Showing posts with label Frankie Vaughan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Frankie Vaughan. Show all posts

Saturday, 28 September 2024

Ben Hammond--Frankie Vaughan--Lou Preager--Spike Hughes--Jack Hylton--Anne Shelton

This selection starts at 7 inches and works it's way to 10 Inch !....Ringa da Bells !

1. Poor Little Angeline......Ben Hammond and His Orchestra
2. Think Of Something Else To Do.....Ben Hammond & His Orchestra
3. Kisses Sweeter Than Wine......Frankie Vaughan
4. Rock-A- Chicka......Frankie Vaughan
5. Woody Woodpecker......Lou Preager& His Orcestra (Vocal Eileen Orchard)
6. Toolie-Oolie-Doolie......Lou Preager & His Orchestra (Vocal Rusty Hurren)
7. Dinah.......Spike Hughes & His Dance Orchestra
8. Doan' You Grieve......Spike Hughes & His Orchestra
9. When Day Is Done.....Jack Hylton & His Orchestra
10. When You Played The Organ An I Sang The Rosary..Jack Hylton & Orch
11. I'll Be Near You.....Anne Shelton
12. Harbour Lights......Anne Shelton

Patrick Cairns "Spike" Hughes (19 October 1908 – 2 February 1987) was a British musician, composer and arranger involved in the worlds of classical music and jazz. He has been called Britain's earliest jazz composer. 
He formed his own jazz group in 1930. The group was one of the earliest artists signed to Decca Records in England, and over 30 sessions were recorded between 1930 and 1933. Originally billed as Spike Hughes and his Decca-Dents, he reportedly did not like the name and after three sessions it was changed either to "his Dance Orchestra" or "his Three Blind Mice" for smaller sessions.
From 1931, Hughes played regularly with the Jack Hylton Band. But his career in jazz culminated in 1933 with a visit to New York, where he arranged three recording sessions involving members of Benny Carter's and Luis Russell's orchestras with Coleman Hawkins and Henry "Red" Allen from Fletcher Henderson's band.

          1. Poor Little Angeline

Friday, 6 September 2024

Jo Stafford--The Jolly Old Fellows--Elvis Presley--Roy Henderson--Josephine Bradley--Frankie Vaughan

The thing that links most of these songs together I guess could be TIME !...
What with Yesterday,  Evening, Autumn, New Years Eve, and a Birthday !!

1. Jambalaya......Jo Stafford
2. Early Autumn......Jo Stafford
3. Chorus Hits Of Yesterday Part 1......The Jolly Old Fellows
4. Chorus Hits Of Yesterday Part 2......The Jolly Old Fellows
5. I Want You I Need You I Love You......Elvis Presley
6. My Baby Left Me......Elvis Presley
7. Toreador Song......Roy Henderson
8. O Star Of Eve......Roy Henderson
9. Auld Lang Syne......Josephine Bradley & Her Orchestra
10. Happy Birthday To You......Josephine Bradley & Her Orchestra
11. These Dangerous Years......Frankie Vaughan
12. Isn't This A Lovely Evening......Frankie Vaughan

Roy Galbraith Henderson CBE (4 July 1899 – 16 March 2000) was a British baritone singer, conductor and teacher. Born in Edinburgh and raised in Nottingham, Henderson began singing in public during the First World War, entertaining his army colleagues. After the war he enrolled at the Royal Academy of Music (RAM) in London, where he won numerous prizes.
Henderson began making records in the days of acoustic recording, and in his old age it pleased him to be, as he put it, "one of the last people alive to have sung into a horn".

          1. Jambalaya

Tuesday, 13 February 2024

Reginald Dixon--The King Brothers--Frankie Vaughan--Steve Conway--Ted Heath--Les Compagnons De la Chanson


 A visit to Blackpool with Susie and Harry via King's Cross with the Winter Sun in your eyes !

1. Blackpool Song Mixture (No 8) Part 1.....Reginald Dixon
2. Blackpool Song Mixture (No 8) Part 2.....Reginald Dixon
3. Wake Up Little Susie......The King Brothers
4. Winter Wonderland.......The King Brothers
5. Wanderin' Eyes......Frankie Vaughan
6. Man On Fire......Frankie Vaughan
7. Temptation......Steve Conway
8. Beautiful Dreamer......Steve Conway
9. The Trouble With Harry.......Ted Heath And His Music
10. King's Cross Climax.......Ted Heath And His Music
11. The Three Bells......Les Compagnons De La Chanson
12. That Lucky Old Sun.......Les Compagnons De la Chanson

Les Compagnons de la chanson were a French harmony vocal group, formed in 1946 from an earlier group founded in Lyon, France in 1941. Their best known song was "Les trois cloches" recorded with Edith Piaf in 1946. Consisting of eight or nine members in the group, they were popular in France, with some success internationally, and continued to perform until 1985.
A tour in the United States, where they introduced the song "Les trois cloches" to the American audience. The lyrics of the English version, "The Three Bells", were written by Bert Reisfeld in 1948. Les Compagnons recorded "The Three Bells" without Piaf, and their version of the song reached No. 14 in the United States in 1952, later peaking at No. 21 in the UK Singles Chart in October 1959. 

