Roberta Flack, Carmen & More

Hope you're having a nice weekend! (Can't wait for the beach eh?)

New Tracks

Roberta Flack - Feel Like Makin' Love (Remastered Version)

The Mexicali Brass - Thunderball

John Schroeder - Theme From The Persuaders

Strings For Pleasure - I'll Never Fall In Love Again

The Young Lovers - Carmen

Stan Reynolds - Downtown

Percy Faith - For Once In My Life

The Brass Ring - The Disadvantages Of You

Ronnie Aldrich and His Two Pianos - Popcorn

Nelson Riddle - Lisbon Antigua

Johnny Mann Singers - Like To Get To Know You

Al Caiola - A Taste Of Honey

Bossa Nova, Nelson Riddle and more!

Hope you're not burried in snow! it has been one crazy winter here in Minnesota, this was the year to have a snow blower. Hope your week is going well.

We're always looking for feedback, let us know how we're doing! now would be a good time to mention, you can donate to triviacompanion without spending any money. (of course, a little cash goes a long way too!)

New Tracks

Andy Williams - So Nice

Johnny Dankworth - Tomorrow's World

David Rose and his Orchestra - Four Twenty AM

Pete Winslow & The King Sized Brass - I Love Paris

Roy Budd - Bossa Nova U.S.A.

Sydney Dale Orchestra - The Brass'illian Band - TV Interval Music

Nelson Riddle - I Get Along Without You Very Well

Earl Grant - Black Coffee

Norrie Paramor & The Midland Radio Orchestra - Dance In The Old Fashioned Way

The Mike Samms Singers - Things Are Swingin

Ray Conniff - I've Got You Under My Skin

Robert Gaulet - What A Wonderful World

Ray Anthony, Laurie Johnson and more!

Some more music for your enjoyment, including another rendition of "I Say a Little Prayer" by Paul Mauriat. Did you know you can donate to triviacompanion without spending any money? it's true! we're always looking for help!

New Tracks

Laurie Johnson Orchestra - It's A Raggy Waltz

The Anita Kerr Quartet - Charade

Alberto Baldan Bembo - tropical club

Ray Anthony - Chop Sticks

Paul Mauriat - I Say A Little Prayer

Garry Blake Orchestra - Soul Coaxing

Doctor Who for your Bachelor Pad

It's been awhile since the last post, but that doesn't mean we haven't added some music!

New Tracks

Cy Pane and his Orchestra - Dr Who

The Tony Hatch Orchestra - Call Me

Ted Heath and his Music - Love Me Tonight

Joe Loss & His Orchestra - Soul Bossa Nova

Ted Heath & His Orchestra - Cherokee

Cyril Stapleton and his Orchestra - Hello Dolly

Chaquito and the Quedo Brass - A Walk In The Black Forest

Mitchell Ayers Orchestra - Cheek To Cheek

Gerry Mulligan - Feeling Good

The Lou Stein Trio - Glad

Mark Duval And His Music - The Loner

Roy Budd - A Man And A Woman

Mel Torme - Puttin' on the Ritz

King Sisters - Sweet And Slow

Canto Xpresso - Tante Tempo (Romanca vocal jazz mix)

Garry Blake Orchestra - I'm Gonna Walk Out

More Spy Jazz, Route 66, and a Man and a Woman.

Hope everyone had a good weekend, we had a lot of fireworks going off all directions here. I kind of felt sorry for the rabbits living in my area, not sure what they thought of all this racket!

Continuing with the spy jazz, the Pandora Orchestra brings you "Eurocrat", The Tony Hatch Singers with a nice version of "A Man and a Woman" (with lyrics), a really singing tune from the Brass Impact Orchestra, with Goin' Someplace.

New Tracks

• Tony Hatch Singers - A Man And A Woman
• The Brass Impact Orchestra - Goin' Someplace
• The Pandora Orchestra - Eurocrat
• Ron Goodwin and his Orchestra - Walk On By
• Pete Moore Orchestra - Route 66
• John Gregory - Love Is Blue
• Pete Moore Orchestra - Natalie

Ennio Morricone, not cowboy music this time

It's hot and humid lately in Minnesota, hope you've got a good supply of iced tea!

Some more from Ennio Morricone, this time not cowboy music, I promise! and a really cool tune from the Lee Selmoco Orchestra, with Blue Media. Some more from the King Sisters, Bernardo Pisano, Percy Faith, and Shirley Bassey -- enjoy!

New Tracks

• King Sisters - Deep Purple
• Bernardo Pisano - To Jean
• Ennio Morricone - Citta' Viva
• Percy Faith - It Must Be Him
• Shirley Bassey - I'm Shooting High
• Lee Selmoco Orchestra - Blue Media

Henry Mancini, James Clarke and more

It's a sunny day out here in Minnesota, cold, but sunny. For your Saturday morning, we have some mellow tunes, spy jazz and an up-beat tune from Henry Mancini.

