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Les Brown & His Band Of Renown
Les Browns in Town
Genres: Jazz, Pop, Rock, Broadway & Vocalists

Track Listings (27) - Disc #1
1. Just You, Just Me - Les Brown, Greer, Jesse
2. Harlem Nocturne - Les Brown, Hagen, Earle H.
3. Checkin' In - Les Brown, Hensel, Wes
4. Moonlight In Vermont - Les Brown, Blackburn, John
5. The Continental - Les Brown, Conrad, Con
6. Spanish Monster - Les Brown, Hensel, Wes
7. Meanwhile Back On the Bus - Les Brown, Clarkson, Geoff
8. Ridin' High - Les Brown, Porter, Cole
9. Nina Never Knew - Les Brown, Alter, Louis
10. On a Little Street In Singapore - Les Brown, DeRose, Peter
11. The Piccolino - Les Brown, Berlin, Irving
12. Swamp Fire - Les Brown, Mooney, Harold
13. Bluesette - Les Brown, Thielemans, Jean
14. Pigalle - Les Brown, Ulmer, Georges
15. Goodbye - Les Brown, Jenkins, Gordon [1]
16. Under Paris Skies - Les Brown, Drejac, Jean
17. Love Theme From La Strada - Les Brown, Galdieri, M.
18. One Note Samba - Les Brown, Jobim, Antonio Carl
19. Piccolo Pete - Les Brown, Baxter, Phil
20. Domino - Les Brown, Plante
21. Stage Band Boogie - Les Brown, Osser, E.
22. P.S. I Love You - Les Brown, Jenkins, Gordon [1]
23. Matilda, Matilda - Les Brown, Span, Norman
24. Till Then - Les Brown,
25. G'won Train - Les Brown, Brown, Patti
26. Summertime In Venice - Les Brown, Sigman
27. Rigamarole - Les Brown, Mooney, Harold

CD Details

All Artists: Les Brown & His Band Of Renown
Title: Les Browns in Town
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Jazz Beat Records
Release Date: 9/24/2007
Album Type: Import, Original recording remastered
Genres: Jazz, Pop, Rock, Broadway & Vocalists
Styles: Swing Jazz, Traditional Jazz & Ragtime, Vocal Jazz, Easy Listening, Oldies, Vocal Pop, Traditional Vocal Pop
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 8436019585184

Synopsis

Album Description

2007 digipak edition featuring two albums appearing on CD for the first time! The Les Brown Orchestra was famous for traveling wherever there was a dancehall. It was usually received with the phrase: "Les Brown's in town!" This release contains the two complete albums bearing that phrase as its title (although not a single song or arrangement is duplicated) for the first time ever on CD. The first Les Brown's in Town! was recorded in 1956, while the second was taped in 1964. 27 tracks. Jazz Beat.

CD Reviews

Uses Vinyl Records as Source Material

Jazz Fan | Ohio, USA | 06/29/2008

(3 out of 5 stars)

"These two albums with the same title were issued eight years apart by two competing labels. The first Les Brown's In Town is from 1956 and was a Capitol records product. The second album is from 1964 and was issued by American Decca. The 1964 album was released in stereo; it appears here in mono. There is really no excuse for this.

Both albums are obviously taken from vinyl records as source material instead of record company master tapes. There are no licensing statements on the CD reissue, so you are left to draw your own conclusions as to the authority by which these albums appear here at all. Tape masters of the Capitol product do exist; parts of this album appear on Les Brown/ Best of The Capitol Years from tape sources.

That said, the transfers from vinyl are actually well done. Noise is minimal and fairly clean copies were used as sources- but you can tell occasionally that they used records.

It is unfortunate that the record companies that originally issued this material haven't put this stuff back out on their own. Musically, Brown's bands were pretty good, and the Capitol material especially is several notches above what the band normally recorded."