With Orchestra (72 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Color photography by Garrett-Howard (illustrator). 1st Edition. Not a book but a 12-inch, 33-1/3 rpm "Hi-fi" (mono) vinyl jazz vocal album, Liberty LRP 3105. very-good-plus vinyl in a "good-only" cardboard jacket which shows considerable wrinkling from dampness to right side of the front panel (stamped "Promotional / Not for Sale" in red to verso.) Miss London offers Rodgers & Hammerstein's "That's For Me," Rodgers & Hart's "Nobody's Heart," Noel Coward's "Mad About the Boy," the Gershwins' "My Man's Gone Now," and producer Bobby Troup's "Well, Sir," and "Just the Way I Am." London (1926-2000), a favorite WWII pin-up girl and 1945 graduate of the Hollywood Professional High School, was discovered by talent agent Sue Carol (wife of actor Alan Ladd), while working as an elevator operator. (Honest.) Known for her sultry, smoky voice (literally -- she was a chain smoker), she was named most popular American female vocalist for 1955, 1956, and 1957 by Billboard magazine. Subject of a 1957 cover story in Life magazine, she was quoted saying, "It's only a thimbleful of a voice, and I have to use it close to the microphone. But it is a kind of oversmoked voice, and it automatically sounds intimate." London performed her million-selling 1955 hit "Cry Me a River" in the 1956 film "The Girl Can't Help It" and the recording gained later attention in the films "Passion of Mind" (2000) and "V for Vendetta" (2006), though Miss London will of course always be best remembered for her 128 episodes as Rampart General Hospital's Chief ER Nurse Dixie McCall in the TV series "Emergency!" (1972-1979), a role in which she was cast by her ex-husband (and executive producer) Jack Webb, playing opposite her then-husband, jazz musician Bobby Troup (producer of this album), who lent his talents as emergency room physician Dr. Joe Early. Reduced from $12.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Not a book but a 10-inch, 33-1/3 rpm vinyl jazz record album, Brunswick Long Play Microgroove Unbreakable Record BL 58006, near-mint vinyl in a very-good-plus cardboard jacket. Jacket indicates these classic jazz sides were recorded at the Apex Club, Chicago, in 1928, though this 10-inch vinyl LP was released in 1950. Joe Poston contributes alto sax, Buddy Scott banjo, Johnny Wells drums. For four cuts Lawson Buford was added on tuba. The band offers "Sweet Lorraine," Earl Hines' "My Monday Date," Victor Young's "Sweet Sue -- Just You," five others. Reduced from $25.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Not a book but a 12-inch, 33-1/3 rpm vinyl jazz album, Capitol M-11026, near-mint vinyl on a 1970s orange label with stylized purple capital "C," compiling tracks originally recorded 1949-1950 including Cleo Henry's "Boplicity" and three compositions by baritone player Gerry Mulligan including "Geru," "Venus de Milo," and "Rocker." The sidemen also included Kai Winding, J.J. Johnson, Lee Konitz, John Lewis, and Max Roach. Reduced from $24.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Cover photo of uncredited vixen by George Jerman (illustrator). 1st Edition. Not a book but a 12-inch, 33-1/3 rpm "High Fidelity" (mono) vinyl LP, Capitol T-2357, near-mint vinyl in a near-mint cardboard jacket with the word "PROMO" hole-punched into the upper corner. Don't know how the marketing folks at Capitol could have gotten much more straightforward than this: No need to wade through the fine print of 70-ish songwriter Jimmy McHugh's back-of-the-jacket palaver about "muted violins . . . candlelight, moonglow, and dreams for two" to get the unmistakable message: Buy an album called "Warm and Willing"; chill down some martinis, warm up the turntable, and someone who looks a lot like the young lady giving you the come-hither look on this jacket will slip out of something comfortable (already half accomplished) and happily join you in some reproductive behavior. (Hey, you think they were going to try and sell this thing by putting a big picture of balding frogface band leader Norrie Paramor on the jacket? I suppose they could have gone with the featured vocalist, opera singer Patricia Clark, the Glasgow soprano who voice-doubled the arias for Heather Sears in Terence Fisher's 1962 film "The Phantom of the Opera" (Herbert Lom as The Phantom, Ian Wilson as The Dwarf.) But believe us, this cover girl ain't that Patricia Clark. (In fairness, McHugh's "I'm in the Mood for Love" is a pretty good song -- though Julie London's 1955 version might have been more to the current point. (Jerry Lewis also sang it to Stella Stevens in "The Nutty Professor," 1963, though the classic version is probably still that of Little Rascals Darla and Alfalfa, 1935.) States "Produced for the U.S.A by Dave Dexter, Jr." . . . when he wasn't busy slicing up and playing "Mix-n-match" with selected tracks from various Beatles albums. So -- having rejected Eric Burdon & The Animals, Eric Clapton & The Yardbirds, Graham Nash & The Hollies, AND the first four Beatles hit singles, this was the kind of English music Mr. Dexter and Capitol figured Americans would go for? Nice cover girl, though -- uncredited, as usual. Reduced from $32.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Atlantic 45 rpm vinyl rock 'n roll / R&B "single," 45-1144, vinyl near-mint but with the labels moderately soiled. Originally the Harlem Queens, the Bobbettes' first lyrics for "Mr. Lee" made fun of the teacher, who they didn't like, at PS 109 in Spanish Harlem. Atlantic executives insisted on more upbeat lyrics (Hey, it was 1957. These days, they worry about Buffy or Riff Randell blowing up the whole damn school) and their first release became their biggest hit, reaching No. 6 on the Billboard Pop singles chart and spending four weeks at No. 1 on the R&B chart. (Although we still think "The Harlem Queens" was a better name.) This disc now reduced from $21.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Not a book but a 10-inch "Long Playing" (mono) vinyl LP, Capitol H-513 with purple labels, vinyl "very good" or better," which demonstrates that Capitol (and Miss Morse) were offering rock 'n roll records before anyone had even settled on a name for the genre. Here, Ella Mae (who was featured on Capitol's first-ever release, "Cow-cow Boogie") offers "Have Mercy Baby," "Rock Me All Night Long," Jesse Stone's "Money Honey," four others. Vinyl plays through nicely with an occasional click or pop. This is early rock 'n roll with no audible guitar -- main instrumental backing is by piano and acoustic bass with an occasional wailing sax. Miss Ella Mae can really belt them out, however -- even if it's hard to keep a straight face when a set of back-up singers that could have been working for Johnny Mann or Sing Along With Mitch contribute their occasional scripted "bop-shoo-wop." Grade the jacket, with some tape adhesions near the top edge, "very good" as well. This 10-inch album has been known to catalog at $400 -- we started at $26, now reduced to $10.50.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Not a book but a 12-inch, 33-1/3 rpm vinyl gatefold stereo Calypso record album, Recording Artist Sparrow, Calypso Carnival RA 1005 S, "very good" vinyl in a near-mint gatefold cardboard jacket. Apparently the final album of the late pianist/ band leader Bert Inniss. Guitarist/vocalist Sparrow offers "Treat She Nice," "Bois Bande," a new version of "Congo Man," "Half-Baked Duck," "Shake de Ting," etc. Reduced from $87.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Pair of RCA Victor "Red Seal" 10-inch, 78 rpm shellac (we presume) records in original cardboard album, discs 10-1412 and 10-1413, near-mint records in a very-good cardboard jacket with some modest soiling and rub to corners. The Cantata was featured in the short-lived 1942 patriotic Broadway review "Of V We Sing." The show ran two months, closed, and the piece slipped into obscurity until revived by Merrill (of the Metropolitan Opera, but nonetheless a Dodgers fan), here, in 1948. George Kleinsinger (1914-1982) is better known as the co-author (along with Paul Tripp) of "Tubby the Tuba." Reduced from $75.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Not a book but a pair of 7-inch, 45 rpm, "single" rock 'n roll records. "Oh Pretty Woman," Monument 45-851, grades very-good-plus, plays through nicely, showing a little rub to the label. Both sides credited "Orbison-Dees." Hey, how many records from 1964 still get regular airplay, and became the basis for both a film (Julia Roberts, 1990) and a Broadway play (2018)? (The original "pretty woman," by the way, was Orbison's first wife, Claudette, 1941-1966.) And our second 45 is Monument Records ("The Nashville Sound") 45-461, "Mama / The Crowd," from 1962, grades good to very-good. Two Roy Orbison early '60s 45 rpm singles for one price, now reduced from $20.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Not a book but a 10-inch, 33-1/3 rpm, long-playing vinyl record (Christy's first and most celebrated), near mint vinyl in a very-good-plus original cardboard jacket (to which someone has penned the tiny number "2984" in blue ink to bottom corner of rear panel), Capitol High Fidelity (mono) H516. Inner "Insert This End" paper sleeve is also original. A tiny amount of rub near top of jacket front panel; see scans. The unusual offerings include "Lonely House" (credited to Kurt Weil-Langston Hughes); "I'll Take Romance" (Oscar Hammerstein-Ben Oakland); "A Stranger Called the Blues" (Mel Torme-Robert Wells); "I Should Care" (Weston-Stordahl-Cahn), three others. Jazz vocals / vocalist. Catalogs $60; here reduced from $32.

