A boot sale find from a couple of years ago. This 10' LP on the Nixa label is from the early 60's I would guess by the artwork. This curios record of five tracks was "Conducted, Arranged and Composed by Jimmy Carroll". The sleeve notes tell us that Carroll", a top man in his profession, noted for his arrangements and versatilty" had been bitten by the "Something different" bug.Carroll was more renowned for his lush string arrangements for people like Rosemary Clooney and Marlene Dietrich. Here he tries something very different to demontstrate the new advances in high fidelity sound and comes up with something akin to the Exotica of Martin Denny and Les Baxter etc. Shame this record is so worn that these delights are rather lost under the pops and crackles! "Only nine musicians take part in this session. They each used several music stands. "operated" several instruments and displayed a light-footed sprinting ability uncommon among professional musicians."
Tracks are as follows -
1. Hong Kong Local
2. Drummer's Parade
3. Happy Little Woodpile
Jimmy Carroll - Side Two
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Outstanding record! I'm a sucker for anything percussion.
Also, it looks like this was recorded in 1953 per this website:
http://www.folkways.si.edu/TrackDetails.aspx?itemid=24048
Thanks for the great music.
Interesting record.
The observation that he wanted to try 'something different' almost casts shadow on the fact that this is a superb little record.
Thanks for posting.
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Thanks chaps. Glad this is of interest.
This is a great record, way ahead of its time for percussion.
This is not a small record - it's a big record, together with all the variety of elements. I'm almost afraid to say this.
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