CHANNEL20SOUND Channel 20 Sound, a new process which realises in superbly lifelike stereo all the potential splendour of each instrument, was specially developed in the Tokyo studios of E.M.I.’s associates, Toshiba Musical Industries. Recordings are made in a new studio designed exclusively for high quality recording a multiplicity of solo microphones captures every subtlety of tone-colour from each instrument, and a specially developed control console blends, mixes and amplifies each microphone’s contribution with the delicacy, precision and engineering brilliance that characterise Japan’s present-day technological achievement.
Twelve of the most vivid performances ever recorded by… Enoch Light and The Light Brigade Specially selected masterpieces of musical sound recording… All on one record for the first time!
Label: Command SCOM 114 Art Director: Daniel Pezza Photography: Anthony Lloyd-Parker
Siebzehn Jahr, Blondes Haar, Strangers In The Night, Er Ist Wieder Da Traumerei’n, A Taste Of Honey, Lara’s Theme From ‘Dr. Zhivago’, In Un Fiore, Spanish Eyes, Beat-Special No. 1, Michelle, I Left My Heart In San Francisco, Ab Und Zu, Kinki, Edelweiss From The Musical ‘The Sound Of Music’
Hold Me, It’s The Talk Of The Town, So What’s New?, Somebody Loves You, Sermonette, Rose Room, Hold Back The Dawn, Love For Love, Lady, Take Seven, Marjoram, Pussy Footin’
The Banjo’s Back In Town, Mack The Knife, South Rampart Street Parade, Tennessee Wig Walk, Limehouse Blues, When The Saints Go Marching In, Roll Out The Barrel, Canadian Capers, American Patrol, Black Cat Rag, Aba Daba, Honeymoon, Banjo Rag
Drinking medley: Tavern in the town — Landlord fill the flowing bowl — Little brown jug — Another little drink — Here’s to good old whiskey — What shall we do with the drunken sailor — Tavern in the town
…lush strings, sweeping strings totally beautiful and eminently David Rose strings…
“The Stripper” — David Rose composed it. “Holiday for Strings” — David Rose composed that, too.
David Rose, in fact, composed 11/12ths of the music in this bedazzling David Rose showcase. For most composers, the above would represent a professional lifetime. With David Rose, however, there’s a hitch! Specifically, composer David Rose is also the famed arranger and conductor David Rose, whose arrangement helped to establish “Like Young” as a “standard” instrumental hit.
“The Stripper”, “Holiday for Strings” and “Like Young” — nearly everyone can whistle the melodies of these favourites upon request. But what of the other tunes in the album? Well, just about everyone could whistle those melodies, too . . . if only the titles were as familiar as the tunes.
How did this situation come about?… the answer is as grand as the David Rose talent itself. Briefly, David Rose has been enjoying the business of music-making since the mid-thirties when, as a Chicago radio staff pianist and arranger, he was responsible for adapting and performing the music which backdropped the voices of radio’s top stars. His sounds were so successful that Hollywood came calling in 1938 and persuaded him to vent his talents over Hollywood-based air waves. Radio fame led quickly to screen acclaim which in turn led to TV pre-eminence (like musical directorship s on “top 10” shows “Bonanza” and “The Red Skelton Hour”). The result is a repertoire of magnificent music that’s been heard and enjoyed via the three major entertainment media —fine music whose audience favour rests more with the melodies than the titles.
And here are sumptuously new David Rose presentations of those beautiful David Rose compositions—each one intended strictly for listening pleasure, whether it be of the com-forting background type or of the more intense and rewarding full-attention variety. No matter what, complete enjoyment is there when familiar “California Melodies” and “Gay Spirits” are given lyrically sweeping interpretations . . . when the equally familiar “Dance of the Spanish Onion” along with “Wig-Warn” and “Taco Holiday” are caught in a lighthearted intermingling of violins, brass, woodwinds and percussion . . . when the almost classically familiar “Four-Twenty A.M.” romances the senses with a kind of New York-on-a-drizzly-morning mood.
This is truly a HOLIDAY FOR STRINGS — pizzicato strings, sweeping strings, totally beautiful strings . . . rich strings delicately accented with just the right dash of an entire orchestra of instruments. And it’s all by a complexity of talents named David Rose.
It’s very much an international hit parade these days, with songs from nearly every country in the world at times, all fighting hard to win those coveted places high up in the top twenty.
