Eve Boswell--Edmund Hockridge--Perry Como--Joe Fingers Carr--Stan Freberg--Harry Roy

 No info on this selection...all info further down in other posts !!

1. Pickin' A Chicken......Eve Boswell

2. Blue Star.,.....Eve Boswell

3. My Boy Bill......Edmund Hockridge

4. My Little Girl.....Edmund Hockridge

5. Kewpie Doll......Perry Como

6. Dance Only With me......Perry Como

7. Somebody Stole My Gal......Joe Fingers Carr

8. Heading For Home......joe Fingers Carr

9. The Yellow Rose Of Texas.......Stan Freberg

10. Rock Around Stephen Foster......Stan Freberg

11. Leicester Square Rag.......Harry Roy & His Orchestra

12. That Mysterious Rag......Harry Roy & His Orchestra

          7. Somebody Stole My Gal

Joe Fingers Carr--Gracie Fields--Miss Marie Hall--Richard Tauber--Slim Whitman--Edmund Hockridge

 All blacks ! except middle left , I wonder if the dogs named REX !!

1. Rocky's Rag......Joe Fingers Carr

2. Down Yonder......Joe Fingers Carr

3. Trees......Gracie Fields

4. Smilin' Through......Gracie Fields

5. Le Cygne (The Swan)......Miss Marie Hall

6. Humoreske......Miss Marie Hall

7. My Heart And I.......Richard Tauber

8. Dearly Beloved......Richard Tauber

9. Restless Heart......Slim Whitman

10. Song Of The Old Water Wheel.....Slim Whitman

11. Bang Your Dead......Edmund Hockridge

12. Lazy Day......Edmund Hockridge

 

Louis Ferdinand Bush (July 18, 1910 – September 19, 1979) was an American record producer, musician and songwriter, best known for performing as a pianist under the pseudonym Joe "Fingers" Carr.

His biggest hits from the 1950s include "Portuguese Washerwoman", "Sam's Song", a cover of Del Wood's version of "Down Yonder", and Bert Kaempfert's international hit "Zambesi".

Marie Pauline Hall (8 April 1884 – 11 November 1956) was an English violinist.

Hall played for the first time in Prague in November 1902, Vienna in January 1903, and made her London début on 16 February 1903 aged nineteen with Henry Wood at St James's Hall. The demanding programme included Paganini's first concerto, the Tchaikovsky concerto and Henryk Wieniawski's Fantaisie Brillante on themes from Faust. She scored a success in all these places. She made an international concert tour in 1904, playing in Germany, Canada, America and Australia, including an impromptu concert in a large marquee in Fiji with a particularly badly-

tuned piano.

Richard Tauber (16 May 1891 – 8 January 1948) was an Austrian tenor and film actor.

 He made his London operatic debut in Die Zauberflöte under Sir Thomas Beecham. Earlier that year, the Nazi government of Germany annexed Austria and Tauber left for good...Tauber applied for British citizenship. He was touring South Africa when World War II broke out, and returned to Switzerland until receiving the papers allowing him to enter the UK in March 1940.

Despite receiving lucrative offers from the United States, he remained in the UK for the entire war. There was little opera staged in wartime Britain so he made a living by singing, conducting and making gramophone records and radio broadcasts. He even composed English operettas, together with the lyric writer Fred S. Tysh, from one of which, Old Chelsea, the song "My Heart and I" became one of his most popular English recordings. +

Tauber made over 720 vocal recordings for the Odeon/Parlophone companies.

         5. Le Cygne (The Swan)

Edmund Hockridge--London Piano Accordion Band--Perry Como--The Don Sesta Accordion Band--Charlie Barnet & Orchestra--Fred Hartley's Quintet & Webster Booth

 Accordion bands mixed with swing...and vocals times two, although on the rest of the songs the vocals come in eventually !!.....talk about a late entrance !!....and what a difference in the style of singing on track 4 (????) which is the sound bite, and track 5 (1959)

Selection ending with a classical pitch !!

1. Shangri La......Edmund Hockridge

2. All At Once You Love Me......Edmund Hockridge

3. Please Believe Me......London Piano Accordion Band with Vocal

4. Poor Little Angeline.......London Piano Accordion with Vocal

5. Tomboy......Perry Como

6. Kiss Me And Kiss Me And Kiss Me.....Perry Como

7. Oh Johanna......The Don Sesta Accordion Band with The Destifano Brothers

8. My Moonlight Madonna......The Sesta Accordion Band with The Destifano Brothers

9. Swingin' On Nothin'.......Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra vocal Ford Leary

10. Pompton Turnpike......Charlie Barnet & His Orchestra

11. In Old Madrid......Fred Hartley's Quintet with Webster Booth

12. Toselli's Serenade (Come Back)......Fred Hartley's Quintet With Webster Booth.

          4. Poor Little Angeline

Guy Mitchell--The Excelsior Quartette--Edmund Hockridge--Lee Lawrence--Ronnie Ronalde

Some Colour in this one !....and Gran and Grandad get a mention but we are still dancing and roving in Rome !

