Nat King Cole-Frank Sinatra-Marty Wilde-Georges Ulmer-David Ross-Diana Decker

 Two vocal legends a 50's / 60's  rock star a French guy and a 'Woolworth' fav with Diana singing in the Fruit Orchard at Sunset !

1. My Personal Possession......Nat King Cole

2. Send For Me......Nat King Cole

3. The Charm Of You......Frank Sinatra

4. What Makes The Sunset......Frank Sinatra

5. Endless Sleep.......Marty Wilde

6. Her Hair Was Yellow......Marty Wilde

7. Pigalle--Valse Chantee......Georges Ulmer

8. C'est Loin Tout Ca......Georges Ulmer

9. Butterfly......David Ross

10. They Call It A Teenage Crush......David Ross

11. Paper Valentine......Diana Decker

12. Apples Peaches And Cherries

Marty Wilde, MBE (born Reginald Leonard Smith; 15 April 1939) is an English singer and songwriter. He was among the first generation of British pop stars to emulate American rock and roll, scoring several 1950s hit singles including "Endless Sleep", "Sea of Love" and "Bad Boy". During the 1960s and 1970s, Wilde continued to record and, with Ronnie Scott, co-wrote hit singles for others including the Casuals' "Jesamine" and Status Quo's "Ice in the Sun". He is the father of pop singer Kim Wilde and co-wrote many of her hit singles including "Kids in America" with his son Ricky. He continues to perform and record.

Georges Ulmer (1919–1989) was a Danish-born composer, librettist, and actor who became a naturalized French citizen. He was born Jørgen Frederik Ulmer on 16 February 1919 in Copenhagen, Denmark, and died on 29 September 1989 at Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. He was the father of singer Laura Ulmer.

However, it was in France that he quickly found a permanent place in the musical firmament with his immortal cliché of Parisian tourism, Pigalle, which he co-wrote in 1944 with the lyricist, Géo Koger, and composed with Guy Luypaerts. Other than his own interpretation, the song was also covered by Jean Sablon, Charles Dumont, Franck Pourcel, Paul Anka, Bing Crosby, Petula Clark, Silvio Berlusconi, and many others.

Diana Decker (born Isabella Charlotte Diana Decker, 9 January 1925 – 4 January 2019), was a British/American actress, singer, and television personality, who was popular from the 1940s to the early 1960s.In 1953, Decker appeared in the British television comedy series Before Your Very Eyes!, starring Arthur Askey, and also chaired some editions of the television quiz Film Fanfare during the 1950s. She continued to act in films, including A Yank in Ermine (1955) and The Betrayal (1957), and featured in several episodes of the television drama series The Vise.

Decker also had a recording career. Her recording of "Poppa Piccolino", a version of the Italian song "Papaveri e papere" by Vittorio Mascheroni, with English words by Robert Musel, reached no.2 on the UK singles chart. However, a string of subsequent singles up to 1956 failed to chart.

          2. Send For Me

Jimmy Parkinson--Laurie Payne--Peter Graves & Pamela Charles--Doris Day--Alma Cogan--John Hanson & Doreen Hume--Spike Jones

 '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 Graves

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

Vic Damone--The Hilltoppers--Stubby Kaye--Slim Whitman--Frank Sinatra--Caterina Valente

  This selection contains my all time favourite singer and song !!....Can't get enough of the wind !!..in 78.45. 33 and Mp3 !!

1. Eternally...... Vic Damone

2. Simonetta...... Vic Damone

3. Only You......The Hilltoppers

4. Untill The Real Thing Comes Along......The Hiltoppers

5. The More You Laugh......Stubby Kaye

6. Cheers......Stubby Kaye

7. Rose Marie......Slim Whitman

8. We Stood At The Altar......Slim Whitman

9. S'posin......Frank Sinatra

10. How Deep is The Ocean......Frank Sinatra

11. The Breeze And I......Caterina Valente

12. Jealousy......Caterina Valente

Bernard Solomon Kotzin (November 11, 1918 – December 14, 1997), known as Stubby Kaye, was an American actor, comedian, vaudevillian, and singer, known for his appearances on Broadway and in film musicals.Kaye originated the roles of Nicely Nicely Johnson in Guys and Dolls and Marryin' Sam in Li'l Abner, introducing two show-stopping numbers of the era: "Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat" and "Jubilation T. Cornpone." He reprised these roles in the movie versions of the two shows. Other well-known roles include Herman in Bob Fosse's Sweet Charity, Sam the Shade in Cat Ballou, and Marvin Acme in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

