Word: lp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spirit of Christmas (Ken Darby Orchestra and Chorus; Decca LP). A spectral-voiced Spirit, serving as a kind of narrator, is reminiscent of a pretentious Inner Sanctum mystery, but Bandleader Darby's taffy-thick dance arrangements will probably be dandy as Music to Hold an Office Party...
Christmas in Scandinavia (Axel Stordahl and his Orchestra and Chorus; Decca LP). An engaging collection of carols from Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The album comes without translations, but it manages to make considerably fresher comments on the season than most of the competition...
Leave It to Jane (Dot LP). Singer Jane Harvey, a girl who can put a promise in a pronoun, swings her way through some convincingly heart-frayed reveries on the loving game-Misty, Everything But You, Lover in the House. In more antic mood, she belts the bromides out of Sent for You Yesterday and Witchcraft...
...Oliver Backstage (Dot LP), Singer-Arranger Oliver converses on Whatever Lola Wants, Seventy-Six Trombones, Grant Avenue, with the air of a man rocking a hammock. The familiar exercises have rarely had more infectious grace...
When I'm Thinking of You (Tommy Sands; Capitol LP). In his salad days, Singer Sands honked and rocked his way to sudden fortune with a voice like a jackdaw's cry. Now at the awkward age-22 -he has renounced rock 'n' roll for balladeering on the theory that "I have matured as a person." His latest album fails to prove that point, but at least it demonstrates that behind the old postnasal drip, a sweetly lyric set of pipes was growing all the time...