Stay dry!

New Tracks

• Buddy Bergman - Lost Keys
• Sondi Sodasi - Love Dance
• Syd Dale Orchestra - The Wedding Song
• Henry Mancini - Castle Rock
• Florinda Bolkan - metti una sera a cena
• James Clarke - The Free Life

Herb Alpert, Percy Faith and more

Some cheery music from Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass Band (I always want to say "Brass Brand" for some reason. Some tunes from Billy May, Anita Kerr, Johnny Mann and Pat Suzuki.

Finally, an interesting version of Don't Sleep In the Subway from Percy Faith, while it's certainly nicer weather, I don't think March in Minnesota is quite suitable for subway sleeping anyway. Enjoy!

New Tracks

• Billy May - The Girls Against The Boys
• Percy Faith - Don't Sleep In The Subway
• Anita Kerr - The World We Knew
• Johnny Mann - On the Sunny Side of the Street
• Pat Suzuki - Daddy
• Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - Lollipops And Roses

Hope the new year is good to you! (phone in your plans!)

Hope your week is good and that you've managed to recover in time to celebrate new years! We'd really like to hear your plans this new years, so we can play them for other listeners, please contact us and phone them in, be a part of the community!

Some interesting organ action from Andy Bautista, choral jazz from Johnny Mann with "Paper Doll", we'll have a little fun with Jerry Fielding and "Spanish Flea".

An oh-so mellow "Live For Life" from Percy Faith, be careful with this one, you'll be liable to melt in your chair, another mellow tune from Buddy Bergman, "Melodyville"

Finally, The Alan Copeland Singers with "Baroque A Nova", not really a good way to describe this, Beach Boys meet Enoch Light meet Bach? sounds like the sort of thing that could easily have been played in a 70's era office building, I quite like it.

New Tracks

• Andy Bautista - Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
• Johnny Mann - Paper Doll
• The Alan Copeland Singers - Baroque A Nova
• Percy Faith - Live For Life
• Buddy Bergman - Melodyville
• Jerry Fielding - Spanish Flea

Some more holiday tracks, including Enoch Light

Well, it's snowing.. and snowing.. and snowing.. and snowing! up here in Minnesota, good weather to stay inside, it seems so pointless to shovel when it'll be covered up in 2 hours anyway.

A note to the people using stream rippers: I admire your effort and I am honored, however, I can't officially condone the practice, I ask that if you're going to do it, at least use a stream ripper that ties up only one connection and hides itself from us a little better.

The problem is that some rippers use extra connections, this wastes bandwidth on both sides, costing everyone money.

Personally, I don't have a problem with someone ripping into hour long mp3 files for later play on their iPod or something, I wish the law allowed us to deliver podcasts, lifting individual tracks is silly though, the quality just isn't the same as napster or amazon. Internet radio is simply not an mp3 delivery service.

Anyhow, on with todays tracks!

You may have noticed we squeezed the Theme from MASH in yesterday, this was a simple oversight, it's an awesome version done by Enoch Light, I can't believe I forgot to mention it!

Also Anita Kerr, Kay Starr, Billy May and some more from Percy Faith. Hope your holiday season went well! (and that you don't have too many decorations to take down..)

New Tracks

• Enoch Light - Theme from MASH
• Johnny Mann/Simon Zenther - It's a Lonesome Old Town
• Kay Starr - I Love Paris
• Anita Kerr - Strangers In The Night
• Percy Faith - Sunny
• Billy May - Old Fashioned Girl

Serge Gainsbourg & Syd Dale

We're coming up on the shortest day of the year, the Minnesota sky is turning dark a lot earlier now, good news, more night time is always a good thing! (Just wish it happened in the summer, so we could go out and enjoy it more)

More from Billy May, with "Perdido", a nice big-band retro sound.

The Headliners do an interesting version of Barry Manilow's "I Write the Songs" and on the mellow track is some more from the Syd Dale Orchestra with "Reminiscing" a track that you'll recognize almost instantly if you listened to AM radio in the 70's.

A couple tracks from Serge Gainsbourg, "Ce Mortel Ennui" and "L'alcool", if you can't speak French, well, you're in good company, neither can I! (and if you can speak French and hear something that isn't "work safe".. please tell me)

New Tracks

• Billy May & His Orchestra - Perdido
• Serge Gainsbourg - Ce Mortel Ennui
• The Headliners - I Write The Songs
• Syd Dale Orchestra - Reminiscing
• Serge Gainsbourg - L'alcool

Billy May, Quincy Jones big band sound

Hope your weekend is going well, here are some more track updates to put a little warmth into your winter.

