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OJ-3001
Charlie Byrd: Jazz at the Showboat, Volume 1
  

OJ-3001

 

CHARLIE BYRD SEPTET

Bobby Felder (v-tb)  Buck Hill (ts)  T. Carson (p)  Charlie Byrd (g) Keter Betts (b)  Bertel Knox (drs)

Edgewood Studios, Washington D.C.; September 1958 

Byrd’s Words (5:32)                       Offbeat OJ-3001       RLP(S9)-448 

Bobby in Bassonvill (1) (4:26)                    -                             -

Tri-X (4:29)                                                 -                             -

What’s New? (4:14)                                    -                              -

Buck’s Hill (4:34)                                        -                             -

 

NOTE: (1) Kenneth Pasmanick (bassoon) replaces for B. Hill

CHARLIE BYRD

Ginny Byrd (vcl)  acc by Charlie Byrd (g)

Edgewood Studios, Washington D.C.; September 1958

Don’t Explain (3:27)                          Offbeat OJ-3001      RLP(S9)-448

Blue Turning Grey Over You (2:55)              -                            -

 

CHARLIE BYRD QUARTET

Charlie Schneer (p)  Charlie Byrd (g)  Keter Betts (b,cello)  Eddie  Phyfe (drs)

Edgewood Studios, Washington D.C.; September 1958

Satin Doll (1) (4:20)                           Offbeat OJ-3001     RLP(S9)-448

Conversation Piece (1)(2)(3) (3:36)                 -                       -

Top’s Tune (4) (2:50)                                       -  

Stompin’ At the Savoy (3:21)                           -                       -

 

NOTE: (1) C. Schnear (p) out (2) K. Betts on (cello) (3) E. Phyfe (drs) out (4) C. Byrd (g) out

OJ-3001 “Jazz at the Showboat Vol. 1” reissued as RLP(S9)-448 “Byrd’s Words”

Produced by Offbeat Records; recording Engineer & cover design: no information. 

Notes by Paul Sampson (the jazz columnist for The Washington Post and Times Herald.) 

 

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OFFBEAT RECORDS, a division of WASHINGTON RECORDS

1340 Connecticut Avenue, N. W., Washington 6, D. C. 


OJ-3002
Walter Skees: A Little Tenderness
 

OJ-3002

 

Walter Skees (vcl) acc by Charlie Byrd (g)  Ed Dimond (p)  Eddie Phyfe (drs)   Keter Betts (b)  Buck Hill (ts) 

Recording place and date: no credit (c. 1958)

Side 1

1.  Try A Little Tenderness 

2.  S’ Wonderful 

3.  September song 

4.  The Nearness of You 

5.  Just One of Those Things 

6.  Imagination 

7.  That Old Black Magic 

8.  Blue Moon 

Side 2 

1.  I Feel a Song Coming on 

2.  Someone to Watch Over Me 

3.  I’ve Got the world on A String 

4.  Love Is Here to Stay 

5.  With A Song in My Heart 

6.  Log Ago (and Far Away) 

7.  Autumn Leaves 

 

NOTE: produce & cover: no information. Notes by Jerry Strong (Dean of Washington Disc Jockeys.)

 

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OFFBEAT RECORDS, a division of WASHINGTON RECORDS 

1340 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Washington 6, D. C. 


OJ-3003
Buck Clarke: Cool Hands
  

OJ-3003

 

BUCK CLARK QUINTET

Charles Hampton (cl, as, fl, p)  Don McKenzie (vib)  Fred Williams (b)  Rosoe Hunter (drs)  Buck Clark (cga, bgo)

Washington, D.C.; December 2 & 3, 1959

Cool Hands (3:44) 

What Is this Thing Called Love? (5:25) 

Second Wind (4:14) 

Mil-Dy (3:14) 

Ed’s Blues (5:34) 

X-A-Dos (6:06)

Lover Man (4:35) 

I’ll Remember April (5:01) 

Floretta (7:03) 

 

NOTE: In “X-a-Dose, “everybody scrapes, rattles, shakes, or strikes some form of percussion.” on back-liner notes. 

Notes by Paul Sampson (formerly wrote a jazz column for the Washington Post and Times Herald) 

OJ-3003 “Buck Clarke: Cool Hands” produced by Offbeat Records. Engineered by: Edgewood Studio.

Cover design: Ivan X. Spear, photo: Jack Kasofsky.

 

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OFFBEAT RECORDS released by WASHINGTON RECORDS Inc., Washington 6, D.C. 


