Scored a bunch of old 78"es today, 4 of them are from Orkes Krontjong M. Sagi...Can't find any info about this Orchestra, only that this was recorded in the 1940's.... Lovely music....
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Thursday, March 20, 2014
ORKES KRONTJONG M. SAGI
Scored a bunch of old 78"es today, 4 of them are from Orkes Krontjong M. Sagi...Can't find any info about this Orchestra, only that this was recorded in the 1940's.... Lovely music....
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NORO MORALES & HIS ORCHESTRA - HOLIDAY IN HAVANA
One of the most popular Latin band leaders of the 1940s and 1950s. Morales grew up in a musical family, which was invited in 1924 to become the court orchestra of the president of Venezuela. Noro took over as conductor after his father died, eventually moving the band back to Puerto Rico. He moved to New York City in 1935 and within two years was leading his own rhumba band. Installed as the house band at the legendary club El Morocco, Morales was at the center of the rise of Latin jazz in the early 1940s. Xavier Cugat took Morales' composition, "Bim, Bam, Bum" and covered it for one of his earliest hits. Many of the great names in Latin music floated through Morales' band during this time: Machito, Tito Rodriguez, Tito Puente, and, later, Anglo musicians such as Doc Severinsen.
Morales cut a distinctive figure on stage and off, with his large bald head and black mustache. One friend recalled that, "He was always well-dressed, shows shined, nails polished and reeked of expensive cologne....He loved women. He had to work steadily to pay the alimony his three wives collected." Morales remained a popular and successful act on the New York scene for over 20 years, appearing annually at the Daily News Harvest Moon Ball and working clubs such as the Copacabana and the China Doll.
Although he was not averse to catering to popular tastes, Morales usually stayed true to his Latin roots, using a traditional line-up featuring a rhythm section that included bass, bongos, conga, timbales, and claves, with himself on piano. He returned to Puero Rico in 1961 to work at the Hotel la Concha, where he died in 1964 of the effects of chronic diabetes.
This lovely album came out in 1960....
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TON VAN DER MEER - 'K HEB NIKS AAN M'N LEVEN (KOMMER EN KWEL)
Many, many years ago I saw Ton van der Meer live at a festival in the city of Den Haag, he was singing with Dutch punk band B.V.D. and I loved it, one of the hardest punk concerts I've seen and I've seen many... He has done many many things as a singer, blues, pop, rock, punk, all kinds of stuff. Here's a funky 7" from him....
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Monday, March 17, 2014
JIM & INGRID CROCE - ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER TOWN
James Joseph "Jim" Croce (January 10, 1943 – September 20, 1973) was an American singer-songwriter. Between 1966 and 1973, Croce released five studio albums and 11 singles. His singles "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" and "Time in a Bottle" were both number one hits on the Billboard Hot 100 charts.... He died in an airplane accident and his wife Ingrid had to stop singing after an operation damaged her vocal chords...
Here's their album Another Day, Another Town that came out in 1969....
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Sunday, March 16, 2014
Saturday, March 15, 2014
NINA RAMIREZ, RINALDO RAMIREZ, ANDY DA ROYA, LOLA FERNANDO, IRENE, TREVOR SMITT, WINA ROSARIO & TINA CASANO - WITHOUT YOU
Here's an album that's very beautiful and quiet puzzling to me, it was recorded in Indonesia, it doesn't say who made the music and I've never heard of any of the singers, but again, it's all very beautiful, very smooth and I think this probably came out in the late 50's....
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THE KILIMA HAWAIIANS - TROPICAL BREEZE
Dutch band, which got started by Bill Buysman in 1934 as "Kilima Hawaiian Trio". In 1936 he was joined by his wife Mary Buysman. They had their first recordings in 1941, which made them already quite successful in a very short time. In 1942 bass player Wim van Herpen joined the trio and the band changed name to "The Kilima Hawaiians".
Under this new setting they had their greatest moments of success, during the late 1940s and 1950s. They got back into the picture in the late 1960s when they were exclusively signed by CBS/Artone. In the meantime some new artists joined the band and some band members left and were replaced by new people. Their last release with original work came out in the 1970s. Afterwards only compilation albums with previously recorded material got released.... Here's their Tropical Breeze album, not sure when this one came out...
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LENA VOL. 1
All I know about Lena is that she was a singer from Malaysia active in the 50's and singing/acting in movies from P. Ramlee.... This one is for you Dolmance!
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Friday, March 14, 2014
OCTOBER CHERRIES - WORLD HITS 1975
The October Cherries were a late 1960s group from Singapore. The group was originally known as the Surfers, but changed their name to The October Cherries in 1968. They were influenced by The Beatles, and were popular in Malaysia and the Netherlands.
