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March 5, 2024
April 17, 2022
Music Notes ~ vinyl LP cover graphics
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Stan Kenton ~ City of Glass
I will have to fess up to what people may call idiotic, silly, stupid or
even a crime! Many of my record purchases over the years
was influenced by the graphics of the cover, such as the album by Mina, Salomé, on the right. As I said in the article I wrote about this album (link below), "How could you pass up a cover like this?" .
Although
I bought albums unknown or unheard just from the information
(performers, style, etc.) on the back of the album cover (one of the
reasons I will always love a vinyl LP as opposed to a CD), it was the graphics of some of them that snagged me.
Some of those albums have been featured on the Viewfinder; there will be many more to come.
Links to those albums (in no particular order):
Jeff Wayne ~ The War of the Worlds
Stan Freberg ~ the United States of America
Extrabreit ~ Welch Ein Land! - Was Für Männer: (in 3-D)
Master/Slave Relationship ~ This Lubricious Love
Earth, Wind & Fire ~ Last Days and Time
Gabor Szabó ~ Dreams
The Rolling Stones ~ Some Girls
Carl Orff ~ Carmina Burana á la Manzarek Stan Kenton ~ City of Glass
Al Stewart - Past, Present and Future
Chuy Reyes ~ Rumba de Cuba
Adam & The Ants ~ Kings of the Wild Frontier
The Story Of Star Wars picture disc
Gil Mellé – The Andromeda Strain
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) ~ Dazzle Ships
The Nails ~ Hotel For Women
Guns N' Roses – Appetite For Destruction
Debbie Harry - KooKoo
Adam & The Ants ~ Kings of the Wild Frontier
The Story Of Star Wars picture disc
Gil Mellé – The Andromeda Strain
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) ~ Dazzle Ships
The Nails ~ Hotel For Women
Guns N' Roses – Appetite For Destruction
Debbie Harry - KooKoo
Leonard Bernstein ~ Trouble In Tahiti
Divine ~ Greatest Hits
Hawkwind ~ Warrior on the Edge of Time
Mick Ronson ~ Slaughter on 10th Ave.
Alice Cooper ~ Killer Vinyl
Styrous® ~ Sunday, April 17, 2022
February 7, 2021
Joni Mitchell articles/mentions
photo by Jack Robinson
mentions:
Oscar Brand ~ A man of varied tastes
David Gates ~ First, Bread
Dave Greenslade ~ The Pentateuch of the Cosmogony
Prince ~ Purple Rain
December 31, 2017
September 8, 2017
20,000 Vinyl LPs 108: Chuy Reyes ~ Rumba de Cuba @ 10"
I was organizing my vinyl LP space with Lon Clark (link below) yesterday and came across this delightful 1949 gem. Chuy Reyes ~ Rumba de Cuba, was a 10" vinyl LP in a book album similar to The Nutcracker and The Pentateuch of the Cosmogony (links below).
This format was common in the 40's and early 50's. Unfortunately, the
record itself disappeared years before I bought it. All I have is the
album but the graphics were too good to pass up.
It was a mono recording, of course, and my version is a re-issue (date unknown). There was also a 45 rpm version of the album issued.
photo by Styrous®
It was a mono recording, of course, and my version is a re-issue (date unknown). There was also a 45 rpm version of the album issued.
original issue - 1949
1st re-issue - date unknown
10" vinyl LP album cover interior
photo by Styrous®
Chuy Reyes was born in Mexico but I could not find the date. He and his Hollywood Mocambo Orchestra was the club band at the Mocambo Night Club from the time it opened on January 3, 1941.
The mocambos (from mocambo, literally Huts) were village-sized communities mainly of runaway slaves in colonial Brazil, during the Portuguese rule. They were also called, ladeiras, magotes, or quilombos.
