More jaipong!!!
GET IT HERE
enjoy!
Sunday, April 27, 2014
Saturday, April 26, 2014
Monday, April 21, 2014
THE TONY WILLIAMS LIFETIME - EMERGENCY! VOL. 1
More greatness from Jazz drummer Tone Williams. This originally came out as a double-album in 1969, I guess they also put it out in two parts and this is the first volume....
With John Mclaughing on guitar and Larry Young playing the organ, beautiful, wild stuff this!
GET IT HERE
enjoy!
BAZUKA - BAZUKA
Here's a funny one, this is No. 7 in the Japanese Stereo Laboratory series, and it's actually this album:
A record put out by this guy:
Tony Camillo, who worked with folks like Dionne Warwick, The Stylistics, Stevie Wonder, Glady’s Knight, Sha Na Na, Peaches & Herb, Dazz Band, The Supremes and Parliament. In 1975 he created Bazuka and put out this album, heavy disco-funk, jazz-funk, great stuff!
GET IT HERE
enjoy!!!!
Saturday, April 19, 2014
FRANCE GALL - POUPEE DE CIRE, POUPEE DE SON - CLADE FRANCOIS - DONNA DONNA
Bit of 60's French pop music and there's a French version and a Japanese version from both songs, pretty weird....
GET IT HERE
enjoy!
Friday, April 18, 2014
NAVAJO ROUND DANCE
The Navajo (Navajo: Diné or Naabeehó) of the Southwestern United States are the largest federally recognized tribe of the United States of America with 300,048 enrolled tribal members. The Navajo Nation constitutes an independent governmental body, which manages the Navajo Indian reservation in the Four Corners area of the United States. The Navajo language is spoken throughout the region with most Navajo capable of speaking English as well.
As of 2011, the states with the largest Navajo populations are Arizona (140,263), and New Mexico (108,306). Over three-quarters of the Navajo population reside in these two states....
And here you have some of their traditional music....
GET IT HERE
enjoy!
Thursday, April 17, 2014
CHARLES MAGNANTE - MOODS FOR MODERS
( From http://www.spaceagepop.com/ )
Charles Magnante was what you'd call an accordionist's accordionist. Three-time President of the American Accordion Association, Magnante helped raise the accordion from its image as a hokey folk instrument to recognition as a serious instrument capable of a wide range of styles. If it missed that mark in the popular eye and landed just this side of "Lady of Spain" hokeyness, the fault is certainly not Magnante's.
Although he got his start squeezing out (or, as the accordion's sex symbol, Dick Contino, puts it, humping out) "O Sole Mio" in Italian restaurants, Magnante steadily moved away from this stereotypical setting. For much of the 1940s, he was, with Tony Mottola on guitar and George Wright on organ, a fixture of CBS radio, providing the network with its own version of the early Three Suns. Like Mottola, he remained a member of the CBS musical staff for many years while working a steady series of studio sessions on the side. He also worked with musical publishers on instructional books and arrangements of popular and classical tunes for the accordion. More than a few Magnante arrangements are still considered standards for the instrument.
Magnante was certainly one of Enoch Light's favorite accordionists, for he was the only one Light featured as a performer on two of his three labels. Magnante recorded two albums on Grand Award and three on Command. Magnante stayed to conventional material on all of these, preferring to showcase his skills as an interpreter rather than his proficiency on the instrument. But, then, it's no small feat to tackle an airy little bossa nova number like "One Note Samba" on the accordion and not bludgeon it over into "Lady of Spain"-land. The gonifs at MCA, as conductor William Steinberg called them, did Magnante a disservice, then, in titling the double-LP reissue of his Command recordings Accordion Bellicosity. Magnante made art, not war, with his accordion.
He was born 7 December 1905 in New York City, New York and died on December 1986, in Westchester, New York. Here's a nice jazzy easy listening album from him that came out in 1959....
GET IT HERE
enjoy!
Monday, April 14, 2014
THE WYNNERS - LET'S ROCK
Here's another album from The Wynners, the movie score for the 1975 movie Let's Rock....
GET IT HERE
enjoy!
