Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl

This is the third of eight records my dad had of this orchestra leader. He was an innovator who used the voice as an instrument, not as a vocalist. The previous episode we featured Ray on is my most viewed on YouTube...by a lot! Let’s hope this one gets past the copyright police unlike the first time I featured this artist.

So get ready to hear a multi-million selling recording musical style in Volume 141: Conniff Memories.

Credits and copyrights

Ray Conniff And His Orchestra & Chorus – Memories Are Made Of This
Label: Columbia – CL 1574
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
Released: 1960
Genre: Jazz
Style: Big Band, Easy Listening

Memories Are Made Of This
Written by Richard Dehr, Frank Miller, Terry Gilkyson

Young Love
written by Carole Joyner, Ric Cartey

Love Letters In The Sand
Music written by J. Fred Coots

Three Coins In The Fountain
written by Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne

Unchained Melody
written by Hy Zaret, Alex North

Love Me Tender
written by Elvis Presley, Ken Darby, George Poulton, W.W. Fosdick

No Other Love
written by Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers
Boy, we play a lot of their music on this show.

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.

This is a special edition. Its timing only has a little to do with the fact that it’s the beginning of Halloween season around here.

The musicians you will hear have all been heard in previous episodes of this show. A few of them might have played together at one time or another. None of these songs are found on the same album. But the artists have one thing in common. All of their final resting places are in the same cemetery.

So, get ready to hear music from the grave somewhere in the Bronx with Volume 144: Where Jazz is Buried - Woodlawn.

Credits and copyrights

Miles Davis
If I were a Bell from Swingin' Sound!

Lionel Hampton
Sweethearts On Parade from The Original Big Band Hits, Vol. 1

Max Roach
Orientation from Modern Jazz - Hall Of Fame Volume 1

Coleman Hawkins
I Mean You from Franklin Mint Jazz Masters Of The Sax

Jonah Jones
Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone from Trumpet on Tour

King Oliver & His Dixie Syncopators
Aunt Hagar's Blues from Franklin Mint Kings Of New Orleans Jazz

Duke Ellington
Take the A Train from Dance To The Themes Of The Greatest Bands

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.

This is the second of the three main Rat Pack members we will hear from here in season four of this show. This crooner is the one we DIDN’T get to see in concert with the other two back in March of 1988 at the Richfield Coliseum.

He’s a singer, actor, and comedian. One of the most popular entertainers of the mid-20th century, he was nicknamed "The King of Cool". And his music is still among the most streamed today.

So, get ready to hear the voice that had just as many teenage girls swooning as Old Blue Eyes did in Volume 173: Dean's Swingin'.

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

Promised Links:
Dean Martin's IMDB listing
Dean Martin's official website About page.

Credits and copyrights

Dean Martin Orchestra Conducted By Nelson Riddle – This Time I'm Swingin'
Label: Capitol Records – T1442
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Los Angeles Pressing
Released: Oct 3, 1960
Genre: Jazz
Style: Easy Listening, Vocal, Swing

It was recorded during three sessions in May of 1960.

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

I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me
Written-By – Clarence Gaskill and Jimmy McHugh

You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You (the 1964 re-release reached number 25 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1964 and number 1 on the Billboard Easy Listening chart.)
Written-By – James Cavanaugh, Larry Stock, and Russ Morgan

Imagination
Written-By – Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Burke

Until The Real Thing Comes Along
Written-By – Alberta Nichols, L.E. Freeman, Mann Holiner, Sammy Cahn and Saul Chaplin

Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
Written-By – Sam Stept and Sidney Clare

Someday
Written-By – Jimmie Hodges

Just In Time
Written-By – Adoph Green, Betty Comden and Jule Styne

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.

To get this new podcast off to a rip-roaring start, we’re going to combine my family’s love of football and my dad’s love of Dixieland with Pee Wee Hunt’s Dixieland Kickoff. Plus the only college fight song I know the words to is one of the choices.

This album includes 12 famous college fight songs in swingin’ two-beat arrangements. We’ll learn a little about the band leader’s interesting path in life. We’ll learn that the cover artist was a pretty popular choice as an illustrator in that era.

It also has entertaining cover notes.

Artist: Pee Wee Hunt
Album: Dixieland Kickoff
Release: 1959

Tune Selections:
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame Victory March
University of Illinois
Illinois Loyalty
University of Minnesota
The U. of M. Rouser
Harvard University
Our Director
Yale University
Down the Field
University of Michigan
The Victors
Ohio State University
Across the Field

Pee Wee Hunt - Dixieland Kickoff (1959, Vinyl) | Discogs

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Credits and copyrights
Notre Dame Victory March
Written-By – John F. Shea, Rev. Michael J. Shea
Illinois Loyalty
Written-By – T. H. Guild
The U. Of M. Rouser
Arranged By – Bill Stegmeyer
Our Director
Arranged By – Bill Stegmeyer
Down The Field
Written-By – C. W. O'Conner, Stanleigh P. Friedman
The Victors
Arranged By – Bill Stegmeyer
Across The Field
Written-By – William A. Dougherty, Jr.
Manufactured By – Capitol Records, Inc.
Copyright (c) – Capitol Records, Inc.
Cover, Photography By – Joe Covello
Illustration – F.P.
Leader – Pee Wee Hunt
Producer – Andy Wiswell
©1959 Capitol Records, Inc.
Made in U.S.A.
Factories: Scranton, PA. - Los Angeles, Calif.

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Here’s another album in my dad’s collection that featured a group of jazz musicians recording an album before playing the same music on live TV days later. This time, the live TV show was a drama about a jazz trumpet player in the 1920s. Several of the musicians you’ll hear had speaking parts in the show as well as playing some great music.

So get ready to hear Ruby Braff as Spencer Lee playing mostly jazz standards in Volume 140: The Magic Horn.

Credits and copyrights

George Wein's Dixie-Victors Featuring Ruby Braff – The Magic Horn
Label: RCA Victor – LPM-1332
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
Released: 1956
Genre: Jazz, Stage & Screen
Style: Dixieland

We will hear 6 of the 9 tunes on this record.

Banjo – Danny Barker
Baritone Saxophone – Ernie Caceres
Bass – Milt Hinton
Clarinet – Bill Stegmeyer, Peanuts Hucko
Drums – Buzzy Drootin
Piano, Creative Director [Musical Director] – George Wein
Trombone – Vic Dickenson
Trumpet – Jimmy McPartland, Ruby Braff

Struttin' With Some Barbecue
Written By – Louis Armstrong

The Magic Horn
Written By – Ben Ross

Loveless Love
Written By – W. C. Handy

A Monday Date
Written By – Carl Hines, Sid Robinc

On The Sunny Side Of The Street
Written By – Jimmy McHugh & Dorothy Fields

Dippermouth Blues
Written By – Joe Oliver, Louis Armstrong

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.