Aladdin/Dinner Music (1999)

About this title: Less than a year after Ace subsidiary BGP paired Songs and Hey Love onto one disc, Raven released a two-fer that made Aladdin and Dinner Music available on one disc. Not only do the original albums deserve to be released separately, but both the Raven and BGP two-fers ruin the strange sleeve artwork that adorned the original LPs. Aladdin/Dinner Music is a bit sore on the eyes, placing shrunken photos of the original covers in front of a background of intersecting ovals. As of 2003, this was the only way to obtain either album on CD. Neither album matches Rotary Connection, Songs, or Hey Love, ... read more

Tracks:

1. Life Could [Simms]
2. Teach Me How to Fly [Barnes]
3. V.I.P. [Simms]
4. Let Them Talk [Simms]
5. I Took a Ride (Caravan) [Ando]
6. Aladdin [Kornfeld/Duboff]
7. Magical World [Barnes]
8. I Must Be There [Anderson/Simms]
9. I Feel Sorry [Aliotta]
10. Paper Castle [Dollison]
11. Pointillism/We Will Be Free [Stocklin/Simms]
12. Living Alone [Stocklin]
13. Lektricks #1
14. Country Things [Stocklin]
15. Quartet
16. May Our Amens Be True [Barnes/Stocklin]
17. Stormy Monday Blues [Eckstine/Crowder/Hi]
18. Love Me Now [McCall]
19. Lonely Summer [Simms]
20. Amuse [Stocklin]
21. Lektricks #2/Merry Prankster [Stocklin]
22. Pump Effect/Want You to Know [Stocklin]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.