The Weavers--Slim Whitman--The Stargazers--Frank Sinatra--Marion Ryan--Tommy Steele

 Tommy Steele Say's It All "With A Handful Of Songs" !!

1. On Top Of Old Smoky......The Weavers with Terry Gilkyson

2. Across The Wide Missouri......The Weavers with Terry Gilkyson

3. Tell Me......Slim Whitman

4. Tumbling Tumbleweeds......Slim Whitman

5. I See The Moon......The Stargazers

6. El Cumpari......The Stargazers

7. The Coffee Song......Frank Sinatra

8. The Stars Will Remember

9. Love Me Forever......Marion Ryan

10. Make The man Love Me......Marion Ryan

11. A Handful Of Songs......Tommy Steele

12. Water Water......Tommy Steele

The Weavers were an American folk music quartet based in the Greenwich Village area of New York City. They sang traditional folk songs from around the world, as well as blues, gospel music, children's songs, labor songs, and American ballads, and sold millions of records at the height of their popularity. Their style inspired the commercial "folk boom" that followed them in the 1950s and 1960s, including such performers as the Kingston Trio, Peter, Paul, and Mary, the Rooftop Singers, the Seekers, Joan Baez, Don Mclean and Bob Dylan.

"Terry" Gilkyson, singer and songwriter, wrote several of the biggest hit records of the early 1950s. His "Memories are Made of This" became both a number one song for Dean Martin in 1956 and a clever catchphrase for the nostalgia boom. He recorded two albums of folk songs, The Solitary Singer, volumes 1 and 2, in 1950 and 1951, but had his first hit record in 1951 when he joined The Weavers, with "On Top of Old Smokey".

The Stargazers were a British vocal group, jointly founded in 1949 by Cliff Adams and Ronnie Milne. Other original members were Marie Benson, Fred Datchler and Dick James.

Very shortly after the group made their first broadcasts with BBC Radio on such programs as Workers' Playtime, Dick James decided to resume his career as a solo vocalist, left the group, and was replaced by Bob Brown. Ronnie Milne took care of the musical arranging, while Cliff Adams became their manager, in addition to contributing scores for the group. In September 1953, Milne left the Stargazers to emigrate to Canada, and was replaced in the group by Dave Carey. The group served as backing vocalists for Petula Clark on her first recordings.

Marion Ryan (4 February 1931 – 15 January 1999) was a popular British singer in the 1950s.

She was once called "the Marilyn Monroe of popular song", Marion Ryan was a pop singer of the 1950s in the early years of British Independent Television. Her song "Love Me Forever" peaked at number five on the UK Singles Chart in 1958. She was the regular singer in the popular musical quiz Spot the Tune on Granada Television for seven years from 1956, with a total of 209 half-hour programmes.

Sir Thomas Hicks, OBE (born 17 December 1936), known professionally as Tommy Steele, is an English entertainer, regarded as Britain's first teen idol and rock and roll star. He reached number one with "Singing the Blues" in 1957, and The Tommy Steele Story was the first album by a UK act to reach number 1 in his native country.

Steele's film credits include Half a Sixpence, The Happiest Millionaire and Finian's Rainbow and he has made many stage tours in the UK. He is also a songwriter, author and sculptor.

        12. Water Water

Kay Starr--Frank Weir--Deanna Durbin--Frank Sinatra--Eddie Calvert--Johnny Otis Show

 We dream at midnight with Ma holding a rose making believe its summer so a dip in the fountain in the dark looking for a treasure but only found coins !

