Eddie Barclay and His Orchestra - Film Festival at Cannes - Europe's Famous Motion Picture Themes

1. Continent Perdu
2. Mon Amour
3. Vacances A Venise
4. La Derniere Manche
5. Si Tu M'Aimais
6. Tango Mandoline
7. Chiens Perdus Sans Colliers
8. Les Amours Oubliees
9. Soleil Noir
10. Chanson De Gervaise
11. Amouruse
12. Bonjour Tristesse

Film Festival at Cannes

Richard Hayman and His Orchestra - Leroy Anderson Orchestral Favourites

1. Serenata
2. The Syncopated Clock
3. The Penny Whistle Song
4. The Typewriter
5. Sarabande
6. Trumpeter's Lullaby
7. Fiddle Faddle
8. Forgotten Dreams
9. Blue Tango
10. Jazz Legatto
11. Jazz Pizzicato
12. The Phantom Regiment
13. Bugler's Holiday
14. The Waltzing Cat
15. March of the Two Left Feet
16. Promenade
17. Plink, Plank, Plunk
18. The Girl in Satin
19. Sandpaper Ballet
20. Belle of The Ball

The Music of Leroy Anderson

The Benny Goodman Story - Original Soundtrack

1. Down South Camp Meetin'
2. And the Angels Sing
3. Goodbye
4. Sing, Sing, Sing
5. Shine
6. One O'Clock Jump
7. Bugle Call Rag
8. King Porter Stomp
9. Let's Dance
10. Don't Be That Way
11. It's Been So Long
12. Sometimes I'm Happy
13. Goody Goody
14. Avalon
15. Moonglow
16. Alicia's Blues
17. Memories of You
18. China Boy
19. Seven Come Eleven

The Benny Goodman Story

This is an amazing recording from 1955 that features Benny with an all-star studio orchestra featuring Harry James, Lionel Hampton, and Ruby Braff. These re-recordings of some of Benny's most famous songs are stunning replicas of vintage 1930s style swing a la Fletcher Henderson as they were meant to be heard, in clear, brilliant Hi-Fi sound. Some of these arrangements even come close to surpassing the original recordings, such as "Down South Camp Meetin'" (with the driving bass line provided by George Duvivier propelling the whole thing). Also, Benny himself sounds fresh and inspired in this session, playing with more fire and energy than in any other of his fifties recordings. Just one drawback, Bobby Donaldson and Don Lamond fail to capture the Krupa magic with their drumming as evident by "Sing, Sing, Sing" (Donaldson) and "Don't Be That Way" (Lamond). Wouldn't it have been great if Gene Krupa would have been present at this session with Goodman and James as he was in the film version? Nonetheless, this is a must-have album, one that documents his real contribution to jazz. 

(From amazon.com)

Paul Weston and His Orchestra - Easy Jazz

1. Body and Soul
2. Georgia on My Mind
3. Lullaby in Rhythm
4. My Funny Valentine
5. You Are Too Beautiful
6. Louisiana
7. I'm Confessin'
8. A Foggy Day
9. When It's Sleepy Time Down South
10. Skylark
11. Sweet Lorraine
12. A Hundred Years from Today
13. Autumn in New York
14. Talk of the Town
15. Nice Work If You Can Get It

Easy Jazz

Georgie Auld and His Orchestra - Blue Tenor

1. Harlem Nocturne
2. Tenderly
3. Summertime
4. Blue and Sentimental
5. Manhattan
6. The High and the Mighty
7. Misty
8. Take Care
9. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
10. Someone to Watch over Me
11. Lullaby of Broadway
12. You Belong to Me
13. Just You Just Me
14. Early Autumn
15. On the Alamo
16. Body and Soul

Blue Tenor

Eddie Barclay Grand Orchestre - Musirama

1. Amour, castagnettes et tango (Hernando's Hideaway)
2. La prière
3. Je veux te dire adieu
4. La complainte de la butte
5. Le manège aux souvenirs
6. Madrid, Madrid
7. Le grisbi
8. La samba fantastique
9. L'étranger au paradis (Stranger in Paradise)
10. La danse du baiser
11. Le rififi
12. Rien sans toi (Love for Sale)
13. Chanson de la nuit / Rien qu'une chanson
14. Sweet Boléro
15. La fontaine des amours (Three Coins in the Fountain)
16. Gelsomina

