Sleeve Notes: From out of the Sixties’ fascination with The Twenties comes Warner Bros.’ TV musical-drama, “The Roaring 20’s.” Starring Dorothy Provine, Rex Reason, Donald May, and Gary Vinson, the show mixes equal parts of hurley-burley and melody. In this … Continued
Sleeve Notes: You Do Something To Me, They Can’t Take That Away From Me, Hello, Young Lovers, Where Or When, All The Things You Are, People Will Say We’re In Love, On The Street Where You Live, Moonlight Serenade, The … Continued
Sleeve Notes: Gentle, caressing, filled with the magic of love, this is the sound of Kai Warner. The lushness of strings, the enchantment of voices, yet under all the lift of a swinging beat, and the occasional bite of brass, … Continued
Sleeve Notes: 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 … Continued
Sleeve Notes: The title of this album sums it all up admirably. This is Chaquito, and this is a very swinging Latin sound. The visas are optional, of course, but we doubt very much whether any of you will be … Continued
Sleeve Notes: It was in 1863 that the history of the most perfect of operettas might perhaps be said to have begun. That year the Concordia, a journalists’ club in Vienna, had invited both Johann Strauss and the great Jacques … Continued
Sleeve Notes: She has the vibrancy of a young girl, but the maturity of a woman. Her voice is crystal clear. In a personal appearance, her every gesture expresses feeling. Her smile is contagious and her eyes radiate warmth. The … Continued
Sleeve Notes: Notes by HERBERT KUPFERBERG Editor for the Arts of the New York Herald Tribune Few rivers have been celebrated in music as memorably as the Moldau. The Mississippi was glorified in a famous song from the Broadway musical … Continued
Sleeve Notes: 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 … Continued
Sleeve Notes: SIDE ONEACT I Band 1 – Prelude The orchestral prelude is built on three themes from the opera. First comes the march that in the last act accompanies the procession to the bullring. It is succeeded by the … Continued