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Hey There, Lonely Girl--Jingle, Jangle--Sugar, Sugar (Design...
Musicman1979 suggested I revise this post (thanks!), as the LP is (or was) being discussed at the Facebook Brand "X" page. I retained the original text. I see that I liked the cover tracks, though...
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Reposts: The Biggest Hits of '59, Vols. 1 and 2--The RCA Camden Rockers (not!)
As requested by musicman1979, a revival of RCA Camden's The Biggest Hits of '59, Vol. 1 and biggest hits of '59, vol. 2. From "The Biggest" to "biggest." And, for some unknown reason, I forgot that...
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Halloween 2024, Part 1: Stanley Holloway, Paul Frees, Elsa Lanchester, David...
A number of technical glitches when preparing this slaylist--evil forces working to ruin my Halloween-blogging plans, no doubt But I chanted some magic words over my ceramic...
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Halloween 2024, Part 2: Al Goodman, Earl Fuller, John Logan, Charles Randolph...
On this not-so-chilly October evening, our second Halloween 2024 collection (which is why I call it "Halloween 2024, Pt. 2"--seems logical enough). We start out with a marvelous 1945 recording of...
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A Panorama of American Orchestral Music: Grofe, John Knowles Paine, Copland,...
A Panorama of American Orchestral Music was a series, and an interesting one. With impressive fidelity, even (for Allegro Elite, especially). Too bad Ferde Grofe is represented by the Huckleberry...
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Merry Shellacmas! John McCormack, Trinity Choir, Collins H. Driggs,...
One hour of 78 rpm goodies, all Santa-approved (you'll have to take my word). The Trinity Choir's 8/26/1926 Christmas Hymns and Carols, (I love it when that distinction is made) from a period when...
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The re-return of "Christmas Is for Children"--A Pickwick (Design) classic...
This at least my second reposting of this terrific LP find of four years back. And a re-re-posting is sort of apt, or even ironic, given that this delightful Pickwick collection contains material...
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Confusion reigns with my file-sharing service
Greetings. Please let me know if you're able to successfully download my two recent zips. I have set them to "view only" for the OneDrive sharing link, but OneDrive is telling me that neither zip...
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Beyond human belief
Along with Microsoft Support providing incomprehensible instructions re OneDrive (the techs seem to think I'm using an improper VPN, a concept I barely understand), I've suddenly been alerted by...
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Parade Christmas Sampler
=Well, if I have to check online to see my comments, no problem. Meanwhile, in addition to sending me that weird message (that I had somehow, in some neighboring multiverse, disabled comment...
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A single which merits its own post, and with a three-paragraph backstory
DOWNLOAD: Bob Ellis 1955.zip--Santa Claus (Bob Ellis) and Bob Ellis Jr., Elector Records MC-1000-45; 1955.And, wow! Blogger is now allowing the post-search function. There's hope for us...
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Carol of the Little Drummer Boy (repost from 2021)
At the moment, I'm doing a re-rip which has proved to be a tremendous sound-editing challenge. Had I known ahead of time what I was in for, I'm not sure what I'd have done with the four 45-rpm EPs....
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A Christmas without Line Material... cannot be allowed. A re-re-re-repost.
1949 sleeve (above) and disc (below)My latest re-re-re-repost of these marvelous sides, which are quite probably the best company-giveaway holiday singles of all time. (That should be a Grammy...
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"Christmas Favorites," from Promenade. Or, what do MINT SPC pressings sound...
This is complicated. This four-EP Promenade set, wherein most of the sides are titled Christmas Favorites, is a fascinating hodgepodge of Lord-knows-what-source-LP-or-EP-set selections, with Santa...
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Christmas in one key: "Original Music Box Favorites, Volume Two" (Pickwick,...
A pleasant group of holiday numbers played on a Regina Style 50 Music Box--from vintage music-box discs, we can assume. And the fidelity is amazing, and not just for Pickwick--this may have been...
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Merry Christmas to All: New High Fidelity recordings of popular Christmas...
"New High Fidelity recordings," claims Audition (Waldorf). Well, that depends on our reading of "new." In fact, all but one of these tracks originally appeared on two 1955 ten-inchers-Christmas...
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From 2020: A Pickwick, SPC, and Spear Records Christmas!
So, before I could ask, "What else can go wrong?" my main desktop PC (the one set up for track-ripping, editing, etc.) conked out--and it's currently at Best Buy, getting fixed. Well, I hope, anyway....
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The One Horse Open Sleigh (James Pierpont)--repost from 2011
Christmas Eve, and no word from Best Buy, which is allegedly transferring data from my deceased PC (the motherboard is "crap," said the tech) to my new laptop. I'm currently on an ancient Lenovo (c....
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Back to the blog!
And what a journey it has been. It started with the sudden demise of my HP laptop in the midst of Christmas blogging. Then, the challenge of a new laptop (a lovely Samsung Galaxy, on sale, and minus...
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Top Six--The Teenagers (sic) Choice: Beatlemania (1964)
A return post from 2020. Its link still works, and I recall that the audio quality is quite good, considering the much-played condition of the U.K. vinyl. By now, I've probably heard 80 percent of the...
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