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Hank Williams - Wait For The Light To Shine (1960) Vinyl Spin of the Day. The death of Hank Williams on New Year's Day of 1953 did not halt the flood of music unleashed by his label, MGM Records. Seven years later, they dug out some demos Hank had recorded with his guitar and overdubbed...

Yes, there was a lot more margarine for error in those days. :nickyboy:

The Philadelphia Orchestra (Sergei Rachmaninov, cond.) - Isle of the Dead / Vocalise / Symphony No. 3 (rec. 1929 & 1939, RCA Red Seal comp. 1996) A formidable man.....

Paul Revere & The Raiders - In The Beginning (1963, Jerden reissue 1966) Vinyl Spin of the Day. Like The Beatles, Paul Revere & The Raiders paid a lot of dues before they hit the big time. Portland, Oregon was their Hamburg: night after grueling night of playing covers for rowdy teenagers...

Oh, I think they are real. It was part of their whole aura: part faux Mexican, part exotica, part jazz. You could never do that today but in that more innocent time, it worked surprisingly well.

Here is an important project that I just learned about. Wiki tells us: Great Pianists of the 20th Century was a 202-CD box set released by Philips Records in 1999 and sponsored by Steinway & Sons. The box set comprised 101 volumes featuring 72 pianists of the 20th century, each volume with two...

^^ ^^^ ^^^^ Pssst...the secret word is "yellow". :nunja: Here's a newer one for you:

Baja Marimba Band - Baja Marimba Band (A&M 1964) Vinyl Spin of the Day.

Stan Kenton - Viva Kenton! (1960) Here's another of those Kenton Kovers that @Nickyboy likes so much, on a record by the band that @Zeeba Neighba just loves. :rolleyes: It's not often I can annoy two people with one post. :mrgreen:

The Ames Brothers - In The Evening By The Moonlight (Barber Shop Ballads) (Coral 10" 1953) And remember...

Various Artists - Donna Lombarda (2009) Google Translate tells me that these are "traditional songs and dances from the Appenine region" of Italy. They are performed beautifully on a variety of acoustic instruments. This hard-to-find collection appeared briefly on Barcode Records, a Polish...

Before Big Boy there was…

The Art Tatum - Roy Eldridge - Alvin Stoller - John Simmons Quartet (1955)

Ray Budzilek & His Cleveland All-Stars - Modne Polskie Piosenski (?) Vinyl Spin of the Day.

Marian Anderson - At Constitution Hall Washington, D.C. Farewell Recital (1965) :heart: Marian Anderson's career richly deserves a long post which I will do soon. She sang at JFK's inauguration in 1961. Four years later, she retired from performing. It is an inexplicable crime that this...