And here's Steve Lawrence Meets Tennessee Ernie Ford, restored--that is, with the Steve Lawrence tracks included! You get the entire LP this time--all nearly 30 minutes worth. Glad that people requested the Lawrence, because the tracks are very good. Lawrence--who I'm happy to discover is still with us--had a fabulous voice, as you will here hear. I mean, hear here. The fidelity on these sides is infinitely better than on the Ford tracks, suggesting they're not from "telescriptions." Though three of theses titles match 1952 King Records titles recorded by Lawrence, I'm almost sure (not having listened to compare) that these are from a difference source. Other than King, I mean. Are they demos? The same five tracks showed up on Premier and Spinorama, a.k.a. Spin-O-Rama, the latter being a Premier label. (Nothing makes perfect sense when we're talking budget groups!) So they had to be tracks that were floating around--five stray tracks, up for sale to whatever budget label wanted to falsely promise the buyer a Steve Lawrence "album" for the price of barely half of one. At least there were five tracks--the cheapo labels pulled the same stunt with even less material. I have a Premier label Petula Clark LP with two entire Petula tracks. You get what you don't pay for. It should be noted that this LP, despite the conservative playing time and dreadful audio quality on Side B, was a genuine bargain among bargain-priced LPs, so it's one of those accidental dollar-bin gems.
I restored the track order, and, as you can see, I used the undoctored cover image this time for the post.
CLICK HERE TO HEAR: Steve Lawrence, T.E. Ford (Camay 3007; l963)
STEVE LAWRENCE
Little Girl
Never Leave Me
Hands Across the Table
All My Love Belongs to You
Mine and Mine Alone
TENNESSEE ERNIE FORD
Shotgun Boogie
She's My Baby
You Don't Have to Be a Baby to Cry
Woman Is a Five Letter Word
Stack-O-Lee
Kissin' Bug Boogie
Steve Lawrence Meets Tennessee Ernie Ford (Camay 3007; 1963)
Lee
5 comments:
Thanks for the Steve L. tracks!
Ask, and we shall receive! This is what I call blogger super-service.
Thanks for adding Steve-O. I lump him into the Perry Como/Tony Martin/Bobby Darin class of singers who had excellent voices and styles, but weren't far enough removed vocally from Sinatra, Dean Martin, or Dick Haymes to become bigger names than they were. Lawrence is actually up there on my list of male vocalists, and he had the added bonus of lovely Eydie to team with. And I think he was a pretty good cornball actor when he appeared in TV programs (look up the Night Gallery episode "The Dearly Departed").
Thanks for the bonus, Lee!
Steve is great. These tracks also showed up on Premier and Spinorama, and possibly others of their ilk.
One of the King 78 promos says that Steve appeared on the Arthur Godfrey talent scout program before being signed to King. This may be the source of the recordings, although there is no trace of an audience.
This would be a good post to revive in the wake of Steve's passing on Thursday.
Some good new one's on Lee's Fake Hits. Am Curious to find out how the Dottie Evans "Lollipop"sounded--did she overdub her voices four times to get the vocal sound of the Chordettes?
Also, the Jim Everett "Turn Me Loose" is okay but not great. You really should be on the lookout for the Broadway/Gilmar version. In my opinion, Steve Marks did an excellent job on this Fabian classic and added some of his unique vocal sound to it as well. My copy is on a green Gilmar label following two awful Steve Marks covers of Kookie Kookie Lend Me Your Comb and Kansas City.
Also, hope you will get around to posting Biggest Hits of'58 Volume One. Thanks in advance.
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