Showing posts with label Greatest Hits. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Greatest Hits. Show all posts
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Lenny Bruce articles/mentions
Burgess Meredith & Howard O. Sackler ~ Everyman
Murray Roman ~ A Blind Man's Movie
Mort Sahl ~ At Sunset on red vinyl
Barbara Streisand ~ Greatest Hits
Mort Sahl ~ At Sunset on red vinyl
Barbara Streisand ~ Greatest Hits
Lenny Bruce - January 1, 1951
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January 18, 2015
101 Reel-to-Reel Tapes 87: Diana Ross & the Supremes ~ Stop! In the Name of Love
Diana Ross & the Supremes - Greatest Hits
reel-to-reel tape box cover detail
detail photo by Styrous®
In addition to my 20,000 Vinyl LP collection I'm selling, I have reel-to-reel, pre-recorded tapes for sale on eBay (see link below). If interested, contact me by email please, not by a comment.
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When I was in my mid twenties, I discovered Motown. The first of the songs I heard was by The Supremes. I heard them in bars in the Tenderloin where I would go after the other bars closed. It was where I learned to drink my Jack Daniels neat as it was served in a coffee mug. It is illegal to sell alcohol after 2 am, so they would put the drinks in mugs, (the assumption being, if the cops came in, all they would see were people drinking coffee, um, right!). The after hour bars had shows with performers in drag that would lip-sync to pop songs of the time. I don't think a night went by that one of them wouldn't mime to a song by The Supremes and the song would usually (but not always) be, Stop! In the Name of Love, done to the hilt with 3 inch long eye lashes and equally as exaggerated hand gestures imploring the offending paramour to, Stop!
It was a hell of a lot of fun!
Diana Ross & the Supremes - Greatest Hits
reel-to-reel tape box cover
photo by Styrous®
Diana Ross & the Supremes: Greatest Hits (also released as The Supremes: Greatest Hits) is a two-LP collection of singles and b-sides recorded by The Supremes, released by Motown in August 1967 (see 1967 in music). The reel-to-reel tape contained the material on one "Double Play" tape. The collection was the first LP to credit the group under the new billing Diana Ross & the Supremes. Although founding member Florence Ballard
is pictured on all album artwork and sings on all the tracks, by the
time the set was released, she had been fired from the group and
replaced by Cindy Birdsong.
Diana Ross & the Supremes - Greatest Hits
reel-to-reel tape box cover back
photo by Styrous®
Greatest Hits would rank as their second #1 album holding a distinction that it
would take decades for another female group to achieve. According to
Motown data the album eventually sold over 6,200,000 copies.
Diana Ross & the Supremes - Greatest Hits
reel-to-reel tape box back detail
detail photo by Styrous®
Greatest Hits includes fifteen Supremes singles, 10 of which went to number-one, among them were Where Did Our Love Go, Stop! In the Name of Love, You Can't Hurry Love, and the most recent Supremes number-one, The Happening (a non-album track from the 1967 film of the same name). Also included are five popular Supremes B-sides: Standing at the Crossroads of Love, Ask Any Girl, There's No
Stopping Us Now, Everything is Good About You, and Whisper You Love
Me Boy.
The packaging for the set includes liner notes by actress Carol Channing
(which were originally written for an unreleased album "The Supremes
and The Motown Sound: From Broadway To Hollywood") and paintings by
Robert Taylor, including collectable 12 inch by 12 inch pin-up portraits
of Diana Ross, Florence Ballard, and Mary Wilson. Greatest Hits was their second number-one album on both the Billboard 200 and the Billboard R&B Albums charts in the United States, and also reached the top of the pop album chart in the United Kingdom
as well. The album sold over six million copies, world-wide as of 1988.
However, it was never accorded Platinum Status as Motown did not submit
to RIAA Certification until years later. Although not nominally
credited because of their increasingly estranged relationship with
Motown, all of the songs included were produced by the
songwriting/production team of Holland–Dozier–Holland.