Caterina Valente (born 14 January 1931) is a French-Italian multilingual singer, guitarist, dancer, and actress. Valente is a polyglot; she speaks six languages, and sings in eleven. While she is best known as a European performer, Valente also spent part of her career in the United States, where she performed alongside Bing Crosby, Dean Martin, Perry Como, and Ella Fitzgerald, among others.

Over the years, she has recorded or performed with many international stars, including Louis Armstrong, Chet Baker, Perry Como, Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Goodman, Woody Herman, Claus Ogerman, the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, Sy Oliver, Buddy Rich and Edmundo Ros.

In the twentieth century she was the typical example of a cosmopolitan artist: born in Paris to Italian parents, married firstly to a German and second to an Englishman, international awards, audience on every continent, more than 1 500 pieces of music recorded in twelve different languages (for this reason it enters the Guinness Book of Records) of which at least six are spoken fluently, and more than 18 million records sold all over the globe.

1954 is also the year of her first record, Istanbul, recorded for the Brunswick label with Kurt Edelhagen's orchestra. The same director will take her to the second edition of the Frankfurt Jazz Festival and in 1955 to the Salon du Jazz in Paris, where she began to be talked about in the press, and where some journalists hailed her as a real revelation. The first recording successes date back to 1954 when Caterina signed a contract with Polydor Records.

The first single is O mama o mama o mamajo, followed by Malagueña and The breeze and I, composed by the famous Cuban musician Ernesto Lecuona and arranged by Werner Müller. His version of Malagueña, although sung in German, managed to reach the US charts and seventh position in Flanders in Belgium as well as The breeze and I (sung in English) which remained there for 14 weeks. In 1956 she recorded the single Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye with Chet Baker and received the first gold record for four million single records sold.

          11. The Breeze And I

          12. Jealousy

David Whitfield--Jimmy Shand--Frank Sinatra--Lawrence Tibbett--Dean Martin--Bernard Bresslaw

Two Black Capitol's two purple one's Two Red HMV's and two Blue one's PLUS a Decca And a Parlophone !!!...makes for an interesting diverse selection !!

1. Cara Mia......David Whitfield

2. Love Tears And Kisses......David Whitfield

3. The Gay Gordons.....Jimmy Shand And His Band

4. Rouken Glen.....Jimmy Shand And His Band

5. Witchcraft......Frank Sinatra

6. Tell Her You Love Her.......Frank Sinatra

7. Without A Song......Lawrence Tibbett

8. Life Is A Dream......Lawrence Tibbitt

9. I'm Gonna Paper All My Walls With Your Love Letters......Dean Martin

10. I'll Always Love You......Dean Martin

11. Mad Passionate Love......Bernard Bresslaw

12. You Need Feet......Bernard Bresslaw

David Whitfield (2 February 1925 – 15 January 1980) was a popular British male tenor vocalist from Hull. He became the first British artist to have a UK No.1 single in the UK and in the United States with "Cara Mia", featuring Mantovani and his orchestra. He died from a brain haemorrhage in Sydney, Australia, while on tour at the age of 54.

His first recording to reach the Top 10 of the UK Singles Chart in October 1953 was "Bridge of Sighs", written by Billy Reid. "Answer Me" (later recorded with different lyrics as "Answer Me, My Love") reached number one in the UK. Both versions have appeared on CD.

Whitfield had other hits in the 1950s, and was the most successful British male singer in America during that period. In addition, he was the first British male vocalist to earn a gold disc. He was also the first to reach the Top Ten of the Billboard Top 100, and the first artist from Britain to sell over a million copies of a record in the US.

Sir James Shand MBE (28 January 1908 – 23 December 2000) was a Scottish musician who played traditional Scottish dance music on the accordion. His signature tune was "The Bluebell Polka".

