Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl Frank Vaccariello

So, mom...your last mother's day was in 2015 just three weeks before you died.
In those nine years since, you have been dearly missed, thought of often and always toasted at family get-togethers.
I still use your recipes and even some of your kitchen tools to cook our meals. And your granddaughter still helps me make cavatelli and cassatelles. My kitchen always smells good. Almost like yours…sometimes.
Your memory is just as much a part of this record collection as dad’s. Because you were always telling me what you wanted to hear on the living room record player.
Mom…This episode is for you.
So get ready to hear a collection of Italian memories often played and definitely whistled around my house growing up with Volume 176: For Mama on Mothers Day.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it. 
Credits and copyrights
The Botticelli Family Singers – For Mama and Other Italian FavoritesLabel: Diplomat Records – D 2348Format: Vinyl, LPReleased: 1965Genre: Folk, World, & Country
We will hear 7 of the 11 songs from the album.
For Mamawritten by Charles Aznavour, Robert Gall
Funiculi Funiculawritten by Luigi Denza, Peppino Turco
O Mariean adaptation of an operatic tune called Maria Mari written by Eduardo di Capua and Vincenzo Russo.
Santa LuciaA traditional Italian song first recorded by Enrico Caruso in 1916
Stretti Stretti Vincenzo Di Chiara wrote the popular Italian song "La Spagnola", also known as "Stretti stretti, nell'estasi d'amor", in 1906. 
Torna a Surrientowritten by C. Chacón, Giambattista de Curtis, Ernesto de Curtis
Ciribiribinwritten by Alberto Pestalozza, Carlo Tiochet
I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

When you think of bebop and other improvisational jazz, your mind usually hears a trumpet or saxophone as the lead. We rarely think about that instrument with the long slide that makes some pretty funny sounds as taking on any serious solo work, because, the thinking went, there was no way to be as intricate with some of the fast solos in that type of jazz.
The trombone player you are about to hear proved them all wrong. And made a pretty good name for himself in that trumpet and sax dominated world. He is joined by three amazing big names from the era as well.
So get ready to hear the musician who brought the bone to bebop in Volume 175: JJ is Blue.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it. 
Promised link for arts.gov article. 
Credits and copyrights
J.J. Johnson – Blue TromboneLabel: Columbia – CL 1303Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, MonoReleased: 1959Genre: Jazz
We will hear 5 of the 7 songs on this album.
Hello, Young LoversWritten-By – Oscar Hammerstein II and Richard Rodgers Better known together as Rodgers & Hammerstein
What's NewWritten-By – Bob Haggart and Johnny Burke
Blue Trombone, Part 1Written-By – J.J. Johnson
Blue Trombone, Part 2Written-By – J.J. Johnson
100 ProofWritten-By – J.J. Johnson
I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

One of the box sets that goes almost ignored is on the bottom row of my dad’s collection. It has a somewhat misleading title, but it includes some of the most classic standards in music.
Once again, we have no record of the musicians, the arrangers, the conductor or conductors, just that the box set is part of a much larger series put out by a company who produced radio shows…and hocked watches.
The title definitely doesn’t prepare you for the instrumentation used to perform this classic music, but it definitely grows on you.
So, get ready to hear tunes originating from the roots of American music in Volume 174: Birth of the Blues Record 2.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it. 
Credits and copyrights
The Longines Symphonette – Birth Of The Blues - Vol. 11Label: Longines Symphonette Society – C-7-11 1Series: Our Century In Music – 11Format: 3 x Vinyl, LP Box SetCountry: CanadaReleased: 1974Genre: Blues
1974 Longines Society A Library of Memorable Hits from 1900 to the Present
We are listening to record two which is side C and D.
We will hear 6 of the 10 songs.
St. Louis Blues composed by W. C. Handy
Muskat Ramblewritten by Kid Ory
Jazz Me Bluesby Tom Delaney
Wabash Bluesarranged by Joseph E. Maddy
Blues in the Nightwritten by Harold Arlen
That's A Plentyby Lew Pollack
I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