Sunday, April 13, 2014
CATERINA VALENTE
Caterina Valente (born 14 January 1931, Paris, France) is an Italian singer,guitarist, dancer, and actress. She was born into an Italian artist family. Her father, Giuseppe, was a well-known accordion player; her mother, Maria, a musical clown. She had three siblings, one of whom, Silvio, was also active in show business....
Here are 3 great 7"es from here, latin, jazzy music, chancons and a killer version of Mack The Knife (in French)....
GET IT HERE
enjoy!!!!
Friday, April 11, 2014
Thursday, April 10, 2014
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
PARLIND GROUP - CINTA SUCI
Pretty obscure album here. Back in the 70's a lot of these kind of albums came out and a lot of these bands either sounded like Koes Plus or The Mercy's. These guys sound a lot like The Mercy's. Chinese Indonesian band, you don't see that too often. Not a bad album this one...
GET IT HERE
enjoy!!!!
PHILIPPINES - VARIOUS ARTISTS
Here's an album that was put out by the Ministry Of Tourism of the Philippines in 1979, pop songs, jazz, traditional music and folk music....
GET IT HERE
enjoy!
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
ANONENONE - AKATONBO NO UTA
Can't really find any info on these guys, Japanese folk music mixed with comedy....
GET IT HERE
enjoy!
Monday, April 7, 2014
Thursday, April 3, 2014
SHOWCASE PHASE 4 - VARIOUS ARTISTS
Great album with various artists playing jazz, exotica and latin music that came out in 1962....
A1 – Johnny Keating's Kombo - The Donkey Serenade
A2 – Ted Heath - Johnny One Note
A3 – Los Machucambos - Granada
A4 – International Pop All Stars - The Poor People Of Paris
A5 – Stanley Black - Caravan
B1 – Eric Rogers - Tiger Rag
B2 – Rudi Bohn - Mack The Knife
B3 – Edmundo Ros - My Old Kentucky Home
B4 – Ronnie Aldrich - Unforgettable
B5 – Werner Müller - You Are My Lucky Star
GET IT HERE
enjoy!
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
WOO ING ING
(From Wikipedia)
Wu Yingyin (born Wu Jianqiu 吳劍秋; 1922 – December 17, 2009), also romanized as Woo Ing-ing, was a Chinese singer. By the 1940s, she became one of the seven great singing stars.
Wu was born in Ningbo to an intellectual family with her father as a chemical engineer and mother a doctor. She grew up in Shanghai and enjoyed singing to radio tunes at an early age. She originally wanted to go to the Shanghai Academy of Music, but her parents opposed the idea and claimed that the music industry was for individuals with no real ambition. In 1940, in order to work around her parents' disapproval, she began singing under a stage name (Qian Yin 錢茵) for radio stations at night, particularly for children's programs.
Wu had a soft singing voice that made her a success. She continued to sing without her family knowing so and ultimately used the stage name "Wu Yingyin." The buzz later got around about a new singer. It has been said that Wu's father at first didn't realize it was his own daughter's voice that he heard on the radio.
In 1945 she became a nightclub singer and garnered acclaim for her performances. Most of her vocal techniques were self-taught. At the age of 24, she participated in a nightclub competition. Winning the crown, she was discovered and immediately signed to a contract with Pathé Records (China) record company. Her first record (我想忘了你 "I Want to Forget You") became a hit. In total, Pathé Records produced 30 albums for her.[1] Among her best known songs are "Spring returns to the World" (大地回春), "Heartbreak" (斷腸紅), "I Have This Feeling" (我有一段情), "The Bright Moon Sends My Love Across a Thousand Miles" (明月千里寄相思), "Fine Spring Night" (好春宵), "Chance Meeting of Strangers" (萍水相逢). She was affectionately nicknamed 鼻音歌后 ("Queen of the Nasal Voice").
In 1955 she joined a Shanghai broadcasting station (上海人民广播电台). She relocated to Hong Kong in 1957 where she continued her singing career. She returned to China for recordings in 1983 in Guangzhou. In July 1984, she moved from Hong Kong to Pasadena, California. At the age of 80, she was still singing in overseas Chinese neighborhood community events for charitable causes. At the time, she was regarded as one of the world's oldest active singers.
She would also sing in Singapore, and on January 3, 2003 she was invited to perform at the Shanghai Grand Theatre.
Wu died in Los Angeles on 17 December 2009.
GET IT HERE
enjoy!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)