Condition: Very Good. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. Vinyl is VG, some scuffing, bit of label wear. generic sleeve; 10" Shellac Record, 78 rpm Single on Prom 1090. Scarce. They Were Doing the Mambo / Goodnight Sweetheart Goodnight by Bill Wright & The Prom Orchestra.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Not a book but a 10-inch, 78 rpm record, Capitol No. 163 from 1944, the shellac in "very good" condition. The "Barrelhouse Boogie" stylings of Ella Mae Morse -- who was featured on Capitol's first-ever release, "Cow-cow Boogie" -- often crossed over into proto-rock 'n roll, though we wouldn't apply that term to this outing. ("Invitation to the Blues" is credited to Roberts-Fisher-Gershwin; "The Patty Cake Man" to Roy -- not Louis -- Jordan, who we believe also co-wrote "I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town," which is the blues, surely.) Reduced from $16.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Not a book but a 12-inch, 33-1/3 rpm Stereo vinyl LP. Vocalion VL 73781, very-good-plus vinyl in a very-good-plus cardboard jacket which has been opened but which still wears its original shrink-wrap. Apparently a 1968 stereo re-release of his 1959 "Big Songs for Little People," featuring "Over the Rainbow," "When You Wish Upon a Star," etc. Reduced from $25.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Not a book but a 12-inch, 33-1/3 rpm "High Fidelity" (mono) vinyl record album, Columbia Masterworks gray label "six eyes" ML 5088, near mint vinyl with previous owner's address label to the label, in a "good" cardboard jacket which still retains its original gloss and would have graded much higher save that previous owner slapped a piece of masking tape along the top edge, and then wrote his name to verso in red marker. The doe-eyed Ms. Greco sings in French -- including L'Ombre, Les Dames de la Poste, Tu me dirais, Les Cloches, Dieu est negre, Coin de rue, etc. -- while rather literal English translations of the lyrics appear to rear of jacket. Reduced from $20.

