Danny Kaye--Donald Peers--Orchestre Raymonde--W W Bennett & Ernst Slaney--Mario Lanza--Bob Crosby Orch--Beniamino Gigli

 With Dinah Minnie and Rose dancing round the world ending up in rampart street with Nina Nanna and the merry Middies & Mascots !

1. Dinah......Danny Kaye 

2. Minnie The Moocher.....Danny Kaye

3. A Rose In A Garden Of Weeds......Donald Peers

4. Rolling Round The World.....Donald Peers

5. Dance Of The Merry Mascots......Orchestre Raymonde

6. The Merry Middies......W W Bennett & Ernst Slaney

7. Be My Love......Mario Lanza

8. The Bayou Lullaby......Mario Lanza

9. South Rampart Street Parade......Bob Crosby & Orchestra

10. Song Of The Wanderer......Bob Crosby & Orchestra

11. Ninna Nanna Lullaby......Beniamino Gigli

12. Rievens Mon Amour ( So Deep Is The Night)......Beniamino Gigli

Donald Rhys Hubert Peers (10 July 1908 – 9 August 1973) was a popular Welsh singer. His best remembered rendition and signature song was "In a Shady Nook by a Babbling Brook".

He auditioned for the BBC and his first BBC Radio broadcast took place on 17 December 1927, with the London Radio Dance Band. One of the songs he sang was, "In a Shady Nook by a Babbling Brook", which became his most requested song and, later, his signature tune.

 His popularity was such that on May 9, 1949 he performed his two-hour one-man show at the Royal Albert Hall in front of an enthusiastic crowd of 8692.

 On May 31, 1954, he went to Australia to tour and remained there for two and a half years. 

During his absence in Australia, his fans had forgotten him and the pop music scene had changed dramatically with the arrival of rock 'n' roll. He returned to TV and radio work but eventually Peers found work via the club circuit which had taken over from the variety theatres. In May 1962, Peers was given his own BBC Wales television programme, Donald Peers Presents, and during the series he introduced Tom Jones.

Peers died from bronchial pneumonia in a Hove nursing home on 9 August 1973 at the age of 65.

George Robert Crosby (August 23, 1913 – March 9, 1993) was an American jazz singer and bandleader, best known for his group the Bob-Cats, which formed around 1935. The Bob-Cats was a New Orleans Dixieland-style jazz octet. He was the younger brother of famed singer and actor Bing Crosby. On TV, Bob Crosby guest-starred in The Gisele MacKenzie Show and was also seen on The Jack Benny Program. Crosby hosted his own afternoon TV variety show on CBS, The Bob Crosby Show (1953–1957). For its theme song, the band chose George Gershwin's song "Summertime." The band's hits included "South Rampart Street Parade", "March of the Bob Cats".

          

          9. South Rampart Street Parade

Sheb Wooley--Sammy Davis--Winnifred Atwell--Frank Sinatra--Eamonn Andrews--Eve Boswell

 Words been eaten by The Purple People Eater !!

1. Star Of Love......Sheb Wooley

2. Santa And The Purple People Eater......Sheb Wooley

3. Because Of You.. Part 1......Sammy Davis

4. Because Of You..Part 2......Sammy Davis

5. Let's Rock 'n' Roll..Side 1......Winnifred Atwell

6. Let's Rock 'n' Roll..Side 2......Winnifred Atwell

7. Five Minutes More.....Frank Sinatra

8. Try A Little Tenderness......Frank Sinatra

9. The Shifting Whispering Sands..Part 1......Eamonn Andrews

10. The Shifting Whispering Sands..Part 2......Eamonn Andrews

11. Tell My Love......Eve Boswell

12. Swedish Polka......Eve Boswell

Shelby Fredrick "Sheb" Wooley (April 10, 1921 – September 16, 2003) was an American actor and singer. He recorded a series of novelty songs including the 1958 novelty song "The Purple People Eater" and under the name Ben Colder the country hit "Almost Persuaded No. 2"..Wooley is also credited as the voice actor who produced the Wilhelm scream sound effect.

