Enoch Light & The Light Brigade

Percussion Galore !!...by the master of "Stereo" Recording's.... Command Records and of course not forgetting "Enoch Light & The Light Brigade !!!.....


Enoch Henry Light (18 August 1905, in Canton, Ohio – 31 July 1978, in Redding, Connecticut) was an American classically trained violinist, danceband leader, and recording engineer. As the leader of various dance bands that recorded as early as March 1927 and continuing through at least 1940, Light and his band primarily worked in various hotels in New York. For a time in 1928 he also led a band in Paris. 
At some point his band was tagged "The Light Brigade" and they often broadcast over radio live from the Hotel Taft in New York where they had a long residency. Through 1940, Light and his band recorded for various labels including Brunswick, ARC, Vocalion and Bluebird. Later on, as A&R (Artists and Repertoire) chief and vice-president of Grand Award Records, he founded his own label, Command Records, in 1959. Light's name was prominent on many albums both as musician and producer.
Light is credited with being one of the first musicians to go to extreme lengths to create high-quality recordings that took full advantage of the technical capabilities of home audio equipment of the late 1950s and early 1960s, particularly stereo effects that bounced the sounds between the right and left channels (often described as "Ping-pong recording"), which had huge influence on the whole concept of multi-track recording that would become commonplace in the ensuing years. Doing so, he arranged his musicians in ways to produce the kinds of recorded sounds he wished to achieve, even completely isolating various groups of them from each other in the recording studio. The first of the albums produced on his record label, Command Records, Persuasive Percussion, became one of the first big-hit LP discs based solely on retail sales. His music received little or no airplay on the radio, because AM radio, the standard of the day, was monaural and had very poor fidelity. Light went on to release several albums in the Persuasive Percussion series, as well as a Command test record.....( Info Edited From Wikipedia )

1.Your The Top
2. Somebody Loves Me
3. Blues In The Night
4. Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps
5. Love For Sale
6. Fascinating Rhythm

1. S'Wonderful
2. Mood Indigo
3. Ain't Misbehavin'
4. The Man I Love
5. Song Of India
6. Mad About The Boy

    4. Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps

Ruth Olay

There is some fine use of Stereo in some of the tracks on this fine singer !!...she swaps from left to right speaker during the songs !

Ruth Olay (born San Francisco 1924-) is a jazz singer with Hungarian ancestry who was born in San Francisco, the daughter of a Rabbi and a professional chorister mother. Moving to Los Angeles while still an infant, Olay became a fixture in Hollywood's nightclub scene in the late 1940s and through the 1950s and early 1960s.....The daughter of a lapsed rabbi and an opera singer, Ruth Olay is quite an idiosyncratic vocalist. There is definitely an operatic quality to her voice (and she also had classical piano training), yet her style is still swinging and jazzy. 

Ruth Olay is one of the many talented jazz vocalists who enjoyed a long and varied career on America's cabaret and night club scene and she made a handful of great recordings during the LP era. Presented here for your listening pleasure are the LPs "Easy Living" which features the arrangements of the renowned Jerry Fielding and his orchestra.

This is a must have for fans of the jazz vocalists.

1. Just a Sitting And A Rocking
2. Hurry Hurry
3. Tess's Torch Song
4. Nocturne For The Blues
5. Undecided
6. Easy Livin'

1. Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans
2. Never Do
3. Now You Know
4. Blue Prelude
5. Sometimes I Feel Like A motherless Child
6. I Wanna Be A Friend Of Yours

   2. Never Do