New Items, Reups and Remasters

I don't always post what I transfer, sometimes because I don't feel like writing about the music or performers, sometimes for other reasons.

Here are a few such items presented without much commentary, followed by some reups and remastered versions, done by request.

As always, the links to all these discs are in the comments to this post.

NEW ITEMS

New Music from Old Erin, Vol. 1: This is an attractive LP of music by 20th century Irish composers Brian Boydell, Seoirse Bodley and Frederick May, from the Radio Eireann Symphony and Milan Horvat. If the back cover of the America Decca pressing is to be believed, it was a Deutsche Grammophon production. The record is from about 1958.

Miyoshi Umeki - Miyoshi: The warm and charming Japanese-American singer-actor Miyoshi Umeki made two LPs for Mercury in the 1950s. I transferred both for my own listening after her death in 2007. This 1959 album followed her Academy Award for Sayonara and Tony nomination for Flower Drum Song.

REUPS

Ella Mae Morse - Barrelhouse, Boogie and the Blues (remastered, lossless): The terrific swing-era boogie-woogie singer takes on mid-50s R&B with notable results. Also features one of the great album covers of the era.

Painting the Clouds with Sunshine (mp3): Dennis Morgan and Lucille Norman in a soundtrack from a relatively obscure 1951 musical.

Vera Lynn - Sincerely Yours (new transfer, lossless): I had another go at this problematic recording from the beloved English singer. A little improved, but still some peak distortion.

Delius Conducted by Anthony Collins (remastered, lossless): "On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring" and "The Walk to the Paradise Gardens" in excellent 1953 renditions by Anthony Collins and the London Symphony.