Mark Murphy’s Hip Parade (1959). Capitol Records. Arranged and conducted by Bill Holman. From the liner notes by Peggy Lee: “He phrases at times like a horn; and a horn with a modern sound. As the expression goes, you might say, ‘He blows.'”

Educational record series from the fifties with great black and white cover shots of kids with their old-time box Victrolas.   Soon one of these kids would find an Elvis 78 somewhere and end up on the streets of San Francisco stoned and broke ten years later.   Another would be drafted and lost in Viet Nam…

I’m assuming that these guys are in a band that has a record in the juke box and not just four happy Germans agreeing on what song to play next.   But I’m not sure.

This is a rare record because it has two “front” covers. Two very different approaches to “classical music for people who don’t know anything about classical music.”