Wednesday 21 April 2021

Petula Clark--Frank Sinatra--Edmund Hockridge--Ken Griffin--Metropolitan Symphony Orch--Teresa Brewer


With the organ music we have two loves two hearts an insect and a bird ! in a tearful mood because the music was unfinished and missing Part 1 !!!

1. With All My Heart......Petula Clark
2. Gonna Find Me A Bluebird......Petula Clark
3. It Worries Me.....Frank Sinatra
4. When I Stop Loving You......Frank Sinatra
5. No Other Love......Edmund Hockridge
6. This Same Heart.....Edmund Hockridge
7. I Don't Know Why......Ken Griffin
8. It Had To Be You......Ken Griffin
9. Shubert's Unfinished Symphony In B Minor 2 Mov Part 2
10. Shubert's Unfinished Symphony In B Minor 2 Mov Part 3
11. A Tear Fell......Teresa Brewer
12. Bo Weevil......Teresa Brewer
Petula Clark, CBE (born Sally Olwen Clark; 15 November 1932) is a British singer, actress, and composer.Clark's professional career began during World War II, as a child entertainer on BBC Radio. In 1954, she charted with "The Little Shoemaker" – the first of her big UK hits – and within two years, began recording in French. Her international successes included "Prends mon coeur", "Sailor" (a UK number one), "Romeo", and "Chariot". Hits in German, Italian, and Spanish followed. In late 1964, Clark's global success extended to America with a four-year run of career-defining, often upbeat, singles, many written or co-written by Tony Hatch (and Jackie Trent). These songs include her signature song "Downtown" and "I Know a Place", "My Love", "A Sign of the Times", "I Couldn't Live Without Your Love", "Who Am I", "Colour My World", "This Is My Song" (by Charlie Chaplin), "Don't Sleep in the Subway", "The Other Man's Grass Is Always Greener", and "Kiss Me Goodbye". In America, Clark was dubbed "the First Lady of the British Invasion". Clark has sold more than 68 million records. She also has enjoyed success in musical films (Finian's Rainbow) and in stage musicals (The Sound of Music, Blood Brothers, Sunset Boulevard).

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.

Kenneth W. "Ken" Griffin (December 28, 1909 – March 11, 1956), was an American organist.
His biggest hit was "You Can't Be True, Dear" (1948), which was first released as an instrumental, and later that year re-released with a vocal by Jerry Wayne dubbed in. Both versions became popular, selling over 3.5 million copies.

Teresa Brewer (born Theresa Veronica Breuer; May 7, 1931 – October 17, 2007) was an American singer whose style incorporated pop, country, jazz, R&B, musicals, and novelty songs. She was one of the most prolific and popular female singers of the 1950s, recording nearly 600 songs.

      7. I Don't Know Why





Saturday 10 April 2021

Michael Holiday--Royal Brass Band--London Philharmonic Orch--Morgan & Hadley

A story to be told ! by a kindly light with Orpheus with a banjo on his knee

1. The Story Of My Life......Michael Holiday
2. Keep Your Heart......Michael Holiday
3. Nearer My God To Thee......Royal Brass Band
4. Lead Kindly Light......Royal Brass Band
5. Orpheus In The Underworld Overture Part 1......London Philharmonic Orch
6. Orpheus In The Underworld Overture Part 2......London Philharmonic Orch
7. Banjo Hit Medley Part 1......Banjo Duets by Morgan & Hadley
8. Banjo Hit Medley Part 2......Banjo Duets By Morgan & Hadley


Norman Alexander Milne, known professionally as Michael Holliday (26 November 1924 – 29 October 1963) was a British singer, who was popular in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He had a number of chart hits in the UK, including two number one singles, "The Story of My Life" and "Starry Eyed".Holliday's style of singing was influenced by Bing Crosby, who was his idol. The style earned him the title of "the British Bing Crosby". A biography entitled The Man Who Would Be Bing, written by Ken Crossland, was published in 2004.

     1. The Story Of My Life

Friday 9 April 2021

Red Ingle--Frank Sinatra--Slim Whitman--Steve Race--Gisele Mackenzie--Johnny Ray


 An all Black Label horizontal 12.. But !!.. I believe there's a Blue Band at the end !

1. Temptation......Red Ingle & The Natural Seven
2. Moe Zarts Turkey Trot......Red Ingle & The Natural Seven
3. Time After Time......Frank Sinatra
4. It's The Same Old Dream......Frank Sinatra
5. Danny Boy.......Slim Whitman
6. There's A Rainbow In Every Teardrop......Slim Whitman
7. Dizzy Fingers.......Steve Race
8. Pernambuco......Steve Race
9. Till They've All Gone Home.......Gisele Mackenzie
10. I'd Rather Die Young......Gisele Mackenzie
11. If You Believe......Johnny Ray
12. Alexanders Ragtime Band.......Johnny Ray

Ottis Dewey Whitman Jr. (January 20, 1923 – June 19, 2013), professionally known by the stage name Slim Whitman, was an American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist known for his yodeling abilities and his smooth, high, three-octave-range falsetto in a style christened as "countrypolitan". He personally stated that he had sold in excess of 120 million records, although the recorded sales figures give 70 million, during a career that spanned over seven decades, and consisted of a prolific output of over 100 albums and around 500 recorded songs, that not only consisted of country music, but also of contemporary gospel, Broadway show tunes, love songs and standards. In the 1950s, Whitman toured with Elvis Presley as the opening act. In the 1990s and 2000s a new generation was exposed to Whitman through his songs featured in the film Mars Attacks!; his famed "Indian Love Call" would kill the invading Martians every time the record was played and his rendition of "I Remember You" was heard in Rob Zombie's House of 1000
 Corpses.

