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Sing the Top-40 Hits! "The Top-40 Song Book" (Capitol T-2126; 1964)
Sing along with 1964! I had meant to have this up two days ago, but things don't always happen as planned. (Ever notice that in your life?) And, off topic, I'm not going to believe the reports of a...
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Themes From the Movies--Featuring Great Hollywood Vocalists and Orchestras...
So... we have the usual budget-label Jabberwocky of artist credits--on the cover, "Featuring Great Hollywood Vocalists and Orchestras," which is definitely not the case. Then we have "Lew Raymond...
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All-Time Favorites--Tops All-Star Orchestra (Tops L1514; 1957)
Given my copy's slightly rough condition, I wasn't sure if my remastering job would succeed--but it did. (The miracles of channel-summing.) The worst part was having to remove eight or nine clicks...
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"Faust" or "8 full length hits a' poppin'"? Only the turntable knows...
Why would Parade stick the back cover of Gounod's Faust on a Hits A' Poppin' LP? Why would it rehyphenate the title as "Hits-A-Poppin" on the label? At what point did Synthetic Plastics Co. start...
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The First Hits of 1965--Frank Chacksfield and His Orch. (London PS 415;...
Frank (Ebb Tide) Chacksfield and His Orch., performing The First Hits of 1965 in, of course, 1965. And by "faithful," I of course mean faithful to the source, even as Chacksfield's arranger (very...
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Happy Easter 2023!
A classic viral Godzilla-attacking-Peeps image for our Easter 2023. Plus, three 78s--The Haydn Quartet's marvelous1908 recording of Robert Lowry's Christ Arose, the Trinity Quartet performing Jesus...
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Cocktails for Two--Jacques Darieux and His Orchestra? (Palace PST-623)
You know that feeling when you thrift a Palace LP with an unusually classy cover, and the credits read "JACQUES DARIEUX and his orchestra," and so you're sure you've made a cool find of the...
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The Big Hits of 1965--Hugo Winterhalter and His Orchestra (Kapp KS-3429; 1965)
I'd hoped to get this up earlier, but things got in the way, I guess. Foul, evil things. Grotesques. Creatures from another place, another time. Nasty, loathsome, dreadful beings.No, wait--that...
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Sunday morning gospel: Walking up the King's Highway--Mr. and Mrs. F.H. Lacy...
Well, this would have been Sunday morning, but in my half-awake state I scheduled it for Monday morning. Oops... But, to the music:Deeply-felt, swinging gospel (you can't beat that combination) from...
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The Biggest Hits of '58--The RCA Camden Rockers (Yeah, sure) and Larry Green...
By request, The Biggest Hits of '58, Vol. 2. And I'm surprised to see that I have yet to post Volume 1. That's interesting. Anyway, a thrift gift from Diane (Thanks, Diane!) in glorious monoaural....
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Sometimes, we pick the wrong project. Or, Arrrrrrgh!!
Music to Remember You By--or, Music for Everyone (its label subtitle). "The Top Favorites of Today and Forever" (Good grief!). A project which, in hindsight, I shouldn't have taken on. Thus, my post...
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Music to Remember You By--Herbie Layne and His Orch. (Hollywood Records LPH-9)
From 1956, Music to Remember You By, aka Music for Everyone--"The Top Favorites of Today and Forever." Discogs lists a Gateway edition of this LP (called Music for Everyone) which contains Skokian...
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Finally, background music for pouring steel! It's about time. "Music for...
1965: "We have music for ironing, for dating, for babysitting, for fishing, for reading, for changing a tire, for skydiving--but what about music for pouring steel??"--Common complaint from the steel...
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Sounds of Silence (Modern Sound MS-1020)--A Hit Records classic from...
I've given the date as 1966 (question mark), because there's the slimmest change that 1965 was the release year. But I doubt it, since Day Tripper (released in December, 1965) enjoyed its peak...
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"8 Full Length Hits A' Poppin'" (Parade 5012; 1955) and Top Hits V-20: The...
Another Parade Records Hits A' Poppin' ten-incher, credited to Bobby Powers and his "hits a 'poppin' orchestra," plus all six tracks from the six-track 78 rpm EP Top Hits V-20. You have been...
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This Month's 16 Top Hits--Allied TM-2: Unusually good (likely, Pickwick) fakes!
So, I had a post nearly ready to go, but then I got a request for this LP (This Month's 16 Top Hits) at the Brand "X" Records Facebook page, and that struck me as such a good idea, I switched...
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Could have been trippier, but not bad: The Galaxy Generation--Aquarius, Good...
So, um... Who is "The Galaxy Generation"? Well, in at least four instances, it's Maurice Montez and his groovy organ. Specifically, four tracks from this LP:Namely, Star Fall, No Love But Your Love,...
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Twisters in the Night: "The Big Twist Hits"--The Charlie "Hoss" Singleton...
"Twisters in the Night" is not a reference to tornado activity: It's just terrible word play on my part. For you see, Charlie (Don't Forbid Me) "Hoss" Singleton wrote the words to Frank Sinatra's...
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The Million Sellers by the Today People (Vocalion VL73868, 1969)--1968 Top 40
My thanks to those who have stuck with my blog--My long absence was due to two factors: 1) bad allergies (it's ragweed time), 2 the fact that I had a post all ready to go, only to realize that it was...
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It looks like this blog is finished...
Workupload has banned any number of my posts. Apparently, Tops material is making money for someone, and when someone makes money from "content," then that entity is presumed to own the content....
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