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A near-legit collection of TV themes from SPC
Diplomat was a Synthetic Plastics Co. label, which makes The Themes from Ben Casey, Dr. Kildare and Other Great TV Shows a fairly extraordinary issue--for SPC, I mean. First off, despite the typically...
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Francis Scott and His Orchestra--Moods for Candlelight (1952)
I found this during a recent thrift visit--the cover was too cool to pass on. Disc is in solid shape, so I gave it a spin and decided it merits a post. This is beautifully arranged and performed mood...
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Twelve Top Tunes (Tops L1510)
From the Tops label, twelve fun cover versions of current (1958) hits, and I'm almost sure that's Mary Tyler Moore on the cover, but I'm trying to confirm this on line in case I'm wrong. She appeared...
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Symphony of the Blues--The Vienna World Pops Symphony Orch., c. Hans Hagen...
A cool thrift find on the Crown label. Not in the best condition, but I did my usual obsessive de-clicking (most of it with MAGIX's "Draw Wave Shape" tool, which allows the user to manually remove...
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Twenty-four Top Hits (Tops L1510)
Yes, 24 "Top Hits"--actually, two 12 Top Hits LPs. You'll notice that both have the same label and catalog number--Tops L1510--but sport different tracks. You may notice in addition that the second...
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Omantic Piano: Pietro Dero and His Orchestra
After Dark Piano Favorites, no less. My kind of easy listening, and I love the wide, lush Somerset/Stereo-Fidelity stereo, but something about the title confuses me: "Omantic" Piano? What's that? A...
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Well, I was on the verge of saying "F. it all" and shutting down the blog. No comments, little traffic, so why put the work into it? Luckily, Buster mentioned (on Ernie's blog) that Blogger has for...
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...the Blogger team is aware of the notification problem and is working on it.Must be one whale of a problem.Lee
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Twenty Greatest Blues Hits by the Original Artists (Custom RB-1)
Even without looking at the list of performers, you know this is going to be a great blues LP, because Custom was part of the Crown label family, which included Kent, United, and Modern. Cream of the...
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Pop Hits--This Week's Hits, 1958
Audition was part of the Grand Award Records family of labels, which included Waldorf Music Hall, Colortone, 18 Top Hits, and other, um, winners. Actually, the fake hits on these labels were pretty...
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Ten Pop Hits--Juke Box Hits of the Week (Colortone 49103; probably 1958)
And we're back with another Pop Hits LP from the Waldorf family of labels--Colortone, this time. The year seems to be the same (1958) as last post. There's a less colorful (and less campy) cover, and...
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When Scan-n-Stitch goes wrong. Or, Oops.
I could swear I did this correctly. Apparently not, though.Yes, I'm preparing the next post. If I can get the scan right, anyway.Maybe I can do a series of these, frame them, and sell them on eBay.Lee
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Manhattan Serenade--David Whitehall and His Orchestra (1958)
This is an LP I've had for many years and love to death. (Scan-n-Stitch Deluxe worked this time on the cover. We dispose of failed experiments in the back of the lab.) Gorgeous easy listening,...
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Hurrah! label 78 rpm from 1962!
This record was overpriced and on eBay. (Coincidence?) But I knew I needed to have it--I'm a fake-hits addict. In other words, nuts. As a rule, I spend as little as I can manage (short of...
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Proof that anything is possible: A professionally done cheap-label LP cover!
Discogs lists the year for Mission: Impossible and Other Action Themes as 1967 for the Canadian issue, and 1968 for the U.S. issue. Note that the cover contains the mono prefix "DLP," but with...
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Flying Saucer of Latest Top Tunes
The flying saucer in question must have been either small or tightly packed--it only brought us ten tracks. But what the heck--this is probably best cheap-label LP jacket ever. It's so effectively...
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Artti Records 120--Rock-a-Beatin' Boogie
There's no justice in this world. The top image is my scan of Artti Records 120 (Rock-a-Beatin' Boogie for tap dancing class--what else?). The bottom image is the slightly out of focus digital image...
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Early fake hits (before rock and roll gained its foothold), 1949-1954
Sixteen tracks today--all fake hits, but all dating from before rock and roll became a regular presence in the pop charts, which I consider to be from 1956 on. Feel free to argue that point (some...
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Non-stop idocy
Anymore, I get stupidity like this two or three times a day in the comment section:"you're in reality a just right webmaster.The web site loading pace is amazing. It kind of feels that you're doing any...
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Rock n' Roll--Artie Malvin (1956); Tops in Pops--All the Latest Hit...
Two budget 10-inch LPs of surprisingly good quality, both sound- and performance-wise. The Artie Malvin disc had obviously been played a lot, and not with light-tracking tonearms. To the rescue: my...
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