Johnnie Ray--Richard Tauber--Al Martino--Jack Payne--Coventry New Hippodrome Orchestra--Reginald Gardiner

 Musical variations  galore !...plus a train journey !

1. Just Walking In The Rain......Johnnie Ray

2. In The Candlelight.......Johnnie Ray

3. Jealousy.......Richard Tauber

4. Love's Last Word Is Spoken......Richard Tauber

5. All I Want Is A Chance.......Al Martino

6. You Can't Go On Forever Breaking My Heart......Al Martino

7. When The Poppies Bloom Again......Jack Payne And His Band

8. Everybody Dance......Jack Payne And His Band

9. Show Boat Selection......Coventry New Hippodrome Orchestra

10. The Vagabond King Selection......Coventry New Hippodrome Orchestra

11. Trains.. Part One......Reginald Gardiner

12. Trains.. Part Two......Reginald Gardiner

The Coventry New Hippodrome Orchestra was a musical ensemble that performed at the Coventry Theatre, formerly known as the New Hippodrome, in Coventry, England. The orchestra was conducted by William Pethers, who also composed some of the music for the theatre shows. The orchestra featured various instruments, such as violins, cellos, trumpets, trombones, percussion, and piano. Some of the orchestra members were also singers and actors who participated in the musicals and comedies that were staged at the theatre. The Coventry New Hippodrome Orchestra played a variety of genres, such as classical, jazz, swing, and pop. 

William Reginald Gardiner (27 February 1903 – 7 July 1980) was an English actor on the stage, in films and on television.He was also well known to radio listeners, and was known on the air for his amusing train and car noises.

Gardiner recorded a curious and eccentric classic called "Trains", which was regularly played on the 1950s British radio programme Children's Favourites. This record consisted of a tipsy-sounding Gardiner reciting a monologue, which he first introduced in the 1935 Broadway revue At Home Abroad, about steam railway engines (which he claimed were 'livid beasts') and impersonating both the engines themselves and the sound of trains running on the track. This latter he famously characterised as 'diddly-dee, diddly-dum' to mimic the sound pattern as the four pairs of bogie wheels ran over joins between the lengths of track – a sound no longer heard since welded rail joins were introduced. "Trains" was released as a 78 and a 45 by English Decca Records (F 5278) which remained on catalogue into the 1970s. At the end of the record Gardiner signs off with "Well folks, that's all: back to the asylum." He was summoned to Buckingham Palace to give a performance in person.

          5. All I Want Is A Chance

Lita Roza--Mr Borland--Mr Chris Chapman--Joe Loss Band--Johnnie Ray--Eva Turner--Tennessee Ernie Ford

 A mixture of labels and styles start off this session of 78's...bells and swing and a dash of Puccini !

1. Hillside In Scotland......Lita Roza

2. Sorry Sorry Sorry.......Lita Roza

3. Peal Of Church Bells......Mr Borland

4. Southern Girl Gavotte......Mr Chris Chapman

5. In The Mood......Joe Loss And His Band

6. At The Woodchoppers Ball......Joe Loss And His Band

7. I Miss You So......Johnnie Ray

8. So Long.......Johnnie Ray

9. Turandot...In Questa Reggia......Eva Turner

10. Turandot...O Princcipi Che a Lunghe Carovane......Eva Turner

11. River Of No Return......Tennessee Ernie Ford

12. Give Me Your Word......Tennessee Ernie Ford

  

Lilian Patricia Lita Roza (14 March 1926 – 14 August 2008) was an English singer best known for her 1953 recording "(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?", which reached No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart. She was the first British woman to have a No. 1 hit in the UK chart.

In 1950, she became the lead female singer with the Ted Heath Band, and by 1954, had achieved enough public acclaim to leave the band and pursue a solo recording career.

Roza's "(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?", a cover version of Patti Page's original, was the peak of her career, topping the UK Singles Chart. It made her the first British woman to have a No. 1 hit in the UK chart. Further covers of "Hey There" and "Jimmy Unknown" gave her small hits in the mid-1950s. Roza disliked her hit single so much that she never performed it live.

Eva Turner

Dame Eva Turner, DBE, FRAM, FRCM (10 March 1892 – 16 June 1990) was an English dramatic soprano with an international reputation. Her strong, steady and well-trained voice was renowned for its clarion power in Italian and German operatic roles.

She also played the title role in Turandot. She was in the audience for the April 1926 premiere at La Scala and first sang it in December that year at the Teatro Grande in Brescia. In 1928, she performed it at the Covent Garden (also playing Aida and Santuzza during the season), and in 1929, she took the part at La Scala. Recordings of her Turandot recorded live at Covent Garden in 1937 with Giovanni Martinelli as Calaf and John Barbirolli conducting remained unissued at the time but were released on EMI CD CDH 7610742 in the 1980s.