Diana Ross & the Supremes - Greatest Hits
reel-to-reel tape box back detail
detail photo by Styrous®
Track listing:
All songs produced by Brian Holland and Lamont Dozier. All songs written by Holland–Dozier–Holland unless otherwise noted. Superscripts denote original album sources, referenced below.
Side 1:
- "When the Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes" a – 2:38
- "Where Did Our Love Go" a – 2:30
- "Ask Any Girl" a, b – 2:44
- "Baby Love" a – 2:37
- "Run, Run, Run" a – 2:30
- "Stop! In the Name of Love" b – 2:53
- "Back in My Arms Again" b – 2:52
- "Come See About Me" a – 2:42
- "Nothing but Heartaches" b – 2:57
- "Everything is Good About You" (James Dean, Edward Holland, Jr.) c – 2:57
Side 2:
- "I Hear a Symphony" c – 2:38
- "Love Is Here and Now You're Gone" e – 2:46
- "My World Is Empty Without You" c – 2:33
- "Whisper You Love Me Boy" b – 2:40
- "The Happening" (Holland-Dozier-Holland, Frank De Vol) – 2:49
- "You Keep Me Hangin' On" e – 2:40
- "You Can't Hurry Love" d – 2:45
- "Standing at the Crossroads of Love" a – 2:27
- "Love Is Like an Itching in My Heart" d – 2:55
- "There's No Stopping Us Now" e – 2:55
Personnel:
- Diana Ross: lead vocals
- Mary Wilson and Florence Ballard: background vocals
- Marlene Barrow: background vocals on "You Can't Hurry Love"
- Brian Holland and Lamont Dozier: producers
- The Funk Brothers: instrumentation on all tracks save for "Love Is Here and Now You're Gone".
My favorite Supremes songs on YouTube:
other songs by the Supremes on YouTube
Other reel-to-reel tapes on eBay
Styrous® ~ Sunday, January 18, 2015
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September 10, 2014
101 Reel-to-Reel Tapes 77: Barbara Streisand ~ Greatest Hits
reel-to-reel tape box cover detail
photo by Lawrence Schiller
detail photo by Styrous©
In
addition to my vinyl LP record collection I'm selling, I have hundreds of reel-to-reel, pre-recorded tapes as well. This is an entry about one of
them that is for sale on eBay (see link below). Interested? Contact me by email, please, not by a comment.
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Barbra Streisand's Greatest Hits includes many of her biggest charting songs such as “People” which had reached #5 on the Billboard Hot 100
and “Second Hand Rose” which peaked at #32 on that chart. It also
includes Sam, You Made the Pants Too Long which had never before been
released on an album. The album would reach #32 on the Billboard 200 and would be certified double-platinum by the RIAA. This was the second album from Streisand to chart in the UK, peaking at #44 in the UK album charts.
reel-to-reel tape box cover
photo by Lawrence Schiller
photo by Styrous©
Photographer Lawrence Schiller was botn in 1936 in Brooklyn and grew up outside of San Diego, Californis. After attending Pepperdine College in Los Angeles, he worked for Life magazine, Paris Match, The Sunday Times, Time, Newsweek, Stern, and The Saturday Evening Post as a photojournalist. He published his first book, LSD, in 1966. Since then he has published eleven books, including W. Eugene Smith's Minamata and Norman Mailer's Marilyn. He collaborated with Albert Goldman on Ladies and Gentleman, Lenny Bruce (in 1967 he edited and produced the Capitol Records audio documentary album "Why did Lenny Bruce die?") and with Norman Mailer on The Executioner's Song and Oswald's Tale. His own books that became national bestsellers and made the New York Times Bestseller list include American Tragedy, Perfect Murder, Perfect Town, Cape May Court House, and Into the Mirror. He has directed seven motion pictures and miniseries for television; The Executioner's Song and Peter the Great won five Emmys. American Tragedy, Perfect Murder, Perfect Town and Into the Mirror
were made into television mini-series for CBS, all of which Schiller
produced and directed. In 2008, after the death of the writer Norman
Mailer, he was named Senior Advisor to the Norman Mailer Estate and is
the Managing Director of The Norman Mailer Center and Writers Colony, in
New York, NY, which he created with Norris Mailer. Schiller was a close
friend of Mailer and collaborator on five of his works, and represents
the Norman Mailer Licensing company. Schiller serves as a consultant to
political campaigns and major corporations on such issues as crisis
management, branding, public imaging and the use of social networking.
