RARITY # 61

UNE NUIT AU CHAMPAGNE
MARTHA LOVE ET SON ORCHESTRE DU KURSAAL D'OSTENDE
25 cm  Fiesta
I.S. 10.020       BELGIUM, 1955

The music on this old Belgian 25 cm (10") is  dance music / cocktail party music.  Not for the jazz purists.

I like those 10" on the Fiesta label with their cheap artwork, I have  already posted a couple in the past and will continue, I still have a couple to be digitsed.  I see them as artefact of a bygone era, post-war, pre-rock and roll Belgium. But change is already in the air and Rock and roll is pointing its nose, there is an instrumental version of Bill Haley s Mambo Rock on side B.

Tracklist

A1          I love Paris        

A2          The Continental (instrumental) 

A3          May Re You'll Be There 

A4          Ko-Ko-No (Instrumental)            

A5          Pour Toi Et Moi

A6          It's A Woman's World   

A7          Charleston        

B1          C'est Magnifique            

B2          Mister Sandman            

B3          L'enfant De la Balle (instrumental)         

B4          Mambo Rock (Instrumental)      

B5          Tenderly            

B6          Un ange Comme Ca       

B7          Tweedle Dee (instrumental)      

B8          Un Sac Sur le Dos           

Credits

Leader / Vocals – Martha Love

The Orchestra

Trumpet – Emile Gobrecht

Clarinet, Alto Saxophone – Jef Verhaegen

Piano – Jean Evans

Tenor Saxophone – Benny Couroyer

Acoustic Bass – Gaston Backaert

Drums – Pierre Dekker

Notes

Recorded in Brussels on May 3, 1955

Issued in France on CID B.23.511 as "Pot Pourri de Danse", with a different cover.

See blog "Amour du rock & roll " (in French) for more details on the French release (and a lot of other interesting info on the early development of rock and roll music in France).