Riets First Graduation

Offenbach: Gaîté parisienne, Strauss: Graduation Ball (Doráti/MSO)
Vinyl Rip in 24-Bit/96-kHz | FLAC tracks | cue | no log | Covers | FS, MU, HF | 1.07 GB 3% rec
1957 | Genre: Classical | Label: Mercury | Living Presence SR-90016 | US pressing, FR-1/FR-1

Brilliant recording of favorite ballet scores by a conductor who commands an appropriately energetic approach. The sound here is exceptionally live, with remarkable definition of various instruments and real "bite" to the reproduction.

(Billboard, Jan 1958)

The Doo-wop music group The Mallor-Kings presents their second album "Graduation Night" (Blau 2020). "Graduation Night" is an ambitious step forward in his musical career, after his debut album "Highschool Days" (Blau 2019). The new album includes 20 songs, 18 of his own and two versions, with a vintage sound but without artifice that carefully recreates that sound of the 50s and 60s. The album has collaborations, such as that of the violinist Sebastià Linares in "I Can't wait "and the voice of American Doo-wop Radio DJ Joe Conroy on" Sing your own song ". The design of the album and covers is the work of the Valencian artist Benjamín Martínez.
Vocal harmonies that transport us to the early years of Rock & Roll through the time tunnel for more than an hour of original songs to enjoy Doo-wop in its purest form.

A vintage and influential vocal group formed in the 1950s, the Four Freshmen's harmonic-drenched vocal style would set the stage for the Beach Boys and many others in the decades that followed, and to hear the quartet in full flight backed by jazz horns and arrangements is indeed something special, particularly since the Freshmen stack their vocals like a horn chart anyway. It makes for fun stuff, and it's heartbreakingly gorgeous more often than not. Highlights here include the breezy opening track, "Laura," the stone cold classic "Graduation Day," and the closer, "Goodnight Sweetheart." These guys must have eaten breakfast, lunch and dinner with the angels, because angels are what they sound like.