He failed an audition for the BBC because he kept time with his foot. At a time when gramophones were very much luxury items he made two records for the Regal Zonophone label in 1933. His career took off when he switched to making 78s for the Beltona label (1935–1940). Most of the Beltona recordings were solo, but he experimented with small bands. This boosted sales. On New Year's Day morning in 1945 he made his first broadcast with "Jimmy Shand and his Band". This was the first of many such BBC radio and television appearances.

Soon after the war he became a full-time musician, and adopted a punishing life-style,He would play Inverness one night, London the next night and still drive the van back to bed in Dundee. He took his trademark bald head, Buddy Holly spectacles and full kilted regalia, Scottish reels, jigs and strathspeys to Australia, New Zealand and North America, including Carnegie Hall in New York .His only top 20 hit in the UK Singles Chart – "The Bluebell Polka" (1955). It was produced by George Martin. He was awarded an MBE in 1962.

Bernard Bresslaw (25 February 1934 – 11 June 1993) was an English comic actor, best remembered as a member of the Carry On film franchise team, but also worked on television and stage, did recordings and wrote a series of poetry.

Bresslaw's catchphrase, in his strong Cockney accent, was "I only arsked" , first used in The Army Game, and later revived in Carry On Camping (1969). 

His song "You Need Feet" (a parody of "You Need Hands" by Max Bygraves) was used in the Rutles' TV special, accompanying the Yoko Ono film parody "A Thousand Feet of Film". This was cut from the syndicated version and the original DVD release, but was restored (along with other cut footage) in later DVD releases.

          11. Mad Passionate Love

The Kaye Sisters--Lawrence Tibbett--Vera Lynn--Frank Sinatra--Eddie Fisher--Arthur Godfrey

 Family is the name of the Game ! Father, Son, with Boy walking behind Alone !

1. Alone......The Kaye Sisters

2. Shake Me I Rattle......The Kaye Sisters

3. None But The Lonely Heart......Lawrence Tibbett

4. Myself When Young......Lawrence Tibbett

5. My Son My Son......Vera Lynn

6. Our Heaven On Earth......Vera Lynn

7. That Old Feeling......Frank Sinatra

8. Nature Boy......Frank Sinatra

9. I'm Walking Behind You......Eddie Fisher

10. Hold Me......Eddie Fisher

11. If I Had You on A Desert Island......Arthur Godfrey

12. If it Wasn't For You Father......Arthur Godfrey

                                                          Lawrence Tibbett

 

Lawrence Mervil Tibbett (November 16, 1896 – July 15, 1960) was an American opera singer and recording artist who also performed as a film actor and radio personality. A baritone, he sang leading roles with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City more than 600 times from 1923 to 1950. He performed diverse musical theatre roles, including Captain Hook in Peter Pan in a touring show.

Tibbett made his first recordings for the Victor Talking Machine Company in 1926. In the early 1930s, Tibbett also appeared in movies.

His first film, The Rogue Song, a 1930 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production with Laurel & Hardy, shot in two-color Technicolor (only a few minutes of footage of the film, as well as the complete soundtrack, is known to survive today). Soon after, he starred in another MGM musical film, New Moon, opposite Grace Moore and The Cuban Love Song (1931), with Lupe Vélez.

Dame Vera Margaret Lynn ( 20 March 1917 – 18 June 2020) was an English singer and entertainer whose musical recordings and performances were very popular during the Second World War. She is honorifically known as the "Forces' Sweetheart", having given outdoor concerts for the troops in Egypt, India and Burma during the war as part of the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA). The songs most associated with her include "We'll Meet Again", "(There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover", "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" and "There'll Always Be an England".She remained popular after the war, appearing on radio and television in the United Kingdom and the United States, and recording such hits as "Auf Wiederseh'n, Sweetheart" and her UK number-one single "My Son, My Son". 

 In 2009, at the age of 92, she became the oldest living artist to top the UK Albums Chart with the compilation album We'll Meet Again: The Very Best of Vera Lynn. In 2014, she released the collection Vera Lynn: National Treasure and in 2017, she released Vera Lynn 100, a compilation album of hits to commemorate her centenary—it was a No. 3 hit, making her the first centenarian performer to have a Top 10 album in the charts.

