Tommy DeSalvo Plays from the Rim

1. Starwind

2. Farstar

3. Third Voyage

4. The Door into Rainbows

5. The Return (Freeworld)

6. The Hub

7. The Rim

Redd Foxx - Uncensored 1995

1. Thanksgiving Day

2. Bye, Bye

3. Sex in the Dark

4. Cannibal Customs

5. Mink

6. Colored People

7. Mashed Potatoes

8. School

9. No Dogs Allowed

10. Miracle Golf

11. Slack And Pack

12. Sugar Ray Robinson

13. Facing the Truth

14. End Of The World

15. Horn Blowing

16. Well Pussy

17. Grand Central Station

18. The Hat

19. Tarzan's Yell

20. International Redd

21. Mop Bucket

22. Memories

23. Pregnant

24. War Stories

25. Goodies From A Nut

26. The Wrong Zipper

27. Old People

28. My Old Lady

29. 240 Big Ones

30. Dogs

31. Poverty

32. Ooh!

33. Joe Lewis

34. Confusions

35. The Dental Drunk

36. There Was

37. A Prayer

Henry Mancini - The Cop Show Themes 1976

1. Mystery Movie Theme

2. The Streets of San Francisco

3. Bumper's Theme

4. Medley: Kojak & S.W.A.T.

5. Baretta's Theme

6. The Rockford Files

7. Hawaii Five-O

8. Police Woman

Nashville OST - 1975

This is has always been my favorite Robert Altman film. Nashville shows music as it exists rather than as it is described. Not as easy as it looks & it doesn't look that easy.

1. It Don't Worry Me - Keith Carradine

2. Bluebird -Timothy Brown

3. For The Sake Of The Children -Henry Gibson

4. Keep A-Goin' - Henry Gibson

5. Memphis - Karen Black

6. Rolling Stone -Karen Black

7. 200 Years -Henry Gibson

8. Tapedeck In His Tractor -Ronee Blakley

9. Dues -Ronee Blakley

10. I'm Easy - Keith Carradine

11. One, I Love You -Henry Gibson And Ronee Blakley

12. My Idaho Home -Ronee Blakley

13. It Don't Worry Me - Keith Carradine And Barbara Harris

Arcadio Elias and His Famed Mariachi Nacional - Tequila! 1959

All the favorite melodies of Old Mexico... gathered together at last!

Tequila, the crystal clear, fiery national drink of Mexico is roughly equivalent to our gin or vodka, and with it you can even make a sort of sun-drenched martini, the Margarita (see recipe below).

Likewise, the mariachis, those happy little bands of Mexico, have their stateside parallels, too. In sound and spirit, they are somewhere between our polka bands and those smooth little groups playing for dancing in U.S. hotels. The typical mariachi has lots of spritely singing strings, a trumpet lead, guitars of assorted sizes, and sometimes, as in this case, an orthodox rhythm section. The result, at its best is a polished, light-bodied sound, pleasant to the ear, and here, it is at its best: the Mariachi Nacional is the finest of its kind and Arcadio Elias might reasonably be called Mexico's Lawrence Welk!

As to the tunes themselves, they are the most popular Mexican folksongs, loved around the world. Even though a title or two might not ring a bell at first, the melodies themselves will prove immediately familiar to almost every North American. And in a gesture of neighborliness, bandleader Elias has even included a couple of stateside standards, done up in delightful mariachi style.

Because this album brings together all these world-wide favorites of Mexican music for the first time, it is a particularly fine addition to the collections of schools and folkdancing groups. But it's equally appropriate for informal parties and friendly get-togethers when a kind of sunny, happy music is always welcome.

So mix up a nice, icy batch of Margaritas and give Señor Elias and his boys the floor; you'll find yourself whisked across the border in a trice, to a land of song and gayety. Salud!

Margarita -half jigger of Triple Sec, juice of 1 lime, jigger of tequila. Shake well with shaved ice and serve in a salted champagne glass...

1. Tequila!

2. Guadalajara

3. Cielito Lindo

4. Alla En El Rancho Grande

5. Rosa de San Antonio (San Antonio Rose)

6. La Golondrina

7. Jarabe Tapatio

8. Las Chiapanecas

9. La Bamba

10. La Varsoviana (Put Your Little Foot)

11. La Raspa

12. La Cucaracha

Dallas County - Dallas County 1970

aka where I'm from...

