Showing posts with label Norman Wisdom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Norman Wisdom. 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

Sunday, 16 July 2023

Noman Wisdom--Lee Lawrence--Mantovani & His Orchestra--Eric Delaney & His Band--Vera Lynn--Ronnie Hilton.


 Plenty of loving in this selection... couple with hearts (Cuor)!! and three colours !!

1. Don't Laugh At Me......Norman Wisdom
2. Once In Love With Amy......Norman Wisdom
3. With These Hands......Lee Lawrence
4. You're Heartless.......Lee Lawrence
5. The Green Cockatoo......Mantovani & His Orchestra
6. Cuor Ingrato......Mantovani & His Orchestra
7. Oranges & Lemons......Eric Delaney & His Band
8. Delany's Delight......Eric Delaney & His Band
9. Concerto For Two......Vera Lynn
10. What More Can I Say......Vera Lynn
11. A Woman In Love.......Ronnie Hilton
12. I Just Found Out About Love.....Ronnie Hilton

Sir Norman Joseph Wisdom, OBE (4 February 1915 – 4 October 2010) was an English actor, comedian, musician and singer best known for a series of comedy films produced between 1953 and 1966 featuring his hapless onscreen character that was often called Norman Pitkin. He was awarded the 1953 BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles following the release of Trouble in Store, his first film in a lead role.
On 31 December 1976, Wisdom performed his theme song "Don't Laugh at Me ('cause I'm a Fool)" on BBC1's A Jubilee of Music, celebrating British pop music for Queen Elizabeth II's impending Silver Jubilee. Wisdom had performed in front of the Queen at many Royal Command Performances, the first being in 1952.

            12. I Just Found Out About Love