Sunday Aug 22, 2021
Volume 34: Brasile '66 Ye-Me-Le
Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl
Extensive and Eclectic and we hear them as is with skips, scratches, and pops. Being a radio and mobile DJ for a decade and a half, I collected several hundred albums. I had nothing on my dad who owned more than 500 (33 1/3) LPs and over 100 78 RPMs at the time of his death in December 2019. I had no idea he had so many. We found them spread all over the house when we prepared for the estate sale. I went through every one and categorized them on an app called Discogs. I thought so many were unique, I decided to start a podcast called Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl. Each episode will feature an album. I’ll tell stories about the family listening to these albums and I’ll give other info about the album and the time it was released.
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Episodes
Episodes
Sunday Aug 15, 2021
Sunday Aug 15, 2021
For the second time we turn to a Herb Alpert record. One of 12 my dad had in his collection. This album is filled with many familiar TJB tunes, including one that was used on a game show. So get ready for the upbeat and very cool sound that used to fill our home in Volume 33: Tijuana Brass Going Places.
Credits and copyrights:
Herb Alpert And The Tijuana Brass* – !!Going Places!!Label: A&M Records – SP-4112Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Monarch PressingCountry: USReleased: Oct 1965Genre: Jazz, PopStyle: Latin Jazz, Easy Listening, Instrumental
Tijuana Taxi Ervan ColemanSpanish Flea Julius WechterCinco De Mayo Chris MontezI'm Getting Sentimental Over You George BassmanMore And More Amor Sol LakeZorba The Greek Mikis TheodorakisThe Third Man Theme Anton Karas
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Sunday Aug 08, 2021
Sunday Aug 08, 2021
We are returning to the Smithsonian collection the Greatest Jazz recordings of all time. This episode is record one of a four-record box set that features a piano player on each disc. So get ready for one of the original cutters in Volume 32: Jazz Keyboard Master Fats Waller
The Smithsonian collections include a booklet for each box set. I’ll use these notes to introduce each song.
Credits and copyrights:
Various – Jazz Masters Of The Keyboard Vol. ILabel: The Franklin Mint Record Society – FM JAZZ 009, Series: The Greatest Jazz Recordings Of All Time – , Institute Of Jazz Studies Official Archive Collection –Format: 4 × Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Red Box and Vinyl Box SetCountry: SwedenReleased: 1982Genre: Jazz
Handful Of KeysHoneysuckle RoseVibraphone AnitaClarinet MarmaladeLounging At The Waldorf Paswonky
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Sunday Aug 01, 2021
Sunday Aug 01, 2021
Pictures at an Exhibition is a suite of ten pieces - plus a recurring, varied Promenade - composed for piano by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky in 1874.The suite is Mussorgsky's most famous piano composition, and has become a showpiece for virtuoso pianists. It has become further known through various orchestrations and arrangements produced by other musicians and composers, with Maurice Ravel's 1922 version for full symphony orchestra being by far the most recorded and performed.
By the way, we’ll also hear an excerpt from another Russian composer on this episode. So get ready for an historical composer, conductor and orchestra all rolled up into one masterpiece on Volume 31: Pictures at an Exhibition
Credits and copyrights:
Moussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Leonard Bernstein, The New York Philharmonic – Pictures At An Exhibition · Capriccio EspagnolLabel: Columbia Masterworks – ML 5401Format: Vinyl, LP, MonoReleased: 1959Genre: ClassicalStyle: Romantic, Modern
Promenade and The GnomesTuileriesBallet Of The Chicks In Their ShellsFandango Asturiano from CappriccioThe Great Gate Of Kiev
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Sunday Jul 25, 2021
Sunday Jul 25, 2021
The title of this collection is a little deceiving. Yes, you will hear Bing Crosby singing, but you will hear several selections of the Longines Symphonette without him singing. I don’t have a problem with that, so let’s listen to some beautiful music and a beautiful voice in Volume 30: Bing's Loved Songs Part 1
The Longines Symphonette – Bing Crosby's Treasury - The Songs I LoveLabel: Longines Symphonette Society – noneFormat: 6 × Vinyl, LP, Stereo Box SetReleased: 1966Genre: Jazz, Pop, Stage & ScreenStyle: Vocal, Swing, Musical, Big Band, Easy Listening
Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive written by Harold Arlen and the lyrics by Johnny Mercer in 1944What'll I Do Written-By – Irving Berlin 1923Cheek to Cheek Written-By – Irving Berlin 1935Joobalai Lyrics By – Leo Robin 1938 Music By – Ralph RaingerMarie Irving Berlin in 1924One for My Baby written by Harold Arlen and the lyrics by Johnny Mercer for the movie musical The Sky's the Limit, 1943
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Sunday Jul 18, 2021
Sunday Jul 18, 2021
We are once again featuring a non-music record from my dad’s collection. In fact, this is the second dive into this collection of six records. My previous life in radio made me really appreciate the history we are hearing on this collection. AND I get to share a couple of my own radio stories in this episode. So get ready to heat up some old tubes on Volume 29: Golden Memories of Radio Part 2
Jack Benny – Golden Memories Of RadioLabel: Longines Symphonette SocietyFormat: 6 × Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Mono, Box SetReleased: 1969Genre: Non-MusicStyle: Radioplay
We are listening to record two, which is side 2 and 11.
