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Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl

Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl

Frank Vaccariello

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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Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl - Volume 141: Conniff Memories

Volume 141: Conniff Memories

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09/10/23 • 30 min

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.

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Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl - Volume 144: Where Jazz is Buried - Woodlawn
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10/01/23 • 39 min

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.

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Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl - Volume 173: Dean's Swingin'

Volume 173: Dean's Swingin'

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04/21/24 • 33 min

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.

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Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl - Volume 1: Kickoff

Volume 1: Kickoff

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01/03/21 • 28 min

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.

ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

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Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl - Volume 140: The Magic Horn

Volume 140: The Magic Horn

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09/03/23 • 38 min

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.

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Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl - Volume 142: Parading Bobcats

Volume 142: Parading Bobcats

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09/17/23 • 27 min

Here’s another gem of a find from my dad’s collection. Not only is the album cover attention grabbing with five stuffed TIGERS playing various instruments. But how they’re the wrong animals according to the album title. Faulty album cover aside, this is true roots of dixieland music with a twist.

So get ready for a Sousa good time with Volume 142: Parading Bobcats.

Credits and copyrights

Bob Crosby And His Orchestra – Bobcats On Parade
Label: Coral – CRL 57061
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Released: 1957
Genre: Jazz
Style: Big Band

Washington Post March
Written by John Philip Sousa

King Cotton
Written by John Philip Sousa

Bobcats On Parade
written by George Cates and Sonny Burke

The Thunderer
Written by John Philip Sousa

High School Cadets
Written by John Philip Sousa

Semper Fidelis March
Written by John Philip Sousa

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.

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Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl - Volume 136: Sammy Record 1

Volume 136: Sammy Record 1

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08/06/23 • 36 min

Here’s an album I used to steal so much from my dad’s collection I thought it actually might be mine when I went through his records. This entertainer had an unmistakable voice, an unmistakable style, AND unmistakable cool. He seemed to always sing the most recognizable version of most of the standards. And he only ever needed one name to introduce him. So get ready to hear from who I think is the most outstanding showman of all time in Volume 136: Sammy Record 1.

Promised link: Highway Of Agony: How Traffic Safety Films Introduced Millions Of Kids To Scenes Of Real Death

Credits and copyrights

Sammy Davis, Jr. – Sammy
Label: Sessions (2) – ARI-1001
Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Compilation
Released: 1976
Genre: Jazz, Pop
Style: Vocal, Swing

What The World Needs Now
written by Burt Bacharach, Hal David

Mr Bojangles
written by Jerry Jeff Walker

Singin' In The Rain
Written by Nacio Herb Brown, Arthur Freed

What Kind Of Fool Am I
Written by Leslie Bricusse / Anthony Newley

Talk To The Animals
written by Leslie Bricusse

For Once In My Life
written by Ron Miller and Orlando Murden

I've Got You Under My Skin
written by Cole Porter

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.

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Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl - Volume 143: Neapolitan Pavarotti

Volume 143: Neapolitan Pavarotti

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09/24/23 • 36 min

Of course my dad loved his opera. What music collection in any Italian household was without some of the world’s finest music.

Several of the songs on this album had special meaning for my parents. It’s music from a singer they saw at least once in concert. He held a special place in both their hearts as one who could deliver Italian music at its purest.

So, get ready to hear one of the best to ever sing music from this region of Italy in Volume 143: Neapolitan Pavarotti.

Credits and copyrights

Luciano Pavarotti – O Sole Mio Favorite Neapolitan Songs
Label: London Records – OS26560, London Records – OS 26560
Format: Vinyl, LP, Club Edition
Released: 1979
Genre: Classical
Style: Opera, Romantic

'O Sole Mio
Written-By – Eduardo Di Capua, Edward Teschemacher

Torna A Surriento
Written-By – Ernesto de Curtis, Giambattista De Curtis

'O Surdato 'Nnammurato
Written-By – Aniello Califano, Enrico Cannio

'O Marenariello
Written-By – Gennaro Ottoviano, Salvatore Gambardella

Maria Mari'
Written-By – Eduardo Di Capua, Vincenzo Russo

Funiculì Funiculà
Written-By – Giuseppe Turco, Luigi Denza

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.

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Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl - Volume 103: Hawaiian Sunset

Volume 103: Hawaiian Sunset

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12/18/22 • 28 min

In the immortal words of Monty Python and the Flying Circus, now for something completely different. This record was an unexpected find in my dad’s collection, but it’s obvious he played it frequently, telling by its condition. So get ready to head out to the middle of the Pacific Ocean for some quiet meditation at my favorite time of day with Volume 103: Hawaiian Sunset.

Credits and copyrights

Poly And His Hawaiian Ensemble – Hawaiian Sunset
Label: Harmony (4) – HL 7114
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: Canada
Released: 1958
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Pacific

Song Of The Islands
Written by Charles E King

The Moon Of Manakoora
written by Frank Loesser (lyrics) and Alfred Newman (music)

Hawaiian Paradise Owens
music by Harry Owens

Hawaiian Dreams
By Poly

The One Rose Lyon -
Written by Lani McIntire, Del Lyon

Pagan Love Song
written by Nacio Herb Brown and Arthur Freed

Aloha Oe
Composed by Queen Lilluokalani

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.

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Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl - Spinning My Dad's Vinyl Show Promo

Spinning My Dad's Vinyl Show Promo

Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl

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11/22/20 • 1 min

My dad left us in 2019. He left ME with nearly 500 vinyl records.

The collection is extensive and eclectic and was gathered from the 1940s through the 1970s. We will listen to selections from an album each week, as is, with skips, scratches, and pops included.

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Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl currently has 209 episodes available.

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The podcast is about Music, Music History, Podcasts and Music Commentary.

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