Showing posts with label Ken Griffin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ken Griffin. Show all posts

Thursday, 2 December 2021

Les Paul & Mary Ford--Frank Sinatra--Ken Griffin--Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers--Foden'sMotor Works Band--Frankie Laine


 Three shades of Columbia with a black Capitol and blue Phillips side by side with Baby !

1. How High The Moon......Les Paul & Mary Ford
2. What Is This Called Love......Les Paul
3. Oh What It Seems To Be......Frank Sinatra
4. Homesick Thats All......Frank Sinatra
5. Side By Side......Ken Griffin
6. Drifting And Dreaming.....Ken Griffin
7. I'n Not A Juvenile Delinquent......Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers
8. Baby Baby......Frankie Lyman & The Teenagers
9. Flying Squad......Foden's Motor Works Band
10. Britain On Parade......Foden's Motor Works Band
11. There Must Be A Reason......Frankie Laine
12. Some Day......Frankie Laine


Les Paul and Mary Ford were a popular 1950s husband-and-wife musical duo who performed and recorded during 1945–1963. They both sang and played guitars.
Ford and Paul were music superstars during the first half of the 1950s, putting out 28 hits for Capitol Records between 1950 and 1957, including "Tiger Rag", "Vaya con Dios" (11 weeks at No. 1), "Mockin' Bird Hill" (top 10), "How High the Moon" (nine weeks at No. 1), "Bye Bye Blues" and "The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise".
Paul and Ford are famous for creating a makeshift recording studio in their garage. In their garage studio, they used multitrack recording to record many of their hits including ‘Lover’, ‘Nola’, ‘Brazil’ and ‘Whispering' with only the two of them.


Franklin Joseph Lymon (September 30, 1942 – February 27, 1968 was an American rock and roll/rhythm and blues singer and songwriter, best known as the boy soprano lead singer of the New York City-based early rock and roll doo wop group The Teenagers. The group was composed of five boys, all in their early to mid-teens. The original lineup of the Teenagers, an integrated group, included three African-American members, Frankie Lymon, Jimmy Merchant, and Sherman Garnes; and two Puerto Rican members, Joe Negroni and Herman Santiago. The Teenagers' first single, 1956's "Why Do Fools Fall in Love", was also their biggest hit. After Lymon went solo in mid-1957, both his career and that of the Teenagers fell into decline. He was found dead at the age of 25 on the floor of his grandmother's bathroom from a heroin overdose. His life was dramatized in the 1998 film Why Do Fools Fall In Love.

               Foden's Motor Works Band (1904)                    (1968/70)
Foden's Band (originally Foden's Motor Works Band, and variants with sponsors' names) is a brass band from Sandbach in Cheshire. The band derives its name from the Foden manufacturer of trucks in Sandbach. Foden's Band are one of the top brass bands in the world; regularly appearing at the top of the "World of Brass – World Rankings" In 2012, Foden's became double winners of both the National Championships and the British Open.
On 9 November 1933, the band appeared in the Lord Mayor's Show in London, billed as the Band of Foden Motor Works.The band has been ordered to play by Royal Command on three occasions: in 1913 for George V and Queen Mary, in 1938 at Windsor Castle for George VI and Queen Elizabeth, and most recently in 1983 where the band had the honour of playing for Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace.

       5. Side By Side

Wednesday, 21 April 2021

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