'Tis a secret double wedding with banjo's playing and water gipsies clip a clopping down the aisle !
1. You Can't Be True To Two......Jimmy Parkinson
2. Those Who Have Loved......Jimmy Parkinson
3. Clip Clop (From The Water Gipsies)......Laurie Payne
4. This Is our Secret (From The Water Gipsies)......Peter Graves & Pamela Charles
5. A Woman's Touch.......Doris Day
6. Tis Harry I'm Planning To Marry......Doris Day
7. The Banjo's Back In Town......Alma Cogan
8. Go On By......Alma Cogan
9. Vocal Gems From "Oklahoma"......John Hanson & Doreen Hume
10. Vocal Gems From "Oklahoma"......John Hanson & Doreen Hume
11. I Went To Your Wedding......Spike Jones
12. Lulu Had A Baby......Spike Jones
Jimmy Parkinson was an Australian singer. 19th Dec 1930 - 25th March 2019. Began his career in a coffee lounge at Sydney's Coogee Beach. Worked for the ABC, before moving to England in 1955.
Jimmy, an Australian, started in show business as a 15 year old callboy at a Sydney Theatre. Soon his vocal talents were noticed and it wasn't long before he was singing with local dance bands, moving on to night clubs, radio and records. In fact he became quite a big name "down under" and when in 1955, now a 24 year old, he decided to prove himself by coming to England, he had already notched up over 2,000 broadcasts and quite a stack of records.
Laurie Payne was born on August 17, 1922 in King Island, Tasmania, Australia. He was an actor, known for Rush Hour (1958), Paint Your Wagon (1954) and The Water Gipsies (1955). He was married to Darien Parker, Vickie Climas and Wendy Noel. He died on April 2, 1999 in Walcote, Leicestershire, England.
Peter George Wellesley Graves, 8th Baron Graves (21 October 1911 – 6 June 1994) was an English actor.Born in London, Graves was the son of Henry Algernon Claude Graves, 7th Baron Graves. Admiral Thomas Graves, 1st Baron Graves, was his great-great-great-grandfather. He was educated at Harrow School.
He also appeared in a number of films by Herbert Wilcox, such as the popular musicals Spring in Park Lane (1948) and Maytime in Mayfair (1949), both vehicles for Anna Neagle and Michael Wilding. He also portrayed another royal, Prince Albert, in both Wilcox's The Lady with a Lamp (1951) and Lilacs in the Spring (1954). He also appeared alongside Neagle on stage in the 1953 West End musical The Glorious Days.Educated at Harrow, Graves became an actor and established his reputation as a light comedian and for his roles in musicals.
Pamela Charles was born on June 10, 1930 in Croydon, Surrey, England. She was an actress, known for The Water Gipsies (1955), The Benny Hill Show (1955) and The Ed Sullivan Show (1948). She died on April 18, 2018 in England.
Alma Angela Cohen Cogan (19 May 1932 – 26 October 1966) was an English singer of traditional pop music in the 1950s and early 1960s. Dubbed the "Girl with the Giggle in Her Voice", she was the highest paid British female entertainer of her era.
Cogan's first release was "To Be Worthy of You" / "Would You", recorded on her 20th birthday. This led to her appearing regularly on comedian Dick Bentley's BBC's radio show Gently Bentley, and then becoming the vocalist for the BBC Radio comedy programme Take It From Here, replacing Joy Nichols, from 1953 to the end of its run in 1960.
Many of her recordings were covers of U.S. hits, especially those recorded by Rosemary Clooney, Teresa Brewer, Georgia Gibbs, Joni James and Dinah Shore. Her voice was often compared with Doris Day's. One of these covers, "Bell Bottom Blues", became her first hit, reaching no. 4 on 3 April 1954. Cogan would appear in the UK Singles Chart eighteen times in the 1950s, with "Dreamboat" reaching no. 1. Other hits from this period include "I Can't Tell a Waltz from a Tango", "Why Do Fools Fall in Love", "Sugartime" and "The Story of My Life". Cogan's first album, I Love to Sing, was released in 1958
John Hanson (August 31, 1922 – December 4, 1998) was a Canadian-born British tenor and actor, who starred in several West End musicals during the 1950s and 1960s.
His 1960 album, The Student Prince / The Vagabond King peaked at Number 9 in the UK Albums Chart. Hanson was most famous for his role as the "Red Shadow", the hero of the musical The Desert Song, which enjoyed a record-breaking revival at the Palace Theatre in 1967.
Doreen Hume (born July 14, 1926) is a Canadian soprano soloist who performed in North America and Europe from the 1940s through to the 1970s.
She recorded 10 albums of light music and musical comedy, beginning in 1958, for the Philips Fontana, Epic and Rondolette labels.
Lindley Armstrong "Spike" Jones (December 14, 1911 – May 1, 1965) was an American musician and bandleader specializing in spoof arrangements of popular songs and classical music. Ballads receiving the Jones treatment were punctuated with gunshots, whistles, cowbells, hiccups, burps and outlandish and comedic vocals. Jones and his band recorded under the title Spike Jones and His City Slickers from the early 1940s to the mid-1950s, and toured the United States and Canada as "The Musical Depreciation Revue".
1. You Cant Be True To Two
