Esquivel - Cabaret Mañana

1. Mini Skirt
2. Johnson Rag
3. Night and Day
4. El Cable
5. Harlem Nocturne
6. Mucha Muchacha
7. Time on My Hands
8. Malaguena
9. Guanacoa
10. Sentimental Journey
11. Estrellita
12. Limehouse Blues
13. Todavia
14. April in Portugal
15. Take the "A" Train
16. Question Mark (Que Vas a Hacer)
17. It Had to Be You
18. Yeyo
19. Lullaby of Birdland
20. Flower Girl from Bordeaux

Cabaret Mañana

Living Strings plus Trombone - Marie and Others Made Famous by Tommy Dorsey - Conducted by Geraldo

1. I'm Getting Sentimental over You
2. Chicago
3. Just As Though You Were Here
4. Song of India
5. East of the Sun
6. Marie
7. Embraceable You
8. Boogie Woogie
9. This Love of Mine
10. Opus 1

Marie

Living Strings Plus Trombone
Conducted by Geraldo
Orchestrations by Bernard Ebbinghouse and Geraldo
Produced by Ethel Gabriel
Solo trombone: Harry Roche
Recorded in England

"Yours for Sentimental Listening and Easy Dancing"

If you were somewhere between the ages of fourteen and twenty-five in the late 1930s or early 1940s, the phrase "big bands" may very well turn on a light in your heart or re-kindle a spark of understanding for today's young people and their music idols. You certainly remember the days when you glued yourself to the radio to hear the "live" dance-band shows, and wore out your parents' patience with phonograph music blaring far into the night. Talk about idols...you had the world of the big bands. And "big" was the word for them, both in number and in the kind of excitement they generated in those wonderful days of music. There were so many great dance bands around in those days that a list would go on and on. But topping any such list has to be T.D. - the Sentimental Gentleman of Swing, Tommy Dorsey. In a world of great music making, the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra stood out, gleamed as sweet and clear as the sound of the famous Dorsey trombone. So many of the melodies - the unforgettable tunes of those times - are forever associated exclusively with Tommy Dorsey. Now, the Living Strings, featuring Harry Roche on trombone, bring you some of the great songs made famous by Tommy Dorsey - yours for sentimental listening and easy dancing.

(From the original liner notes)

Oscar Peterson & Count Basie - Jumpin' At The Woodside

Bert Kaempfert e Sua Orquestra - Blue Midnight

1. Treat for Trumpet
2. Good Night, Sweet Dreams
3. LOVE
4. Blue Midnight
5. Love Comes But Once
6. Cotton Candy
7. Free As a Bird
8. Lonely Nightingale
9. Almost There
10. Java
11. Red Roses For A Blue Lady
12. Three O'Clock In The Morning

Blue Midnight

Bert Kaempfert - Memories

1. I'll See You in My Dreams
2. Plaisir D' Amour
3. I'm Gettin' Sentimental Over You
4. Secret Love
5. Without Your Love
6. Answer Me My Love
7. Dancing in the Dark
8. Moonglow
9. Unchained Melody
10. Stardust
11. There I've Said It Again
12. Solitude
13. When I Fall In Love
14. Where or When
15. I'll Get By (As Long As I Have You)

Memories

Ack van Rooyen (flugelhorn) and Paul Kuhn (piano) - Round Midnight

Bert Kaempfert - The Bert Kaempfert Story - A Musical Biography - Disc 2

1. Strangers in the Night - Frank Sinatra
2. Red Roses for A Blue Lady - Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra
3. For Pete's Sake - Pete Fountain and Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra
4. I Can't Help Remembering You - Dean Martin
5. A Swinging Safari - Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra
6. Love for Love - Pat Boone
7. The Big Build Up - Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra
8. Monte Carlo - Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra
9. The Word We Knew - Anita Kerr Singers
10. My Prayer - Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra
11. My Way of Life - Shirley Bassey
12. Las Vegas - Bob Parker and His Orchestra
13. Lonely Is the Name - Sammy Davis Jr.
14. Sweet Caroline - Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra
15. L.O.V.E. - Nat King Cole
16. It's Only A Paper Moon - Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra
17. You Turned My World Around - Frank Sinatra
18. Beddy Bye - Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra
19. No A Go-Go - Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra
20. The Times Will Change - Johnny Mathis
21. In the Everglades - Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra

Kaempfert Story 2

Bamboleo! - The Best of Latin Ballroom

1. Never on Sunday
2. Guantanamera
3. Oye Como Va
4. Besame Mucho
5. Quiereme Mucho
6. Girl from Ipanema
7. Blue Bossa
8. Lambada
9. Bamboleo
10. Quando Quando Quando
11. La Bamba
12. Beautiful Maria

Bamboleo!

