Wait a minute--that's not Enoch Light...

 

It's Ginger, aka the lovely Tina Louise, smoking a cigarette and not looking very happy.  Maybe it's the make-up.  Maybe it's her having to pose for a budget label LP of recycled tracks.  No way to be sure.  This is one of those "What are they selling here?" albums, and it's titled  Moments to Remember, Volume 3, though "Volume 3" is nearly hidden in tiny font just above the title, so you might have missed it, as I did.

Volume 1 of this series has a Jayne Mansfield cover, but I haven't seen Vol. 2, so I don't know what it has in the way of artwork.  Anyway, the (for once) decent liner notes tell us that Paul Whiteman accompanies Bob Eberly on Do I Love You?--something I wouldn't have known save for skimming the notes, since the credit doesn't appear on the label.  The rest of the liner essay is a continuous take on the "Moments to Remember" theme, and in fact that very song shows up as track 1, Side 1, by the Brigadiers with Vincent Lopez--a very nice version, too.  Three instrumentals, I believe, and all by Enoch Light and His Orch., with the remaining tracks featuring vocals by (of course) Artie Malvin, (of course) Loren Becker, Peggy White, The Ink Spots (which incarnation, I don't know), Eberly, The Zig Zags, and (of course) The Brigadiers.  High quality performances with Grade-A audio, though I had to filter some spots (probably "invisible" needle wear, from an invisible needle).  All and any playing damage was easily fixed.  This is not a long-playing LP, by the way--it's a "King Size Record."  So the back cover insists.  A possible clue that budget customers were somewhat confused about record sizes and what they meant.  I vividly recall, as a kid shopping at Salvation Army, the clerks talking about "little" records vs. "big" records, as if speed wasn't a factor.  Once, when buying four 12-inch 78s of Chopin Preludes, I tried unsuccessfully to explain that the 78s shouldn't go for the same price as the 12-inch LPs.  It was a lost cause--the clerk simply repeated, "The big records are 25 cents."  Or was it 50 cents?  No, probably 25.

Anyway, as collection titles go, "Moments to Remember" definitely sounds better than "Tracks to Recycle," though it is kind of an odd effect to have a pic of Tina under that title.  I mean, I have no direct memories of Tina.  1) I've never met her, 2) and not in such a state of dress, and 3) When this came out, I was either 0 or 1 years of age.  And I was always a Mary Ann guy, anyway.  (Gilligan's Island reference, for my younger readers.)  A Dawn Wells jacket, on the other hand, would entice me into buying any LP, regardless of what it contained.  The Sound of Car Alarms, Vol. 3.  Wouldn't matter.

Hopefully, no typos in the ID tags.  I was hoping for a higher number of instrumental tracks, but I'm just lucky to get a famous "cheesecake" LP at thrift prices.  This was a pre-$1.99 purchase at the Goodwill I mentioned, so I got it for a buck.  The instrumental tracks, by the way, are classic stuff, so I'll be on the lookout for more vocal-less Enoch Light numbers.  Hope you enjoy today's offering.

DOWNLOAD: Moments to Remember, Volume 3 (Waldrof Music Hall MHK 33-1239)

Lee