1. Am I A Toy Or A Treasure......Kay Starr

2. Fortune In Dreams......Kay Starr

3. I Didn't Know About You......Frank Weir & The Astor Club 7.(vocal.. Anne Lenner)

4. I'm Making Believe......Frank Weir & The Astyor Club 7. (vocal...Lynne Shaw)

5. The Last Rose Of Summer......Deanna Durbin

6. Because......Deanna Durbin

7. Three Coins In The Fountain......Frank Sinatra

8. I Could Have Told You So......Frank Sinatra

9. Midnight......Eddie Calvert

10. Margot's Minuet......Eddie Calvert

11. Ma He's Making Eyes At Me......The Johnny Otis Show

12. Romance In The Dark......The Johnny Otis Show

Catherine Laverne Starks (July 21, 1922 – November 3, 2016), known professionally as Kay Starr, was an American pop and jazz singer who enjoyed considerable success in the late 1940s and 1950s. She was of Iroquois and Irish heritage. Starr was successful in every field of music she tried (jazz, pop, and country), but her roots were in jazz.Most of Starr's songs had jazz influences. Like those of Frankie Laine and Johnnie Ray, they were sung in a style that anticipated rock and roll songs. These included her hits "Wheel of Fortune" (her biggest hit, No. 1 for 10 weeks), "Side by Side", "The Man Upstairs", and "Rock and Roll Waltz". One of her biggest hits was her version of "(Everybody's Waitin' For) The Man with the Bag", a Christmas song that became a holiday favorite.

Anne Lenner (1912–1997) was a popular English female vocalist, singing with the dance bands of the 1930s and 1940s. She is most closely associated with Carroll Gibbons and the Savoy Orpheans, a band who regularly played at the Savoy Hotel in London; she made many studio recordings with this band. The British bands played a softer version of the swing jazz popular in the USA during the 1930s and 1940s.

During the war years, Lenner sang with a number of other bands notably Jay Wilbur, Jack White, Louis Levy, and Frank Weir at the Astor club where George Shearing was in the band. She only recorded a handful of songs with these bands.

Johnny Otis (born Ioannis Alexandres Veliotes; December 28, 1921 – January 17, 2012) was an American singer, musician, composer, arranger, bandleader, talent scout, disc jockey, record producer, television show host, artist, author, journalist, minister, and impresario. He was a seminal influence on American R&B and rock and roll. He discovered numerous artists early in their careers who went on to become highly successful in their own right, including Little Esther Phillips, Etta James, Big Mama Thornton, Johnny Ace, Jackie Wilson, Little Willie John, Hank Ballard.

He continued to perform and appeared on TV shows in Los Angeles from 1957. On the strength of their success, he signed with Capitol Records. Featuring the singer Marie Adams and with his band, now known as the Johnny Otis Show, he made a comeback, at first in the British charts with "Ma! He's Making Eyes at Me" in 1957. 

        10. Margot's Minuet

Bill Haley--Frank Sinatra--Rosa Ponselli & Giovanni Martinelli--Robert Earl--Liberace--Tex Ritter

Its High Noon In The Purple Castle With The Saints Rocking as Mr Green's Aida gives Her True Blessings More Love Under An Umbrella !

1. The Saints Rock'n Roll......Bill Haley

2. Rock......Bill Haley

3. Mean To Me......Frank Sinatra

4. It All Came True.....Frank Sinatra

5. O Terra Addio ( Farewell O Earth) 1......Rosa Ponselle & Giovanni Martinelli

6. O Terra Addio ( Farewell O Earth) 2......Rosa Ponselle & Giovanni Martinelli

7. More......Robert Earl

8. Your Home Can Be A Castle......Robert Earl

9. Deep Purple......Liberace

10. We All Need Love......Liberace

11. High Noon......Tex Ritter

12. There Shall Be Showers Of Blessings

William John Clifton Haley ( July 6, 1925 – February 9, 1981) was a pioneering American rock and roll musician. He is credited by many with first popularizing this form of music in the early 1950s with his group Bill Haley & His Comets and million-selling hits such as "Rock Around the Clock", "See You Later, Alligator", "Shake, Rattle and Roll", "Rocket 88", "Skinny Minnie", and "Razzle Dazzle". His recordings have sold over 60 million records worldwide.

In 1954, Haley recorded "Rock Around the Clock". Initially, it was relatively successful, peaking at number 23 on the Billboard pop singles chart and staying on the charts for a few weeks. On re-release, the record reached #1 on July 9, 1955.

When "Rock Around the Clock" appeared as the theme song of the 1955 film Blackboard Jungle starring Glenn Ford, it soared to the top of the American Billboard chart for eight weeks. The single is commonly used as a convenient line of demarcation between the "rock era" and the music industry that preceded it. 

