Showing posts with label Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra. Show all posts

Tuesday, 5 November 2024

Morton Downey--Jimmy Dorsey--Yana--Norman Wisdom--Anne Shelton--Don Cornell

Mainly the 50's 60's with this selection..

1. Stormy Weather......Morton Downey
2. In The Valley Of The moon......Morton Downey
3. A Man And His Drum......Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra
4. Major And Minor Stomp......Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra
5. Small Talk......Yana
6. Something Happened To My Heart......Yana
7. Heart Of A Clown......Norman Wisdom
8. Beware......Norman Wisdom
9. You've Changed.......Anne Shelton
10. Galway Bay......Anne Shelton
11. Hold My Hand......Don Cornell
12. I'm Blessed......Don Cornell

John Morton Downey (November 14, 1901 – October 25, 1985), also known as Morton Downey, was an American singer and entertainer popular in the United States in the first half of the 20th century, enjoying his greatest success in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Downey was nicknamed "The Irish Nightingale".
Downey's signature sound was a very creamy and very high-timbred Irish tenor, which an uninformed listener can easily mistake for a female voice. 

Yana (born Pamela Guard; 16 February 1931 – 21 November 1989) was a British singer. Achieving significant fame in Britain in the late-1950s, by the time of her 1989 death, she was generally forgotten. Her singing career started when Bertie Green, the owner of the plush Astor Club in London, heard her (aged 19) singing at a private party in the club, her friends having dared her to get up and sing; Green booked her as a cabaret artiste. She also sang, from 1954, at the expensive Pigalle restaurant in Piccadilly. Yana's biggest hit as a singer was Climb Up the Wall, which is regarded as one of the top 30 British popular songs of the 1950s; despite that and her other recordings (Columbia Records and HMV, mostly), it has been said that Yana's actual earnings from records totalled only about £100 in the money of the time, by reason of the contractual arrangements typically in place for UK recording artists of that era.

          1. Stormy Weather

Thursday, 22 September 2022

Alma Cogan--The Platters--Boston Promenade Orchestra--Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra--Eric Delaney & His Band--Mary Martin & Arthur Godfrey


 In the Northern hemisphere it's Cold !!...sorry don't fall asleep Boogie to keep warm !

1. Never Do A Tango With An Eskimo......Alma Cogan
2. Twenty Tiny Fingers......Alma Cogan
3. I'm Sorry......The Platters
4. He's Mine......The Platters
5. The Skaters Waltz...Part 1......Boston Promenade Orchestra
6. The Skaters Waltz...(Conclusion)......Boston Promenade Orchestra
7. I Said No.....Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra (Vocal Ray Eberly & Helen O'Connell)
8. Absent Minded Moon.....Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra (Vocal Ray Eberly)
9. Hornpipe Boogie......Eric Delaney & His Band
10. The Man I Love......Eric Delaney & His Band
11. Go To Sleep Go To Sleep Go To Sleep......Mary Martin & Arthur Godfrey
12. Candy And Cake......Arthur Godfrey

Name used on British releases of The Boston Pops Orchestra.. (Boston Promenade Orchestra)

The Boston Pops Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Boston, Massachusetts, specializing in light classical and popular music. 
Identified with its long-time director Arthur Fiedler, the orchestra has recorded extensively, made frequent tours, and appeared often on television.
The Boston Pops Orchestra had seventeen conductors before 1930, when Arthur Fiedler began a fifty-year tenure as the first American-born conductor to lead the orchestra. Under Fiedler's direction, the orchestra's popularity spread far beyond Boston through recordings, radio and television. 


Eric Delaney (22 May 1924 – 14 July 2011) was an English drummer and bandleader, popular in the 1950s and early 1960s.
Delaney was born in Acton, London, England. Aged 16, he won the Best Swing Drummer award and later joined the Bert Ambrose Octet which featured George Shearing on piano. During 1947–54 he appeared with the Geraldo Orchestra and filled his time with regular session work in recording studios and on film, TV and radio. In 1954 he formed his own band and later signed with the new Pye Records label. He made three Royal Variety Show appearances, the first in 1956.

Mary Virginia Martin (December 1, 1913 – November 3, 1990) was an American actress and singer. A muse of Rodgers and Hammerstein, she originated many leading roles on stage over her career, including Nellie Forbush in South Pacific (1949), the title character in Peter Pan (1954), and Maria von Trapp in The Sound of Music (1959). She was named a Kennedy Center Honoree in 1989. She was the mother of actor Larry Hagman.

Arthur Morton Godfrey (August 31, 1903 – March 16, 1983) was an American radio and television broadcaster and entertainer who was sometimes introduced by his nickname The Old Redhead.

         4. He's Mine