ASV/Living Era

Johnny Desmond: All Those Wonderful Years

CD / ASV/Living Era / 2005-03-08

Tracks: All Those Wonderful Years; This Time the Dream's on Me; Speak Low; Guilty; Lillette; C'est Si Bon (It's So Good); Four Winds and the Seven Seas, The; Don't Cry Joe (Let Her Go, Let Her Go, Let Her Go...
Artists: Johnny Desmond

Personnel: Tony Mottola (guitar); Bobby Hackett (cornet); Lou Stein (piano, celesta); Gene Krupa (drums).

Audio Remasterer: Martin Haskell.

Liner Note Author: Peter Dempsey.

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Ethel Merman: An Earful of Music

1 CD / ASV/Living Era / 2004-12-07

Tracks: Earful of Music, An; I Got Rhythm; Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries; Eadie Was a Lady; How Deep Is the Ocean?; I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues; I Get a Kick Out of You; You're the Top; Lady in Red, Th...
Artists: Ethel Merman

Audio Remasterer: Doug Shearer.

Recording information: New York, NY (10/08/1934-11/20/1950).

Beautiful and brassy, tougher than a taxi, and louder than a locomotive, Ethel Merman was the...continue...

Count Basie/Lester Young (Saxophone): One O'Clock Jump (Living Era)

2 CD / ASV/Living Era / 2004-08-24

Tracks: One O'Clock Jump; Moten Swing; Show Shine Boy; Oh, Lady Be Good; Honeysuckle Rose; Swingin' at the Daisy Chain; Roseland Shuffle; They Can't Take That Away from Me; Swing, Brother, Swing; John's Idea...
Artists: Count Basie/Lester Young (Saxophone)

Personnel: Count Basie (piano, organ); Count Basie; Claude "Fiddler" Williams (guitar, violin); Buster Berry (guitar); Rudy Rutherford (clarinet, alto saxophone, baritone saxophone); Eddie Barefield, ...continue...

Kate Smith: The Songbird of the South

CD / ASV/Living Era / 2003-01-21

Tracks: When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain; One Sweet Letter From You; Maybe, Who Knows?; Moanin' Low (for the revue "The Little Show"); Waiting at the End of the Road, song (from "Hallelujah"); I Don't M...
Artists: Kate Smith

Personnel includes: Kate Smith (vocals).

Recorded between 1929 & 1947.

Contains 25 tracks.

Personnel: Jimmy Dorsey (clarinet, alto saxophone); Red Nichols (trumpet); Miff Mole (tr...continue...

Carlo Buti: Bella Ragazza (Centenary Issue)

CD / ASV/Living Era / 2002-11-26

Tracks: Bella Ragazza dalle trecce bionde (Pretty blond-haired girl); Sul' Lugarno (On the Lugarno); Balcone 'e Napule, for voice & piano; Violino Tzigano (Gypsy Violin); Carme (Canto Sorentino); Fantasia d'...
Artists: Carlo Buti

Recorded between 1934 & 1949.

Audio Remasterer: Peter Dempsey.

Recording information: Milan, Italy (09/15/1934-12/20/1949)....continue...

Arthur Askey: Hello, Playmates!

CD / ASV/Living Era / 2002-10-22

Tracks: Bee Song, The; Chirrup!; I Pulled Myself Together; Ding Dong Bell; Cuckoo, The; All to Specification; Worm, The; Knitting; We're Going to Hang out the Washing on the Siegfried Line; How Ashamed I Was...
Artists: Arthur Askey

Recorded between 1938 & 1949.

Personnel: Eric Fowler (piano).

Audio Remasterer: Martin Haskell.

Liner Note Author: Peter Dempsey.

Recording information: 1938-1949.

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Peter Dawson: A Song for You and Me

CD / ASV/Living Era / 2002-08-13

Tracks: Old Father Thames Keeps Rolling Along; Caractacus, cantata for soloists, chorus & orchestra, Op. 35: O My Warriors; Song for You and Me, A; Till the Sands of the Desert Grow Cold; Merrie England, ope...
Artists: Peter Dawson

Personnel includes: Peter Dawson (vocals); Ray Noble, George W. Byng, Lawrance Collingwood (conductor); Gerald Moore (piano).

Recorded between 1933 & 1936.

Personnel: Peter Dawson (bass ...continue...

Various Artists: Hits of '51

1 CD / ASV/Living Era / 2002-02-26

Tracks: My Heart Cries for You - Guy Mitchell/Mitch Miller & His Orchestra; Would I Love You, Love You, Love You? - Jimmy Carroll & His Orchestra/Patti Page; If - Mitchell Ayres & His Orchestra/Perry Como; B...
Artists: Various Artists

Note: This title is rare and is considered a collector’s item. It is priced according to its common market value. If the record label that...continue...
Personnel: Mary Ford (vocals); Les Paul (guitar); Del Wood, Carl Fischer (piano); Stan Freeman (harpsichord).

Liner Note Author: Peter Dempsey.

Recording information: Chicago, IL (05/195...continue...

