Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl

Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl

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  • Volume 234: Sugar Blues

    What? Yet another trumpet player in my dad’s collection I haven’t introduced you to yet? But of course.

    Clyde McCoy is not nearly as well known as the myriad of other horn players I’ve shown off, but he recorded a lot of music from 1917 through 1985.

    His 1931 version of a song written nine years earlier set off a mini craze within jazz and set his career on fire.

    So get ready to hear a trumpet played in such a style that it inspired a popular electronic tool for guitar players used still to this day in Volume 234: Sugar Blues.

    For more information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it. 

    Credits and copyrights

    Clyde McCoy – The Golden Era Of The Sugar Blues

    Label: Design Records – DLP 28
    Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
    Released: 1957
    Genre: Jazz
    Style: Big Band

    We will hear 7 of the 12 songs on this album.

    Sugar Blues

    written by Clarence Williams and Lucy Fletcher
    Recorded in 1931

    Honeysuckle Rose

    written by Andy Razaf and Fats Waller
    Recorded January 22, 1931

    Beale Street Blues

    written by W.C. Handy
    Recorded 10/14/1935

    Swamp Fire

    written by Hal Mooney
    Recorded sometime in 1936

    Farewell Blues

    written by Elmer Schoebel, Paul Mares, and Leon Roppolo
    Recorded 7/5/1935

    Deep In A Dream

    written by Jimmy Van Heusen and Eddie DeLange
    It was recorded maybe in 1938 or 1939.

    Ridin' To Glory On A Trumpet

    written by Clyde McCoy
    Recorded 3/24/1936

    I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

    #clydemccoy #sugarblues #dixielandmusic #trumpetsrule #musichistory #musicalmemories #vinylcollecting #vinylrecords

    35 min
  • Volume 233: Frank's Life for Fathers Day

    Well, it’s Fathers Day.

    For me, that means another trip to the cemetery rather than a trip to visit my dad for dinner. I’m not looking for sympathy. That’s just the way it is. I mean. That’s life!

    And this episode’s featured artist certainly saw his share of ups and downs during his incredibly influential and talented life. He was also my dad’s favorite singer.

    This is the last of five of his solo albums my dad had. But we have heard sing him with the Harry James and Tommy Dorsey Orchestras as well.

    So, get ready to hear the man who went from pauper to king, a couple of times, in Volume 233: Frank's Life for Fathers Day.

    For more information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it. 

    Credits and copyrights

    Frank Sinatra – That's Life

    Label: Reprise Records – F 1020
    Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Promo, Mono
    Released: 1966
    Genre: Jazz, Pop
    Style: Vocal, Swing

    Supported by a studio orchestra arranged and conducted by Ernie Freeman

    We will hear 6 of the 10 songs from this album.

    That's Life

    Written-By – Dean Kay and Kelly Gordon
    number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1966-67. It also reached number 1 on the Billboard Easy Listening chart.

    I Will Wait For You

    Composed By – Michel LeGrand and Norman Gimbel

    Somewhere My Love

    Composed By – Maurice Jarre and Paul Francis Webster

    Winchester Cathedral

    Written By – Geoff Stephens
    The New Vaudeville Band/September 26, 1966/Hit song

    The Impossible Dream 

    Composed By – Mitch Leigh and Joe Darion

    What Now My Love

    Composed By – Carl Sigman and Gilbert Bécaud

    I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

    #franksinatra #thatslife #musichistory #musicalmemories #vinylcollecting #vinylrecords #fyp

    31 min
  • Volume 232: Ray on the Road

    Time to take a road trip around this great country we call the US of A. And who better to be our tour guide than the incredible Ray Charles. 

    He had over 1,700 listings in discogs, the website I use to catalog my vinyl collections. And it’s not easy to catalog just what genre this genius belongs to.

    Well, he belongs to them all: pop, blues, jazz, gospel, country, and rock.

    So get ready to hear a guy who once tried to sell an electric piano to Jake and Elwood Blues, “2,000 bucks and it's yours. You can take it home with you. As a matter of fact, I'll throw in the black keys for free!" In Volume 232: Ray on the Road.

    For more information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it. 

    Credits and copyrights

    Ray Charles – The Genius Hits The Road

    Label: ABC-Paramount – ABC 335, ABC-Paramount – ABC-335
    Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
    Released: Sep 1960
    Genre: Jazz, Funk / Soul
    Style: Rhythm & Blues

    We will hear 7 of the 12 tunes on this album.

