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Category Archives: Popular & Crooners
BOBBY RYDELL – An Era Reborn – (Cameo) – 1962
Bobby was one of the many musical hit making “Bobby” pop singers of the early 1960s …. Vinton, Darin, Rydell, Vee. The Bobby singers are largely disrespected and undervalued. Darin was the best by far but all the Bobby … Continue reading
THE DIAMONDS – Songs from the Old West – (Mercury) – 1960
what Frank is listening to #215 – THE DIAMONDS – Songs from the Old West – (Mercury) – 1960 The Diamonds are a 1950s era, clean, white, vocal group from Canada. Yes I know that doesn't sound good does it … … Continue reading
HELEN MERRILL – Rodgers & Hammerstein Album – (DRG) – 1982
what Frank is listening to #196 – HELEN MERRILL – Rodgers & Hammerstein Album – (DRG) – 1982 The reason I like "commenting" on albums by acts I have already commented on is that I don't have to invest … Continue reading
ROD McKUEN – New Ballads – (Warner Brothers) – 1970
Rod McKuen is an acquired taste. His detractors would say he is pretentiously poetic, maudlinly romantic, ponderously repetitious, slightly narcisstic, boringly middle aged, full of middlebrow banality and with a voice somewhere just below Bob Dylan on the dulcet tone … Continue reading
TONY BENNETT – I Left My Heart in San Francisco – (CBS) – 1962
This is probably the first Tony Bennett album I heard back in the 1980s … and I'm not sure where that LP is now. Which annoys me as I don't like losing things. I have a vague recollection that I chucked it … Continue reading
DEAN MARTIN – The Door is Still Open to my Heart – (Reprise) – 1964
what Frank is listening to #73 – DEAN MARTIN – The Door is Still Open to my Heart – (Reprise) – 1964 aaah, the only Dean Martin album I don't have … I now have all fifty or so. Can … Continue reading
HELEN MERRILL – Autumn Love – (Catalyst) – 1967
what Frank is listening to #48 – HELEN MERRILL – Autumn Love – (Catalyst) – 1967 I know of Helen Merrill and actually collect her records … why I got hooked on her will become apparent. Over the course of buying … Continue reading
CHRIS MONTEZ – Time after Time – (A&M) – 1966
what Frank is listening to #45- CHRIS MONTEZ – Time after Time – (A&M) – 1966 Boy voiced Chris Montez had been a rocker before hooking up with Herb Alpert and hitting the big time with some MOR Latin … Continue reading
