Thursday 7 April 2022

Bill Haley--Russ Morgan--Frank Sinatra--Brigadoon--Crazy Otto--Nat King Cole


 Lets have a rockin' hot dog in the highlands of Scotland today struttin' to a honky tonk piano or maybe tomorrow or maybe forever my dearie !

1. Hot Dog Buddy Buddy......Bill Haley And His Comets
2. Rockin' Through  The Rye......Bill Haley And His Comets
3. You You You Are The One......Russ Morgan & His Orchestra
4. Forever And Ever......Russ Morgan & His Orchestra
5. Day By Day......Frank Sinatra
6. You Are Too Beautiful......Frank Sinatra
7. Prologue From Film "Brigadoon"......MGM Studio Orchestra
8. Waiting For My Dearie......Carol Richards
9. Piano Medley A......Crazy Otto
10. Piano Medley B......Crazy Otto
11. Love Me As Though There Were No Tomorrow......Nat King Cole
12. That's All There Is To That......Nat King Cole


Russell Morgan (April 29, 1904 – August 7, 1969) was an American big band leader and arranger during the 1930s and 1940s. He was one of the composers of "You're Nobody till Somebody Loves You" with Larry Stock and James Cavanaugh. Morgan was the first to record the song.
At the age of 14, Morgan earned money as a pianist in a theater in Scranton. He purchased a trombone and learned to play it.
For a short time in 1934, Morgan arranged for Fletcher Henderson's Orchestra. In 1935, he played trombone with the Original Dixieland Jazz Band when they recorded four sides for Vocalion. On September 12, 1935, Morgan, playing piano and Joe Venuti on violin recorded two sides for Brunswick: "Red Velvet" and "Black Satin". Most of the songs were written by Morgan and Venuti.
n 1949, Morgan had four songs on the charts. They were "So Tired", "Cruising Down the River", "Sunflower" and "Forever and Ever". On the latter he used a vocal quartet that was starting out and would become famous as the Ames Brothers. 


Brigadoon is a 1954 American Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical film made in CinemaScope and Metrocolor based on the 1947 Broadway musical of the same name by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe. The film was directed by Vincente Minnelli and stars Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, and Cyd Charisse.


Fritz Schulz-Reichel (July 4, 1912 – February 14, 1990) was a German jazz and pop pianist.
In 1953 he adopted the moniker Schräger Otto (Crazy Otto), and recorded for Deutsche Grammophon. His tunes became hits in Germany, France, England, and America; his albums were released on Decca and MGM in the U.S. and Polydor  In 1955, American musician Johnny Maddox played a medley of his songs, entitled "The Crazy Otto Medley"; this went to #2 on the U.S. charts, and in the U.S. both Reichel and Maddox were subsequently known as "Crazy Otto", to some confusion.

          2. Rocking Through The Rye
          10. Piano Medley 2

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