    Alabamy Bound

    Written-By – Bud Green, Buddy DeSylva, and Ray Henderson

    Georgia On My Mind

    Written-By – Hoagy Carmichael and Stuart Gorrell

    Moonlight In Vermont

    Written-By – John Blackburn and Karl Suessdorf

    Mississippi Mud 

    Written-By – Harry Barris and James Cavanaugh

    Deep In The Heart Of Texas

    Written-By – Don Swander and June Hershey

    California, Here I Come

    Written-By – Al Jolson, Buddy DeSylva and Joseph Meyer

    Chattanooga Choo-Choo

    Written-By – Harry Warren and Mack Gordon

    I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

    #musicalmemories #musichistory #vinylcollecting #vinylrecords #fyp

    37 min
  • Volume 231: Simply Belafonte

    When I featured this artist the first time on this show, he was still with us. 

    Unfortunately, Harry Belafonte passed away just a few weeks later. 

    This is the second record we will hear of the two my dad had from this singer. This was Harry’s second LP in his illustrious career. While his first did hit number three on the Billboard charts. This was his first of two number one albums.

    So, get ready to hear one of the purest singing voices ever recorded in Volume 231: Simply Belafonte.

    For more information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it. 

    Credits and copyrights

    Harry Belafonte – Belafonte

    Label: RCA Victor – LPM 1150, RCA Victor – LPM-1150
    Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Rockaway Pressing
    Released: 1956
    Genre: Pop, Folk, World, & Country
    Style: Calypso, Vocal, Folk

    We will hear 7 of the 11 songs from this album.

    Waterboy

    Written-By – Harry Belafonte

    Troubles

    Written-By – Harry Belafonte

    Matilda (This one made me get my bongo drums out)

    Written-By – Harry Thomas

    Noah (Next up a song of biblical proportions)

    Written-By – Harry Belafonte and William Attaway

    Scarlet Ribbons (For Her Hair)

    Written-By – Evelyn Danzig, Jack Segal

    Unchained Melody

    Written-By – Alex North, Hy Zaret

    Jump Down, Spin Around

    Written-By – H. Belafonte, Norman Luboff, and William Attaway

    I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

    #harrybelfonte #calypsomusic #musicalmemories #musichistory #vinylcollecting #vinylrecords #fyp

    41 min
  • Volume 230: Golden Memories of Radio Record 6

    We now pull out the final disk of this six record box set filled with memories of radio days past. Back in the days before television when you had to imagine what was being described. To the days of live happenings. Expected and extremely unexpected.

    This last LP features many news recordings that were captured as they happened from 1920 through the early 1940s.

    So get ready to hear history as it unfolded live to countless listeners around the globe during a time of financial turmoil and approaching world war in Volume 230: Golden Memories of Radio Record 6.

    For more information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it. 

    Credits and copyrights

    Jack Benny – Golden Memories Of Radio

    Label: Longines Symphonette Society – none
    Format: 6 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Mono, Maroon Labels Box Set
    Released: 1969
    Genre: Non-Music
    Style: Radioplay

    We will hear 12 tracks from this album

    KDKA Election Returns/Pres. Coolidge Presents Charles Lindberg To Congress (The music world then honored him by naming a dance after Lindy. Check out episode ??? for details on that dance.)

    Eddie Cantor On 1929 Crash/Billy Sunday On Prohibition

    FDR Is Inaugurated (include some of the most famous words in presidential speech history)

    The King George V Funeral/Edward VIII Abdicates/King George VI Coronation

    In this segment we will hear from four leaders of three countries from the late 1930s and early 40s. The lead up and declaration of war: Hitler, Chamberlain, FDR, Churchill

    Hitler Declares War On Poland/Chamberlain Announces War/FDR "America Hates War"/Winston Churchill "Give Us The Tools"

    The Hindenburg Disaster

    I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

    #radiohistory #oldtimeradio #musicalmemories #musichistory #vinylcollecting #vinylrecords #fyp

    39 min
  • Volume 229: White Album Front Half

    It’s a 78 RPM Sunday. These episodes should probably more appropriately be labelled spinning my dad’s dad’s shellac. 

    In the old days of records coming on 10” disks with one song per side, it made collections rather large. So in order to organize them, record stores would sell large books that you can put several records in. The same you would do with photos. They came with a generic front cover and several sleeves to slip the disks into. My dad has a couple of these albums.

    I decided to pull out the ten record set inside a, now cream colored, album. But I only have time for ten songs.

    So get ready to hear the first five records in a personalized collection of 78 RPM disks in Volume 229: White Album Front Half.