Samuel George Davis Jr. (December 8, 1925 – May 16, 1990) was an American singer, dancer, actor, comedian, film producer and television director.

In 1959, Davis became a member of the Rat Pack, led by his friend Frank Sinatra, which included fellow performers Dean Martin, Joey Bishop, and Peter Lawford, a brother-in-law of John F. Kennedy. Initially, Sinatra called the gathering "the Clan", but Davis voiced his opposition, saying that it reminded people of the Ku Klux Klan. Sinatra renamed the group "the Summit". One long night of poker that went on into the early morning saw the men drunken and disheveled. As Angie Dickinson approached the group, she said, "You all look like a pack of rats." The nickname caught on, and they were then called the Rat Pack, the name of the earlier group led by Humphrey Bogart and his wife, Lauren Bacall, who originally made the remark about the "pack of rats" they associated with.

Eamonn Andrews, CBE (19 December 1922 – 5 November 1987) was an Irish radio and television presenter, employed primarily in the United Kingdom from the 1950s to the 1980s. From 1960 to 1964 he chaired the Radio Éireann Authority (now the RTÉ Authority), which oversaw the introduction of a state television service in the Republic of Ireland.

 On 20 January 1956, he reached No 18 in the UK Singles Chart with a "spoken narrative" recording named "The Shifting Whispering Sands (Parts 1 & 2)", which was produced by George Martin with musical backing by the Ron Goodwin Orchestra, released by Parlophone a double-sided 78 rpm record.

          5. Let's Rock 'n' Roll 1

Guy Mitchell--Mary Lou Williams--Spike Jones--Joe Loss & Rose Brennan--Tony Brent--Frank Sinatra--Nat King Cole & June Christy

 Two rags 2 swing series and perhaps Loraine in Blue jeans chanting and laughing and dreaming of Hawaii and the absence of pic's

1. Ninety Nine Years......Guy Mitchell

2. Perfume and Candy And Flowers......Guy Mitchell

3. Rag Of Rags......Mary Lou Williams

4. Laughing Rag......Mary Lou Williams

5. Hawaiian War Chant.....Spike Jones

6. I Dream Of Brownie With The Light Blue Jeans.....Spike Jones

7. Pianolo......Joe Loss & His Orchestra

8. My Darling My Darling......Joe loss & Orch with Rose Brennan

9. Make It Soon.....Tony Brent

10. Any Old Time......Tony Brent

11. Sweet Lorraine......Frank Sinatra

12. Nat Meet June.....Nat King Cole & June Christy

          7. Pianolo

Pat Boone--The Coronets--Dinah Shore--Hoagy Carmichael & Cass Daley--Stoll Picture Theatre Organ--Tommy Steel

Fridges Buttons and Bows Fingers & Happy People all on an Island in Venice !

1. Remember Your Mine......Pat Boone

2. There's A Gold Mine In The Sky......Pat Boone

3. Twenty Tiny Fingers......The Coronets

4. Meet Me On The Corner......The Coronets

5. Buttons And Bows......Dinah Shore

6. All My Love.......Dinah Shore

7. Stay With The Happy People......Hoagy Carmichael & Cass Daley

8. The Old Piano Roll Blues......Hoagy Carmichael & Cass Daley

9. Merchant Of Venice... Part One......Stoll Picture Theatre Organ

10. Merchant Of Venice..Part Two......Stoll Picture Theatre Organ

11. The Only man On The Island......Tommy Steel

12. I Put The Lights On......Tommy Steel

Dinah Shore (born Frances Rose Shore; February 29, 1916 – February 24, 1994) was an American singer, actress, and television personality, and the top-charting female vocalist of the 1940s. She rose to prominence as a recording artist during the Big Band era. She achieved even greater success a decade later, in television, mainly as the host of a series of variety programs for the Chevrolet automobile company.