Robert Earl (born Monty Leigh, 17 November 1926) was an English singer of traditional pop music in the United Kingdom in the 1950s and 1960s, whose style was operatic, like fellow crooners David Whitfield, David Hughes and Edmund Hockridge. He is the father of the businessman Robert Earl.

He began his singing career at local functions around London's East End, and soon progressed to singing with some of the top big bands of the day such as those of Sidney Lipton, Nat Temple and Van Straten. In 1953, he auditioned for Norman Newell of Philips Records and was offered a recording contract.He enjoyed three chart hits during this period, while signed to Philips: "I May Never Pass This Way Again" (#14) and "More Than Ever" ("Come prima") (#26) in 1958 and "The Wonderful Secret of Love" (#17) in 1959.

Rosa Melba Ponzillo, known as Rosa Ponselle (January 22, 1897 – May 25, 1981) was an American operatic soprano.She sang mainly at the New York Metropolitan Opera and is generally considered to have been one of the greatest sopranos of the 20th Century.

Giovanni Martinelli (22 October 1885 – 2 February 1969) was an Italian operatic tenor. He was associated with the Italian lyric-dramatic repertory, although he performed French operatic roles to great acclaim as well. Martinelli was one of the most famous tenors of the 20th century, enjoying a long career at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City and appearing at other major international theatres.

Władziu Valentino Liberace (May 16, 1919 – February 4, 1987) was an American pianist, singer, and actor. A child prodigy born in Wisconsin to parents of Italian and Polish origin, Liberace enjoyed a career spanning four decades of concerts, recordings, television, motion pictures, and endorsements. At the height of his fame from the 1950s to 1970s, Liberace was the highest-paid entertainer in the world with established concert residencies in Las Vegas and an international touring schedule. Liberace embraced a lifestyle of flamboyant excess both on and off stage, earning the nickname "Mr. Showmanship".

Between 1942 and 1944, Liberace moved away from straight classical performance and reinvented his act to one featuring "pop with a bit of classics" or as he also called it "classical music with the boring parts left out". In 1943, he began to appear in Soundies (the 1940s precursor to music videos). He recreated two flashy numbers from his nightclub act, the standards "Tiger Rag" and "Twelfth Street Rag". In these films, he was billed as Walter Liberace.

From 1947 to 1951, he recorded 10 discs. By 1954, it jumped to nearly 70. He released several recordings through Columbia Records including Liberace by Candlelight (later on Dot and through direct television advertising) and sold over 400,000 albums by 1954. His most popular single was "Ave Maria", selling over 300,000 copies.

His albums included pop standards of the time, such as "Hello, Dolly!", and also included his interpretations of the classical piano repertoire such as Chopin and Liszt, although many fans of classical music widely criticized them (as well as Liberace's skills as a pianist in general) for being "pure fluff with minimal musicianship". In his life, he received six gold records.

In 1956, Liberace had his first international engagement, playing successfully in Havana, Cuba. He followed up with a European tour later that year.... In 1960, Liberace performed at the London Palladium with Nat King Cole and Sammy Davis, Jr. (this was the first televised "command performance", now known as the Royal Variety Performance, for Queen Elizabeth II).

        11. High Noon

Jimmy Young--Eddie Calvert--Cavan O'Connor--Frank Sinatra--Slim Whitman--The King Brothers

 With Mandy On The Haunted Island Looking At The Silvery Moon With That Melody & Rockin' Playing We Say Goodnight (Eventually) ! And Goodbye To The Gal That Got Away !!

1. Unchained Melody......Jimmy Young

2. Help Me Forget......Jimmy Young

3. Mandy......Eddie Calvert

4. Never Say Goodbye

5. Good Night......Cavan O'Conner

6. Little Town In The Ould Country.....Cavan O'Conner

7. Someone to Watch Over Me......Frank Sinatra

8. The Gal That Got Away......Frank Sinatra

9. Roll On Silvery Moon......Slim Whitman

10. Haunted Hungry Heart.....Slim Whitman

11. In The Middle Of An Island......The King Brothers

12. Rocking Shoes......The King Brothers

Albert Edward "Eddie" Calvert (15 March 1922 – 7 August 1978 was an English trumpeter, who enjoyed his greatest success in the 1950s. Between 1953 and 1958, Calvert achieved seven instrumental hits on the UK Singles Chart including two chart-toppers, "Oh, Mein Papa" in 1953 and "Cherry Pink (and Apple Blossom White)" in 1955.

