Other Worlds, Other Sounds

RCA Victor issued Other Worlds, Other Sounds in 1958 (LPM/LSP-1753), arranged and conducted by Juan García Esquivel after Hollywood sessions in late January. Vocals come from the Randy Van Horne Singers; the charts lean on stereo ping-pong, wordless “zu-zu” chorus, and piano that jumps channels for living-room hi-fi buyers.

The program is mostly standards — “Granada,” “Begin the Beguine,” “Night and Day,” closing on “It Had to Be You” — rewritten as space-age pop rather than hotel-combo exotica. Where Denny sells island fantasy with vibes and animal calls, Esquivel sells the stereo itself as the show.

Collectors later filed him under “space-age bachelor pad.” Cocktail bars still reach for this LP when the night wants brass and channel tricks instead of Shell Bar bird calls. Waxtime and other labels keep physical copies in print; the site Buy link is a remaster of the 1958 program.