Music For Lovers

Moon River

Music For Lovers
Modern Sound MS 512

Obscure budget easy listening album featuring various artists who are not listed. There are a few nice vocal tracks on the LP, but this cover of Moon River is just whacky enough to be heard in The Motel Lounge!

Ball Room Fever

 

Uno Tango

Ball Room Fever
Al Pierson Master Of Ballroom Dance Music Today
January Recording Studios, Dallas, Texas
Rainbow Records AP-31478

Pierson is mentioned online as having an association with the "Guy Lombardo's Royal Canadians" band which the Lombardo trusted asked him to revive in 1989.

Shilohmorning

White Bird

Shilohmoring
TRCs51053
1974

Lounge act working out of Indianapolis Indiana.

I've seen this album described online as "psych" even though the tracks cover a lot of ground including folk, country, etc. The cover of White Bird is pretty cool. There is also a cover of "Knights In White Satin" that the band managed to reproduce note for note. Pretty slick if you are into carbon copies of songs.

Rock Of Young Ages

Sybil

Rock Of Young Ages
Zalstar Records ZRS 71051
1981

You might expect an album from the early 80s to use pop/rock as a gimmick to sell songs to kids to be frightening. However, the tunes found on this release offer well-intentioned, if not quirky, messages to their young audience.

Sybil is a whacky tune about brother/sister love/hate.

Jim Williams - Love Songs American Style

What A Difference A Day Makes

Love Songs American Style
Jim Williams
Jewel Recording Studios, Cincinnati, OH LPS 412
QCA, Cincinnati, OH

Private press album titled after the early 70s TV show, Love American Style.

From the back cover we learn that Jim attended Campbell County High School, that he worked for Procter & Gamble and that he helds a Real Estate License in the State Of Kentucky. We also learn that Jim worked for C. Bert Spaulding Realtor and was a an enthusiastic participant in the Realtors of Northern Kentucky.

Also from the back cover: ...Jim hopes this album will make everyone who hears it want to set aside anything that would suppress this Love and once again let Love make this American style of life a life style to Love.

Reg Phillips Wails Ol' Yellar

That's A Plenty

Reg Phillips
Wails Ol' Yellar
KROK Recordings, Concord Massachusetts

Straight out of the sealed shrink comes a private press from a lost artist by the name of Reginald G. A. Phillips II. It took me a moment to realize that "Ol' Yellar" is the piano that Reg is banging away on (as pictured on the cover).

From the back cover: Reg's piano was given to us by one of our resident trombonists, Dick Wiggin. After being sawed into pieces in order to navigate the winding stairs to the third floor, OL' YELLAR was totally rebuilt to the very demanding specifications of Mr. Phillips and now stands in a place of honor on the bandstand of REDEMPTION HALL right here in the heart of downtown Concord.

Drummer Ray Smith and tubaist Rick MacWilliams accompany Phillips. Apparently, Smith hosted a traditional jazz program over WKOX FM and WMTW. Today you can find Smith if you google him. He's well known for his radio program, The Jazz Decades.

You can also find MacWilliams online playing with The Wolverine Jazz Band.

Goofy Newfie - Roy Payne

I Wouldn't Take A Million Dollars For A Single Maple Leaf

Goofy Newfie
Roy Payne
A Tribute To Newfoundland By The Writer Of The Hit Song
Paragon ALS 247
Marathon Music, Scarboro, Ontario
1969

On my 127 Yard Sale spree, I met a seller who had a few vintage Canadian LPs that he had kept from his childhood.

Goofy Newfie is slang used when referring to a Newfoundlander.

This album includes an anti-American song (I Wouldn't Take A Million Dollars For A Single Maple Leaf). Payne wrote this song.

From the back cover: In the next year watch for some of the top American country stars to latch on to Roy's tunes.