Dot Records

Lalo Schifrin - There's A Whole Lalo Schifrin Goin' On (1968) {Dot Records–Universal 5342938 rel 2013}
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© 1968, 2013 Dot Records / EmArcy / Universal | 534 293 8
Jazz / Third Stream / Piano / Modern Post Bebop / Stage & Screen / Modern Arrangement

Though it may seem unlikely that Frank Zappa had much of an influence on the work of Lalo Schifrin, one can detect some cultural crossover on There's a Whole Lalo Schifrin Goin' On. Schifrin was as much a jazz-pop genius as ever, but on this album rock rhythms, musical satire, sound effects, and exotica are all used as camp in a way that is eerily reminiscent of Zappa's more thoughtful efforts. Schifrin being Schifrin, every cut has a distinct and catchy melody, but there are whimsical and satirical themes embedded in the music. Nowhere is this more obvious than in "Hawks Vs. Doves," in which a cheery carnival-like theme is played in counterpoint to a martial air, each interfering with the other.

Arthur Alexander - You Better Move On (1962) {Dot–MCA Records MCD30493, Remastered & Expanded rel 1993)
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© 1962, 1993 Dot Records / MCA Records | MCD 30493
Rhythm and Blues / Soul / Country / Southern Soul / Deep Soul

Arthur Alexander was a wonderful deep soul and country-influenced singer. He could express the urgency and longing of a soul artist and tell a story with the sensitivity and innocence of a great country artist. The title track as well as the other cuts on this greatest-hits work were his finest from the '60s. "Anna" and "You Better Move On" were turned into bigger hits by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.

Sam Butera & The Witnesses - The Wildest Clan Plus Apache! (2016) {Hoodoo Records 263554 - The Definitive Remastered Edition rec 1953-61}
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© 1953-61, 2016 Hoodoo Records | 263554 | The Definitive 24bit Remastered Edition
Jazz / Rhythm And Blues / Jump / Swing / New Orleans / Early Rock'n'Roll

Phenomenal saxophonist Sam Butera and his band The Witnesses backed Louis Prima for almost 20 years. He also made recordings in his own right and two albums from 1960/61 are coupled here. All the excitement and good humour generated on Prima recordings is present with the music becoming even more intensified with Butera in the forefront. Many of these tracks have long been unavailable. Special re-mastered CD edition includes six bonus tracks plus detailed illustrated booklet.

Howard Crockett - Out Of Bounds: The Johnny Horton Connection (2007) {Bear Family Records BCD16794AH rec 1957-1962}
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© 1957-62, 2007 Bear Family Records | BCD 16794 AH
Country / Dark Country / Rockabilly / Honky Tonk

He didn’t have many hits as a singer, but Howard Crockett wrote Honky Tonk Man, Ole Slew Foot, Whispering Pines, and All Grown Up. All Johnny Horton hits. On the strength of Honky Tonk Man, he signed a contract with Dot Records, and this CD includes all his Dot/Hamilton recordings together with the legendarily rare Manco singles, as well as the never-reissued-until-now Smash recordings. Serious rockabilly collectors have long been aware of Howard Crockett. With this CD, everyone can now appreciate a true original talent in the same vein as Johnny Horton and Johnny Cash but with a style all his own.

J-Tull Dot Com is the name of the 20th studio album by the band Jethro Tull. J-Tull Dot Com was released four years after their 1995 album Roots to Branches and continues in the same vein, marrying hard-rock and art-rock with Eastern music influences…

Billy Vaughn was one of the most popular orchestra leaders and pop music arrangers of the '50s and early '60s. In fact, he had more pop hits than any other orchestra leader during the rock & roll era…

At the turn of the millennium, legitimate in-print U.S. compilations of the recordings of Debbie Reynolds were in sufficiently short supply that when one appeared, however modest it might have been, one would tend to grade it on a curve…

Most of you will recognize the name Jan Schelhaas because you bought one of the Camel (“I can't see your house from here”, “Nude”) or Caravan records (“Blind Dog at St. Dunstans”, “Better by Far”, “The Unauthorized Breakfast Item”) on which he is one of the keyboard players. In the year 2008 Jan Schelhaas made his first solo album entitled “Dark Ships”. The successor “Living on a Little Blue Dot” was inspired by Carl Sagan's “Pale Blue Dot: A vision of the Human Future in Space”. On February 14 1990, at the request of astronomer Carl Sagan, the Voyager 1 space probe was commanded by NASA to turn its camera around to take one last photograph of Earth before leaving the solar system. On the resulting image our planet appeared as a single pixel, a pale Blue Dot. The funds necessary for recording this album came from a PledgeMusic campaign…