Eddie Barclay & His Orchestra - French Pastry (Mercury 1958)

Wild Bill Davis - Flying Home (Sunset 1966)

Terry Gibbs - El Latino (Roost 1964)

The Bobby Richards Sextet in Cool Variations (Mount Vernon Music Date Unknown)

Socarras - Latin Impressions (Decca 1956)

Walter Wanderley - Murmurio (Tower 1967)

Bebo Valdes and His Orchestra Tropicana - Hot Cha Chas (Decca 1956)

Robert Maxwell - Anytime (Command 1967)

Robert Maxwell - Shangri-La (Decca 1964)

Enoch Light and The Light Brigade - New Concept of Great Cole Porter Songs (Command 1965)

Toots Thielemans - Guitars and Strings and Things (Command 1967)

Saroff and The Cool Ones - Like Beat Man (KAPP 1959)

Fred Katz - Science-Fiction/Loma (Pacific Jazz 1957)

Elliot Lawrence - Hi Fi-ing Winds (Vik 1958)

Adventures in Paradise Vol. 3 - V. A.

ABC/Paramount compilation featuring: Alfred Apaka, Roy Smeck, The Islanders, Terorotua and His Tahitians.

RS link

The Mills Brothers - Great Hawaiian Hits

Arranged and conducted by Milt Rogers

Blue Hawaii
On a Little Bamboo Bridge
Sweet Leilani
Hawaiian Hospitality
Songs of the Islands
Beyond the Reef
Hawaiian Nights
Keep Your Eyes on the Hands
Hawaiian Wedding Song
Hawaiian Paradise
Hawaiian Sunset
Trade Winds


Rs link.

Music and Songs from Italian Films of International Fame

on RCA Victor International from 1962.

Rs link.

The Girl from Ipanema (Wyncote 1964)

1964 release on the budget label Wyncote, featuring the sax-man Jimmy Davis and the vocal stylings of Norma Lee.

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The King Sisters - Aloha

Music by Alvino Rey

My Little Grass Shack In Kealakekua, Hawaii
Sand
My Tane
Sweet Leilani
Hawaiian Wedding Song
Song of the Islands
Hawaii Is Calling Me
Hawaiian War Chant
Farewell
On the Beach at Waikiki
Beyond the Reef
Aloha Oe

Read The King Sisters' AMG Biography.
A King Sisters Fan Page.
Get the scoop on Alvino Rey's illustrious career, courtesy spaceagepop.com.

Find the rip here.

Divorce Italian Style OST

Music by Carlo Rustichelli

Track List:

• Song of Love
• Traffic
• Funeral March
• Lawyers Prayer
• Trattoria
  
• In Love
• Murder of Wife and Love
• Music of Love
• Divorce
• Furtively
• Trial
• Deceit and Gossip
• Fefé
• Serenade
  

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The Anita Kerr Singers Reflect on the hits of Bacharach and David

What's New Pussycat?
Alfie
Are You There (With Another Girl)
In Between Heartaches
The Windows Of The World
Do You Know The Way To San Jose
Don't Make Me Over
Walk On By
Whoever You Are, I Love You
I Say A Little Prayer
The Look Of Love
A House Is Not A Home
What The World Needs Now Is Love


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Socarras and his Orchestra - Cha Cha Chas and Mambos

Cuban flautist Alberto Socarras, ads some classical flair to this enjoyable Latin dance platter.

A - You're Adorable (The Alphabet Song)
Algun Dia
Buck Dance
Hal's Cha Cha Cha
Mambo Impromptu
Nervous Gavotte Mambo
Par La Noche
Rose Room
Sixty Second Mambo
Tea for Two Cha Cha
Torero
Waltz in Cha Cha

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Cesar Romero - Songs by a Latin Lover

The Breeze and I
Brazil
Amor, Amor
Cielito Lindo
Jealous Cabellero
Mama Inez
Would I Love You, Love You
Yours
Rio De Janiero
Maria Elena

Find it here.

THE MUSIC OF NINO ROTA (a BFG Mix)

Eartha Kitt - La Dolce Vita
Amarcord (Medley)
Franco Ferrara - Coimbra (suite) (from Il Bidone)
Guido E Luisa Nostalgico (from 8 1/2)
Noro Morales - La Dolce Vita
Le Le Notti Di Cabiria (from Nights of Cabiria)
Toby Dammit Theme (from LSD Roma)
Franco Ferrara - Come Tu Vuoi (slow) (from Rocco and His Bros.)
Radiolina di pupe (from Boccaccio '70)

I love Nino Rota's soundtrack music.

The plodding waltzes, rock, and 40's dance hall numbers. The eerie pre-psychedelic surrealist organ-jazz, drunk trumpet pathos, nods to Harold Arlen, and Perez Prado. Female scat vocals, and circus/carnival foxtrots. I chose some of my favorites here (plus a couple of covers). There are many more. A brief sampling.

Enjoy.

Meet The Three Cheers

Lounge act trio on Indie DIY, Boss Records. Very much in the vein of male vocal acts of the time (Kirby Stone Four, The Hi-Lo's, Four Freshmen, etc.) minus the big production backing them. According to the notes, their comedy routine is, "wildly hilarious."

Meet up here.

Pete Drake - Talking Steel Guitar

(photo courtesy countryrecords.com)
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The Joe Mooney Quartet - On The Rocks

Sample "Just A Gigolo" here.

Joe Mooney's AllMusic Biography here.

Omitted the track "What More Can a Woman Do?" because of too much surface noise.

Tracks:
Have Another One, Not Me
September Song
Just A Gigolo
A Man with One Million Dollars
Tea for Two
Nancy (With The Laughing Face)
Warm Kiss and Cold Heart
Prelude to a Kiss
You Go to My Head
From Monday On
Lazy Countryside

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Walt - Made On The Baldwin Organ

Walt made a tape for his friends.
DIY cassette c.1989

Tracks:
Introduction
Blue Hawaii
Bye, Bye Blues
Fascination
Granada
Louise
Lovely Hula Hands
Under Paris Skies
Green, Green Grass of Home
Thoroughly Modern Millie

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Peter Nero Plays a Salute to Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass

A visually pristine copy. The needle skips once on A Taste of Honey.
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3 songs from Country Time Lemonade commercials (c.1993)

preview Golden Smiles by Robert Bowker here

zipped files here

The Magic Harp of Verlye Mills

Goes well with a box of wine and an Ambien.

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Eddie Costa Does Eden Ahbez

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