Rosemary Rice & Tony Aless and His Quartet – Good Housekeeping’s Plan for Reducing the Sporting Way [1959; Harmony]

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On this exercise record, a fairly hands-off approach is taken, with narrator Rosemary Rice explaining the movements of a given exercise, followed by a period of light jazz filler before the next exercise is covered.  Methods include swinging an imaginary golf club, pretending to toss a beach ball, miming fencing, and so on.  The second half drops the sports framing to focus on regular calisthenics, with the detached presentation retained.  The backing music is pleasant enough, with renditions of old tunes like “Oh! Susanna” and “Alouette”, and the exercises cover a nice range across the body, but in terms of distinctiveness, the release is somewhat lacking.