fascination
Written-By – F. D. Marchetti
Now Is The Hour
Vocals – Bill Flannigan
Written-By – C. Scott, D. Stewart, M. Kaihan
Our Love Is Here To Stay
Vocals – Kenny Gardner (2)
Written-By – G. Gershwin-I. Gershwin
East Of The Sun
Written-By – B. Bowman
Canadian Sunset
Written-By – E. Heywood, N. Gimbel
Arrivederci Roma (Goodbye To Rome)
Vocals – Bill Flannigan
Written-By – C. Sigman, Garinei, R. Rascel, Giovannini

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