Bert Kaempfert - The Bert Kaempfert Story - A Musical Biography - Disc 1

1. Bye Bye Blues - Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra
2. Wonderland by Night - Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra
3. Remember When - Brenda Lee
4. Midnight Blues - Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra
5. Ducky - Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra
6. Sweet Maria - Billy Vaughn Singers
7. Hold Me - Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra
8. Welcome to My Heart - Dean Martin
9. Blue Midnight - Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra
10. Afrikaan Beat - Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra
11. Now and Forever - Jane Morgan
12. Catalania - Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra
13. Danke Schoen - Wayne Newton
14. Mister Sandman - Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra
15. Lady - Jack Jones
16. Love After Midnight - Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra
17. It Makes No Difference - Vic Damone
18. Treat for Trumpet - Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra
19. The Lady Smiles - Matt Monro
20. Bert's Tune - Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra
21. Spanish Eyes - Al Martino

The Kaempfert Story 1

Frank Wess - The Very Thought of You

Werner Muller and His Orchestra - Goody Goody

1. Goody Goody
2. Oh, Lady Be Good
3. Charleston
4. Bye Bye Blues
5. Kiss Me Sweet
6. Somebody Loves Me
7. Sweet Sue, Just You
8. Some of These Days
9. Hot Toddy
10. Exactly Like You
11. Black Bottom
12. There's A Small Hotel
13. Liza
14. You're Driving Me Crazy

Goody Goody

Eric Jupp and His Orchestra - Music For Sweethearts

1. Let Me Call You Sweetheart
2. How Deep Is the Ocean
3. The Very Thought of You
4. Deed I Do
5. The Kiss in Your Eyes
6. If You Were the Only Girl in the World
7. Moonglow
8. It's Magic
9. Love Walked In
10. If I Had a Talking Picture of You
11. You Are My Heart's Delight
12. I Love You Truly

Music For Sweethearts

Les Baxter - Caribbean Moonlight

1. Taboo
2. Deep Night
3. The Breeze and I
4. Nightingale
5. Temptation
6. Poinciana
7. Ay, Ay, Ay
8. Adios
9. Carnival
10. Green Eyes
11. Out of This World
12. Sway

Caribbean Moonlight

Esquivel His Piano and His Orchestra - More of Other Worlds, Other Sounds

1. Breeze and I (Andalucia)
2. Chant to the Night
3. Canadian Sunset
4. Street Scene
5. I Get a Kick Out of You
6. Primavera
7. Street of Dreams
8. La Mantilla
9. One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)
10. Dancing in the Dark
11. Snowfall
12. Travelin'

More of Other Worlds

Enoch Light Orchestra and The Fontana Orchestra - Sentimental

1. The Breeze And I
2. Estrellita
3. Chant Sans Paroles
4. Songs My Mother Taught Me
5. La Golondrina
6. Londonderry Air
7. By the Light of the Silvery Moon
8. Toselli's Serenade
9. Dvorak's Humoresque
10. Monti - Czardas
11. Schumann - Traumerei
12. Debussy - Reverie

Sentimental

The Melachrino Strings and Orchestra - The New Sound of Broadway

1. Hello Dolly
2. It Only Takes A Moment
3. Dancing
4. Ribbons Down My Back
5. So Long, Dearie
6. Before The Parade Passes By
7. Milk and Honey
8. Shalom
9. Let's Not Waste A Moment
10. As Simple As That
11. Your Good Morning
12. Your Hand In Mine

The New Sound of Broadway

Esquivel and His Orchestra - Other Worlds, Other Sounds

1. Granada
2. Begin the Beguine
3. Night and Day
4. Poinciana
5. Playfully
6. Adiós
7. That Old Black Magic
8. Nature Boy
9. Magic Is the Moonlight (Te Quiero Dijiste)
10. Speak Low
11. Ballerina
12. It Had to Be You

Other Worlds, Other Sounds

Other Worlds Other Sounds may be the best known Esquivel album because of its sensational jacket art portraying a red-caped woman prancing across a green planetary landscape. Its real significance is as the moment where Esquivel takes control of his production and develops his signature sound. The chorus (the Randy Van Horne Singers) begins the "zu zu zu" nonsense beloved by Esquivel fans, and the playfulness with stereophonic separation begins here. But the material is not his best. "Ballerina" and "Night and Day" are cheesy, while most of the album seem like slow song outtakes from To Love Again. It is a different mood, one that never really hits its stride until the closing track: the astounding arrangement of "It Had to Be You." This is the promise of the future.  