After failing singing auditions for the bands of Benny Goodman, and both Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, Shore struck out on her own. She became the first singer of her era to achieve huge solo success. She had a string of 80 charted popular hits, spanning 1940–1957, and after appearing in a handful of feature films, she went on to a four-decade career in American television. She starred in her own music and variety shows from 1951 through 1963 and hosted two talk shows in the 1970s. TV Guide ranked her at number 16 on their list of the top 50 television stars of all time. Stylistically, Shore was compared to two singers who followed her in the mid-to-late 1940s and early 1950s, Jo Stafford and Patti Page.She had hits, including "Blues in the Night", "Jim", "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To", and "I'll Walk Alone", the first of her number-one hits. "Blues in the Night" sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc by the RIAA.

Hoagland Howard Carmichael (November 22, 1899 – December 27, 1981) was an American musician, composer, songwriter, actor and lawyer. Carmichael was one of the most successful Tin Pan Alley songwriters of the 1930s, and was among the first singer-songwriters in the age of mass media to utilize new communication technologies such as television, electronic microphones, and sound recordings.Carmichael composed several hundred songs, including 50 that achieved hit record status. He is best known for composing the music for "Stardust", "Georgia on My Mind" (lyrics by Stuart Gorrell), "The Nearness of You", and "Heart and Soul" (in collaboration with lyricist Frank Loesser), four of the most-recorded American songs of all time. He also collaborated with lyricist Johnny Mercer on "Lazybones" and "Skylark". Carmichael's "Ole Buttermilk Sky" was an Academy Award nominee in 1946, from Canyon Passage, in which he co-starred as a musician riding a mule. "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening", with lyrics by Mercer, won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1951. Carmichael also appeared as a character actor and musical performer in 14 films, hosted three musical-variety radio programs, performed on television, and wrote two autobiographies.

          8. The Old Piano Roll Blues

Slim Whitman--Tony Brent--Winifred Attwell--Alma Cogan--Tab Hunter--Ronnie Ronalde

 You Me & Us with Mirabelle & three brothers plus a girl and a song sailing in the sunset yodellin' a boogie and a rag with cross hands !

1. Song Of The Wild......Slim Whitman

2. You Have My Heart......Slim Whitman

3. Girl Of My Dreams......Tony Brent

4. Don't Play That Melody......Tony Brent

5. The Black And White Rag......Winifred Attwell

6. Cross Hands Boogie......Winifred Attwell

7. You Me And Us......Alma Cogan

8. Three Brothers......Alma Cogan

9. Young Love......Tab Hunter

10. Red Sails In The Sunset......Tab Hunter

11. The Yodellin' Rag......Ronnie Ronalde

12. Mirabelle......Ronnie Ronalde

Ottis Dewey Whitman (January 20, 1923 – June 19, 2013) known by stage name Slim Whitman, was an American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist known for his yodeling abilities and his use of falsetto. 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.

In 1955 he would have a No.1 hit on the pop music charts in the United Kingdom with the theme song to the operetta "Rose Marie." With nineteen weeks in the charts and eleven weeks at the top of the UK Singles Chart, the song set a record that lasted for 36 years. In 1956 he became the first-ever country music singer to perform at the London Palladium. 

Tony Brent (born Reginald Hogan Bretagne, 26 August 1927 – 19 June 1993) was a British traditional pop music singer, most active in the 1950s. He scored seven Top 20 chart hits in the UK over an almost six-year period, starting in December 1952.

 His chart hits included "Walkin' to Missouri", "Cindy, Oh Cindy" and "Dark Moon". Brent's hits were all released on the Columbia label. He enjoyed iconic status in South Asia, where his hits topped the music charts on Radio Ceylon.

Una Winifred Atwell (27 February or 27 April 1910 or 1914 – 28 February 1983) was a Trinidadian pianist who enjoyed great popularity in Britain and Australia from the 1950s with a series of boogie-woogie and ragtime hits, selling over 20 million records. She was the first black person to have a number-one hit in the UK Singles Chart and is still the only female instrumentalist to do so.