This is the second of the three main Rat Pack members we will hear from here in season four of this show. This crooner is the one we DIDN’T get to see in concert with the other two back in March of 1988 at the Richfield Coliseum.
He’s a singer, actor, and comedian. One of the most popular entertainers of the mid-20th century, he was nicknamed "The King of Cool". And his music is still among the most streamed today.
So, get ready to hear the voice that had just as many teenage girls swooning as Old Blue Eyes did in Volume 173: Dean's Swingin'.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it. 
Promised Links:Dean Martin's IMDB listingDean Martin's official website About page. 
Credits and copyrights
Dean Martin Orchestra Conducted By Nelson Riddle – This Time I'm Swingin'Label: Capitol Records – T1442Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Los Angeles PressingReleased: Oct 3, 1960Genre: JazzStyle: Easy Listening, Vocal, Swing
It was recorded during three sessions in May of 1960.
We will hear 7 of the 12 songs on the album.
I Can't Believe That You're In Love With MeWritten-By – Clarence Gaskill and Jimmy McHugh
You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You (the 1964 re-release reached number 25 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1964 and number 1 on the Billboard Easy Listening chart.)Written-By – James Cavanaugh, Larry Stock, and Russ Morgan
ImaginationWritten-By – Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Burke
Until The Real Thing Comes AlongWritten-By – Alberta Nichols, L.E. Freeman, Mann Holiner, Sammy Cahn and Saul Chaplin
Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm GoneWritten-By – Sam Stept and Sidney Clare
SomedayWritten-By – Jimmie Hodges
Just In TimeWritten-By – Adoph Green, Betty Comden and Jule Styne
I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

One hundred twelve years ago today, on April 14, 1912, while on its maiden voyage from England to New York, the unsinkable RMS Titanic struck an iceberg in the north Atlantic… then the next day did the unthinkable…it sunk.
In 1960, Meredith Willson followed up his Broadway hit The Music Man with a musical version of the fictionalized life of one of the aristocrats who survived the sinking, Margerat Brown. The musical was made into a movie in 1964 starring Debbie Reynolds as Mrs. Brown and Harve Presnell reprising his role from the stage as JJ Brown.
The film was nominated for 6 Oscars. It won none. The Titanic and scenes of the aftermath of its sinking take all of two minutes and five seconds of the entire movie that runs two hours and fifteen minutes, but there are some great song and dance numbers in the show. As well as some very funny scenes.
So, get ready to hear a raucous MGM soundtrack sung by characters molded by the backwoods and mountains of Colorado in Volume 172: Molly is Unsinkable.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it. 
Credits and copyrights
MGM Studio Orchestra with the Overture for the musical the Unsinkable Molly BrownDebbie Reynolds featured in I Ain't Down YetHarve Presnell & Orchestra - Colorado, My HomeHarve Presnell And Debbie Reynolds–I'll Never Say NoDebbie Reynolds And Chorus– Belly Up To The Bar, BoysMGM Studio Orchestra– Dolce Far Niente (Meaning Pleasant Idleness) although literally meaning sweetly and softly do nothingHarve Presnell & Cast– He's My FriendAll music written by Meredith Willson
I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.

Talk about your comeback albums. This release became the Chairman of the Board’s most commercially successful album. My dad’s favorite voice was finding it hard to sell records during the early days of rock and roll. And he wasn’t finding the top of charts as often.
He once again teamed up with the Nelson Riddle orchestra and this time struck Grammy gold.
So get ready to hear The Voice most heard around our house when I was growing up in Volume 171: Sinatra is No Stranger.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it. 
Credits and copyrights
Strangers In The NightArranged By – Ernie FreemanProducer – Jimmy BowenWritten-By – Bert Kaempfert, Charles Singleton and Eddie Snyder
Summer WindWritten-By – Henry Mayer and Johnny Mercer
All Or Nothing At AllWritten-By – Arthur Altman and Jack Lawrence
You're Driving Me Crazy!Written-By – Walter Donaldson
On A Clear DayWritten-By – Alan Jay Lerner and Burton Lane
Yes Sir, That's My Baby!Written-By – Gus Kahn and Walter Donaldson
The Most Beautiful Girl In The World (classic Sinatra phrasing)Written-By – Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart
I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.