Sounds Of Champaign ( Side 2 )

Pure lounge & pure easy, here it is with Emil Stern & his ‘ensemble’ ! Piano for your cocktails and a perfect background for cool drinks and sweet atmospheres. This LP is a quiet wave of smooth jazz’n’bossa through 12 famous themes. ‘Favela’ is so … soft, just a piece of quiet-itude ! Relaxin’…
Emil Stern et Son Ensemble
Piano Cocktail
© 1973 Barclay 950.069

Face 1 :

01. Fais comme l’oiseau
02. Avril à Paris
03. Non c’est rien
04. La belle vie
05. September song
06. Hello Dolly !

Face 2 :

01.Une belle histoire
02.Makin’Whoopee
03.Georgia on my mind
04.Favela
05.My way
06.Ebb Tide

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Back again with a library vaults, without any doubt one of the best Roger Roger record i’ve listen to. Divided in several parts ( Strings for dramas - Barryesque -, banjos for dixies & charlestons, amazing drums & breakbeats, crime soft jazz ...) this Chappell Mood Music is one of the best patchwork of Roger’s possibilities. He’s able to practice different atmosphere in one record, but with the same fluent quality from the first track to the last one. Beware, there is a TERRIFIC breakbeat on « Jerk Machine » and fine drums on « Dialogue » !

Roger Roger et son orchestre
Chappell Mood Music - Vol.24
CMM-224 197x

Face 1

01. Romantic Blue
02. Romantic Purple
03. Escapade
04. Rafale d’Automne
05. Piano Faubourg
06. Piano Saloon
07. 1925 Charly

Face 2

01. Rock Machine n°1
02. Rock Machine n°2
03. Rock Machine n°3
04. Jerk Machine
05. En Pleine Bagarre
06. Dialogue
07. Fuite En Avant


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If you’re into spying atmospheres, big orchestras, musical comedies & choir « a la Bacharach », then this record would probably recorded for you & your aural pleasure…Better than i can do or write, here are precious informations about Stanley Black & writed by the excellent spaceagepop website.
… « A child prodigy, Black was active on the British music scene for over sixty years. He studied piano and attended the Matthay School of Music in London, and one of his first compositions won a competition sponsored by Melody Maker and was performed by the BBC Orchestra when he was just 12 years old. By the time he was 18, he was a working musician, playing with British dance bands such as Joe Orlando, Howard Jacobs, and Lew Stone. He often played with American jazz musicians such as Benny Carter and Coleman Hawkins during their visits to England, and recorded a duet version of "Honeysuckle Rose" with Hawkins. Black developed a talent for transcribing music that made him a hot prospect for popular dance band leaders. He could listen to a recording and sit down and transcribe a dozen or more parts by ear, producing a dead-on copy of the original arrangement. Bandleader Harry Roy hired Black and paired him with Norman Yarlett in a double piano feature act, going so far as to change Yarlett's name so he could bill them as "Black and White." The group toured South America in 1937, and the trip made a profound impression on Black. For the rest of his life, Black enjoyed playing and promoting Latin American music. Black enlisted in the RAF early in World War Two, but he was discharged after less than a year due to ill health. He returned to Roy's band for a short time, but left to pursue work as an independent conductor and arranger. By 1944, he had become director of the BBC's house dance band, a job he held for nearly eight years. He became a mainstay of British popular music, appearing nearly every day with the BBC band.

He left the BBC in 1952 to join Decca Records as a staff conductor and arranger, but he remained active with the BBC for the rest of his professional career. He stayed with Decca until 1958, and averaged four albums a year under his own name, in addition to hundreds of uncredited work backing up singers and conducting smaller combos. Many of these albums, including an all-Lecuona album,Cuban Moonlight were released in the US on the London label. He also worked in the British film industry, arranging and composing soundtracks for nearly 200 films between 1946 and 1975. He served as musical director for the Associated British Pictures Corporation between 1958 and 1963. Among Black's credits are the score for Cliff Richards' British beach movie, "Summer Holiday," which won an award, as well as the theme used throughout the 1960s for Pathe newsreels, a staple of British movie-going experiences. He also composed the theme songs for numerous radio and television shows, most notably for "The Goon Show." He spent his last working years as a conductor, leading the BBC's Northern Ireland Orchestra in the late 1960s, and appearing frequently at "Pops" concerts. He was an enthusiastic proponent of popularizing music, commenting once that "Serious music shouldn't be pompous. 'West Side Story' should be in the same program as Beethoven." Although most of his own albums feature popular music, his one Grammaphone Award came in 1965 for his recording of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Capriccio Espagnol.

