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12 Discs Part 6 – Tijuana Christmas by The Border Brass and Singers

Posted by Bruce on June 18, 2010 in Xmas with No Comments

For part six of the 12 Discs series, we go south of the border.

LP Title: Tijuana Christmas

Performed by the Border Brass and Singers

Label: Hallmark label of Pickwick International, Inc. (GB) Ltd.

Distributed by Summit Records

Catalogue Number: XM 5

No production credits

Side 1

Tijuana Christmas
Joy To The World
Deck The Halls
Angels We Have Heard On High
We Wish You A Merry Christmas
O Come All ye Faithful

Side 2

Jingle Bells
Hark, The Herald Angels Sing
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Jolly Old St. Nicholas
What Child is This?
Christmas Bells

for this volume, the carols are done in the “Herb Alpert/Tijuana Brass” style.

The LP was released by Summit in Australia, under license from Pickwick (U.K.)

12 Discs Part 4 Christmas Country Style by The Malcolm Lockyer Orchestra

Posted by Bruce on June 16, 2010 in Country, Xmas with No Comments

Take Your Partners for for A Christmas hoe-down

LP Title: Christmas Country Style

Performed by The Malcolm Lockyer Orchestra

Label: Summit Flair

Catalogue Number: FLXM 5 (originally released by Chevron Records, Catalogue Number CHVL 107)

Category: Christmas

Side 1

God rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
O Come All Ye Faithful
We Three Kings
While Shepherds Watched
The First Noel
Jingle Bells

Side 2

Silent Night
Hark The Herald Angels Sing
Away In A Manger
The Holly and the Ivy
Greensleeves
The Twelve Days of Christmas

This LP takes 12 christmas favourites and give them a country music twist.

To be honest, I haven’t heard this LP in years. Will I get this LP out in December? I don’t know.

The remaining posts contain carols done in assorted styles, and I’ll be back again tomorrow morning for the fifth installment, so see you then.

Sesame Disco!

Posted by Bruce on March 24, 2010 in Childrens with No Comments

The world’s most famous street goes disco (for the second time. the first LP will appear next month)

LP Title: Sesame Disco!

Category: Childrens

Label: Sesame Street Records

Distributed in Australia by Summit Records

Catalogue No: 9001 (original LP number CTW 79008)

Executive Producer: Joe Raposo

produced by Joe Raposo and Michael DeLugg

Engineered by Michael DeLugg

Mixed and Engineered by Michael DeLugg and Joe Raposo

Conceived by Arthur Shimkin and Joe Raposo

Continuity by Joe Raposo

Musical Direction by Joe Raposo

Arranged and Conducted by Dick Lieb, Leon Pendarvis, Jack Cortner and Joe Raposo

Art Direction: Robert Pierre

Photography: Neil Selkirk

The Muppet Cast:

Jim Henson as Ernie and Kermit the Frog

Frank Oz as Cookie Monster, Grover and Bert

Jerry Nelson as The Count and Herry Monster (Sam the Robot is mentioned, but did not appear on the album)

Carroll Spinney as Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch

THE BAND

Drums: Richard Crooks

Bass: Gorden Johnson

Guitars: Jack Cavari, Jeff Layton

Keyboards: Leon Pendarvis, Bill Hannon and jack Cartner

Congo: Errol Bennett

Percussion: George Devens

Trumpets: Mel Davis, Joe Shepley

Trombone: Alan Raph, Wayne Andre

Reeds: Wally Kane, Phil Bodner

Strings: Julius Brand, Fred Buldrini, Peter Dimitriades, Max Hollander, Carmel Malin, Joe Malin, Anthony Posk, Michael Spivakowsky, Anthony Saphos

Cellos: Johnathan Abramowitz, Jessa Levy

Backing Vocals (the Girls): Maretha Stewart, Ullanda McCullough and Yvonne Lewis

Side 1

What Makes Music – the Entire Cast

Me Lost Me Cookie at the Disco – Cookie Monster and the Girls

The Happiest Street in the World – Big Bird, the Kids and the Girls

Sing – The Girls

Side 2

Disco Frog – Kermit the Frog and the Girls

Doin the Trash – Oscar the Grouch and the Girls

Bein’ Green – Kermit the Frog and the Girls

The Happiest Street in the World – Big Bird, the Kids and the Girls (reprise)

This LP is the 1979 sequel to “Sesame Street Fever”. the only differences from the previous volume are that there is no celebrity guest star, and there are only two disco versions of older hits (Sing and Bein’ Green)

At least one of the songs on this LP turned up on Sesame Street, and that was “Me Lost me Cookie at the Disco!”

if you are having a bit of jerky problems with the video, you can always see the clip on the DVD “Sesame Street – 40 Years of Sunny Days” in stores now.

