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Very nice song there by Miss Lewis. I think it needs a fireplace, low lighting, some beverages of choice and let the evening take it from there.

I thought I'd share something a little bit upbeat, but still smoldering a bit. I think some of today's pop girls could take a few lessons from her.

 
Ironrite, I LOVE Eartha Kitt!!! I have some 10 inch LPs, a 12 inch LP, and two CDs of her early stuff. Love that video!
 
Miss Kitt to you!

I had a hunch you might like her music. One of my favorite songs by her is called Lovin' Spree. Of course her disco album is a lot of fun too.

I had the chance to see her in person in the late 1980s and show was fantastic. She had this unbelievable connection with the audience. And even with age, she is still one sexy kitten, but very classy at the same time.

I have a 10" Japanese Victor label of her doing Sho-Jo-Ji (The Hungry Raccoon), it's a real hoot! Loved to play it on my Capehart before I sold the phonograph.
 
Get another Capehart. I only see the really late models of them. I found Japanese pressings of Julie London years ago, and didn't get them. By the way, Ironrite, or whomever, I have a comedy 45 of "The Chinese Cha-Cha" by Lester Laundree backed by "Does Your Mother Come From Ireland Cha-Cha". "Chinese cha-cha more better than rock and roll.......BONGGGGG---hahahaahhaha!!! Anyhoo, it's the same guy on both sides, it's a cute late '50s novelty record. It's not Stan Freeberg.
 
My Capehart was a post war 400 model, in the Chippendale cabinet with the lightweight tone arm and modified with the three speed motor. I could load up my 33's and have them automatically change and flip over. It would play 78s as well. 45s couldn't be automatically changed, but still played on the machine.

AND another hoot of a song is "Japanese Rhumba" by the Meadows Sisters. The flip side is, "He dropped me, like a hot potato." You may know the sisters by their first names, Jane and Audrey. I had the chance a couple of years ago to get Steve Allen's autograph and then requested Miss Meadows sign as well. I complimented her on her recording. She was very, very gracious and looked wonderful. Her reply, laughingly was "God, does any still remember that one!"
 
That Capehart sounds like a dream. I love Steve and Jayne, also. It would be great to have access to Steve Allen videos in a collection. I have a record of him posing with a TOL '60 Plymouth Fury 4dr hardtop, it has him playing his piano arrangements. Just read an autographed copy of Audrey Meadows memories of Jackie Gleason and their stint in the Honeymooners. Jackie wasn't the hard nose people may have had the impression he was.
 
67 melody lane

That's one of the better Ken Griffin Lp's.
Sweet of you to think of me, 63GE.

While I do dig all organ records, it's really WURLITZER'S that get me going the most though. If you ever see anything by George Wright - it's a gauranteed winner. Jesse Crawford records are good too but they must be the Decca recordings, or the earlier Victor orthophonic 78's. Any low budget Jesse Crawford you run into is an imitation, and a poor one.

I picked up an ANN LEAF plays the Byrd Theater Wurlitzer in Richmond in Westminster Hi-fi Stereophonic Sonotape and I expect it to arrive this week. This is a 1956 STEREO recording - 2 years before stereo Lp's were available. I have the Mono Lp and am not sure a stereo Lp was ever released.

Oh ya, I also picked up 23 more rather obscure electric and pipe organ Lp's at the salvation army recently - half price! All have water damaged jackets but vinyl that plays like new after a nice cleaning.

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Bundtboy, is that Ann Leaf tape literaly 51 years old, or is it a later issue of the 1956 recording? I imagine carefully tended acetate or mylar of that vintage is usable. I have a 1956 soundtrack of "High Society" in stereo, but it is a 1980s cassette reissue from Capitol. I don't think they ever did release a stereo LP of it. My Salvation Army recordings, for the best part lately, seem to have come from the same source.
 
high society in stereo

Oh yes, High Society hit the Stereo Lp in '58. Here's an original one on ebay now.

Also, yes the original sonotape is 51 years old. I also have a HI-FI Stereotape of The Genius of George Wright from 1956 and it sounds magnificent still. In fact, I have a few more original 1950's stereo tapes, and they all play amazingly well - better than some of the ones I have from the '60's.

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It's nice that these tapes survive for so long, and they end up with people that can appreciate them. There is a local man here that collects that kind of stuff, and I had been tempted to look to him for a Magnavox reel to reel system, but he just buys and nothing else. I don't know why I didn't think they'd have released High Society in stereo, right after stereo LPs hit the market.
 
Lounge music=bongos!

Noticed a lot of music being discussed here has more than a few bongo players floatin' around--not to mention congas, maracas, etc...

too bad I wasn't a musician in the 50s...hmmm...that might be somethin' to experiment with...I notice at Borders there's a large selection of reissued 50s "lounge" albums...better start workin' on those cha-chas...I got the congas and the bongos ready...

like wow, man...
 

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