Musirama

Eddie Barclay was a French piano player turned record mogul whose flamboyant flair made him a celebrity in his homeland. Born Edouard Ruault in 1921, Barclay was a cocktail jazz pianist before founding Blue Star Records, the first of several small labels that he would oversee in the '50s. In 1960 he consolidated his labels under the Barclay name. The label rose to prominence, licensing U.S. releases and building a strong stable of French stars. Charles Aznavour, Eddy Mitchell, Henri Salvador, Frank Alamo, Nicoletta, and Jacques Brel were all Barclay recording artists. In 1979 he sold Barclay Records to PolyGram. Always a colorful and flamboyant character, he went on to some celebrity as a party host to France's biggest stars. Barclay passed away in May of 2005 at the age of 84.

(By Wade Kergan from allmusic.com)

Eddie Barclay, de seu verdadeiro nome Édouard Ruault, um dos mais importantes editores e produtores de música franceses, nasceu em Paris no dia 26 de Janeiro de 1921. Morreu em Boulogne-Billancourt, em 13 de Maio de 2005.

Filho de um empregado de café e de uma funcionária dos correios, que viriam a abrir o Café dos Correios, em frente da Gare de Lyon, Édouard detestava a escola e era um grande fã da música transmitida pela rádio, tendo uma memória fora do comum. Conseguia reproduzir ao piano, de maneira instintiva e autodidacta, as novidades de jazz que ouvia. Trabalhou no estabelecimento dos pais, tornando-se depois pianista de bar, compositor e chefe de orquestra do seu próprio grupo de jazz.

Grande amador de festas, muito carismático, organizou durante a ocupação germânica algumas festas clandestinas numa cave de Saint-Germain-des-Prés, onde a juventude vinha escutar o jazz americano. Escutavam, nas então muito populares juke-boxes, todos os discos de jazz que lhes chegavam às mãos.

Quando da Libertação, americanizou o seu nome para Eddie Barclay, criou um look à Clark Gable e fundou uma das primeiras discotecas de Paris, o Barclay’s Club, que se tornaria rapidamente num dos locais do culto de jazz e onde ele tocava com os seus amigos Boris Vian, Henri Salvador, Michel Legrand, Quincy Jones (que era então trompetista de Lionel Hampton), acompanhando com a sua orquestra Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Sacha Distel, Glenn Miller, etc. Organizava também festas para as estrelas do momento, como Édith Piaf, Charles Trenet, Charles Aznavour e Francis Blanche.

Em 1949, lançou-se na produção e edição musicais. Para o efeito, alugou um dos estúdios da Pathé Marconi para gravar os primeiros discos. Em 1954, fundou o “Jazz Magazine” e a etiqueta Barclay Records.

Entre os anos 1950 e 1980, lançou numerosos artistas, que descobria graças à sua importante rede de amigos no show business, à sua excepcional perspicácia artística e à premonição do que agradaria ao público. Dalida, Henri Salvador, Charles Aznavour, Charles Trenet, Brigitte Bardot, Jacques Brel e Juliette Gréco (quando deixaram a Philips), Léo Ferré, Frank Alamo, Françoise Hardy, Michel Sardou, Mireille Mathieu e Claude Nougaro foram alguns deles.

Um amigo americano falou-lhe, nos anos 1950, da nova invenção nova-iorquina – os discos de 45 e 33 rotações que permitiam gravar uma hora de música em vez dos 3 a 5 minutos dos 78 rotações. Partiu imediatamente para os Estados Unidos para procurar a técnica de fabrico desta invenção revolucionária, que já constava dos catálogos da Pathé Marconi desde 1951 mas que não estava ainda desenvolvida em França. Aproveitou a deslocação para assinar alguns contratos com estrelas americanas do jazz da época, como The Platters, Charlie Parker, Ray Charles e Dizzy Gillespie.