Terry Gibbs plays the vibes with "Joshua"

Billy May & His Orchestra

Astrud Gilberto and Walter Wanderley with a nice, mellow version of Call Me

Some more groovy big band style music, Quincy Jones and "Cain's Hundreds"

We'd like to know what you think of 56k streams -vs- 128k or 64k, do you listen in an environment where bandwidth is expensive? When I listen to 128k streams, it sounds nicer but there are more network problems. We're considering moving to either 64k or 128k, it should sound slightly better but it could create network hassles. We'd like to know your opinions.

New Tracks

• Billy May & His Orchestra - I Believe In You
• Terry Gibbs - Joshua
• Quincy Jones - Cain's Hundreds
• Astrud Gilberto & Walter Wanderley - Call Me

More Quincy Jones, Steve Lawrence and More!

Hope your first week of December is swingin', and that things are warm where you are! You know, it's times like these, I wish I lived in the southern hemisphere.

New Tracks

Charlie Barnet's Evergreens and Brazil Inc's Samba De Verao seem to have fallen victim to the "loudness race", but it's not terribly noticeable. (wikipedia has an article on the problem)

• Tim Ballard - Midnight Sun
• Charlie Barnet - Evergreens
• Steve Lawrence - There'll Be Some Changes Made
• Quincy Jones - Bossa Nova
• Brazil Inc. - Samba De Verao

Take Five, Quincy Jones style!

Hope everyone had a good weekend! As always, hope you enjoy the new tracks. If you have any suggestions, please feel free to contact us.

Quincy Jones has really cool take on Take Five, some big band music from Orchestra Copacabana. Excellent up-beat tune from The Laurie Lewis Quintet, and Vic Damone with This Can't Be Love. Enjoy!

New Tracks

• Orchestra Copacabana - Wave
• Quincy Jones - Take Five
• Vic Damone - This Can't Be Love
• The Laurie Lewis Quintet - It's On Again

More James Bond themes, happy thanksgiving!

Another variant of the James Bond Theme, some really up-beat music from Carol Lawrence, and more cool jazzy tunes from Jerry Fielding and Jim Tyler, enjoy!

New Tracks

• Philips Westin Orchestra - James Bond Theme
• Carol Lawrence - I'm Gonna Wear Your Love
• Jerry Fielding - Skyliner
• Jim Tyler - Something's Coming
• Carol Lawrence - Come Away With Me

Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra

We go south of the border with Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Gerard Carelli tells us about once being in love with Amy, and Leigh Might suggests it might as well be spring.

TriviaCompanion also explores the wonders of 21'st century towel technology with this rather, (cough) amazing invention.

New Tracks

• Leigh Michele - It Might As Well BE Spring
• Gerard Carelli - Once In Love With Amy
• Gerard Carelli - The Surrey With the Fringe On Top
• Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra - South Of The Border

Sunday Morning Updates

Some more music for your sunday morning, relaxing music from Piero Umilian, Hot Toddy from Lou Haskins and some excellent music from Nelson Riddle, Frank Devol and Deal Elliott Enjoy!

• Lou Haskins - Hot Toddy
• Piero Umiliani - You Tried to Warn Me (Theme - Drug Treatment)
• Lalo Schifrin - The Joint
• Nelson Riddle - Speakeasy Blues
• Frank Devol - The Happening
• Dean Elliott - So Be It (Jazz)
• Percy Faith, his Orchestra and Chorus - The April Fools
• Piero Umiliani - Sleep Now Little One (Lazy Choir)

Want to be happy?, have some Frim Fram Sauce!

Some tracks to make you happy this saturday morning. Enjoy!

• The Polite Jazz Quartet - Be Careful, it's my Heart
• The Polite Jazz Quartet - Cute/Shiny Stockings
• The Polite Jazz Quartet - On Green Dolphin Street
• Toronto Starlight Orchestra - this Masquerade
• Toronto Starlight Orchestra - the Frim Fram Sauce
• Steven Maglio - the Girl from Ipanema
• Jacki Cooper - I Want to be Happy

The uncontrolable urge.. (and other goodies)

A couple really nifty tracks from Frank Mizen and Chris Norton, a bit of boogie from Lou Haskins and some smokin jazz.

• Smokin' Jazz - Drifting Smoke On The Shore
• Lou Haskins - J.D.S. Boogie Woogie
• Frank Mizen, Chris Norton - Tacky Cha Cha
• Frank Mizen, Chris Norton - Uncontrolables, The

More Mellow Music for your Bachelor Cubicle!

A couple crooners from Steven Maglio and a really nice version of the classic "Route 66" from the USAO Showband!

Wrapping things up, we relax with the mellow sounds of The Polite Jazz Quartet with "Autumn Leaves"

New Tracks

• Steven Maglio - Come Dance With Me
• Steven Maglio - Too Marvelous For Words
• Rhoda Burnsed & USAO Showband - Route 66
• The Polite Jazz Quartet - Autumn Leaves