Exotica - Ted Auletta And His Orchestra

Taboo

Exotica
Ted Auletta And His Orchestra
4:35 Channels
Cameo - SC 4008
1962

From the June 30, 1962 issue of Billboard: Attractive and stylish arrangements of a fine collection of tunes could make this album a potent seller with stereo bugs. The arrangements are excellent for stereo and the sound is first-rate too. Strong wax here.

The recording takes on its own personality apart from Martin Denny and Arthur Lyman which the songs are most strongly associated with. The album a nice addition to the exotica collection. And the stereo engineering is very good.

Auletta's orchestra staff includes: Ted Auletta - piano/arranger/conductor, Phil Bodner - flute/alto flute, Frances Corsi - harp, Eddie Costa - vibraphone/marimba, Jack Lesserg - bass, Gary Chester - percussion, Danny Pucillo - percussion and Dennis Regor - bird calls

Side 1
Quite Village
Flamingo
Adventure In Paradise
The Breeze And I
The Sound Of Exotica
Taboo

Side 2
Baia
Voodoo Moon
Makaha
Jungle Drums
Pool Of Love
Return To Paradise

Caribbean Holiday - Lord Russell's Bongo Percussionists

Day-O

Caribbean Holiday
Lord Russell's Bongo Percussionists
Vocals by Ernesto San Miguel
AL-FI

"Bongo Percussionists" is pushing the cover hype a bit. Sure there is bongo percussion... but it is subdued. The vibe is nice but fairly traditional.

Let's Rock And Roll

The Screwdriver #2

Steam Roller Blues

Let's Rock And Roll
Allegro 1704

Allegro almost always means better leave well enough alone in the record bin. But I couldn't resist the nice cover and tempting song titles. Well, heck... this is a pretty wild brass rock roll LP until, curiously, the album shifts gears into the second side featuring songs like Shot Gun Boogie. Obviously Allegro, as usually, filled the LP with a little of this and a little of that. But what they found was decent stuff.

There is no indication on the jacket who the artist(s) are.

Kate Smith Salutes Composers Of The Now Generation

By The Time I Get To Phoenix

Here, There And Everywhere

Kate Smith Salutes Composers Of The Now Generation
RCA LSP-4105
1969

From the back cover: Does Kate Smith know where it's at? You better believe it!

Budget Album Without A Title

Fever

We Can Work It Out

Modern Sound MS 1019

Here's another Modern Sound album that is so budget that MS couldn't afford a title or cover art (so the trashed cover really isn't much of a problem for me). As with the first MS album I found (featuring a cover of The Stones song Satisfaction)... the song covers can be interesting. There is something about these albums that works on some level... if you are into this budget stuff.

Super Hits 1974

Seasons In The Sun

Super Hits 1974
Power Pak SA 258

Power Pak did their best to disguise the fact that the "real" artists weren't actually doing their "hits"on this album. Various artists means whoever they could find that sort of sounded like the actual, real artist.

I hoped this would be the case because, with a little luck, there can be a treasures to be found on the vinyl. Seasons In The Sun gets a little whacky once the chorus joins in.