1. The Toll

2. Mad Dog

3. Small Vacation

4. Roads

5. Reflections

6. If We Try

7. Love's Not Hard to Find

8. Blowin' in the Wind

9. She Didn't Say Just Why

10. It Shall Pass

Auracle - Glider 1978

Trumpet, flugelhorn - Richard C. Braun

Woodwinds - Stephen R.F. Kujala

Mallets, percussion - Steven A. Rehbein

Piano, electric keyboards - John Serry, Jr.

Bass - Bill Staebell

Drums - Ron Wagner

State-of-the-Art, at least in records, has come to mean hundreds of hours slaving over a hot console, fine-tuning a click track to bring machined precision to the rhythms, artfully stacking overdubs (and punching out the flubs), tweaking a battery of outboard devices to further shape and cut the music.

These tracks are state of the art in a different sense, one paradoxically much older and, of late, making a welcome comeback: the art in question is performance, meaning the precision lies in the heads, hearts and hands of the players. The musicians comprising Auracle are young, but they're puting all their cards on the table first time out. They draw from a wide range of sources

and arranging styles, which will lead to some conflicting tags, but it's likely they'll slip as gracefully through those tags as they do through the fluid changes in their songs. No one here uses his vocal chords, and supplies words to explain the melodic sense of the songs, but Auracle sings just the same. Sam Sutherland - Record World Magazine

1. Columbian Bubblegum

2. Tom Thumb

3. Glider

4. Sno' Fun

5. Sleezy Listening

6. Kids' Stuff

7. Chez Amis

8. Sartori

Network WhisperDisc 18 - Medium Tempo

A1-5. Struttin'

A6-10. Day Dreaming

A11-15. Chills & Fever

B1-5. Hero Sandwich

B6-10. Weekend Romance

B11-15. Rhapsody 54

Network WhisperDisc 6 - Industrial

I still have no words to describe the baseball chaos witnessed Thursday night. Falling from the top of nirvana to the depths of hell is always a long fall. The Texas Rangers bandwagon may be emptying but true heads will maintain. Meanwhile... library music for everyone.

A1-3. Energy

A4-6. Choppin' Block

A7-9. Triumph

A10-12. Power Generator

B1-3. Industrial Revolution

B4-6. Perpetual Motion

B7-9. Assembly Line

B10-12. Mechanical Marathon

Tony Caspar - Take It Easy 1981

This post is dedicated to the blog E-mile Says Songs Do the Matter, home of wonderful posts like http://e-milesaysongsdothematter.blogspot.com/2011/10/372-100-covers-part-2.html

11 Covers & one original

Three signs this LP is from 1981 = gold bracelet w/ first name, kick drum & of course truck drivin'

1. Take It Easy

2. Raining in My Heart

3. Proud Mary

4. There Goes My Everything

5. Jambalaya

6. Nights in White Satin

7. Ladies Love Outlaws

8. Walk on By

9. Memphis Tennessee

10. Have I Told You Lately

11. Good Hearted Woman

12. Truck Drivin' Boogie

Floyd Cramer - The Magic Touch of Floyd Cramer 1965

With the heatwave over but the drought still here look forward to keyboards and kids this fall. There may also be homework but to maximize the learning experience you will be allowed to check your own work.

1. Chattanooga Choo Choo
2. For Those That Cry
3. Hot Pepper
4. (Theme from) Story of Three Loves
5. Suddenly There's a Valley
6. Sophisticated Swing
7. Marilyn
8. Shrum
9. Losers Weepers
10. Night Theme

Flying Funk 2003

1. Nina Simone - Save Me
2. Nite-Liters - Afro Strut*
3. The Jimmy Castor Bunch - It's Just Begun
4. Weldon Irvine - We Getting Down*
5. Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes - Expansions
6. Gil Scott-Heron - Home is Where the Hatred Is
7. Queen Esther Marrow - Mama
8. The Loading Zone - No More Tears*
9. Nina Simone - Funkier Than A Mosquito's Tweeter
10. Harold Alexander - Tite Rope*
11. Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes - A Chance For Peace
12. Richard 'Groove' Holmes And Brenda Jones - This Is The Me Me (Not The You You)
13. New Birth - Got To Get A Knutt*
14. The Main Ingredient - Happiness Is Just Around The Bend
15. Bernard "Pretty" Purdie - What's Going On?/Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone*
16. Johnny Griffiths - Plane of Illusion*
* Remastered 2002

22 High-Ballin' Hits 1976

True DJ's know sucker MC's break bad but old school truckers move mad weight.

