Columbia CL-578 (Album)
A Musical Portrait Of New Orleans
with Frankie Laine
Issued before as a 33 rpm LP (Columbia CL-6268) and a 2-EP set (Columbia B-342), August 1953
Re-issued as a 33 rpm LP with four extra tracks, 9th August 1954
Extra tracks: ‘Lullaby In Rhythm’, ‘When It's Sleepy Time Down South’, ‘Make Love To Me’, and ‘The Dixieland Band’
Side 1:
‘Way Down Yonder In New Orleans
with Frankie Laine and Carl Fischer (piano)
Re-issue of this track since the release of Columbia CL-6268: on single Columbia 40116 (26th October 1953)
Matrix No. RHCO 10450 * Recorded 29th March 1953
Raminay (The New Orleans Chimney Sweep)
with the Norman Luboff Choir
Issued before on single, Columbia 39725 (April 1952)
Matrix No. RHCO 10112 * Recorded 4th February 1952
(New Orleans, by Frankie Laine)
Jambalaya
with the Norman Luboff Choir
Issued before on single, Columbia 39838 (September 1952), and on the EP 'Jo Stafford Spotlite',
Columbia B-1649 (April 1953)
Matrix No. RHCO 10260 * Recorded 20th July 1952
(Lullaby In Rhythm, by Frankie Laine)
When It’s Sleepy Time Down South
Issued before on the EP ‘Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue’, Columbia B-1583 (1953)
Matrix No. RHCO 10356 * Recorded 10th November 1952
Side 2:
Floatin' Down To Cotton Town
with Frankie Laine and Carl Fischer (piano)
Re-issue of this track since the release of Columbia CL-6268: on single Columbia 40116 (26th October 1953)
Matrix No. RHCO 10448 * Recorded 29th March 1953
Make Love To Me
Issued before on single, Columbia 40143 (21st December 1953)
Matrix No. RHCO 10660 * Recorded 8th December 1953
Shrimp Boats
with the Norman Luboff Choir
Issued before on single, Columbia 39581 (October 1951)
Matrix No. RHCO 4554 * Recorded 18th July 1951
(Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans, by Frankie Laine)
Dixieland Band (The)
Matrix No. 10650 * Recorded 8th December 1953
Basin Street Blues
with Frankie Laine and Carl Fischer (piano)
Matrix No. RHCO 10460 * Recorded 29th March 1953
NOTES
According to a Columbia Album Discography, this record was issued on August 9, 1954. I believe this is correct, because I saw Columbia CL-578 mentioned in record store advertisements published in newspapers in September 1954. The first one appeared in the September 13 issue of the Chicago Tribune.
Columbia CL-578 was re-issued in 1955 with a new cover design (see image below; the album pictured on the right hand side is the 1955 version). Both versions of the album had exactly the same track list, though.
