Monday, April 15, 2019

André Kostelanetz and His Orchestra Calendar Girl [1956]


Columbia Records CL 811 

"Here are twelve lovely girls...one for each month of the calendar year...brought to glittering life in the magic of the music of Andre Kostelanetz. 

They are not alike, these twelve girls. Not at all. They are as different, one from another, as Liza is from Stella, by starlight. Who could dare to compare Diane to Ruby? But who would not pay a king's ransom to meet Ruby and Diane, and Mimi and Laura and all the others...by starlight, or candlelight, or by the light of the rising moon? 

"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways..." 

Here, we count by names the ways of love - in music. You have twelve girls to choose from, out of your past. Or - perhaps - out of your future. Out of your memory, or out of your fate. 

Or you can listen, simply. And enjoy the music of Andre Kostelanetz, who this time chooses to make songs out of names...the names of twelve golden girls, one for each month of the year."  [Liner notes]


Tracklist:
01 Laura (From "Laura")
02 Mimi (From "Love Me Tonight")
03 Ruby (From "Ruby Gentry")
04 Stella By Starlight (From "The Uninvited")
05 Anna (From "Anna" Aka "El Negro Zumbon")
06 Diane (From "Seventh Heaven")
07 Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away) (From "Show Girl")
08 Have You Met Miss Jones?
09 Vilia (From "The Merry Widow")
10 Sweet Leilani (From "Waikiki Wedding")
11 Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair
12 Musetta's Waltz (From "La Bohème")

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