They also put out a few psychedelic albums (I'm curious now!) but this one is an album with 70's pop song covers....
Here's a 2005 interview with the band:
http://www.earcandymag.com/octobercherries-2005.htm
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I actually remember this song, this was a big hit in Holland when I was a kid....
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FREDDIE SATERIALE'S BIG BAND - CHA CHA CHA'S, MERENGUES, MAMBOS
Here's an album from Freddie Sateriale and his Big Band, can't find any info about him, only that he once did two albums with Perry Como....
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Tuesday, March 11, 2014
TATI SALEH & MANG KOKO - KETJAPIAN KAWI SUNDA
Great cassette from singer Tati Saleh with the great Mang Koko, making music, talking, singing and listening to it I think they were having a lot of fun while making it....
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Monday, March 10, 2014
IRMA VILA Y LA PRIETA LINDA - ACCOMPANIED BY THE MARIACHIS
Here's an album from Mexican singer/actress Irma Vila who was famous in the late 40's, 50's and 60's. She was born in 1916 and passed away in 1993, she was also known as Irma Vila Irma Vila y su Mariachi....
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Saturday, March 8, 2014
Friday, March 7, 2014
MIRIAM MAKEBA - THE MANY VOICES OF MIRIAM MAKEBA
Miriam Makeba (4 March 1932 – 9 November 2008), nicknamed Mama Africa, was a Grammy Award-winning South African singer and civil rights activist.
In the 1960s, she was the first artist from Africa to popularize African music around the world. She is best known for the song "Pata Pata", first recorded in 1957 and released in the U.S. in 1967. She recorded and toured with many popular artists, such as Harry Belafonte, Paul Simon, and her former husband Hugh Masekela.
Makeba campaigned against the South African system of apartheid. The South African government responded by revoking her passport in 1960 and her citizenship and right of return in 1963. As the apartheid system crumbled she returned home for the first time in 1990.
Makeba died of a heart attack on 9 November 2008 after performing in a concert in Italy organised to support writer Roberto Saviano in his stand against the Camorra, a mafia-like organisation local to the region of Campania.
Here's her beautiful album The Many Voices Of Miriam Makeba and this came out in 1962....
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THE FRED ASTAIRE DANCE STUDIO ORCHESTRA - EVERYBODY CHA CHA!
Here's another album from The Fred Astaire Dance Studio Orchestra and like the other album I posted, this one also comes with an instruction booklet.... This album came out in 1959....
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014
Monday, March 3, 2014
ALESSANDRO CICOGNINI - BLACK ORCHID
Alessandro Cicognini (January 25, 1906 in Pescara – November 9, 1995 in Rome) was an Italian film music composer.
Cicognini was classically trained at the Milan Conservatory of Music. He composed 106 soundtracks between 1936 and 1993, many of them for filmmaker Vittorio de Sica. His score for The Bicycle Thief (1948) was awarded Best Soundtrack of the Year. Much of his film music makes use of small ensembles and unusual instrumentation, rather than the lush orchestral scores common to film music of the mid-20th century. In 1965 he retired from film composition and became a teacher; one of his soundtracks, to the 1953 film Stazione Termini, was reused in What's Eating Gilbert Grape in 1993.
Here's his score for the movie The Black Orchid with Sophia Loren and Anthony Quinn....
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Sunday, March 2, 2014
IRV COTTLER - AROUND THE WORLD IN PERCUSSION
Irving "Irv" Cottler (13 February 1918 – 8 August 1989) was an American drummer who recorded with Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald, and many others. He was most known as an associate of Frank Sinatra, with whom he performed for over 30 years starting in 1953. He also performed for 12 years with The Dinah Shore Show's house band.
And here's a great exotica album he did in 1961, you can read all about this album here:
http://www.ambientexotica.com/exorev044_irvcottler_atwip/
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Saturday, March 1, 2014
THE ISLANDERS - THE ENCHANTED SOUND OF THE ISLANDERS
The Islanders were an American group which included Frank Metis (accordion)and Randy Starr (guitar), in addition to using special sound effects by Ralph F. Curtiss. They are most noted for their 1959 hit single, "The Enchanted Sea", which reached number 15 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
None of their subsequent singles for Mayflower were successful. An LP The Enchanted Sound of The Islanders was released by Mayflower Records in 1959, but it has not yet been re-issued as a CD.
Randy Starr, whose original name was Warren Nadel, was a guitar-playing, songwriting dentist from the Bronx. He also performed as a solo singer for a number of record labels, as well as penning songs for other artists, including "Kissin' Cousins" with Fred Wise, for Elvis Presley.
Really, a lovely album and from what I've read about, pretty rare too....
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