Norman Luboff Choir

Norman Luboff was born in Chicago in 1917. Although he trained in piano as a child and participated in choirs in high school, it was not until his college years that he began to think of music as a life-long profession. After attending the University of Chicago and Central College in Chicago, he did graduate work with the noted composer Leo Sowerby while singing and writing for some of the best radio programs in Chicago. In the mid-1940s, he moved to New York City to continue his career. With a call from Hollywood to be choral director of The Railroad Hour, a radio weekly starring Gordan McRae, Mr. Luboff entered a period of enormous artistic growth and accomplishment, including the scoring of many television programs and more than eighty motion pictures.

He also recorded with America's most noted artists, including Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Jo Stafford, and Doris Day. In 1950, he formed Walton Music Corporation to make his works available in printed form. The Norman Luboff Choir became one of the leading choral groups in the world, recording a wide variety of music on more than seventy-five LPs and touring yearly from 1963 to 1987. As an educator, Mr. Luboff was in much demand, guest conducting all-state, clinic, and festival choirs of every description in the United States and abroad. In September of 1987,he died peacefully at his home in North Carolina. Although a true professional in the choral world, Norman Luboff never lost his empathy for the musical layman. Two generations of choral directors have been profoundly influenced by his work. Millions of people continue to be magically touched by his wonderful legacy.

Discography

Songs Of The World Vol 1& 2

Aupres de Ma Blonde Carmen, Carmela Lift A Glass to Friendship Bamboo Flute Pepita Cockles and Mussels The Lonely Birch Tree Annie Laurie Valencianita Beyond the Mountains Go To Sleep Mangwani Impulele Greensleeves Vigolin Dear Fatherland, Farewell Cherry Blossom Coconut and Banana Lullaby of the Shepherd Still, Still, Still marianna All Through the Night Click Go the Shears The Fountain Elanoy

The Norman Luboff choir is one of the great choral folk/pop groups of all time, and "Songs" is one of those great 2-LPs on one CD compilations that give you so much great music for your money. First released in 1959, these 24 (all but one song accompanied) songs embrace the music of many countries, most of which are fresh to our ears today, but nonetheless smooth, rich and beautiful. The one a cappella tune, "Dear Fatherland, Farewell," is a nostalgic winner with deep bass harmonies to die for. Soloists William Reeve, Betty Mulliner and William Lee, and instrumental soloists on accordion, flute, trumpet and guitar amaze us and break our hearts. Some of our favorites: "Lift a Glass to Friendship" from Poland, "Pepita" from Portugal, "Bamboo Flute" from China, "Cockles and Mussels" from Ireland, "The Lonely Birch Tree" from Russia, "Valencianita" from Venezuela--all are wonderful and touching. Highly recommended!

Listen to Cockles and Mussels in Real Audio.

Songs of the South / Songs of the Sea

My Old Kentucky Home I Must Walk That Lonesome Valley Sweet Lorena Salangadou Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen Kemo Kimo Deep River Carry Me Back to Old Virginny Tender Love Down in the Valley Swing Low Sweet Chariot The Ballad of the Boll Weevil Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair Un Deux Trois Dixie Homeward Bound One More Day Shenandoah Rio Grande Rollin' Home Blow the Man Down Goodbye, My Lover A-Roving Lowlands Clear the Track The Dark-Eyed Sailor The Boston Come All Ye Goodbye, Fare Ye Well Eternal Father

Two great LPs on one CD, Norman Luboff's "Songs of the South" and "Songs of the Sea," both issued in 1956, bring us the NLC in their popular prime. All songs feature the patented Luboff satin-smooth arrangements and rich harmonies, and this one has lots of great a cappella on it! "My Old Kentucky Home," "Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen," "Deep River," Carry Me Back to Old Virginny," "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot," "Dixie" and "Eternal Father" are all sans accompaniment, and the lovely "Shenandoah" and "Lowlands" are only minimally accompanied. These tunes clearly show that the NLC was one of the best a cappella bands of any era. A total of 29 nostalgic winners--just listen to "I Must Walk That Lonesome Valley," "Un Deux Trois," "The Ballad of the Boll Weevil," "Homeward Bound," "A Roving"--these songs were passed on from generation to generation because people loved them and sang them a lot, not because they got a lot of radio play. A tremendous value and recommended!

Listen to My Old Kentucky Home in Real Audio.

