Sunday 6 March 2022

Vic Damone--The Hilltoppers--Stubby Kaye--Slim Whitman--Frank Sinatra--Caterina Valente


  This selection contains my all time favourite singer and song !!....Can't get enough of the wind !!..in 78.45. 33 and Mp3 !!

1. Eternally...... Vic Damone
2. Simonetta...... Vic Damone
3. Only You......The Hilltoppers
4. Untill The Real Thing Comes Along......The Hiltoppers
5. The More You Laugh......Stubby Kaye
6. Cheers......Stubby Kaye
7. Rose Marie......Slim Whitman
8. We Stood At The Altar......Slim Whitman
9. S'posin......Frank Sinatra
10. How Deep is The Ocean......Frank Sinatra
11. The Breeze And I......Caterina Valente
12. Jealousy......Caterina Valente

Bernard Solomon Kotzin (November 11, 1918 – December 14, 1997), known as Stubby Kaye, was an American actor, comedian, vaudevillian, and singer, known for his appearances on Broadway and in film musicals.Kaye originated the roles of Nicely Nicely Johnson in Guys and Dolls and Marryin' Sam in Li'l Abner, introducing two show-stopping numbers of the era: "Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat" and "Jubilation T. Cornpone." He reprised these roles in the movie versions of the two shows. Other well-known roles include Herman in Bob Fosse's Sweet Charity, Sam the Shade in Cat Ballou, and Marvin Acme in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.


Caterina Valente (born 14 January 1931) is a French-Italian multilingual singer, guitarist, dancer, and actress. Valente is a polyglot; she speaks six languages, and sings in eleven. While she is best known as a European performer, Valente also spent part of her career in the United States, where she performed alongside Bing Crosby, Dean Martin, Perry Como, and Ella Fitzgerald, among others.
Over the years, she has recorded or performed with many international stars, including Louis Armstrong, Chet Baker, Perry Como, Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Goodman, Woody Herman, Claus Ogerman, the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, Sy Oliver, Buddy Rich and Edmundo Ros.
In the twentieth century she was the typical example of a cosmopolitan artist: born in Paris to Italian parents, married firstly to a German and second to an Englishman, international awards, audience on every continent, more than 1 500 pieces of music recorded in twelve different languages (for this reason it enters the Guinness Book of Records) of which at least six are spoken fluently, and more than 18 million records sold all over the globe.
1954 is also the year of her first record, Istanbul, recorded for the Brunswick label with Kurt Edelhagen's orchestra. The same director will take her to the second edition of the Frankfurt Jazz Festival and in 1955 to the Salon du Jazz in Paris, where she began to be talked about in the press, and where some journalists hailed her as a real revelation. The first recording successes date back to 1954 when Caterina signed a contract with Polydor Records.
The first single is O mama o mama o mamajo, followed by Malagueña and The breeze and I, composed by the famous Cuban musician Ernesto Lecuona and arranged by Werner Müller. His version of Malagueña, although sung in German, managed to reach the US charts and seventh position in Flanders in Belgium as well as The breeze and I (sung in English) which remained there for 14 weeks. In 1956 she recorded the single Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye with Chet Baker and received the first gold record for four million single records sold.

          11. The Breeze And I

          12. Jealousy

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