Mocambos were exile communities established by fugitive Brazilian slaves between the 18th and 19th century. The purpose of these settlements was to protect the slaves from the Portuguese opposition, thanks to their hidden location, which was difficult to find for the punitive military expeditions. Mocambos were a threat to the economy and the social fabric of the slave regime, because the parasitic economy of these communities was mostly composed of theft, extortion and raiding. Though the minority of communities lived off agriculture and arms trade. Mocambos were not controlled by the government and because of the high percentage of Brazilian slaves, which incorporated one third of the total population, the number and the importance of Mocambos was continually increasing. For this reason Mocambos inhabitants were executed by punitive military expeditions and the children born in the Mocambos became property of the leaders of the exterminating expeditions.
Mocambos were exile communities established by fugitive Brazilian slaves between the 18th and 19th century. The purpose of these settlements was to protect the slaves from the Portuguese opposition, thanks to their hidden location, which was difficult to find for the punitive military expeditions. Mocambos were a threat to the economy and the social fabric of the slave regime, because the parasitic economy of these communities was mostly composed of theft, extortion and raiding. Though the minority of communities lived off agriculture and arms trade. Mocambos were not controlled by the government and because of the high percentage of Brazilian slaves, which incorporated one third of the total population, the number and the importance of Mocambos was continually increasing. For this reason Mocambos inhabitants were executed by punitive military expeditions and the children born in the Mocambos became property of the leaders of the exterminating expeditions.
The Mocambo
The Mocambo was located in West Hollywood, California, at 8588 Sunset Boulevard on the Sunset Strip and was owned by Charlie Morrison and Felix Young.
The Mocambo - 1957
Among the celebrities who frequented the Mocambo were Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, Errol Flynn, Charlie Chaplin, Elizabeth Taylor, Judy Garland, Henry Fonda, Lana Turner, Ava Gardner, Bob Hope, James Cagney, Sophia Loren, Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner, Grace Kelly, Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher, Howard Hughes, Kay Francis, Marlene Dietrich, Theda Bara, Tyrone Power, Jayne Mansfield, John Wayne, Ben Blue, Ann Sothern, and Louis B. Mayer. Myrna Loy and Arthur Hornblow, Jr. celebrated their divorce there.
The Mocambo - 1947
photographer unknown
Mocambo Nightclub - 1942
photographer unknown
Mocambo, 1951
photographer unknown
Mocambo - 1955
photographer unknown
Mocambo nightclub - 1948
photographer unknown
The Mocambo wouldn’t allow Ella Fitzgerald to sing there, because of
the color of her skin. One day Marilyn Monroe, by then a superstar, paid
a visit to Charlie Morrison, the owner of the club. She made Charlie an
offer: if he booked Ella, she promised she would be there, front and
center, every single night of Ella’s show. Morrison agreed, because
there was no star bigger than Monroe at the time (imagine the
publicity!), and Ella suddenly found herself on that stage.
photographer unknown
The club's main stage was replicated on the TV series I Love Lucy as the "Tropicana" Club. Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz were frequent guests at the Mocambo and were close friends of Morrison.
Lobby ~ Mocambo nightclub
photographer unknown
Chuy Reyes And His Hollywood Mocambo Orchestra –
Rumba De Cuba
Tracklist:
Side 1:
A1 = Baracoa, Vocals – Tony Martinez (9), written by Traditional
A2 = Almendra, Vocals – Tony Gari, written by Abelardo Valdes*
A3 = Boteando, Vocals – Tony Martinez (9), written by King-Martinez
A4 = La Yuca, Vocals – Tony Martinez (9), written by Traditional
Side 2:
B1 = La Ultima Noche, Vocals – Tony Martinez (9), written by Bobby Collazo
B2 Blen! Blen! Blen!, Vocals – Tony Gari, written by Pozot-Cugat
B3 = Negra Leono, Vocals – Tony Gari, written by Antonio Fernandez
B4 = Hokey Joe, Vocals – Tony Martinez (9), written by Swan-Ricardo
Side 1:
A1 = Baracoa, Vocals – Tony Martinez (9), written by Traditional
A2 = Almendra, Vocals – Tony Gari, written by Abelardo Valdes*
A3 = Boteando, Vocals – Tony Martinez (9), written by King-Martinez
A4 = La Yuca, Vocals – Tony Martinez (9), written by Traditional
Side 2:
B1 = La Ultima Noche, Vocals – Tony Martinez (9), written by Bobby Collazo
B2 Blen! Blen! Blen!, Vocals – Tony Gari, written by Pozot-Cugat
B3 = Negra Leono, Vocals – Tony Gari, written by Antonio Fernandez
B4 = Hokey Joe, Vocals – Tony Martinez (9), written by Swan-Ricardo
Chuy Reyes And His Hollywood Mocambo Orchestra* – Rumba De Cuba
Label: Capitol Records – H152, Capitol Records – H-152
Format: Vinyl, 10", 33 ⅓ RPM, Mono
Country: US
Original release: 1949
Re-issue: unknown
Genre: Latin
Style: Rumba
Viewfinder links:
“Just the cover, ma’am!”
