Hi-Fi and Mighty

“Meinert may be her name, but major are her talents!” So wrote an important music critic recently about the musical skills of Marjorie Meinert, one of the nation’s best-loved organists. And surely when you listen to Hi-Fi and Mighty, her latest RCA Victor release, there is no doubt that you too will hail her as an artist of unsurpassed technique, unhampered expressiveness, and the uncommon ability to make each one of these beautiful melodies strike a very personal chord in the hearts of all who hear them.

A native of Clinton, Iowa, Miss Meinert has won renown as a composer and arranger, one who is as much at home with jazz as she is with the classics. She began her musical career at the tender age of three, and gave her first recital when she was only five. After graduating from the Dubuque (Iowa) Conservatory of Music and the Sherwood College of Music in Chicago, the talented young miss was promptly engaged by radio station KROS in Clinton. Later she joined the staff of WOC-AM-FM-TV as organist and pianist, and for the past two years her program, “Musical Moods,” has been voted the top local show by TV Guide.

In addition to performing on her own show, Miss Meinert has been seen recently as featured soloist with many of television’s most popular personalities, including Arthur Godfrey, Lawrence Welk, Fred Waring and Kate Smith. Away from the recording and television studios, she has had the distinction of performing her own composition, “Dream and Awakening,” with the Buffalo Symphony Orchestra. Other “in person” appearances have been at Disneyland and at the Lincoln Sesquicentennial Celebration in Washington, D.C.

Recorded in RCA Victor’s Studio A, New York City. Recording Engineer: Bob Simpson.

Track Listing

Side 1

1. Tonight We Love (4:05)
2. The Syncopated Clock (2:02)
3. A Song of India (3:00)
4. Musetta’s Waltz (4:38)
5. Valencia (1:34)
6. Rhapsody in Blue (6:17)

Side 2

1. Ol’ Man River (5:09)
2. Rags to Riches (1:45)
3. Star Dust (4:27)
4. Reverie (2:55)
5. Guaglione (2:05)
6. Un bel di, vedremo (One Fine Day) (5:28)

Album Information

• Artist: Marjorie Meinert
• Catalog Number: LPM-2169
• Catalog Numbers: LPM-2169
• Label: RCA Victor
• Source: LPM-2169
• Series: Towering Organ Tones
• Recording Type: A “New Orthophonic” High Fidelity Recording
• Recording Location: RCA Victor’s Studio A, New York City
• Instrument: Allen Organ
• Copyright: © by Radio Corporation of America, 1960
• Other RCA Victor albums by Marjorie Meinert: Vive la Différence (LPM-2124), Front Row Center (LPM-2170)