This is the last entry in our Continental Week. Not exactly falling within the genre, I am not sure why I choose this ti end the week , nor why I bought it other than it was a one dollar record on a day where I was buying a bunch of records.
I had a house guest on Christmas Eve and celebrations got out of hand. When I awoke, my apartment was trashed. Records, wires, musical instruments, and a bottle of vodka were scattered all over the place. This record did not survive the night. A chunk got chipped off. As a result, I can not play the first songs on either side (“Midnight in Moscow” and the title track.
By here this is, this release from 1962 . It is ok. Good song selection. Ok arrangements. Billy Vaughn’s work is a mixed bag. This one is just ok. It did go to #14 on the US Chart. I was going to go with the Bert Kaempfert penned “Wonderland by Night” but it has a skip in it. There was not much more to choose from, though. So here it is with skip and all, “Wonderland By Night”.
Meh for the most part. I hate ending the week with a meh album but it is too late to change things now. On the positive note, this weeks posts were a lot less labor intensive compared to last weeks.