Lansdowne title... help!

[francis]

hey folks, I'm trying to recall/find the title of a Columbia/ Lansdowne LP - its a borderline exploito Latin/spanish title, I think it has a girl on the cover, pretty sure it doesn't list the musicians, and it might even be without a leader: just a bullschitt lounge title like 'Spanish delights' or some such. Any ideas? thanks...

NB: for quality, and the sheer obscurity of some of it, the Lansdowne Series has got to be one of the very deepest catalogues in this country. On what other major label are pretty much unknown things still being turned up?

[Sie-Fly]

I can see it in my head - is she playing maracas - almost a studio 2 stereo-esque type sleeve .....ahhhhhhhhhh !!!

[francis]

yes, that sounds right... I don't think its 'the mood is latin', i think maracas girl is right, maybe without a head i.e. a shot of just her body?

[alanmck]

I can see it in my head - is she playing maracas - almost a studio 2 stereo-esque type sleeve .....ahhhhhhhhhh !!!

that sounds like this EMI Starline scorcher:

[Sie-Fly]

that's the one - saw this somewhere recently and left it ... stupidly

[Mang]

I picked up a fairly nondescript looking Lansdowne on Columbia only last week - "La Latin Dolce" by "Martinas Y Su Orquesta" which is bound to be a pseudonym for Geoff Love or someone. Couple of very nice tracks on that though, surprisingly.

[francis]

that sounds like this EMI Starline scorcher:

That's the one! Thanks!

[francis]

Next question: a lansdowne title with a dude playing a tanpura on the cover?

[Sie-Fly]

Next question: a lansdowne title with a dude playing a tanpura on the cover?

got to be Indo-Jazz Suite ?? John Mayer ...

[francis]

No, an obscure one, again prob uncredited? Might not even be indian, might just be exotica bollocks, or some sort of easy/lounge dude?

[Sie-Fly]

Wout Steenhuis ? not sure in that case sorry ...

[Daddy Ya Ya]

I picked up a fairly nondescript looking Lansdowne on Columbia only last week - "La Latin Dolce" by "Martinas Y Su Orquesta" which is bound to be a pseudonym for Geoff Love or someone. Couple of very nice tracks on that though, surprisingly.

I think I have this - Joe Harriott plays on it ?

[Daddy Ya Ya]

that sounds like this EMI Starline scorcher:

Killer latin version of Jaipur !

[alanmck]

Killer latin version of Jaipur !

indeed.

also contains a cover the Sam Most/ Yusef Lateef classic "Jungle Fantasy". i charted this album in the dim and distant past of VG+

[Mang]

I think I have this - Joe Harriott plays on it ?

No musicians listed on the sleeve, although Acker Bilk comes in for some praise on the sleevenotes...