Edmundo Ros and His Orchestra - Dance Again

1. Patricia
2. Tropical Merengue
3. Tea for Two
4. Miami Beach Rumba
5. Cocktails for Two
6. I Came, I Saw, I Conga'd
7. Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White
8. The Wedding Samba
9. Mambo No. 5
10. Blue Tango
11. When the Moon Comes Over The Mountain
12. Colonel Bogey

Dance Again

Lloyd Mumm and His Starlight Roof Orchestra - Pink Champagne for Dancing

1. Bubbles in the Wine
2. The Girl Friend
3. Josephine
4. Hey Mr. Banjo
5. In A Little Spanish Town
6. Clarinet Polka
7. Tonight We Love
8. Louise
9. The Poor People of Paris
10. Lichtersteiner Polka
11. Till the End of Time
12. La Ronde

Pink Champagne for Dancing

Franck Pourcel Orchestra - HiFi Sound '79

1. Copacabana
2. French Jubilee
3. Rasputin
4. Une Simple Melodie
5. Spanish Eyes
6. Comedia
7. Grease
8. Peter and Elliot the Dragon
9. Manhattan Skyline
10. Ne Me Quitte Pas
11. Ma Preference
12. Annie's Song

HiFi Sound '79

Jerry Byrd - Potpourri

1. Ridin' High
2. Invitation to Love
3. Sleepless Nights
4. Indian Love Call
5. Danciing Under the Stars
6. Chile Nights
7. Coconut Grove
8. Goodbye Kiss
9. Harbor Lights
10. Day Dream
11. Torn Sarong
12. Valley of the Roses

Potpourri

The Guitarist

(1920 - 2005)

Herb Alpert - Come Fly with Me

1. Come Fly with Me
2. Blue Skies
3. Got A Lot of Livin' to Do
4. Cheeky
5. Take The "A" Train
6. Love Affair
7. Windy City
8. Sweet and Lovely
9. Walkin' Tall
10. Night Ride
11. Something
12. On the Sunny Side of the Street
13. Danny Boy

Come Fly with Me

Dean Martin - Relaxin'

1. Little Did We Know
2. Pennies from Heaven
3. In Napoli
4. Chee-Chee Oo Chee (Sang the Little Bird)
5. I Want You
6. Sparklin' Eyes
7. Cheatin' on Me
8. Let Me Know
9. How Sweet It Is
10. Who Was That Lady

Relaxin'

Duke Ellington - The Reprise Years (1962-1967) (Reupload)

1. Don't Get Around Much Anymore
2. I Can't Stop Loving You
3. The Good Life
4. I Left My Heart in San Francisco
5. People
6. One O'Clock Jump
7. Hello Dolly
8. The Waltz You Saved for Me
9. Call Me Irresponsible
10. Blowin' in the Wind
11. Charade
12. Sentimental Journey
13. Tuxedo Junction
14. The Second Time Around
15. When It's Sleepy Time Down South
16. Rhapsody in Blue
17. Fly Me to the Moon
18. More
19. Artistry in Rhythm
20. Goodbye

The Reprise Years (1962-1967)

Mantovani - Mr. Music... (Reupload)

1. Yesterday
2. Strangers in the Night (Do Filme "Passaporte Para o Perigo")
3. From Russia with Love (Do Filme "Moscou Contra 007")
4. Love and Marriage
5. The Shadow of Your Smile (Do Filme "Adeus Às Ilusões")
6. Three O'Clock in the Morning
7. Smile (Do Filme "Tempos Modernos")
8. Ebb Tide
9. Softly As I Leave You
10. Spanish Flea
11. Theme from "The Oscar" (Do Filme "Confidências de Hollywood")
12. How Soon

Mr. Music

No atual mundo da música, aparentemente dominado pelo "rock & roll", "twist" e congêneres, ainda se podem encontrar adoráveis novas criações românticas. Muitos desconhecem que grande número de belas músicas, tão imbuídas de lirismo, guardam sua própria posição nas "listas de sucessos".