Em 1958, recrutou – para a Barclay Records – Quincy Jones como director artístico, Boris Vian como director de variedades, Raymond Lefèvre e Michel Legrand como orquestradores e Philippe Bouvard como adido de imprensa.

Em 1978, com 58 anos e um câncer na garganta, vendeu 40% da sua sociedade à Polygram (herdeira da Philips e futura Universal), ficando com 60% das quotas e sendo ainda seu presidente durante 5 anos.

Figura importante do jet set, casou-se oito vezes. Era célebre nas noites de Saint-Tropez e de Paris. Organizava festas esplendorosas, para as quais convidava figuras como Stéphane Collaro, Darry Cowl, Alain Delon, Thierry Le Luron, Johnny Hallyday e Eddy Mitchell. Em 1988, publicou a autobiografia “Que a festa continue”. Morreu em 2005, vítima de problemas cardíacos, após quase trinta anos de luta contra o câncer.

(Gabriel de Sousa, extraído do blog TopaTudo)

The Clebanoff Strings - The World's Great Waltzes

1. Marcheta
2. Just a Wearin' for You
3. Maria Elena
4. The Moon of Manakoora
5. Drigo's Serenade
6. At Dawning
7. Golden Rain
8. Fascination
9. True Love
10. Apple Blossom Time
11. Tennessee Waltz
12. I Love You Truly

Great Waltzes

Le Grand Orchestre d'Eddie Barclay - Paris

1. I Love Paris
2. I'll Be Yours (J'attendrai)
3. Love Theme from ''La Strada'' (Gelsomina)
4. Paris
5. Pigalle
6. Stranger in Paradise
7. The Bandit (O Cangaceiro)
8. The Continental Twist (Les Twisters)
9. Three Coins in the Fountain
10. Under Paris Skies
11. Under the Bridges of Paris

Paris

Eddie Barclay e la Sua Grande Orchestra - Parfums

1. Ma griffe de Carven
2. Jolie madame de Balmain
3. N.5 de Chanel
4. Moustache de Rochas
5. Plaisir de Raphael
6. Canasta de Fath
7. Shalimar de Guerlain
8. Gardenia de Chanel
9. Femme de Rochas
10. Vert et blanc de Carven
11. Réplique de Raphael
12. Ode de Guerlain

Parfums

Rubino und Sein Orchester

1. Begin the Beguine (Im Takt des Spitzentanzes)
2. Blueberry Hill (Ein kleines Haus am Ende der Welt)
3. Don't Fence Me in
4. I Only Have Eyes for You
5. I'll See You in My Dreams (So fängt die Liebe an)
6. Night and Day
7. 'S Wonderful (Wundervoll)
8. September in the Rain
9. Southern Fried
10. When Day Is Done (Madonna, du bist schöner als der Sonnenschein)

Rubino

Günther Gürsch Sextett - Weltbekannte Melodien

1. Von acht bis um acht / Abends in der Taverne / An einem Tag im Frühling
2. Besame Mucho / Muñequita Linda / Luna Rossa
3. Ich tanze mit dir in den Himmel hinein / Sag' beim Abschied leise Servus / Und wieder geht ein schöner Tag zu Ende
4. Rumba Tamba / La Cucaracha / Tico Tico
5. Ganz leis' erklingt Musik / Es war einmal eine Liebe / Die kleine Stadt will schlafen geh'n
6. Ich hab' dich einmal geküßt / Fräulein, pardon / Regentropfen (Raindrops on My Window)
7. Du, du gehst an mir vorbei / Zwei in einer großen Stadt / So wird's nie wieder sein
8. I Kiss Your Hand Madame / Roter Mohn / Just a Gigolo
9. Auf dem Dach der Welt / Ich werde jede Nacht von Ihnen träumen / When the Lilac Blooms Again
10. What Did I Do? / Yes Sir, That's My Baby / Toot, Toot, Tootsie