Schiller has been an on air analyst to NBC news, a consultant to TASCHEN Publshing, Annie Leibovitz Studio, Mitsubishi Power Systems Americas and has written for The New Yorker, The Daily Beast and other publications.
reel-to-reel tape box back
photo by Styrous©
My favorite song on the album is Second Hand Rose which was originally performed by Fanny Brice which she introduced in the "Ziegfeld Follies of 1921."
Fanny Brice (occasionally spelled Fannie Brice) was the stage name of Fania Borach, born in New York City. She began her association with Florenz Ziegfeld, headlining his Ziegfeld Follies from 1910 to 1911.
From the 1930s until her death in 1951, Brice made a radio presence as a bratty toddler named Baby Snooks, a role she premiered in a Follies skit co-written by playwright Moss Hart. Baby Snooks premiered in The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air in February 1936 on CBS with Alan Reed playing Lancelot Higgins, her beleaguered "Daddy." Brice moved to NBC in December 1937, performing the Snooks routines as part of the Good News show, then back to CBS on Maxwell House Coffee Time, with the half-hour divided between the Snooks sketches and comedian Frank Morgan.
Don't Rain On My Parade is a popular song from the 1964 musical Funny Girl, based on the life of Fanny Brice. It was also featured in the 1968 movie version of the musical. The song was written by Bob Merrill and Jule Styne. Both the movie and stage versions feature Barbra Streisand performing the song.
reel-to-reel tape box back detail
detail photo by Styrous©
Happy Days Are Here Again is a song copyrighted in 1929 by Milton Ager (music) and Jack Yellen (lyrics) and published by EMI Robbins Catalog, Inc./Advanced Music Corp.[1] The song was recorded by Leo Reisman and His Orchestra, with Lou Levin, vocal (November 1929), and was featured in the 1930 film Chasing Rainbows. The song concluded the picture, in what film historian Edwin Bradley described as a "pull-out-all-the-stops Technicolor finale, against a Great WarArmistice show-within-a-show backdrop."
This early example of 2-strip Technicolor footage was, along with
another Technicolor sequence, later cut from the 1931 re-edited release
of the otherwise black-and-white film, and is believed to have been lost
in the 1967 MGM Vault 7 fire.
Today, the song is probably best remembered as the campaign song for Franklin Delano Roosevelt's
successful 1932 presidential campaign. According to TIME magazine, it
gained prominence after a spontaneous decision by Roosevelt's advisers
to play it at the 1932 Democratic National Convention, and went on to become the Democratic Party's "unofficial theme song for years to come". The song is also associated with the Repeal of Prohibition, which occurred shortly after Roosevelt's election.
One of the most influential recordings of the song was by Barbra Streisand,
made 33 years after its first recording. While the song is
traditionally sung at a brisk pace, her recording is notable for how
slowly and expressively she sings it.
reel-to-reel tape
photo by Styrous©
People is the title of Barbra Streisand's fourth solo studio album which was released in September 1964. The song is also from the Broadway musical Funny Girl in which Streisand starred. The album became the first of Streisand's albums to hit #1 on the Billboard album chart, spending five weeks in the top spot; it was also certified Platinum. It was re-released in the UK on the CBS Hallmark Series label in 1966 with different artwork.
Track listing:
Side 1:
- “People” (Jule Styne, Bob Merrill) – 3:39
- This song had been released on People.
