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 Exotica sells island fantasy with vibraphone 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 hotel-combo bird calls. Waxtime and other labels keep physical copies in print; the site Buy link is a remaster of the 1958 program.