“Season of Lights” Laura Nyro in Concert.   Columbia Records   (1976)   Cover art by Rokuro Taniuchi.   Originally conceived as a double live album,   the full set is finally now available as a Japanese CD release.   The band included jazz players John Tropea, Richard Davis, and Mike Mainieri that had performed on Nyro’s then-current studio album ‘Smile’.   I saw her at Tanglewood in Massachusettes on June 26, 1976 (Section 4, Row D, Seat 21) on this “comeback” tour and some of the songs from that night’s show are included on this album.

(31 votes, average: 2.87 out of 5)

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LP cover lover Ruben, writes us:   “Hello LP COVER LOVERS!   I love this cover – maybe it is in your collection, maybe not.   Great site you have.   Regards.”

“Porgy and Bess”   Dianne Carroll and The Andre Previn Trio   United Artists Records

I don’t think of Ms. Carroll so much for her jazz vocal chops as much as her beauty and   the TV show she starred in – Julia.   I think she broke the color barrier as a black woman starring in her own series (and she was a single mom on the show), but that didn’t mean much to me.   At 8, she just seemed cool and I was in love with her.     Thanks for reminding me Ruben.

(49 votes, average: 3.94 out of 5)

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Emil Nargi IS Elvis   “It’s Now or Never”   There are so many records by Elvis impersonators you can’t imagine.   Each one stranger than the last.   Emil looks like he could be one of the little dolls or porceline statuettes that my Grandma Loretta kept in a glass case.

(50 votes, average: 2.72 out of 5)

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Sonia y Myriam   Voces de Ensueno   Musart Records label

(35 votes, average: 4.20 out of 5)

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“I Got It… Bad”   The Two Moods of Marie Conti   Albatross Record Company

(42 votes, average: 3.95 out of 5)

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The Gorden Jenkins Voices & Orchestra   “Let*s Duet”   Warner Bros. Records   Courtesy of lp cover lover Joe Harrington.

(37 votes, average: 3.59 out of 5)

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“When Your Lover Has Gone”   Pat O’Day   Golden Crest Records

(76 votes, average: 4.62 out of 5)

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Janis Martin “Just Squeeze Me”   RCA Victor     Thanks to lp cover lover, Joan for sending this in!

(30 votes, average: 3.80 out of 5)

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Helen Merrill   Emarcy Records   (1954) With Clifford Brown and Oscar Pettiford.   Produced and Arranged by (21 year-old) Quincy Jones.   Merrill’s first and greatest.

Don’t Explain / You’d Be Nice To Come Home To / What’s New / Falling In Love With Love

Yesterday’s / Born To Be Blue / ‘S Wonderful

(50 votes, average: 3.98 out of 5)

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Angela Maria “A Rainha Canta”   Copacabana Records

(43 votes, average: 3.77 out of 5)

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