Repost: Society Favorites (That Are Our Favorites)--(Royale VLP 6042)

I'd featured this LP in 2017, and the Zippylink upload is long gone.  So, I've re-re-ripped this excellent but junkily-pressed LP in the best audio I can manage, and the sound is acceptable, save for a "wow"-filled Body and Soul and a "Twilight Three" track clearly remastered from a worn master.  I did a good deal of de-noising on the latter.

Royale, you'll recall, belonged to Elliott Everett "Eli" Oberstein, whose labels were probably the cheapest of the cheap, though I hesitate to make a claim that cheap--I mean, that large.  As is not infrequently the case with Eli, the music here is quite decent--much better than the second-rate vinyl it was pressed on.  Best of the bunch are the marvelous pre-RCA and Columbia Percy Faith sides, which date from the 1947 (orig. on the Majestic label).

Vintage easy listening which can't be beat, despite the Oberstein-quality reissue.  And can we assume that Society Favorites (That Are Our Favorites) was followed by Society Favorites (That Aren't Our Favorites)?


DOWNLOAD: Society Favorites Royale.zip FLAC

Body and Soul--Stevens Orchestra
Sweet and Lovely--Nat Brandwynne and Orchestra
Dancing in the Dark--Percy Faith and Orchestra
You and the Night and the Music--The Twilight Three
I Cover the Waterfront--Stevens Orchestra
I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plans--Chauncey Gray and Orchestra
That Old Black Magic--Percy Faith and Orchestra
The Continental--Jerry Wald and Orchestra

Society Favorites (That Are Our Favorites)--Royale VLP 6042 (10")

Lee