Edwin Jack Fisher (August 10, 1928 – September 22, 2010) was an American singer and actor. He was one of the most popular artists during the first half of the 1950s, selling millions of records and hosting his own TV show. Fisher divorced his first wife, actress Debbie Reynolds, to marry Reynolds' best friend, Elizabeth Taylor, after Taylor's husband, film producer Mike Todd, was killed in a plane crash. By 1946, Fisher was crooning with the bands of Buddy Morrow and Charlie Ventura. 

Fisher's good looks and strong and melodious tenor voice made him a teen idol and one of the most popular singers of the early 1950s. He had 17 songs in the Top 10 on the music charts between 1950 and 1956 and 35 in the Top 40. In 1957 he signed a then record $1 million deal with the newly opened Tropicana Las Vegas to appear there a minimum of 4 weeks a year for 5 years.

Arthur Morton Godfrey (August 31, 1903 – March 16, 1983) was an American radio and television broadcaster and entertainer who was sometimes introduced by his nickname The Old Redhead. At the peak of his success, in the early-to-mid 1950s, Godfrey was heard on radio and seen on television up to six days a week, sometimes for as many as nine separate broadcasts for CBS. His programs included Arthur Godfrey Time (Monday-Friday mornings on radio and television), Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts (Monday evenings on radio and television)

          12. If It Wasn't For Your Father

The Hilltoppers--The King Brothers--Frank Sinatra--Joe Loss--Jack Payne--Tennessee Ernie

 We have the Blues an Echo a Cry and a Light for Miss Otis & Marianne !... time warp alert !!(Rag & Bone Man) circa 2022

1. Marianne......The Hilltoppers

2. Your Wasting Your Time......The Hilltoppers

3. Miss Otis Regrets......The King Brothers

4. The Light In The Window......The King Brothers

5. Love And Marriage......Frank Sinatra

6. Look To Your Heart.....Frank Sinatra

7. Rag Mop......Joe Loss & His Orchestra

8. Dry Bones......Joe Loss & His Orchestra

9. Just An Echo In The Valley......Jack Payne & His Orchestra

10. Ich Liebe Dich......Jack Payne & His Orchestra

11. The Cry Of The Wild Goose......Tennessee Ernie

12. Anticipation Blues......Tennessee

The Hilltoppers were a pop vocal quartet that lit up the hit list in the early 50’s to the tune of 25 charters in five and a half years, but in early 1952 Jimmy Sacca (23, lead), Seymour Spiegelman (21, tenor), and Don McGuire (21, bass) were just three students at Western Kentucky State College.

They sang barbershop harmony at the Goal Posts, the campus candy store and hangout. What turned the barbershop banter into serious singing was Jimmy’s association with a piano player in the Ace Dining band, Billy Vaughn. The college was located in Bowling Green where Ace’s band played, and Jimmy would occasionally sit in.

Joe Loss was the son of Russian immigrants. He proved to be a gifted violinist, learning the instrument at the Hackney Academy of Music. He received scholarships to Trinity College of Music and the London School of Music. He founded his first dance band as a teenager, his first professional steps as a musician he made as a silent film accompaniment in the cinema.

Loss played in various dance orchestras and from 1930 had his first own seven-member group, which played in London's Astoria Ballroom. Three years later, the first radio appearance followed. As a result, the Joe Loss Orchestra became one of the most popular British dance orchestras.

The Joe Loss Orchestra was one of the most successful acts of the big band era in the 1940s, with hits including "In the Mood". In 1961 they had a hit with "Wheels—Cha Cha", a version of the String-A-Longs' hit "Wheels". Other hits included David Rose's "The Stripper" in 1958, "Sucu Sucu", "Must Be Madison", "The Theme from Maigret" and "March of the Mods (The Finnjenka Dance)" of 1964.

John Wesley Vivian "Jack" Payne (22 August 1899 – 4 December 1969) was a British dance music bandleader who established his reputation during the British dance band era of the 1930s.

