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Harbor Lights Quartet--In the Upper Room (1963): Classic gospel from Lee Records
I have no memories of Lee Records, but I was only seven when this came out, so maybe I just have lousy recollection. I'd have been one of the world's youngest record label owners, certainly. I do...
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Eddie Maynard, His Orchestra and Chorus--Fabulous 50's (Promenade 2084; 1957...
A Promenade LP featuring an overview of the 1950s, credited to bandleader Eddie Maynard, but with no Eddie Maynard to be heard--the usual cheap-label game. Well, unless that's Eddie on the cover,...
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The Nation's 12 Big Hit Recordings--"All New Hits!"
Well, I jut had a false memory in which I had already put up an album from this series--but it looks like I didn't. Rather, I was recalling this post, in which LPs are similarly strewn across the...
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My Home--The Jubilee Quartet w. Whitey Gleason at the Piano (Mid-America...
A stock cover, but a nice one. On the back jacket, there are hard-to-see signatures from three of the members: Buddy Campbell, Norman Huxman, and the fabulous pianist, Whitey Gleason. With the right...
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Music from Hollywood Films--The Audition Studio Orch., and others. (Audition...
This is Waldorf on the wane. The actual label is Audition (which offered Supertone High Fidelity, no less!), but, of course, Audition was a Waldorf sublabel. I like Audition because it had such cool...
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"Duke of Earl" on Promenade
It satisfies some weirdness in me to title a post "'Duke of Earl' on Promenade." A part of me must like awkward post titles. Maybe it's something I'll outgrow, but I don't know--I'm 63, after all....
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Jack Bishop Sings Songs of Faith (Gloryland 101)--Bluegrass gospel from...
Recorded in Columbus, Ohio, but pressed in Lafayette, Tennessee, according to the matrix number (ARP-8185-- Atwell Record Pressing, Inc). No law against that. And no law against providing bogus...
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Yes, Waldorf 18 Top Hits was mail-order! Waldorf mags and ads, 1955
I was hoping to find proof that the Waldorf 18 Top Hits series was mail-order, but I needed to find an ad to prove it. Well, I struck budget oil on eBay--four copies of Waldorf's Top Hit Club News and...
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Chintzy Waldorf packaging, but the usual excellent music--All Time Rock 'N...
So, now the new Blogger is importing (is that the word?) photos in small form. Previously, photos were showing up larger than desired within text, and they had to be resized. This is either some...
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My Home--The Blue Ridge Quartet (Queen City Albums 80871, prob. 1968)
The Waldorf post left me without much time to prepare a Sunday offering, but three quick thrift stops early this evening yielded this very fine Blue Ridge Quartet LP, which I'm nearly sure is from...
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Astonishing rendition of Pacific 231, and two other Cook "Sounds of Our...
It must have been 25 years ago when I found this ten-incher within rows and rows of thrift store Classical vinyl. I bought it for Arthur Honegger's Pacific 231, which is just about my favorite...
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The Nation's Favorite Rock 'N Roll Hits (Hollywood Records LPH-31)
Now, I would swear I had featured this LP before (my other, "beater" copy), but I would sworn, and I would have been wrong. In fact, I can't find a trace of a former MY(P)WHAE post of this LP, though...
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Wait a minute--that's not Enoch Light...
It's Ginger, aka the lovely Tina Louise, smoking a cigarette and not looking very happy. Maybe it's the make-up. Maybe it's her having to pose for a budget label LP of recycled tracks. No way to be...
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The Train Keeps A-Rollin'
Hopefully, this is a more accurate 231 depiction than last time--I plugged "Pacific 4-6-2" into Google Images, and this is one of the many that popped up. A lovely 1910s postcard scan came up, too,...
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The obscure and mysterious Cameo Records label--vintage fake
As far as I know, this label is not to be confused with this one. Then again, who knows? Anyway, for my Aug. 19th Eddie Maynard post, I had used the Internet Archive to track down the source for...
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Happy Goodman Family--Portrait of Excitement (Canaan CAS-9655; 1968)
Thanks to those curses to humanity known as Windows 10 and the new Blogger, this post is arriving late. I spent 20 minutes on what should have been a three-minute task--migrating and renumbering the...
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Fake gold from Waldorf (1956)
As I work on a large post that's taking longer than I figured, it's time to put up this delayed post. Only six tracks, but they're classic Waldorf. They are fake gold. And "fake gold" may not sound...
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A Mess of 45s: The Teeners, Steve and Eydie, Chuck Miller, Sally Sweetland,...
Yes, a mess of forty-fives--hopefully, I haven't made a mess of them. Yuk, yuk. I'm so fast on the wordplay.I'm happy, by the way, to discover that I'm hardly the only person unhappy with the new...
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The Singing Kolandas (Light Records LS-5689; 1976)
For this Sunday, another thrift gift from Diane. This is very pleasant, beautifully professional gospel, though not a type I'm crazy about. However it's a type whose history interests me a lot, so...
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Enoch Light--All the Things You Are (Grand Award G.A. 236-S.D.; 1959)
Enoch Light, in Stereo Phase X, with arrangements by Lew Davies--a lucky thrift find from a few months back. I had to come up with an ID-tag category, so I decided on "Mood Music," though these...
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