Sleeve Notes: Although this album primarily features The Singers singing the words, there are two songs which feature the orchestra and chorus instrumentally. Ray plays trombone on one of these, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, and he also … Continued
Sleeve Notes: Once, a distinguished orchestral leader, used to having scores of instruments at his command, was asked which instrument he would choose if (Desert Island Discs fashion) he was castaway with only one. The Hammond organ was his immediate … Continued
Sleeve Notes: Prologue, Something’s Coming, Tonight (Balcony Scene), America, Cool, Tonight, I Feel Pretty, Somewhere, Gee Officer Krupke, A Boy Like That, I Have A Love Label: Wing Records WL1050 1965 1960s Covers
Sleeve Notes: James Last – Around The WorldNick Barbarossa – A Lover’s SerenadeFranz Loeffler – Moon RiverJohn Scott – Theme From ” Elvira Madigan “Gunter Kallmann – A Time For UsKai Warner – I Love Paris Roberto Delgado – Vaya … Continued
Sleeve Notes: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical ‘Hair’ has brought the world of the Hippies into the theatre. In so doing it has caused a sensation that has rarely been equalled; the world it shows is onewhere conventional inhibitions—sexual taboos, … Continued
Sleeve Notes: Birthplace? Italy, of course. It takes sun-drenched land to give birth to a sun-drenched voice. Voice training? Again, Italy. Katyna Ranieri, as a wide-eyed youngster from Florence, studied operatic singing in Rome, but soon gave up the trills … Continued
Sleeve Notes: George Edwardes, the celebrated theatrical impressario who produced musical comedies at Daly’s and the Gaiety theatres (both, alas, no more), was faced with a dilemma in the early summer of 1907 when he wanted a new production for … Continued
Label: Musidisc CV 913 1960s Covers
Sleeve Notes: What is a hit tune? Our Producer, a keen student of such things, reckons that, to be a hit, a tune must “arouse a desire to possess”. Ever Since Man, having outlived the sabre-toothed tiger, found time to … Continued
Sleeve Notes Music designed solely for dancing seldom makes absorbing listening. Usually it isn’t meant to: it’s just a pleasant sounding noise in a certain tempo to which couples can perform a certain arrangement of steps. But Latin American music … Continued