While serving in the Royal Flying Corps, he played the piano in amateur dance bands. After the RFC became the Royal Air Force towards the end of World War I, Payne led dance bands for the troops. Prior to joining the Royal Air Force, he was part of "The Allies" concert party. This voluntary group performed to wounded soldiers convalescing around Birmingham.

He played with visiting American jazz bands at the Birmingham Palais during the early 1920s, including the Southern Rag-a-Jazz Orchestra in 1922, before moving to London in 1925.

          7. Rag Mop

The Platters--Frank Sinatra--Primo Scala--Marvin Rainwater--Harry Rich--Charlie Gracie.

 A Colourful set of labels hiding some vocals and musical tunes !

1. My Prayer......The Platters

2. Heaven On Earth.....The Platters

3. Jingle Bells.....Frank Sinatra

4. Adeste Fideles......Frank Sinatra

5. Primo Scala Medley No 2 Part 1.....Primo Scala & His Banjo & Accordian Band

6. Primo Scala Medley No 2 Part 2.....Primo Scala & His Banjo & Accordian Band

7. Whole Lotta Woman.....Marvin Rainwater

8. Baby Don't Go.....Marvin Rainwater

9. Are You Listening In Tonight Mother......Harry Rich

10. Perhaps You'll Think Of Me......Harry Rich

11. Wandering Eyes......Charlie Gracie

12. I Love You So Much It Hurts

Primo Scala was a bestseller on Rex Records with his Accordion Band but he did not really exist. The name was a pseudonym for musical director/producer Harry Bidgood (b. 1898, London, England, d. 1955), who recorded much anonymous dance music in the 20s and 30s. He was pianist with De Groot’s salon orchestra at the Piccadilly Hotel, and recorded on HMV Records with its offshoot, the Piccadilly Dance Band. 

After visiting Berlin in 1924, where the band recorded for Vox, Bidgood resigned, going to Vocalion Records as recording manager and musical director. He made records with his house band, releasing them on the various Vocalion labels (Aco, Beltona, Guardsman, Broadcast, Coliseum, etc.) under names such as the Midnight Merrymakers, Riverside Dance Band and Kentucky Revellers. 

 Bidgood built up an all-accordion band for Imperial as Roma’s Accordion Band, whose records were also issued on Eclipse under the name of Don Porto. When he decided Rex too should have some of this music, it was released under the name of Primo Scala’s Accordion Band; then Crystalate discontinued Eclipse Records and introduced Crown, another record label, on which Bidgood/Porto/Scala/Roma became Rossini’s Accordion Band. Though they were all the same band it was Scala on whom Bidgood concentrated his efforts, taking the band on radio and music-hall tours........ Info edited From AllMusic

Marvin Karlton Rainwater (July 2, 1925 – September 17, 2013) was an American country and rockabilly singer and songwriter who had several hits during the late 1950s, including "Gonna Find Me a Bluebird" and "Whole Lotta Woman", which hit #1 on the UK Singles Chart. He was known for wearing Native American-themed outfits on stage and claimed to have quarter-blood Cherokee ancestry.

Charles Anthony Graci (born May 14, 1936, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States), known professionally as Charlie Gracie, is an American rock pioneer and rhythm and blues singer and guitarist.The owner of Cadillac Records, Graham Prince, heard one of Gracie's early radio performances, contacted the young musician and signed him to a recording contract. This association yielded the single "Boogie Woogie Blues" backed with "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter". 

Gracie became only the second American rock and roller to bring this new art form to the British concert stage. His two extensive tours in 1957 and 1958 were topped off by headlining the Palladium and the Hippodrome in London.

In 2019, Gracie toured the UK with Marty Wilde along with Mike Berry, Nancy Ann Lee and the Wildcats.

       11. Wandering Eyes

       

Vic Damone & Ann Blyth--Frank Sinatra--Tennessee Ernie Ford--Sid Phillips & His Band--Jo Stafford & Nelson Eddy--Al Martino.

Hands, heart, feet, crying farewell to the Ball !