 She released a number of discs for Decca in 1951 that were well received. "Jezebel" sold well,however it was another disc that catapulted her to huge popularity in the UK. A complex arrangement called "Cross Hands Boogie" was released to show her virtuoso rhythmic technique, but it was the B-side, a 1900s tune written by George Botsford called "Black and White Rag", that was to become a radio standard."Black And White Rag" started a craze for her honky-tonk style of playing. The rag was originally performed on a concert grand for the occasion, but Atwell felt it did not sound right, and so got her husband to buy a honky tonk piano for 30 shillings, which would then be used for the released version of the song.She signed a record contract with Decca, and her sales were soon 30,000 discs a week. She was by far the biggest selling pianist of her time. Her 1954 hit "Let's Have Another Party" was the first piano instrumental to reach number one in the UK Singles Chart.

She is the only holder of two gold and two silver discs for piano music in Britain, and was the first black artist in the UK to sell a million records.

Tab Hunter (born Arthur Andrew Kelm; July 11, 1931 – July 8, 2018), was an American actor, singer, film producer, and author. Known for his blond, clean-cut good looks, Hunter starred in more than forty films. He was a Hollywood heartthrob of the 1950s and 1960s appearing on the covers of hundreds of film magazines. Hunter's film credits include Battle Cry (1955), The Girl He Left Behind (1956), Gunman's Walk (1958), and Damn Yankees (1958). In 1957, he released a number one hit single "Young Love". Hunter's 2005 autobiography, Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star, was a New York Times bestseller. The song "Young Love," which was No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for six weeks (seven weeks on the UK Chart), and became one of the larger hits of the Rock 'n' Roll era. It sold more than two million copies, and was awarded a gold disc by the RIAA.

Hunter had another hit single, "Ninety-Nine Ways", which peaked at No. 11 in the United States and No. 5 in the United Kingdom. 

Ronald Charles Waldron (29 June 1923 – 13 January 2015), known professionally as Ronnie Ronalde, was a British music hall singer. Ronalde was famous for his voice, whistling, yodelling, imitations of bird song and stage personality. His crystal clear yodelling gained him acceptance with connoisseurs of Alpine and Western music around the world.

After early struggles, Ronalde's first successful UK tour (in the late 1940s) met him with a wave of interest. Ronalde’s first recordings were with Decca Records (these were only to be whistling performances), but his first major label contract came from EMI. Ronalde would also join Pye, Major Minor and Columbia records, becoming a million-selling artiste.

"If I Were a Blackbird" (1950) is among Ronalde's most famous songs from this period. This rendering of Delia Murphy's Irish folk song had him in the British top 20 for 6 months. She would later jovially express her thanks for boosting her income. Other songs include "Tritsch Tratsch Polka" (a showcase of Ronalde's high speed delivery whistling) and "Bells Across the Meadow" (by Albert Ketèlbey). His best known recording is "In a Monastery Garden" (by Albert Ketèlbey). Ronalde played it as his show finale for decades, and over a million copies of it have been sold in their varying formats.

Ronalde also performed for Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip at the Royal Command Performance at the London Coliseum. A Daily Express reporter commented on the Prince's attempts to demonstrate whistling to the Queen after this performance. 

          6. Cross Hands Boogie

Kalin Twins--Frank Sinatra--The Big Ben Banjo Band--Perry Como--Jim Dale--Rosemary Clooney

 Two Grey Two Black Two Green Two Redish Brown Two Reds And Two Blues....so you can do the Polka or take a walk with a girl called Annaliesa at three doing what you shouldn't !!.. or maybe eating Mangos on a little Horse !!

