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

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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