Late of an evening, significantly on the first day of spring, the Don Scaletta Trio began recording their second album for Capitol Records. One thing that distinguished this session from their first album date ("Any Time... Any Groove") was an attentive audience of Los Angeles disc jockeys and music critics, who had come to hear the trio record-the highest compliment that can be paid a musical artist. Less than two weeks after the release of their first album last January, executive producer Lee Gillette was swamped with requests for more music by this trio. "I knewthat this would undoubtedly happen," he said. "Just as soon as I heard the imaginative way they treat such standards as "We Kiss In A Shadow", "Exodus", "Secret Love", and the new Academy Award winner "Chim Chim Cheree", and sensed the personal rapport they have with audiences, I knew that people would quickly realize that this trio has a new and exciting sound all its own." Don Scaletta is the first to admit that much of his music is new, because it is taken from personal reminiscences. "Many of our ideas are initiated by everyday happenings," he says. "For instance, when Donna, my threeyear-old, began to walk she'd move to and fro just like a little oriental doll. Walk With Buddha comes as close to approximating her movements as anything I could have set time to. "And I remember one particularly wet day in Hollywood when a writer friend of mine was trying to explain to his own daughter why it rained and why she shouldn't be afraid of the thunder. The more he talked the more apprehensive she became, until finally he told her that every time it rained she'd see a big, beautiful rainbow which meant a shiney, new dime was waiting for her under her pillow. Since it hardly ever rains in Southern California, Lisa never gathered much of a fortune. When we began putting this album together I suddenly happened to think of her. So for Lisa, a couple of shiney dimes and "Here's That Rainy Day."
Noel Wedder (from the original Liner Notes)
Don Scaletta
All in Good Time
Tracks
1 Exodus (Gold) 3:52
2 You're My Girl (Cahn, Styne) 5:27
3 Walk With Buddha (Scaletta) 4:00
4 They Can't Make Her Cry (David, Livingston) 1:51
5 Secret Love (Fain, Webster) 6:12
6 We Kiss in A Shadow (Rodgers, Hammmerstein II) 8:43
7 Chim Chim Cheree (Sherman, Sherman) 2:31
8 Here's That Rainy Day (Burke, Van Heusen) 4:04
9 Bitter Wine (Scaletta) 3:19
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Personnel
Don Scaletta - p
Ted Blondell - b
Nikki Lamkin - dr
Recorded 1965