OJ-3004
Henry Morgan / Isobel Robins: The Saint and the Sinner
  

OJ-3004

 

HENRY MORGAN 

Henry Morgan (talk)  Isobel Robins (vcl)  with the Mickey Leonard Quartet; Mickey Leonard (p)  Mundell Lowe (g)  

Joe Benjamin (b)  Steve Little (drs)   c. 1959

Morgan-Tone System  

College Medley 

Ev’rytime 

New Cars 

Three Loves 

(commercial) 

Because We’re Kids  

(cats) 

Hi-Fi 

Look But Do Not Touch Cha-Cha 

Russian Monologue  

French Monologue  

Married Man 

Poetry and Jazz 

That Kind of a Day 

 

NOTE: Offbeat OJ-3004 “Henry Morgan and Isobel Robins: The Saint and the Sinner” Supervision: Helen Kean

Notes by Henry Morgan. Cover photo by Hans Namuth.

 

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OFFBEAT RECORDS, a division of Washington Records 


OJ-3005
Charlie Byrd: Byrd in the Wind,Jazz at the Showboat, Volume 2

OJ-3005

 

CHARLIEBYRD TRIO and members of the National Symphony Winds 

Buck Hill (ts)  Richard White (oboe)  Kenneth Pasmanick (bassoon) Wallace Mann (fl)  Charlie Schneer (p)  

Charlie Byrd (g)  Keter Betts (b) Bertell Knox (drs)  Ginny Byrd (vcl)

Edgewood Studios, Washington D.C.; 1959

Swing ’59 (1) (3:16) 

You’d Be So Nice to Come Home to (3) (2:46) 

Showboat Schuffle (5) (3:53) 

Love Letters (2) (2:58) 

Cross Your Heart (3) (2:14) 

Keter’s Dirty Blues (5) (4:10) 

You’re A Sweetheart (1) (2:30) 

Stars Fell on Alabama (3:14) (g solo) 

You Came a Long Way from St. Louis (4) (3:25) 

Wait Till You See Her (2) (2:48) 

Georgia on My Mind (4) (3:07)  

Copacabana (6) (2:55) 

 

NOTE: (1) C. Byrd trio plus woodwinds (White, Mann, Pasmanick)

(2) C. Byrd plus woodwinds (White, Mann, Pasmanick)

(3) C. Byrd with G. Byrd (vcl)

(4) C. Byrd trio plus C. Schneer(p) and G. Byrd (vcl)

(5) C. Byrd trio plus B. Hill (ts)

(6) C. Byrd trio plus C. Schneer (p) and B. Hill (ts)

12 titles also on RLP(S9)-449, VIJ-4081

OJ-3005 & RLP(S9)-449 “Byrd in the Wind”  Produced by Offbeat Records; recording Engineer: no information. 

Notes by Felix Grant (WMAL , Washington, D.C.)  Cover design by Edmond Harris; photo by Fred Maroon.

 

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OFFBEAT RECORDS a division of Washington Records 


OJ-3006
Charlie Byrd Trio: Jazz at the Showboat, Volume 3
  

OJ-3006

 

CHARLIE BYRD QUARTET & TRIO

Charlie Schneer (p)  Charlie Byrd (g)  Keter Betts (b)  Bertel Knox (drs)

Washington D.C.; 1959

Blues for Felix (2:57)                         Offbeat OJ-3006     RLP(S9)-450

Travellin’ on (2:34)                                          -                         -

Play Fiddle Play (3:35)                                    -                         -

Funky Flamenco (2:49)                                    -                         -

Mama, I’ll Be Home Some Day (3:11)            -                         -   

Lay the Lily Low (5:54)                                   -                         -

Who Cares? (2:12)                                           -                         -

C. Schneer out 

Gypsy in My Soul (2:54)                    Offbeat OJ-3006     RLP(S9)-450

n A Mellotone (3:13)                                        -                          -                RLP-3507

Prelude to A Kiss (4:43)                                   -                          -

My One and Only Love (2:41)                         -                          -

How Long Has This Been Going on? (3:41)    -                          -                RLP-3517

 

NOTE: OJ-3006 “Jazz at the Showboat, Vol. 3” produced by Offbeat Records. Cover by Ivan X. Spear.

Notes by Tom Scanlan (Jazz columnist, Army Times, Washington correspondent, Dow Beat.)

RLP(S9)-450 “Charlie Byrd: Mr. Guitar”

RLP-3507 “The Compositions of Duke Ellington Vol. 1”

RLP-3517 “Great Artists Play George Gershwin”

 

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OFFBEAT RECORDS  A Division of Washington Records, Inc., Washington 6, D.C. 

