Record is in great shape the sleeve has wear on corners and edge. Shipped the next business day! We own a small family book store and sell our extra books and media that have been on our shelves for too long. We sell them for a quarter of the price at our store so we can move our inventory! Additional Details ------------------------------ Product description: TITLE : I Remember Buddy ARTIST : Jerry Vale FORMAT : Long Play Record LABEL : Columbia Records RECORD # : CL 1114 DATE : 1958 NOTES: ..... In December, the 25-year-old singer went into the studio with producer Mitch Miller and arranger/conductor Glenn Osser and came out with his debut album, I Remember Buddy, released in January 1958. It's obvious that the tribute idea is a mere convenience for Vale, Miller, and Osser. The singer does nothing to alter his smooth, relaxed tenor with its ringing tones to sound more like Clark, and Osser turns in late-'50s string arrangements that soften and update the late swing era sound of Clark's records. Further, this is hardly a collection of Clark's greatest hits. Vale does offer an unusually sober interpretation of "Linda," a version of "Peg o' My Heart" that draws a smile every time this very Italianate singer refers to the joys of being Irish, and a warm rendition of "How Are Things in Glocca Morra" from the Broadway musical Finian's Rainbow, all songs that Clark recorded for big hits. But none of the other selections was a Clark hit, even though he may have recorded them. Rather, they are a collection of ballad standards from the '20s, '30s, and '40s, familiar songs like "I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You)," "The Very Thought of You," and "It Had to Be You." Vale was thus enabled to get away from recording contemporary, hit single-oriented songs and move toward the kind of LPs being recorded by Frank Sinatra and Nat "King" Cole at a time when the singles market was coming to be dominated by rock roll. (AMG)