Showing posts with label Victor Silvester & His Silver Strings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Victor Silvester & His Silver Strings. Show all posts

Saturday, 12 April 2025

Billy Cotton--Frank Sinatra--Victor Silvester--Primo Scala--Archie Lewis--Ted Heath

This selection reads like a "Travelogue"...The little Valley could be in Spain and you could Rumba up and down the mountains..or maybe do the Samba on the Isle Of Capri !...or even play the Penny Whistle in the Alpine moutains doing the Boogie !
And that Jimmy Brown is ringing the bells again !!

1. Little Lady Make Believe......Billy Cotton & His Band
2. Say Goodnight To You Old Fashioned Mother......Billy Cotton & His Band
3. Don't Worry 'Bout Me......Frank Sinatra
4. I Love You.....Frank Sinatra
5. Port Of Spain......Victor Silvester & His Silver Strings
6. Panama......Victor Silvester & His Silver Strings
7. Little Valley In The Mountains......Primo Scala's Accordeon Band
8. Isle Of Capri......Primo Scala's Accordeon Band
9. While The Angelus Was Ringing......Archie Lewis
10. Till All Our Dreams Come true......Archie Lewis
11. The Penny Whistle Song......Ted Heath And His Music
12. Alpine Boogie......Ted Heath & His Music

Edward Archibald Lewis (10 April 1918[1]– 29 February 1988 was a Jamaican singer who was popular in Britain in the 1940s.
Archie Lewis sang in choirs and was a Sunday school teacher before taking up singing as a career. Already one of the most popular singers in Jamaica, he migrated to Britain in 1942 to work in a munitions factory as part of the war effort,and became the featured singer with Geraldo and his Orchestra, with whom he recorded. He was one of the first black vocalists to sing solo in public performances in England, and toured widely with Geraldo and with Josephine Baker, as well as performing at the London Palladium and at a Royal Command Performance. For a time he was seen as one of Britain's most popular singers, his recording of "While the Angelus Was Ringing", sung with the Luton Girls Choir in 1948, was reported to have sold over a million copies.

          9. While The Angelus Was Ringing
           12. Alpine Boogie

Sunday, 3 November 2024

Harry Roy--Dimitri Tiomkin--Edmundo Ros--Teddy Powell--Victor Silvester--Jack Doyle & Movita

All Orchestra's to the front with an occasional vocal and a whistler !

1. Swing With A Swing (Victory Roll Rag )......Harry Roy & His Band
2. Swing With A Swing (New Tiger Rag).......Harry Roy & His Band
3. The High And The Mighty......Dimitri Tiomkin & His Orchestra
4. Dial M For Murder......Dimitri Tiomkin & His Orchestra
5. Rum And Limonada......Edmundo Ros & His Cuban Orchestra
6. In Chi Chi Castenango......Edmundo Ros & His Cuban Orchestra
7. San Culottes......Teddy Powell & His Orchestra
8. In The Pine Tops Footsteps.....Teddy Powell & His Orchestra
9. Voodoo Rhythm...... Victor Silvester & His Silver Strings
10. Bolivia......Victor Silvester & His Silver Strings
11. South Of The Border......Jack Doyle & Movita
12. When Irish Eyes Are Smiling......Jack Doyle

Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin (May 10, 1894 – November 11, 1979) was a Russian and American film composer and conductor. Classically trained in Saint Petersburg before the Bolshevik Revolution, he moved to Berlin and then New York City after the Russian Revolution. In 1929, after the stock market crash, he moved to Hollywood, where he became best known for his scores for Western films, including Duel in the Sun, Red River, High Noon, The Big Sky, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Rio Bravo, and Last Train from Gun Hill.Tiomkin received 22 Academy Award nominations and won four Oscars, three for Best Original Score for High Noon, The High and the Mighty, and The Old Man and the Sea, and one for Best Original Song for "The Ballad of High Noon" from the film High Noon.

Teddy Powell (born Teodoro Paolella; March 1, 1905 – November 17, 1993) was an American jazz musician, band leader, composer, and arranger. Some of his compositions were written under the pseudonym Freddy James.
He formed the Teddy Powell Orchestra in 1939 and it performed through the 1940s. 
After the band folded, Powell wrote music and arrangements. He had hits with "Bewildered" and "If My Heart Could Only Talk". During the latter part of his career, he worked in music publishing.

Joseph "Jack" Doyle (31 August 1913 – 13 December 1978), known as "the Gorgeous Gael", was an Irish boxer, professional wrestler, actor, and a tenor. He was born Joseph Doyle but changed his name to Jack when starting his professional career.
In the early to mid-1930s he would attempt to launch both singing and acting careers, but was pulled back into the world of boxing only to be humiliated in a number of first-round knockouts.
Doyle's drawing power had been supplemented by his January 1939 marriage in Baja California, Mexico to actress Movita Castaneda, recent co-star to Clark Gable in Mutiny on the Bounty, which once-again fortified his persona as a playboy and international celebrity......Doyle and Movita renewed their vows in 1943 at Dublin's Westland Row Church. Soon the pair toured both sides of the Irish Sea, selling out music halls and opera houses singing. Amongst their setlist was their version of the recently released song "South of the Border".

          7. San Colottes