 Weltbekannte Melodien

Douglas Gamley and His Orchestra - Paradise Island

1. Paradise Island
2. Taboo
3. The Moon Was Yellow
4. The Lights of Home
5. Beautiful Isle of Somewhere
6. Port of Call
7. Diamond Head
8. Moon of Manakoora
9. Waikiki
10. Blue Coral
11. Sayonara
12. We Kiss in a Shadow
13. Faraway Places
14. Hawaii

Paradise Island

Lester Lanin - Plays for Dancing

1. Hello Dolly
2. People / No Strings
3. I've Got Your Number / Put on A Happy Face / Java
4. Wine, Women and Song (J. Strauss)
5. What Kind of Fool I Am / The Best Is Yet to Come
6. As Long As He Needs Me / Alley Cat
7. Classic Themes Medley (Tchaikovsky / Chopin / Rachmaninoff)
8. Meaple Leaf Rag
9. Night and Day / More
10. I Wish You Love / Milord
11. Moon River / Never on Sunday
12. Fly Me to the Moon / Aloha Oe / My Kind of Girl
13. Salute to The Beatles
14. I Love You and Don't You Forget It
15. Hootenanny Medley (Tell it on the Mountain / Skip to My Lou / Wayfaring Stranger / Carelles Love /  He's Got the World in His Hands

Plays for Dancing

Lester Lanin and His Orchestra - Have Band, Will Travel

1. People of Paris / Arrivederci / Baubles, Bangles and Beads
2. Somewhere over the Rainbow
3. Wedding Bells / Once in Love / Frankie and Johnny / Fidgety Feet
4. You're Just in Love / It's a Lovely Day Today / They Say It's Wonderful
5. Linda Mujer
6. Peg O' My Heart / I Don't Know Why / The Gang / Heart / Jada

Have Band, Will Travel

Peter Duchin his Piano and Strings - Invitation

1. Darn That Dream
2. Let Me Love You
3. The Good Life
4. They Say It's Wonderful
5. I Didn't Know What Time It Was
6. Invitation
7. That's All
8. Angel Eyes
9. Lazy Afternoon
10. Maisonette
11. I Wish You Love
12. Sometimes I'm Happy

Invitation

Victor Young - Best 20

1. East of Eden
2. The Call of Far Away Hills (Shane)
3. Terry's Theme (Limelight)
4. Tara's Theme (Gone with the Wind)
5. The Song from Moulin Rouge
6. Under Paris Skies
7. La Vie En Rose
8. Autumn Leaves
9. The High and the Mighty
10. Cathy
11. Around the World
12. For Whom the Bell Tolls
13. Smile
14. Ruby
15. A Place in the Sun
16. Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo
17. My Foolish Heart
18. Love Letters
19. Anna
20. Stella by Starlight

Best 20

Emotions - Various Artists

1. Autumn Leaves - Roger Williams
2. This Guy's In Love with You - Harry James & His Orchestra
3. By The Beautiful Sea - The New Christy Minstrels
4. Manhattan Serenade - Johnny Pearson
5. C'est si bon - Jean-Claude Pascal
6. Mrs. Robinson - Johnny Keating & His Orchestra
7. Wave - Laurindo Almeida
8. Try to Remember - Jo Stafford
9. Ebb Tide - Ronnie Aldrich
10. A Dreamer's Holiday - Vic Damone
11. Here, There And Everywhere - Chet Atkins
12. A Natural Woman - Madeline Bell & The Rivettes
13. Somebody to Love - Les Reed & His Orchestra
14. Domino - Alain Barrière
15. Lullaby of Birdland - Hugo Montenegro & His Orchestra
16. Stay - Nelson Riddle & His Orchestra

Emotions

Howard Lanin und sein Orchester - Tanz Bis Zum Frühen Morgen

1. I Could Have Danced All Night (Ich hätt' getanzt heut' Nacht) / This Is It - Just in Time / Anything Goes / A Cockeyed Optimist / Honey Bun / Happy Talk / Bloody Mary / Hay Straw / The Lady Is A Tramp (Wenn deine schöne Lady sich verläuft) / Twelfth Street Rag
2. On the Street Where You Live (In der Straße, mein Schatz, wo du lebst) / The Party's Over / You're My Friend / Ain'tcha? / Ja-Da / Do I Love You / All the Things You Are / A Fine Romance / It Had to Be You / From This Moment on / My Blue Heaven (Ich nur und du und Baby dazu) / South Rampart Street Parade

