Pete Rugolo - The Sweet Ride (20th Century Fox, stereo)
Title track sung by Dusty Springfield.
Did I ever tell the story about the time I moved, and I brought only one jazz LP with me, the 70s twofer of early Randy Weston stuff?
I also have both the 1986 and 2003, and to my ears, both have issues sonically. I will be interested to hear if the new version sounds better, given advances in technology, but I'm not sure that I'll buy it a third time.
Mel Torme - That's All (Columbia, stereo)
with a bunch of bonus tracks.
Mel gets the Columbia 30th-Street studio reverb on his voice, like Tony, Johnny, Andy, and Eydie.
I was the handsome guy perpetually going through the dollar bins. You weren't the person who grabbed Hefti in Gotham City right before I reached for it, were you?
This album was later reissued as St. Thomas under Herbie Mann's name on the Solid State label, with boring cover art. As I was never able to find a clean LP of the UA release, I ended up placing the Solid State vinyl inside of a pristine UA sleeve. This made me very happy!