Clarence Patrick O'Connor (1 July 1899 – 11 January 1997), known professionally as Cavan O'Connor, was a British singer of Irish heritage who was most popular in the 1930s and 1940s, when he was billed as "The Singing Vagabond" or "The Vagabond Lover".

 He made his first recordings, as Cavan O'Connor, for the Vocalion label in 1925, including "I'm Only a Strolling Vagabond" from the operetta The Cousin from Nowhere, which became his signature song. Noted for his fine tenor voice, well suited for recording, he appeared on many dance band recordings in the 1920s and 1930s, and used a wide variety of pseudonyms, including Harry Carlton, Terence O'Brien, and Allan O'Sullivan. He recorded frequently for at least 15 record labels over his career, including Decca Records, at one point recording 40 songs in five days. He made over 800 recordings in total, both under his own name and pseudonyms.

The King Brothers were a British pop vocal trio popular in the late 1950s and early 1960s. They are best remembered for their cover versions of "Standing on the Corner" and "A White Sport Coat (And A Pink Carnation)".The group was composed of three brothers who first performed together professionally on the TV show Shop Window in 1952. Initially performing as The King Three, they appeared on the BBC Television early in their career on Six-Five Special, and by 1957 had been named "top vocal group" in the reader's poll of NME. Their first hit on the UK Singles Chart was their cover of "A White Sport Coat", which hit #6 in 1957.They had a string of successful singles through 1961, after which time they continued recording but found their popularity waning.

      11. In The Middle Of An Island

Jimmie Rodgers--The Dream Weavers--Frank Sinatra--The Four Lads--Peter Sellers--John McCormack

 Wondering at the bus stop if kisses with wine is better than the hard stuff or will two bright eyes  say goodbye to tomorrow !

1. Kisses Sweeter Than Wine......Jimmie Rodgers

2. Better Loved You'll Never Be......Jimmie Rodgers

3. It's Almost Tomorrow......The Dream Weavers

4. You've Got Me Wondering.......The Dream Weavers

5. We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye......Frank Sinatra

6. If I Only Had A Match.......Frank Sinatra

7. The Bus Stop Song......The Four Lads

8. A House With Love In It......The Four Lads

9. A Drop Of The Hard Stuff......Peter Sellers

10. I'm So Ashamed......Peter Sellers

11. I Know Of Two Bright Eyes......John McCormack

12. As I Sit Here......John McCormack

James Frederick Rodgers (September 18, 1933 – January 18, 2021) was an American singer and actor. Rodgers had a run of hits and mainstream popularity in the 1950s and 1960s. His string of crossover singles ranked highly on the Billboard Pop Singles, Hot Country and Western Sides, and Hot Rhythm and Blues Sides charts; in the 1960s, Rodgers had more modest successes with adult contemporary music.In the summer of 1957, he recorded his own version of "Honeycomb", which had been written by Bob Merrill and recorded by Georgie Shaw three years earlier. The tune was Rodgers' biggest hit, staying on the top of the charts for four weeks. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc by the RIAA. Over the following year he had a number of other hits that reached the Top 10 on the charts: "Kisses Sweeter than Wine", "Oh-Oh, I'm Falling in Love Again", "Secretly", and "Are You Really Mine". Other hits include "Bo Diddley", "Bimbombey", "Ring-a-ling-a-lario", "Tucumcari", "Tender Love and Care. 

n the United Kingdom, "Honeycomb" reached number 30 in the UK Singles Chart in November 1957, but "Kisses Sweeter than Wine" climbed to number 7 the following month. Both "Kisses Sweeter than Wine" and "Oh-Oh, I'm Falling in Love Again" were million sellers.

