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1. Unchained Melody......Al Hibbler
2. Daybreak......Al Hibbler
3. Who Do You Love I Hope.......Robert Lenn & Kathleen Carnes
4. Show Business......Annie Get Your Gun Chorus & Orchestra
5. Skin Deep......Ted Heath & His Music
6. Walking Shoes......Ted Heath & His Music
7. Ballin' The Jack......Danny Kaye
8. St Louis Blues......Danny Kaye
9. The Crazy Otto Rag......Happy Hoagy Carmichael
10. Happy Hoagy's Medley......Happy Hoagy Carmichael
11. The Man From Laramie......Edmund Hockridge
12. Hummingbird......Edmund Hockridge
Although Hibbler's style was described as "mannered", "over-stated", and "full of idiosyncrasies" and "bizarre vocal pyrotechnics", he was also considered "undoubtedly the best" of Ellington's male vocalists. His biggest hit was "Unchained Melody", which reached #3 on the US pop chart, sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. Hibbler's version also reached #2 in the UK Singles Chart, becoming his only chart hit in the United Kingdom.
Robert Lenn & Kathleen Carnes Annie Get Your Gun (1946). Music and lyrics by Irving Berlin. Orchestra conducted by Jay Blackton. Lenn and Carnes are the only singers on album not in the original stage production.
George Edward Heath (30 March 1902 – 18 November 1969) was a British musician and big band leader.Heath led what is widely considered Britain's greatest post-war big band, recording more than 100 albums, which sold over 20 million copies. The most successful band in Britain during the 1950s, it remained in existence as a ghost band long after Heath died, surviving in such a form until 2000.The 1950s was the most popular period for Ted Heath and His Music during which a substantial repertoire of recordings were made. In 1958 nine albums were recorded. He became a household name throughout the UK, Europe, Australasia and the US. He won the New Musical Express Poll for Best Band/Orchestra each year from 1952 to 1961.
Danny Kaye (born David Daniel Kaminsky; Yiddish: January 18, 1911 – March 3, 1987) was an American actor, singer, dancer, comedian, musician, and philanthropist. His performances featured physical comedy, idiosyncratic pantomimes, and rapid-fire novelty songs.
Hoagland Howard "Hoagy" Carmichael (November 22, 1899 – December 27, 1981) was an American singer, songwriter, and actor. American composer and author Alec Wilder described Carmichael as the "most talented, inventive, sophisticated and jazz-oriented of all the great craftsmen" of pop songs in the first half of the 20th century.Carmichael composed several hundred songs, including 50 that achieved hit record status. He is best known for composing the music for "Stardust", "Georgia on My Mind" (lyrics by Stuart Gorrell), "The Nearness of You", and "Heart and Soul" (in collaboration with lyricist Frank Loesser), four of the most-recorded American songs of all time. Edmund James Arthur Hockridge (9 August 1919 – 15 March 2009 was a Canadian baritone and actor who had an active performance career in musicals, operas, concerts, plays and on radio. His big break, in 1950, came with the chance to play Billy Bigelow in Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel at the Theatre Royal in London's Drury Lane. This marked the beginning of 40 years in showbusiness in the United Kingdom.
5. Skin Deep
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