The crocuses (croci?) are in bloom in these parts, and spring is two days hence. So let's celebrate with a new crop of reups and remasters, some by request, and some blogger's choice.
As usual, where I have lossless files in my archives, I have remastered these, and the resulting sound is generally far superior to my original work and presented in Apple lossless format. It's buyer-beware with the mp3s, I'm afraid.
Links to all the files are in the comments to this post.
The lineup:
Albert Wolff - Massenet and Saint-Saëns(remastered). Two overtures led by the outstanding and now forgotten French conductor. Dashing and full of life. (I'll have to upload more of his artistry.)
Art Hodes - Out of the Back Room (mp3). The Chicago style pianist on an early Blue Note LP.
Canta Maya - A Long, Long Kiss (remastered). An obscure and highly stylized German cabaret singer who somehow ended up on Roulette records.
Chuck Wagon Gang - Favorite Country Hymns (remastered). The first LP by the famous country gospel group.
Dizzy Dean, Don Drysdale and Hey Mabel! (remastered). To welcome the impending baseball season, a reup of singles by Hall of Fame pitchers Dizzy Dean (his signature "Wabash Cannonball") and Don Drysdale (an excellent crooner!), plus a promotional 78 of the Carling Beer jingle "Hey Mabel! Black Label!" in both dixieland and big band versions. (See original post.)
Jane Powell - Date with Jane Powell (remastered). Speaking of pitching, I think I finally have the pitch of this LP right. You have to hear Powell's superb version of "Over the Rainbow"!
Josh White (mp3). An early album, originally on Asch Records, devoted to the pioneering folk singer.
Leonard Bernstein and NYPO in Venice (remastered). A promotional LP issued by the Ford Motor Company's ad agency to mark one of the television specials that Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic did in 1959. Music-making and Lennie talking, in about equal portions.
As usual, where I have lossless files in my archives, I have remastered these, and the resulting sound is generally far superior to my original work and presented in Apple lossless format. It's buyer-beware with the mp3s, I'm afraid.
Links to all the files are in the comments to this post.
The lineup:
Albert Wolff - Massenet and Saint-Saëns(remastered). Two overtures led by the outstanding and now forgotten French conductor. Dashing and full of life. (I'll have to upload more of his artistry.)
Art Hodes - Out of the Back Room (mp3). The Chicago style pianist on an early Blue Note LP.
Canta Maya - A Long, Long Kiss (remastered). An obscure and highly stylized German cabaret singer who somehow ended up on Roulette records.
Chuck Wagon Gang - Favorite Country Hymns (remastered). The first LP by the famous country gospel group.
Dizzy Dean, Don Drysdale and Hey Mabel! (remastered). To welcome the impending baseball season, a reup of singles by Hall of Fame pitchers Dizzy Dean (his signature "Wabash Cannonball") and Don Drysdale (an excellent crooner!), plus a promotional 78 of the Carling Beer jingle "Hey Mabel! Black Label!" in both dixieland and big band versions. (See original post.)
Jane Powell - Date with Jane Powell (remastered). Speaking of pitching, I think I finally have the pitch of this LP right. You have to hear Powell's superb version of "Over the Rainbow"!
Josh White (mp3). An early album, originally on Asch Records, devoted to the pioneering folk singer.
Leonard Bernstein and NYPO in Venice (remastered). A promotional LP issued by the Ford Motor Company's ad agency to mark one of the television specials that Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic did in 1959. Music-making and Lennie talking, in about equal portions.