    Credits and copyrights

    Harry James And His Orchestra – I Can't Begin To Tell You / Waitin' For The Train To Come In

    Label: Columbia – 36867
    Format: Shellac, 10", 78 RPM
    Released: Oct 22, 1945
    Genre: Jazz, Pop, Stage & Screen
    Style: Big Band, Swing, Vocal

    Recorded in New York, NY, August 20, 1945.

    I Can't Begin To Tell You

    Vocals [Vocal Chorus] – Ruth Haag
    Written-By – James Monaco and Mack Gordon

    Waitin' For The Train To Come In

    Vocals [Vocal Chorus] – Kitty Kallen
    Written-By – Martin Block and Sunny Skylar

    Claude Thornhill And His Orchestra – A Sunday Kind of Love / Sonata

    Label: Columbia – 37219
    Format: Shellac, 10", 78 RPM, Bridgeport Pressing
    Released: Jan 1947
    Genre: Jazz, Pop
    Style: Big Band

    Recorded New York, NY, November,11 1946.

    A Sunday Kind of Love

    Vocals [Vocal Chorus] – Fran Warren
    Written-By – Anita Leonard, Barbara Belle, Louis Prima and Stan Rhodes

    Sonata

    Vocals [Vocal Chorus] – Buddy Hughes
    Written-By – Alex Alstone, Ervin Drake, and Jimmy Shirl

    Dinah Shore / Dinah Shore With Spade Cooley And His Orchestra – Anniversary Song / Heartaches, Sadness And Tears

    Label: Columbia – 37234
    Format: Shellac, 10", 78 RPM
    Released: Feb 1947
    Genre: Pop, Folk, World, & Country
    Style: Vocal, Country, Swing

    Dinah Shore– Anniversary Song

    Written By – Al Jolson and Saul Chaplin
    from a theme by – Ion Ivanovici

    Dinah Shore With Spade Cooley And His Orchestra– Heartaches, Sadness And Tears

    Written-By – Ella May Evans and Spade Cooley

    Frank Sinatra – People Will Say We're In Love / Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin'

    Label: Columbia – 36682
    Format: Shellac, 10", 78 RPM
    Released: Sep 1943
    Genre: Pop
    Style: Ballad, Vocal

    Written-By – Oscar Hammerstein II and Richard Rodgers for the Broadway musical Oklahoma

    Frankie Yankovic And His Yanks – Oh Marie / On The Beach

    Label: Columbia – 12376-F
    Format: Shellac, 10", 78 RPM
    Released: Oct 1948
    Genre: Folk, World, & Country
    Style: Folk

    Written-By – Frank Yankovic

    I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

    #78RPM #oldmusic #musichistory #musicalmemories #vinylcollecting #vinylrecords #fyp

    44 min
  • Volume 228: A Bobby Happy Mothers Day

    Happy mothers day. This one’s for my mother who we lost ten years ago this month.

    As we go through this large record collection, I can tell which records my mom might have picked out. This is one of them.

    It’s a self-titled debut album from a singer who already had a hit single and a starring role in a popular TV show. He was just a bit of a heartthrob.

    So get ready to hear a singer and actor who gave up that life to save lives in Volume 228: A Bobby Happy Mothers Day.

    More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it. 

    Credits and copyrights

    Bobby Sherman – Bobby Sherman

    Label: Metromedia Records – MD 1014
    Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Promo, Stereo
    Released: 1969
    Genre: Pop

    We'll hear 6 of the 11 songs on this album.

    Little Woman

    Written-By – Danny Janssen

    Rainy Day Thought

    Written-By – Danny Janssen, Gary Young, Myrna Janssen, and Wally Keske

    This Guy's In Love With You

    Written-By – Burt Bacharach, Hal David

    Bluechip

    Written-By – Paul MacNeil

    Time

    Written-By – Bobby Sherman

    Seattle

    Written-By – Ernie Sheldon, Hugo Montenegro, and Jack Keller

    I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

    #bobbysherman #mothersday #musicalmemories #musichistory #vinylcollecting #vinylrecords #fyp

    32 min
  • Volume 227: Beethoven's 4th & 5th
    We now pull out the third record from this seven disk box set. A record that features a relatively unknown work AND probably one of the most famous works in music history. Talk about a dichotomy.
     
    This is music from the immortal Ludwig Van Beethoven. His symphonies live on in performances to this very day.
     
    Plus I decided to play three movements from each symphony. I thought this joint needed some classing up.
     