The Dream Weavers was an American popular music, vocal group, famous in the 1950s, formed at the University of Florida by Gene Adkinson (baritone and ukulele) and Wade Buff (lead vocals).

they were given a twice-weekly half-hour program slot, radio station, WRUF in 1955. With the program ending at 10:30pm, they felt it appropriate to sign off with a song they had composed in high school in 1953, "It's Almost Tomorrow"  Buff served as the lead singer, and the third part was sung by various female singers. It was released by Brunswick Records in the United Kingdom, where it hit the chart on February 10, 1956 and reached number one on March 16, holding the top spot for 2 weeks, before being displaced by "The Rock And Roll Waltz" by Kay Starr, only to return the following week for a further one week stay at the top. In total the song was in the UK charts for 18 weeks. However, it was the only chart appearance by the group in the UK, thus condemning The Dream Weavers to the one hit wonder tag.

The Four Lads is a Canadian male singing quartet. In the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, the group earned many gold singles and albums. Its million-selling signature tunes include "Moments to Remember," "Standing on the Corner," "No, Not Much," "Who Needs You?" and "Istanbul."

In 1953, they made their own first gold record, "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)", which launched them to stardom and kept them busy throughout the 1950s and 1960s in the U.S. and Canada.

Peter Sellers CBE (born Richard Henry Sellers; 8 September 1925 – 24 July 1980) was an English film actor, comedian and singer. He performed in the BBC Radio comedy series The Goon Show, featured on a number of hit comic songs and became known to a worldwide audience through his many film roles, among them Chief Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther series of films.

        1. Kisses Sweeter Than Wine

Gracie Fields--Ron Goodwin & Orch--Paul Anka--Chas McDevitt Skiffle Group With Nancy Whiskey--Ray Martin & Orch--Frank Sinatra

 All aboard the freight train with the lazy cowboy and the bugle boy in their red cloaks with a bluebird and a baby with buttons and bows in elizabethan style !!...ooops' mind the jealous lover !!

1. Buttons And Bows......Gracie Fields

2. Bluebird Of Happiness.....Gracie Fields

3. Elizabethan Serenade......Ron Goodwin & His Orchestra

4. Red Cloak......Ron Goodwin & His Orcestra

5. I Love You Baby......Paul Anka

6. Tell Me That You Love Me......Paul Anka

7. Freight Train......Chas McDevitt Skiffle Group With Nancy Whiskey

8. The Cotton Song......Chas McDevitt Skiffle Group

9. The Waltzing Bugle Boy......Ray Martin & His Orchestra

10. Lazy Cowboy......Ray Martin & His Orchestra

11. Hey Jealous Lover......Frank Sinatra

12. Johnny Concho Theme......Frank Sinatra

Dame Gracie Fields DBE OStJ (born Grace Stansfield; 9 January 1898 – 27 September 1979) was a British actress, singer, comedian and star of cinema and music hall who was one of the top ten film stars in Britain during the 1930s and the highest paid film star in the world in 1937. She was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) and an Officer of the Venerable Order of St John (OStJ) in 1938, and a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 1979.

Fields' most famous song, "Sally", which became her theme, was worked into the title of her first film, Sally in Our Alley (1931), a major box office hit. She went on to make a number of films, initially in Britain and later in the United States (when she was paid a record fee of £200,000 for four films). 

Ronald Alfred Goodwin (17 February 1925 – 8 January 2003) was an English composer and conductor known for his film music. He scored over 70 films in a career lasting over fifty years. His most famous works included Where Eagles Dare, Battle of Britain, 633 Squadron, Margaret Rutherford's Miss Marple films, and Frenzy. 

Paul Albert Anka OC (born July 30, 1941) is a Canadian-American singer, songwriter, and actor. Anka became famous with hit songs like "Diana", "Lonely Boy", "Put Your Head on My Shoulder", and "(You're) Having My Baby". He wrote such well-known music as the theme for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and one of Tom Jones' biggest hits "She's a Lady". He also wrote the English lyrics to Claude François and Jacques Revaux's music for Frank Sinatra's signature song, "My Way", which has been recorded by many, including Elvis Presley. Two songs he co-wrote with Michael Jackson, "This Is It" (originally titled "I Never Heard")and "Love Never Felt So Good", became posthumous hits for Jackson.

