Hello and welcome to another episode of Vinyl-O-Matic. I am your host, Your Old Pal Will. I hope this episode finds you well. This week we will be concluding our journey through Albums that begin with the letter A as in Alpha and heading into albums that begin with the letter B as in Bravo. You can play along at home by pointing your browser in the direction of vinylomatic(dot)com(slash)s05e05. While your there, you can participate in this week's listener challenge: What are your Top 3 standards, jazz or otherwise? Leave them in the comments section and if you subscribe to the Vinyl-O-Matic Amplifier newsletter, you'll get a link to the resultant Spotify playlist. If you thought the last episode was quite the adventure, you're in for more of the same, kind of. And now, a correction from Your Old Pal Will. Somehow he went right past At Home with Their Greatest Hits. Who am I talking about? Why, the Partridge Family, of course.

Cooookie! I don't know about you, but I suddenly have the urge to bake a bunch of chocolate chip cookies. We just heard from the Lunachicks with their killer song "Cookie Core" from their 1990 Blast First album Babysitters on Acid. Prior to that, we had The B-52's and their rendition of Petula Clark's "Downtown" from their 1979 self-titled debut album. Speaking of debuts, we heard a track from Be-Bop Deluxe's 1974 debut album Axe Victim on Harvest. "Adventures in a Yorkshire Landscape" was the name of the song, and is the least glam-era Bowie song on the album. And I don't necessarily mean that in a bad way. Starting the whole show off, we had the wonderful "I Think I Love You" from The Partridge Family, or really David Cassidy and Shirley Jones and the Wrecking Crew. And now, I hope you like Bach.

That was three from good ol' J.S. Kicking that set off, we had Camarata and orchestra recorded in Phase 4 Stereo performing "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor". The Saar Chamber Orchestra brought us "Contrapunctus 14 - Harpsichord" from Art of the Fugue. And from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Arthur Loesser performed perhaps the best known of the exercises, "No. 1: Prelude and Fugue in C Major, BWV 846". And now for something completely different.

How was that for a change-up? We just heard the Gong Kebyar gamelan orchestra from Sebatu perform an ancient ritual temple dance entitled "Gilak". Before that, we heard the O'Jay's breakout hit "Love Train", which is definitely something we all need to be on for the foreseeable future. Kicking things off, a record that I received for my 12th birthday all those many years ago: Back in Black. "Shoot to Thrill" is the name of the track from their 1980 Atlantic super duper platinum record. On the subject brought up at the top of the show, here's a standard from the American songbook that had its origin in an Abbott and Costello film.

That last set began with the John Coltrane Quartet with Jimmy Garson, Elvin Jones and the late great McCoy Tyner doing their interpretation of "You Don't Know What Love Is" from the amazing 1963 Impulse! album Ballads. We followed that up with The Three O'Clock and a selection from their 1982 Baroque Hoedown EP that happens to be written by the older brother of Angus and Malcolm Young. "Sorry" is the name of the song originally performed by George Young and his band The Easy Beats. We closed things out with another tie-in: More harpsichord music from JS Bach, this time from the soundtrack to Stanley Kubrick's 1975 rags-to-riches-to-rags masterpiece Barry Lyndon.
If you have any questions about what you have heard, please do send me a line: will(at)vinylomatic(dot)com. You can always find archived episodes, show notes, RSS links and newsletter sign up at vinylomatic(dot)com. In our next episode, we will continue our journey through albums that begin with the letter B as in Bravo. Join me, won't you?