Eddie Layton – Do You Remember? Radio’s Greatest Themes (1965/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 31:53 minutes | 654 MB | Genre: Instrumental, Easy Listening
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Epic – Legacy
Although well regarded by aficionados of space age pop, Hammond organ virtuoso Eddie Layton was even more beloved by visitors to the House That Ruth Built, serving close to four decades as the official organist at baseball’s landmark Yankee Stadium. Born October 19, 1925, in Philadelphia, Layton studied music as a child, but majored in meteorology in college. After enlisting in the U.S. Navy during World War II, he first encountered the Hammond in a Naval air station in Linhurst, NJ, and his fate was sealed. After the war Layton studied under the legendary theater pipe organist Jesse Crawford while working the theater circuit himself, eventually landing a steady gig at Radio City Music Hall. From there he worked at CBS, first in radio and later in television Layton was also on the Hammond payroll for over 50 years, touring music stores around the world to demonstrate their organs. (By his own estimate, he visited and performed in over 700 stores on five continents.) Inevitably, Layton became a recording artist as well, signing to Mercury to release a series of jazzy easy listening LPs, including Organ Moods, No Blues on This Cruise, and Better Layton Than Never.
Tracklist:
1. Eddie Layton – Medley: Smile for Me / Tammany / Love for Three Oranges / Boola Boola (02:27)
2. Eddie Layton – Medley: Serenade / How Can I Leave You / Rose of Tralee / Polly Wolly Doodle (03:07)
3. Eddie Layton – Medley: Two Guitars / Thining of You / Smile, Darn Ya, Smile (02:24)
4. Eddie Layton – Medley: Blue Moon / Thanks for the Memory (03:05)
5. Eddie Layton – Medley: Serenade / Some Day I’ll Find You / Juanita (02:53)
6. Eddie Layton – Medley: Little Orphan Annie / When the Bloom Is On the Sage (02:12)
7. Eddie Layton – Medley: Angel’s Serenade / One Hour with You / Manhattan Serenade (03:14)
8. Eddie Layton – Medley: Merry-Go-Round / Mr. District Attorney / We the People (01:56)
9. Eddie Layton – Medley: Seems Like Old Times / Andante Cantabile / Funiculi Funicula (02:47)
10. Eddie Layton – Medley: Where the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day / When the Moon Comes over the Mountain / Rock-A-Bye Baby (02:43)
11. Eddie Layton – Medley: The Bob Burns Show / The Jack Benny Show (02:17)
12. Eddie Layton – I Love a Mystery (01:46)
13. Eddie Layton – The Shadow (00:55)
