The term “Pin-Up Girls” was first attested to in English in 1941, before it was adapted in the film and music industry, when glamorous girl posters were ubiquitous in the lockers of G.I.s during World War II. This album containing 20 Pin-Ups kicks off with actress/singer Doris Day with “Everybody Loves A Lover”, Days last […]
From the album opener “Ive Got You Under My Skin” written by Cole Porter and recorded in 1953 by Peggy Lee until Carla Thomas’ version of Sam Cooke’s sixties hit-single “I’ll Bring It On Home To You”. Actress, model, singer & sex symbol Mamie Van Doren, best remembered for the rock n roll, juvenile delinquency […]
RECORD STORE DAY 2023 RSD titles are limited to one copy per person. With fairness in mind, we have to prohibit multiple buys of the same release. Orders for multiple copies will be fully refunded! LP COLOUR VINYL This 2023 Edition of Pin-Up Girls opens with Keep Your Hands Off My Baby by Little Eva, […]
Opener “Santa Baby” is a song performed by American singer Eartha Kitt with Henri René and His Orchestra, written by composer Phillip Springer, originally released in 1953. Springer called it one of his weakest works. 1951 Was the year of “Frosty The Snowman” by Patti Page, an American (Country) singer, top-charting vocalist/actress and best-selling female […]
John Cameron is truly one of the greatest and most recognisable British arrangers of the 60s and 70s. He came out of the British jazz scene, playing live as a teenager with the likes of Dick Heckstall-Smith. Moving to London, his first arrangement job was Donovan’s ‘Sunshine Superman’ – Cameron came up with a unique […]
A talented performer of standards and show tunes, Monica Lewis had a superb, warm, and moving voice. Over the course of a decade (from 1947 to 1958), she recorded a series of albums that complemented her success in movies, live engagements and TV shows. Following that, she would take a hiatus from her music career, […]
2 LP, heavyweight black vinyl, gatefold sleeve, printed inners, 16pg booklet. Jessie Buckley and Bernard Butler have joined forces on For All Our Days That Tear The Heart, a collection of twelve mesmerising new songs. The meeting of an Academy Award-nominated actress and singer, and a Brit Award-winning producer and musician, feels like the tale […]
The complete eleventh series of the BBC drama, adapted from Jennifer Worths memoirs, about a group of midwives working in poverty-stricken East London during the 1960s. In this series Trixie (Helen George) and Matthew (Olly Rix) grow closer, the team seek to introduce new community health initiatives and Sister Julienne (Jenny Agutter) and Doctor Turner […]
The complete tenth series of the BBC drama, adapted from Jennifer Worths memoirs, about a group of midwives working in poverty-stricken East London during the 1960s. In this series, talk about whether Nonnatus House should provide a private care service results in a clash between Sister Julienne (Jenny Agutter) and Doctor Turner (Stephen McGann). Meanwhile, […]
Arranged and conducted by André Previn, Your Number, Please is Julie London’s tribute to various famous men and contains an excellent selection of love songs. The men are Frank Sinatra (“Learning the Blues”), Johnny Mercer (“One for My Baby”), Four Freshmen (“It’s a Blue World”), Nat King Cole (“When I Fall in Love”), Fred Astaire […]
