This is not an album that was played often in the house. In fact, this is one of those albums I don’t remember my dad having at all. But after listening to it, I could understand why my dad had it in his collection. It’s that happy music that I talk about so much. So get ready for a south American beat with Volume 34: Brasile ’66 Ye-Me-Le

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Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66* ‎– Ye-Me-Le
Label: A&M Records ‎– SP-4236, A&M Records ‎– SP 4236
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: 1969
Genre: Jazz, Latin
Style: Bossa Nova, Easy Listening

Ye-Me-Le
Written-By – Chico Feitosa, Luis Carlos Vinhas
Wichita Lineman
Written-By – Jimmy Webb
Norwegian Wood
Written-By – Lennon-McCartney
Moanin’
Written-By – Bobby Timmons
Masquerade
Written-By – Leonard Haynes, Ron Rose
What The World Needs Now
Written-By – Burt Bacharach – Hal David

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For the second time we turn to a Herb Alpert record. One of 12 my dad had in his collection. This album is filled with many familiar TJB tunes, including one that was used on a game show. So get ready for the upbeat and very cool sound that used to fill our home in Volume 33: Tijuana Brass Going Places.

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Herb Alpert And The Tijuana Brass* ‎– !!Going Places!!
Label: A&M Records ‎– SP-4112
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Monarch Pressing
Country: US
Released: Oct 1965
Genre: Jazz, Pop
Style: Latin Jazz, Easy Listening, Instrumental

Tijuana Taxi
Ervan Coleman
Spanish Flea
Julius Wechter
Cinco De Mayo
Chris Montez
I’m Getting Sentimental Over You
George Bassman
More And More Amor
Sol Lake
Zorba The Greek
Mikis Theodorakis
The Third Man Theme
Anton Karas

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San Diego Union Tribune
Dewey Nicks

We are returning to the Smithsonian collection the Greatest Jazz recordings of all time. This episode is record one of a four-record box set that features a piano player on each disc. So get ready for one of the original cutters in Volume 32: Jazz Keyboard Master Fats Waller

The Smithsonian collections include a booklet for each box set. I’ll use these notes to introduce each song.

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Various ‎– Jazz Masters Of The Keyboard Vol. I
Label: The Franklin Mint Record Society ‎– FM JAZZ 009,
Series: The Greatest Jazz Recordings Of All Time – , Institute Of Jazz Studies Official Archive Collection –
Format: 4 × Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Red Box and Vinyl Box Set
Country: Sweden
Released: 1982
Genre: Jazz

Handful Of Keys
Honeysuckle Rose
Vibraphone
Anita
Clarinet Marmalade
Lounging At The Waldorf
Paswonky

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Pictures at an Exhibition is a suite of ten pieces – plus a recurring, varied Promenade – composed for piano by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky in 1874. The suite is Mussorgsky’s most famous piano composition, and has become a showpiece for virtuoso pianists. It has become further known through various orchestrations and arrangements produced by other musicians and composers, with Maurice Ravel’s 1922 version for full symphony orchestra being by far the most recorded and performed.

By the way, we’ll also hear an excerpt from another Russian composer on this episode.

So get ready for an historical composer, conductor and orchestra all rolled up into one masterpiece on Volume 31: Pictures at an Exhibition

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Moussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Leonard Bernstein, The New York Philharmonic ‎– Pictures At An Exhibition · Capriccio Espagnol
Label: Columbia Masterworks ‎– ML 5401
Format: Vinyl, LP, Mono
Released: 1959
Genre: Classical
Style: Romantic, Modern

Promenade and The Gnomes
Tuileries
Ballet Of The Chicks In Their Shells
Fandango Asturiano from Cappriccio
The Great Gate Of Kiev

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The title of this collection is a little deceiving. Yes, you will hear Bing Crosby singing, but you will hear several selections of the Longines Symphonette without him singing. I don’t have a problem with that, so let’s listen to some beautiful music and a beautiful voice in Volume 30: Bing’s Loved Songs Part 1

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The Longines Symphonette ‎– Bing Crosby’s Treasury – The Songs I Love
Label: Longines Symphonette Society ‎– none
Format: 6 × Vinyl, LP, Stereo Box Set
Released: 1966
Genre: Jazz, Pop, Stage & Screen
Style: Vocal, Swing, Musical, Big Band, Easy Listening

Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive
written by Harold Arlen and the lyrics by Johnny Mercer in 1944
What’ll I Do
Written-By – Irving Berlin 1923
Cheek to Cheek
Written-By – Irving Berlin 1935
Joobalai
Lyrics By – Leo Robin 1938
Music By – Ralph Rainger
Marie
Irving Berlin in 1924
One for My Baby
written by Harold Arlen and the lyrics by Johnny Mercer for the movie musical The Sky’s the Limit, 1943

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We are once again featuring a non-music record from my dad’s collection. In fact, this is the second dive into this collection of six records. My previous life in radio made me really appreciate the history we are hearing on this collection. AND I get to share a couple of my own radio stories in this episode. So get ready to heat up some old tubes on Volume 29: Golden Memories of Radio Part 2

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Jack Benny ‎– Golden Memories Of Radio
Label: Longines Symphonette Society
Format: 6 × Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Mono, Box Set
Released: 1969
Genre: Non-Music
Style: Radioplay

We are listening to record two, which is side 2 and 11.

Excerpts from:
Jack Benny and Frank Knight’s narration
The Romance Of Helen Trent
Just Plain Bill
Babe Ruth And Lou Gehrig On Their Radio Show
Babe Ruth’s Final Message
Lou Gehrig Says “Goodbye”
“Ma” Perkins Last Broadcast
Mary Noble, Back Stage Wife
classic live on-air blunders
Mary Margaret McBride With Mr. & Mrs. Alben Barkley
Commercials: Interwoven Socks, Chesterfield Smoke Dreams, Pepsi-Cola, Rinso, Lava, Crisco, The Longines-Wittnauer Watch Company

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