The World of Budget Vinyl Records: 2023

12/15/23

Pied Pipers- Tribute to Tommy Dorsey- I'm Getting Sentimental Over You

Tops Records was a giant of the budget record label world in the 1950s. Tops/Mayfield Records set the bar of budget record label releases to an all-time high, blowing the Eli Oberstien and Don Garner record lines out of the water regarding quality and price. Every new budget record label company that joined the market in the late 1950s typically had at least, full-color photo jackets and liner notes. Tops also issued their albums in 45 rpm EP sets, a practice larger record labels were employing to ensure they reached as many potential customers as possible.

A1 I'm Getting Sentimental Over You 2:39

A2 Oh! Look At Me Now 2:40
A3 Once In A While 3:47
A4 On The Sunny Side Of The Street 3:07
A5 I'll Never Smile Again 3:19
A6 Heat Wave 2:13
B1 There Are Such Things 3:29
B2 Street Of Dreams 2:53
B3 Marie 2:22
B4 Taking A Chance On Love 2:55
B5 Let's Get Away From It All 2:28

Recorded By – Dave Pell

Vocals – Allan Davies, Clark Yocum, Lee Gotch, Sue Allen

Recorded in Hollywood.

12/1/23

Charlie Owens & The Sensational Ink Spots- Sensational Ink Spots- Full LP Crown Records – CST 217

This album is by Charlie Owen's Sensational Ink Spots... an "Imposter" Ink Spots group that contained no original members of The Ink Spots.

Baritone Vocals – George Bledsoe Bass Vocals – John Dix Lead Vocals – Charlie Owens Tenor Vocals [2nd Tenor] – Stanley Morgan

A1 Diane

A2 Always

A3 If I Painted Your Picture

A4 To Me

A5 Crazy Heart

B1 Among My Souvenirs

B2 Beyond The Reef

B3 Sorrento

B4 Ida

B5 Walk The Sun

Crown Records was the doing of the infamous (depending on who you talk to) Bihari brothers. These men made a living exploiting musicians for their cheap vinyl record empire, which started as a semi-reputable R&B label through Modern Records. However, even then, their practices of listing themselves as co-writers of the songs they submitted when they copyrighted their artists' music before releasing their records foreshadowed their sketchy behavior to make a quick buck. By keeping as much of the record sales revenue to themselves, they made a living at the expense of the artists their records featured.

Between 1957 and 1972, Crown Records turned out around 740 unique album releases. The vast majority of these are already online by those who claim to have ownership rights of the material. The label issued records of every popular music genre by obscure no-names and older material of more prominent name artists. The odds of finding a Crown Record at your nearest thrift store are decent; they made them deep and sold them cheaply, as the old cliché goes.

11/15/23

Phil Martin Orchestra- For Swingin' Dancers- Crown Records (CLP 5027)

For Swingin' Dancers by Phil Martin Orchestra Crown Records (CLP 5027)

Tracklist:

1. Swingin' Dancers
2. Sweet Georgia Brown
3. Hawaiian War Chant
4. Tiger Rag
5. Bouncin'
6. True Blue Lou

7. One O'Clock Jump
8. King Porter Stomp
9. Temptation
10. Goodbye
11. Stompin' At The Savoy

Crown Records was the doing of the infamous (depending on who you talk to) Bihari brothers. These men made a living exploiting musicians for their cheap vinyl record empire- which started out as a semi-reputable R&B label through Modern Records. However, even then, their practices of listing themselves as song co-writers when they copyrighted their artist's music before releasing their records foreshadowed their sketchy behavior to make a quick buck. By keeping as much of the record sales revenue to themselves, they made a living at the expense of the artists their records featured. Between 1957-1972 Crown records turned out around 740 unique album releases. The vast majority of which is already online by those that claim to have ownership rights of the material. The label issued records of every popular music genre by obscure no-names and older material of more prominent name artists. The odds of one finding a Crown Record at your nearest thrift store is pretty decent; they made them deep and sold them cheap, after all.

11/1/23

Crown Records- String Of Pearls - Music Made Famous By Glenn Miller- Full LP

Listen HereCrown Records was the doing of the infamous (depending on who you talk to) Bihari brothers. These men made a living exploiting musicians for their cheap vinyl record empire- which started out as a semi-reputable R&B label through Modern Records. However, even then, their practices of listing themselves as song co-writers when they copyrighted their artist's music before releasing their records foreshadowed their sketchy behavior to make a quick buck. By keeping as much of the record sales revenue to themselves, they made a living at the expense of the artists their records featured. Between 1957-1972 Crown records turned out around 740 unique album releases. The vast majority of which is already online by those that claim to have ownership rights of the material. The label issued records of every popular music genre by obscure no-names and older material of more prominent name artists. The odds of one finding a Crown Record at your nearest thrift store are decent; they made them deep and sold them cheap, after all.