OLP-3007


OLP-3007
Charlie Byrd: Charlie’s Choice,
Jazz at the Showboat, Volume 4
  

 

CHARLIE BYRD TRIO

Charlie Byrd (g)  Keeter Betts (b)  Buddy Deppenschmidt (drs)

Edgewood Studios, Washington D.C.; 1960

Moonlight in Vermont (2:49) 

Taking A Chance on Love (1:55) 

Speak Low (3:41) 

Nuages (2:59) 

Everything I’ve Got Belong to You (2:18) 

Makin’ Woopee (2:42) 

Django (1) (3:22) 

Nice Work If You Can Get It (1:45) 

The House of the Rising Sun (5:26) 

Ring Them Harmonics (3:47) 

Taboo (9:40) 

To Ginny (5:25) 

 

NOTE: (1) C. Byrd (g) solo

all 12 titles also on VICJ-60483CD, UCCO-5140CD

OLP(S9)-3007 “Jazz at the Showboat Vol. 4; Charlie’s Choice” reissued as RLP(S9)-451, OLP-3007

RLP(S9)-451 “The Guitar Artistry of Charlie Byrd” 

OLP(S9)-3007 “The Guitar Artistry of Charlie Byrd” (reissue of Interdisc. 7th album of this series, like “RLP-007”) 

 

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OFFBEAT RECORDS are produced by BILL GRAUER PRODUCTIONS, Inc. 

235 West 46th Street New York City 36, New York 

OLP-3008


OLP-3008
Charlie Byrd at the Village Vanguard
  

 

CHARLIE BYRD TRIO

Charlie Byrd (g)  Keter Betts (b)  Buddy Deppenschmidt (drs)

‘live’ at The Village Vanguard, NYC; January 15, 1961

Just Squeeze Me (13:03)  

Why Was I Born? (5:58) 

You Stepped out of A Dream (6:50) 

Fantasia on Which Side Is You on? (20:36) 

 

NOTE: all 4 titles also on M-47049 & VICJ-60695CD

OLP(S9)-3008 “Charlie Byrd at the Village Vanguard” reissued as RLP(S9)-452. 

Produced by Offbeat Records; recording Engineer & cover: no information. Notes by Peter Drew

 

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OFFBEAT RECORDS are produced by BILL GRAUER PRODUCTIONS, Inc. 

235 West 46th Street New York City 36, New York 

OLP-3009


OLP-3009
Charlie Byrd: Blues Sonata
  

 

CHARLIE BYRD QUARTET

Barry Harris (p)  Charlie Byrd (g)  Keter Betts (b)  Buddy Deppenschmidt (drs)

Plaza Sound Studios, NYC; October 23, 1961

Alexander’s Ragtime Band (5:25)                    Offbeat OLP-3009     RLP(S9)-453     RLP-3519

Jordu (4:35)                                                                      -                            -

That Old Devil Called Love (4:46)                                  -                            -

Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart (4:29)                      -                            -

 

CHARLIE BYRD TRIO

Charlie Byrd (g)  Keter Betts (b)  Buddy Deppenschmidt (drs)

Plaza Sound Studios, NYC; October 24, 1961 

The Blues Sonata:  Offbeat OLP-3009, RLP(S9)-453 

Polonaise Pour Pietro (6:54)

Ballad in B Minor (4:57)

Scherzo for an Old Shoe (9:01)

 

NOTE: all 5 titles also on SMJ-6054 & VIJ-147

OLP-3009 “Blues Sonata” reissued as RLP(S9)-453

Produced by Orrin Keepnews; recording Engineer: Ray Fowler. Notes by Joe Goldberg. 

Cover design by Ken Deardoff, back-liner photo by Steve Schapiro. 

RLP-3519 “Great Jazz Artists Play Compositions of Irving Berlin” 

 

RLP(S9)-453

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RLP-3519 

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OFFBEAT RECORDS are produced by BILL GRAUER PRODUCTIONS, Inc. 

235 West 46th Street New York City 36, New York 

OLP-3010


OLP-3010
Mundell Lowe Orchestra: Tacet for Neuritocs
  

 

MUNDELL LOWE AND HIS ORCHESTRA

Joe Wilder (tp)  Jim Buffington, John Barrows (frh)  Don Hammond (fl) Jerry Roth (oboe)  Jimmy Carroll (cl, b-cl)  Bernard Garfield (bassoon)   Mundell Lowe (g) Trigger Alpert (b)   Ed Shaughnessy (drs) 

recorded under the personal supervision of Alec Wilder

Reeves Sound Studios, NYC; June 12, 1956

Walk Softly (2:48)                                 RLP12-219

What Happened Last Night (2:07)                 -

Tacet for Neurotics (2:11)                              -               S(S9)-3

The Endless Quest (2:47)                               -

 

