Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl

Volume 254: Into the Wild BLUE Yonder

I’m on the front porch of Cleveland, Mall C, which is across the freeway from Huntington Bank Field where the Cleveland Browns play, The Great Lakes Science Center, The R

Volume 253: Valentines is for Lovers

Happy Valentine's Day! Of course my dad had plenty of romantic music. So that’s why we are able to do this special episode. There was a popular radio format known as Ea

Volume 252: A Champagne Christmas

Merry Christmas! My dad had a couple dozen records meant just for this time of year. So I HAD to come back for a Christmas Day music show. I talked a lot in yesterday's

Volume 251: A Cleveland Ballet Christmas Tradition

The Nutcracker: Concert Suite vs. Ballet Welcome back and Merry Christmas Eve. My girlfriend Karen and I partook in a Northcoast Christmas season tradition a week and a

Volume 250: Fading Out My Way

My Dad's Greatest Hits This will be my last regularly scheduled weekly episode. We’ll talk about that as we go along. One of the last songs my dad heard in his hospital

Volume 249: A Pope Visits

Historic Papal Visit We haven't broken away from music for a while, but what have I told you before? My dad has a record for every occasion. 60 years ago yesterday, on O

Volume 248: Down Mexico Way

TJB South of the Border OK…I was having Tijuana Brass withdrawals. While I did play plenty of his music in Volume 222: A TJB Concert Rewind earlier this year, that was a

Volume 247: A Conniff Concert

Ray Conniff Improvisations My father must have really loved the music of Ray Conniff. This is the sixth of eight albums from this arranger and orchestra leader in my dad

Volume 246: Western Trails

Real Country and Western Music We are pulling out the 6th record of this seven record set that has really grown on me over the four and a half years of this show. Reader’

Volume 245: Sammy Jumps With Joya

Joy from Sammy and Joya Usually I don’t title the episode exactly the same as the album I’m featuring, but this one was just too good not to use. Yes, we will hear the ar

Volume 244: Big Band Vocals

Great Big Band Vocalists Most times when the Longines Symphonette Society put out albums, we had no idea who the musicians were. But sometimes they did give us all the in

Volume 243: Hi-Fi Hawaii

Beautiful Hawaiian Music This is episode eleventeen hundred three thousand and forty-three of Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl.  I might as well say anything I want anymore, bec

Volume 242: Mancini's Gunn

Peter Gunn TV Music This is the fourth of six Henry Mancini albums we’ve heard from my dad’s collection. This one is a little different, because most of the other record

Volume 241: Nashville Souvenirs

The Ultimate Nashville Stars Here’s a nice little compilation album with some pretty big names on it. The recordings you are about to hear sold millions of copies combin

Volume 240: A Singing Satchmo

The Voice of Louis Armstrong My dad’s favorite trumpet player also was an extremely popular vocalist. I have documented many trumpet players who have also recorded their

Volume 239: Unknown Dixieland

Dixieland Veterans My dad loved his Dixieland music. Even when he had no idea who was performing it. This is a perfect album for that mindset, because this budget label

Volume 238: Maynard's Horn

Maynard Ferguson's Hot Trumpet We now get to feature the second of two albums my dad had of MY favorite trumpet player. In fact, I haven’t seen a rock band more times th

Volume 237: A TV Page

Here’s a voice we’ve heard before. It was during a 78 RPM Sunday when we had plenty of her shellac to fill a show. This singer went on to have her own TV show where she s

Volume 236: Tennessee Tons

We are going to have a ton of fun with this episode. Well 16 tons. Ah. That was too easy.  This is the only album my dad has of this great singer. But, it’s obviously th

Volume 235: Still Stanley

We’ve already come close to proving that the named orchestra leader on this album probably doesn’t exist. I discussed that mystery in Volume 199: Tea and Trumpets. But t