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Norman Luboff Choir: Songs Of The West (1955)

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ITEM# SR-COCS8329
Ratings: C=VG+; LP=VG+
Artist:

Norman Luboff Choir

Title:

Songs Of The West

Released: 1955
Label: Columbia
Catalog: CS 8329
Genre: Easy Listening / Choral
NOTE: Red Columbia Label with "360" across bottom
 T R A C K L I S T:
01 Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie
02 The Old Chisholm Trail
03 Red River Valley
04 Whoopie Ti Yi Yo
05 Doney Gal
06 Tumbling Tumbleweeds
07 Poor Lonesome Cowboy
08 Colorado Trail
09 I Ride An Old Paint
10 Night Herding Song
11 Cool Water
12 Streets Of Laredo
13 Home On The Range
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Album Review

by Greg Adams [allmusic.com]

The Norman Luboff Choir was considered, in some quarters, the best chorus in Hollywood, and Songs of the West is one of its earliest albums. The record was a commercial success and earned the choir's leader the tongue-in-cheek nickname "Hopalong Luboff." The unusual album cover pictures a cattle drive in a Western vista with no text whatsoever. All of the songs are Western classics performed with minimal instrumentation and the chorus' big vocal sound that, even on Western material, is more similar to the Robert Shaw Chorale than the Sons of the Pioneers. The Norman Luboff Choir takes a less stilted approach than Shaw's chorale, though, which makes its music more accessible though somewhat somber. Songs of the West is a beautifully performed album for Western music lovers, and ranks with Reverie as one of the choir's finest albums.


The Norman Luboff Choir - Songs Of The Caribbean [Mono] (Columbia CL 1357) (1959)

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ITEM# SR-COCL1357
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Artist:

Norman Luboff Choir

Title:

Songs Of The Caribbean [Mono]

Released: 1959
Label: Columbia
Catalog: CL 1357
Genre: Easy Listening
 T R A C K L I S T:
01 Donkey Small
02 Woman Sweet
03 Balance
04 Water
05 Yellow Bird
06 Dance De Limbo
07 Let's Go To The Market Place
08 Bamboo-Tamboo
09 The Proposal
10 Fisherman's Song
11 Sunset And Moonrise
12 Dansez Calenda
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Norman Luboff's Biography

by Jason Ankeny [allmusic.com]

The Norman Luboff Choir was among the most popular choral ensembles of their day, releasing a series of hit easy-listening LPs during the late 1950s and 1960s. Luboff was born May 14, 1917 in Chicago, where he began his career as a vocalist and arranger for area radio programs; in 1948 he relocated to Hollywood, signing on to compose movie music for Warner Bros. The first incarnation of the Norman Luboff Choir was formed during the mid-1950s, and in the years to follow they released a series of albums on Columbia that drew on music from a variety of genres and geographic locales, with titles including Calypso Holiday, Broadway!, Songs of the Cowboy and Songs of the Caribbean. The choir also backed a number of vocalists including Harry Belafonte and Doris Day, and although their recording career came to a halt during the late 1960s, they continued touring until Luboff's cancer-related death on September 22, 1987.

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