1. When......Kalin Twins

2. Three O'Clock Thrill......Kalin Twins

3. You'll Never Walk Alone......Frank Sinatra

4. If I Loved You.....Frank Sinatra

5. The I.O.U. Polka......The Big Ben Banjo Band

6. Annaliesa......The Big Ben Banjo Band

7. Temptation......Perry Como

8. Surrender......Perry Como

9. Be My Girl......Jim Dale

10. You Shouldn't Do That......Jim Dale

11. Mangos......Rosemary Clooney

12. All The Pretty Little Horses

The Kalin Twins (born February 16, 1934), also known as Hal and Herbie, were an American pop singing, songwriting and recording duo, formed in 1958 by twin brothers Harold Kalin and Herbert Kalin. The duo is best remembered for their number one 1958 hit "When".

The Kalins were the first set of twins to reach number one in the UK as a duo, followed years later by The Proclaimers. They were supported by Cliff Richard on their only UK tour. Their second single, "Forget Me Not", reached Number 12 in the US Billboard chart later in 1958. After two further low-ranking entries in 1959, they never reached the charts again.

Eventually, disillusioned with diminishing returns, the brothers returned to their day jobs, with each pursuing college degrees. They did not perform again until 1977, when a mutual friend booked them to appear at his new nightclub. 

They disappeared again as a performing act, until 1989. Then, their one-time support act, Cliff Richard, invited them to play at his Wembley Stadium 'The Event' concerts, as part of a sequence paying homage to the 1950s television pop show, Oh Boy!

The Big Ben Banjo Band was a musical group that had a hit single in 1954 with "Let's Get Together No. 1". The single peaked at number 6 in the UK Singles Chart. The band was established by Norrie Paramor in the early 1950s.

Jim Dale MBE (born James Smith; 15 August 1935) is an English actor, composer, director, narrator, singer and songwriter. In the United Kingdom he is known as a pop singer of the 1950s who became a leading actor at the National Theatre. In British film, he became one of the regulars in the Carry On films, along with Leslie Phillips, Bernard Cribbins, Valerie Leon, Kenneth Cope, Julian Holloway, Hugh Futcher, Anita Harris, Amanda Barrie, Jacki Piper, Angela Douglas and Patricia Franklin. Of all the regulars, Dale was the most prolific cast member.

At the age of 22 he became the first pop singer to work with George Martin, who produced all his hit records. Several of his songs entered the UK Singles Chart, including "Be My Girl" (1957, UK No. 2), "Just Born (To Be Your Baby)" (1958, UK No. 27), "Crazy Dream" (1958, UK No. 24), and "Sugartime" (1958, UK No. 25).

Rosemary Clooney (May 23, 1928 – June 29, 2002) was an American singer and actress. She came to prominence in the early 1950s with the song "Come On-a My House", which was followed by other pop numbers such as "Botch-a-Me", "Mambo Italiano", "Tenderly", "Half as Much", "Hey There", and "This Ole House". She also had success as a jazz vocalist. Clooney's career languished in the 1960s, partly due to problems related to depression and drug addiction, but revived in 1977, when her White Christmas co-star Bing Crosby asked her to appear with him at a show marking his 50th anniversary in show business. She continued recording until her death in 2002.

          12. Mangos

Bill Haley--The Mills Brothers--Johnny Duncan--Andy Williams--Choir HM Chapels Royal--Perry Como

 A nice set labels hides some classic songs.. rocking on the train with dogs and a butterfly whilst the mandolins play and the world goes round  !..the two red ones are a bit scratchy should have kept away from the hound dogs !!