Excerpts from:Jack Benny and Frank Knight’s narrationThe Romance Of Helen TrentJust Plain BillBabe Ruth And Lou Gehrig On Their Radio ShowBabe Ruth's Final MessageLou Gehrig Says "Goodbye""Ma" Perkins Last BroadcastMary Noble, Back Stage Wifeclassic live on-air blundersMary Margaret McBride With Mr. & Mrs. Alben BarkleyCommercials: Interwoven Socks, Chesterfield Smoke Dreams, Pepsi-Cola, Rinso, Lava, Crisco, The Longines-Wittnauer Watch Company
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Sunday Jul 11, 2021
Sunday Jul 11, 2021
It was a movie for the ages. Cinematic history in how it was filmed and how many extras were required. The 1959 epic had the largest budget, over $15 million, as well as the largest sets built, of any film produced at the time. And the score was just as large. So get ready for big music from the big screen in Volume 28: Ben Hur.
Miklos Rozsa – Ben-HurLabel: MGM Records – SIEI, MGM Records – 1E1Format: Box Set, Deluxe Edition Vinyl, LP, StereoReleased: 1959Genre: Stage & ScreenStyle: Soundtrack, Score
PreludeLove Theme of Ben HurThe Rowing of the Galley SlavesNaval BattleVictory ParadeThe Miracle And Finale
Sunday Jul 04, 2021
Sunday Jul 04, 2021
It’s the independence day episode. So what better way to honor America than with the best damn band in the land. Get ready for some high stepping, fast marching and fancy formations in Volume 27: Buckeyes, Brass and Independence
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Credits and Copyrights:
The Ohio State University Marching Band – Stars, Stripes 'n BrassLabel: FSR – FSRS 1294Format: Vinyl, LP, AlbumReleased: 1974Genre: Brass & MilitaryStyle: Marches
The Stars And Stripes Forever Written by John Phillip SousaYankee Doodle TraditionalOverture To 1776 music and lyrics by Sherman EdwardsSemper Sousa Arranged by Frank SeymourLe Régiment de Sambre et Meuse & Battle Cry by Robert Planquette and Paul CezanoBuckeye Battle Cry Written by Frank CrumitBig Ten Medley Arranged by Richard HeineHang On Sloopy Written by Wes Farrell and Burt BurnsChimes And Carmen Ohio Written by Freddy Cornell
Sunday Jun 27, 2021
Sunday Jun 27, 2021
While I am familiar with this band leader’s music, I was not familiar with the main piece of music on this record. It’s not really his style. So we’ll hear the story of why Perez Prado wrote it and we’ll listen to all three movements in Volume 26: Voodoo Suite
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Perez Prado, featuring Shorty Rogers – Voodoo Suite Plus Six All-Time GreatsLabel: RCA Victor – LPM-1101Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, MonoReleased: 1955Genre: Jazz, LatinStyle: Latin Jazz, Afro-Cuban Jazz, Cha-Cha, Mambo
I Can’t get startedcomposed in 1938 by Vernon Duke
Voodoo SuiteComposed in 1954 by Perez Prado
In the MoodComposed by saxophonist Joe Garland in 1938
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Former DJ Trying His Hand at a Podcast
Although I’m currently working in public relations and marketing, I spent 16 years in radio broadcasting. Some of that as a news and sports reporter, but mostly as a disk jockey.
My first two years in radio were spent learning from giants in the business at the nation’s number one nostalgia station, WBBG in Cleveland. That station is now long off the air.
From 1982 to 1984 I worked with and for my father’s favorite 1950s DJ Bill Randle, who helped put Elvis Presley on the musical map north of the Mason Dixon line. My dad was so excited when I told him I would be the intern writing his newscasts. Even after I took a full time position at the station, I relished the opportunities to have conversations with Bill about the radio business. He once told me a great Elvis story as I drove him to the bus station for one of his weekend trips.
I also can’t forget the influences of other on air legends like Carl Reece and Ted Alexander who now has his own internet show of oldies.
This collection isn’t made up of just a bunch of albums I found in my dad’s house after he died. I listened to these albums. Mostly at Sunday dinners. But I wore a few of these out on my own turntable. So I know this collection and I think you’re going to enjoy some of the unique selections.
My dad and I had very similar taste in a lot of music. I also have over 400 albums in my personal collection. Even after his death I found some of my albums in his collection and visa versa.
I consider myself a bit of an amateur music historian. I’ve always loved music that came way before I was born, although I’m still partial to Led Zeppelin.
Additionally, extra understanding and appreciation of much of what you will hear in my dad’s collection came from a great upper level class I had in college: The History of Jazz.
I do know one thing. It will be fun to get behind a microphone again and share some great recordings.