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The Freddy Martin Hits Collection 1933-53
Freddy Martin & His Orchestra
Styles: Easy Listening
Catalogue Number: ACTRCD9089
Freddy Martin was a hugely successful bandleader, saxophonist and conductor whose orchestra played the “sweet” style of dance band and easy listening music which appealed to the broad spectrum of middle America during the 1930s through the ‘40s and into the early ‘50s during what is sometimes called the golden age of popular music. The great jazz tenor saxophonist Johnny Hodges called him “Mr. Silvertone”. He pioneered the “Tenor Band” style that became the norm in the dance band business, with an all-tenor sax section, and enjoyed successful lengthy residencies at prestigious hotels, as well as becoming a fixture on sponsored radio shows. He recorded for Brunswick, before moving to RCA, first coming out on their Bluebird before switching to Victor and RCA-Victor, and during the 1930s, ‘40s and early ‘50s enjoyed a constant stream of big sellers, which mostly featured one or other of his vocalists, but with his big hits coming with classically-based orchestral pieces, notably his long-running No. 1 with Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1. This great-value 75-track 3-CD set consists entirely of his recordings which, before 1940, were credited with a Top 20 chart position in Joel Whitburn’s “Pop Memories” or Elston Brooks’ “The Weekly Top Ten Tunes For The Last Fifty Years” books, or the Your Hit Parade chart, or appeared in one of the Billboard charts thereafter. It naturally includes his other No. 1s “I Saw Stars”, “Symphony”, “To Each His Own” and “Managua, Nicaragua”. It’s a substantial, enjoyable and nostalgic journey through an era when pop music was continually changing, but his distinctive style of music remained a constant. |
Disk 1: |
Track |
Title |
Artist |
1 |
Bless Your Heart |
Freddy Martin and His Orch., voc. Terry Shand |
2 |
April in Paris |
Freddy Martin and His Orch., voc. Elmer Feldkamp |
3 |
When Tomorrow Comes |
Freddy Martin and His Orch. |
4 |
Neighbors |
Freddy Martin and His Orch. |
5 |
All I Do Is Dream of You |
Freddy Martin and His Orch. |
6 |
Born to Be Kissed |
Freddy Martin and His Orch. |
7 |
I Saw Stars |
Freddy Martin and His Orch., voc. Elmer Feldkamp |
8 |
Then I'll Be Tired of You |
Freddy Martin and His Orch., voc. Elmer Feldkamp |
9 |
Be Still, My Heart |
Freddy Martin and His Orch., voc. Elmer Feldkamp |
10 |
Must We Say Goodnight (So Soon?) |
Freddy Martin and His Orch. |
11 |
Isle of Capri |
Freddy Martin and His Orch., voc. Elmer Feldkamp |
12 |
Where There's Smoke, There's Fire |
Freddy Martin and His Orch., voc. Elmer Feldkamp |
13 |
Everything's Been Done Before |
Freddy Martin and His Orch., voc. Elmer Feldkamp |
14 |
(There's a) Little Picture Playhouse in My Heart |
Freddy Martin and His Orch., voc. Terry Shand |
15 |
Life is a Song |
Freddy Martin and His Orch. |
16 |
Tell Me That You Love Me |
Freddy Martin and His Orch., voc. Elmer Feldkamp |
17 |
Reckless |
Freddy Martin and His Orch. |
18 |
Get Rhythm in Your Feet |
Freddy Martin and His Orch., voc. Terry Shand |
19 |
Paris in the Spring |
Freddy Martin and His Orch., voc. Elmer Feldkamp |
20 |
I Couldn't Believe My Eyes |
Freddy Martin and His Orch., voc. Elmer Feldkamp |
21 |
A Little Bit Independent (But Easy On the Eyes) |
Freddy Martin and His Orch. |
22 |
One Night in Monte Carlo |
Freddy Martin and His Orch., voc. Elmer Feldkamp |
23 |
The Broken Record |
Freddy Martin and His Orch., voc. The Martinettes |
24 |
Goody Goody |
Freddy Martin and His Orch., voc. Terry Shand |
25 |
It's Been So Long |
Freddy Martin and His Orch., voc. Terry Shand |
26 |
You |
Freddy Martin and His Orch., voc. Elmer Feldkamp |
Disk 2: |
Track |
Title |
Artist |
1 |
Beside a Moonlit Stream |