Various Artists: A World of Water

1 CD / ASV/Living Era / 2001-07-24

Tracks: Waves Rolling Onto a Pebble Beach; Waves Rolling Onto a Sandy Beach; Waves Breaking Over Rocks; Stormy Waves Breaking Against a Sea Wall; Stormy Waves Breaking Over a Jetty; Gentle Waves & the Foghor...
Artists: Various Artists

Transacord's World of Water features 37 tracks of oceanic atmosphere and boasts '70s prog rock titles like "Fishing Boats Leave Harbour and Head Out to Sea While Gulls Wheel and Scream in Their Wake" ...continue...

Mistinguett: Nuits de Paris: The Great French Stars

CD / ASV/Living Era / 2001-07-24

Tracks: Ça C'est Paris (That's Paris for You); Valencia; J'Suis Nature (I'm Uninhibited); Il M'A Vue Nue (He Saw Me Naked); Marie!; Charlotte; Dorothy; Qui? (Who?); Parisette; Java de Doudoune, La; On M...
Artists: Mistinguett

Recorded between 1926 & 1938.

Audio Remasterer: Martin Haskell.

Liner Note Author: Peter Dempsey.

Recording information: Paris, France (12/17/1926-04/04/1938)....continue...

Elisabeth Welch: Harlem in My Heart

CD / ASV/Living Era / 2001-04-24

Tracks: Harlem in My Heart; One Kiss; Doin' the New Low Down; Diga Diga Doo; Solomon; Soft Lights and Sweet Music Medley/Just Like a Melody from Out of ...: Just Like A Melody Out Of The Sky / Soft Lights & ...
Artists: Elisabeth Welch

Personnel includes: Elisabeth Welch, Paul Robeson.

Personnel: Albert Harris (guitar); Ivor Mairants, Bernard Addison (12-string guitar); Andy McDevitt, Freddy Gardner, Fud Livingston (clarinet,...continue...

Dick Haymes: Little White Lies [ASV/Living Era]

CD / ASV/Living Era / 2001-04-24

Tracks: Little White Lies; Serenade in Blue; Long Ago (And Far Away); Love Letters; That's for Me; Say It Isn't So; Cheek to Cheek; Song Is Ended, The; Till the End of Time; Oh! What It Seemed to Be; How Are...
Artists: Dick Haymes

Personnel: Artie Shaw (clarinet); Carmen Cavallaro (piano).

Audio Remasterers: Tim Debney; Martin Haskell.

Recording information: 06/17/1942-04/27/1950.

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Various Artists: Radio Celebrities

CD / ASV/Living Era / 2000-07-11

Tracks: In Town Tonight (Knightsbridge March) - Joseph Muscant; On the Air - Carroll Gibbons; You Know- And All That Ramblings - Mr. Gille Potter; Let's All Sing Like the Birdies Sing - Ambrose Orchestra/Sam...
Artists: Various Artists

RADIO CELEBRITIES contains songs recorded for British radio.

Compilation producers: Ray Crick, Peter Dempsey.

Recorded between 1928 & 1940.

All tracks have been digitally remaster...continue...

Various Artists: Steam Railway Sound Effects

1 CD / ASV/Living Era / 1996-04-23

Tracks: Down Express Passenger Train, Followed by an Up Express Passenger ..., A; Local Passenger Train Starting Out from a Country Station, A; Express Passenger Train Passing, Fast in Open Country, An; Expr...
Artists: Various Artists

Recording information: 1955-1965.

ASV/Living Era's Steam Railway Sound Effects delivers just what the title promises, collecting recordings of passenger, freight, express and local steam engine...continue...

Billie Holiday: Lady Day's 25 Greatest: 1933-1944

CD / ASV/Living Era / 1996-03-19

Tracks: Your Mother's Son-in-Law; Miss Brown to You; What a Little Moonlight Can Do; Did I Remember?; I Can't Give You Anything But Love; I Must Have That Man!; My Last Affair; Moanin' Low; Easy Living; I'll...
Artists: Billie Holiday

Personnel includes: Billy Holiday (vocals); Cecil Scott (alto & tenor saxophone, clarinet); Johnny Hodges (alto saxophone); Lester Young (tenor saxophone, clarinet); Ben Webster, Herschel Evans, Claud...continue...

Louis Armstrong: 25 Greatest Hot Fives & Sevens

1 CD / ASV/Living Era / 1995-09-19

Tracks: Heebie Jeebies; Cornet Chop Suey; Muskrat Ramble; Jazz Lips; Skid-Dat-De-Dat; Big Butter and Egg Man; Willie the Weeper; Wild Man Blues; Alligator Crawl; Potato Head Blues; Melancholy; Weary Blues; S...
Artists: Louis Armstrong

Note: This title is rare and is considered a collector’s item. It is priced according to its common market value. If the record label that...continue...
Personnel: Louis Armstrong (vocals, trumpet, cornet); Don Redman (vocals, alto saxophone, clarinet); Earl Hines (vocals, piano, celesta); Mancy Cara (vocals, banjo); May Alix (vocals); Jimmy Strong (t...continue...