Advice on Music


Hi,

This might be a weird question or request but I have been wanting to hear some particular or specific type of music on LP's and am trying to search for them.
I will provide 2 example's of what I am looking for. I don't know the genre exactly but have some slight idea I think.
Kind of looking for older soft vocal music or just music from long ago.

The music would be from the 1940's to the 1960's I think.
First example, Frank Sinatra One For My Baby. I have this album and love listening to this song and the others on the LP but especially that particular song.
Second example, Music: "It's Been a Long Long Time"
I like that really old skool music and songs.

Would that be big band or some other genre?

Obviously Frank Sinatra is one artist that I probably need to get more LP's of if I want that type of music but I am also thinking Nat King Cole, Dean Martin maybe? Not to familiar with artists from those times or the music but I know I like it.

I prefer LP vs CD for this type of music.

Any other suggestions?
Thnx


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"One for my baby"

Ella Fitzgerald did a cover on her 1960 Verve release "Let No Man Write My Epitaph"It is fabulous. I have 3 period copies. Verve Stereo/Mono and a British "His Masters Voice"
Ella does a wonderful selection of American Songbook cuts.

It’s the soundtrack from the movie.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_No_Man_Write_My_Epitaph
Also recommended if you’re into classics. Made during the period when Shelly Winters was attractive. Also the subject matter is quite racy for the time.


Difficult to find a clean copy but worth it, if you’re a period snob, as myself. I eschew reissues, and give in ONLY, if it something is unobtanium.
Here’s the 45 https://store.acousticsounds.com/d/67244/Ella_Fitzgerald-Let_No_Man_Write_My_Epitaph-45_RPM_Vinyl_Re...

It’s a particularly beautiful sounding album, because it’s pure.Just Ella and piano. Very few singers can get away with that. No voice is even close. Ella is known for her gift of diction, when singing. Today’s singers can’t approach her level.


Nothing against any current performers like Diana Krall, but she sounds like an amateur hour contestant when comparing the two.

I always get sucked into this album, no matter how many times it’s been played.
Definitely an album that reveals if your system is up to the task. Ella will be in the room, when it’s right.

I take this album to shows, to hear it on an uber system. Always catches everyone’s attention.

Mesmerizing.

Since I veered of course with the Ella suggestion-

Here’s the one to get https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Might_as_Well_Be_Swing

Definitely a swingin album. Makes you want to have a martini and cigarette in hand, wearing your sharkskin suit.

Might be easier to find an original. I have both the stereo and mono, and prefer the mono, for some reason.
Linda Ronstadt recorded three albums of standards with Nelson Riddle and his orchestra. Performed straight up classic, no schmaltzy flourishes, superbly recorded and mastered, more than homage they are pure yet somehow manage to sound new at the same. Another great is Harry Nilsson, A Little Touch of Schmilsson In The Night. In fact now you made me think of it thanks, its going on in a minute. If you don't love it I will eat my hat. And its a big hat. Has to be. I have a big head. Just ask anybody.
The Great American Songbook is the general genre

and the saying in Texas is “ all hat no cattle”

but perhaps, perhaps Miller is in this case spot on about Linda. Immaculate and recorded on the big soundstage at Skywalker Sound.
Thanks for all the suggestions. 

I think what I am going to do is, first pull these albums/tracks up on Qobuz ( if they have it), find which ones I like to get a taste and then go on the hunt to find them on LP format.