MUSIC FROM THE GREAT MOVIE THRILLERS

"VERTIGO" OST (BERNARD HERRMANN)

1. Prelude And Rooftop  4:39
2. Scotty Trails Madeline  6:15
3. Carlotta's Portrait  1:56
4. The Bay  2:56
5. By The Fireside 2:53
6. The Streets  2:23
7. The Forest 3:45
8. The Beach  3:27
9. The Dream  2:43
10. Farewell and the Tower  6:54
11. The Nightmare and Dawn  3:30
12. The Past and The Girl  3:11
13. The Letter  4:13
14. Goodnight and the Park  3:03
15. Scene d'Amour  5:04
16. The Necklace, the Return and Finale  7:20

VIRGINIA LEE: "Cabaret Dubonnet"

Original released on LP Gallotone GALP 1272

(SOUTH AFRICA, 1958)

BUDDY HOLLY Debut Album

Original released on LP Coral CRL 57210 (mono)

(US 1958, February 20)

When Buddy Holly & the Crickets broke through nationally in 1957, they were marketed by Decca Records as two different acts whose records were released on two different Decca subsidiaries - Brunswick for Crickets records, Coral for Holly records. But there was no real musical distinction between the two, except perhaps that the "Crickets" sides had more prominent backup vocals. Nevertheless, coming three months after 'The "Chirping" Crickets', this was the debut album credited to Buddy Holly. It featured Holly's Top Ten single "Peggy Sue" plus several songs that have turned out to be standards: "I'm Gonna Love You Too," "Listen to Me," "Everyday," "Words of Love," and "Rave On." The rest of the 12 tracks weren't as distinctive, though Holly's takes on such rock & roll hits as "Ready Teddy" and "You're So Square (Baby I Don't Care)" provide an interesting contrast with the more familiar versions by Elvis Presley. This was the final new album featuring Holly to be released during his lifetime. Every subsequent album was an archival or posthumous collection. (William Ruhlmann in AllMusic)

CONNIE FRANCIS: EP "Who's Sorry Now"

Released on French EP EPF mgm 25

(FRANCE, 1958)

NILLA PIZZI: "Souvenir d'Italia" (1954 - 1961)

A Legendary Recording Of BEETHOVEN's Ninth Symphony + Egmont Ouverture (1958)

Original released on LP Box Set Deutsche Grammophon 

LPM 18512/13 (mono)

(GERMANY, December 1958)

ESQUIVEL: "To Love Again" / "Cabaret Trágico"

 Original released on LP RCA Victor LPM 1345

(US, 1957)

Original released on LP RCA Victor MKL 1088

(MEXICO, 1958)

TRIO LOS PARAGUAYOS: "Viva La Vida" (1958)

PAST PERFECT: Italiano Americano

DOMENICO MODUGNO: EP "Marinai, Donne e Guai"

EP Telefunken TFK 51057 (ESPAÑA, 1958)

CARL STEVENS Debut Album

Original released on LP Mercury SR 60013

(US, 1958)

PEGGY LEE: "Things Are Swingin'"

Original released on LP Capitol T 1049

(US, July 1958)

Midway through a small lull in her live performance career, Peggy Lee recorded the stereo LP "Things Are Swingin'" in Hollywood during May 1958, at the same sessions that produced the biggest hit of her career, "Fever." (Though not on the original LP, it was added to the 2004 reissue as a bonus track.) Still, "Things Are Swingin'" isn't a high point in Lee's career, especially when considered among her many successes of the late '50s (like the following year's "Beauty and the Beat!"). Though her instincts and powers of bewitchment were faultless as ever, she betrayed a few weaknesses in her normally excellent voice (perhaps a result of her semi-retirement at the time), and the ten-piece studio orchestra - including session heavyweights Don Fagerquist, Barney Kessel, Bob Enevoldsen, Howard Roberts, Pete Candoli, and Shelly Manne - isn't given much to work with by conductor Jack Marshall. Scattered moments of brilliance abound, however, including Lee's own title song (a staple of her later live show, written with Marshall), the sleepily sensual "You're Getting to Be a Habit With Me," and "Alright, Okay, You Win," a bluesy lead that became a hit in 1958 alongside "Fever." (John Bush in AllMusic)

PEGGY LEE: "Jump For Joy"

Original released on LP Capitol T 979 (mono)

(US, 1958)

The powers that be at Capitol-EMI haven't been as thorough with their Peggy Lee reissues as they have been with, say, June Christy (a much less commercially successful artist), not to mention Frank Sinatra or Nat "King" Cole. Luckily, in 2009, the DRG label saw fit to put out domestic U.S. reissues of the previously unavailable "The Man I Love" and this "Jump For Joy", from 1957 and 1958 respectively. "Jump For Joy", Peggy Lee's second (and last) album with Nelson Riddle arrangements, was conceived as the extroverted, swinging follow-up to "The Man I Love" (which was itself produced and conducted by none other than Sinatra himself to mark her return to Capitol Records after a five-year absence). At the very least, it succeeded in securing Lee's status on the label with its solid production, classy arrangements, and, of course, her own masterful singing. "Joy" is also notable for including a number of older tunes from the '20s and '30s - songs like "Back In Your Own Back Yard," the Boswell Sisters' "When My Sugar Walks Down The Street," "Aint We Got Fun," Billie Holiday's "What A Little Moonlight Can Do," and Fred Astaire's "Cheek To Cheek." Far from making the album something of a novelty session - both Lee and Riddle can make any material sound fresh and contemporary, anyway - they only add to the bright, insouciant mood the singer and her arranger are trying to establish here. Apart from Sinatra's "Songs For Swingin' Lovers" and "A Swingin' Affair", these are some of Nelson Riddle's most hard-swinging charts. Of course, it all comes down to Peggy Lee's equally superb vocals - she has never sounded more confident or more in charge, as she looks forward to a renewed and successful association with the label where she first became a major star. (Richard Mortiflogio in AllMusic)

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