Reeves Sound Studios, NYC; June 19, 1956

Let’s Get Together and Cry (2:33)        RLP12-219

Pop, What’s A Passacaglia? (2:25)                -

No Plans (2:38)                                              -

An Unrelenting Memory (3:14)                     -

 

Milt Hinton (b) replaces for T. Alpert

Reeves Sound Studios, NYC; July 3, 1956

Suggestion for Bored Dancers (1:49)    RLP12-219

She Never Wore Make up (3:42)                    -

Mama Never Dug This Scene (1:31)              -

Around The World in (2:34)                           -

 

NOTE: all 12 titles also on VIJJ-30053, Offbeat OLP-3010

RLP12-219 “New Music of Alec Wilder”

Offbeat OLP-3010 “The Music of Alec Wilder: Tacet for Neuritocs”

Produced by Bill Grauer and Orrin Keepnews, recording Engineer: Jack Higgins. Notes by Frank Sinatra. 

Cover design by Ken Deardoff; back-liner photo by Lawrence Shustak. 

S(9)-3 “Riverside Modern Jazz Sampler”

 

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S(S9)-3 

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A WINTER TALE by Paul Winter: songs designed to make you think … for happy people with happy problems   

OFFBEAT RECORDS are produced by BILL GRAUER PRODUCTIONS, Inc. 

235 West 46th Street New York City 36, New York 

OLP-4010

 

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OLP-4010
Paul Winter: A Winter's Tale

 

Paul Winter (vcl)  Charlie Byrd (g-1)  Eddie Dimond (p-2, harpsichord-3, bng-4)

c. middle 1950s

Tired Blood (4) (3:00) 

Automation Blues (2) (3:15) 

Film Clip (3) (1:45) 

Stalin Met Trotsky in Hell (2) (2:35) 

Good Bishop Berkeley (3) (2:25) 

Toptoon (The D.J.) (1) (2) (6:04) 

Actor’s Studios (Tempo di Tennessee) (1) (2:08) 

Ballad of Orval Faubus (Little Orvy) (2) (1:34) 

Team Man (2) (2:37) 

Hollywood Hot Stuff (4:21) 

All Hail (0:43)

Sing a Song of Schopenhauer (1:32) 

Had It (2) (3:23) 

Fallout (2) (2:17) 

 

NOTE: Offbeat 4010 “Paul Winter: A Winter’s Tale” all material and performances by Paul Winter.

Additional copies are available from Offbeat Records (4010) 

Notes by Herbert Gold. Recording and cover data: no information.

 

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OLP-4011


OLP-4011
Ben Bagley's "Shoestring Revue"
  

 

BEN BAGLEY’S SHOESTRING REVUE; and original Cast recording  

Dody Goodman, Dorothy Greener, Beatrice Arthur, Dorothes Freitag, Fay De Witt, John Bartis, Eddie Hilton, 

Bill McCutcheon, G. Wood; Dorothea Freitag (musical Direction & arr) Miss Freitag & Liza Redfield (p) 

Ralph Roberts (perc)  Ben Bagley (cast & assemble)

c. middle 1950s

Man’s Ihjumanity to Man 

Someone Is Sending Me Flowers 

Roller Derby 

Garbage 

In Bed with the Reader’s Digest 

Laddie 

The Sea Is All Around Us 

Mink – Mink – Mink - 

History of the World 

Couldn’t Be Happier 

Paducah 

Medea in Disneyland 

Fresh and Young 

 

NOTE: Offbeat O-4011 “Ben Bagley’s Shoestring” produced by Offbeat Records. Recorded by David Hancock.

Cover design: no information. Photo by Avery Willard. 

 

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OFFBEAT RECORDS a division of Washington Records.

1340 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Washington 6, D.C. 

OLP-4012

OLP-4012
Ben Bagley's "Shoestring '57"

 

BEN BAGLEY’S SHOESTRINGS ‘57

Beatrich Arthur, Fay De Witt, Dody Goodman, Dorothy Greener, John Bartis, Eddie Hilton, Bill McCutcheon, G. Wood; Dorothea Freitag (musical Direction & arr)  Miss Freitag & Liza Redfield (piano duo)  Ralph Roberts (perc) 

Ben Bagley (cast & assemble) c. 1957

What’s A Show 

Lament on Fifth Avenue 

Crib Notes for a Certain Sro 

Renoir, Degas & Toulouse 

The Trouble with Miss Manderson 

The Arts 

Don’t Say You Like Tchaikovsky 

Grace Fogerty 

Gonna Be Rich 

Rochelle Hudson Tango 

Coffee 

Family Trouble 

On A Shoestring 

 

NOTE: Offbeat O-4012 “Ben Bagley’s Shoestrings ‘57” produced by Offbeat Records. Recorded by David Hancock? 