Lon Clark
Dave Greenslade ~ The Pentateuch of the Cosmogony
Net links:
Martin Turnbull ~ Mocambo: The Nightclub’s Nightclub
Night at the Mocambo ~ Marilyn Monroe & Ella Fitzgerald
YouTube links:
Boteando
La Yuca
Blen! Blen! Blen!
Negra Leono
Hokey Joe YouTube links:
Boteando
La Yuca
Blen! Blen! Blen!
Negra Leono
July 3, 2013
20,000 vinyl LPs 22: Dave Greenslade ~ The Pentateuch of the Cosmogony
album art detail
art work by Patrick Woodroffe
photo of album cover by Styrous©
One of the reasons everyone loves living in the San Francisco Bay Area is the weather. It has one of the mildest, moderate temperature ranges in the world. When it's too cold (50º), those of us who live here say, wait two or three days, it'll warm up. When it's too hot (80º), ditto to cool off. Well, we are now in the sixth day of an extremely rare heat wave of 100° plus temperatures in some parts of the bay area. And there are those who still insist there is no global warming. Yeah! Right!
This event brought to my mind many of the dire predictions in music of the destruction of our planet through war and climate change caused by our leaders indifference to their actions. From the first song I was aware of, "Eve of Destruction" (1965) by Barry McGuire, Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi" (1970), with it's refrain, "They paved Paradise and put up a parking lot," and the Manfred Mann's Earth Band song, "Messin'" (1973), to use only a few examples, they've warned us of what we are doing to our world and the consequences of our actions.
The warning of global destruction reached the height of sophistication with the 1979 concept album conceived and written by Patrick Woodroffe with music by Dave Greenslade, The Pentateuch of the Cosmogony (the 5 books of the origin of the universe).
With this album Greenslade abandoned his prog rock background. He took a que from Klaus Schulze and early 70's Tangerine Dream and brilliantly utilized synthesizers to create surrealistic music that was totally unique and chronicles the demise of an indeterminate planet (but read Earth).
The melodies have an amazing range of styles: an echoey, delicate, almost fairy-like sonnet, Glass; Three Brides, a quiet minuet; The Minstrel, a lively tarantella; Vivat Regina, a joyous, exuberant ode to life; the Barcarole, with it's gentle, almost reggae beat; the dreamy, other worldly closing piece, The Tiger and the Dove . . .
. . . as well as heart-pounding, driving instrumentals. My favorites are a pair of numbers, Mischief and War. They are actually one song with Mischief, a strong, march-like beat that plows right into War which becomes a heavy, thundering, metallic-sounding dynamo that is quite an experience to hear.
Exile, is an eerie lament, featuring vocoder, bemoaning a world with a long-lifeless, motionless sea, "There is no air, the sea is dead".
The LP record album is actually a 12 ½ inch square hardback book with amazing art work by Patrick Woodroffe. Each and every time I look through the book I see something new I've never noticed before. Unfortunately, with the CD edition, due to it's diminutive size, the subtleties are not readily observable without a magnifying glass; also, the CD version does not have the impact the 12" LP format has (another instance to bemoan the death of the vinyl LP).
alien
alphabet designed by Patrick Woodroffe
The Pentateuch of the Cosmogony
art work by Patrick Woodroffe
Love makes its appearance . . .