Freddy Martin and His Orch., voc. Elmer Feldkamp |
2 |
Scatter-Brain |
Freddy Martin and His Orch., voc. Glenn Hughes |
3 |
One Cigarette for Two |
Freddy Martin and His Orch., voc. Eddie Stone |
4 |
Intermezzo |
Freddy Martin and His Orch., voc. Clyde Rogers |
5 |
The Hut-Sut Song (A Swedish Serenade) |
Freddy Martin and His Orch., voc. Eddie Stone |
6 |
Til Reveille |
Freddy Martin and His Orch., voc. Clyde Rogers |
7 |
Piano Concerto in B Flat |
Freddy Martin and His Orch. |
8 |
Why Don't We Do This More Often? |
Freddy Martin and His Orch., voc. Eddie Stone |
9 |
Rose O'Day (The Filla-Ga-Dusha-Song) |
Freddy Martin and His Orch., voc. Eddie Stone |
10 |
Tonight We Love |
Freddy Martin and His Orch., voc. Clyde Rogers |
11 |
Symphonie Moderne |
Freddy Martin and His Orch. |
12 |
When There's a Breeze on Lake Louise |
Freddy Martin and His Orch., voc. Clyde Rogers |
13 |
Johnny Doughboy Found a Rose in Ireland |
Freddy Martin and His Orch., voc. Clyde Rogers |
14 |
Jingle, Jangle, Jingle |
Freddy Martin and His Orch., voc. Clyde Rogers & Stuart Wade |
15 |
White Christmas |
Freddy Martin and His Orch., voc. Clyde Rogers |
16 |
I Met Her on Monday |
Freddy Martin and His Orch., voc. Eddie Stone |
17 |
A Touch Of Texas |
Freddy Martin and His Orch., voc. Eddie Stone & Glenn Hughes |
18 |
I Get the Neck of the Chicken |
Freddy Martin and His Orch., voc. Eddie Stone |
19 |
(Theme from The) Warsaw Concerto |
Freddy Martin and His Orch., with Jack Fina at the piano |
20 |
From Twilight 'Til Dawn |
Freddy Martin and His Orch., voc. Bob Haymes |
21 |
Abraham |
Freddy Martin and His Orch., with Jack Fina at the piano |
22 |
Dream |
Freddy Martin and His Orch., voc. Artie Wayne |
23 |
Everytime |
Freddy Martin and His Orch., voc. Glenn Hughes |
24 |
In the Middle of May |
Freddy Martin and His Orch., voc. The Martin Men |
Disk 3: |
Track |
Title |
Artist |
1 |
Laura |
Freddy Martin and His Orch. |
2 |
Lily Belle |
Freddy Martin and His Orch., voc. Gene Conklin & The Martin Men |
3 |
Symphony |
Freddy Martin and His Orch., voc. Clyde Rogers |
4 |
One-Zy, Two-Zy (I Love You-Zy) |
Freddy Martin and His Orch., voc. The Martin Men |
5 |
Bumble Boogie |
Freddy Martin and His Orch., with Jack Fina at the piano |
6 |
Doin' What Comes Natur'lly |
Freddy Martin and His Orch., voc. Glenn Hughes |
7 |
To Each His Own |
Freddy Martin and His Orch., voc. Stuart Wade |
8 |
Managua, Nicaragua |
Freddy Martin and His Orch., voc. Stuart Wade |
9 |
The Lady from 29 Palms |
Freddy Martin and His Orch., voc. The Martin Men |
10 |
Moon-Faced, Starry-Eyed |
Freddy Martin and His Orch., voc. Murray Arnold |
11 |
Come to the Mardi Gras |
Freddy Martin and His Orch., voc. Stuart Wade |
12 |
Treasure of the Sierra Madre |
Freddy Martin and His Orch., voc. Stuart Wade |
13 |
The Dickey-Bird Song |
Freddy Martin and His Orch., voc. Glenn Hughes |
14 |
Sabre Dance Boogie |
Freddy Martin and His Orch. |
15 |
The New Look |
Freddy Martin and His Orch., voc. The Martin Men |
16 |
On a Slow Boat to China |
Freddy Martin and His Orch., voc. Glenn Hughes |
17 |
I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts |
Freddy Martin and His Orch., voc. Merv Griffin |
18 |
(Put Another Nickel In) Music! Music! Music! |
Freddy Martin and His Orch., voc. Merv Griffin |
19 |
Wilhelmina |
Freddy Martin and His Orch., voc. Merv Griffin |
20 |
The Third Man Theme |
Freddy Martin and His Orch., voc. Merv Griffin |
21 |
The Aba Daba Honeymoon |
Freddy Martin and His Orch., voc. Merv Griffin |
22 |
Never Been Kissed |
Freddy Martin and His Orch., voc. Merv Griffin |
23 |
Truly Truly Fair |
Freddy Martin and His Orch., voc. Merv Griffin |
24 |
Down Yonder |
Freddy Martin and His Orch., voc. Merv Griffin |
25 |
April in Portugal (The Whisp'ring Serenade) |
Freddy Martin and His Orch., voc. Merv Griffin |