    So, settle in and get ready to hear the man who is said to have set music free in Volume 227: Beethoven's 4th & 5th.
     
    For more information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it. 
     
    Here is the promised Leonard Bernstein video. 
     
    Credits and copyrights
     
    Beethoven, René Leibowitz, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, The Beecham Choral Society – The Nine Symphonies Of Beethoven
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Label: Reader's Digest – RD 4-6
    Format: 7 x Vinyl, LP Box Set
    Released: 1966
    Genre: Classical
    Style: Romantic, Choral
     
    This is record 3 of a 6 record set. We will hear two movements from the 4th Symphony and three from the 5th.
     
    Symphony No. 4 In B-Flat Major, Op. 60
    First Movement - Adagio; Allegro Vivace
    Second Movement - Adagio
    Fourth Movement - Allegro Ma Non Troppo
     
    Symphony No. 5 In C Minor, Op. 67
    First Movement - Allegro Con Brio
    Third Movement - Allegro
    Fourth Movement - Allegro
     
    I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.
     
    #beethoven #beethovensfifth  #musicalmemories #musichistory #vinylcollecting #vinylrecords #fyp
    1 hr 4 min
  • Volume 226: Hirt's Dixieland Horn

    Here’s a trumpet player we’ve heard from before. He was a favorite of my dad’s. He’s also a favorite of mine. He’s loud and powerful. He plays at just below a blatting level, but keeps in control with some of the most intricate music.

    He performed at halftime of the first Super Bowl and owned his own New Orleans jazz club.

    So get ready to hear a musician who could shift gears to play many styles of music, even being critiqued for that skill, in Volume 226: Hirt's Dixieland Horn.

    More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it. 

    Credits and copyrights

    Al Hirt – The Best Of Dixieland Jazz

    Label: Longines Symphonette Society – LWCP 1, Longines Symphonette Society – LWS 332
    Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Promo
    Released: 1968
    Genre: Jazz
    Style: Dixieland

    We'll hear 6 of the 10 songs on this album.

    Darktown Strutters Ball

    Written by Shelton Brooks

    Stumblin'

    Written by Zez Confrey

    Wang Wang Blues

    Written by Henry Busse

    I Can't Get Started With You

    Written by Vernon Duke

    Just A Closer Walk With Thee

    Traditional

    Chicago

    Written by Fred Fisher

    I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

    #alhirt #dixielandmusic #trumpetsrule #musichistory #vinylrecordcollecting #vinylrecords

    37 min
  • Volume 225: The Standard Stoner

    We’re going to have a little extra fun with this episode. In fact, you might say I have high hopes for it.

    One of my dad’s, and my, favorite artists is Willie Nelson. One of my favorite holidays is the day this episode drops, and I’m not talking about Easter.

    Some of the most favorite songs-to-record in music history are on this album. So famous, just the songs you’ll hear have been recorded more than 63 hundred times. That’s what you call standards.

    And the voice who sings them? A classic!

    We definitely need to take a toke of Indica for this one as we get mellow.

    So get ready to bake a mixture of melancholy and marijuana with one of the most recognizable voices in history singing some of history’s most recognizable vocals in Volume 225: The Standard Stoner. 

    More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it. 

    Credits and copyrights

    Willie Nelson – Stardust

    Label: Columbia – JC 35305
    Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Promo, Terre Haute
    Released: 1978
    Genre: Rock, Blues, Pop
    Style: Country Blues

    Georgia On My Mind

    Written-By – Hoagy Carmichael and Stuart Gorrell in 1930
    A song record 1125 times

    All Of Me

    Written-By – Gerald Marks and Seymore Simons in 1931
    Recorded 953 times

    Blue Skies 

    Written-By – Irving Berlin in 1926
    Recorded 637 times

    Unchained Melody

    Written-By – Alex North and Hy Zaret in 1955
    Recorded 708 times

    On The Sunny Side Of The Street

    Written-By – Dorothy Fields and Jimmy McHugh in 1930
    Recorded 814 times

    Moonlight In Vermont

    Written-By – John Blackburn and Karl Suessdorf in 1944
    Recorded 545 times

    Don't Get Around Much Anymore

    Written-By – Bob Russell and Duke Ellington in 1940
    Recorded 611 times

    Someone To Watch Over Me

    Written-By – George and Ira Gershwin in 1926
    Recorded 928 times

    I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

    #willienelson #standards #stoners #stonerholiday #420 #musicalmemories #musichistory #vinylcollecting #vinylrecords

    48 min

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