Description It's Cocktail Hour In Your Space Age Bachelor Pad!. Condition is Used and Records Play Well and Covers Are in G+ to Very Good Condition. Shipped with USPS Media Mail. Records include: Martin Denny Hawaii Tattoo: He’s an artist known for his exotica albums, but Martin Denny’s stab at Hawaiian music here is a bit bewildering. I was expecting his trademark exotica sound with perhaps some slide guitar and ukulele worked in. Instead, it's standard-issue mid-60s instrumental easy listening, with a lot of piano and a good helping of flute. On top, Hawaiian slack guitar generally takes the melody. In short, this is your standard mid-60s easy listening album, but instead of exotic versions of pop hits, we get smooth, comfortable takes onHawaiian tunes. In short, perfect cocktail hour music with Hawaiian seasoning. Boston Pops - Jalousie: Arthur Fiedler's stint at the helm of the Boston Pops produced some of the most successful "crossover" albums in pop music history, never more so than on Jalousie -the highest-charting Fiedler/Pops album ever-and its 1963 nocturnally themed follow-up, Star Dust . This great album is complemented by other gorgeous classics, like "Il Guarany", "Jamaican Rhumba" "Danze Piemontese" and others. The title tune, "Jalousie" was originally recorded by Fiedler in the 1930's and became the first orchestral disc to sell over a million copies. It is a vivid tune with a fine arrangement and superb playing. Jackie Gleason - Music For Lovers Only: Music for Lovers Only was first released in 1952 as a 10" LP with only eight songs. In 1953 it was released as an expanded 12" with eight more tracks. The album was Jackie Gleason's most popular LP and sold over 500,000 copies. Highlights include "My Funny Valentine," "I'm in the Mood for Love," and "I Only Have Eyes for You." The album's original liner notes include some fun descriptions of the "entrancing setting" for Gleason's music: "A wisp of cigarette smoke in the soft lamplight, the tinkle of a glass, a hushed whisper." Dean Martin - Everybody Loves Somebody: Since Dean Martin had been cold on the singles charts for some time -- he hadn't scored a Top 40 hit in six years -- the success of "Everybody Loves Somebody," which took off for number one upon its release in May 1964, caught Reprise Records by surprise. The label already had a Martin album on its schedule, Dream With Dean, and that LP even contained "Everybody Loves Somebody." But that was an earlier recording, not the one racing up the singles charts. So, in order to take advantage of the success of the 45, Reprise slapped together this album from stray recordings dating back to Martin's first recording session for the label more than two years before and issued it with the subtitle "The Hit Version" emblazoned on the album cover on the same day that Dream With Dean was shipped. In addition to "Everybody Loves Somebody," there were also two other tracks recorded at the same April 16, 1964, session and previously unreleased ("Your Other Love," "Siesta Fiesta"), the B-side of the single ("A Little Voice"), two tracks previously released on singles in 1962 ("Baby-O," "Just Close Your Eyes"), four tracks from the 1963 album Country Style ("Shutters and Boards," "Things," "My Heart Cries for You," "Face in a Crowd"), and two songs from the 1963 album Dean "Tex" Martin Rides Again ("From Lover to Loser," "Corrine Corrina"). Xavier Cugat - The Best of Cugat: Perhaps the most common of all Cugat albums, Best of is not unique in any way, nor is it a compilation drawn from previous releases. It is, however, a Latin dance-album powerhouse. And it draws upon the more successful lessons learned in Viva Cugat and fully exploits Mercury's "Perfect Presence Sound." "Amapola" has nearly the same swing as "Siboney"; perhaps they are from the same session. The version of Pablo Beltran Ruiz' "Sway (Quien Sera)" stands as the definitive recording of Latin, big-band dance music. "El Cumbanchero," "Tequila," and "Mama Inez" also are no slouches, and "Tea for Two Cha Cha Cha" is just glorious...and funny. The exotic "Taboo" has a boys chorus, but the strings detract from the jungle flavor. Also there are "Misirlou" and "Ba-Tu-Ca-Da." Overall, it is hardly perfect or even, but with three photos of Abbe Lane and several great, great tracks, it deserves the title The Best of Cugat. Keely Smith - Swinging' Pretty: Working for a third time with producer Nelson Riddle, this is one of the finest albums Keely ever recorded. She can be counted, alongside bandleader/trumpeter Louis Prima, among the earliest architects of Las Vegas showmanship. When the very first Grammy awards were handed