10/15/23

Promenade Records A55-14 2A/B 45 RPM EP

Promenade Records was a budget record label run by the infamous Synthetic Plastics Co. of Newark, New Jersey, a major manufacturer of a series of budget record labels that had a considerably large hold of the budget record marketplace up through the early 1970s. In 1972 copyright laws changed, allowing songwriters to prohibit budget record labels from using their music. Being banned from making knock-offs of hit material was extremely problematic for many budget record companies- many simply had to close their doors forever. The generic music market had become oversaturated with two decades worth of budget record labels selling classical, easy listening, background, pipe organ, barbershop, show tunes, Hawaiian, "tribute" albums, folk, religious, polka, Latin, jazz, and sentimental/generic music aimed at an older audience alive during the 1950s and 1960s. However, before 1972, Synthetic Plastics Co. issued their products across several lines of budget record labels such as Diplomat, Spin-O-Rama, Promenade, Peter Pan, and so forth. This company's most generic record releases did not even have a record label name, just a passing notation of their manufacturer. Many SPC record releases were generic in every sense of the word.

10/1/23

Tops Records 78 RPM EPs R292/294

Tops Records was a giant of the budget record label world in the 1950s. Tops/Mayfield Records set the bar of budget record label releases to an all-time high, blowing the Eli Oberstien and Don Garner record lines out of the water in terms of quality and price. Every new budget record label company that joined the market in the late 1950s typically had at least full-color photo jackets and liner notes. Tops also issued their albums in 45 rpm EP sets; a practice of larger record labels was employed to ensure they were reaching as many potential customers as possible.

Enjoy the eight fake hit covers!

9/1/23

Utah Symphony, Maurice Abravenal conducting.- 1976 Sampler- Full 33 1/3 RPM Flexi Eva-Tone Record

Flexi records are about as budget as records come, regardless of who commissioned them- they were often giveaways, freebies, or novelty items sold at a relatively low cost to the consumer.

8/31/23

Seeburg 1000- Basic BA-120A/B Place In Use 7-1-1969

Seeburg put out their famous Seeburg 1000 background music system, which started in 1959 and lasted until 1986. This system utilized unique background recordings pressed onto nine-inch, 16 2/3 rpm vinyl records, each with a two-inch center spindle hole. These were designed to be played on a special record player that could hold twenty-five records and play both sides before moving on to the next record in the stack, rotating through them in a cycle. The idea was that you would have heard at least 1000 tunes by the whole stack was completed. Given that the average side is about forty minutes long, eighty minutes per record, twenty-five was more than enough to go the entire day and some without repeat. The records in each machine were initially rotated in sets of seven records quarterly, with the frequency of replacement sets decreasing to bi-annual replacement sets. The number of active records per Seeburg 1000 unit was bumped to twenty-eight in the late 1960s. Seeburg background records were issued on subscription, and all of them were supposed to be returned to Seeburg to be destroyed after they were rotated out. However, many of them still made it to the present, for they are akin to all those V-Discs from WW2, which were not supposed to survive past the war but are still around as a hot collector's item. One can expect to pay around ten to twenty dollars per disk to own one of these records. A series of "libraries" offered the subscriber various "flavors" of music. The Mood series was made for restaurants and upscale establishments; it was as lush and posh as possible. The Basic series was more upbeat but mostly made for shopping malls and supermarkets. The Industrial series was created for factories and was typically upbeat and somewhat varied.

8/15/23

Lew Raymond Orchestra- Tops Records 45-R411-49- Full 45 RPM EP

Tops Records was a giant in the budget record label world in the 1950s. Tops/Mayfield Records set the bar of budget record label releases to an all-time high, blowing the Eli Oberstien and Don Garner record lines out of the water regarding quality and price. Every new budget record label company that joined the market in the late 1950s typically had at least, full-color photo jackets and liner notes. Tops also issued their albums in 45 rpm EP sets, a practice larger record labels were employing to ensure they reached as many potential customers as possible.

