Record #1

As I was working on putting this blog together I decided two things while listening to the first piece of vinyl for this blog:

• 1) I am going to start keeping two piles till Christi designs my organizational system and catalog. The “listened to” and the “not listened to” pile.
• 2) I need to add a background story page for those who do not know the details of this collection.

So the first record from the lot is part of the Time Life Records collection.

Album: Great Moments Of Music: Marches, Volume 2
Featuring Arthur Fiedler and The Boston Pops Orchestra 

Overall I really enjoyed listening to this one, I was even air-conducting for part of it. (Classy, I know.) When I picked this record up and put it on the turn table I hadn’t looked at the track listing yet. So I was surprised by the time track 3 on side 2 rolled around and it turned out to be “Elgar: Pomp And Circumstance No. 1 In D Major” because had I known I was going to be getting the album, I wouldn’t have bought the song from iTunes in June.

Probably my favorite tracks on the album were:
Side 1 cut 2: “Alford: Colonel Bogey March”
Side 1 cut 4: “Handy: St. Louis Blues March (Arranged by Richard Hayman)”
Side 2 cut 2: “Verdi: Grand March (from Aida)”

And of course the best air conducting marches:
Side 1 cut 5: “Wilson: Seventy-Six Trombones (from The Music Man) (Arranged by Leroy Anderson)”
Side 2 cut 1: “Bizet: March Of The Toreadors (from Carmen)”

Time Life Records - Marches Volume 2