Cover design: no information. Photo by Avery Willard. 

 

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OFFBEAT RECORDS a division of Washington Records.

1340 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Washington 6, D.C. 


OLP-4013
Rev. Julius Monk Presents Ronny Graham in “Take Five”
  

OLP-4013

 

A New Caberet Concept with Jean Arnold, Ceil Cabot, Ellen Hanley, Gerry Matthews 

Directed and staged by Max Adrian and John Heawood – Music Arrangements Stan Kean. 

Side 1 

  1. Julius Monk Presents: Upstairs at the Downstairs Waltz 

  2. Roger the Rabbit 

  3. Night Heat! 

  4. Perfect Stranger 

  5. Gristedes 

  6. Poet’s Corner 

Side 2 

  1. Gossiping Grapevine 

  2. Westport 

  3. Witchcraft 

  4. The Pro Musica Antiqua 

  5. Harry the Hipster 

  6. Doing the Psycho – Neurotique 

 

NOTE: produced for records by Abbot Luiz and recoding engineered and mastered by David Hancock.  

 

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OFFBEAT RECORDS a division of WASHINGTON RECORDS,INC. 

Washington 6, D. C. 

OLP-4014


OLP-4014
Washington Pro Musica Erotica:
The Restoration Revisited or the Pursuit of Happiness  
 

 

Details unknown 

Side 1 

    1.Upon Sir Toby’s Ground 

    2. The Magdalen 

    3. No, No, Says Rose, I’ll Die 

    4. Come on , Here’s John 

    5. The Amourous Parley 

    6. ‘Mongst Other Roses 

    7. Catch on the Midnight Cis 

    8. Young Anthony Peeping 

    9. Milady’s Longing 

  10. Phoebe’s Picture 

  11. ‘Tis Strange Sister Ruth 

Side 2 

    1. Upon His Measure 

    2. To Thee and to the Maid 

    3. Chloe at Cock’s Auction 

    4. The Virginal Lesson 

    5. Milady’s Coachman 

    6. A Stitch in Time 

    7. Upon John Cooper’s Timber 

    8. Look at Mine Eyes 

    9. Once, Twice, Thrice 

 

NOTE: Record Engineered by Edgewood Studio. Engineer: no information. 

Cover design by Ivan X. Spear and illustration by Ralph Robinson. 

 

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OLP-4015
Rev. Julius Monk Presents “Demi-Dozen”aged 
  

OPL-4015

 

Jean Arnold, Ceil Cabot, Jane Connell, Jack Fletcher, George Hall and Gerry Matthews. 

Directed and Staged by John Heawood – Musical Arrangements by Sta Keen. 

Stab Keen and Gordon Connell at the Plural Pianos, 

Side 1 

  1. Grand Opening 

  2. Yes Sirree 

  3. Mister Off-Broadway 

  4. You Fascinate Me So 

  5. Conference Call 

  6. The Holy Man and the New Yorker 

  7. The Race of the Lexington Avenue Express 

  8. Sunday in New York 

  9. The Intellectuals’ Rag 

Side 2 

  1. A Seasonal Sonatina 

  2. One and All 

  3. Portofino 

  4. Guess Who Was There 

  5. 3rd Avenue El 

  6. Statehood Hula 

  7. Grand Finale 

 

NOTE: produced by Records by Abbot Lutz. Recording Engineered and mastered by Tommy Nola. Cover by Wittstein/ Miller 

 

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OFFBEAT RECORDS: A division of Washington Records, Inc.

Washington 6, D. C. 1340 Connecticut Avenue 

OLP-4016


OLP-4016
Rev. Julius Monk:
"Pieces of Eight" an original cast recording 
  

 

Julius Monk, Gerry Matthews, Ceil Cabot, William Roy (p) Carl Norman, Gordon Connell, Estelle Parsons, Del Close, Jane Connell, Buddy Schwab and Word Baker. 

Side 1 

  1. Overture and Gala Opening 

  2. Happiness Is A bird 

  3. And then I Wrote 

  4. Radio City Music Hall 

  5. Miss Williams 

  6. The Uncle Bergie Evans Show 

  7. Oriental 

  8. Ardent Admirer 

  9. Steel Guitars and Barking Seals 

Side 2

  1. Election Spectacular 

  2. Seasons Greetings 

  3. a Name of Our Own 

  4. M’Lady Chatterley 

  5. Farewell 

  6. The Night the Hurricane Struck 

  7. Everybody Wants to Be Loved 

  8. A Conversation Piece 

 

NOTE: Recording Engineered and mastered by David Hancock. Notes by Tim Taylor. Cover by Miller/ Wittstein. 