Soft cover. Condition: VG+. A VGF or better 5" X 8" four-page local theater herald. Also includes ads for several other films. Book.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Stiff unmarked book, with CD. ; 5.5 x 6.25"; 158 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 3 volumes covering 1st Violin; Cello and Viola. Staple bound violet covers. Light wear. A few pencil markings in one volume.

Paperback. Condition: very good. Very Good Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. This is not a book but a 10-inch, 78 rpm, heavy shellac record, Victor Orthophonic Recording 22079, in very-good-plus condition. Released in both a silent and a talkie version, the 1929 film "The Trespasser" (produced by Joseph P. Kennedy!) was a hit for Swanson, garnering her an Academy Award nomination, but unfortunately her only really successful talkie till "Sunset Boulevard" (1950.) RCA purchased the Victor Talking Machine Co. from Eldridge Johnson for a reputed $40 million in 1929 (Johnson put his profits into book and manuscript collecting, bless him), and records bearing the designation "Radio-victor Corporation of America" (later RCA Victor) appeared for only a limited time. The "VE" on the label stands for "Victor electrical" recording, which replaced acoustic recording in 1925. Reduced from $25.

No Binding. Condition: VG+. Col-8-90. A VG or better original 8 x 10 still. Size: 8" x 10". Photographic Image.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. cover photography by Garrett-Howard (illustrator). Not a book but a 12-inch, 33-1/3 rpm "High Fidelity" (monaural) vinyl record album, Liberty LRP 3060, near-mint vinyl in an original plastic inner sleeve and near-mint cardboard jacket which we downgrade to very-good-plus as the top edge has split back 2/3rds of the way. Julie covers Bobby Troup's "It's Good to Want You Bad," Washington-Carmichael's "Nearness of You," "Lover Man," "Body and Soul," etc. Reduced from $42.

Sleeve-New Generic. Condition: Vinyl-Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Jacket New Generic. 38026 (CO 38323) Cleaned w/Spin Clean, new generic sleeve, inside plastic re-sealable sleeve. Light surface scratches that gives the sound of "old records". Shipped in bubble wrap and card board. Genre: Pop. Blank sticker on label on one side. Matrix Runout 2671 / 38328. Two Loves Have I by J'ai Deux Amours; Fox Trot Murray - Trivers - Scotto. Sierra Madre Fox Trot B. Kaye - Manning.

No Binding. Condition: VG+. 1804-108. A VGF or better original 8 x 10 still. Size: 8" x 10". Photographic Image.

No Binding. Condition: VG. 1804-35. A VG or better original 8 x 10 still. Size: 11" X 14". Poster.

Condition: Good. Album in good condition. Album cover slightly worn and discolored. Sleeve discolored around edges. Side tear. Formerly (SITLP19).

very good condition cover is rubbed and edgeworn; cover is rubbed and edgeworn; LIB2958007322; 33-1/3 Record.

Condition: Very Good. Fabulous performances--disc is without visible wear in clean sleeve; clean unmarked libretto, album has light edge wear and label ghost on upper corner of front panel, some splitting at corners.

Condition: VeryGood. **Stock Image**.

Condition: Good / Vintage. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Some b/w Illustrations (illustrator). Spiral Bound / Flex Cover. Clean and Unmarked Text. Some slight moisture stains on covers and bottom ends of papges, slight but present. Paperback : soft cover edition in good clean condition, a typical used book with some slight wear to edges and spine. Firmly readable. As to be expected with used books, there may be some minor bumping, creases, and/or scuffs. Overall a good copy. We appreciate your consideration of one of our books, art prints or novelty items. We strive to offer fast, courteous and professional service to all our patrons. Reading is one of life's great pleasures. Please inquire for further details, our items arrive shrink wrapped and well packed. ~ Thank you for viewing and stopping by. Book.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Repress 12" shellac record. Light wear, very good or better in a very good unprinted paper sleeve with some creasing and small tears along the edge. RCA Victor 7720. "Red Seal Record" label.