More Piero Umiliani! (Happy New Year!)

Bringing in the new year with more music. Lets up the 20-teens are better than the first decade, Happy New Year everyone!

A fun tune from Sergio Rafael, "Over the Mountains"

Damita Jo with a jazzy tune that borderlines blues, with "I Found a Brand New Baby".

Some space age pop from Alvino Rey, "Rock me gently".

Another track from Piero Umiliani (Just can't get enough!) with La foresta incantata, and I don't know what it means either, but it sure sounds mellow in that trance like way!

Finally, Abbe Lane with "Nightingale"

Hope your new year is well and that you're keeping warm!

New Tracks

• Sergio Rafael Orchestra - Over The Mountains
• Damita Jo - I Found a Brand New Baby
• Piero Umiliani - La foresta incantata (feat. Wilson Das Neves)
• Alvino Rey - Rock gently
• Abbe Lane/Tito Puente & His Orchestra - Nightingale

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

A silly monday (also crooners)

A few new tracks on your sunday going into monday, hope everyone managed to have a swinging holiday season!

A couple crooners, Nick D'egidio and Michael Kaczurak, with "The Best Is Yet to Come" and "Beyond the Sea", Nick D'egidio is a Frank Sinatra impersonator.

Eartha Kitt does a rather silly song with "I'd Rather Be Burned As a Witch", kind of cute and silly at the same time.

Also some more jazzy tunes from Billy May, Alvino Rey and Johnny Mann.

Have a good week!

New Tracks

• Nick D'egidio - The Best Is Yet to Come
• Michael Kaczurak - Beyond the Sea
• Johnny Mann - Undecided
• Billy May - Guys And Dolls
• Eartha Kitt - I'd Rather Be Burned As a Witch
• Alvino Rey - Softly asin morning sunrise

The SG Sound & Doug Ferony

Some cool tracks for your saturday night, hope you're not as snowed in as I am!

Doug Ferony with "My Way", you know, I find it odd there aren't more versions of this song around, perhaps I'm not looking in the right places?

The SG Sound with "The Cantina Band", if you're a "Star Wars" fan, you'll probably love this spacey, retro sounding tune! (You've got to get their album, The SG Sound is nothing short of amazing and an internet stream just doesn't compare to the full quality tracks)

A couple mellow tunes from "The Alan Copeland Singers" and "Keely Smith", and a fun, vocal jazz tune from Johnny Mann.

Enjoy! (By the way, we'd really like to hear your plans for the new year, phone them in!)

New Tracks

• Doug Ferony - My Way
• The Alan Copeland Singers - Wichita Lineman
• Johnny Mann/Simon Zenther - Ol' Man River
• Keely Smith - Lullaby Of The Leaves
• The SG Sound - The Cantina Band

Phone in your new years plans!

We'd really like to hear your plans this new years, it's a community thing, let people know what you're up to! we'd really like to hear your plans and play them for the other listeners. Your chance to contribute without spending any money! You're not shy are you? c'mon, I dare you!

Well, it looks like cold temperatures have returned with the tailing end of the snow. Welcome to winter!

Quite a few tracks today! too many to go through one by one, but I'll just say it's a mixture of vocals, cool jazz, fun music and crazy stuff.

I'm particularly fond of Enoch Light's version of "I Say A Little Prayer", nice choral work there.

New Tracks

• The Alan Copeland Singers - If Love Comes With It
• Buddy Bergman - Wild Party
• Johnny Mann/Simon Zenther - Breezin' Along With the Breeze
• Alvino Rey - Chukkar
• Buddy Bergman - Milliganville
• Kay Starr - Just in Time
• Abbe Lane/Tito Puente & His Orchestra - Too Marvelous for Words
• Urbie Green - The Green Bee
• Percy Faith - Samba De Orfeu
• Jerry Fielding - Downtown
• Enoch Light - I Say A Little Prayer

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

Happy Holidays from the triviacompanion!

Hope your holiday season is going along smoothly, watch out for those Christmas cocktails!

Well, it's snowing up here in the great frosty land known as Minnesota, nice cozy fire is burning and we're bringing you some more tracks.

A lot of choral tracks this time!

First is Johnny Mann with Simon Zenther, their "Serenade in Blue" has a nice choral big band sound.

On the choral theme is Anita Kerr with "Remember When", I'm sure you'll agree they sound absolutely fabulous!

Joni James sings about how much we'll miss her "After You've Gone".

Billy May with "Rich Butterfly", a nice hopping jazz tune.

Percy Faith with "Brand New Morning", be very careful with this song, as it tends to get stuck in your head.

And finally, Serge Gainsbourg with "Du Jazz Dans Le Ravin" and if you can't speak French, you're not alone.. I can't either! but he does have a nice sound, I'm sure you'll agree. (I wonder what the words mean!)

More Tracks

• Percy Faith - Brand New Morning
• Johnny Mann/Simon Zenther - Serenade in Blue
• Billy May - Rich Butterfly
• Joni James - After You've Gone
• Anita Kerr - Remember When
• Serge Gainsbourg - Du Jazz Dans Le Ravin