Sleeve notes: Following the enormous success of the previous “Country Giants” albums, we have decided to release yet another great LP for you to add to your collection. The “Giants” featured this time include some of the best representatives of … Continued
Sleeve Notes: HAMMOND ORGANS TODAY presents the superb combination of the incomparable sound of the Hammond organ and today’s finest exponents on the instrument. The artists playing on this album are KEITH BECKINGHAM, the acknowledged master of the easy listening … Continued
Sleeve Notes: The prerequisite for relaxed jazz is the quality of intimacy. Yet, all too often the tempos and the instrumentation of such groups have served to incite a mood far different. To prove the point, soak in the feeling … Continued
Sleeve Notes: When George Shearing devised his small band version of the Glen Miller sound, he little realised that it would take him to the top of the show-biz tree, and away from his native England, to live and work. … Continued
Sleeve Notes: Whatever the composition of the week’s television schedules, at the weekend viewers expect something in the way of a major variety show a large-scale star-studded hour of singing, dancing and comedy as the high spot of the week. … Continued
Sleeve Notes: The Kalman Lendvay Gipsy Orchestra Romance, irrepressible gaiety, a touch of sadness – its all inexplicably mixed together in the bitter-sweet music of the Hungarian gipsies. From Old Budapest, a true gipsy band of violins and dulcimer (like … Continued
Sleeve Notes: Ron Goodwin And His Orchestra – The Gypsy FiddlerHelmut Zacharias And His Orchestra – Light My FireValentino Aranjuez – Mon AmourVocals – Mike Sammes SingersRoyal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra – Spitfire PreludeMr. Acker Bilk – Basin Street BluesBravo Brasso … Continued
Label: RCA INTS 1421 1973 1970s Covers
Label: Polydor 237 656 1964 1960s Covers
Sleeve notes: Although it is now almost twenty-five years since Glenn Miller lost his life, it is true to say that even today his music has a great hold over the public, for despite the tremendous change in the music … Continued