8/1/23

Al Williams Orchestra- Tops Records 45-R267

Tops Records was a giant in the budget record label world in the 1950s. Tops/Mayfield Records set the bar of budget record label releases to an all-time high, blowing the Eli Oberstien and Don Garner record lines out of the water in terms of quality and price. Every new budget record label company that joined the market in the late 1950s typically had at least full-color photo jackets and liner notes. Tops also issued their albums in 45 rpm EP sets, a practice larger record labels were employing to ensure they reached for as many potential customers as possible.

7/31/23

Seeburg 1000 Basic Background Matching Christmas CH-21 1967 - A Christmas In July Special

Seeburg 1000's various background music libraries aimed to fill all background music needs- especially during the Christmas shopping season during the 1960s and 1970s. Christmas music was played differently than it is today, not constantly, but between every so many non-seasonal tunes... just enough to remind you of the season, but not enough to overly saturate and get everyone fed up with Christmas music by the time the seasonal music was replaced the 26th of December. Christmas had a firm and fast time frame in the public's minds, and few dared to challenge that norm. Thus, while there are Christmas tracks, most of these albums are tracks one could expect to hear in the non-seasonal background music library record sets.

The set I have contains nine of an eleven-record set. Come to find out, I have owned and digitized what are likely the other records of the set, given that record 17 of the set mentioned above is an exact duplicate of one of the releases I digitized and uploaded last year. The box of this set notes they were placed into service on 11-27-1967; this was four days after Thanksgiving that year- Perhaps the replacement set arrived late that year? They didn't rotate the set out until early January according to the rotate-out date noted on the box in pencil, just like the placed-into-service date.

7/15/23

William Steinberg Conducts The Publisher Services Symphony Orchestra- Tristan and Isolde, Vol. 1- Full

William Steinberg Conducts The Publisher Services Symphony Orchestra- Tristan and Isolde, Vol. 1- Full

After recording a set of 11 album sets of instrumental classical music for Music Appreciation Products, Inc. for their initial "World's Greatest Music" series between 1938-1940, RCA Victor recording engineers also facilitated the initial "World's Famous Operas" series recorded in 1940 (12 album sets in total). The artists were not explicitly credited on the original releases. However, recording session records have been found that identify who they were. The Stanford University catalog has information about this album compiled from scholarly works and their physical copy. See https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/13751622. Image copies of the accompanying appreciation booklet, containing background information about the composer, the work, and German to English translations of the lyrics featured on these selections, can be found here: https://www.discogs.com/release/12044993-Richard-Wagner-Samuel-Chotzinoff-A-Condensed-Version-of-Tristan-and-Isolde-

This is the first of a two-volume album set recorded for Music Appreciation Products Inc. in 1940 by the RCA-Victor recording staff at the Philadelphia Music Hall. Volume two was acquired earlier, and a video can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1n5DotZayk.

Artists:

Bampton, Rose. Performer (Soprano)
Summers, Lydia. Performer [Mezzo-Soprano)
Carron, Arthur. Performer (Tenor)
Unknown Baritone

Steinberg, William, 1899-1978. Conductor of the Publisher Services Symphony Orchestra

7/1/23

Freddy Laine Orchestra- Tops 45-R269-49 Full 45 RPM Tops Sound-A-Like Covers Record

Tops Records was a giant in the budget record label world in the 1950s. Tops/Mayfield Records set the bar of budget record label releases to an all-time high, blowing the Eli Oberstien and Don Garner record lines out of the water in terms of quality and price. Every new budget record label company that joined the market in the late 1950s typically had, at least, full-color photo jackets and liner notes. Tops also issued their albums in 45 rpm EP sets, a practice larger record labels were employing at the time to make sure they were reaching for as many potential customers as possible.

Tops originally entered the market as a seller of used jukebox records, quickly issuing their own records containing covers of the day's top-charting hits. After success with cover records, they moved on to releasing complete albums of various genres to fill the music interests of the mass market.

6/15/23

Publishers Service Symphony Orchestra- Madame Butterfly (Puccini)- 78 RPM Full Album Set

After recording a set of 11 album sets of instrumental symphonic classical music for Music Appreciation Products, Inc. for their initial "World's Greatest Music" series between 1938-1940, RCA Victor recording engineers also facilitated the initial "World's Famous Operas" series recorded in 1940 (12 album sets in total). The artists were not explicitly credited on the original releases; however, recording session records have been found that identify who they were. Further information about the vocalists, conductor, and orchestra employed in these recording sessions made in 1940 can be found here: https://78records.wordpress.com/2017/10/11/new-%e2%80%a2-the-worlds-greatest-operas-discography-rca-victor-series-by-john-bolig.