Stephen Russell "Steve" Race OBE (1 April 1921 – 22 June 2009) was a British composer, pianist and radio and television presenter.
 In, 1949 The Steve Race Bop Group recorded some of the first British bebop records for the Paxton label. These included four sides with Leon Calvert, Johnny Dankworth, Peter Chilver, Norman Burns (drums), Jack Fulton (bass) and Race on piano, and four more (with the addition of saxophonist Freddy Gardner) as the Bosworth Modern Jazz Group on the Bosworth label. He also developed a sideline arranging player piano rolls for the Artona company.
From the 1950s to the 1980s, he presented numerous music programmes on radio and television.

      2. Moe Zarts Turkey Trot

Deanna Durbin--Mitchell Toruk--Tex Ritter--Frank Sinatra


 We are now on a journey with the oldies and the younger set on the river to Mexico dancing the Rhumba ! ending up in London with everybody clutching a bunch of Lilacs in their hands !

1. Its Foolish But Its Fun......Deanna Durbin
2. Old Folks At Home ( Swanee River)......Deanna Durbin
3. When Mexico Gave Up The Rhumba......Mitchell Toruk
4. I Wish I Was A Little Bit Younger......Mitchell Toruk
5. Green Grow The Lilacs......Tex Ritter
6. The Touch Of The Masters Hands......Tex Ritter
7. If She Only Looked My Way......Frank Sinatra
8. London By Night......Frank Sinatra

Edna Mae Durbin (December 4, 1921 – April 17, 2013), known professionally as Deanna Durbin, was a Canadian-born actress and singer, who later settled in France. She appeared in musical films in the 1930s and 1940s. With the technical skill and vocal range of a legitimate lyric soprano, she performed many styles from popular standards to operatic arias.
Durbin was a child actress who made her first film appearance with Judy Garland in Every Sunday (1936), and subsequently signed a contract with Universal Studios. Her success as the ideal teenaged daughter in films such as Three Smart Girls (1936) was credited with saving the studio from bankruptcy. In 1938, at the age of 17, Durbin was awarded the Academy Juvenile Award.Durbin retired from acting and singing in 1949, and withdrew from public life, granting only one interview for the remainder of her life, in 1983. She married film producer-director Charles Henri David in 1950, and the couple moved to a farmhouse near Paris.


Mitchell Torok (born October 28, 1929) is an American country music singer, songwriter, artist, author and guitarist, best known for his 1953 hit "Caribbean". He also wrote "Mexican Joe", which catapulted Jim Reeves to stardom. They began to write together and charted many top 20 hits.
Woodward Maurice "Tex" Ritter (January 12, 1905 – January 2, 1974) was an American country music singer and actor popular from the mid 1930s into the 1960s, and the patriarch of the Ritter acting family (son John, grandsons Jason and Tyler, and granddaughter Carly). He is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.Ritter's recording career was his most successful period. He was the first artist signed with the newly formed Capitol Records.
In 1952 Ritter recorded "The Ballad of High Noon" for the film High Noon. He performed the track at the first televised Academy Awards ceremony in 1953, and it received an Oscar for Best Song that year

      3. When Mexico Gave Up The Rhumba

Saturday 3 April 2021

John McHugh--Vic Damone--Bing Crosby & Louis Armstrong--Suzi Miller

A walk in the forest in the cool of the evening leads to the Jazz Calypso complete with Banjo's !

1. Trees......John McHugh
2. Mother Mchree......John McHugh
3. My Truly Truly Fair......Vic Damone
4. In The Cool Cool Of The Evening......Vic Damone
5. High Society Calypso......Louis Armstrong
6. Now You Has Jazz......Bing Crosby & Louis Armstrong
7. The Banjo's Back In Town......Suzi Miller
8. Go On By......Suzi Miller

John McHugh (23 July 1911 – June 2004 was a British tenor best known for his singing of ballads and songs.

Vic Damone (born Vito Rocco Farinola; June 12, 1928 – February 11, 2018) was an American traditional pop and big band singer, actor, radio and television presenter, and entertainer. He was best known for his performances of songs such as the number one hit "You're Breaking My Heart", and other hits like "On the Street Where You Live" (from My Fair Lady) and "I Have But One Heart".In 1951, Damone appeared in two movies, The Strip, where he played himself, and Rich, Young and Pretty.  In 1954 and made two movies, Deep in My Heart and Athena. In 1955 he played the Caliph in Kismet. In 1960, he played an effective dramatic role in the war film Hell to Eternity.


High Society is a 1956 American romantic musical comedy film directed by Charles Walters and starring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly and Frank Sinatra, with a musical contribution by Louis Armstrong.When Bing Crosby sang "Now You Has Jazz", he uttered the Porter lyric "rock and roll", and it very well might have been the first time that phrase was uttered on film. It would have been ironic coming from Crosby since rock and roll would very soon eclipse the jazz and swing of Crosby, Sinatra, and Armstrong. As name-checked by Crosby in the song "Now You Has Jazz", where each musician takes a small solo, Armstrong's band includes: Edmond Hall (clarinet), Trummy Young (trombone), Billy Kyle (piano), Arvell Shaw (bass), and Barrett Deems (drums)

      6. Now You Have Jazz