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| ARTIST: | Various Artists |
| CATEGORY: | Music |
| MANUFACTURER: | Stardust |
| TYPE: | Pop, V/A Compilations |
| MEDIA: | Audio CD |
| TRACKS: | Cerveza - Boots Brown & The Blockbusters, Blue Hawaii - Billy Vaughn, Clouds - The Spacemen, Like Young - André Previn, Bulldog - The Fireballs, Too Much Tequila - The Champs, Flamingo Express - The Royaltones, Bumble Boogie - B. Bumble & the Stingers, Charleston - Ernie Fields & His Orchestra, Stick Shift - The Duals, Alley Cat - Bent Fabric, Jivin' Around - Al Casey, Love for Sale - Arthur Lyman, Watermelon Man - Mongo Santamaria, Red Roses for a Blue Lady - Bert Kaempfert, Cast Your Fate to the Wind - Sounds Orchestral, Summer Samba (Samba de Verão) - Walter Wanderley, Horse - Cliff Nobles, Truck Stop - Jerry Smith, El Bimbo - Bimbo Jet |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 776702102327 |
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Customer Reviews of Vintage Instrumentals, Vol. 4
The Eclectic Mix Of Tunes Continue Since I reviewed the first three volumes in this series, and have all six, I figured I may as well complete the package.
What struck me as I finished with Volume 3 was the realization that there is no jump-link provided to take you to the entire series. Oh, there is a jump-link of sorts. but if you click on Various Artists you're taken to a list of literally thousands of CDs. So, anyone stopping at this volume [or any of those in the series] without knowing the title of the album will have reached this point by searching for a specific tune. Seems to me Amazon could perhaps increase sales by the simple addition of a Vintage Instrumentals jump-link. Just a suggestion that could apply to other similar series such as Treasured Tunes and Hey Look What I Found.
As for this volume, once more the sound quality is excellent on these original renditions which cover a period from 1958 to 1975, and offers a generous mix of Rock and pop instrumentals along with track-by-track liner notes.
The opening track, Cerveza [# 23 in 1958], was credited to Boots Brown And His Blockbusters, but actually this was jazz trumpeter Shorty Rogers who had once worked with the Stan Kenton and Woody Herman big bands before forming his own in 1951 in LA. That was his only hit single, a limitation which also applied to The Spacemen whose rollicking The Clouds reached # 1 R&B/# 41 pop in late 1959.
On the other hand the New Mexico group The Fireballs had 11 Hot 100 hits from 1959 to 1969 for four different labels [Top Rank, Warwick. Dot, and Atco], and their first four were all instrumentals. Bulldog [# 24 in 1960] was the second of this group. Joined by Jimmy Gilmer in 1960, they would then include vocals, with their best being Sugar Shack [# 1 for 5 weeks in 1963]. The group was also overdubbed with the voice of Buddy Holly on several posthumous releases for that legend in the 1960s.
Each of the above-mentioned is not that easy to find in quality CD format, and in that respect they are joined by Flamingo Express, a # 82 in 1961 for The Royaltones which kept them from becoming a member of the one-hit wonder club [in 1958 they had had a # 17 with Poor Boy]. Others in that category are Jivin' Around [# 71 in 1962] by The Al Casey Combo, and the bouncy Truck Stop [# 71 in 1969] by session pianist Jerry Smith, who can also be heard on [Down At] Papa Joe's by The Dixiebelles.
On the pop side, the Ernie Fields Orchestra continued their resurrection of big band standards [their first was Glenn Miller's In The Mood in 1959] with The Charleston, a # 1 hit for Arthur Gibbs way back in 1924. Ernie's version reached # 47 in 1961 and was his last charted hit. That also applies to The Arthur Lyman Group, led by the former vibraphonist for Martin Denny, which had a # 43 in 1963 with Cole Porter's Love For Sale. First a # 5 for Libby Holman in 1931, this contains some of the most suggestive lyrics you will ever find in a straight pop tune from that bygone era. Unfortunately, however, you will have to seek it out somewhere else since this version is entirely instrumental.
Brazilian organist Walter Wanderley was another one-hit wonder with his Summer Samba (So Nice), which reached # 26 in 1966, as was the French session group Bimbo Jet whose catchy El Bimbo [# 43 in North America] was a # 1 in several Europian countries.
Just a great little series that deserves wider publicity.