Finally, we have it: a jazz 78. I did not know the name Peggy Lee, but do I ever know the voice. Fever, one of, to me, the most iconic vocal jazz songs of the era. A Disney movie that I know I have seen but hardly remember. I am all but certain I have …
Dick Todd was a Canadian singer of the 1930s through 1950s. I had never heard of him. I never had discussions of music with the my grandparents, I feel like he may have been to one of their liking (one grandfather I know to have been enormously into jazz, playing trombone in bands before my …
A short one for today, and likely the rest of the week: work is exhausting. A 78, revisiting a Canadian artist who came up on My Kind of Country. Hank Snow, credited here as Hank “The Yodeling Ranger,” was a Canadian musician who’s career got started in the 1930s and was active until the 1970s. …
I have long considered a song from the last review, Leader of the Pack, to be something of a novelty song, largely incorrectly. Today, I am listening to something that is definitely a novelty song, although a fantastic and catchy one. This 45 was released under the Kapp label, catelogue number K-342X, in 1960. In …
The way I have accumulated most of my collection of old and odd media is by buying hand fulls of things without much care for specifics. But after listening to the Rock N’ Roll Collectors Edition cassettes I was able to give a name to the band that sung Leader of the Pack, a song …
Pat Boone is a name I know. I could not have told you he was a singer, although I think I would have guessed that or televangelist. My parents both liked rock and roll and the blues, while my father was also into 78 era jazz. Neither cared for this sort of pop music, so …
I recently purchased a large lot of 45 RPM records, fully expecting them to be older music because the first handful I examined were largely The Everly Brothers. So, imagine my surprise when I was picking something for today and Electric Avenue, a song I recognize. Electric Avenue is from taken from the LP Killer …
Side ACarl Perkins – Blue Suede ShoesJames Brown – Papa’s Got a Brand New BagThe Fleetwoods – Come Softly to MeThe Tuneweavers – Happy, Happy Brithday Baby Side BThe Teddy Bears – To Know Him, Is To Love HimBobby Freeman – C’Mon and SwimThe Righteous Brothers – You’re My Soul and My Inspiration This is …
I have a mixed and conflicted relationship with jazz music. Some, the stuff I have always thought of as swing music, I love deeply. Other jazz, the more free-flowing, less structured music I associate with the years after the swing age, I do not care for. Because I lack a proper understanding of this large …
Side ABarry Mann – Who Put the BopThe Diamonds – The StrollThe Lettermen – When I Fall in LoveLloyd Price – Personality Side BBobby Lewis – Tossin’ and Turnin’The Argyles – Alley OopThe Chordettes – Lollipop This is a track listing for a cassette in a larger collection, the main review is on the post …