 

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OFFBEAT RECORDS: a division of Washington Records, Inc.

Washington 6, D. C. 

4017  Rev. Julius Monk: "Four Below Strikes Back"

4018  untitled, unreleased album with Ronny Graham

4019

 

OLP-4020


OLP-4020
Martyn Green: Libertine Limericks and Other Ribaldries, Bawdries, and Concerts Read by Martyn Green  
  

 

Selections from the anthology, A Treasury of Ribaldry, edited by Louis Untermeyer (published by Hanover House) 

Reeves Sound Studios, NYC; December 1956 

Side 1

  1. Ovid: The Art of Love (Book II) 

  2. Silentiarius: The Virgin Mistress 

  3. Benjamin Franklin: Advice on the Choice of Mistress 

  4. A Handful of Limericks 

Side 2 

  1. Ovid: The Art of Love (Book III) 

  2. Some Aphorisms of Oscar Wilde 

  3. Apuleius: The Deceits of Woman (from The Golden Ass) 

  4. Robert Herrick: Upon the Nipples of Julia’s Breast 

  5. Boccaccio: Putting the Devil in Hell (from The Decameron)

  6. Bassus: Strictly for the Gods 

 

NOTE: OLP-4020 is reissue of RLP7001 “A Treasury of Ribaldry” read by Martyn Green 

A HIGH FIDELITY Recording (Audio Compensation: RIAA Curve) . 

LP produced and edited by Bill Grauer and Barrett Clark. 

Notes excerpted from the editor’s Foreword to the book, “A Treasury of Ribaldry” (c. 1956, by Louis Untermeyer). 

Cover designed by Ken Deardoff; Engineer: Jack Higgins (Reeves Sound Studios); New York; December 1956.

 

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OFFBEAT RECORDS are Produced by BILL GRAUER PRODUCTIOS,INC. 

235 West 46th Street New York 36, New York 


OLP-4021
Oscar Brand: American Drinking Songs    
  

OLP-4021

 

RLP12-630 OSCAR BRAND: AMERICAN DRINKING SONGS 

Oscar Brand (vcl, g)  acc by Erik Darling (vcl,g) 

Ritter & Lerner, New York; May 1956 

Little Brown Jug 

Vive L’Amour 

Quartermaster Corps 

Three Jolly Coachmen 

Red Light  Saloon 

Mother Rackett’s 

No More Booze 

I’ve Been a Moonshiner 

Rye Whiskey 

Drunk Last Night 

Good Old Mountain Dew 

Old King Cole 

Johnson’s Ale 

Copper Kettle 

The E-R-I-E Was Rising 

Bootlegger’s Song 

Whiskey Johnny 

 

NOTE: OLP-4021 Oscar Brand: American Drinking Songs” reissue of RLP12-630 & WLP-725

RLP12-630 edited by Kenneth S. Goldstein, notes written by Oscar Brand. 

Cover photograph courtesy of McSorley’s Old Ale House, New York; by Paul Weller. 

 

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OLP-4022


OLP-4022
Patrick Galvin: Irish Drinking Songs 
  

 

RLP12-604 PATRICK GALVIN: IRISH DRINKING SONGS 

Patrick Galvin (vcl)  acc with Al Jeffery (bj, g)

c. mid-late 1950s

A Sup of Good Whiskey 

Mush Mush 

Lanigan’s Ball 

A Toast to Ireland 

The Rakes of Mallow 

The Cruiskeen Lawn 

Garrowen 

Mick McGilligan’s Daughter

Finnegan’s Wake 

The Real Old Mountain Dew 

One-Eyed Reilly 

Barry of Macroom 

The Moonshiner 

Flowing Bumpers 

Master McGrath 

The Parting Glass 

 

NOTE: OLP-4022 “Patrick Galvin: Irish Drinking Songs” reissue of RLP12-604 

RLP12-604 “Irish Drinking Songs” edited by Kenneth S. Goldstein and notes written by Patrick Galvin. 

Instrumental arrangements by William Sahnow. Cover by Paul Bacon. 

