[78-L] Mitch Miller Horrifies
David Lennick
dlennick at sympatico.ca
Sun Mar 29 10:48:03 PDT 2009
There's an earlier Stereo Fidelity/Somerset LP, 101 Strings Play The Blues
(S5800). The Alshire may date from the 60s..wish that discography hadn't
vanished on us.
There's also "Back Beat Symphony" which I have around here somewhere.
dl
Michael Biel wrote:
> Is the Alshire a reissue of an issue on Stereo Fidelity?
>
> Mike Biel mbiel at mbiel.com
>
>
> Malcolm Rockwell wrote:
>> David Lennick wrote:
>>
>>> Steven C. Barr wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> The (late) sixties were a very odd time! This was the same
>>>> period when reviewers of "classic" recordings suddenly
>>>> started issuing reviews of "rock" recordings like "Sgt.
>>>> Pepper's...!!"
>>>>
>>>> I might also note an LP album I THINK I still own...
>>>> enti-tittled "The Norman Luboff Choir Sings the Blues"...?!
>>>>
>>>> Are there any REALLY unusual 101 Strings issues?!
>>>>
>>>> ...stevenc
>>>>
>>>>
>>> There are two 101 Strings Blues albums, believe it or don't. One of them even
>>> has two tracks that came out on 78 (oh, come on, what's he been smoking?).
>>>
>>> dl
>>>
>>>
>> *******
>>
>> "101 Strings - rhe Soul of Blues"
>> Alshire S-5048 (cover) Alshire ST-5048 (record label)
>> 101-ST-5048 [-A & -B}(runouts)
>>
>> Mfg. by Budget Sound, Burbank, CA
>> "The World's First Stereo Scored Orchestra"
>> recorded under direction of D. L. Miller
>>
>> A side:
>> Birth Of The Blues (DeSilva - Brown - Henderson)
>> St. Louis Blues (Handy)
>> Mood Indigo (Ellington - Mills - Bigard)
>> Slow, And With Soul (Lowden)
>>
>> B side:
>> Goodbye (Jenkins)
>> Symphony For Blues (Kuhn)
>> Definitely Blue (Kuhn)
>> Blues Pizzicato (Provenzano)
>> The "In" Crowd (Page)
>>
>> And there were 51 other 101 Strings albums on the same label!
>> Need all the names? Hmm?
>> Play it?? Hahahahahahahahahahaha!!!
>> Mal
>>
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