St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-07-09
RATING THE
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BY J. HENRY RANDALL

in the hot weather than to get
away to some nice, uncrowded
spot in the shade, with a cool
beverage, a joy box and trunk
load Of "coor' platters-and boy,
that's 1t.
The current releases are full Of
that cool" music which aids
materially in keeping one in the
cool frame of mind, even though
1t be 90 in the shade.
Album wise, we've had a chance
to listen to the complete musical
score from by The Beautiful
Sea-" by the original cast Of the
Broadway musical Shirley Booth.
Wilbur Evans and a host Of others
in the cast run through their num-
bers Just as on the stage, and the
listening is great. Many Of the
tunes have been recorded by some
Of the top popular singers and
bands in the businessmen as
Nat King Cole and Stan Kenton
on Alone Too Long. Les Baxter,
The Sea Song and others. This Is
your chance to hear the original,
Mae Barnes twosome, for your in
70. are Happy Habit and Hang Up.
Others In the show are I'd Ra-
ther Wake Up BY Myself, Hooray
For George The Third, More Love
Than Your Love, Lottie Gibson
Speciality, Throw the Anchor A.
way, Old Enough To Love, Coney
Island Boat, Good Time Charlie,
the Overture and Finale (Capi-
toll.
The Starnoters, a four-man. H.
instrument group, come up with
an appealing album offering in
their "Seranata, the Music OF Le-
roy Anderson" The group, excep-
tonally versatile, offers be-
guiling arrangements of Ander-
sons classic compositions, which
include Serenata, Belle Of the Ball,
The Phantom Regiment, Promen-
AIDE and Saraband. There's a lot
of musical entertainment In this
one (MGM).
Song-stylist, and a rather uni
que one, is Frances Faye, as is evil
denced by her album, mo Reser-
vations with Frances Faye. IT'LL
izing the works of the cream of
the modern popular composers,
Faye gives them her own special
touch, even ad-libbing in a fascin-
ating way. Listen to her on Drunk
With Love, Summertime, Mad A
bout the Bay, Miss Otis Regrets,
The Man I Love, You're Heavenly
cher own composition,) Can't
Give You Anything But Love and
A Hundred Years From Today
Capitol.
A Manhattan Serenade" al
bum, creating a musical portrait
of New York City and environs
Is the work of Joe Lipman and
crew. In this set are Street Scene,
Park Avenue Fantasy, Central
Park Romance, Manhattan Sere-
made, thouse Serenade,
Autumn In New York, Manhat-
tan And Harlem Nocturne (MG-
M.
In the midget albums, the As
rpm extended play discs, are a
quintet of fascinators. ones
Dance Craze" featuring the
music Of four popular dances with
a description of how three Of them
are done on the back of the JAG
ket. The dances. and the orks
playing the tunes are Bunny Hop
and Hockey Pokey, Ran Anthony
ork; The Creep, Stan Kenton ork.;
and Charleston, by Pee Wee Hunt.
The step descriptions Of the
Charleston" are omitted, but a
note suggests that either you dig
back into your memory for them.
or consult your parents for dem
onstration Capitol.
A torrid paced is Let's Work by
the Big Jay McNeely crew, an orr
ginal composition with the ensem-
BILE on the brief vocal. Flip Is
tricky bongo'd item, Hard Tack
also an original (FederaD.
A swingy organ version Of
Sweet Lorraine Is Bill Doggett's
latest contribution, with sax and
drums filing in the spots. Mate Is
Tailor Made with sax and cymbals
dominating (King).
Sometimes Roy Eldrdge's horn
technique sounds like that Of
Louis Armstrong. and this Is a
fact on Roy's newest, When It's
Sleepy Time Down South--that Is
In the early part Of the side. The
remainder is definitely Eldridge.
For the mate, the quintet group
selects a vintage Ellington opus,
Echoes of Harlem (CleD.
Pee Wee Hunt hops about in
good Dixieland fashion on his
latest pair, The vamp and So Blue
Capitol). The Cat Man, featuring
Sam THE Mani Taylor on tenor,
debut on discs with a pair Of
rompers that may mean big
things for them Sides are This
Can't BE Love and Please Be
Kind, the latter with vibes TO set
It off CMGm.
Another This Can't Be Love" Il