[This post was originally written as part of the 2021 post, Happy Birthday Mr. Taylor and also continues and replaces an earlier post on the specialty recording period of Creed Taylor’s career.] After graduating from Duke University, 2-years in the Army, one year of which was spent in Korea, Creed […]
Pete Brady and The Blazers – Murder Ballads
[This post was substantially updated after finding and researching a 1973 album recorded by Pete Brady – “Sing Me A Smile”, which was previously undocumented in all the usual places. Updates were also made after Pete’s daughter, Maureen, got in touch. [Updates are tracked at the bottom of every post.] […]
Happy Halloween – Shock
It’s that time of year again, Halloween. Enjoy a track from the 1958 album “Shock” by the Creed Taylor Orchestra. SHOCK The Creed Taylor OrchestraNew York City: c. 1958Kenyon Hopkins (arr, cond).ABC Paramount ABC/ABCS-259 (issued November 1958) Track-1 from Side-B, “Haunted House” 3:01 Released in November 1958, while “Shock” is billed […]
Happy Halloween – The Red-Eyed Rats
Happy Halloween from me via legendary jazz music producer Creed Taylor, the Kenyon Hopkins Orchestra, and right at the start of his career, engineer Phil Ramone. This track is taken from side-B, track-1 of the Nightmare!! album. Although I think of myself as a “CTI completist”, I didn’t know this […]