 

1. Night Of My Nights......Vic Damone

2. And This Is My Beloved......Vic Damone & Ann Blyth

3. Not As A Stranger......Frank Sinatra

4. How Can You DoA Thing Like That To Me......Frank Sinatra

5. The Ballad Of Davy Crocket......Tennessee Ernie Ford

6. Farewell.....Tennessee Ernie Ford

7. Darktown Strutters Ball......Sid Phillips & His Band

8. Fidgety Feet......Sid Phillips & His Band

9. With These Hands......Jo Stafford & Nelson Eddy

10. Till We Meet Again......Jo Stafford & Nelson Eddy

11. Here In My Heart......Al Martino

12. I Cried Myself To Sleep......Al Martino

Ernest Jennings Ford (February 13, 1919 – October 17, 1991), known professionally as Tennessee Ernie Ford, was an American singer and television host who enjoyed success in the country and Western, pop, and gospel musical genres. Noted for his rich bass-baritone voice and down-home humor, he is remembered for his hit recordings of "The Shotgun Boogie" and "Sixteen Tons".

He released almost 50 country singles through the early 1950s, several of which made the Billboard charts. Many of his early records, including "The Shotgun Boogie" and "Blackberry Boogie", were exciting, driving boogie-woogie records.

Isador Simon "Sid" Phillips (14 June 1907 – 23 May 1973) was an English jazz clarinettist, bandleader, and arranger.

In 1930, Phillips began writing arrangements for Bert Ambrose, and joined Ambrose's ensemble in 1933, remaining there until 1937. Later in the 1930s, Phillips played in the United States on radio and freelance in clubs. He served in the Royal Air Force during World War II, then put together his own quartet in 1946 and wrote several pieces for the BBC Symphony Orchestra. He led a Dixieland jazz band of his own formation from 1949, and his sidemen variously included George Shearing, Colin Bailey, Tommy Whittle, and Kenny Ball.

Phillips's first recordings under his own name were made in 1928, and he continued to record as a leader into the 1970s.

In 1937 through 1938, a number of his recordings were issued in the United States, through a contract he signed with Irving Mills and issued on Mills' Variety label, as well as Vocalion, Brunswick and Columbia labels, most recordings were made in England.

Jo Elizabeth Stafford (November 12, 1917 – July 16, 2008) was an American traditional pop music singer and occasional actress, whose career spanned five decades from the late 1930s to the early 1980s. Admired for the purity of her voice, she originally underwent classical training to become an opera singer before following a career in popular music, and by 1955 had achieved more worldwide record sales than any other female artist. Her 1952 song "You Belong to Me" topped the charts in the United States and United Kingdom, becoming the second single to top the UK Singles Chart, and the first by a female artist to do so.

Al Martino (born Jasper Cini; October 7, 1927 – October 13, 2009) was an American singer and actor. He had his greatest success as a singer between the early 1950s and mid-1970s, being described as "one of the great Italian American pop crooners", and also became known as an actor, particularly for his role as singer Johnny Fontane in The Godfather.

He aspired to become a singer, emulating artists such as Al Jolson and Perry Como, and by the success of a family friend, Alfredo Cocozza, who had changed his name to Mario Lanza.

Cini began his singing career. Encouraged by Lanza, he adopted the stage name Al Martino.

He won a recording contract with the Philadelphia-based independent record label BBS, where he recorded "Here in My Heart". Lanza's label, RCA Victor, had asked Lanza to record the song, but Martino called Lanza and pleaded with him to let Martino's version have a clear chance. The song spent three weeks at No. 1 on the US pop charts in June 1952, earning Martino a gold disc, and later in the year, also reached the top of the UK charts. It was number one in the first UK Singles chart, published by the New Musical Express on November 14, 1952, putting him into the Guinness Book of World Records. "Here in My Heart" remained in the top position for nine weeks in the UK.

       12 I Cried Myself To Sleep

Les Paul & Mary Ford--Frank Sinatra--Ken Griffin--Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers--Foden'sMotor Works Band--Frankie Laine

 Three shades of Columbia with a black Capitol and blue Phillips side by side with Baby !