(By Tony Wilds from allmusic.com)

Irving Fields Trio - More Bagels and Bongos

1. Mama's Mambo
2. I'll Always Be Yours
3. Hora Merengue
4. Say You Love Me, One More Time
5. Wedding Merengue
6. What Used to Be, Used to Be
7. I Want to Play
8. Spark of Jewish Pride
9. The Green Cousin-Merengue
10. Papirossen
11. My Hometown Girl
12. Bublitchki

Bagels and Bongos

Fernando Gallo - Música, Brasil

1. Medley: Variações sobre "Brejeiro (E. Nazareth) / Pintinhos no Terreiro (Lina Pesce) / Apanhei-te Cavaquinho (E. Nazareth) / Brasileirinho (Waldir Azevedo)
2. Feitico da Vila (Noel Rosa)
3. Rancho Fundo (Ary Barroso)
4. Ultimo Desejo (Noel Rosa)
5. Manha de Carnaval (Luiz Bonfa)
6. Carinhoso (Pixinguinha)
7. Primavera (Carlos Lyra)
8. Se Todos Fossem Iguais a Voce (Vinicius de Moraes)
9. Joao Valentao (Dorival Caymi)
10. Quem te Viu Quem te Ve (Chico B. de Holanda)
11. Baixa dos Sapateiros (Ary Barroso)
12. Exaltacao a Bahia (Vicente Paiva)

Música, Brasil

Baiano de nascimento e mineiro “por opção e coração”, como gosta de dizer, Fernando Gallo vive em Belo Horizonte desde 1989. Veio para montar uma casa de shows, a Loch Ness, que funcionou por cerca de quatro anos, gostou da forma como foi acolhido por aqui e não saiu mais. De lá para cá, sempre com sucesso, se apresentou em casas noturnas, restaurantes e nos clubes mais conceituados da capital, nos quais fez incontáveis amigos e angariou admiradores que o acompanham até hoje.

Mas a história do maestro com a música começou bem antes de vir para Minas, já em 1941, quando se formou pelo Instituto de Música da Bahia. Pouco tempo depois foi para o Rio, onde se graduou em regência pelo Conservatório Nacional e, daí em diante, ganhou o mundo. Hoje, com 84 anos, mais de 60 deles dedicados à música, Fernando Gallo lembra que já se apresentou em mais de 50 países e teve oportunidade de acompanhar alguns mitos da música, como o norte-americano Nat King Cole e a cantora francesa Edith Piaf. Só no Cassino de Estoril, em Portugal, trabalhou por sete anos. “No Brasil, já toquei com Elis Regina, Emílio Santiago, Wilson Simonal e tantos outros”, conta.  

Outro dado curioso na vida do maestro Fernando Gallo foi a sua participação como pracinha da Força Expedicionária Brasileira, durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, quando esteve na Itália lutando junto aos aliados. “Minha vida, com certeza, daria um livro ou um filme”, costuma dizer o maestro, que, no entanto, sempre elegeu a música como sua prioridade.

(Carlos Herculano Lopes)

Bela Sanders Orchester - Brillante Tanzmusik

1. Abends in der Taverne
2. Halt's mich in den Armen
3. Küsse im Dunkeln (Kisses in the Dark)
4. Valparaiso
5. Yukatan-Boy
6. Tango las Palmas
7. Yes Sir, That's My Baby
8. Black Bottom
9. Rina Baion
10. Atlantis-Boogie
11. C-Jam-Blues
12. Baiao Caçula (Mário Gennari Filho )

Tanzmusik

Robert Farnon Conducting the London Festival Orchestra - Porgy & Bess - Symphonic Suite (George Gershwin)

