Tuesday 11 May 2021

Gracie Fields--Ron Goodwin & Orch--Paul Anka--Chas McDevitt Skiffle Group With Nancy Whiskey--Ray Martin & Orch--Frank Sinatra


 All aboard the freight train with the lazy cowboy and the bugle boy in their red cloaks with a bluebird and a baby with buttons and bows in elizabethan style !!...ooops' mind the jealous lover !!

1. Buttons And Bows......Gracie Fields
2. Bluebird Of Happiness.....Gracie Fields
3. Elizabethan Serenade......Ron Goodwin & His Orchestra
4. Red Cloak......Ron Goodwin & His Orcestra
5. I Love You Baby......Paul Anka
6. Tell Me That You Love Me......Paul Anka
7. Freight Train......Chas McDevitt Skiffle Group With Nancy Whiskey
8. The Cotton Song......Chas McDevitt Skiffle Group
9. The Waltzing Bugle Boy......Ray Martin & His Orchestra
10. Lazy Cowboy......Ray Martin & His Orchestra
11. Hey Jealous Lover......Frank Sinatra
12. Johnny Concho Theme......Frank Sinatra

Dame Gracie Fields DBE OStJ (born Grace Stansfield; 9 January 1898 – 27 September 1979) was a British actress, singer, comedian and star of cinema and music hall who was one of the top ten film stars in Britain during the 1930s and the highest paid film star in the world in 1937. She was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) and an Officer of the Venerable Order of St John (OStJ) in 1938, and a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 1979.
Fields' most famous song, "Sally", which became her theme, was worked into the title of her first film, Sally in Our Alley (1931), a major box office hit. She went on to make a number of films, initially in Britain and later in the United States (when she was paid a record fee of £200,000 for four films). 
Ronald Alfred Goodwin (17 February 1925 – 8 January 2003) was an English composer and conductor known for his film music. He scored over 70 films in a career lasting over fifty years. His most famous works included Where Eagles Dare, Battle of Britain, 633 Squadron, Margaret Rutherford's Miss Marple films, and Frenzy. 

Paul Albert Anka OC (born July 30, 1941) is a Canadian-American singer, songwriter, and actor. Anka became famous with hit songs like "Diana", "Lonely Boy", "Put Your Head on My Shoulder", and "(You're) Having My Baby". He wrote such well-known music as the theme for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and one of Tom Jones' biggest hits "She's a Lady". He also wrote the English lyrics to Claude François and Jacques Revaux's music for Frank Sinatra's signature song, "My Way", which has been recorded by many, including Elvis Presley. Two songs he co-wrote with Michael Jackson, "This Is It" (originally titled "I Never Heard")and "Love Never Felt So Good", became posthumous hits for Jackson.

Ray Martin (Raymond Stuart Martin; born Kurt Kohn and later anglicised his name) (11 October 1918 – 7 February 1988) was an Austrian-British orchestra leader. He was noted for his light music compositions.He became the conductor of the BBC Northern Variety Orchestra and also worked for EMI as a record producer and arranger. In this period he wrote many scores for TV and movies, including the score to the acclaimed Diana Dors film Yield to the Night in 1956...Also his original composition of "Marching Strings" have become stables of many public and city bands and orchestras since its release".

       9. The Waltzing Bugle Boy

Friday 7 May 2021

Anne Shelton--Spike Jones--Jimmy Boyd--Eartha Kitt

Still horizontal marching with a glass of beer !

1. A Man On The March......Anne Shelton
2. Give Her My Love......Anne Shelton
3. Clink Clink Another Drink......Spike Jones & His City Slickers
4. Hotcha Cornia (Black Eyes)......Spike Jones & His City Slickers
5. I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus......Jimmy Boyd
6. Little Train a Chugging In My Heart......Jimmy Boyd
7. My Hearts Delight......Eartha Kitt
8. The Heel......Eartha Kitt

Anne Shelton OBE (born Patricia Jacqueline Sibley, 10 November 1923 – 31 July 1994)was a popular English vocalist, who is remembered for providing inspirational songs for soldiers both on radio broadcasts, and in person, at British military bases during the Second World War. Shelton was also the original British singer of the Lale Andersen German love-song "Lili Marlene".She began singing at age 12 on the radio show "Monday Night at Eight". By age 15 she had a recording contract.

Lindley Armstrong "Spike" Jones (December 14, 1911 – May 1, 1965) was an American musician and bandleader specializing in spoof arrangements of popular songs and classical music. Ballads receiving the Jones treatment were punctuated with gunshots, whistles, cowbells and outlandish and comedic vocals. Jones and his band recorded under the title Spike Jones and His City Slickers from the early 1940s to the mid-1950s.

Jimmy Devon Boyd (January 9, 1939 – March 7, 2009) was an American singer, musician, and actor known for his recording of the song "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus".Boyd recorded the song "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" for Columbia Records in 1952, when he was 13 years old. It became a hit, selling over two and a half million records in its first week's release and Boyd's name became known internationally. Boyd was presented with two gold records. Boyd's record went to number one on the charts again the following year at Christmas, and continues to sell as a Christmas song. Collective disc sales by 1966 amounted to over 11 million copies.Boyd recorded several more hit records: teaming up at age 14, with Frankie Laine in 1953 on "Tell Me a Story" (written by Terry Gilkyson), which reached #4, and "The Little Boy And The Old Man" (#24), and with Rosemary Clooney that summer on "Dennis the Menace," which reached #25.

Eartha Kitt (born Eartha Mae Keith; January 17, 1927 – December 25, 2008) was an American singer, actress, comedienne, dancer, known for her highly distinctive singing style and her 1953 recordings of "C'est si bon" and the Christmas novelty song "Santa Baby", both of which reached the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. Orson Welles once called her the "most exciting woman in the world".

       2. Give Her My Love

Monday 3 May 2021

Felicia Sanders--Jimmy Young--Frankie Laine--Frank Sinatra

Vertical once again !..but go steady but we have double wind with Joe looking at the blue star.. if it was the moon instead of the sun we could have the three wishes !

1. Blue Star......Felicia Sanders
2. My Loves A Gentle Man....Felicia Sanders
3. The Wayward Wind......Jimmy Young
4. Rich Man Poor Man......Jimmy Young
5. Hey Joe......Frankie Laine
6. Sittin' In The Sun......Frankie Laine
7. Learning The Blues......Frank Sinatra
8. If I Had Three Wishes......Frank Sinatra

Felicia Sanders (born Felice Schwartz; c. 1922 – February 7, 1975) was a singer and musician of traditional pop music.In 1950 she was singing in a nightclub in Hollywood, Café Gala. She was heard there by Benny Carter, who thought enough of her talent to recommend her to Mitch Miller, Columbia Records' artist and repertory director. She was picked in 1953 by Percy Faith, Columbia's biggest orchestra leader, to sing vocals on a song he was recording, taken from the film Moulin Rouge—a biographical film about Toulouse-Lautrec."The Song from Moulin Rouge" was recorded on January 22, 1953, as the B-side of a recording of "Swedish Rhapsody". It was Sanders' second record, and it was released by Columbia with the credits shown as "Percy Faith and his Orchestra featuring Felicia Sanders." 
Miller kept finding other songs to have her sing, but only one other scored among the Top 30: "Blue Star", based on the theme from a well-known television series, Medic.

      1. Blue Star