This latest Caravelli album has taken due notice of the trends, of course. In bringing you this happy selection of recent hits the Maestro has picked a round dozen of the best from at least half as many countries and has given them all that magic Caravelli treatment.
Setting a romantic mood to open side one, we begin with one of this year’s most haunting new melodies. John Phillips of the Mamas and Papas wrote ‘San Francisco’ which proved to be a Number One hit for Scott McKenzie. Also from across the Atlantic comes an old Cuban song, which turned up in the Pete Seeger repertoire and recently scored for the Sandpipers. That’s right, we mean ‘Guantanamera’.
European writers are well featured throughout this album. From Britain’s Martin and Coulter comes ‘Puppet On A String’ which took them, and Sandie Shaw, right to the top at Monte Carlo in the ’67 Eurovision Song Contest. John Barry is heard, too, in ‘Wednesday’s Child’, which he wrote for the film ‘The QuiIler Memorandum’.
Maurice Jarre, the French film composer whose ‘Lawrence Of Arabia’ score was and is so popular has two of his more recent compositions included. On side one you will find an up-to-the-minute treatment of his ‘Grand Prix’ theme, and on side two a nostalgic setting for the ‘Doctor Zhivago’ love theme ‘Somewhere My Love’.
Germany’s Bert Kaempfert is here with ‘The World We Knew’, this one given a fresh, glowing arrangement, and the theme from one of the more memorable French films of late, ‘A Man And A Woman’ proves Francis Lai well worthy to be included.
Finally, from our Venetian-born Maestro’s own talented pen comes ‘Toi, Tu Es Loin De Moi’, the last but by no means the least track in this exciting new and cosmopolitan collection of Today’s Hits freshly presented in the inimitable Caravelli manner.
Ludmila Dvořáková, the eminent Czechoslovak soprano, was born in 1923 in Kolin. Since childhood she was learning to play the piano and the violin and between 1942-1949 studied solo singing at the Prague Conservatory. After graduation she became a soloist of the Ostrava Opera and, since 1954, sang in the Prague and Bratislava National Theatres.
Even as a Conservatory student she represented Czech art of singing abroad, e. g. in France and Belgium, and in the Soviet Union during Antonin Dvořák commemorative festivities in 1954. She is an eminent interpreter of Wagner’s operatic heroines (Tannhauser, The Twilight of the Gods), of which she gave yet another proof last year during her guest-performances in Bayreuth where the critics have highly praised her voice as “one of an unusual viola colouring, plastic in expression and absolutely perfect as regards technique: it is unique even among first class singers of this category”. Ludmila Dvořáková is now a permanent member of the Berlin Opera and sings regularly also in the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the State Opera in Vienna, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, the Hamburg State Opera and in the operas in Lausanne and Berne in Switzerland.
Ray Conniff – Hi-Lili Hi-Lo, John Barry – You Only Live Twice, Stan Butcher, His Birds And Brass – Winchester Cathedral, Les & Larry Elgart – Music To Watch Girls By, André Kostelanetz – Cordoba, Don Lusher – Moonlight Serenade, The Fluegel Knights – Cabaret, Charlie Byrd – Born Free, The Happy Hawaiians – He ‘Nalu March, Eugene Ormandy – Sabre Dance
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These SUPERSTEREO Albums bring to you a new concept in stereo recording. For, until now, most stereo has been of the ‘gimmick’ type exploiting the techniques of stereo whilst not fully realising the true musical value of the performances. Now, CBS Records are proud to present the recordings you have really wanted. The lush sounds of big, famous orchestras and the exciting rhythms of instrumental groups – flawlessly recorded. Spectacular records, but records that faultlessly retain the superb artistry and dramatic arrangements the artists intended. Superstereo will bring out the full potential of your playing equipment. You will thrill to the sensational sound of Superstereo.
This series has been recorded in the U.S.A. by the outstanding engineers of Mercury. For all recordings in the series special musical arrangements have been written to get the best out of the technical possibilities and the artistic skill of such musicians as XAVIER CUGAT, PETE RUGOLO, DAVID CARROLL and many others. The magnetic film technique often used by Mercury during recording sessions has astonishing advantages in capturing the top quality in recorded sound – high transparency, a remarkable roundness of tone and a greater distortion-free dynamic range. Obviously, microphone settings vary for each type of music. Even for each number changes in the positioning of instruments, microphones, and in balance are required in order to achieve the best results and the most realistic sound-quality. All this has resulted in this series, in a warm, brilliant, but natural sound which brings you the next best thing to an orchestra in your home.
