Jazz Swing Orchestra/vocal ~ 1938


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" The California Songbird " ... Ivie Anderson !

A swinging LP track taken from the 1973 Columbia double LP, ' Duke Ellington Presents Ivie Anderson '

All the songs pressed on this double LP are the original recordings from 1932 to 1940, and all feature Ivie Anderson on vocals.

' Swingtime In Honolulu ' also features some great solos by Johnny Hodges - alto soprano sax
Barney Bigard - clarinet, tenor sax
Rex Stewart - cornet
and the Duke - piano

Born in Gilroy, California in 1904, Ivie sang and toured with the Duke Ellington Orchestra from about 1931 to 1942.



a newspaper ad from 1939 - the St Louis Star-Times

78 rpm!
A first press from 1938 - Brunswick label

funk- soul ~ Chicago 1969

mod singers and mod lads - let's have some fun! mp3

"Groovin' In The Morning, Groovin' At Night, Right On! Right On! Let's Have Some Fun!"

Funky soul-pop for kids?
Can't find the singers' names on this 45.
It's quite possible they were/are siblings, and are the Jones family from Chicago (?). It's also possible soul-funk singers, Frankie Newsome and or Jodi Gales may, or may not have, been involved with this recording. Just don't know for sure.

Music by The Joneses with the Mod Singers, a couple of other Savern label 45s.

Songwriter, Zono Sago (real name, Allan Williams) was an arranger, producer, drummer, and singer. Zono wrote and produced many soul sides for different artists and labels, including some sides for the Savern label.

girl group ~ New York 1968

Reparata and the Delrons ~ Captain Of Your Ship.mp3

The challenge with collecting 45 rpm records is usually the condition. Many of these got played one too many times, thrown around at parties, or played in jukeboxes over and over. I've found this 45 a couple of times, but it always sounds beat up...Pressed on styrene instead of vinyl (vinyl sounds better-to my ears anyhow ) this copy sounds OK, but not perfect.

Always loved this song. Love the production, arrangement and songwriting especially.


Is she really on a ship, with her "captain" giving her advice over the ship speakers, or is " her ship " her own body, her own self?
Or maybe it's just her conscience telling her the truth about her decisions while she travels and floats along on the ship...

It's beautiful, moody, and happy all at the same time.

jazz/R&B vocal ~ 1964

Jimmy Scott ~ somewhere down the line.mp3

Jimmy Scott 1925 ~ 2014

It was sad to hear this week of the passing of the great jazz vocalist, Jimmy Scott.

northern soul ~ New York 1966

Gene Toones ~ What More Do You Want mp3

Rare soul side. Fantastic performance. Can't find much info on this 45. I always thought the Simco record label originally started out in New York by Richard Simpson, then moved to Los Angeles sometime in the late 60s. Let me know with any corrections.

R&B group vocal ~ South Africa 1956

Manhattan Brothers and Miriam Makeba ~ Lovely Lies.mp3

The first South African group to have a record chart in the U.S. Billboard top 100, 'Lovely Lies' reached #45 in the U.S. in 1956.
R&B/Jazz/vocal group, The Manhattan Brothers were formed in Johannesburg, South Africa around 1946. They added vocalist Miriam Makeba
sometime in the early 50s.