Tanz Bis

Zenith Presents - In a Sentimental Mood - Various Artists

1. Never Leave Me - Gordon Jenkins
2. I'll Remember April - Gordon Jenkins
3. Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto - Ray Conniff
4. None But The Lonely Heart - Ray Conniff
5. Full Moon and Empty Arms - Jerry Vale
6. Because - Jerry Vale
7. Mattinata - Bobby Hackett
8. Etude In E - Bobby Hackett
9. Fascination - Percy Faith
10. Gypsy Love Song - Percy Faith
11. Vaya Con Dios - Frank De Vol
12. Charmaine - Frank De Vol

In A Sentimental Mood

Helmut Zacharias and His Magic Violins - Romantic Strings

1. Love for Sale
2. I've Got You Under My Skin
3. Embraceable You
4. I Can't Give You Anything But Love
5. Moonglow
6. April in Paris
7. You Go to My Head
8. Body and Soul
9. Makin' Whoopee
10. The Man I Love
11. Dream
12. Love Is Here to Stay

Romantic Strings

Bert Kaempfert - Swing - Disc 2

1. Sermonette
2. Caravan
3. Opus One
4. Tuxedo Junction
5. Stompin' at the Savoy
6. Take the 'A' Train
7. Skyliner
8. Honeysuckle Rose
9. Choo Choo Ch'boogie
10. Jumpin' Blue
11. Soul Time
12. Love Me Happy
13. Petula
14. Pussy Footin'
15. Easy Glider

Swing 2

Stereophonic Spectacular - World's Finest Stereo Sound - Various Artists

1. I Want To Be Happy Cha Cha - Enoch Light and The Light Brigade
2. Tenderly - Enoch Light Strings
3. Yes Sir, That's My Baby - Enoch Light & Charleston City All Stars
4. El Gato Montes - La Banda Los Amantes de la Corrida
5. On The Beach At Waikiki - Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra
6. The Old Piano Roll Blues - Knuckles O'Toole
7. Moonlight Serenade - Bobby Byrne All Starr Alumni Big Band Orchestra
8. Non Dimenticar - Charles Magnante Orchestra
9. Flower Drum Song Overture - Enoch Light Orchestra
10. Grant Avenue - Dottie Evans & Enoch Light Orchestra
11. Cherokee - Bobby Byrne All Starr Alumni Band
12. Ma, He's Making Eyes At Me - Enoch Light & Charleston City All Stars

Stereophonic Spectacular

Bert Kaempfert - Swing - Disc 1

1. At the Woodchopper's Ball
2. Little Brown Jug
3. One O'clock Jump
4. Lullaby of Birdland
5. Two O'clock Jump
6. Airmail Special
7. Apple Honey
8. Intermission Riff
9. Jumpin' at the Woodside
10. Marie
11. It's Only a Paper Moon
12. In the Mood
13. I'm Beginning to See the Light
14. Perdido
15. My Guy's Come Back

Swing 1

This Is 21 Channel Sound - Various Artists

1. Kiss of Fire - David Rose Orchestra
2. You Stepped Out of a Dream - Kurt Edelhagen Orchestra
3. Serenata - Kurt Wege Orchestra
4. Spring Is Here - Larry Elgart Orchestra
5. Cachita - Manuel and His Strings
6. On The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe - Paul Lavalle & Band of America
7. In a Little Spanish Town - Larry Elgart and His Orchestra
8. Careless Lips (Tango Roulette) - The Monte Carlo Light Symphony
9. Never On Sunday - Paul Lavalle & Band of America
10. Love - David Rose Orchestra
11. Anema E Core - Manuel and His Strings
12. The Trolley Song - Kurt Edelhagen Orchestra

This Is 21 Channel Sound