Offbeat Label Discography

OLP 3001 - Jazz at the Showboat - Charlie Byrd [11/58] Reissued on Riverside RLP 448; Fantasy OJCCD 1054-2 entitled "Byrd's Word!".Don't Explain/Blue Turning Grey Over You/Conversation Piece/Top's Tune/Stompin' at the Savoy/Satin Doll/Byrd's Word!/Tri-X/What's New?/Buck's Hill/Bobby in Bassoonville

OLP 3002 - A Little Tenderness - Walter Skees [12/58] Try a Little Tenderness/S’ Wonderful/September Song/Nearness of You/Just One of Those Things/Imagination/That Old Black Magic/Blue Moon/I Feel a Song Coming On/Someone to Watch Over Me/I’ve Got the World on a String/Love is Here to stay/With a Song in My heart/Long Ago (And Far Away)/Autumn Leaves

OLP 3003 - Cool Hands - Buck Clarke Quintet [1958] Cool Hands/What is This Thing Called Love/Second Wind/Mil-Dy/Ed’s Blues/Floretta/X-A-Dose/Lover Man/I’ll Remember April

OLP 3004 - The Saint and the Sinner - Henry Morgan and Isobel Robins [1959]

OLP 3005 - Jazz at the Showboat, Volume 2: Byrd in the Wind - Charlie Byrd [1/59] Reissued on Riverside RLP 449 entitled "Byrd in the Wind": Fantasy OJCCD 1086-2 entitled "Charlie Byrd Trio and Woodwinds - Byrd in the Wind" .Stars Fell on Alabama/Love Letters/Wait Till You See Her/Swing/You're a Sweetheart/You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To/Cross Your Heart/You Came a Long Way from St. Louis/Georgia on My Mind/Showboat Shuffle/Keter's Dirty Blues/Copacabana

OLP 3006 - Jazz at the Showboat, Volume 3- Charlie Byrd [1960] Reissued on Riverside RLP 450; Fantasy OJCCD 998-2 entitled "Mr. Guitar". Blues for Felix/Travelin' On/Play Fiddle Play/Funky Flamenco/Mama I'll Be Home Some Day/Lay the Lily Low/Who Cares?/In a Mellow Tone/Gypsy in My Soul/Prelude to a Kiss/My One and Only Love/How Long Has This Been Going On?

OLP 3007 - Jazz at the Showboat, Volume 4: Charlie's Choice - Charlie Byrd [1961] Reissued on Riverside RLP 451, RS 3005; Fantasy OJCCD 945-2 entitled "The Guitar Artistry of Charlie Byrd". Moonlight in Vermont/Taking a Chance on Love/Speak Low/Nuages/Everything I've Got Belongs to You/Makin' Whoopee/Django/Nice Work If You Can Get It/The House of the Rising Sun/Ring Them Harmonics/Taboo/To Ginny

OLP 3008 - Charlie Byrd at the Village Vanguard - Charlie Byrd [1961] Reissued on Riverside RLP 452; Fantasy OJCCD 669-2. Just Squeeze Me/Why Was I Born?/You Stepped Out of a Dream/Fantasia on Which Side Are You On

OLP 3009 mono, OLP 9 3008 stereo - Blues Sonata - Charlie Byrd [1962] Reissued on Riverside RLP 453; Fantasy OJCCD 1063-2. The Blues Sonata: Polonaise for pour Pietro/Ballad in B Minor/Scherzo for an Old Shoe//Alexander's Ragtime Band/Jordu/That Old Devil Called Love/Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart

OLP 3010 - Tacet for Neurotics: The Music of Alec Wilder - Mundell Lowe and his Orchestra [1963] Reissue of Riverside RLP 12-219 entitled "New Music of Alec Wilder". Walk Softly/What Happened Last Night?/Tacet for Neurotics/The Endless Quest/Let's Get Together and Cry/Pop, What's a Passacaglia?/No Plans/An Unrelenting Memory/Suggestion for Bored Dancers/She Never Wore Makeup/Mama Never Dug This Scene/Around the World in 2:34

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RLP 4001 – The Field Recordings of African Coast Rhythms: Tribal and Folk Music of West Africa – Various Artists [1957]