- “Second Hand Rose” (Grant Clarke, J.F. Hanly) – 2:08
- This song had been released on My Name Is Barbra, Two....
- “Why Did I Choose You” (Michael Leonard, Herbert Martin) – 2:49
- This song had been released on My Name Is Barbra.
- “He Touched Me” (Ira Levin, Milton Schafer) – 3:08
- This song had been released on My Name Is Barbra, Two....
- “Free Again” (R. Colby, Mark Jourdan, A. Canfora, J. Baselli) – 3:40
- This song had been released on Je m'appelle Barbra and as a single in 1966.
- “Don't Rain on My Parade” (Styne, Merrill) – 2:44
- This song had been released on the soundtrack to Funny Girl.
Side 2: - “My Coloring Book” (Fred Ebb, John Kander) – 4:09
- This song had been released on The Second Barbra Streisand Album.
- “Sam, You Made the Pants Too Long” (Smiley Lewis, Victor Young, F. Whitehouse, Milton Berle) – 2:04
- This song had been released as a single in 1966. An abbreviated version appears as part of a medley on Color Me Barbra.
- “My Man” (Jaques Charles, Channing Pollock, Albert Willemetz, Maurice Yvain) – 2:55
- This song had been released on My Name Is Barbra.
- “Gotta Move” (Peter Matz) – 1:58
- This song had been released on The Second Barbra Streisand Album. A rerecording appears on Color Me Barbra.
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- This song had been released on A Happening in Central Park. The original studio version appears on The Barbra Streisand Album.
Personnel:
- Mike Berniker – producer (tracks 1, 7, and 10)
- Don Costa – arranger & conductor (track 4)
- Jack Gold – producer (tracks 6 & 11)
- Frank Laico – engineer
- Michel Legrand – arranger & conductor (track 5)
- Peter Matz – arranger & conductor (tracks 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, and 10)
- Robert Mersey – producer (tracks 2, 3, 4, 9)
- Lawrence Schiller – cover photo
- Ettore Stratta – producer (track 5)
- Barbra Streisand – vocals
- Warren Vincent – producer (track 8), sound supervisor
- Stan Weiss – engineer
Barbara Streisand ~ Greatest Hits, reel-to-reel tape is for sale on eBay
reel-to-reel tapes on eBay
Styrous® ~ Wednesday, September 10, 2014
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April 25, 2014
101 Reel-to-Reel Tapes 61: Donovan ~ Greatest Hits
In addition to my 20,000 Vinyl LP collection I'm selling, I have reel-to-reel, pre-recorded tapes for sale as well (see link below). If interested, contact me by email please, not by a comment.
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Donovan's Greatest Hits is the first of the greatest hits albums from Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. It was released in the United States in January 1969 (Epic Records BXN 26439 (stereo)), and in the United Kingdom in March 1969 (Pye Records NPL 18283 (monaural) / NSPL 18283 (stereo)). On reel-to-reel tape, Epic - HN 658 (Re-channeled for stereo).
The Greatest Hits album marked the high point of Donovan's popularity in both the United States and United Kingdom. Sunshine Superman reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States, and subsequently became the title track of Donovan's third album, Sunshine Superman. It was the first product from the highly successful three-year collaboration between Donovan and producer Mickie Most and is generally considered to be one of the first examples of the musical genre that came to be known as psychedelia.
The Greatest Hits album marked the high point of Donovan's popularity in both the United States and United Kingdom. Sunshine Superman reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States, and subsequently became the title track of Donovan's third album, Sunshine Superman. It was the first product from the highly successful three-year collaboration between Donovan and producer Mickie Most and is generally considered to be one of the first examples of the musical genre that came to be known as psychedelia.
On every album, no matter how many good or great songs there are, there is always one that is THE favorite for everyone. For me, that song is Sunshine Superman. The Greatest Hits album presents the unedited Sunshine Superman (one minute, fifteen seconds longer than the original 1966 single and album release).
