Tuesday 23 March 2021

Doris Day--Suzi Miller--Evelyn Knight--Frank Sinatra

A dream ! A rag ! white & blue waltzing away in the knight !

1. My Dream Is Yours......Doris Day
2. Someone Like You......Doris Day
3. Canoodlin' Rag......Suzi Miller & The Johnston Brothers
4. Huckleberry Pie......Suzi Miller & The Johnston Brothers
5. I Get Along Without You Very Well......Evelyn Knight
6. Lonesome And Blue......Evelyn Knight
7. White Christmas......Frank Sinatra
8. The Christmas Waltz......Frank Sinatra

Evelyn Knight (born Evelyn Davis. December 31, 1917, Reedville, Virginia – September 28, 2007, San Jose, California) was an American singer of the 1940s and 1950s. Damon Runyon, in one of his newspaper columns, described Knight as "a lissome blonde lassie with a gentle little voice and a face mother would not mind having brought home to her."
During a seven-year span in the late 1940s and 1950, Knight had two No. 1 hit records and 13 that made the Top 40. Her debut recording was "Dance with a Dolly (With a Hole in Her Stocking)" for Decca Records in 1945. It became a Top 10 hit.In 1948, she recorded the million-seller "A Little Bird Told Me" with The Stardusters, which was #1 for seven weeks and stayed on the charts for five months. Later that year she recorded "Powder Your Face with Sunshine"; which also reached #1 and remained on the charts into the following year.

6. Lonesome And Blue

Sally Ann Howes & Ken Cantril--Eve Boswell--Red Ingle--John McCormack

Show Tunes.. Pop Tunes.. 40's.. ending in the Clouds !

1. Paint Your Wagon  Songs 1....Sally Ann Howes & Ken Cantril
2. Paint Your Wagon Songs 2.....Sally Ann Howes & Ken Cantril
3. It's Almost Tomorrow.....Eve Boswell
4. Cookie.....Eve Boswell
5. Turn Your Head Little Darlin'......Red Ingle And His Orchestra
6. You Can Be Fit As A Fiddle......Red Ingle And His Orchestra
7. Ave Maria......John McCormack
8. Angels Serenade......John McCormack

                            Sally Ann Howes                                
Sally Ann Howes (born July 20, 1930) is an English actress and singer who holds dual British-American citizenship. Her career on stage, screen, and television has spanned over six decades. She is best known for the role of Truly Scrumptious in the 1968 musical film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. She was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Musical in 1963 for her performance in Brigadoon.

Eve Boswell (born Eva Keleti, 11 May 1922, Budapest, Hungary – 14 August 1998, Durban, South Africa) was a successful pop singer in Britain in the 1950s.
 She went to the UK in 1949 and replaced Doreen Lundy as the star vocalist in Geraldo’s Orchestra. After featuring on several of the orchestra’s records, including ‘Again’, ‘Best Of All’ 
Signed to Parlophone Records in 1950, her first record, ‘Bewitched’, was followed by several other successful titles, including ‘Beloved, Be Faithful’, ‘The Little Shoemaker’ and ‘Ready, Willing And Able’. Her biggest hits were two up-tempo South African songs, ‘Sugarbush’ (1952) and ‘Pickin’ A Chicken’, which entered the UK chart in 1955.

2. Paint Your Wagon Tunes 2.

Wednesday 3 March 2021

Debbie Reynolds--Lou Busch--The Four Aces--Frank Sinatra--Jan Rosol--Les Paul & Mary Ford


 Horizontal  and colourful with plenty of info with a trip to France Africa & Italy on a Rainbow!