Ray Martin (Raymond Stuart Martin; born Kurt Kohn and later anglicised his name) (11 October 1918 – 7 February 1988) was an Austrian-British orchestra leader. He was noted for his light music compositions.He became the conductor of the BBC Northern Variety Orchestra and also worked for EMI as a record producer and arranger. In this period he wrote many scores for TV and movies, including the score to the acclaimed Diana Dors film Yield to the Night in 1956...Also his original composition of "Marching Strings" have become stables of many public and city bands and orchestras since its release".

       9. The Waltzing Bugle Boy

Anne Shelton--Spike Jones--Jimmy Boyd--Eartha Kitt

Still horizontal marching with a glass of beer !

1. A Man On The March......Anne Shelton

2. Give Her My Love......Anne Shelton

3. Clink Clink Another Drink......Spike Jones & His City Slickers

4. Hotcha Cornia (Black Eyes)......Spike Jones & His City Slickers

5. I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus......Jimmy Boyd

6. Little Train a Chugging In My Heart......Jimmy Boyd

7. My Hearts Delight......Eartha Kitt

8. The Heel......Eartha Kitt

Anne Shelton OBE (born Patricia Jacqueline Sibley, 10 November 1923 – 31 July 1994)was a popular English vocalist, who is remembered for providing inspirational songs for soldiers both on radio broadcasts, and in person, at British military bases during the Second World War. Shelton was also the original British singer of the Lale Andersen German love-song "Lili Marlene".She began singing at age 12 on the radio show "Monday Night at Eight". By age 15 she had a recording contract.

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 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.

Jimmy Devon Boyd (January 9, 1939 – March 7, 2009) was an American singer, musician, and actor known for his recording of the song "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus".Boyd recorded the song "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" for Columbia Records in 1952, when he was 13 years old. It became a hit, selling over two and a half million records in its first week's release and Boyd's name became known internationally. Boyd was presented with two gold records. Boyd's record went to number one on the charts again the following year at Christmas, and continues to sell as a Christmas song. Collective disc sales by 1966 amounted to over 11 million copies.Boyd recorded several more hit records: teaming up at age 14, with Frankie Laine in 1953 on "Tell Me a Story" (written by Terry Gilkyson), which reached #4, and "The Little Boy And The Old Man" (#24), and with Rosemary Clooney that summer on "Dennis the Menace," which reached #25.

Eartha Kitt (born Eartha Mae Keith; January 17, 1927 – December 25, 2008) was an American singer, actress, comedienne, dancer, known for her highly distinctive singing style and her 1953 recordings of "C'est si bon" and the Christmas novelty song "Santa Baby", both of which reached the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. Orson Welles once called her the "most exciting woman in the world".

       2. Give Her My Love

Felicia Sanders--Jimmy Young--Frankie Laine--Frank Sinatra

Vertical once again !..but go steady but we have double wind with Joe looking at the blue star.. if it was the moon instead of the sun we could have the three wishes !

1. Blue Star......Felicia Sanders

2. My Loves A Gentle Man....Felicia Sanders

3. The Wayward Wind......Jimmy Young

4. Rich Man Poor Man......Jimmy Young

5. Hey Joe......Frankie Laine

6. Sittin' In The Sun......Frankie Laine

7. Learning The Blues......Frank Sinatra

8. If I Had Three Wishes......Frank Sinatra

Felicia Sanders (born Felice Schwartz; c. 1922 – February 7, 1975) was a singer and musician of traditional pop music.In 1950 she was singing in a nightclub in Hollywood, Café Gala. She was heard there by Benny Carter, who thought enough of her talent to recommend her to Mitch Miller, Columbia Records' artist and repertory director. She was picked in 1953 by Percy Faith, Columbia's biggest orchestra leader, to sing vocals on a song he was recording, taken from the film Moulin Rouge—a biographical film about Toulouse-Lautrec."The Song from Moulin Rouge" was recorded on January 22, 1953, as the B-side of a recording of "Swedish Rhapsody". It was Sanders' second record, and it was released by Columbia with the credits shown as "Percy Faith and his Orchestra featuring Felicia Sanders." 

