reading up about the #78rpm phonograph era again for an article I'm trying to write and decided to see what new discs had been posted to @internetarchive since last time I looked. Here's an interesting Hungarian-style #cimbalom and #tarogato piece by anonymous artists, recorded in NYC around 1910. The tarogato player may have been called A. Selzer.

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Gábor Szabó – Spellbinder (1966, Hungary)

Our next spotlight is on number 1038 on The List, submitted by miblo. This is the second of three albums the Hungarian guitarist released in 1966, showcasing his signature mix of pop and jazz standards with the sounds of his homeland. Included is Szabó’s original composition “Gypsy Queen”, perhaps better known via Santana’s medley cover on their 1970 Abraxas album.

Want to read more? See the full spotlight: https://1001otheralbums.com/2025/04/20/gabor-szabo-spellbinder-1966-hungary/

Want to skip straight to the music? Here's a Songlink: https://album.link/ca/i/1444102378

Happy listening!

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Gábor Szabó – Spellbinder (1966, Hungary)

Our next spotlight is on number 1038 on The List, submitted by miblo.

This was the first album submitted after I pointed out we had a suspicious lack of albums released in 1966 on The List. And now, listening to this album for the first time, it strikes me that on it is a cover of a single from 1966 first released by another artist we added to The List to fill the 1966 gap, Cher, the track being “Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)”.[1] So, because my mind wanders, that made me want to know if there were other 1966 albums with this track. And, indeed, though it doesn’t appear again on any of The List albums, at least a handful of other artists covered it in 1966 including, of course, Nancy Sinatra’s version on How Does That Grab You?, as well as Stevie Wonder’s on Down to Earth. Also, rather interestingly, the song seemed to cross language lines pretty quickly, covered within 2 years of its initial release in French (by Sheila), Italian (by Dalida), Serbo-Croatian (by Đorđe Marjanović), and Chinese (by Betty Chung). Perhaps it is my age, but this strikes me as odd, as, even in the digital age, there is typically a lag between the release of a song and covers, especially covers making it onto LPs and into other languages. Friends of an older vintage than me, was this a normal thing to happen with songs at the time? Or did this song in particular just knock everyone’s socks off?

Anyway, I digress! This album and Szabó’s playing is, well, spellbinding! This is the second of three albums the Hungarian guitarist released in 1966, showcasing his signature mix of pop and jazz standards with the sounds of his homeland. Included is Szabó’s original composition “Gypsy Queen”, perhaps better known via Santana’s cover on their 1970 Abraxas (as a medley with a cover of Fleetwood Mac’s “Black Magic Woman”), an album that would later make the “official” 1001 list. Spellbinder and Szabó in general greatly influenced Carlos Santana’s music, particularly Santana’s shift from pure blues rock to “crossover” jazz fusion. And yet, none of Szabó’s 20+ albums are on the official list. Well. That’s why we’re here.

Happy listening!

• Songlink: Gábor Szabó – Spellbinder
• Discogs: Gábor Szabó – Spellbinder

#1960s #CarlosSantana #GáborSzabó #guitar #HungarianMusic #Hungary #jazz

A blog post by Bob Cohen, American fiddler long resident in #Budapest, about fellow #fiddler Zoe Aqua's latest tour in the #synagogues of #Transylvania

I managed to visit a few of those on my trip to Romania almost a decade ago, though I think the only one that was open to see the interior was the one in #Sibiu, where an attendant tried her best to point out stuff to me and my dad in German
#FolkMusic #HungarianMusic #Romania #violin #MusicBlog
https://horinca.blogspot.com/2024/07/zoe-aqua-romanian-synagogue-concert-tour.html