1. Razzle Dazzzle......Bill Haley

2. Two Hound Dogs......Bill Haley

3. Till Then.....The Mills Brothers

4. You Always Hurt The One You Love.....The Mills Brothers

5. Last Train To San Fernando......Johnny Duncan

6. Rock a Billy Baby......Johnny Duncan

7. Butterfly......Andy Williams

8. It Doesn't Take Very Long......Andy Williams

9. Jesu Joy Of Man's Desiring......Choir Of H.M Chapels Royal

10. Gabriel's Message & Born This Day......Choir Of H. M Chapels Royal

11. Mandolins In The Moonlight......Perry Como

12. Love Makes The World Go Round......Perry Como

                                                                    ANDY WILLIAMS

Howard Andrew "Andy" Williams (December 3, 1927 – September 25, 2012) was an American singer. He recorded 43 albums in his career, of which 15 have been gold certified and three platinum certified. He was also nominated for six Grammy Awards. He hosted The Andy Williams Show, a television variety show, from 1962 to 1971, along with numerous TV specials. The Andy Williams Show won three Emmy awards. He sold more than 45 million records worldwide, including more than 10 million certified units in the United States.

Williams's solo career began in 1953. He recorded six sides for RCA Victor's label "X", but none was a popular hit.

After landing a spot as a regular on the Tonight Starring Steve Allen in 1954, Williams was signed to a recording contract with Cadence Records, a small label in New York, run by conductor Archie Bleyer. Williams's third single, "Canadian Sunset", reached number seven in the top 10 in August 1956; it was followed in February 1957 by his only Billboard number-one hit, "Butterfly", a cover of a Charlie Gracie record. "Butterfly" was also number one for two weeks on the UK Singles Chart in May 1957. More hit records followed.

          8. It Doesn't Take Very Long

Frank Sinatra--Jim Lowe--Billy Vaughn--The Duchess--Patricia Morison & Bill Johnson--Frankie Vaughan

 Another visit behind that Green Door.. this time with Kate & Priscilla walking thro' the Garden of Eden whistling Wang Wang Rag in Chinatown lots of sand around ! exit-ing with the little Man that keeps whispering ! Bang ! Bang !

1. Poinciana......Frank Sinatra

2. One Love......Frank Sinatra

3. The Green Door......Jim Lowe

4. The Little Man In Chinatown......Jim Lowe

5. The Shifting Whispering Sands.. Part 1......Billy Vaughn & Orchestra

6. The Shifting Whispering Sands.. Part 2......Billy Vaughn & Orchestra

7. The Wang Wang Blues......The Duchess

8. Dynamite Rag......The Duchess

9. Wunderbar (Kiss Me Kate)......Patricia Morison & Bill Johnson

10. So In Love (Kiss Me Kate)......Bill Johnson

11. The Garden Of Eden......Frankie Vaughan

12. Priscilla.....Frankie Vaughan

  

James Ellsworth Lowe (May 7, 1923 – December 12, 2016) was an American singer-songwriter, best known for his 1956 number-one hit song, "The Green Door". He also served as a disc jockey and radio host and personality, and was considered an expert on the popular music of the 1940s and 1950s.

Richard Smith "Billy "Vaughn (April 12, 1919 – September 26, 1991) was an American singer, multi-instrumentalist, orchestra leader, and A&R man for Dot Records.

Vaughn charted a total of 42 singles on the Billboard charts, often based on the sound of two alto saxophones. He also charted thirty six albums on the Billboard 200, beginning with 1958's Sail Along Silv'ry Moon and ending with 1970's Winter World of Love. He also had nineteen Top 40 hits in (Germany), beginning with the chart-topping "Sail Along, Silv'ry Moon", also a gold record, which was a cover of a 1937 Bing Crosby hit. He had two more number ones in Germany: "La Paloma" and "Wheels" (all three were reportedly million sellers). Billy Vaughn's recording of "Wheels" was No. 1 for 14 weeks in Germany  as well as No. 1 in India, New Zealand, and Italy. Vaughn also charted in Australia, Latin America, and Japan.

Eileen Patricia Augusta Fraser Morison (March 19, 1915 – May 20, 2018) was an American stage, television and film actress of the Golden Age of Hollywood and mezzo-soprano singer She made her feature film debut in 1939 after several years on the stage..She was lauded as a beauty with large blue eyes and extremely long, dark hair. During this period of her career, she was often cast as the femme fatale or "other woman". It was only when she returned to the Broadway stage that she achieved her greatest success as the lead in the original production of Cole Porter's Kiss Me, Kate and subsequently in The King and I

In November 1978 she again played the leading role in Kiss Me, Kate at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in England.