1. Red Sovine - Phantom 309
2. Webb Pierce - Truck Driver Blues
3. Connie Eaton and Dave Peel - Hit the Road, Jack
4. Johnny Dollar - Big Rig Rollin' Man
5. Jim Gately - I Sure Like Your Truck
6. Roger Miller - King of the Road
7. Dave Dudley - Six Days on the Road
8. Conway Twitty - Truck Drivin' Man
9. Roy Drusky - White Lightnin' Express
10. Bob Wills - I've Got a New Road Under My Wheels
11. Jimmy Dean - Bumming Around
12. Jack Reno - Hitchin' a Ride
13. Michael Parks - Long Lonesome Highway
14. Ray Pillow - The Waitress
15. Henson Cargill - Take Me Home Country Road
16. Kitty Wells - My Big Truck Drivin' Man
17. Jim Nesbit - Tiger in My Tank
18. Hank Williams - Lost Highway
19. Johnny Exit - Dedication to the ATA
20. Tom T. Hall - A Piece of the Road
21. Bobby Edwards - Me and Old C.B.
22. Clay Hart - Another Day, Another Mile, Another Highway

Boulevard Nights - Lalo Schifrin 1979

Nonchalant laughin at you non-factors chatterin. Thank you for speakin & keep up my name travelin. They say no comparison without bein arrogant. A rare combination... - Geologic

1. Street Tattoo
2. Dimelo
3. On the Boulevard
4. Take Another Chance
5. Chile Caliente
6. Chuco
7. Boulevard Nights
8. Dolor
9. Last Act

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulevard_Nights

Living Chicago Blues Volume 6 - 1980

It's been a rough month at the compound. First I had to lay off the quality control department then the fact-checkers all quit en masse. As a result all future posts will happen with 25% less facts and 50% less quality. This LP is one of six that were later packaged as four CD's.

1. If I Hadn't Got High - Detroit Junior
2. Some Nerve - Detroit Junior
3. Somebody to Shack - Detroit Junior
4. I Got Money - Detroit Junior
5. Somebody Have Mercy - Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson
6. Got to Have Money - Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson
7. Just Like Mama Said - Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson
8. Look What You Done - Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson
9. Going Upstairs- Queen Sylvia Embry
10. Blues This Morning - Queen Sylvia Embry
11. Tired of Being Pushed Around - Queen Sylvia Embry
12. Please Let Me Stay - Queen Sylvia Embry

Jerry Fielding - The Gauntlet 1977

If it seems like you're seeing the same old crap from Hollywood this summer try something from back when you thought they at least tried.

1. Bleak Bad Big City Dawn
2. The Pickup
3. Exit Tunnel Roaring!
4. The Gauntlet
5. The Box Car Incident
6. Closer Look at a Closer Walk
7. The Black Sedan
8. Manipulation on the Center Divider
9. The Delivery
10. Postlude

Stuff - Stuff 1976

Cornell Dupree - guitar; Gordon Edwards - bass, percussion; Stephen Gadd- drums, percussion; Eric Gale - guiter; Christopher Parker - drums, percussion; Richard Tee - piano, electric piano, organ

Produced by Herb Lovelle and Tommy LiPuma

RIP Cornell Dupree December 19, 1942 - May 7, 2011

1. Foots
2. My Sweetness
3. (Do You) Want Some of This
4. Looking for the Juice
5. Reflections of Divine Love
6. How Long Will It Last
7. Sun Song
8. Happy Farms
9. Dixie/Up On the Roof

Eloise Laws - Eloise 1977

1. Baby You Lied 2. His House and Me 3. 1,000 Laughs 4. Someone Who Still Needs Me 5. Love Is Feeling 6. Number One 7. You're Incredible 8. Love Comes Easy 9. Forever Now

Lena Horne - Swinging - Coronet Records CX-165

Preparing to attend The 10th Texas Pinball Convention in Grapevine & just wanted to give some love to all the female MC's. Why? Well, to be honest we'll be lucky to get 5% female turnout. Pinball seems to be one of those things (kind of like crate digging) that's wired into the male psyche just a tad harder than the female one. Corrections welcome. Anyway, look for some female lovin' posts for the next two weeks or so. As Alicia Keys said when she was here at last year - THANK YOU ALL STAR.