The original album set came with an appreciation booklet giving background information on the composer, the work itself, and a lyrics sheet (with English translations). These can be viewed here: https://www.discogs.com/release/9521602-Samuel-Chotzinoff-Madama-Butterfly-An-Appreciation-By-Samuel-Chotzinoff/image/SW1hZ2U6MjYxMzYwNDc=.

6/1/23

Mildred Bailey- Sings- Full Royale Records 45 RPM EP Record

From the Majestic Records catalog, Eli Oberstein presents, Mildred Bailey!

Royale Records was king of the junk budget record labels of the 1950s. Eli Oberstien flooded the market with a seemingly endless stream of records in virtually all standard speeds and sizes for records of the period, except for 16 2/3 rpm, sadly. An unfortunately large percentage of eBay sellers think these are worth a lot of money; they are not, at least not more than a couple of dollars anyways.

5/15/23

Tony Mottola Four- Tony Mottola Four Play- Full 45 RPM Royale Records EP

From the Majestic Records catalog, Eli Oberstein presents, the Tony Mottola Four!

Royale Records was king of the junk budget record labels of the 1950s. Eli Oberstien flooded the market with a seemingly endless stream of records in virtually all standard speeds and sizes for records of the period, except for 16 2/3 rpm, sadly. Unfortunately, a large percentage of eBay sellers think these are worth a lot of money; they are not, at least not more than a couple of dollars anyways.

5/12/23

Music Appreciation Products Reissued Their 78 RPM Opera Sets As LPs?

This is one of those brought to you by eBay discoveries that one may have never learned about had one not had alerts sets for the keywords "World's Greatest Music" and "World's Greatest Operas" activated.

Basically, this is the contents of a 1940/1 record set, "appreciation" booklet text (minus the translations of the vocals included in the set) just repackaged for the LP album format. I am unsure when these came out exactly, but likely in the early 1950s. Based on the aesthetic feel of the packaging and the emphasis on the "Micro" and 33 1/3 rpm aspect of this release, the LP format must have been fairly new when this release came out for them to worry someone with a 78 rpm only record player would attempt to play this album.

Wouldn't it be great if someone who happened to have the original 78 rpm set of this album is a reissue set to put it online? I happen to have it in my collection... is there anyone who wants to hear it? I plan to do so someday, but I cannot say for sure exactly when (other than I have posts scheduled through early-2024).

5/1/23

Russell Bennett Orchestra & Singers- Songs of Oklahoma - Royale Records - 45 RPM EP Record Red Vinyl

Robert Russell Bennett was an arranger that worked with Richard Rogers, Jerome Kerns, and George Gershwin. Russell was well known for his relationship with these composers, as he often worked with them when making his arrangements. His greatest arranging work was for "Victory At Sea," where he took the twelve themes contributed by Richard Rogers and arranged eleven and a half hours of music for the show. Bennett described his own philosophy: "The perfect arrangement is one that manages to be most 'becoming' to the melody at all points." Through this, he kept his commercial arrangements simple and straightforward, with a careful ear for balance and color. Most of these recordings were made under the direction of Russell Bennett. However, they were made in the mid-1940s on the Sonora Records label before RCA Victor Records offered a much more enticing contract, which Sonora could not beat.

Royale Records was king of the junk budget record labels of the 1950s. Eli Oberstien flooded the market with a seemingly endless stream of records in virtually all standard speeds and sizes for records of the period, except for 16 2/3 rpm, sadly. An unfortunately large percentage of eBay sellers think these are worth a lot of money; they are not, at least not more than a couple of dollars anyways.

4/15/23

Allegro-Royale Records 10 Famous Pianists Sampler

A delightful set of first-rate classical recordings from the later 1940s and early 1950s featuring then-famous pianists.

Tracklist
A1 Egon Petri– Brahms: Intermezzo No. 1
A2 Robert Riefling– Greig: Piano Concerto In A Minor - Third Mvt. - Allegro Marcato
A3 Leonid Hambro– Mozart: Concerto For Piano And Orch. No. 17 In G Major, K453: Last Mvt.
A4 Jan Smeterlin– Chopin: Mazurka. Op. 50, No. 1 In G Major
A5 Miklos Schwalb– Beethoven: Moonlight Sonata In C Sharp Minor, Op. 27, No. 2 (Second Mvt.)

