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TOP OF THE POPS SOUNDS WHILE THEY ARE HOT ON THE B.B.C. CHARTS, THE ORIGINAL HIT SOUNDS THAT ARE SELLING MILLIONS. LOOK FOR AN EXCITING NEW ALBUM OF UP-TO-DATE HITS EACH MONTH. BUILD THE MOST EXCITING COLLECTION OF POP TUNES IN YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD.
Label: Stereo Gold Award MER 105
No experience can match the emotional joys of two people alone. The moments when two become one on the island of love. The quiet hours – the intimate hours when nothing matters in the world outside. Soft light on darkness for this special mood enhanced by unobtrusive music, music that speaks of warmth and intimacy. The velvet rich tones of strings and delicate caress of woodwinds. Maestro Carlini coaxes a sensuous beauty from his orchestra in this special program scored by Aldo Provenzart and Derek Cox. These are moments when only gentle rain is heard on pas-sages of soft erotic rhythm pulsating to a background of violence. These are the sounds of night – heard by two in a see-through mood.
Label; Stereo Gold Award MER 355
Cover Photo: Paul Chave
Another in a long line of recordings released by DL Miller, this one under the “Damil” brand.
The sound of Tijuana is the sound of sunshine music that is gay, lively and filled with the kind of happiness that only The Border Brass can convey. The titles are a recommendation in themselves for musical enjoyment, having been penned by talents like Burt Bacharach and Hal David, Nino Rota, Jim Webb and John Barry.
But more than the greatness of the compositions themselves is the pure musical enjoyment that The Border Brass put into every track, It’s as infectious as the sound of the border sunshine and once it’s been sampled there’s only one thing to do and that’s to sample it again and again.
Label: Stereo Gold Award MER 315
This business of trying to predict just what will top the record charts from week to week is probably one of the most thankless and frustrating tasks facing anyone. Especially those who make their living through selling pop. Yet glance down at the twelve titles on this album, listen to the lyrics and the strong melodies that emerge and you may find yourself wondering just why the experts didn’t sit back and wait for success to happen. These are, after all, good songs by writers who know about popular appeal and some have been around long enough to ensure that the essential ingredients of a good pop song-catchy, simple melody and easy-on-the-ear lyrics are there. But in the end it’s the record buyer who decides that a song like “In the million-plus seller and that the haunting delicacy of Cat Stevens’ melody for “Lady D’Arbanville” isn’t overlooked. And that’s just what pop is all about, so settle back, turn on the record player and listen to some of the most successful chartoppers of the year! summertime” becomes a phenomenal.
A DAMIL U.S.A. PRODUCTION
Label: Stereo Gold Award MER 324
One of our more risqué covers and a fine example of the cover’s importance in compensating for the unremittingly poor versions inside of the “pop hits” of the day. The model on this cover is Ingrid Steeger who also appeared on similar covers some of which were more revealing than this one. How many copies were bought solely for the pleasure of its very attractive cover model? That’s kind of a rhetorical question we will never know the answer to.
A look at the back cover will reveal the name DL Miller as Recording Director. David Miller was a prolific releaser of records in the budget genre and his name appears on hundreds of records from the sixties and seventies. He set up the Stereo Gold Award label examples of which feature prominently in our archives. For more on Mr Miller read his Wikipedia entry here.
Here are the very latest chart hits – sung and played in the same arrangements as the original versions – Enjoy on this one record TODAY’S TWELVE TOPS
Label: Stereo Gold Award MER 358
Here’s a dance party with two favourite ingredients – the great, nostalgic sounds of Glenn Miller and hit songs by The Beatles. These sweet and swinging arrangements were written by Bill Holcombe (an old T. Dorsey sideman), who has taken these British bred hits and written the inimitable Glenn Miller style around them. The Hiltonaires under the baton of Stan Reynolds are joined by the vocal stylings (a la Modernaires) of Tony Mansell and his group. Here’s big band beat at its best – with familiar hit songs.
Recorded Under Direction of D. L. Miller
Label: Stereo Gold Award MER 336
It’s that man again. Mr D. Miller whose story is the stuff of musical legend. Have a stroll over to this excellent web site for the full story behind the DL Miller brand
The Hiltonaires with extra percussion play for your dancing and stereo listening pleasure. This stereophonic recording was originally produced in an acoustically perfect studio equipped with Telefunken microphones that were placed within the band to enhance the “pin-pointing” of the musical effects scored in the program. The performance was mixed and amplified to a four track Sculley Tape Machine running at 30 I.P.S. The four track program was then edited and reduced on an Ampex No 300 two track stereo machine for subsequent transfer to disc on a Neuman heated stylus cutting lathe. The maximum frequency response of the original performance has been faithfully maintained through use of the latest quality controls to give you this program of exciting stereo dimensions.
Recorded Under Direction of D. L. Miller
Label: Stereo Gold Award MER 342
1974 1970s Covers Stereo Gold Award Collection
What is great about these Stereo Gold Award albums is that they almost always include at least two tracks not actually written by the people they are supposed to be tribute to, but by someone called L Miller, L Muller, Leo Muller or some variation. For many years I was baffled by this and eventually came to the conclusion it was a clever scam by the afore-mentioned Miller/Muller so that he could cream off a further cut of ‘Mechanical’ royalties on the back of people like Glenn Miller, The Beatles, Bacharach and David etc.
Fellini Retrospective
9th November 2018
The romance of Hawaii, land of waving palm trees and dusky grass-skirted maidens, comes vividly to life through the music of the island as played by the Pacific Serenaders.
For these musicians have put on one album some of the best and most durable of Hawaiian hits, among them “Beyond the reef”, “Moon of Manakoora”, “Mahala Pua” and “Aloha oe”.
Through their music they ensure that although Hawaii may be a distant dream for those who would love to visit these magic islands, there’s really no need to stray further from your favourite armchair and the record player. So just sit back, listen to the sounds of the Pacific Serenaders and the music of Hawaii will gently steal its way into your mind.
DAMIL U.S.A. PRODUCTION
Label: Stereo Gold Award MER 310