Glen Grays Casa Loma Orchestra - Glen Gray - Music - ACROBAT - 0824046911225 - August 6, 2021
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Glen Grays Casa Loma Orchestra

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The Casa Loma Orchestra, a co-operative enterprise led for most of it's existence by saxophonist Glen Gray, was one of the most popular and successful of the "sweet" orchestras who rose to fame during the 1930s. They played middle-of-the-road dance music and the latest songs of the day, often from Broadway and Hollywood as well as Tin Pan Alley, although their music was very much rooted in the hot orchestral jazz of the 1920s, which was particularly reflected in their early recordings. During a career which lasted into the 1960s, the orchestra enjoyed a stellar period of chart success as they racked up no less than 60 hits between 1931 and 1945, including five No. 1s. This 68-track 3-CD set comprises selected A and B sides from their releases on the Okeh, Brunswick, Victor and Decca labels during this time, and features all those sixty hits, among them the No. 1s "Blue Moon", "When I Grow Too Old To Dream", "Heaven Can Wait", "Sunrise Serenade" and "My Heart Tells Me". There are some noted names among the band's featured vocalists whose performances are included here, that list comprising Pee Wee Hunt, Kenny Sargent, Mildred Bailey, Lee Wiley, Clyde Burke, Louis Armstrong, LeBrun Sisters, Eugenie Baird and Fats Daniel. Including as it does some of the first commercial recordings of standards of the Great American Songbook, it's not only a fine musical tribute to the Casa Loma orchestra but an evocative window on the music of the era.

Media Music     CD   (Compact Disc)
Number of discs 3
Released August 6, 2021
EAN/UPC 0824046911225
Label ACROBAT ACTRCD9112
Genre Pop
Dimensions 122 × 141 × 23 mm   ·   175 g

Track list

  1. 1.   CD  

    1. Happy Days Are Here Again
    2. Casa Loma Stomp
    3. White Jazz
    4. Do the New York
    5. Blue Jazz
    6. Sophisticated Lady
    7. Under a Blanket of Blue
    8. Wild Goose Chase
    9. Trouble in Paradise
    10. It's the Talk of the Town
    11. Weep No More, My Baby
    12. Heat Wave
    13. You're Gonna Lose Your Gal
    14. Dixie Lee
    15. You Have Taken My Heart
    16. A Hundred Years from Today
    17. Infatuation
    18. Love Me
    19. The Champagne Waltz
    20. The House is Haunted (By the Echo of Your Last Goodbye)
    21. Limehouse Blues
    22. Spellbound
    23. I Never Had a Chance
  2. 2.   CD  

    1. Moon Glow
    2. Pardon My Southern Accent
    3. Two Cigarettes in the Dark
    4. Learning
    5. Out in the Cold Again
    6. You're a Builder Upper
    7. The Object of My Affection
    8. Blue Moon
    9. When I Grow Too Old to Dream
    10. The Night is Young
    11. Fare Thee Well, Annabelle
    12. Lookie, Lookie Here Comes Cookie
    13. My Heart is an Open Book
    14. With All My Heart
    15. I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm
    16. Never in a Million Years
    17. Smoke Rings
    18. I've Got My Heart Set on You
    19. Sweet As a Song
    20. I See Your Face Before Me
    21. You Go to My Head
    22. I Cried for You
    23. You Never Know
  3. 3.   CD  

    1. Song of India
    2. Gotta Get Some Shut Eye
    3. This Night (Will Be My Souvenir)
    4. Heaven Can Wait
    5. Sunrise Serenade
    6. Tears from My Inkwell
    7. Rockin' Chair
    8. If I Had My Way
    9. Tumbling Tumbleweeds
    10. Yours is My Heart Alone
    11. A Lover's Lullaby
    12. No Name Jive
    13. One Dozen Roses
    14. Don't Do It, Darling
    15. Don't Get Around Much Anymore
    16. Carry Me Back to the Lone Prairie
    17. My Heart Tells Me (Should I Believe My Heart)
    18. My Shining Hour
    19. Suddenly It's Spring
    20. Don't Take Your Love from Me
    21. Gotta Be This or That
    22. Blue Rhapsody

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