B1 Soulina Stravinsky– Haydn: Sonata No. 13 In E Major (Finale)
B2 Rosalyn Tureck– Bach: Four Duets: Fourth
B3 Vera Appleton And Michael Field – Strauss: The Blue Danube - Duo Piano Transcription
B4 Arthur Sandford– Saint Saens: Concerto For Piano and Orch. No. 2 In G Minor, Op. 22 (Presto - Finale)
B5 Emilio Osta– Turina: Orgia

4/1/23

Betsey Gay & Johnny Holiday with Dave Bohme Orchestra- Tops Records R1036-49AB- Stories With Vocal & Orch.

Tops Records was a giant in the budget record label world in the 1950s. Tops originally entered the market as a seller of used jukebox records, moving quickly to issuing their own records containing covers of the day's top-charting hits. After success with cover records, they moved on to releasing full albums of various genres to fill the music interests of the mass market. But lesser know is the Tops children's record lines, Tops For Tots, and similar products, including some children's records on their main Tops Record line series.

3/31/23

Seeburg 1000- Industrial IN-113A 10-1-1966

You are in an American factory during the Cold War, and with the raging Vietnam War going on, made in America was the rule, not the exception, for most goods sold in the US. Your supervisors have decided that you, and your co-workers, require music to improve productivity. This is what you are about to hear each Tuesday and Friday afternoon sometime after your lunch break, and you have returned to the factory floor to put in your final stretch of hours before being able to clock out and return to your home in the suburbs some miles away. The first song sounds like it was written by one of the newer rock groups that the teenagers at home listen to in their rooms from their AM radio sets and assorted collection of 45s. The rest of the tunes on each side of the record playing in the background are primarily familiar old standards- a pleasant reminder of days gone by.

3/15/23

Broadway Singers & Orchestra- The Song Successes: My Fair Lady & Pal Joey- Rondo-lette Records A6

Rondo-lette Records was the great last flowering of Eli Oberstein's many budget record lines. Some "new" (read- very recycled material) lines were created after this (Acorn, Evon, and Hudson Records, to name a few), but they were very low-grade, even by budget record label standards. It was 1959, and budget stereo records were becoming a thing, so even Eli Oberstein had to enter the market. Eli Oberstein had many stereo recordings, real and fake reprocessed mono, issued covering everything from jazz, show tunes, classical, polka, you know, the usual budget stuff the older crowd that actually had the money to buy a stereo capable record player in 1959 would be inclined to pick off the shelves and take home with them.

This album contains the A-sides of the Halo/Concertone My Fair Lady and Pal Joey LP albums—all the good stuff with none of the filler.

My Fair Lady:

A1 I Could Have Danced All Night
A2 Get Me To The Church On Time
A3 With A Little Bit Of Luck
A4 On The Street Where You Live
A5 Wouldn't It Be Loverly
A6 Show Me
A7 Just You Wait
A8 Without You
A9 I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face

Pal Joey:

B1 Overture
B2 Funny Valentine
B3 Bewitched, Bothered, And Bewildered
B4 There's A Small Hotel
B5 I Could Write A Book
B6 I Didn't Know What Time It Was

Rondo-lette Records also was home to cleverly marketed packages of the same 1940s material that Eli Oberstein had sold to the public multiple times via his stable of different record label lines that recycled and repackaged material with varying sizes of record, speeds, jacket art, and sometimes other generic artist credits.

But, Rondo-lette Records was also unique in the Eli Oberstein tradition since it featured unique back slicks with liner notes- something that had yet to be seen since the earliest Royale Record album line pressings. Nevertheless, the party ended quickly, as Eli Oberstein died in 1960. His son subsequently sold his father's massive record catalog to Precision Radiation Instruments, who bought out the Tops Records founders' catalog around the same time. Even then, within a short span of years, Precision Radiation Instruments ended up selling its holdings to Pickwick. Pickwick has only reissued a small portion of the material, mainly the super-famous big names that people of the 1960s and 1970s still recognized, like Leadbelly and Percy Faith. Pickwick had its own generic music library, so it is little wonder that many Eli Oberstien generic recordings have not seen the light of day commercially since the 1950s.

3/1/23

Gilmar Records CH-93 Compact LP- Join The Gilmar Record Club!