 

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OLP-4023


OLP-4023
Patrick Galvin: Irish Drinking Songs 
  

 

Ewan MacColl (vcl)  Alf Edwards (concertina-1)  Brian Daly (g-2)

c. mid-late 1950s

We’re A’Jolly Fu’ (1:42)                                                RLP12-605

The Calton Weaver (1) (2:15)                                                -                S-2

When She Came Ben She Bobbit (0:46)                               -

The Laird of the Dainty Doon Bye (2:32)                             -

Blow the Candle Out (2) (1:23)                                             -

Donald Blue (2:40)                                                                -

The Brewer Laddie (3:06)                                                     -

We’re Bayly Yet (2) (1:15)                                                    -

A Wee Drappie O’t (2:39)                                                      -

The Cuckoo’s nest (0:58)                                                       -

Green Grow the Rashes, O (0:58)                                         -

The Day We Went to Rothesay, O (1) (2:25)                         -

The Bobbie Wee Lassie Who Never Said No (1:26)             -

The Muckin’ o’ Geordie’s Byre (2:45)                                  -

Jock Hawk’s Adventures in Glasgow (2) (2:32)                    -

The Brisk Young Lad (2:29)                                                  -

I Wish That You Were Dead, Guidman (2:09)                       -

The Wind Blew the Bonnie Lassie’s 

Plaidie Awa’ (1) (2:57)                                                           -

Andro and His Cutty Gun (1:47)                                           -

 

NOTE: all 19 titles also on Offbeat OLP-4023

RLP12-605 “Ewan MacColl: Scots Drinking Songs” reissued as Offbeat OLP-4023 “Scotch Drinking Songs”

S-2 “Riverside Folk Song Sampler”

Edited by Kenneth S. Goldstein

 

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OLP-4901


OLP-4901
Henry Miller: Life as I See It
  

 

Recorded in conversation with BEN GRAUER, a “first audition”, never previously released 

New York; April 1956 

Side 1

  1. Morality and modern man (5:50) 

  2. Playing It Safe (7:25) 

  3. Pebble in the Pond (1:40) 

  4. French Prostitutes and German (3:45) 

Side 2 

  1. Our Insect World (6:30) 

  2. The Paris “houses” (7:15) 

  3. Getting Free (5:00) 

 

NOTE: Produced by Bill Grauer. Edited by Ben Grauer and Barrett Clark. Recorded in New York City. 

See RLP-7002/03 “Henry Miller: Recalls and Reflects” 

 

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5700   OFFBEAT RECORDS SOUND EFFECTS LIBRARY 

5700

         Of all the human senses, hearing is the one most capable of creating images in the mind’s eye.  Sight is too accurate to allow the imagination to flourish-movies and still photos reflect the work of the eye perfectly, and the senses of smell, touch and taste are too personal.  But in reproducing accurately the sounds around us, the ear is given the opportunity to concentrate on those fleeting noises – so much sound in motion – which are so much a part of human life.  In creating this large and most accurate sound effects library, OFFBEAT is establishing a permanent record of the most significant – and sometimes insignificant – sounds of the world, as well as providing intellectual and emotional   stimulation to people of all kinds.  We have listed only a few groups for whom these records will provide both enjoyment and value. In particular, children will respond to the variety of sounds presented here, for in their innocence, pure sound has an enormous appeal to them, adding realism to their fantasies and helping to enrich the experience of learning. 

          These sounds were recorded under the most suitable conditions, with the finest equipment available, and were selected for their purity and clarity. 


OLP-95701
SOUNDS EFFECTS LIBRARY, VOLUME 1:
Sounds of Aircraft (stereo) 
  

OLP-95701

 

