Adieu

Three Hundred Fifty-Six

Artist - Edith Piaf
Album - Adieu, Little Sparrow
Released - 1964
Label - Phillips
Genre - Pop (French)

Tracks:
Side 1
Mon Legionnaire
Un Jeune Homme Chantait
Elle Frequentait La Rue Pigalle
La Fanion De La Legion
Le Disque
De L'Autre Cote De La Rue
Side 2
L'Etranger
C'est Toujours La Meme Histoire
C'etait Un Jour De Fete
Y'a Pas De Printemps
L'Accordeoniste
J'ai Qu'a L'Regarder

Enjoy!

Is It Summer Yet?

Three Hundred Forty

Artist - The Beach Boys
Album - All Summer Long
Released - 1964
Label - Capitol
Genre - Rock, Surf Rock

Tracks:
Side One
I Get Around
All Summer Long
Hushabye
Little Honda
We'll Run Away
Side Two
Wendy
Do You Remember?
Girls On The Beach
Drive-In
Don't Back Down

It definitely felt like Summer when I decided to play this record first thing in the morning.  That was, of course, until I stepped outside to about 40 degrees of cold weather smacking me in my face.  The sixth album by SURF ROCKERS The Beach Boys, All Summer Long is very in tune with the Summer and being on the beach.  I guess that is why you would categorize them as Surf Rock, which is a term I laugh at because I guess you can pretty much name any type of rock.  Brian Wilson is pretty much the mastermind behind all of The Beach Boys' hits.  Such a talented writer and musician.

Enjoy!

Thursday

Two Hundred Sixty-Five

Artist - Andy Williams
Album - The Great Songs from My Fair Lady
Released - 1964
Label - Columbia
Genre - Jazz

Tracks:
Side 1
On the Street Where You Live
I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face
I Could Have Danced All Night
Get Me to the Church on Time
Wouldn't It Be Loverly
Show Me

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And other Broadway Hits

Side 2
Hello Dolly (From "Hello Dolly")
Where or When (From "Babes in Arms")
Begin The Beguine (From "Jubilee")
Once Upon A Time (From "All American")
People (From "Funny Girl")
The Sweetest Sounds (From "No Strings")

So the whole idea of playing this record today has a lot do to with my co-worker Berwyn.  When I say her name, it seems like such a strange thing.  I've never heard of a Berwyn and when I tell her that (she's from New Zealand), she tells me about the different "Berwyn's" there are all around.  It's a first for me but I don't think it will be a last.  That being said, my morning did not go as well as I hoped it would.  Starting off at 4am, getting to the gym 10 minutes early (4:50 a.m.) and having a very emotional conversation at that.  There is nothing like getting teary-eyed while working out.  Also, most of the morning, I thought today was Wednesday.  So getting back to Berwyn, when I went into the copy room to scan some documents, I asked her to play some music.  She asked me what I wanted to hear when I turned to her and said, "Let's hear some CHRISTMAS MUSIC!  Is it too early for that?  Or too late?"  She laughed.  I told her to surprise me and that's when she played My Fair Lady.  I told her I have a vinyl record that I would play in connection with that.  So here we are, at the end of my day and I put on Andy Williams' The Great Songs from My Fair Lady.

Enjoy!

LSP

Two Hundred Sixty-Four

Album - The New Tommy Dorsey Orchestra
Released - 1964
Album - RCA
Genre - Jazz/Big Band/Swing

Tracks:
Side 1
Introduction: I'm Getting Sentimental Over You
Opus #1
A Lot of Livin' to Do (with Jeannie Thomas)
The Best Things in Life Are Free (featuring Charlie Shavers)
A Song of India (with Larry O'Brien)
Body and Soul
Side 2
Marie (with Larry O'Brien)
Just One of Those Things (featuring Helen Forrest)
That Lonesome Road (featuring Helen Forrest)
I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate (featuring Helen Forrest)
My Melancholy Baby (featuring Helen Forrest)
Well, Git It

Enjoy!

I Love it All Over Again

Two Hundred Sixty-Three

Artist - Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass
Album - South of the Border
Released - 1964
Label - A&M
Genre - Jazz/Instrumental

Tracks:
South of the Border
The Girl From Ipanema
Hello, Dolly!
I've Grown Accustomed to her Face
Up Cherry Street
Mexican Shuffle
El Presidente
All My Loving
Angelito
Salud, Amor y Dinero
Numero Cinco
Adios, Mi Corazon

Welcome to another dozen great songs with the modern mariachi touch of Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass. "South of the Border" is the third set from this rousing versatile group. We have every reason to believe that you will enjoy this album at least as much as their other two best-selling works.  Please sit back, relax and enjoy thirty minutes or so of the most original and exciting instrumental congregation on record, Herb Alpert and his Tijuana Brass.

Enjoy!

Phemonenal

Two Hundred Nineteen

Artist - Johnny Cash
Album - I Walk The Line
Released - 1964
Label - Columbia
Genre - Blues/Folk

Tracks:
I Walk The Line
Bad News
Folsom Prison Blies
Give My Love To Rose
Hey Porter
I Still Miss Someone
Understand Your Man
Wreck of the Old 97
Still In Town
Big River
Goodbye, Little Darlin' Goodbye
Troublesome Waters

A phenomenal probably unique to the Country and Western and fold song fields is the composer who is also the best singer of his own songs.  One of the notably gifted - and most successful - examples in recent years is Johnny Cash, whose hit recordings of original compositions have appeared repeatedly on national best-seller charts.  Endowed with a vibrant, virile baritone voice, he is one of the best songwriting talents since the legendary Hank Williams.

The title of Johnny's new collection, I WALK THE LINE, is also the title of the million-seller that catapulted him into the national spotlight only a few years ago. Appropriately, the song leads off this album which includes six Cash originals and one collaboration.  After he sings Bad News ("I'm bad news, always gettin' into trouble"), the effect of which Johnny heightens by a devilish chuckle, he follows with three other famous Cash originals, the grim Folsom Prison Blues ("I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die"), the poignant Give My Love To Rose ("the words a dyin' fella said") and Hey Porter ("tell me the time, how much longer will it be till we cross the Mason-Dixie line?"), a jubilant going-home song.  I Still Miss Someone is a sentimental song Johnny wrote to brother Roy's words.

I WALK THE LINE offers Johnny Cash, renowned story-teller-in-song, at his creative and performing best.

Enjoy!

Big Sound, Young Men

One Hundred Sixty-Ninth

Artist - The Beatles
Album - Meet The Beatles
Released - 1964
Label - Capitol
Genre - Rock 'n Roll

Tracks:
Side One
I Want To Hold Your Hand
I Saw Her Standing There
This Boy
It Won't Be Long
All I've Got To Do
All My Loving
Side Two
Don't Bother Me
Little Child
Till There Was You
Hold Me Tight
I Wanna Be Your Man
Not A Second Time

The second album by the illustrious UK band The Beatles, Meet The Beatles is probably one of the best albums ever.  This fearsome foursome, in their early twenties, dominated the airwaves with their music and caused the music industry to change FOREVER.  When listening to this album, I don't know how I would've reacted to listening to such an amazing sound in 1964.  I probably would've reacted like everyone else and just mesmerized by The Beatles.  There is a lot to say about such an amazing, but nothing could even come close to how much of an impact they have made.  Songs like I Want To Hold Your Hand, All My Loving, shoot, ALL THESE SONGS ARE JUST SO AMAZING and let's not forget to add that they put you in such a great mood.  I got home last night from a very exhausting day and I put this on and I instantly transformed into a loving mood.  It's hard, for me at least, to write a review on this, so just listen to it!

Enjoy!