Miller kept finding other songs to have her sing, but only one other scored among the Top 30: "Blue Star", based on the theme from a well-known television series, Medic.

      1. Blue Star

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

Michael Holiday--Royal Brass Band--London Philharmonic Orch--Morgan & Hadley

A story to be told ! by a kindly light with Orpheus with a banjo on his knee

1. The Story Of My Life......Michael Holiday

2. Keep Your Heart......Michael Holiday

3. Nearer My God To Thee......Royal Brass Band

4. Lead Kindly Light......Royal Brass Band

5. Orpheus In The Underworld Overture Part 1......London Philharmonic Orch

6. Orpheus In The Underworld Overture Part 2......London Philharmonic Orch

7. Banjo Hit Medley Part 1......Banjo Duets by Morgan & Hadley

8. Banjo Hit Medley Part 2......Banjo Duets By Morgan & Hadley

Norman Alexander Milne, known professionally as Michael Holliday (26 November 1924 – 29 October 1963) was a British singer, who was popular in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He had a number of chart hits in the UK, including two number one singles, "The Story of My Life" and "Starry Eyed".Holliday's style of singing was influenced by Bing Crosby, who was his idol. The style earned him the title of "the British Bing Crosby". A biography entitled The Man Who Would Be Bing, written by Ken Crossland, was published in 2004.

     1. The Story Of My Life

Red Ingle--Frank Sinatra--Slim Whitman--Steve Race--Gisele Mackenzie--Johnny Ray

 An all Black Label horizontal 12.. But !!.. I believe there's a Blue Band at the end !

1. Temptation......Red Ingle & The Natural Seven

2. Moe Zarts Turkey Trot......Red Ingle & The Natural Seven

3. Time After Time......Frank Sinatra

4. It's The Same Old Dream......Frank Sinatra

5. Danny Boy.......Slim Whitman

6. There's A Rainbow In Every Teardrop......Slim Whitman

7. Dizzy Fingers.......Steve Race

8. Pernambuco......Steve Race

9. Till They've All Gone Home.......Gisele Mackenzie

10. I'd Rather Die Young......Gisele Mackenzie

11. If You Believe......Johnny Ray

12. Alexanders Ragtime Band.......Johnny Ray

Ottis Dewey Whitman Jr. (January 20, 1923 – June 19, 2013), professionally known by the stage name Slim Whitman, was an American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist known for his yodeling abilities and his smooth, high, three-octave-range falsetto in a style christened as "countrypolitan". He personally stated that he had sold in excess of 120 million records, although the recorded sales figures give 70 million, during a career that spanned over seven decades, and consisted of a prolific output of over 100 albums and around 500 recorded songs, that not only consisted of country music, but also of contemporary gospel, Broadway show tunes, love songs and standards. In the 1950s, Whitman toured with Elvis Presley as the opening act. In the 1990s and 2000s a new generation was exposed to Whitman through his songs featured in the film Mars Attacks!; his famed "Indian Love Call" would kill the invading Martians every time the record was played and his rendition of "I Remember You" was heard in Rob Zombie's House of 1000

 Corpses.

Stephen Russell "Steve" Race OBE (1 April 1921 – 22 June 2009) was a British composer, pianist and radio and television presenter.

 In, 1949 The Steve Race Bop Group recorded some of the first British bebop records for the Paxton label. These included four sides with Leon Calvert, Johnny Dankworth, Peter Chilver, Norman Burns (drums), Jack Fulton (bass) and Race on piano, and four more (with the addition of saxophonist Freddy Gardner) as the Bosworth Modern Jazz Group on the Bosworth label. He also developed a sideline arranging player piano rolls for the Artona company.

From the 1950s to the 1980s, he presented numerous music programmes on radio and television.

      2. Moe Zarts Turkey Trot

Deanna Durbin--Mitchell Toruk--Tex Ritter--Frank Sinatra

 We are now on a journey with the oldies and the younger set on the river to Mexico dancing the Rhumba ! ending up in London with everybody clutching a bunch of Lilacs in their hands !

