Tuesday 11 April 2023

Johnnie Ray--Winifred Atwell--Richard Crooks--Doris Day--Reginald Foort--Gracie Fields

Three Male Singers with Memories of Love, Hearts , serenading with a rose, to two Female Singers who fell and slipped whilst listening to the band doing the Boogie Rag and saying Goodbye !

1. Build Your Love......Johnnie Ray
2. Streets Of Memories......Johnnie Ray
3. Coronation Rag......Winifred Atwell
4. Bounce The Boogie......Winifred Atwell
5. You Are My Hearts Delight......Richard Crooks
6. Just Two Hearts And A Waltz Refrain......Richard Crooks
7. I Didn't Slip I Wasn't Pushed I Fell.......Doris Day
8. You Go To My Head......Doris Day
9. Only A Rose.......Reginald Foort
10. Serenade......Reginald Foort
11. McNamara's Band......Gracie Fields
12. Arriverderci.......Gracie Fields

Reginald John Foort (23 January 1893 – 22 May 1980), was a cinema organist and theatre organist. He was the first official BBC Staff Theatre Organist from 1936 to 1938, during which time he made 405 broadcasts on the organ at St George's Hall, Langham Place. 'Reggie' was a hugely popular broadcaster in his heyday in the late 1930s and 1940s in Britain and later settled in the United States, where he similarly enjoyed an illustrious career performing and recording.
Foort's first performance on a Wurlitzer was at a theatre in Edinburgh, and a few weeks later he took up a job as organist at the New Gallery Kinema, Regent Street, London, where in the late 1920s he passed what he described as 'one of the happiest periods of my life', popularising the theatre organ as a 'one-man orchestra' through broadcasts and recordings of his performances on the cinema's F2/S Wurlitzer. This was followed by spells at the Paramount Theatre (Paris); the London Palladium, and, with Sandy MacPherson, the Empire, Leicester Square. He made his first commercial recording in 1926.

          8. You Go To My Head

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