Friday 9 April 2021

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

2 comments:

  1. Hello, So it seems that the link to this set is missing is it possible to Please & Thank-You Re-Up this Link. Thanks Again for your great Old Tunes there very much appreciated, they sure bring back many great happier times. I tell my wife that these old Albums & Songs are the Porthole into our Time Machine here in our Castle... Thanks, Stan

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  2. Hi Stan...Thanks for your kind comments...here is the first of the re-up link the others will be re-uped as well...If you find any more that are 404'd let me know !..cheers...Micky

    🎶 !

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