There have been many covers of Superman; a sort-of-punk version by Husker Du, Jewel, a VERY mellowed-down one by Mel Tormé, and many others; even Hungarian jazz quitarist, Gabor Szabo, took a turn at it. Links to music videos below.
There have been many covers of Superman; a sort-of-punk version by Husker Du, Jewel, a VERY mellowed-down one by Mel Tormé, and many others; even Hungarian jazz quitarist, Gabor Szabo, took a turn at it. Links to music videos below.
Donovan's Greatest Hits contains three singles that
were previously unreleased on any album, Epistle to Dippy, There Is a Mountain and Laléna.
Donovan's follow-up single, Colours, was also a hit, and after making his American debut at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, he issued Fairytale, his second and last LP for the Hickory label. Signing with Epic in 1966, he released his breakthrough album, Sunshine Superman, which in its exotic arrangements and pointedly psychedelic lyrical outlook heralded a major shift from his previous work; the title track topped the charts on both sides of the Atlantic, with Mellow Yellow reaching the number two spot a few months later. Donovan remained a chart fixture throughout 1967, generating a series of hits including Epistle to Dippy, There Is a Mountain, and Wear Your Love Like Heaven; that year he traveled to India alongside the Beatles to study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, a journey which inspired him to renounce drug use and encourage his listeners to turn to meditation. The ambitious double album A Gift from a Flower to a Garden followed, and in 1968 Donovan resurfaced with The Hurdy Gurdy Man, scoring a Top Five smash with the hallucinatory title cut; the record also yielded the hit Jennifer Juniper.
Sue Lyon, (Lolita (1962), The Night of the Iguana (1964), The Flim-Flam Man (1967) and Evel Knievel (1971), came into Donovan's life at the end of 1965. This was two or
three years before he met his "Jennifer Juniper" (Jenny Boyd). Lyon had
starred in "Lolita" and "Night of the Iguana" before meeting Donovan.
The couple dated until 1967 when Sue ended the relationship abruptly.
Donovan had evidently slipped LSD in Sue's and her friend's drinking cup
at a party. Sue described her trip as "frightening and disturbing" and
she "felt her self-control disintegrating". After this incident Lyon
never spoke to Donovan again until 1975. The two are now good friends
and Sue attended Ione Skye's (Donovan's daughter) marriage to King
Ad-Rock (with the Beastie Boys)
When Donovan hit the scene he was called "Britain's answer to Bob Dylan,". However, where most of Dylan's music is bleak introspection and bitter realism, Donovan embraced the wide-eyed optimism of the flower power movement, his ethereal, ornate songs radiating a mystical beauty and childlike wonder; for better or worse, his recordings remain quintessential artifacts of the psychedelic era, capturing the peace and love idealism of their time to perfection.
Donovan was born, Donovan Leitch, on May
10, 1946 in Glasgow and raised outside of London; at 18 he recorded his
first demo, and in 1965 was tapped as a regular on the television pop
showcase Ready, Steady, Go! He soon issued his debut single "Catch the
Wind," earning the first round of Dylan comparisons with his ramshackle
folk sound and ragamuffin look; the single nevertheless reached the U.K.
Top Five, with a subsequent meeting between the two singer/songwriters
captured in the classic D.A. Pennebaker documentary, Don't Look Back.
Sunshine Superman lyrics
Sunshine came softly through my a-window today
Could've tripped out easy a-but I've a-changed my ways
It'll take time, I know it but in a while
You're gonna be mine, I know it, we'll do it in style
'Cause I made my mind up you're going to be mine
I'll tell you right now
Any trick in the book now, baby, all that I can find
Everybody's hustlin' just to have a little scene
When I say we'll be cool I think that you know what I mean
We stood on a beach at sunset, do you remember when?
