Friday 23 September 2022

Chas D Smart--Lou Stein--Gordon Macrae--Victor Silvester--Alma Cogan--Ramon Newton


   The Crown is on top of the "Capital Tower" along with the HMV Doggy and maybe the Broadcast will reach London & Columbia so everyone can Waltz the night away !!

1. Hadel's Largo......Chas D Smart
2. Londonderry Air......Chas D Smart
3. Soft Sands......Lou Stein 
4. Almost Paradise......Lou Stein
5. Just The Way You Are......Gordon Macrae
6. Ramona......Gordon Macrae
7. Die Fledermaus......Victor Silvester
8. Unrequited Love......Victor Silvester
9. Willie Can......Alma Cogan
10. Lizzie Borden......Alma Cogan
11. I'll Always Be A Mother's Boy......Ramon Newton
12. There'll Be You And I......Ramon Newton

Chas D Smart....British organist born 1897 in Calne Wiltshire. Recorded for Decca between 1933-38 and was with the variety department at the B.B.C.
Father of Harold Smart
Lou Stein (April 22, 1922 – December 11, 2002) was an American jazz pianist.
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Stein joined Ray McKinley's band in 1942. He played with Glenn Miller when the latter was stateside during World War II.
After the war he worked with Charlie Ventura (1946–47) and became a session musician. He performed with the Lawson-Haggart Band, Benny Goodman, Sarah Vaughan, the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra, Louie Bellson, Red Allen, Coleman Hawkins, and Lester Young, and recorded as a bandleader. In 1957 he had a U.S. Top 40 hit with "Almost Paradise", which peaked at No. 31 on the Billboard Hot 100. His cover version of "Got a Match" made the Cashbox Top 60 in 1958. He played with Joe Venuti from 1969 to 1972.

Albert Gordon MacRae (March 12, 1921 – January 24, 1986) was an American actor, singer and radio/television host who appeared in the film versions of two Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals Oklahoma! (1955) and Carousel (1956) and who played the leading man opposite Doris Day in On Moonlight Bay (1951) and sequel By The Light of the Silvery Moon (1953).

          4. Almost Paradise

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