1. How High The Moon......Les Paul & Mary Ford

2. What Is This Called Love......Les Paul

3. Oh What It Seems To Be......Frank Sinatra

4. Homesick Thats All......Frank Sinatra

5. Side By Side......Ken Griffin

6. Drifting And Dreaming.....Ken Griffin

7. I'n Not A Juvenile Delinquent......Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers

8. Baby Baby......Frankie Lyman & The Teenagers

9. Flying Squad......Foden's Motor Works Band

10. Britain On Parade......Foden's Motor Works Band

11. There Must Be A Reason......Frankie Laine

12. Some Day......Frankie Laine

Les Paul and Mary Ford were a popular 1950s husband-and-wife musical duo who performed and recorded during 1945–1963. They both sang and played guitars.

Ford and Paul were music superstars during the first half of the 1950s, putting out 28 hits for Capitol Records between 1950 and 1957, including "Tiger Rag", "Vaya con Dios" (11 weeks at No. 1), "Mockin' Bird Hill" (top 10), "How High the Moon" (nine weeks at No. 1), "Bye Bye Blues" and "The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise".

Paul and Ford are famous for creating a makeshift recording studio in their garage. In their garage studio, they used multitrack recording to record many of their hits including ‘Lover’, ‘Nola’, ‘Brazil’ and ‘Whispering' with only the two of them.

Franklin Joseph Lymon (September 30, 1942 – February 27, 1968 was an American rock and roll/rhythm and blues singer and songwriter, best known as the boy soprano lead singer of the New York City-based early rock and roll doo wop group The Teenagers. The group was composed of five boys, all in their early to mid-teens. The original lineup of the Teenagers, an integrated group, included three African-American members, Frankie Lymon, Jimmy Merchant, and Sherman Garnes; and two Puerto Rican members, Joe Negroni and Herman Santiago. The Teenagers' first single, 1956's "Why Do Fools Fall in Love", was also their biggest hit. After Lymon went solo in mid-1957, both his career and that of the Teenagers fell into decline. He was found dead at the age of 25 on the floor of his grandmother's bathroom from a heroin overdose. His life was dramatized in the 1998 film Why Do Fools Fall In Love.

               Foden's Motor Works Band (1904)                    (1968/70)

Foden's Band (originally Foden's Motor Works Band, and variants with sponsors' names) is a brass band from Sandbach in Cheshire. The band derives its name from the Foden manufacturer of trucks in Sandbach. Foden's Band are one of the top brass bands in the world; regularly appearing at the top of the "World of Brass – World Rankings" In 2012, Foden's became double winners of both the National Championships and the British Open.

On 9 November 1933, the band appeared in the Lord Mayor's Show in London, billed as the Band of Foden Motor Works.The band has been ordered to play by Royal Command on three occasions: in 1913 for George V and Queen Mary, in 1938 at Windsor Castle for George VI and Queen Elizabeth, and most recently in 1983 where the band had the honour of playing for Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace.

       5. Side By Side

Jimmy Young--Frank Sinatra--The Mills Brothers--The Platters--Michael Holiday--Johnnie Ray

 Sipping chapagne with Irene wondering if a million words would ease an aching heart looking at the blue heaven above for eternity !

1. Eternally......Jimmy Young

2. Is It Any Wonder......Jimmy Young

3. My Blue Heaven......Frank Sinatra

4. Goodnight Irene......Frank Sinatra

5. Oh My Aching Heart......The Mills Brothers

6. What You Don't Know Won't Hurt You.....The Mills Brothers

7. On My Word Of Honor......The Platters

8. One In A Million......The Platters

9. Old Cape Cod......Michael Holiday

10. Love You Darlin'......Michael Holiday

11. Give Me Time......Johnnie Ray

12. The Lady Drinks Champagne.....Johnnie Ray

Sir Leslie Ronald Young CBE, known professionally as Jimmy Young (21 September 1921 – 7 November 2016), was an English singer, disc jockey and radio personality. Early in his career in the 1950s he had two number ones, "Unchained Melody" and "The Man from Laramie", both in 1955, and several other top ten hits in the UK chart, but he became better known for his long-running show on BBC Radio 2, The JY Prog, which ran from 1973 until 2002.