RLP 4002 - Voice of the Congo - Various Artists [1957]

RLP 4003 - New Songs of the African Coast - Various Artists [1957]

RLP 4004 - Geoffrey Holder (Calypso) - Geoffrey Holder [1957] Sol Leve Woyo/Shango Hymn/Fay Oh/Hymn to Osine/Invocation/Pendant Moin Dans L’Armee/Wake Song/Adieu, Madras/’Ti Paule/Miss Lily White/Adam in de Garden

RLP 4005 - Festival in Havana - Various Artists [1957] Tumbando Cana/Barracon/Consuelate Como Yo/Dondon Estabas Anoche/Ultima Rumba/Chambelona/Tumba La Cana/Siento Un Bombo/Desengano de Los Roncos/Malanga/Mirala Que Linda/Viene/Ave Marie Morena

RLP 4006 – Ekonda: Tribal Music of the Belgian Congo – Various Artists [1957]

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OLP 4010 - A Winter's Tale - Paul Winter, E. Dimond/Charlie Byrd [12/57] Tired Blood/Film Clip/Automation Blues/Had It/Stalin’ Met Trotsky in Hell/Good Bishop Berkeley/Toptoon/Actor’s Studio/Ballad of Orval Faubus/Team Man/Fallout/All Hail/Hollywood Hot Stuff/Sing a Song of Schopenhauer

OLP 4011 - Ben Bagley's Shoestring Revue – Dody Goodman, G. Wood, B. Arthur, J. Bartis, others [1959] Man’s Inhumanity to Man/Someone is Sending Me Flowers/Roller Derby/Garbage/In Bed with the Reader’s Digest/Laddie/The Sea Is All Around Us/Mink-Mink-Mink/History of the World/Couldn’t Be Happier/Paducah/Medea in Disneyland/Fresh and Young

OLP 4012 - Ben Bagley's Shoestring '57 – Fay Dewitt, Dody Goodman, Bea Arthur [1959] What’s a Show/Lament on Fifth Avenue/Crib Notes for a Certain SRO/Renoir, Degas and Toulouse/Trouble with Miss Manderson/The Arts/Don’t Say You Like Tchaikovsky/Grace Fogerty/Gonna Be Rich/Rochelle Hudson Tango/Coffee/Family Trouble/On a Shoestring

OLP 4013 - Take Five with Ronny Graham: Julius Monk Revue – Ronny Graham, C. Cabot, E. Hanley, J. Arnold, G. Matthews [5/58] Introductory “Notes”/”You’ve Got to Open the Show”/Roger, the Rabbit/Westport/Portofino/Jefferson Davis Tyler’s General Store/Gristedes/Say Hello/Poet’s Corner/Pro Musica Antiqua/Gossiping Grapevine/Night Heat/Finale-Doing the Psycho-Neurotique

OLP 4014 - The Restoration Revisited or the Pursuit of Happiness - Pro Musica Erotica [1958] Upon Sir Toby's Gaining Ground/The Magdalen/No No Says Rose I'll Die/Come On Here's John/The Amourous Parley/'Mongst Other Roses/A Catch On The Midnight Cats/Young Anthony Peeping, Milady's Longing/Phoebe's Picture/'Tis Strange Sister Ruth/Upon His Measure/To Thee And To The Maid/Chloe At Cock's Auction/The Virginal Lesson/Milady's Coachman/A Stitch In Time/Upon John Cooper's Timber/Look At Mine Eyes/Once Twice Thrice

Page 2 OLP 4015 – Julius Monk Presents Demi-Dozen - Julius Monk Revue [1/59] Grand Opening/Yes Sirree/Mist Off- Broadway/You Fascinate Me So/Conference Call/Holy Man and the New Yorker/Race of the Lexington Avenue Express/Sunday in New York/Intellectual’s Rag/Portofino/One and All/Seasonal Sonatina/Thire Avenue El/Guess Who Was There/Grand Finale