I know a beach where, baby, a-it never ends
When you've made your mind up forever to be mine
Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm
I'll pick up your hand and slowly blow your little mind
'Cause I made my mind up you're going to be mine
I'll tell you right now
Any trick in the book now, baby, all that I can find
Superman or Green Lantern ain't got a-nothin' on me
I can make like a turtle and dive for your pearls in the sea, yeah!
A you-you-you can just sit there a-thinking on your velvet throne
'bout all the rainbows a-you can a-have for your own
When you've made your mind up forever to be mine
I'll pick up your hand and slowly blow your little mind
When you've made your mind up forever to be mine
I'll pick up your hand
I'll pick up your hand
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Could've tripped out easy a-but I've a-changed my ways
It'll take time, I know it but in a while
You're gonna be mine, I know it, we'll do it in style
'Cause I made my mind up you're going to be mine
I'll tell you right now
Any trick in the book now, baby, all that I can find
Everybody's hustlin' just to have a little scene
When I say we'll be cool I think that you know what I mean
We stood on a beach at sunset, do you remember when?
I know a beach where, baby, a-it never ends
When you've made your mind up forever to be mine
Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm
I'll pick up your hand and slowly blow your little mind
'Cause I made my mind up you're going to be mine
I'll tell you right now
Any trick in the book now, baby, all that I can find
Superman or Green Lantern ain't got a-nothin' on me
I can make like a turtle and dive for your pearls in the sea, yeah!
A you-you-you can just sit there a-thinking on your velvet throne
'bout all the rainbows a-you can a-have for your own
When you've made your mind up forever to be mine
I'll pick up your hand and slowly blow your little mind
When you've made your mind up forever to be mine
I'll pick up your hand
I'll pick up your hand
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Track listing:
All tracks written by Donovan Leitch.
Side one:
1 - Epistle to Dippy – 3:08
2 - Sunshine Superman (long version) – 4:32
3 - There Is a Mountain – 2:33
4 - Jennifer Juniper – 2:40
5 - Wear Your Love Like Heaven – 2:23
6 - Season of the Witch – 4:54
Side two:
1 - Mellow Yellow – 3:37
2 - Colours (1968 version) – 4:10
3 - Hurdy Gurdy Man – 3:15
4 - Catch the Wind (1968 version) – 5:01
5 - Laléna – 2:54
All tracks written by Donovan Leitch.
Side one:
1 - Epistle to Dippy – 3:08
2 - Sunshine Superman (long version) – 4:32
3 - There Is a Mountain – 2:33
4 - Jennifer Juniper – 2:40
5 - Wear Your Love Like Heaven – 2:23
6 - Season of the Witch – 4:54
Side two:
1 - Mellow Yellow – 3:37
2 - Colours (1968 version) – 4:10
3 - Hurdy Gurdy Man – 3:15
4 - Catch the Wind (1968 version) – 5:01
5 - Laléna – 2:54
Personnel:
- Donovan – guitar, harmonica, vocals
- Mickie Most – producer
- Mike Thompson – guitar, vocals
- Big Jim Sullivan – guitar on Colours
| Released; | January 1969 |
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| Recorded; | January 1966 – September 1968 |
| Length; | 39:07 |
| Label: | Epic - HN 658 |
Links to music videos on youTube:
Epistle To Dippy (alternate take)
Sunshine Superman (long version)
Sunshine Superman (Gabor Szabo cover)
Sunshine Superman (long version)
Sunshine Superman (Gabor Szabo cover)
There Is a Mountain
Jennifer Juniper (1968 color clip)
Wear Your Love Like Heaven
Season of the Witch
Mellow Yellow
Colours (1968 version)
Hurdy Gurdy Man (1968) Original Video
Catch the Wind
Jennifer Juniper (1968 color clip)
Wear Your Love Like Heaven
Season of the Witch
Mellow Yellow
Colours (1968 version)
Hurdy Gurdy Man (1968) Original Video
Catch the Wind
Styrous® ~ Friday, April 25, 2014
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