The Norman Luboff Choir

  • The Norman Luboff Choir - Easy To Remember [Columbia Records CL 545] (1954)
  • The Norman Luboff Choir - Songs Of The West [Columbia Records CL 657] (1955)
  • The Norman Luboff Choir - Songs Of The West [Columbia Records CS 8329] (1955)
  • The Norman Luboff Choir - Songs Of The South [Columbia Records CL 860] (1956)
  • The Norman Luboff Choir - Songs Of The Sea [Columbia Records CL 948] (1957)
  • Norman Luboff Choir - Songs Of The Sea [Columbia Records CS 8775] (1957)
  • The Norman Luboff Choir - But Beautiful [Columbia Records CS 8114] (1959)
  • The Norman Luboff Choir - Songs Of The Caribbean [Columbia Records CL 1357] (1959)
  • The Norman Luboff Choir - Moments To Remember [Columbia Records CS 8220] (1960)
  • The Norman Luboff Choir - Sing! It's Good For You [RCA Victor LSP-2475] (1962)
  • Norman Luboff Choir - A Choral Spectacular [RCA Records LSP-2522] (1962)
  • The Norman Luboff Choir - Aloha from Norman Luboff [RCA Victor LSP-2602] (1963)
  • The Norman Luboff Choir - Great Movie Themes [RCA Victor LSP-2895] (1964)
  • The Norman Luboff Choir - The Latin Luboff [RCA Victor LSP-3637] (1966)

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.