OLP 4016 - Pieces of Eight: Julius Monk Revue - Julius Monk Revue [1959] Overture/Happiness is a Bird/And Then I Wrote/Radio City Music Hall/Miss Williams/Uncle Bergie Evans Show/Oriental/Ardent Admirer/Steel Guitars and Barking Seals/Election Spectacular/A Name of Our Own/M’Lady Chatterley/Seasons’ Greetings/Farewell/Everybody Wants to Be Loved/Night the Hurricane Struck/A Conversation Piece

OLP 4017 - Four Below Strikes Back: Julius Monk Revue - Julius Monk Revue [1959] Overture and Opening/Leave Your Mind Alone/Mr. X.It’s a Wonderful day to Be Seventeen/Castro Tango!/Charlie Chan/Sitwells/Merry-Go, Merry-Go-Round/Jefferson Davis Tyler’s General Store/Four Seasons/Speak No Love/Constant Nymphet/Man Tan/Lola Montez/Family Fallout Shelter/Literary Time/Love, Here I Am/Payola

OLP 4018 - Ronny Graham - Ronny Graham [Unissued]

OLP 4019

OLP 4020 - A Treasury of Ribaldry - Martyn Green [1961] Reissue of Riverside RLP 7001. Libertine Limericks and Other Ribaldries, Bawdries and Conceits.

OLP 4021 – Drinking Man’s Songbook - Oscar Brand [1961] Reissue of Riverside RLP 12-630. Little Brown Jug/Vive L’Amour/E-RI-E Was Rising/Quartermaster Corps/Rye Whiskey/Three Jolly Coachmen/Mother Rackett’s/No More Booze/I’ve Been a Moonshiner/Drunk Last Night/Good Old Mountain Dew/Old King Cole/Johnson’s Ale/Copper Kettle/Whiskey Johnny/Bootlegger’s Song

OLP 4022 – Sup of Good Whiskey: Irish Drinking Songs – Patrick Galvin [1962] Reissue of Riverside RLP 12 604. Sup of Good Whiskey/Mush Mush/Lanigan’s Ball/Toast to Ireland/Rakes of Mallow/Cruiskeen Lawn/Garryowen/Mick McGilligan’s Daughter/Finnegan’s Wake/Real Old Mountain Dew/One-Eyed Reilly/Barry of Macroom/Moonshiner/Flowing Bumpers/Master McGrath/Parting Glass

OLP 4023 - Scotch Drinking Songs - Ewan MacColl [1962] Reissue of Riverside RLP 12 605. We’re a Jolly Fu’/The Calton Weaver/When She Come Ben She Bobbit/The Laird O’ the Dainty Doon Bye/Blow the Candle Out/Donald Blue/We’re gaily Yet/A Wee Drappie O’t/The Cuckoo’s Nest/Green Grow the Rashes, O/The Day We Went to Rothesay, O/The Bonnie Wee Lassie Who Never Said No/The Muckin’ O’ Geordie’s Byre/Jack Hawk Adventure in Glasgow/The Brisk Young Lad/I Wish That You Were Dead, Guidman/The Wind Blew the Bonnie Lassie’s Pladie Awa’/Andro and His Cutty Gun

Offbeat 4900 series (12 inch LP)

OLP 4901 - Life as I See It - Henry Miller with Bill Grauer [1963]

Offbeat 5700 series (12 inch LP)

Stereo releases had a 9 in front of the number, for example monaural OLP 5708 was 95708 stereo.

OLP 5701 – Sound Effects Library, Volume 1 Sounds of Airplanes – Sound Recordings [1960]

OLP 5702 – Sound Effects Library, Volume 2 Sounds of an Amusement Park – Sound Recordings [1960]

Page 3 OLP 5703/4 – Sound Effects Library, Volume 3 and 4 Musical Backgrounds, Bridges and Effects – Paul Renard [1961] Two record set.

OLP 5705 – Sound Effects Library, Volume 5 Sounds of Automobiles – Sound Recordings [1960]

OLP 5706 – Sound Effects Library, Volume 6 Sounds of Home – Sound Recordings [1960]

OLP 5707 – Sound Effects Library, Volume 7 Famous Marches for Musical Backgrounds – Various Artists [1962]

OLP 5708 – Sound Effects Library, Volume 8 Backgrounds of Many Lands – Various Artists [1962]

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