Posts Tagged Crooner
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January 26, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 340
Grady Tate, By Special Request (1974) Grady Tate – simply one of my all-time favourite drummers, and I got to write a bit about that and a bit about him in memorial. Sad that so often we mark these moments only after a person has gone. And shortly before Tate died I got rather hooked on his crooner albums from the […]Archive
December 26, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 347
Ringo Starr, Sentimental Journey (1970) Poor old Ringo Starr. I say “Poor old Ringo Starr”, when there’s nothing poor about him. Nice life, great drummer, in the best band in the world, lucky timing on that too, etc. And it really hasn’t mattered what he did after. I mean he’s as well-known – actually probably […]Archive
August 6, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 384
Joe Williams, A Man Aint’ Supposed to Cry (1958) I love a good impulse-buy. I knew who Joe Williams was – but when I saw this album on a recent trip to Sydney I can’t say I knew the album at all but something (and not just the price) said Buy Me. You’ll Like Me. […]Archive
August 7, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 520
Nat ‘King’ Cole, Night Lights (1957) A fairly random purchase this – a wee ep from Nat ‘King’ Cole, I like Nat ‘King Cole – how could you not? And even though I do already own some of his recordings – and have listened to plenty more – I have no doubt I bought this […]Archive
July 2, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Frank Sinatra: Baby Blue Eyes
Frank Sinatra Baby Blue Eyes Frank Sinatra Enterprises LLC/Universal Music Enterprises/UMG Recordings, Inc./Capitol Records It’s entirely your call whether you need this – you might cringe, the purists can be as disgusted at they like, or you might really dig the ‘novelty’ of it…a compilation of Sinatra songs that are suitable for children; fun for […]Archive
May 11, 2016 by Simon Sweetman