FRANKIE AVALON/SWINGIN' ON A RAINBOW CHLX 5004 (-59) MONO SWEDEN

Totally new to Frankie Avalon when I found this in a used bin some time ago, just bought it for the lavish package. In some cases even if I don't await much from the musical content and the price is right it could be worth it merely for the cover and inserts. Just looking at the guy on the sleeve and poster you'd expect a fifties teeny bopper doing cute love songs to a rocking or languishing background, but this is far from that. Instead you get jazzy lounge music with crooning-like vocals, a lot more Sinatra than Sedaka. Very cool in a late evening atmosphere, never uprising but a good background to wistful moods. I can always live with and enjoy that, but the icing on the cake and what first made me interested was the very thick laminated fold-out sleeve including picture sheet and poster and then when I got to the heavy flaming red vinyl it became irrestistable and a must have. Something for all senses. Premiere US on Chancellor (CHLX 5004), also in Canada (same as US) and UK on HMV dog label in a single sleeve (CLP 1346). 2012 CD with the original recordings on Hallmark. To my knowledge this Swedish was the only one on colored vinyl. (CCÖ*) (FÖGÄ*) (SÖNÄ*)