You must check out Spiral's great post of Baker Street Philharmonic's Je t'aime LP [link in favourites at time of writing], to compliment that here I offer this lovely Easy LP.
Featuring some nice scat vocals, organ, guitar, and strings, it has more than its share of smooth orchestral originals, is a great listen, and I recommend it strongly!
After posting the Sparkling Sounds LP, and mentioning Denny Wright's Pepsi LP, I thought it might be good to rip and post that Pepsi LP, so here it is!
It was one of the first LPs I found when I first started looking round the charity shops, some years ago, but I have seen it again since, several times, the one ripped here being the one in the best condition.
It is around 54 minutes in length, and top quality from start to finish! Featuring the Shout About Pepsi track, as featured on the first Sound Gallery album, here it appears as part of a medley with Tequila and La Bamba.
Other highlights include fine versions of I Can See Clearly Now, Something, Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da, very smooth sounding covers of Without You,Love Is Blue, and Sounds of Silence, with a nice rock 'n' roll medley to finish the album.
Every track is a winner, the album is one of my personal favourites, the track I post as preview, Roll Over Beethoven never fails to have me jiving round the room!
I found this album of vocal covers in one of my local charity shops, looked at the sleeve and found it was from Denny Wright and Anton Kwiatkowski, and bought it, hoping for something hopefully similar and as good as Wright's own Non-Stop Pepsi Party or Chico Arnez's Non-Stop Dance Party.
It turned out to be more like one from the Hot Hits collection or similar soundalike album. I must say it is very good though, and although the band and singers are trying to sound like the originals, there turns out to be more of their own personality to the sound than that!
It is well worth a listen, and so I hope you enjoy it and leave a comment!
Here is a very nice compilation of 10 classic 60s TV themes, in super stereo sound!
I already had this LP in its much more common mono version, but I was very pleased to find this one in a local charity shop as I find stereo sound gives the listener much more satisfaction.
Many of the themes featured here are also featured on many modern theme compilations, usually from Castle Music, but this album features rare stereo versions of Tony Hatch's themes from Crossroads and The Champions, tracks which are always featured in mono on such compilations.
I hope you enjoy it and please comment if you do!
ALBUM PREVIEW - THEME FROM ''CROSSROADS'' by THE TONY HATCH ORCHESTRA
Here, especially for darnall42, is a fantastic collection of 35 great 80s TV and film [but mostly TV] themes played by the Power Pack ''Orchestra'', mostly synth and drum machine again, but it must be said that it is very of its time.
There are 25 tracks on the original CD ''Screen Action'', but I also have an LP called ''Crime Busters'', which also contains some of the tracks from ''Screen Action'', so I have added the tracks that were not featured on that to this download.
Highlights aplenty, but I can't quite believe the way they did the ''Hart To Hart'' theme!
I hope you enjoy it and please leave a comment!
I ripped this CD some time ago, and cannot find it at the moment to scan the covers from it, so I'm afraid this will have to do for now!
I'll be back soon with more classic Easy from the 60s and 70s!
Very nice 10 track sampler of Roberto Delgado's 60s work, featuring the latin sounds of Spanish Eyes, El Paloma, Rhumba Tamba, Taboo, and 6 other great tracks.
[From the sleeve notes]
''The heat of the tropical sun, the excitement of the carnival, all the fire of Latin America, this is the music of Roberto Delgado. Audiences in the sophisticated continental nightclubs have thrilled to the music of Roberto Delgado, many record buyers in this country have for long known the excitement of his records in fabulous stereo, now, to bring his music to a wider audience we bring you a selection of some of the best of Roberto Delgado so that you too may thrill to the magic of far-away nights in exotic places. Come, hear, be conquered by the scintillating sound of Roberto Delgado.''
A nice & easy treat from the greatest British session organist.
Very rare and hard to find, this LP is a mixture of standards and 60s & 70s pop classics played by the Hawk along with his session legend friends Brian Bennett, Jim Lawless, Chris Spedding, Tony Carr and Danny Richmond.
Mariella is a Hawkshaw original and is a definite highlight, as are the versions of Spinning Wheel and My Cherie Amour.
There are also some great liner notes from the Hawk himself!
I hope you enjoy it!
Hawk from Mediafire
This one, along with the All-Time Party hits LP by Joe Loss were the ones I used to listen to most at my grandmother's house when I was a small child.
I did have a copy of this, but it was in such poor condition I could not offer you a listen of it.
A typical party LP of its time, it sounds great, is still enjoyable to listen to, and I hope you enjoy it!
Party [Mediafire]
Here is a very nice Easy LP with a very typical German sound of the mid 70s. Featuring a mix of 70s pop songs and traditional-sounding German tunes, it is recommended if you enjoy listening to James Last, Roberto Delgado, and Klaus Wunderlich.
This is a great collection of early 70s UK TV themes, and unusually, are the original versions!
From the classic sitcoms Please Sir, On The Buses, Doctor At Large, and The Fenn Street Gang, and the classic dramas Upstairs Downstairs, New Scotland Yard, The Onedin Line, and Catweazle, with a storming track from The Big Match called Cheekybird!
I do not normally post CD compilations, but after the comments on my recent Button Down Brass library LP post, I thought it would be good to post this very nice collection of the Pye years of Ray Davies.
All the great Button Down originals are here, such as Heavy Water, Mach 1, Hadrian's Wall, Martinique, and Truckin', with some nice covers, too.
It was previously posted on Lounge Legends, but the link has expired, so for Mindy, who left a very kind comment, here it is!
It has had to be hosted at Mediafire, as my access to Megaupload appears to have been curtailed at the moment.
