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Test your tastes against a Hollywood expert
Joel Friedman, music and record expert of the Hollywood staff of Billboard magazine, compiled this basic record collection for Photoplay readers. How do your disc tastes stack against the expert’s?
CALYPSO
HARRY BELAFONTE
“Calypso” RCA Victor
LOUISE BENNETT
“Jamaican Folk Songs” Folkways
DUKE OF IRON & LORD THOMAS “Calypso Jamboree” Paragon
THE EASY RIDERS
“Marianne and Other Songs” Columbia
LORD BEGINNER
“Holiday in the West Indies” Decca
ENID MOSIER
“Hi-Fi Calypso” Columbia
EDMUNDO ROS
“Calypso” London
STAN KENTON
Artistry in Rhythm Capitol
GLENN MILLER
Concert Vol. I and II RCA Yictor
RED NICHOLS
Red Nichols and His Five Pennies Vol. I, II, III FATS WALLER
Fats Waller Plays and Sings RCA Victor TEDDY WILSON
Teddy Wilson with Billie Holiday Columbia ERROLL GARNER
The Most Happy Piano Columbia
RALPH SUTTON
Classic Jazz Piano Riverside
POPULAR ALBUMS
HARRY BELAFONTE
Belafonte RCA Victor
PERRY COMO
So Smooth RCA Victor
XAVIER CUGAT
Cha-Cha-Cha Columbia
DORIS DAY
Love Me or Leave Me Columbia
JACKIE GLEASON
Music for Lovers Only Capitol
ANDRE KOSTELANETZ Meet Andre Kostelanetz Columbia
JULIE LONDON
Julie Is Her Name Liberty
THE TALBOT BROTHERS
GLENN MILLER
“Calypso” Audio Fidelity
Glenn Miller Plays Selections From
VARIOUS
ROCK ’N’
ROLL
“The Glenn Miller Story”
RCA Victor
“Calypso Holiday in the Virgin
Islands”
LAWRENCE WELK
Decca
LAVERNE BAKER
9
Say It with Music
Coral
“Tweedle Dee”
Atlantic
FRANK SINATRA
PAT BOONE
In the Wee Small Hours
Capitol
“I Almost Lost My Mind”
Dot
BASIC JAZZ
PAT BOONE
LOUIS ARMSTRONG
“Ain't That a Shame”
Dot
BALLAD
The Armstrong Story
Columbia
CREWCUTS
NAT KING COLE
LOUIS ARMSTRONG
“Ssh-Boom”
Mercury
“Mona Lisa”
Capitol
Pasadena Concert
Decca
FATS DOMINO
TONY BENNETT
COUNT BASIE
“I’m in Love Again”
Imperial
“Because of You”
Columbia
Basie’s Best
Decca
FONTANE SISTERS
PERRY COMO
SIDNEY BECHET
“Hearts of Stone”
Dot
“Prisoner of Love”
RCA Victor
Jazz Classics, Vol. I and II
Blue Note
GEORGIA GIBBS
FRANKIE LAINE
BIX BEIDERBECKE
"Dance with Me Henry”
Mercury
“I Believe”
Columbia
The Bix Beiderbecke Story Vol. I Columbia
BILL HALEY
TERESA BREWER
DAVE BRUBECK
“Rock Around the Clock”
Decca
“Till I Waltz Again with You”
Coral
Jazz Goes to College
Columbia
LITTLE RICHARD
ROSEMARY CLOONEY
JOHNNY DODDS
“Tutti Frutti”
Specialty
“Hey There”
Columbia
Johnny Dodds — Vol. I
Riverside
LITTLE RICHARD
FOUR ACES
DUKE ELLINGTON
“Rip It Up”
Specialty
“Three Coins in the Fountain”
Decca
This Is Duke Ellington
RCA Victor
LITTLE RICHARD
FRANK SINATRA
DUKE ELLINGTON
“Slippin’ and Slidin’ ”
Specialty
“Young at Heart”
Capitol
Ellington’s Greatest
RCA Victor
CARL PERKINS
DORIS DAY
ELLA FITZGERALD
“Blue Suede Shoes”
Sun
“Secret Love”
Columbia
Ella Fitzgerald Sings the
ELVIS PRESLEY
EDDIE FISHER
Rodgers and Hart Song Book
Verve
“All Shook Up”
RCA Victor
“Wish You Were Here”
RCA Victor
BENNY GOODMAN
ELVIS PRESLEY
THE PLATTERS
Carnegie Hall Jazz
“Heartbreak Hotel”
RCA Victor
“My Prayer”
Mercury
Concerts Vol. I and II
Columbia
ELVIS PRESLEY
PAT BOONE
BENNY GOODMAN
“Hound Dog”
RCA Victor
“Love Letters in the Sand”
Dot
Golden Era Vol. I and II
Columbia
ELVIS PRESLEY
JO STAFFORD
BENNY GOODMAN
“Don’t Be Cruel”
RCA Victor
“You Belong to Me”
Columbia
Broadcast Jazz Concerts
JOE TURNER
TAB HUNTER
Vol. I and II
Columbia
“Flip Flip Fly”
Atlantic
“Young Love”
Dot
JAZZ AT THE PHILHARMONIC
TOMMY SANDS
SAL MINEO
Vols. 1 through 18 Verve
(clef Series)
“Teenage Crush”
Capitol
“Start Movin’ ”
Epic