Vanity Vanyl

March, 2005

Vanity VanylTop Five Albums by Sensitive Tough GuysLorne Greene,Welcome to the Ponderosa (1964). Pa Cartwright, who cut six albums, scored a hit with his mostly spoken ballad "Ringo." Performed with a "pure, naked virility" (in the words of Henry Mancini), it went to number one.Richard Roundtree,The Man From Shaft (1972). Roundtree's voice is thin, but soul producer Eugene McDaniels saves most of the cuts. Best lyric: "I'm a private eye, with private plans/I'll make priv...