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"37 Favorites for Dancing"
Frankie Carle & His Rhythm [section]
Frankie Carle, piano

RCA Living Stereo LSP-1868
(12" stereo LP record)

Mostly 4-tune medleys per track. Carle has a nice jazz-influenced style, though there are no real improvisational breaks here (though it sounds like Carle's rhythm section might go with him were he to head in that direction). The album seems much more intended for the dancing it mentions in the title than for instrumental background music, as the renditions are often energetic and jaunty and don't sink to the sappy, the saccharin, or the totally cliche.

I first heard of this fellow in the late 1960s, when I was in high school and beginning to collect 10" 78 rpm records to play on the table top Victrola I picked up at a thrift shop for about twelve dollars and then fixed and restored. Some of the 78s I was finding were of Carle. I hadn't heard of him before, but found that his records were worth picking up more of. Thrift was a concern as I was shelling out between 5 cents and a quarter per 78 disc, and I didn't really have an allowance or job at the time.
 
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Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band / Goes To Washington
1979 Elektra (promo)

Finally get to spin stuff today!
 
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