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Category Archives: Orchestra & Big Band

  • Can I get a woot woot? Did I just say that? I did, but who cares! I finished this project ! And it’s New Years! I hope you all had a [...]

    Happy New Year and Happy Project 365 Finale!

    December 31, 2012
  • The Roaring 20′s. Some pre new year fun! Bill Stutz and the Bearcats. I couldn’t find a single thing on the orchestra or this record! [...]

    Ma! He’s making Eyes At Me !

    December 28, 2012
  • We bring you dancing ethnic frolic, accordion style. Alec Finlay “Waitin’ Tae Welcome Me Hame”. Is the first of 6 cultural [...]

    Danger is No Obstacle if He Feels His Mirth will Provoke Smiles and Laughter

    December 10, 2012
  • CANADA ROCKS!  Young Canada Singers featuring the Craddock Singers. Fantastic little piece of Canadiana, eh? You all know I’m a proud [...]

    My Guy Lombardo Science Fair Project

    December 7, 2012
  •  Frankie Laine had me at the cover art photo. Shaking hands with the Queen? Now that’s GOTTA land an artist in the TOP 20 album cover art [...]

    A Royal Command Performance for Queen Elizabeth II

    September 13, 2012
  •  Reg Owen and his orchestra Deep In A Dream under the RCA Victor label. wiki: Reg Owen (3 February 1921 – 23 May 1978) was an [...]

    Turn Over When One Side is Finished ~or~ Lover Come Back to Me

    August 30, 2012
  • Vera Lynn’s hits of the Blitz is a treat. And just look that the way the cover album photographer has her propped up on that wall in those [...]

    Kiss me Goodnight, Sergeant-Major

    August 28, 2012
  • Today we bring you #4 from the Adventures in Stereo collection. Peter Nero brings us jazz that rocks. It made us completely forget the tragedy [...]

    August 27, 2012
  • Here we have three albums from teh same collection and I have no clue what collection it is? Today we barely made it through the #6 volume Warm [...]

    Warm and Tender, My Ass.

    August 26, 2012
  •   This was a delicious little gem. It’s vintage but timeless sound fills the house. Printed in Canada, distributed by Vocalion for [...]

    the dipsy doodle and other fantastic Glenn Miller songs

    August 12, 2012
  • “Elton John did these songs and they were marginal, 101 strings did them and they were disastrous”, claims handsome music critic [...]

    Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. No really, goodbye.

    August 11, 2012
  • Peter Fountain and his magical clarinet. Wow, on this one the jury is out. The band looks like a gay pride parade of love but on the [...]

    purchase the child a musical instrument, anything he has to blow into

    August 1, 2012
  • The Best of the Brass. Herb Albert and Tiunna Brass. Wow. What can i say about this album? It’s not a shcok that’s it’s an [...]

    Tijuanna dance?

    July 25, 2012
  •   This was some divine, keeper dinner music. Love love love this cover photo. Don’t you just? Strauss Waltzes with Andre Kostelanetz [...]

    Waltz me to the end of time

    July 22, 2012
  •   “You can’t help but waltz around. I waltzed with cat actually. No! Don’t tell people that!” is the sweety review. [...]

    Coquetry and Grandeur

    July 18, 2012
  • Do I even need to tell you how bad thids album was? Check out the line up?Hits of Today Featuring the Alshire Singers.  I chose it to keep for [...]

    feelings

    June 29, 2012
  •  Only Ray Conniff could kill the godfather (theme song) AND the theme from Shaft. C’mooon. lol. This is another obvious rethrift, [...]

    only Ray Conniff could kill the Godfather

    June 10, 2012
  • Are you still with me Blog record friends? Or have my stats dropped with so many cheesy orchestra choral lp’s? I swear this will be the [...]

    The Sex Pot on the Cover Isn’t As Fun Once Inside

    June 3, 2012
  • RAY CONNIFF Memories Are Made Of This. Hm.. I think non. Another installment of the Ray Conniff Rethrift series. Memories, ah memories. I’m [...]

    Dirty memories

    June 2, 2012
  • No really. It’s you, Ray Conniff. And I keep trying to break up with you. a [...]

    It’s not you, it’s me.

    June 1, 2012
  • Ray Conniff’s Greatest Hits. c’mooon.  Seriously committed to his craft, I might say. This album cover with it’s usual Conniff [...]

    114 records in 60 years.

    May 31, 2012
  • RAY CONNIFF overload is just beginning. World Of Hits 1966. However, this album has no words which is ever so refreshing! These hits were chosen [...]

    A World Better Without his Choral Singers.

    May 28, 2012
  • I would not have out Ray Conniff’s HAPPINESS IS album on. oh my. Seriously awful stuff. Even if it was decent.. it’s actually warped [...]

    If I Knew Then What I Know Now

    May 26, 2012
  • The Frank Barber orchestra presents The Coffee Set. Another mega cheesy choral tribute to the vintage hits. Rethirft to the max. It was the [...]

    it’s not unusual… to dislike choral covers of vintage hits

    May 7, 2012
  • “Music depicting the spectacle of armies changing history.. The epic of a grand, romantic age giving way to a new and vioent order.. The [...]

    Zhivago a man who loved deeply, tenderly, passionately.. Zhivago a man in love with life

    April 24, 2012
  • HAPPY EARTH DAY BLOG FRIENDS! I’m spending my afternoon at our local annual Island beach clean up ~ reycling ~ repurposing ~ but for now we [...]

    the most famous movie theme ever written *Tara’s theme from Gone With The Wind.. gets rethrifted

    April 22, 2012
  • The Al Baculis Singers  ~ a Montreal born native has not been a household name but was in fact responsible for the EXPO 67 theme. It is sung in [...]

    hey friend, say friend, come on over

    March 26, 2012
  • Lee Evans, not just dreamy on the album back. BIG PIANO / BIG SOUND / BIG   BAND / LEE EVANS. Hey this was great! Finally a keeper on the [...]

    explicit and pure

    March 23, 2012
  • It’s Polka Medley Time! If you haven’t polka’d ~ you haven’t lived. Crank the volume on this video!  Maybe it’s [...]

    Makin’ Whoopie

    March 20, 2012
  • From the back of the album: The work was given its premierre under Walter Damrosch at Carnegie Hall, December 13, 1928.  Leonard Bernstien [...]

    a spasm of homesickness

    March 19, 2012

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