Thursday, 9 September 2021

Kay Starr--Frank Weir--Deanna Durbin--Frank Sinatra--Eddie Calvert--Johnny Otis Show


 We dream at midnight with Ma holding a rose making believe its summer so a dip in the fountain in the dark looking for a treasure but only found coins !

1. Am I A Toy Or A Treasure......Kay Starr
2. Fortune In Dreams......Kay Starr
3. I Didn't Know About You......Frank Weir & The Astor Club 7.(vocal.. Anne Lenner)
4. I'm Making Believe......Frank Weir & The Astyor Club 7. (vocal...Lynne Shaw)
5. The Last Rose Of Summer......Deanna Durbin
6. Because......Deanna Durbin
7. Three Coins In The Fountain......Frank Sinatra
8. I Could Have Told You So......Frank Sinatra
9. Midnight......Eddie Calvert
10. Margot's Minuet......Eddie Calvert
11. Ma He's Making Eyes At Me......The Johnny Otis Show
12. Romance In The Dark......The Johnny Otis Show

Catherine Laverne Starks (July 21, 1922 – November 3, 2016), known professionally as Kay Starr, was an American pop and jazz singer who enjoyed considerable success in the late 1940s and 1950s. She was of Iroquois and Irish heritage. Starr was successful in every field of music she tried (jazz, pop, and country), but her roots were in jazz.Most of Starr's songs had jazz influences. Like those of Frankie Laine and Johnnie Ray, they were sung in a style that anticipated rock and roll songs. These included her hits "Wheel of Fortune" (her biggest hit, No. 1 for 10 weeks), "Side by Side", "The Man Upstairs", and "Rock and Roll Waltz". One of her biggest hits was her version of "(Everybody's Waitin' For) The Man with the Bag", a Christmas song that became a holiday favorite.

Anne Lenner (1912–1997) was a popular English female vocalist, singing with the dance bands of the 1930s and 1940s. She is most closely associated with Carroll Gibbons and the Savoy Orpheans, a band who regularly played at the Savoy Hotel in London; she made many studio recordings with this band. The British bands played a softer version of the swing jazz popular in the USA during the 1930s and 1940s.
During the war years, Lenner sang with a number of other bands notably Jay Wilbur, Jack White, Louis Levy, and Frank Weir at the Astor club where George Shearing was in the band. She only recorded a handful of songs with these bands.


Johnny Otis (born Ioannis Alexandres Veliotes; December 28, 1921 – January 17, 2012) was an American singer, musician, composer, arranger, bandleader, talent scout, disc jockey, record producer, television show host, artist, author, journalist, minister, and impresario. He was a seminal influence on American R&B and rock and roll. He discovered numerous artists early in their careers who went on to become highly successful in their own right, including Little Esther Phillips, Etta James, Big Mama Thornton, Johnny Ace, Jackie Wilson, Little Willie John, Hank Ballard.
He continued to perform and appeared on TV shows in Los Angeles from 1957. On the strength of their success, he signed with Capitol Records. Featuring the singer Marie Adams and with his band, now known as the Johnny Otis Show, he made a comeback, at first in the British charts with "Ma! He's Making Eyes at Me" in 1957. 

        10. Margot's Minuet

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