Like his friend Johnny Mercer, Hoagy Carmichael was best known as a songwriter but his distinctive singing style is highly entertaining. Some of these "classic" tracks are pretty obscure ("Don't Forget To Say 'No' Baby", "The Monkey Song", "Some Days There Ain't No Fish") but lots of fun nonetheless.
Remember this logo? It appears on the back cover of this record. Use a cassette, go to jail.
Ensemble Plus Ultra - Guerrero: Missa Super Flumina Babylonis et al. (2007)
Gorgeous Renaissance polyphony from the Spanish Glossa label, whose website (www.glossamusic.com) explains:
"[Michael] Noone dusts off manuscripts in the Toledo archives to unearth for us pieces which a young Francisco Guerrero composed during the course of his brief stay by the banks of the River Tagus, at the time when he was a pupil of Cristóbal de Morales. That, however, is far from the end of the matter: from the period of Guerrero’s maturity Ensemble Plus Ultra has [also] chosen the never-before recorded Missa Super flumina Babylonis, which it presents to us in a dazzling version assisted by the talents of the instrumentalists of His Majesty's Sagbutts and Cornetts."