Goofy and ‘The Mouse Factory’

Posted by Bruce on February 11, 2010 in Childrens with No Comments

Now, a Disney rarity from the vaults:

Title: Goofy and “The Mouse Factory”

A Disneyland “Four Songs” little long play record

Catalogue Number: FS 923

A highlights package from the Disneyland LP “Goofy’s TV Spectacular”

Starring Pinto Colvig as Goofy and Jimmy MacDonald as Chip n’ Dale

Side 1:

Goofy and his Laughs

Chip n’ Dale Medley: Chip ‘n Dale, Polly Wolly Doodle, Daisy Daisy

Side 2:

Mouse Square Dance

Goofy and his Crazy Clarinets

this “Little Long Playing Record” is a repackage of four tracks from the (circa) 1964 Disneyland LP “Goofy’s TV Spectacular” with a slight tie-in to Disney’s (then) new anthology series “The Mouse Factory” (this record was released in 1972, Around the same time “The Mouse Factory” was on TV)

This stars Pinto Colvig (Goofy’s original voice) in one of the few rare recordings he did for the Disneyland label.

I can only assume that the sped up voices for Chip n’ Dale was Jimmy MacDonald. Can someone clarify this for me (click on the ‘Read More’ link at the bottom of the post and leave a message at the bottom of the post. Thanks.)

the Official Adventures of Batman and Robin

Posted by Bruce on January 30, 2010 in Childrens with No Comments

Here’s my first LP cover entry for Summit

LP: The Official Adventures of Batman and Robin

Category: Childrens/Licensed Characters

Record Label: Summit Flair (under license from PolyGram)

Catalogue Number: FL 2017

Originally released on the Leo the Lion label; Catalogue Number CH 1019

The Cast: Jackson Beck (Narrator), Jack Curtis, Ron Liss, George Petrie, Dan Osko, Ian Martin and Barbara Louis

Directed and Produced by Herb Galewitz

Written by Ronald Liss

Sound Effects: Cinema/Sound Ltd.

Director of Engineering: Val Valentin

Sound Effects Engineer: Tom Courtenay-Clack

Side 1

The Legend of Batman and Robin

Side 2

The Penguin’s Plunder

The Joker’s Revenge

This release is (as far as I know) the first licensed record of the caped crusader from around 1966 or 1967. Less than a decade later, Peter Pan would release a number of records under the Power Records label.

One thing that gets me is the front cover art (green faces! What was MGM thinking at this time?)

The LP features Jackson Beck as the narrator (and if memory serves me right, he was also the narrator for Filmation’s “New Adventures of Superman” around this time.)

Incidentally, I have added the label for Summit’s Flair series here.

Summit Records and Music For Pleasure

Posted by Bruce on September 9, 2009 in Labels with No Comments

Over the next couple of weeks, I will be highlighting some of the record labels that will be appearing here, before I start digging into the archive, starting with Summit Records and Music For Pleasure.

This was the original budget record label (you were able to purchase these for as little as 99 cents), starting in Australia in the late 1960′s. In it’s early years, it was a division of book publisher Paul Hamlyn (as noted on the first MFP lp releases)

the label’s specialty included releases from some of the smaller record labels from around the world, and compilation LPs from the majors.

below are the labels for both Summit and MFP (the design was practically the same)

The first label is the original MFP label (which was seen in the mid 1960′s and the second label is from the late 60′s while the third label was from the 1970′s

the Music for Pleasure label

Update: 22/5/2010 I now have access to the rest of my library and will be posting the first release from the (until recently unavailable) collection in the next couple of days. My first new label is Music For Pleasure’s “Two of A Kind” series.

Update: 26/5/2010: Another label rears it’s head, and it’s MFP’s Non Stop Series

Summit Records

Summit also had a Gold series (the perimiter was a darker blue, and it appears here)

(Update: 29/1/2010)

Here is Summit’s Flair series label

Update: 6/4/2010

I recently found an LP which had Summit’s new logo (which appeared on Summit’s final releases) in their Flair series.

Update: 24/5/2010 New label found. The following is Summit’s Concorde Series

Two more labels to be added. The first is a Summit release in Association with Pickwick Records (UK)

and from Summit’s Gold Edge series

the company was more or less taken over by the Rainbow Music Group in the early 1980′s

by 1986, the MFP label was temporarily brought back in a series of CDs by Rainbow Products in a number of compilations.

Update: 31/5/2010: With the Summit Gold label added, I think I have now covered all of Summit’s variations. If I haven’t, let me know by sending a scan via my e-mail offrecord at brucelaing dot com.