Thursday, 20 March 2014

From the "King of The Twist" comes For Twisters Only, 1960 release on Parkway P 7002, but pressed by Quality Records of Canada and actually REO label (mostly known for 45's).  Here is Your Feets Too Big by Chubby Checker.






Your Twist Party by Chubby Checker from 1961 again on Parkway Label, P 7007, this time actually a Parkway label, but manufactured and distributed by Columbia Records Canada. Each of these albums has twelve songs, and 5 of them are the same on both records!  I guess there was only so many twist songs.  Here is The Twist




One of the longest running and most successful rock groups ever, Chicago, formed in 1967, is second only to the Beach Boys in number of Billboard charting singles.  From 1975 is their ninth album and first greatest hits release.  On Columbia PC 33900, by the self described Rock Band with Horns, here is Beginnings:






Jumping ahead almost a decade, we have Chicago 17 from 1984. Personally I prefer their earlier music. On this album the horns have moved to the background and the music has a much more pop, soft rock sound.  This is the second album with their new label Full Moon, on Warner Brothers Records and did really well for the band, reaching 6x Platinum! But I found it hard to pick a song worth playing from this album; here is Along Comes A Woman




Although he had an incredibly short career, Charlie Christian was a very influential figure in Jazz. Playing the electric guitar, which was just being experimented with in the late 30's, he became a key figure in the develpment of bebop.  Dead of tuberculosis at the age of 23 (1942), there is not a lot of music available from this very talented and influential artist.  Solo Flight, the genius of Charlie Christian, released in 1972 on Columbia G 30779, is a double album that contains many of the few recordings ever made by this artist.  A few tracks (like this one) are from privately cut acetates which had never be released before. Although the quality is not great, it demonstrates his extraordinay guitar playing.  Here is I Got Rhythm:






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