The Mills Brothers, sometimes billed the Four Mills Brothers, and originally known as the Four Kings of Harmony, were an American jazz and traditional pop vocal quartet who made more than 2,000 recordings that sold more than 50 million copies and garnered at least three dozen gold records.

The Mills Brothers were the first African-American artists to have their own show on national network radio (on CBS in 1930); they made appearances in film; and were the first to have a #1 hit on the Billboard singles chart, with "Paper Doll" in 1943. They were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 1998.

The Platters are an American vocal group formed in 1952. They are one of the most successful vocal groups of the early rock and roll era. Their distinctive sound bridges the pre-rock Tin Pan Alley tradition and the new burgeoning genre. The act has gone through multiple line-ups over the years, earning it the branding tag "Many Voices One Name," with the most successful incarnation comprising lead tenor Tony Williams, David Lynch, Paul Robi, founder and naming member Herb Reed, and Zola Taylor. The group had 40 charting singles on the Billboard Hot 100 between 1955 and 1967, including four number-one hits. The Platters continue to fulfill Reed's enduring legacy and perform around the world today.

John Alvin Ray (January 10, 1927 – February 24, 1990) was an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Highly popular for most of the 1950s, Ray has been cited by critics as a major precursor to what became rock and roll, for his jazz and blues-influenced music, and his animated stage personality. Tony Bennett called Ray the "father of rock and roll", and historians have noted him as a pioneering figure in the development of the genre.

       12. The Lady Drinks Champagne.

Guy Mitchell--Eve Young--Frank Sinatra--Beniamino Gigli--Kenny Baker--Walter Huston.

 With a dollar and a cake we and Fickle Belle sail the Ocean in September going South to the stars.. getting lost !

1. Belle Belle My Liberty Belle......Guy Mitchell

2. Sweetheart Of Yesterday......Guy Mitchell

3. Silver Dollar......Eve Young

4. I'd Have Baked a Cake......Eve Young

5. South Of The Border......Frank Sinatra

6. I've Got The World On A String.....Frank Sinatra

7. La Donna e Mobile (Woman is Fickle )......Beniamino Gigli

8. E Lucevan La Stelle (The Stars Are Shining)......Beniamino Gigli

9. Al The Things You Are.....Kenny Baker

10. How Deep Is The Ocean......Kenny Baker

11. September Song......Walter Huston

12. Lost In The Stars......Walter Huston

Eva Nadauld (September 1, 1923 – November 3, 2010), known professionally as Eve Young early in her career, and later as Karen Chandler, was an American singer of popular music during the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, best known for her 1952 hit, "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me".

In 1950 in the UK she had her biggest successes in that year, with "(If I Knew You Were Comin') I'd've Baked A Cake" and "Silver Dollar (Roll, Roll, Roll)", in both cases credited to Eve Young & The Homesteaders, each reaching the top of the UK sheet music charts in 1950. (Charts based on record sales did not start in Britain until 1952.)

Kenny Baker MBE (1 March 1921 – 7 December 1999) was an English jazz trumpet, cornet and flugelhorn player, and a composer.

Baker was first heard on record in a British public jam session in 1941 and quickly established a strong reputation in London clubs. He was brass band trained and had faultless technical command. The young Baker was lead trumpeter with Ted Heath's post war orchestra.

His career saw him play with alongside Frank Sinatra, Petula Clark, Sammy Davis, Jr. and Tony Bennett. He also performed on James Bond soundtracks.

A notable appearance on soundtrack for Baker was a long hot trumpet solo mimed by Kay Kendall  in the 1954 film Genevieve. 

Walter Thomas Huston (April 5, 1883 – April 7, 1950) was a Canadian actor and singer. Huston won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, directed by his son John Huston. He is the patriarch of the four generations of the Huston acting family, including his son John, grandchildren Anjelica Huston, Danny Huston, Allegra Huston, and great-grandchild Jack Huston. 

He performed "September Song" in the original Broadway production of Knickerbocker Holiday (1938). Huston's recording of "September Song" is heard repeatedly in September Affair 

   4. I'd Have Baked A Cake.