out in 1959, she was up for two, losing Best Female Vocal Performance to Ella Fitzgerald but scoring, with Prima, for Best Performance by a Vocal Group for their frenetic rendition of “That Old Black Magic.” (She wasn’t in attendance to accept, but made up for it earlier this year, recreating that same “Magic” alongside a clearly out-of-his-league Kid Rock on the Grammys’ 50th-anniversary telecast). Sinatra wooed and nearly married her. Sammy and Dino numbered among her closest friends. So did Bobby Darin. JFK tapped her to perform at his inauguration. She’s walked with kings, but has never lost the common touch. Such is the magic of Keely Smith.She could (and, a more than a half-century on, still can) sing circles around the preeminent girl singers of her era: Doris Day, Jo Stafford, Patti Page, even Rosemary Clooney. Her power, her range, her interpretive skill and her emotive dexterity rival Ella and SarahJackie Gleason - Music to Make You Misty Music to Make You Misty was first released in 1957 with only eight songs. Later that year came an expanded version with eight more tracks. Music to Make You Misty was one of Gleason's last records before his popularity on the music charts waned. The album's highlights include "Prelude to a Kiss," "You Were Meant for Me," and "It All Depends on You," and features two well-known instrumental soloists, Bobby Hackett (Glenn Miller's Orchestra) on trumpet and Toots Mondello (Benny Goodman Orchestra) on alto sax. Dean Martin - Happiness Is After putting five Dean Martin albums into release in 1966, Reprise may have felt it could afford a breather in 1967, and the label waited until spring to put out the first of its two Martin LPs for the year. Then, too, with Martin hosting a weekly television show and starring in three movies in 1966, the public may have been becoming sated with the entertainer; another reason for delaying a new album was that Martin's recent singles had not performed so well. After eight consecutive Top 40 hits between 1964 and 1966, his 45s began struggling to make the middle of the pop charts (although they continued to soar into the Top Ten of the easy listening charts). Mid-chart entries "Nobody's Baby Again," "(Open Up the Door) Let the Good Times In," and "Lay Some Happiness on Me," all of them arranged in the soft rock style of "Everybody Loves Somebody," didn't seem to justify tie-in LPs. All three, along with their B-sides, were rounded up for Happiness Is Dean Martin, which meant that more than half the album consisted of tracks that had been released previously on singles. The rest were in the familiar country-pop style Martin had been pursuing for the past few years, the most impressive being a recasting of the old Patsy Cline hit "She's Got You" as "He's Got You." But the declining sales curve of Martin's releases indicated it was time to find a new formula. Tony Bennett With Al Tornello - I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face Very rare stereo 1961 release with the obscure tenor Al Tornello sharing the spotlight. Al also was featured on a similar split LP with Tommie Roe if you can believe that! Joe Reisman - Door of Dreams Reisman studied at Baylor University and at the University of Texas at El Paso. He began his music career as a saxophonist in bands like Glen Gray's Casa Loma Orchestra, Louis Prima, Bob Crosby, Frankie Masters, and Jack Teagarden; As an arranger he worked for Ray Bauduc and Gene Williams. At the end of the 1940s he gave up an active career as a musician, and worked as an arranger and producer in the Hollywood studios, among others, for Patti Page, and accompanied her on her hits "How Much Is That Doggie in the Window" and "Tennessee Waltz". He also worked on productions by Eartha Kitt ("Sho-Jo-Ji (The Hungry Raccoon)"), Sarah Vaughan, June Valli, Georgia Gibbs and the Ames Brothers.In the mid-1950s he was the musical director of several television shows, including NBC's Shower of Stars and The Oldsmobile Hour; He also worked for RCA Victor and Roulette Records. At RCA and Roulette, he also recorded several albums in an easy listening style, and had a minor hit with a cover version of Ross Bagdasarian's "Armen's Theme". At the beginning of the 1960s, Reisman returned to RCA and then worked as a producer for Henry Mancini for almost thirty years, starting with his album Our Man in Hollywood (1964).Martin Denny - Golden Greats Even if you're a Denny completist you will want this disc as it's a compilation of fabulous and previously released, hard to find recordings, except possibly "Cast Your Fate to the Wind," which is not identical to either the Exotic Moog or 45 rpm version.