Tickets To The Movies

All the Things You Are My Foolish Heart High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me) An Affair to Remember Darling My Darling As Time Goes By Day of Wine and Roses Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo Younger Than Springtime It's Magic On Green Dolphin Street It Had To Be You Ruby Stella By Starlight I'll See You Again Unchained Melody Laura I'll Get By (As Long As I Have You) The Song from "Moulin Rouge" (Where Is Your Heart?) Remember

Here are 19 songs, all from the movies, all arranged and conducted by Norman Luboff, A true musical eclectic, Luboff was driven to render every piece with a painstaking exactitude and an arrangement that immediately defined it as a Luboff performance. His choir toured annually from from 1963 until Luboff's death in 1987, and recorded more than 75 albums. This perfectionism is clear on every cut of every Luboff album, of which four, from 1961-65, are represented here. "All the Things You Are," "It Had to Be You," "As Time Goes By" (which Sam played again in "Casablanca," but actually was from the 1931 musical "Everybody's Welcome"), the title tunes from "My Foolish Heart," "Days of Wine and Roses," "High Noon," "On Green Dolphin Street," "An Affair to Remember," "Ruby" (from "Ruby Gentry") and "Laura," the lovely "Unchained Melody," "I'll Get By," "The Song from Moulin Rouge" ("Where is Your Heart"), and Irving Berlin's wonderful "Remember." Luboff is an American master, and his choir is one of the most powerful vocal groups of all time. Sure, all songs are gently accompanied, but the focus is on the smooth-as-maple syrup harmonies. These songs unabashedly tug at our heartstrings and push every romantic and sentimental button, and all we can say is, "highly recommended!"

Listen to Younger Than Springtime in Real Audio.

Songs Of Christmas / Calypso Holiday

Calypso Carnival The Proposal Balance Water Yellow Bird Dance De Limbo Sound De Fire Alarm Bamboo-Tamboo Pig Knuckles And Rice Like My Heart Fisherman's Song Dansez Calenda Joy to the World / I Saw Three Ships / We Three Kings of Orient Are / O Little Town Of Bethlehem The Holly and the Ivy / A La Nanita Nana / Joseph Dearest, Joseph Mine / Whence Comes This Rush of Wings The First Nowell / Wassail, Wassail All Over the Town / God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen / Hark! The Herald Angels Sing Oh Tannenbaum / O Holy Night / Coventry Carol The Wassail Song (Here We Come A'Wassailing? / Oh Come, All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles) / Deck the Hall With Boughs of Holly / Silent Night, Holy Night

Certainly one of our most unusual Christmas CD's on offer, these 1956/57 recordings are a blast of refreshment. The first 12 tracks, from "Calypso Holiday," are accompanied, sung in tribal languages as well as English, French and Spanish, and are guaranteed to cheer up anybody's holiday blues! Songs such as "Yellow Bird," "Pig Knuckles and Rice" and "Bamboo-Tamboo" are a wonderful break from the traditional carols, but lest you miss them, "Songs Of Christmas," features a series of medleys, all a cappella and arranged by Norman Luboff. The Norman Luboff Choir were quite popular in the '50's and '60's, too commercial to be considered classical, but nonetheless their renditions of the holiday chestnuts are first-rate.

6418 CD $14.98

Ben Franklin Sez Baloo Lammy Go To Sleepy Black is the Color Much More Ado About Nothings (Collection) Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen SATB 9016 SHEET MUSIC $9.98

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Norman Lubuff A Cappella Arrangements Vol 2

Ezekiel Saw De Wheel Flow My Tears The Lord's My Shepherd Psalm 150 Reflections The Meeting of the Waters The Proverbial Contradictions of Life (Collection) SATB 9017 SHEET MUSIC $8.98

Norman Lubuff: Cowboy Songs

Riders In The Sky (A Cowboy Legend) Colorado Trail Streets of Laredo Doney Gal The Old Chisolm Trail Poor Lonesome Cowboy TTBB

Add some "giddy up" to your repertoire by adding a classic cowboy folk song to your concert material. Evoke the life on the range with these fabulous arrangements by one of the most successful ever choral director. Lots of fun to sing and bound to please the audience! Some with piano accompaniment.

Norman Luboff: Season's Greetings

Deck The Halls Still, Still, Still A La Nanita Nanita I Saw Three Ships Lullaby Of The Shepard Baloo, Lammy Merry Christmas One And For All O Christmas Tree Whence ComesThis Rush Of Wings Joseph Dearest, Joseph Mine Gloucestershire Wassail Silent Night 9121 SONGBOOK $4.95 SATB 9122 SONGBOOK $4.95 TTBB

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