“Skylark”   Jackie Paris Brunswick Records.   (1955)

Only Yesterday, If Love Is Good To Me.

(JACKIE PARIS, vocal; NORMAN LEYDEN, leader, arranger; BILLY TAYLOR, piano; TRIGGER ALBERT, bass; CARMEN MASTERN, guitar; BUNNY SHAWKER, drums; HYMIE SCHERTZER, alto; AL KLINK, tenor; plus 4 strings.)

I Had A talk with A Daisy , Skylark, Idle Gossip.

(JACKIE PARIS, vocal; NEAL HEFTI, leader, arranger; BILLY TAYLOR, piano; SANDY BLOCK, bass; ED GRADY, drums; GEORGE BARNES, guitar; HARRY BRAUER, vibes; plus 10 strings.)

I love this song.   Gene Ammons does a nice instrumental version, but everyone has done it.   Johnny Mercer wrote the words (allegedly for Judy Garland with whom he had an affair) and Hoagy Carmichael wrote the music.   It was published in 1942.

Skylark

Have you anything to say to me

Won’t you tell me where my love can be

Is there a meadow in the mist

Where someone’s waiting to be kissed

Oh skylark

Have you seen a valley green with spring

Where my heart can go a-journeying

Over the shadows and the rain

To a blossom-covered lane

And in your lonely flight

Haven’t you heard the music in the night

Wonderful music

Faint as a will o’ the wisp

Crazy as a loon

Sad as a gypsy serenading the moon

Oh skylark

I don’t know if you can find these things

But my heart is riding on your wings

So if you see them anywhere

Won’t you lead me there

Oh skylark

Won’t you lead me there

(37 votes, average: 3.51 out of 5)

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“A Child’s First Record”   Naturally on the Happy Time label.   Today perhaps it would be “a child’s first download”. Maybe I’m overthinking this, but what’s a song called “Do My Dolly” doing on this?

(30 votes, average: 2.83 out of 5)

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“Electric Music To Blow Your Mind By!!!”   “A Pot Full of Psychedelic Pop by The Love Machine”   On Design Records.   (1968)   An ordinary vintage organ groove sound with freaky electronics on top of it. For lovers of the Free Pop Electronic Concept and Animated Egg, this is a groovy collection of cheesey ’60s psychedelia loaded with over-the-top electronic effects and jazzy go-go freak-outs.

(38 votes, average: 3.61 out of 5)

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Smoky Joe Cowboy Songs   Peter Pan Records for Children

(42 votes, average: 3.55 out of 5)

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Meet Terri Lee!   Hear Terri tales and enjoy Terri tunes!

(38 votes, average: 2.95 out of 5)

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Orquesta Nuevo Mundo   “Los Marcianos”   Musart

(32 votes, average: 3.50 out of 5)

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“Juke Box Hits!”   Ariola Records.   (Swedish?)   The cat’s expression kills me.

(38 votes, average: 3.95 out of 5)

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“Buffalo Bill” by Zwarte Schaduw on Fiesta Records.   I don’t know how this one was printed, but it appears almost hand colored.   You can almost feel the ink and the color is amazing.

(37 votes, average: 3.24 out of 5)

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Bill Haley and his Comets Decca Records. (1955) Includes “(We’re Gonna) Rock Around the Clock” the song that introduced rock & roll to White America. “Rock Around the Clock” was a modest hit until the song was used as the title track of “The Blackboard Jungle” some 12 months later. His next record was a cover of Joe Turner’s “Shake, Rattle and Roll’ which was a top ten hit and the first rock & roll record to sell a million copies!

(59 votes, average: 3.75 out of 5)

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Here’s a beautiful cover and rare record on Charles Mingus’ Debut Records.   Debut Records Presents Hazel Scott “Relaxed Piano Moods” with Max Roach on Drums and Mingus on Bass.   This was recorded in 1955 and is considered her most enduring jazz recording.   Scott was born in Trinidad, trained at Julliard , played at Carnegie Hall, was married for a time to Adam Clayton Powell, Jr and was the first woman of color to have her own TV show (it lasted only six months before she opposed McCarthy and was accused of being a Communist sympathizer and was blacklisted).   She continued to perform until passing away in New York City in 1981 at 61 years old.

(45 votes, average: 4.07 out of 5)

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