Side 1

    1. JET Fighter: Low overhead pass with afterburner 

    2. JET Fighter: Low overhead pass without afterburner 

    3. JET Fighter: Low overhead pass 

    4. JET Fighter: Starting 

    5. JET Fighter: Taxing 

    6. JET Fighter: Takeoff 

    7. JET Fighter: High fly-by with a afterburner 

    8. JET Fighter: High fly- without afterburner 

    9. JET Fighter: Sonic boom 

  10. JET Bomber: Takeoff 

  11. JET Fighter: Landing 

  12. WORLD WAR I Fighter: Inertia starer on Liberty engine 

  13. WORLD WAR I Fighter: Rotary Engine warming up 

  14. WORLD WAR I Fighter: Rotary Engine fly-by 

  15. WORLD WAR I Fighter: Mercedes 6 cyl. Warming up 

  16. WORLD WAR I Fighter: Mercedes 6 cyl. Fly-by 

  17. WORLD WAR I Fighter: OX-5 (Jenny) engine warming up 

  18. WORLD WAR I Fighter: OX-5 (Jenny) engine fly-by 

  19. GENERAL Dirigible: Overhead pass 

  20. GENERAL helicopter: Overhead 

  21. SPORT 1920-30: Takeoff 

  22. SPORT 1950-60: Takeoff 

Side 2 

    1. WORLD WAR II Medium Bomber: Starting and taxiing 

    2. WORLD WAR II Medium Bomber: Takeoff

    3. WORLD WAR II Medium Bomber: Low overhead pass  

    4. WORLD WAR II Medium Bomber: taxi-in and shut off 

    5. WORLD WAR II Fighter: Rolls-Royce Merlin warming up 

    6. WORLD WAR II Fighter: Rolls-Royce Merlin takeoff 

    7. WORLD WAR II Fighter: Rolls-Royce Merlin fly-by 

    8. WORLD WAR II Fighter: Radial Engine start and warming up 

    9. WORLD WAR II Fighter: Radial Engine fly-by 

  10. WORLD WAR II Fighter: Radial Engine taxi-in-and shut off 

  11. COMMERCIAL 4-engine: Turboprop start and taxi 

  12. COMMERCIAL 4-engine: Gas engine takeoff 

  13. COMMERCIAL 4-engine: Full jet taxi and shut off 

  14. COMMERCIAL 4-engine: Start and taxi 

  15. COMMERCIAL 2-engine: Gas engine takeoff 

 

NOTE: Produced by Barrett Clark; recorded on Ampex tape recording equipment, using Telefunken, RCA, Electrovoice, Astatic, 

and American microphones. 

 

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Offbeat Records are produced by Bill Grauer Productions, Inc. 

235 West 46th Street New York 36, N. Y. 

OLP-95702


OLP-95702
SOUNDS EFFECTS LIBRARY, VOLUME 2:
Sounds in and Amusement Park (stereo)  
  

Side 1

  1. Carousel (Steeplechase Park)  

  2. Fun House Barker 

  3. “Toss the ball …” 

  4. Machine-gun Target Range 

  5. The “Thunderbolt” 

  6. Carousel 

  7. Side Show Barker 

  8. Calliope 

Side 2 

  1. Freak Show Barker 

  2. Calliope 

  3. Putt-Putt Cars 

  4. “Guess your age and weight …” 

  5. “Test your strength …” 

  6. Peanut Whistle 

  7. Skin-the-Wire Game 

  8. Nathan’s Famous Resturant 

  9. Another Carousel 

 

NOTE: Produced by Barrett Clark; recorded on Ampex tape recording equipment, using Telefunken, RCA, Electrovoice, Astatic, 

and American microphones. 

 

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Offbeat Records are produced by Bill Grauer Productions, Inc. 

235 West 46th Street New York 36, N. Y. 

OLP-5706


OLP-5706
SOUNDS EFFECTS LIBRARY, VOLUME 6: Sounds of the Home

Side 1 

    1. Water in sink 

    2. Scree Door 

    3. Sink Emptying 

    4. Can Opening (Beer) 

    5. Striking Match 

    6. Toilet Flushing 

    7. Winding Watch 

    8. Egg Frying 

    9. Upstairs and Down 

  10. Shaving 

  11. Lawn Raking 

  12. Power Mower 

Side 2 

    1. Garbage Can 

    2. Dog 

    3. Dishwashing 

    4. Oven Lighting 

    5. Egg Beater 

    6. Teakettle 

    7. Can Opener 

    8. Burners Lighting 

    9. Icebox Door 

  10. Icetray and Glass 

  11. Door Slam 

  12. Vacuum Cleaner 

  13. Aluminum Foil 

  14. Cat 

 

NOTE: Produced by Barrett Clark; recorded on Ampex tape recording equipment, using Telefunken, RCA, Electrovoice, Astatic, 

and American microphones. 

 

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Offbeat Records are produced by Bill Grauer Productions, Inc. 

235 West 46th Street New York 36, N. Y. 

OLP-5708


OLP-5708
SOUNDS EFFECTS LIBRARY, VOLUME 8 :

Musical Backgrounds of Many Lands, Vol. 1 Typical Selections

 

Side 1 

  1. United States – Dixieland 

  2. Ireland – Reel 

  3. Mexico – Mariachi 

  4. Poland – Polka 

  5. Spain – Classical guitar 

Side 2 

  1. Unites States – Hillbilly 

  2. Spain – Flamenco 

  3. Latin America – Pachanga 

  4. Africa – Tribal music 

  5. United States – Modern Jazz 

 

NOTE: Produced by Barrett Clark; recorded on Ampex tape recording equipment, using Telefunken, RCA, Electrovoice, Astatic, 

and American microphones. 

 

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Offbeat Records are produced by Bill Grauer Productions, Inc. 

235 West 46th Street New York 36, N. Y. 

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