1. Its Foolish But Its Fun......Deanna Durbin

2. Old Folks At Home ( Swanee River)......Deanna Durbin

3. When Mexico Gave Up The Rhumba......Mitchell Toruk

4. I Wish I Was A Little Bit Younger......Mitchell Toruk

5. Green Grow The Lilacs......Tex Ritter

6. The Touch Of The Masters Hands......Tex Ritter

7. If She Only Looked My Way......Frank Sinatra

8. London By Night......Frank Sinatra

Edna Mae Durbin (December 4, 1921 – April 17, 2013), known professionally as Deanna Durbin, was a Canadian-born actress and singer, who later settled in France. She appeared in musical films in the 1930s and 1940s. With the technical skill and vocal range of a legitimate lyric soprano, she performed many styles from popular standards to operatic arias.

Durbin was a child actress who made her first film appearance with Judy Garland in Every Sunday (1936), and subsequently signed a contract with Universal Studios. Her success as the ideal teenaged daughter in films such as Three Smart Girls (1936) was credited with saving the studio from bankruptcy. In 1938, at the age of 17, Durbin was awarded the Academy Juvenile Award.Durbin retired from acting and singing in 1949, and withdrew from public life, granting only one interview for the remainder of her life, in 1983. She married film producer-director Charles Henri David in 1950, and the couple moved to a farmhouse near Paris.

Mitchell Torok (born October 28, 1929) is an American country music singer, songwriter, artist, author and guitarist, best known for his 1953 hit "Caribbean". He also wrote "Mexican Joe", which catapulted Jim Reeves to stardom. They began to write together and charted many top 20 hits.

Woodward Maurice "Tex" Ritter (January 12, 1905 – January 2, 1974) was an American country music singer and actor popular from the mid 1930s into the 1960s, and the patriarch of the Ritter acting family (son John, grandsons Jason and Tyler, and granddaughter Carly). He is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.Ritter's recording career was his most successful period. He was the first artist signed with the newly formed Capitol Records.

In 1952 Ritter recorded "The Ballad of High Noon" for the film High Noon. He performed the track at the first televised Academy Awards ceremony in 1953, and it received an Oscar for Best Song that year

      3. When Mexico Gave Up The Rhumba

John McHugh--Vic Damone--Bing Crosby & Louis Armstrong--Suzi Miller

A walk in the forest in the cool of the evening leads to the Jazz Calypso complete with Banjo's !

1. Trees......John McHugh

2. Mother Mchree......John McHugh

3. My Truly Truly Fair......Vic Damone

4. In The Cool Cool Of The Evening......Vic Damone

5. High Society Calypso......Louis Armstrong

6. Now You Has Jazz......Bing Crosby & Louis Armstrong

7. The Banjo's Back In Town......Suzi Miller

8. Go On By......Suzi Miller

John McHugh (23 July 1911 – June 2004 was a British tenor best known for his singing of ballads and songs.

Vic Damone (born Vito Rocco Farinola; June 12, 1928 – February 11, 2018) was an American traditional pop and big band singer, actor, radio and television presenter, and entertainer. He was best known for his performances of songs such as the number one hit "You're Breaking My Heart", and other hits like "On the Street Where You Live" (from My Fair Lady) and "I Have But One Heart".In 1951, Damone appeared in two movies, The Strip, where he played himself, and Rich, Young and Pretty.  In 1954 and made two movies, Deep in My Heart and Athena. In 1955 he played the Caliph in Kismet. In 1960, he played an effective dramatic role in the war film Hell to Eternity.

High Society is a 1956 American romantic musical comedy film directed by Charles Walters and starring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly and Frank Sinatra, with a musical contribution by Louis Armstrong.When Bing Crosby sang "Now You Has Jazz", he uttered the Porter lyric "rock and roll", and it very well might have been the first time that phrase was uttered on film. It would have been ironic coming from Crosby since rock and roll would very soon eclipse the jazz and swing of Crosby, Sinatra, and Armstrong. As name-checked by Crosby in the song "Now You Has Jazz", where each musician takes a small solo, Armstrong's band includes: Edmond Hall (clarinet), Trummy Young (trombone), Billy Kyle (piano), Arvell Shaw (bass), and Barrett Deems (drums)

      6. Now You Have Jazz