First up on the musical menu is Lena Horne - you've heard her live from 81 now reach back to the 50's ?? to hear some studio work from a top five MC of her era. For those that don't know, Lena set the standard & raised the flag in her day and beyond. RIP Liz Taylor.

1. More Than You Know
2. Squeeze Me
3. Beale street Blues
4. At Long Last Love
5. Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
6. The Blues
7. Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
8. Frankie & Johnny

Don "Jake" Jacoby - Jacoby Brings the House Down 1968

All arrangements by Larry Muhoberac, recorded at IRI Studio, Dallas, TX

Don Jacoby was born in York, Pennsylvania. He began playing the trumpet at age 6 1/2. His uncle, Arthur Ansorg, was his teacher. He became a soloist with the Spring Garden Bank in York at nine and continued to play there until he graduated from high school at 16. During this time he played for the Horn and Hardart Children's Hour on the radio station WCAU Philadelphia, then one year with the "Tasty Yeast Youth Pageant" over WJZ in New York (Don was selected from a group of 3,000 young entertainers). He then entered the Ernest Williams School of Music of Brooklyn, New York. During this time he soloed at Town Hall and Carnegie Hall. He graduated from college at 19 and entered the pop music field.

Don joined the Milt Britton Band at Loew's State Theater, Times Square, New York. He played for Van Alexander, Claude Thornhill, and in May of 1941 he joined Les Brown. Don remained with Les Brown until January of 1942 at which time he entered the Navy. He was stationed at Great Lakes Naval Station for two years. During this time he led his own band and performed with such noted artists as Andre Kostelanetz, Lily Pons, John Charles Thomas, Vladmir Horowitz, Nathan Milstein, Fritz Kreisler, Ferde Grothe and many others. While at the Great Lakes Naval Station, Jacoby was chosen as the "Star in Uniform" to perform with Tommy Dorsey on the Raleigh Cigarette program. In December of 1943 he married Doris Robinson of Waukegan, Illinois. He was with the Sam Donahue Navy Bank in the European Theater of operations for 13 months during which time his first son Mike was born.

Upon returning to the States, Don went to California with the Sam Donahue band to record "Command Performance", "Mail Call," etc. for airing to the troops overseas. With the advent of VJ Day, he was discharged from the Navy in Washington, D.C. and returned to Chicago to rejoin Les Brown. During this time he also worked for Benny Goodman. Jacoby decided to settle in Chicago and went on staff for ABC performing on first trumpet with the Don McNeill Breakfast Club for 9 1/2 years. Soon after joining ABC, Don's second son John was born, and then Bill, his third son. While in Chicago, Jacoby did many TV shows, including the Martin and Lewis Comedy Hour, the Ed Sullivan Show and numerous local shows: the Bob and Ray Show, the Danny O'Neill Show and the Tom Duggan Show.

Jacoby then worked for NBC and finally CBS. During the time he was at CBS he was associated with the Conn Band Instrument Co. He performed hundreds and hundreds of clinics and concerts with high schools and university bands in 49 states, Canada and Mexico. After doing the clinics and concerts for ten years, Don formed his own group and went on the road. While on the road the group performed at the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago, the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas, the Theatrical Grill in Cleveland, the Statler Hilton in Dallas, the Tidelands Hotel in Houston, the Cabaña in Dallas, Pier 66 in Fort Lauderdale, the Mike Douglas Show and the Ruth Lyons Show in Cincinnati. He also did a concert tour with Bob Newhart, and made numerous concert appearances at universities with big stars. While at the Cabaña in Dallas, Don became very fond of the city and decided to move his family there and settle down. He appeared at the Executive Inn in Dallas for one year, and has just completed two years at Dallas' Village Club. During the last three years, Jacoby has done countless radio and TV commercials, jingles and commercial records. "Jacoby Brings the House Down" is his latest venture and everyone associated with the album believes it to be his greatest.

1. By The Time I Get To Phoenix
2. The Eyes Of Love
3. Theme From Elvira Madigan
4. The Heat Of The Night
5. Doo Dah
6. Jacoby's Theme
7. Since You've Been Gone (Sweet Sweet Baby)
8. (There's) Always Something There To Remind Me
9. Chain Of Fools
10. Sunday Best