Showing posts with label Morton Downey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Morton Downey. Show all posts

Monday, 23 December 2024

Humphrey Lyttleton--Morton Downey--Geraldo--Pat O'Dell--John Thorpe--Joe Loss--Vera Lynn

Party time with Vera then a few dances Waltzes / Foxtrots And Of course The Last Dance !!...And a little Jive with "Humph "

1. Bad Penny Blues......Humphrey Lyttleton And His Band
2. Close Your Eyes......Humphrey Lyttleton And His Band
3. Save The Last Dance For Me......Morton Downey
4. Just Friends......Morton Downey
5. Tennessee Waltz......Geraldo & His Orchestra
6. I Still Love You......Geraldo & His Orchestra..(vocal).Nadia Dore & Derrick Francis
7. The Old Rustic Bridge......Pat O'Dell
8. You Are My Own......John Thorpe
9. Let The Rest Of The World Go By.....Joe Loss & His Orchestra..
10. I Could Never Tell......Joe Loss & His Orchestra
11. Vera Lynn's Party Sing Song (Medley)..Side One.....Vera Lynn
12. Vera Lynn's Party Sing Song (Medley)..Side Two.....Vera Lynn

Humphrey Richard Adeane Lyttelton (23 May 1921 – 25 April 2008), also known as Humph, was an English jazz musician and broadcaster from the Lyttelton family.
Having taught himself the trumpet at school, Lyttelton became a professional musician, leading his own eight-piece band, which recorded a hit single, "Bad Penny Blues", in 1956. As a broadcaster, he presented BBC Radio 2's The Best of Jazz for forty years, and hosted the comedy panel game I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue on BBC Radio 4, becoming the UK's oldest panel game host.

Pat O'Dell
Singer 
A.k.a. Cavan O'Connor Patrick Ernest Terence O'Neill The Vagabond Lover

          1. Bad Penny Blues

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