1. Tammy.....Debbie Reynolds
2. French Heels......Debbie Reynolds
3. Zambezi......Lou Busch & Orchestra
4. Rainbows End......Lou Busch
5. Three Coins In The Fountain......The Four Aces
6. Wedding Bells.....The Four Aces
7. Oh What A Beautiful Morning......Frank Sinatra
8. The Girl That I Marry......Frank Sinatra
9. The Story Of Tina......Jan Rosol
10. Chez Moi......Jan Rosol
11. Meet Mr Callaghan......Les Paul
12. Take Me In Your Arms And Hold Me......Les Paul & Mary Ford

Mary Frances Reynolds (April 1, 1932 – December 28, 2016), known professionally as Debbie Reynolds, was an American actress, singer, and businesswoman. Her career spanned almost 70 years.Her breakout role was her first leading role, as Kathy Selden in Singin' in the Rain (1952). Her other successes include The Affairs of Dobie Gillis (1953), Susan Slept Here  and Tammy and the Bachelor (1957), in which her performance of the song "Tammy" reached number one on the Billboard music charts. In 1959, she released her first pop music album, titled Debbie.In 1969, she starred on television in The Debbie Reynolds Show, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination. 
Louis Ferdinand Busch (July 18, 1910 – September 19, 1979) was an American record producer, musician and songwriter, best known for performing as a pianist under the pseudonym Joe "Fingers" Carr.
One summer, Busch backed singer Jo Stafford and conductor Paul Weston on the hit record "Ragtime Cowboy Joe". The success encouraged both him and the label to release his own original single, "Ivory Rag", early in 1950. His biggest hits from the 1950s include "Portuguese Washerwoman", "Sam's Song", a cover of Del Wood's version of "Down Yonder", and the international hit "Zambezi". Often overlooked are several mainstream and jazz sides he recorded as Lou Busch, featuring exciting band or orchestral arrangements.

The Four Aces are an American male traditional pop music quartet, popular since the 1950s. Over the last half-century, the group amassed many gold records. Its million-selling signature tunes include "Love is a Many-Splendored Thing", "Three Coins in the Fountain", "Stranger in Paradise", "Tell Me Why", and "(It's No) Sin". Other big sellers included "Shangri-La", "Perfidia", and "Sincerely". The original members, responsible for every song made popular by the group, included Al Alberts, Dave Mahoney, Lou Silvestri, and Rosario "Sod" Vaccaro.

Singer, born in Le Havre, who escaped to England from occupied France in 1943 and joined the Free French Forces. Detailed to tour England as a singer he decided to dedicate himself to French folk music. But he was probably best known as a broadcaster, singing and playing regularly for the Home, Light and Third programme networks of the BBC and from 1948 performed every week in various programmes for schools. Little is known of Jan Rosol from the mid-1960s onwards.
Les Paul and Mary Ford were a popular 1950s husband-and-wife musical duo, who performed and recorded during 1945—1963. They both sang and played guitars.Ford and Paul were music superstars during the first half of the 1950s, putting out 28 hits for Capitol Records between 1950 and 1957, including "Tiger Rag", "Vaya con Dios" (11 weeks at #1), "Mockin' Bird Hill" (top 10), "How High the Moon" (nine weeks at #1), "Bye Bye Blues" and "The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise"

      3. Zambezi

Tuesday 2 March 2021

Red Ingle--Gerald Adams--David Ross--Frank Sinatra

Still vertical with this selection !...but not much info on the singers..well two of them 
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1. For Sentimental Reasons......Red Ingle And The Natural Seven
2. Nowhere......Red Ingle And The Natural Seven
3. Smiling Irish Eyes......Gerald Adams
4. My Song Of The Nile....Gerald Adams
5. Love Letters In The Sand......David Ross
6. School Day......David Ross
7. You'll Never Know......Frank Sinatra
8. Sunday Monday Or Always......Frank Sinatra

                          Red Ingle And Jo Stafford                               
Ernest Jansen "Red" Ingle (November 7, 1906 – September 6, 1965) was an American musician, singer and songwriter, arranger, cartoonist and caricaturist. He is best known for his comedy records with Spike Jones and his own Natural Seven sides for Capitol.With Ingle's input, the band gradually became a complete stage package that would eventually peak (after his departure in 1946) in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

      1. For Sentimental Reasons