São canções de uma nova geração de compositores que possuem o talento de comporem peças que, em época futura, chegarão a adquirir um "status" padrão. Um sinônimo de "padrão" seria: "um nível ou grau de excelência a ser considerado; assim como um gol". As canções aqui apresentadas possuem as qualidades que as assinalam como padrões. Donde a inclusão neste disco dos "padrões" de amanhã, a par dos "padrões" de hoje. Excelência musical é a marca de distinção de canções como Smile e Ebb Tide, pois que, através dos anos, muitas vezes têm sido reavivadas. Tal idêntica excelência percebe-se em canções como Yesterday, Strangers in the Night, Spanish Flea, The Shadow of Your Smile e From Russia with Love.

Mantovani, desde há muito o renomado regente, liderando o campo da música romântica, tem sabido reconhecer os méritos de adoráveis canções desta época.

Entrega-nos esta seleção, toda dentro do estilo que lhe é peculiar, estilo que vem exteriorizar toda a exuberância de cada canção, transmitindo um encantamento obtido através de uma sonoridade plena, ainda que leve.

Mantovani preferiu dedicar toda sua atenção à expressiva música contemporânea, com o discernimento de que, no futuro, sempre haverá músicas tão excepcionais quanto as deste disco.

(Sandra Browne, das notas originais do LP)

Alfred Hause and His Orchestra - Film-Themes

1. Charade
2. 13 Jours En France
3. Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid)
4. Sinnò Me Moro (The Facts of Murder)
5. A Time for Us (Romeo and Juliet)
6. Theme from "Shaft"
7. Lara's Theme (Dr. Zhivago)
8. Jeux Interdits
9. Anonimo Veneziano
10. Tonight (West Side Story)
11. Both Sides Now (Changes)
12. The Great Escape March

Film-Themes

Paul Weston and His Orchestra - Hi-Fi Music from Hollywood

1. Music from "Gone with the Wind" (Tara's Theme)
2. Love Letters
3. Indiscretion from "Indiscretion of An American Wife"
4. Duel in the Sun
5. The Song of Bernardette
6. Music from "Quo Vadis"
7. Since You Went Away
8. Ruby from "Ruby Gentry"
9. Autumn in Rome from "Indiscretion of An American Wife"
10. Music from "A Streetcar Named Desire"
11. Jennie´s Song from "Portrait of Jennie"
12. Music from "For Whom the Bell Tolls"

Hi-Fi Music from Hollywood

Pete Fountain - Something Misty (Reupload by request)

1. We've Only Just Begun
2. Sunny
3. Something
4. (They Long to Be) Close to You
5. Medley: I Don't Know How to Love Him / Everything's Alright / Superstar
6. Misty
7. What Have They Done to My Song Ma
8. The Impossible Dream (From The Musical Play "Man of La Mancha")
9. Here, There and Everywhere
10. Green, Green Grass of Home
11. Blues in A Mist

Something Misty

Page Cavanaugh - Plays for the Cocktail Hour (Reupload)

1. Mam'selle
2. Nobody's Sweetheart Now
3. The Way You Look Tonight
4. My Ideal
5. Moonlight on The Ganges
6. Two Sleepy People
7. Junior Hop
8. Something in the air
9. Star Eyes
10. The Blue Room
11. Coo Coo in the clock
12. Lazy Lover

Plays for the Cocktail Hour

The Pianist and Vocalist

(1922 - 2008)

Michel Legrand and His Orchestra - I Love Paris

1. I Love Paris
2. Mademoiselle De Paris
3. Paris
4. Autumn Leaves (Les Feuilles Mortes)
5. Under the Bridges of Paris (Sous Les Ponts De Paris)
6. La Seine
7. Paris in the Spring
8. Paris Canaille
9. April in Paris
10. À Paris
11. La Vie En Rose
12. Under Paris Skies (Sous Le Ciel De Paris)
13. Paris, Je T'Aime (Paris, Stay the Same)
14. The Song from "Moulin Rouge"
15. The Last Time I Saw Paris
16. I Love Paris (Reprise)

I Love Paris

Michel Legrand - Summer of '42 - Music from the Motion Picture

1. Theme from Summer of '42 - The Picasso Suite
2. Summer Song
3. The Bacchanal
4. Lonely Two
5. The Danger
6. Montage - But Not Picasso Full Awakening
7. High I.Q.
8. The Summer Knows - Theme from Summer of '42
9. The Entrance to Reality
10. La Guerre
11. Los Manos de Muerto
12. Awakening Awareness
13. And All the Time