Track listings:
Side 1
"Introit" – 4:05
"Moondance" – 3:10
"Beltempest" – 2.:41
"Glass" – 3:02
"Three Brides" † – 5:56
Side 2
"Birds & Bats & Dragonflies" ‡ – 3:48
"Nursery Hymn" ♦ – 3:32
"The Minstrel" ‡ – 2:42
"Fresco/Kashrinn" – 2:24
"Barcarole" † – 3:51
"Dry Land" – 3:54
Side 3
"Forest Kingdom" † – 3:53
"Vivat Regina" – 3:44
"Scream but Not Heard" – 2:57
"Mischief" ‡ – 5:36
"War" †‡ – 3:06
Side 4
"Lament for the Sea" † – 3:08
"Miasma Generator" † – 5.23
"Exile" – 2.33
"Jubilate" – 3.00
"The Tiger and the Dove" – 5.35
All titles were composed and played by Dave Greenlade except percussion played by Phil Collins on tracks marked with † and by John Lingwood on tracks marked with ‡. Vocals on track ♦ Nursery Hymn by Kate Greenslade (age 2 years and 6 months).
Dave Greenslade played Polymoog, Prophet 5, Roland Rs202, Yamaha Cs60 Synth, Yamaha Cs80 Synth, Yamaha Cp70b Piano, Arp Explorer, Arp Omni, Cat Synth, Church Organ, Crumar Stringman, Hohner Clavinet, Kitten Synth, Mellotron 400, Minimoog], Vibraphone, Tubular Bells, and Vocoder [Sennheiser] Programmed By [Sds Drum Synth 3].
Links to music on YouTube:
The Pentateuch of the Cosmogony:
Complete album
Mischief/War
Jubilate
The Tiger and the Dove
Barry McGuire - Eve of Destruction
Joni Mitchel - Big Yellow Taxi
Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Messin'
Links to the amazing art of Patrick Woodroffe can be seen here
This is one of the albums I taped and listened to over and over for the last 30 years so the records were only played twice and are in pristine condition. Even though I bought the CD version many years ago, because of the incredible artwork of the book, when I finally do sell my record collection this album will not go with it.
My many thanks to Dave Greenslade and Patrick Woodroffe for decades of listening and looking pleasure.
Styrous© ~ July 3, 2013
This event brought to my mind many of the dire predictions in music of the destruction of our planet through war and climate change caused by our leaders indifference to their actions. From the first song I was aware of, "Eve of Destruction" (1965) by Barry McGuire, Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi" (1970), with it's refrain, "They paved Paradise and put up a parking lot," and the Manfred Mann's Earth Band song, "Messin'" (1973), to use only a few examples, they've warned us of what we are doing to our world and the consequences of our actions.
The warning of global destruction reached the height of sophistication with the 1979 concept album conceived and written by Patrick Woodroffe with music by Dave Greenslade, The Pentateuch of the Cosmogony (the 5 books of the origin of the universe).
(click on any image to see slideshow)
The Pentateuch of the Cosmogony album cover
art work by Patrick Woodroffe
photo of album cover by Styrous©
With this album Greenslade abandoned his prog rock background. He took a que from Klaus Schulze and early 70's Tangerine Dream and brilliantly utilized synthesizers to create surrealistic music that was totally unique and chronicles the demise of an indeterminate planet (but read Earth).
The melodies have an amazing range of styles: an echoey, delicate, almost fairy-like sonnet, Glass; Three Brides, a quiet minuet; The Minstrel, a lively tarantella; Vivat Regina, a joyous, exuberant ode to life; the Barcarole, with it's gentle, almost reggae beat; the dreamy, other worldly closing piece, The Tiger and the Dove . . .
The Tiger and the Dove
art work by Patrick Woodroffe
photo of album cover by Styrous©
. . . as well as heart-pounding, driving instrumentals. My favorites are a pair of numbers, Mischief and War. They are actually one song with Mischief, a strong, march-like beat that plows right into War which becomes a heavy, thundering, metallic-sounding dynamo that is quite an experience to hear.
War
art work by Patrick Woodroffe
photo of album by Styrous©
Exile, is an eerie lament, featuring vocoder, bemoaning a world with a long-lifeless, motionless sea, "There is no air, the sea is dead".