        11. The Three Bells

Wednesday, 20 April 2022

Frank Sinatra--Jim Lowe--Billy Vaughn--The Duchess--Patricia Morison & Bill Johnson--Frankie Vaughan


 Another visit behind that Green Door.. this time with Kate & Priscilla walking thro' the Garden of Eden whistling Wang Wang Rag in Chinatown lots of sand around ! exit-ing with the little Man that keeps whispering ! Bang ! Bang !

1. Poinciana......Frank Sinatra
2. One Love......Frank Sinatra
3. The Green Door......Jim Lowe
4. The Little Man In Chinatown......Jim Lowe
5. The Shifting Whispering Sands.. Part 1......Billy Vaughn & Orchestra
6. The Shifting Whispering Sands.. Part 2......Billy Vaughn & Orchestra
7. The Wang Wang Blues......The Duchess
8. Dynamite Rag......The Duchess
9. Wunderbar (Kiss Me Kate)......Patricia Morison & Bill Johnson
10. So In Love (Kiss Me Kate)......Bill Johnson
11. The Garden Of Eden......Frankie Vaughan
12. Priscilla.....Frankie Vaughan
  
James Ellsworth Lowe (May 7, 1923 – December 12, 2016) was an American singer-songwriter, best known for his 1956 number-one hit song, "The Green Door". He also served as a disc jockey and radio host and personality, and was considered an expert on the popular music of the 1940s and 1950s.

Richard Smith "Billy "Vaughn (April 12, 1919 – September 26, 1991) was an American singer, multi-instrumentalist, orchestra leader, and A&R man for Dot Records.
Vaughn charted a total of 42 singles on the Billboard charts, often based on the sound of two alto saxophones. He also charted thirty six albums on the Billboard 200, beginning with 1958's Sail Along Silv'ry Moon and ending with 1970's Winter World of Love. He also had nineteen Top 40 hits in (Germany), beginning with the chart-topping "Sail Along, Silv'ry Moon", also a gold record, which was a cover of a 1937 Bing Crosby hit. He had two more number ones in Germany: "La Paloma" and "Wheels" (all three were reportedly million sellers). Billy Vaughn's recording of "Wheels" was No. 1 for 14 weeks in Germany  as well as No. 1 in India, New Zealand, and Italy. Vaughn also charted in Australia, Latin America, and Japan.


Eileen Patricia Augusta Fraser Morison (March 19, 1915 – May 20, 2018) was an American stage, television and film actress of the Golden Age of Hollywood and mezzo-soprano singer She made her feature film debut in 1939 after several years on the stage..She was lauded as a beauty with large blue eyes and extremely long, dark hair. During this period of her career, she was often cast as the femme fatale or "other woman". It was only when she returned to the Broadway stage that she achieved her greatest success as the lead in the original production of Cole Porter's Kiss Me, Kate and subsequently in The King and I
In November 1978 she again played the leading role in Kiss Me, Kate at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in England.

William Johnson (March 22, 1916 – March 6, 1957) was an American actor and singer of the stage and screen.
He also starred (as Fred Petruchio) alongside Patricia Morison in the first UK production of Cole Porter's Kiss Me, Kate, at the London Coliseum in 1951, and on the cast recording of that show.He also appeared in Annie Get Your Gun. His last role on Broadway was in 1955–1956

          8. Dynamite Rag

Pat Boone--Al Martino--Petula Clark--Frank Sinatra--David Whitfield--Frankie Vaughan


 If you go thro' the green door with Stella and the Poor Man two worlds will appear and by Starlight you can find your way home loving that Tutti Frutti  before you are alone !

1. Tutti Frutti......Pat Boone
2. I'll Be Home......Pat Boone
3. In All This World......Al Martino
4. I've Never Been......Al Martino
5. Alone......Petula Clark
6. Long Before I Knew You......Petula Clark
7. I Love You......Frank Sinatra
8. Stella By Starlight......Frank Sinatra
9. I'd Give You The World......David Whitfield
10. I'll Find You......David Whitfield
11. The Green Door......Frankie Vaughan
12. Pity The Poor Poor Man......Frankie Vaughan

         11. The Green Door