1. Porgy & Bess - Symphonic Suite Part I: Overture / Summertime / A Woman Is A Sometime Thing / Honey Man / I Got Plenty O' Nuttin' / Bess, You Is My Woman Now
2. Porgy & Bess - Symphonic Suite Part II: It Ain't Necessarily So / Stawberry Woman / Crab Man / I Loves You Porgy / There's A Boat That's Leaving Soon for New York / Oh, Where's My Bess / Oh Lawd, I'm on My Way

Porgy & Bess

Gino Marinello Orchestra - Latenight Melodies - 16 Romantic Instrumentals

1. Are You Lonesome Tonight
2. Ben
3. Careless Whisper
4. Albatross
5. Ain't No Sunshine
6. Imagine
7. Sealed with A Kiss
8. Summertime
9. The Deer Hunter
10. To All the Girls I've Loved Before
11. For Your Eyes Only
12. Need Your Love So Bad
13. Nights in White Satin
14. Visions
15. You Don't Bring Me Flowers
16. Perhaps Love

Latenight Melodies

Perez Prado - Que Rico el Mambo

1. Que Rico el Mambo
2. Tequila
3. Penelope
4. Cae La Nieve
5. El Manicero
6. Corazon de Melon
7. Historia De Un Amor
8. Black Is Black
9. Quizas, Quizas, Quizas
10. Mambo No. 5
11. La Gioconda
12. Veracruz
13. You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
14. Concierto de Aranjuez
15. Lloro de Alegria
16. Ayer
17. Besame Mucho
18. Moliendo Cafe
19. Francesita
20. Mambo No. 8
21. La Macarena
22. La Bamba
23. La Reina de Saba
24. El Condor Pasa
25. Oye Como Va
26. Black Magic Woman
27. Cha Cha Cha Flamenco
28. Cerezo Rosa
29. Patricia

Que Rico el Mambo

Ferrante & Teicher - Dial 'M' for Music

1. Touch Me in the Morning
2. Caine's Theme from "Kung Fu"
3. Harmony
4. I Want to Spend My Life with You
5. Live and Let Die
6. Spring Is Coming
7. Let's Get It on
8. Jeremy
9. Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree
10. Yesterday Once More
11. The Morning After
12. When Heaven Smiles

Dial M for Music

Franck Pourcel - The Pourcel Sound

1. September in the Rain
2. Moon River
3. I'm Getting Sentimental over You
4. Night and Day
5. Misty
6. Mon Amour
7. Blues in the Night
8. Lune de Miel au Portugal
9. Tenderly
10. Laura
11. Close Your Eyes
12. Over the Rainbow
13. The Shadow of Your Smile
14. Around the World
15. The Days of Wine and Roses
16. The Sound of Music
17. Born Free
18. Who Can Say
19. Is Paris Burning
20. Love Letters
21. Secret Love
22. The Big Country
23. This Is My Song
24. Tonight

The Pourcel Sound

Warren Barker - Barker Is In

1. Flute Route
2. Cappuccino
3. Harlem Nocturne
4. Cafe Espresso
5. Black Coffee
6. Love Me or Leave Me
7. Midnight Sun
8. There Will Never Be Another You
9. Satin Doll
10. Robbin's Nest
11. Hit the Road to Dreamland
12. No Moon at All

Barker Is In

Ferrante & Teicher - Pianos in Paradise - with Their Orchestra Conducted by Nick Perito

1. Jungle Rhumba
2. Shangri-La
3. Misty
4. African Echoes
5. Adventures In Paradise
6. Clair De Lune (C. Debussy)
7. The Breeze and I
8. Flamingo
9. Ebb Tide
10. Taboo
11. Negligee
12. Moon of Manakoora

Pianos in Paradise

Ferrante and Teicher, recognised wherever records are played and music is enjoyed as America's premiere piano duo, once again spin their musical magic with Paradise as the setting. The lush orchestral background provided by Nick Perito and the unique scoring by the stars serves to showcase the piano mastery of this world-renowned team. In this album you will find music to fit your every mood, music designed to offer the ultimate in listening pleasure, performed in the style which has now become recognised as the Ferrante and Teicher trademark. Each song has been carefully selected by the duo for this program of beautiful mood and melodic music. Once again the pianists play primarily for you and your listening pleasure, their music designed to entertain at all times and to offer a permanent addition to your collection which can be played over and over again, each time offering you maximum value. Hear then PIANOS IN PARADISE by Ferrante and Teicher.

(From the original liner notes)