Your Dance Date with Tony Pastor Columbia 10" LP

I've finally found the time to add a few more rare titles to the music blog. I hope you enjoy this cleanup of a 10" lp by Tony Pastor's Orchestra. It was issued by Columbia in the summer of 1950. Both sides contain one long medley but they are full length arrangements of each song. These are smooth, danceable arrangements. No jazz - but great big band music from the end of the era.

Side One: Little White Lies, It Happened in Monterey, Sunny Side of the Street, You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me

Side Two: Exactly Like You, Beyond the Blue Horizon, Time On My Hands, You're Drivin' Me Crazy

For those who don't remember, Tony was a colorful tenor sax man who also did vocals with the Artie Shaw Orchestra. His most memorable was the vocal on "Indian Love Call."


Wikipedia says: Tony Pastor (born Anthony Pestritto) (October 26, 1907-October 31, 1969) was an Italian American novelty singer and tenor saxophonist, who played tenor sax with John Cavallaro (1927), Irving Aaronson (1928-30), Austin Wylie (1930), Smith Ballew (1934), Joe Venuti, Paul Fredricks, Vincent Lopez, and Artie Shaw's first (1936-37) and second (1937-39) orchestras. In November 1939 when Shaw walked off the bandstand in the Cafe Rouge located inside the Hotel Pennsylvania (essentially quitting his own band), Pastor was soon coaxed into leading his own big band, which he did from 1939 to 1959.