I’m sure I’ve already mentioned a couple of times how when I was cataloging both my dad’s and my record collections I kept finding his records in my collection and vica versa. Well, THIS album was part of my collection for most of the last four decades. So let’s jazz up this end of the year’s Christmas episode with Volume 52: Blues For Baby Jesus.

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Gary Mann – Blues For Baby Jesus: The E & E Insurance Christmas Album
Label: Educator & Executive Insurance – EE-101
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Released: 1972
Genre: Jazz

Jingle Bells
Alone At Christmas Time
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Sleigh Bells
Christmas Song
Blues for Baby Jesus

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This is a fun little album with some music you may recognize even though it was first recorded nearly three quarters of a century ago. So prepare to do the Choro, the Cha Cha, and the Mambo in Volume 51: Molina’s Latin Touch.

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I keep saying the monthly 78 RPM episode on the Final Friday. It is not. Alliteration got me. I only post on Sundays.

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Carlos Molina And His Orchestra – Latin Touch
Label: Coronet Records – CXS-270
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Released: 1965
Genre: Jazz, Latin
Style: Mambo, Latin Jazz

Tico Tico
composed by Zequinha de Abreu in 1917
Ay Mi Chatita
Mujer Celosa
Mambo #5
composed by Pérez Prado in 1949
Mambo #8
composed by Pérez Prado

Ay Mi Chatita
Por Mi Lloraras

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Ah, my mom and dad with their love of music from the movies. We’ve already heard a few tunes from the big screen this year on this show, like the Mancini episode of Academy Award winning music. Only a couple of the tunes you are about to hear earned an oscar, and even Google hasn’t heard of the orchestra leader, but get ready anyway for silver screen music from the first half of last century in Volume 50: Hollywood Hits.

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Ronnie Ogden And His Orchestra – Hits From Hollywood – Vol. 3 For Hi-Fi Living
Label: RCA Custom – RAL 1003, RCA Custom – RAL-1003
Series: For Hi-Fi Living – Volume 3
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Released: 1957
Genre: Jazz, Pop

I Feel A Song Coming’ On
Written: 1935
Music by: Jimmy McHugh
Words by: Dorothy Fields
Written for: Every Night at Eight

It’s A Most Unusual Day
Written: 1948
Music by: Jimmy McHugh
Words by: Harold Adamson
Written for: A Date with Judy

Over The Rainbow
Written: 1938
Music by: Harold Arlen
Words by: E. Y. Yip Harburg
Written for: The Wizard of Oz

Ramona
Written in 1928
music by Mabel Wayne
lyrics by L. Wolfe Gilbert
Written for Ramona (Silent Film)

High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me)
Written: 1952
Music by: Dimitri Tiomkin
Words by: Ned Washington
Written for: High Noon

Three Coins In The Fountain
Written: 1955
Music by: Jule Styne
Words by: Sammy Cahn
Written for: Three Coins In The Fountain

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Here’s another collection of albums released by the Longines Symphonette Society. One of 12 my dad has in his collection. You’ve already heard from a couple. This is a three record set and we’ll be listening to selections from record one. So get ready for music from a completely anonymous source in Volume 49: Birth of the Blues Part 1.

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The Longines Symphonette – Birth Of The Blues – Vol. 11
Label: Longines Symphonette Society – C-7-11 1
Series: Our Century In Music – 11
Format: 3 x Vinyl, LP Box Set
Country: Canada
Released: 1974
Genre: Blues

Birth Of The Blues
Music by Ray Henderson
Rhapsody in Blue
written by George Gershwin
Stormy Weather
written by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler
Mississippi Mud
written by Harry Barris and James Cavanaug
St. James Infirmary
Anonymous
Ja Da
a hit song written in 1918 by Bob Carleton.

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What? Another trumpet player we haven’t played yet? What? More Dixieland? From my dad’s collection? Well of course. And this is just one of four albums from this trumpet master in my dad’s collection. So get ready to take a trip back to New Orleans for some happy music in Volume 48: Al Hirt Swingin’ Dixie.

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Al Hirt – Swingin’ Dixie Volume 3
Label: Audio Fidelity – AFLP 1926
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
Released: 1960
Genre: Jazz
Style: Dixieland

High Society
Written-By – Porter Steele
Bill Bailey
words and music were written by Hughie Cannon
Arranged By – Hirt, Sidney Frey
Dixieland One Step
Written-By – Nick La Rocca
Up A Lazy River
Written-By – Hoagy Carmichael, Sidney Arodin
Sweet Georgia Brown
Written-By – Ben Bernie, Kenneth Casey, Maceo Pinkard
Down By The Riverside
Arranged By – Hirt, Sidney Frey

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This is a cool collection. Benny Goodman performed a famous concert in 1938 at Carnegie Hall, which happened to be recorded and released 12 years later. However, this album was culled from CBS radio broadcasts from the previous year and not released until 1956. So get ready for some raw Benny Goodman taken from the early airwaves with Volume 47: Swing’s King Concert 2

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Benny Goodman – 1937-38 Jazz Concert No. 2 The King Of Swing Vol. 1
Label: Columbia – CL 817, Columbia – CL-817
Series: Benny Goodman Silver Anniversary
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Compilation, Mono
Released: 1956
Genre: Jazz
Style: Big Band, Swing

Ridin’ High
Written-By – Cole Porter
Nice Work If You Can Get It
Written-By – Ira Gershwin – George Gershwin
Vibraphone Blues
Written-By, Vocals – Lionel Hampton
The Sheik Of Araby
Written-By – Francis Wheeler, Harry Smith, and Ted Snyder
Sunny Disposish
Written By – Ira Gershwin and Phil Charig
Nagasaki
Written-By – Harry Warren and Mort Dixon
Band–St. Louis Blues
Written-By – W. C. Handy

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By Photo by Jammes J. Kriegsmann, New York – Public Domain