1. The Roving Kind......Guy Mitchell

2. Your Not In my Arms Tonight.....Guy Mitchell

3. My Grandfathers Clock......The Excelsior Quartette

4. The Mistletoe Bough......The Excelsior Quartette

5. Congress Dances Part 1......Soloists Chorus & Orchestra

6. Congress Dances Part 2......Soloists Chorus & Orchestra

7. By The Fountains Of Rome......Edmund Hockridge

8. I'll Need Your love.......Edmund Hockridge

9. Marta ......Lee Lawrence

10. The World Is Mine Tonight......Lee Lawrence

11. Mockingbird Hill......Ronnie Ronalde

12. Grandmother's Wedding Dress......Ronnie Ronalde

                                             The Excelsior Quartette

This was an African-American vocal group that recorded primarily for Okeh in 1922, although they also recorded two sides for Gennett and two for Black Swan Records as "Excelsior Norfolk Quartette"). Personnel included:....Vernon Jones 1st Tenor...James C. Brown, 2nd Tenor

Johnny Brown, Baritone....C.C. Parker, Bass

Lee Lawrence (born Julius Leon Sirota, 1 September 1920 – 25 February 1961) was a British singer who was popular in the 1950s.He made his first recordings for Decca Records in the late 1940s. His songs included "How Can You Buy Killarney", "Song of Capri", "So Ends My Search For My Dream", all in 1949; "The World is Mine Tonight" (his theme song) in 1950; "With These Hands", "A Beggar in Love", and "Vanity" in 1951; "At Last, At Last" and "The Man in the Black Sombrero" in 1952; "Crying in the Chapel" in 1953; and "Suddenly There's a Valley" in 1955. 

He was a popular attraction on the British variety circuit in the early and mid 1950s, and had his own series on Radio Luxembourg in 1955. After losing popularity to rock and roll performers in Britain, and failing to have a hit with the song "Rock'n'Roll Opera" which parodied such singers as Elvis Presley, Gene Vincent and Tommy Steele, he moved in 1957 to the US, where he performed cabaret shows in the Catskills "Borscht Belt".

          11. Mockingbird Hill

Petula Clark--Frank Sinatra--Edmund Hockridge--Ken Griffin--Metropolitan Symphony Orch--Teresa Brewer

With the organ music we have two loves two hearts an insect and a bird ! in a tearful mood because the music was unfinished and missing Part 1 !!!

1. With All My Heart......Petula Clark

2. Gonna Find Me A Bluebird......Petula Clark

3. It Worries Me.....Frank Sinatra

4. When I Stop Loving You......Frank Sinatra

5. No Other Love......Edmund Hockridge

6. This Same Heart.....Edmund Hockridge

7. I Don't Know Why......Ken Griffin

8. It Had To Be You......Ken Griffin

9. Shubert's Unfinished Symphony In B Minor 2 Mov Part 2

10. Shubert's Unfinished Symphony In B Minor 2 Mov Part 3

11. A Tear Fell......Teresa Brewer

12. Bo Weevil......Teresa Brewer

Petula Clark, CBE (born Sally Olwen Clark; 15 November 1932) is a British singer, actress, and composer.Clark's professional career began during World War II, as a child entertainer on BBC Radio. In 1954, she charted with "The Little Shoemaker" – the first of her big UK hits – and within two years, began recording in French. Her international successes included "Prends mon coeur", "Sailor" (a UK number one), "Romeo", and "Chariot". Hits in German, Italian, and Spanish followed. In late 1964, Clark's global success extended to America with a four-year run of career-defining, often upbeat, singles, many written or co-written by Tony Hatch (and Jackie Trent). These songs include her signature song "Downtown" and "I Know a Place", "My Love", "A Sign of the Times", "I Couldn't Live Without Your Love", "Who Am I", "Colour My World", "This Is My Song" (by Charlie Chaplin), "Don't Sleep in the Subway", "The Other Man's Grass Is Always Greener", and "Kiss Me Goodbye". In America, Clark was dubbed "the First Lady of the British Invasion". Clark has sold more than 68 million records. She also has enjoyed success in musical films (Finian's Rainbow) and in stage musicals (The Sound of Music, Blood Brothers, Sunset Boulevard).

Edmund James Arthur Hockridge (9 August 1919 – 15 March 2009 was a Canadian baritone and actor who had an active performance career in musicals, operas, concerts, plays and on radio. His big break, in 1950, came with the chance to play Billy Bigelow in Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel at the Theatre Royal in London's Drury Lane. This marked the beginning of 40 years in showbusiness in the United Kingdom.

Kenneth W. "Ken" Griffin (December 28, 1909 – March 11, 1956), was an American organist.

His biggest hit was "You Can't Be True, Dear" (1948), which was first released as an instrumental, and later that year re-released with a vocal by Jerry Wayne dubbed in. Both versions became popular, selling over 3.5 million copies.

Teresa Brewer (born Theresa Veronica Breuer; May 7, 1931 – October 17, 2007) was an American singer whose style incorporated pop, country, jazz, R&B, musicals, and novelty songs. She was one of the most prolific and popular female singers of the 1950s, recording nearly 600 songs.

      7. I Don't Know Why