What are you listening to? February 2024

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Lawrence Welk - Presents Keyboard Kapers (1958)

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Vinyl Spin of the Day.

Koral rounded up some kool kats on the keys for this kollection, including Tiny Little. :cool:

All four guys play together: two grand pianos, organ and what the liner notes aptly describe as "Tiny's Tinkly Piano".

Trivia note: Lawrence Welk once turned down a job offer from Tiny's father, Tiny Little, Sr., who led an aggregation called "Tiny's Toe Teasers". Probably a wise choice. :worm:

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Afterthought: with two "Tinys" in the house, would junior have been called 'Little Tiny Little"?
 
Stan Kenton - Back To Balboa (1958)

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Capitol originally released this album (and many others at the time) only in mono. Kenton himself eventually put the stereo version out on his own Creative World label some years later.

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Buying Tip: Look for the Solar Records twofer CD which includes this one and Rendezvous With Kenton in sparkling sound quality.

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NBC Symphony Orchestra (Robert Russell Bennett, arr. & cond.) - Rodgers: Victory At Sea (TV soundtrack, 1953)

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Vinyl Spin of the Day.

When I was growing up, my mom bought both volumes of the "Living Stereo" remake of Richard Rodgers' epic soundtrack to the Emmy winning NBC show. This sprawling WWII documentary utilizing archival footage was a landmark of early television. Rodgers initially resisted this assignment but in the end, as the liner notes put it, "the symphonic sweep and depth of Rodgers' score captures the moods and variations of the panoramic war at sea, all its terror and beauty, all its exaltation and despair."

Recently I picked up a beautiful copy of the original mono version. The music provides a stirring backdrop for the 26 part series which can still be found on YouTube. As advertised, RCA's "New Orthophonic" sound offers rich sound with full dynamic range and a noiseless surface.

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Detective - It Takes One to Know One (1977)

Detective - It Takes One to Know One - album cover


Saw this on an "underrated albums" list. A pretty-good hard rock album from the 1970s akin to Bad Company (without Paul Rodgers voice) released on the Swan Song label (and definitely taking some cues from Zep). Tony Kaye from Yes is in the band
 
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