Exile
"There is no air, the sea is Dead"
art work by Patrick Woodroffe
photo of album by Styrous©
The LP record album is actually a 12 ½ inch square hardback book with amazing art work by Patrick Woodroffe. Each and every time I look through the book I see something new I've never noticed before. Unfortunately, with the CD edition, due to it's diminutive size, the subtleties are not readily observable without a magnifying glass; also, the CD version does not have the impact the 12" LP format has (another instance to bemoan the death of the vinyl LP).
The Pentateuch of the Cosmogony album cover back
art work by Patrick Woodroffe
photo of album cover back by Styrous©
Woodroffe created a whole fantasy world complete with an alien
alphabet. The script he invented is fascinating.
photo of album by Styrous©
It is ingenious how his art work and Greenslade's music are so well matched. The book is rich with illustrations that are magnificent and exceptionally beautiful . . .
art work by Patrick Woodroffe
photo of album by Styrous©
photo of album by Styrous©
. . . and weird . . .
photo of album by Styrous©
photo of album by Styrous©
photo of album by Styrous©
The story: 'Pentateuch' concerns the discovery of an abandoned spacecraft drifting in space, and the project to decipher the ideograms
in the pentateuch 'document' discovered within it.
alien space ship design by Patrick Woodroffe
photo of album by Styrous©
Love makes its appearance . . .
photo of album by Styrous©
and, of course, there are lots of space ships
photo of album by Styrous©
The book is a
retelling of the document, as one of our modern day archiologists
might very well translate the contents of a Babylonian tablet or an Egyptian papyrus scroll. The story is told in 21 tracks on two vinyl records.
Track listings:
Side 1
"Introit" – 4:05
"Moondance" – 3:10
"Beltempest" – 2.:41
"Glass" – 3:02
"Three Brides" † – 5:56
Side 2
"Birds & Bats & Dragonflies" ‡ – 3:48
"Nursery Hymn" ♦ – 3:32
"The Minstrel" ‡ – 2:42
"Fresco/Kashrinn" – 2:24
"Barcarole" † – 3:51
"Dry Land" – 3:54
Side 3
"Forest Kingdom" † – 3:53
"Vivat Regina" – 3:44
"Scream but Not Heard" – 2:57
"Mischief" ‡ – 5:36
"War" †‡ – 3:06
Side 4
"Lament for the Sea" † – 3:08
"Miasma Generator" † – 5.23
"Exile" – 2.33
"Jubilate" – 3.00
"The Tiger and the Dove" – 5.35
All titles were composed and played by Dave Greenlade except percussion played by Phil Collins on tracks marked with † and by John Lingwood on tracks marked with ‡. Vocals on track ♦ Nursery Hymn by Kate Greenslade (age 2 years and 6 months).
Dave Greenslade played Polymoog, Prophet 5, Roland Rs202, Yamaha Cs60 Synth, Yamaha Cs80 Synth, Yamaha Cp70b Piano, Arp Explorer, Arp Omni, Cat Synth, Church Organ, Crumar Stringman, Hohner Clavinet, Kitten Synth, Mellotron 400, Minimoog], Vibraphone, Tubular Bells, and Vocoder [Sennheiser] Programmed By [Sds Drum Synth 3].
left: Dave Greenslade right: Patrick Woodroffe
photos by Alan R. Imberg
Links to music on YouTube:
The Pentateuch of the Cosmogony:
Complete album
Mischief/War
Jubilate
The Tiger and the Dove
Barry McGuire - Eve of Destruction
Joni Mitchel - Big Yellow Taxi
Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Messin'
Links to the amazing art of Patrick Woodroffe can be seen here
This is one of the albums I taped and listened to over and over for the last 30 years so the records were only played twice and are in pristine condition. Even though I bought the CD version many years ago, because of the incredible artwork of the book, when I finally do sell my record collection this album will not go with it.
My many thanks to Dave Greenslade and Patrick Woodroffe for decades of listening and looking pleasure.
Styrous© ~ July 3, 2013
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