In 1956, Martian Gilbert formed Gilmar Records. Martian then started his label's success with an extensive radio, television, and newspaper ad campaign, selling a three-record set of EP 45s containing 18 hit songs. The campaign was a success, and nearly 10,000 orders were placed. At first, the 45/78 rpm records were pressed with three songs per side. Also, they issued compact LPs with four hits per side. The 45 rpm generic sleeves suggest they made 12-inch LPs, too- but I have never seen them (although I suspect they may have been issued on the Value Records label). Soon, the 78 rpm releases were dropped, and the number of songs increased from three songs per side to eight songs per 45 rpm EP and ten songs per 33 1/3 rpm compact LP. The company sponsored a TV program in the '60s named "The Record Hop." Gilmar Records folded sometime before the British Invasion hit US pop charts during the mid-1960s, but not until after 1961.

A1 The Twist
A2 Lollipop
A3 Running Bear
A4 Peggy Sue
B1 Yakety Yak
B2 Honeycomb
B3 Volare
B4 Splish Splash

2/15/23

The Three Suns Play - Royale Records 45 RPM EP 206

Here are four selections from The Three Suns' Majestic Records recording sessions before their signing onto RCA Records.

Royale Records was king of the junk budget record labels of the 1950s. Eli Oberstein flooded the market with a seemingly endless stream of records in virtually all standard speeds and sizes for records of the period, except for 16 2/3 rpm, sadly. I find most eBay sellers think these are worth money; they are not, at least not more than a couple of dollars.

Eli Oberstein benefited greatly from acquiring several defunct record labels that happened to have sides recorded by big names. Majestic records was a star-studded record label that initially had everything going for it until it fell apart and closed shop in 1947. Majestic Records had artists like Percy Faith, The Three Suns, Louis Prima, Georgia Gibbs, and many more artists, many of which were still making new content in the 1950s and had perhaps grown in popularity since their Majestic Record days.

Tracklist:

A1 Jalousie
A2 Romantic Mood
B1 By The Waters Of The Minnetonka
B2 Up Jumped Love

2/13/23

So... I Caved And Joined TikTok...

I am now on TikTok... in case any of you are into that sort of thing. My profile there is located at https://www.tiktok.com/@wbvr1000.

On a related note, one of my videos already has received over 1200+ views in just a few days, which is very impressive by my standards where most of my YouTube videos don't break the 1000-view milestone ever... I have some, but they represent a small minority of my 6600+ video library. My plan is to upload a few videos to the platform each day from my massive backlog of prior uploads and see what happens. If I am super lucky, I might reach 10000 followers... who knows... anything is possible on the internet these days.

2/1/23

All Time Novelty Hits (Gilmar Records G-258)

It's a Gilmar release, so does it really need much of an introduction around these parts... I think not.

Tracklist

A1The Mountain's High

A2 Who Put The Bomp

A3 You Don't Know What You've Got

A4 Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor?

B1Tossin' & Turnin'

B2 Michael

B3 Wooden Heart

B4 Last Night

1/31/23

Seeburg 1000 Basic Background Music Library 4-1-1974 Part 6

In the Spring of 1974, Disco is still up and coming, and you hear these tunes at your shopping mall as you pick out a pair of funky fresh bell-bottom pants. If you don't remember those days because you had yet to make your entrance into the world, or even one or both of your parents, fear not; this album has you covered!

1/15/23

Little John Records 100 Series 1950

Little John Records was a budget children's label missing exclusively children's records pressed on five-inch 78 rpm records. The entire record lines content consisted entirely of material arranged or written by Pat Ballard, the man who gave the world "Mr. Sandman." The label issued its first 10 records, 101-110. Some copies of release 108 had an alternate version of "The Lollipop Bear," which had the title "Poor Lollipop Bear" and had lyrics that contrasted The Lollipop Bear's original generous nature with one who refused to share and ended up ill. In 1951 the label released 10 more releases, 201-210, and in 1952 a Christmas series, X-1-10. Pat Ballard had a thing about fire safety with these children's records; he managed to work it into one of the Christmas sides. The Christmas series has been up on YouTube for almost a decade now and can be viewed there.

1/1/23

Lanny Ross With The Ames Brothers & Orchestra On Royale Records

Three early/obscure recordings of two once-famous acts on side A, then four generic background instrumentals by a nameless orchestra, billed by me as the Royale Orchestra.

Tracklist:

Lanny Ross & The Ames Brothers

A1 The Whiffenpoof Song

A2 Moonlight And Roses

A3 The Winter Song

Royale Orchestra

B1 A Salute To Love

B2 My Gal Sal

B3 The King Waltz

B4 Flower Song

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