Black was highly respected by his fellow musicians for his expertise and efficient working habits, even when deafness set in in his late 60s. He was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 1985. He was also a Life Fellow of the Institute of Arts and Letters, and Life President of the Celebrities Guild of Great Britain. Exotic Percussion is the album Space Age Pops fans are recommended to seek out. It's an expertly produced recording, typical of London's Phase Four period, featuring an excellent selection of such space age pop standards as "Miserlou" and "Caravan" in loud, brassy, percussion-stuffed arrangements »…
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Stanley Black
Film Spectacular III
« Les Plus Belles Musiques De Films n°1 »
© 1966 Decca PFS 4.088

Face 1 :

01. James Bond Medley
02. Chim Chim Cher-ee
03. Charade
04. More

Face 2 :

01. The Sound Of Music Medley
02. Main Title Theme From The Man With The Golden Arm
03. Black Orpheus Themes Carnival
04. Zorba’s Dance

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Now avalaible in (((STEREO))) !
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A spoken word 10 inch record. I want to be a tree, i’m a tree … Relaxing exercisings to be pratice at home or now, due to the technology, outdoor ! This is maybe the record i just need now. Seems to be never reissued ( it’s a pure joke naturally ! ). Silent space, soft voice & ondes Martenot are to hear here. Was sampled by ? maybe the answer later. So, i was so lazy this month and so sick now - i’m im bed with fever - that i’m so far to post this relaxing bill ! But now i’m not sure, am i a tree ? or, … a vegetable man ? So again, i try to escape …. Thanks to Toma & Charlotte providing this record ( from India ? ) to … Marcodisco … providing this to me, to be … ripped for your relaxing activities !

Relaxez-Vous
Quatre Exercices De Relaxation
© 196x Philips P. 76.144. R

Face 1 :

1ère semaine
01.Exercice Préparatoire

Face 2 :

2ème semaine
01.Détente Musculaire
02.Rétention du Souffle
3ème semaine
03.Concentration de la Pensée
4ème semaine
04.Identification à l’Arbre


Guy Beaujoint : Professeur de yoga adapté
Nelly Caron : Accompagnement aux ondes Martenot

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UPDATE : Here's SDA who had sampled "identification à l'arbre", thanks to Philip for providing this track ...

SDA - Vous Etes Un Arbre.mp3

So, i’m back again from my vacation and saw a lot of things changing during my escape.
Blogs have disappeard like Voltage Controlled Technicolor and Soundsational, they’ll be missing in the blogosphere, because they were not only blogs, but behind they were minds, souls, sensitivity and devoted people to musical brightness & culture. But, i dont know why the name and the link are « running » again and shows pseudo-advertisings blogs than the classic « no found » message ? Otherwise, new blogs came to…Like 7 Black Notes ( a real movie score specialist ), Italian Horror, Mr Lucky or Moodswings music by Stefan from Paris where you can obtain the real good first 1972 LP from William Sheller « Lux Aeterna » . Good luck & long way to them.
I’ve some problems with Internet connection at my homebase, in fact no Internet and no phone since a month, its not that i’ve not enough money to pay ! its just cause they are not able to provide me this service ! !
I’m using the computer from my office ( i don’t care about number 2’s reaction ! ). I just want to…escape…just time enough to re-post an early record that i’ve posted on the Sounds of Champaign original blogspot blog. Someone writted that the link was deleted due to a long inactivity. So, here is it back again.
Various Artists – Love is Blue

101 Strings,The Petards, and The Spots played a psych-garage pop on this LP recorded circa 1967. My eyes were first « focalized » by the multi-painted girl on the cover. Than came the music...Better than i, read the following liner notes…



Love Is Blue
© 1967 Europa E 307
By 101 Strings,The Petards, and The Spots


Seite 1 :

01. love is blue
02. killer Joe à gogo
03. blues for the guru
04. that’s my honeybee
05. karma sitar
06. kings road rock
07. it’s up to you
08. yes, oh yes

Seite 2 :

01. lady Madonna
02. strings for Ravi
03. i just want to tell you
04. San Francisco sun
05. Headin’ home
06. Guantanamera
07. I’m still in love with you
08. Love is all around

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