Tuesday 12 October 2021

Russ Conway--Percy Faith--Pat Boone--Frank Sinatra--Reggie Goff & Felix King--Ricky Nelson


 Piano Pops then a walk with Anastasia and a lean baby walking behind.. feeling tired so a ride home on a sleigh someday soon !

1. More Piano Pops Part 1......Russ Conway
2. More Piano Pops Part 2......Russ Conway
3. Sleigh Ride.....Percy Faith & Orchestra
4. Tzin Tzun Tzan......Percy Faith & Orchestra
5. Don't Forbid Me.....Pat Boone
6. Anastasia......Pat Boone
7. I'm Walking Behind You.....Frank Sinatra
8. Lean Baby......Frank Sinatra
9. So Tired......Reggie Goff & Felix King His Piano & Orchestra
10. Say It Every Day......Reggie Goff & Felix King His Piano & Orchestra
11. Someday......Ricky Nelson
12. I Got A Feeling......Ricky Nelson

Russ Conway, DSM (born Trevor Herbert Stanford; 2 September 1925 – 16 November 2000) was an English popular music pianist and composer. Conway had 20 piano instrumentals in the UK Singles Chart between 1957 and 1963, including two number one hits.

In 1955, Conway was talent-spotted while playing in a London club, and was signed to EMI's Columbia label. At Columbia, he worked with Norman Newell, who suggested he adopt the stage name of Russ Conway ('Conway' from Newell's early recording association with the singer Steve Conway, and 'Russ' from the Russ Henderson Steel Band). Conway spent the mid-1950s providing backing for artists on their roster, including Gracie Fields and Joan Regan. He recorded his first solo single "Party Pops" in 1957, a "medley of standard songs" which included "Roll the Carpet Up" and "The Westminster Waltz".
Between 1957 and 1963, Conway had 20 UK chart hits, and in 1959 alone he achieved a cumulative total of 83 weeks on the UK Singles Chart. This included two self-penned number one instrumentals, "Side Saddle" and "Roulette". He appeared frequently on light entertainment TV shows and radio for many years afterwards, performing at the London Palladium on a number of occasions and becoming a regular on the Billy Cotton Band Show.

Percy Faith (April 7, 1908 – February 9, 1976) was a Canadian bandleader, orchestrator, composer and conductor, known for his lush arrangements of pop and Christmas standards. He is often credited with popularizing the "easy listening" or "mood music" format. Faith became a staple of American popular music in the 1950s and continued well into the 1960s. Though his professional orchestra-leading career began at the height of the swing era, Faith refined and rethought orchestration techniques, including use of large string sections, to soften and fill out the brass-dominated popular music of the 1940s.After working briefly for Decca Records, he worked for Mitch Miller at Columbia Records, where he turned out dozens of albums and provided arrangements for many of the pop singers of the 1950s, including Tony Bennett, Doris Day, Johnny Mathis for Mathis's 1958 Christmas album titled Merry Christmas, and Guy Mitchell for whom Faith co-wrote with Carl Sigman Mitchell's number-one single, "My Heart Cries for You".His most famous and remembered recordings are "Delicado" (1952), "The Song from Moulin Rouge" (1953) and "Theme from A Summer Place" (1959).


Patrick Charles Eugene Boone (born June 1, 1934) is an American singer, composer, actor, writer, television personality, motivational speaker, and spokesman. He was a successful pop singer in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s. He sold more than 45 million records, had 38 Top 40 hits, and appeared in more than 12 Hollywood films.
Many of Boone's hit singles were covers of hits from black Rock and Roll artists. These included: "Ain't That a Shame" by Fats Domino; "Tutti Frutti" and "Long Tall Sally" by Little Richard;[16] "At My Front Door (Crazy Little Mama)" by The El Dorados; and the blues ballads "I Almost Lost My Mind" by Ivory Joe Hunter, "I'll be Home" by the Flamingos and "Don't Forbid Me" by Charles Singleton. Boone also wrote the lyrics for the instrumental theme song for the movie Exodus, which he titled "This Land Is Mine". (Ernest Gold had composed the music.)


Reginald Goff.
British jazz saxophonist (tenor), clarinetist, oboist, arranger, composer and vocalist.
Born : September 19, 1915 in Gosport, Hampshire, England.
Died : September 16, 1956 in Middlesex, England.
'Reggie' was a lead own band through the 1930s, after joined at the "Billy Ternent's BBC Dance Orchestra", with Stanley Black (1944), George Crow (1945-'46), again led own band from 1947 to 1955.
Felix Ferdinand King was born in Brighton on 27th March 1912. His first engagement was as pianist at the Grand Hotel, Eastbourne. In 1932, he formed a band to play at the Gargoyle Club, London but was soon to spend much of his time as pianist in leading dance bands in London, writing music for films and, indeed, playing in them! In 1935 he joined the newly-formed Victor Silvester Ballroom Orchestra and played on their first record, but left after about a year.
In 1947, Felix King, his piano and orchestra opened at the Nightingale Club, in Berkeley Square. This was a 16-piece orchestra featuring two pianos, for which Felix King composed the signature tune, 'The Night and the Nightingale'. He could not use the obvious 'Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square' as this had already been adopted by a band across the road!
In 1948, he and his orchestra moved to the Orchid Room, where the late Princess Margaret sometimes danced to his music. It was during this period that he did a series for Radio Luxembourg which ran for 20 months.


Eric Hilliard Nelson (May 8, 1940 – December 31, 1985), known professionally as Ricky Nelson, was an American singer, pop pioneer, musician, and actor. From age eight he starred alongside his family in the radio and television series The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. In 1957, he began a long and successful career as a popular recording artist.  He placed 53 songs on the Billboard Hot 100, and its predecessors, between 1957 and 1973, including "Poor Little Fool" in 1958, which was the first number one song on Billboard magazine's then-newly created Hot 100 chart. He recorded 19 additional top ten hits and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on January 21, 1987.


        9. So Tired

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