Here's another of my celebrity vocal albums. I have several Lorne Greene albums - loved him as Ben Cartwright in "Bonanza" and as Commander Adama in the original "Battlestar Galactica". I think one reason I like Lorne Greene is because I associate him with those TV shows, which I watched with my father - good memories. Well, this is Lorne's debut album and he sings a lot of familiar standards. I find it to be a very enjoyable album!
Track listing for Lorne Greene - Young At Heart:
Side 1: 1. I'm Glad I'm Not Young Anymore 2. September Song 3. Young At Heart 4. You Make Me Feel So Young 5. Hello, Young Lovers 6. Something's Gotta Give
Side 2: 1. I'm Getting Sentimental Over You 2. Just in Time 3. Young and Foolish 4. Speak Low 5. As Time Goes By 6. The Second Time Around
Here's one of my favorites from my celebrity albums! I have several Lorne Greene albums, and I posted the "Bonanza Ponderosa Party Time" album before. I also have one by Dan Blocker that I'll get around to posting. If anyone has anything by Pernell Roberts, I'd love for you to share it! :-)
I grew up watching "Bonanza" - and "Gunsmoke", "The High Chapparral", "The Big Valley", "The Virginian", "The Rifleman", "Branded", "Laredo", and many others! If it was a western or a war show (like "Combat!" or "The Rat Patrol"), then I watched it with my father. Those were the days when a home had only one TV (two TVs meant you were "rich"), and I even remember when we got a COLOR TV! My father would sit in his vinyl recliner and I would sit next to him in my little rocking chair. Oh - and I was the remote control, too! Well, I'm just glad I have cable TV and get the Encore Westerns channel and American Life Network - I get to watch a lot of these old shows and relive happy memories of my childhood.
Listening to this album also brings back pleasant memories of an era gone by. Henry Mancini wrote the liner notes and here's a snippet:
I like this album! It's a steel-drivin', mountain-movin' album full of exciting hammer-swingin', rock-splittin' rhythms.... Everybody knows Lorne Greene. Sure...he's the Big Boss of the Ponderosa Ranch on TV's "Bonanza," but that's NOT the Lorne Greene I'm talking about. In this album he takes off his shirt and bends these great work songs in his bare hands like some kind of way-out giant. In every groove there's pure, naked virility that will give your loudspeaker a real traumatic shock. There's bone, muscle and guts in these songs....
Okay - you get the idea! So, give it a listen! Lorne Greene is, indeed, The Man!
Track listing for Lorne Greene - The Man:
Side 1: 1. Pop Goes the Hammer 2. End of Track 3. Nine Pound Hammer 4. Bring on the Dancin' Girls 5. Oh! What a Town 6. Fourteen Men
Side 2: 1. Destiny 2. Sixteen Tons 3. Trouble Row 4. Chickasaw Mountain 5. Darling, My Darling 6. The Man
Here's a hilarious clip of Lorne Greene with Dean Martin:
Vince, a regular visitor to this blog, requested that I post any Bonanza album I might have, so this post of "Ponderosa Party Time" is for Vince (and all other Bonanza fans out there)!
I grew up watching "Bonanza". Every Sunday night, I would pull up my chair next to my dad's and watch the latest chapter in the lives of the Cartwrights. I didn't really have a favorite - I liked all of them - but I was disappointed when Pernell Roberts (Adam) left the show. I really liked his black hat. Anyway, I still watch it on reruns - just don't seem to get tired of it. I guess I just really like it now because it brings back such fond memories of my childhood.
Well, this album is lots of fun. The Cartwrights are all here - Ben (Lorne Greene), Adam (Pernell Roberts), Hoss (Dan Blocker), and Little Joe (Michael Landon) - and they're having a Saturday night party. The singing isn't that bad either - I was surprised! There are a couple of songs on here that I remember learning in grade school ("Skip to My Lou" and "Miss Cindy"), so it was fun listening to those. But I think my favorite songs on this album are "My Sons, My Sons" and "The Place Where I Worship" - they literally brought me to tears because they moved me so much (yes, I'm the kind that gets all sentimental). Now, the album is recorded such that the songs flow into each other with the Cartwrights talking in between, so it's really hard to tell where one song ends and the other begins. Because of this, I did not try to break out each song individually and instead you'll get two MP3 files - one for Side 1 and one for Side 2. So, put on your dancing boots and get ready for some Ponderosa Party Time!
Track listing for Bonanza - Ponderosa Party Time:
Side 1: 1. Bonanza 2. Sourwood Mountain 3. Sky Ball Paint 4. Early One Morning 5. Ponderosa 6. Careless Love 7. Skip to My Lou 8. In the Pines
Side 2: 1. Happy Birthday 2. My Sons, My Sons 3. The Hangin' Blues 4. Shenandoah 5. Miss Cindy 6. The Place Where I Worship (Is the Wide Open Spaces)
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