Al Hirt - Sugar Lips

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Sugar Lips

Al Hirt

33MHirt A1

R C A Victor...LSP-2965...RPRS-1851/1852...1964...33 1/3 LP...Stereo

SIDE 1
1) Sugar Lips - Buddy Killen - Billy Sherill...2:00
2) The Girl From Ipanema - Jobim - deMoraes - Gimbel...3:10
3) Tenderly - Jack Lawrence - Walter Gross...2:55
4) Up Above My Head (I Hear Music In The Air) - Rosetta Tharpe...2:14
5) Milano - Cy Coleman...2:00
6) Back Home Again In Indiana - MacDonald - Hanley...2:08

SIDE 2
1) Pink Confetti - Jerry Kennedy...2:07
2) Poupee Brisee (Broken Doll) - Eddie Cartan - Georges Aber...2:03
3) September Song - Kert Weill - Maxwell Anderson...2:42
4) New Orleans, My Home Town - Beasley Smith - Teddy Bart..2:14
5) Night Life - Willie Nelson...2:36
6) Looking For The Blues - Towne Adams...1:56

ON THE BACK OF THE JACKET

Whoever brought Al Hirt and the Nashville musicians together was an inspired matchmaker; the "marriage" has already resulted in two best selling RCA Victor albums - HONEY IN THE HORN and COTTON CANDY. SUGAR LIPS is the third in this sweet series, offering more modern Hirt sounds in the "music-wise" Nashville sound tradtion. As always, Al's brilliant virtuoso trumpet doesn't let go. Those "Sugar Lips" caress that horn and produce more honey than the busiest bees taste in a long summer.

Taking its title from the lead-off tune and, as if you didn't know, a Hirt smash rivaling the now legendary Java, this SUGAR LIPS album again reveals Al and producer Chet Atkins as men of good taste (if that's apun, we simply refuse to apologize!) with a sense of balanced programming. Al takes horn in hand and blows ever so sweetly on the popular standards Tenderly and September Song. He struts vigorously through Dixieland classics like Back Home Again in Indiana and New Orleans, My Home Town. He's raucously on Rosetta Tharpe's Up Above Me Head, and piquantly poignant on Poupee Brisee (Broken Doll) . And...just wait until you've heard Al and that incredible "Sugar Lips" trumpet on the fantastic Bossa Nova hit, The Girl From Ipanema. They're perfect partners... the trumpet and "The Girl".

Obviously, everyone connected with this album had a ball in making it. You can just "feel" the fun as you listen. It's the usual Naxhville studio crowd. They've worked together so often, they're practically a family unit and, with the exception of guitarist Jerry Hubbard and organist Hargus Robbins, all the musicians also backed Al on the COTTON CANDY sessions" Grady Martin, Ray Edenton, Bob Moore, Buddy Harman, Boots Randolph, Dutch McMillin and Floyd Cramer, whi is to the piano what Hit is to the trumpet! The Anita Kerr Singers, Anita's also responible for the dazzling arrangements) are on hand for eleven of the selections. They rested their vocal cords and let Al go it alone on Poupee Brisee (Broken Doll).

Today Al Hirt is the "Big Man with a Horn" - big in the world of music and entertainment. His natural enthusiasm, joie de vivre and tremendous gusto instantly communicate. Big Al is a multi-talented musician who can play anything and play it authoritatively. Bubbling excitement and sparkling entertainment plus masterful musicianship are the well-known "secrets" of Al Hirt's fantastic success. Wherever and whatever he plays, he plays for his listeners and they respond. No doubt that's why - He's the King!

Other RCA Victor albums by Al Hirt you will enjoy: Cotten Candy LPM/LSP-2917 * Honey in the Horn LPM/LSP-2733 * Beauty and the Beard (and Ann-Margret) LPM/LSP-2690 * Our Man in New Orleans LPM/LSP-2607 * Trumpet and Strings LPM/LSP-2584 * Al Hirt at the Mardi Gras LPM/LSP-2497 * Horn A-Plenty LPM/LSP-2446

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CHARACTERISTICS:
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5. Inner-groove distortion virtually eliminated!
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Dynagroove recordings are mastered on RCA Magnetic Tape.