Summer of '42

French composer Michel Legrand won the 1971 Academy Award for best score for his work on the film Summer of '42, and his "Theme from Summer of '42" not only became a Top 40 instrumental hit in a recording by Peter Nero, but was also transformed, with lyrics added by Alan and Marilyn Bergman, into a song, "The Summer Knows," that attracted recordings by Tony Bennett, Johnny Mathis, Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Andy Williams, and others. Warner Bros. Records released this Summer of '42 soundtrack album, and it peaked at number 52 during 32 weeks on the Billboard chart. There's only one problem: the disc contains very little music actually heard in the film. Now, the entire "original motion picture soundtrack" concept has always had problems as a real entity, if not as a marketing proposition. Film scores tend to consist of short musical figures necessary to underline the differing moods in different scenes, while a purely auditory experience practically requires something more complete. So, when composers and record companies have come to construct soundtrack albums, they have often relied on newly arranged and recorded suites, or at least versions of a film's music that do not match what's on the film track scene for scene. But sometimes greater liberties are taken, with music not heard in the film at all added to pad out the required album length, for example. Something like the ultimate in that regard must be reflected here. Anyone attending Summer of '42 and then putting this album on the stereo is in for a rude awakening. True, the familiar theme leads things off, and it returns at the start of side two of the LP. But otherwise, the listener is bound to be baffled. What is all that lively Spanish music ("The Danger," "High I.Q.")? And how about that jazz-rock cue, complete with wah-wah guitar ("The Entrance to Reality")? That doesn't sound like the sort of music you'd have heard during the summer of 1942. And of course, it isn't. The explanation is simple. With the exception of those two renderings of the theme, this isn't the music from Summer of '42 at all. It's music from an earlier Legrand score, 1969's The Picasso Summer! Why Legrand and Warner Bros. Records decided to fob this off on the public is hard to guess. (The omission of most of the actual score may be one reason why the album went unreleased on CD in the U.S. for decades. In 2005, DRG Records licensed it and reissued it, without any disclaimer to indicate to the potential buyer what it really contains. If the reissuers simply didn't know, they should do their homework better; if they did know, they are guilty of the same deception first perpetrated 34 years earlier.)

(By William Ruhlmann from AllMusic)

In Memoriam

(1932 - 2019)

Phase 4 Stereo Festival - Various Artists

1. What A Difference A Day Made - Edmundo Ros & His Orchestra
2. Listen - Johnny Keating
3. How Deep Is the Ocean - Frank Chacksfield & His Orchestra
4. Camptown Races - Eric Rogers
5. Bless This House - Eileen Farrell
6. I've Got A Gal in Kalamazoo - Ted Heath
7. Theme from "Lawrence of Arabia" - Stanley Black & His Orchestra
8. Kismet: And This Is My Beloved - Mantovani & His Orchestra
9. The Yellow Rose of Texas - Roland Shaw & His Orchestra
10. By the Fireside - Ronnie Aldrich
11. Adios Irene - Los Machucambos
12. South America Take It Away - Ted Heath & Edmundo Ros
13. Du Und Du Waltz (J. Strauss) - Werner Müeller & His Orchestra
14. Washington Post - Bob Sharples

Phase 4 Stereo Festival

Marty Gold - Wired for Sound

1. Reflection in the Water
2. Ti-Pin-Tin
3. Blues in the Night
4. In the Still of the Night
5. Makin' Whoopee
6. Lonely Guitar
7. Stella by Starlight
8. You're the Top
9. Whistle While You Work
10. A Foggy Day
11. Mood Indigo
12. A Blues Serenade

Wired for Sound

101 Strings Orchestra - Victor Young and Leroy Anderson

1. Fiddle Faddle
2. Love Letters
3. Syncopated Clock
4. Golden Earrings
5. Around the World in Eighty Days
6. Lakeshore Drive
7. Stella by Starlight
8. Sleigh Ride
9. My Foolish Heart
10. Typewriter Song
11. Blue Tango
12. Blues Pizzicato

Victor Young and Leroy Anderson

Victor Young

Leroy Anderson