          6. At The Woodchoppers Ball

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

Johnnie Ray--Mario Lanza--Perry Como--Bing Crosby--Buddy Cole--Tennessee Ernie Ford

 It seems the girl and the boy are traveling to Granada then Copacabana in the moonlight with plenty of time so lets hope they had a lovely night of that year !

1. As Time Goes By......Johnnie Ray

2. To Every Girl To Every Boy.......Johnnie Ray

3. The Loveliest Night Of The Year......Mario Lanza

4. La Donna E Mobile.......Mario Lanza

5. Did You Ever Get That feeling In The Moonlight.....Perry Como

6. Till The End Of Time......Perry Como

7. Granada......Bing Crosby

8.  Copacabana......Bing Crosby

9. You're Breaking my Heart......Buddy Cole

10. Song Of Surrender......Buddy Cole

11. Sixteen Tons......Tennessee Ernie Ford

12. You Don't Have To Be A Baby To Cry......Tennessee Ernie Ford

Buddy Clark (born Samuel Goldberg, July 26, 1912 – October 1, 1949) was an American popular singer of the Big Band era. He had some success in the 1930s, but his career truly blossomed in the late 1940s, after his return from service in World War II, and he became one of the nation's top crooners. He died in a plane crash in 1949.

In 1949 Clark opened the year with "Powder Your Face With Sunshine" again a duet with Doris Day on a top 15 seller and two more that were top 25 tunes - "I Love You So Much It Hurts" with Earl Hagen's band on and "It's A Big Wide Wonderful World" from the Broadway show "All In Fun" with Mitchell Ayres on In the spring of 1949 Clark recorded another duet, this time with Dinah Shore on the tune "Baby It's Cold Outside" from the film "Neptunes Daughter" on It was another huge hit remaining a top seller for five months and topping out at number four on the national charts. This was followed by another top five seller and a long time hit parade mainstay "You're Breaking My Heart" with the orchestra of Harry Zimmerman on In the fall "A Dreamer's Holiday" was recorded with Ted Dale's orchestra on, and it was another big seller for Clark and Columbia Records that went to number 12 on the charts.

          12. You Don't Have To Be A Baby To Cry

Jimmy Young--Frank Sinatra--The Mills Brothers--The Platters--Michael Holiday--Johnnie Ray

 Sipping chapagne with Irene wondering if a million words would ease an aching heart looking at the blue heaven above for eternity !

1. Eternally......Jimmy Young

2. Is It Any Wonder......Jimmy Young

3. My Blue Heaven......Frank Sinatra

4. Goodnight Irene......Frank Sinatra

5. Oh My Aching Heart......The Mills Brothers

6. What You Don't Know Won't Hurt You.....The Mills Brothers

7. On My Word Of Honor......The Platters

8. One In A Million......The Platters

9. Old Cape Cod......Michael Holiday

10. Love You Darlin'......Michael Holiday

11. Give Me Time......Johnnie Ray

12. The Lady Drinks Champagne.....Johnnie Ray

Sir Leslie Ronald Young CBE, known professionally as Jimmy Young (21 September 1921 – 7 November 2016), was an English singer, disc jockey and radio personality. Early in his career in the 1950s he had two number ones, "Unchained Melody" and "The Man from Laramie", both in 1955, and several other top ten hits in the UK chart, but he became better known for his long-running show on BBC Radio 2, The JY Prog, which ran from 1973 until 2002.

The Mills Brothers, sometimes billed the Four Mills Brothers, and originally known as the Four Kings of Harmony, were an American jazz and traditional pop vocal quartet who made more than 2,000 recordings that sold more than 50 million copies and garnered at least three dozen gold records.

The Mills Brothers were the first African-American artists to have their own show on national network radio (on CBS in 1930); they made appearances in film; and were the first to have a #1 hit on the Billboard singles chart, with "Paper Doll" in 1943. They were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 1998.

The Platters are an American vocal group formed in 1952. They are one of the most successful vocal groups of the early rock and roll era. Their distinctive sound bridges the pre-rock Tin Pan Alley tradition and the new burgeoning genre. The act has gone through multiple line-ups over the years, earning it the branding tag "Many Voices One Name," with the most successful incarnation comprising lead tenor Tony Williams, David Lynch, Paul Robi, founder and naming member Herb Reed, and Zola Taylor. The group had 40 charting singles on the Billboard Hot 100 between 1955 and 1967, including four number-one hits. The Platters continue to fulfill Reed's enduring legacy and perform around the world today.

John Alvin Ray (January 10, 1927 – February 24, 1990) was an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Highly popular for most of the 1950s, Ray has been cited by critics as a major precursor to what became rock and roll, for his jazz and blues-influenced music, and his animated stage personality. Tony Bennett called Ray the "father of rock and roll", and historians have noted him as a pioneering figure in the development of the genre.

       12. The Lady Drinks Champagne.