The Independent Sound Album Vol. II

You're So Lazy

The Independent Sound Album
Vol. II
Produced By David Heavener
Fultz Recording Studio, Louisville, Kentucky and Doc's Place, Nashville, Tennessee.
1978

From the back cover: Oh! You wanted to know what reason we had for putting the prehistoric caveman on the cover of our album. The reason is… mmm… now that I think about it, there is no reason. Oh well, I guess that's just one of the advantages of being independent. Hey! Don't forget to turn off the stereo!

Turn, Turn, Turn On Your Love Light
Go Now
Reflections
The Hicky (On Your Neck)
Let The Music Play
I L-U-V Y-O-U
Jesus (You Lay So Easy On My Mind)
Taste Of Love
Daddy's Little Squirt
Reach Out And Touch Me
You're So Lazy
Don't Turn Me Down
Have A Life

Who Is Ed Williams?

My Way Of Life

Who Is Ed Williams
The Cincinnati Star
Produced by Richard L. Owens and Robert B. Morgan
Counter Part Studios - Cincinnati, Ohio
M.O.W. Productions
Album No. 21231
1973

Cincinnati Star
I Believe In Music
With Pen In Hand
Delilah
My Way
Leroy Brown
Sweet Caroline
(You Are) My Way Of Life
Tie A Yellow Ribbon 'round The Old Oak Tree
Autumn Of My Life
Sweet Gypsy Rose
You'll Never Walk Alone

Pure Gold - Mel Gaynor

It's Not Unusual

Delila

Pure Gold
Presenting The Golden Voice Of Mel Gaynor
1978

From the back cover: Mel has, what is termed as a "clean" voice. Meaning, that he does not have to resort to "gimmicks" to make his audience appreciative. All too often vocalists hide their weak finish behind the volume of the orchestra.

The "skip" heard in the sample, It's Not Unusual is rather part of the recording session that wasn't edited out. This, I assume unintended effect, is heard on several tracks.

Love Story
What Now My Love
And I Love You So
It's Not Unusual
Hava Nagilla
Delila
I'm Coming Home
A Foggy Day
Let Me Try Again
My Way

1965 Souvenir Of M/S Victorian

More

Souvenir Of M/S Victoria
1965 Edition

Souvenir Of M/S Victoria

La Lontanaza - The Enigma Orchestra

Souvenir Of M/S Victoria

Victoria… La La La La
Al Di La
Casa Mia
Ma Chi Se Ne Importa
Torna A Surriento
Quando Quando
Malafemmena
La Lontanaza
Roma Nun Fa La Stupida Stasera
Delilah
Ragazzina
Arrivederci To The M/S Victoria

Jeannie Reynolds Remembers

Papa

Jeannie Reynolds Remembers

This is a later pressing(?) of Reynolds album which is normally found in a jacket that features her photo on the cover.

Papa
Sunrise Sunset
Candles
Mama
Little Boy Of Mine
Israel Is Her Name

Nighttime - Dolly Holiday

The Ever-Lovin' Memphis Sound

Nighttime
Dolly Holiday
Holiday Inn Records
HIA-9521

From the back cover: As Dolly Holiday on Holiday Inns Nighttime broadcasts, she is heard more hours by more millions than any person in radio – from midnight to 5 a.m. nightly on 60 stations especially chosen to reach audiences across the land and beyond all our borders. Dolly Holiday talks to more people each week than any woman in history has ever reached.

And now, for the first time, here are the songs of Dolly Holiday, introducing to you the singing voice of the Nighttime lady who has introduced so many other fine singers on so many nights.

Dolly Holiday is, of course, a professional name. Her real name is Dotty Abbott, a veteran broadcasting, an innovator and executive. Dotty is a native of Memphis, home city where the Holiday Inns system was born. She went to Ole Miss and Memphis State, was active from her teens in both board casting and the theater, appearing both in Little Theater and in professional productions, musical and dramatic.

Her speaking voice, her singing voice are the results of years of study and professionalism. In 1951, she became Memphis' first girl disk jockey. Her association with Kemmons Wilson, board chairman of Holiday Inns, goes back to 1955. Wilson and Sam Phillips, who founded Sun Records and was first to record people like Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash, founded the nation's first all-girl radian station. WHER, and they asked her to be its manager. Strangely, in the era when Phillips was launching what became the rock 'n' roll era, they decided this station would provide music of a sort which most stations had stopped playing – the kind of music which had been loved in the '30s and '40s. Dotty later worked for stations in St. Louis, Phoenix, Honolulu and Kansas City, returned to WHER in 1960 and was manager at the same time of WLIZ in Palm Beach, commuting between the two.

When Wilson decided to begin a distinctive radio program for Holiday Inns, he turned naturally to Dotty. Both he and Dotty knew the music and mood they wanted, songs that spoke to the hearer, with melodies. As Dotty says: "He told me he wanted music that will make a man fell like telling his wife or girl friend how much he loves her."

From her own studio built for her in Holiday City, Dotty chooses and programs every record she plays. It was a success from the beginning.

Blue Moon
A Bad Case Of You
You're Nobody Till Somebody Love You
Bolt Of Colt
I Will Wait For You
Have A Good Time
That Ever Lovin' Memphis Sound
I've Got A Crush On You
Someway, Somehow
Fascination
Big Oak Tree
Are You Forever