William Johnson (March 22, 1916 – March 6, 1957) was an American actor and singer of the stage and screen.

He also starred (as Fred Petruchio) alongside Patricia Morison in the first UK production of Cole Porter's Kiss Me, Kate, at the London Coliseum in 1951, and on the cast recording of that show.He also appeared in Annie Get Your Gun. His last role on Broadway was in 1955–1956

          8. Dynamite Rag

Pat Boone--Al Martino--Petula Clark--Frank Sinatra--David Whitfield--Frankie Vaughan

 If you go thro' the green door with Stella and the Poor Man two worlds will appear and by Starlight you can find your way home loving that Tutti Frutti  before you are alone !

1. Tutti Frutti......Pat Boone

2. I'll Be Home......Pat Boone

3. In All This World......Al Martino

4. I've Never Been......Al Martino

5. Alone......Petula Clark

6. Long Before I Knew You......Petula Clark

7. I Love You......Frank Sinatra

8. Stella By Starlight......Frank Sinatra

9. I'd Give You The World......David Whitfield

10. I'll Find You......David Whitfield

11. The Green Door......Frankie Vaughan

12. Pity The Poor Poor Man......Frankie Vaughan

         11. The Green Door

Bill Haley--Russ Morgan--Frank Sinatra--Brigadoon--Crazy Otto--Nat King Cole

 Lets have a rockin' hot dog in the highlands of Scotland today struttin' to a honky tonk piano or maybe tomorrow or maybe forever my dearie !

1. Hot Dog Buddy Buddy......Bill Haley And His Comets

2. Rockin' Through  The Rye......Bill Haley And His Comets

3. You You You Are The One......Russ Morgan & His Orchestra

4. Forever And Ever......Russ Morgan & His Orchestra

5. Day By Day......Frank Sinatra

6. You Are Too Beautiful......Frank Sinatra

7. Prologue From Film "Brigadoon"......MGM Studio Orchestra

8. Waiting For My Dearie......Carol Richards

9. Piano Medley A......Crazy Otto

10. Piano Medley B......Crazy Otto

11. Love Me As Though There Were No Tomorrow......Nat King Cole

12. That's All There Is To That......Nat King Cole

Russell Morgan (April 29, 1904 – August 7, 1969) was an American big band leader and arranger during the 1930s and 1940s. He was one of the composers of "You're Nobody till Somebody Loves You" with Larry Stock and James Cavanaugh. Morgan was the first to record the song.

At the age of 14, Morgan earned money as a pianist in a theater in Scranton. He purchased a trombone and learned to play it.

For a short time in 1934, Morgan arranged for Fletcher Henderson's Orchestra. In 1935, he played trombone with the Original Dixieland Jazz Band when they recorded four sides for Vocalion. On September 12, 1935, Morgan, playing piano and Joe Venuti on violin recorded two sides for Brunswick: "Red Velvet" and "Black Satin". Most of the songs were written by Morgan and Venuti.

n 1949, Morgan had four songs on the charts. They were "So Tired", "Cruising Down the River", "Sunflower" and "Forever and Ever". On the latter he used a vocal quartet that was starting out and would become famous as the Ames Brothers. 

Brigadoon is a 1954 American Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical film made in CinemaScope and Metrocolor based on the 1947 Broadway musical of the same name by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe. The film was directed by Vincente Minnelli and stars Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, and Cyd Charisse.

Fritz Schulz-Reichel (July 4, 1912 – February 14, 1990) was a German jazz and pop pianist.

In 1953 he adopted the moniker Schräger Otto (Crazy Otto), and recorded for Deutsche Grammophon. His tunes became hits in Germany, France, England, and America; his albums were released on Decca and MGM in the U.S. and Polydor  In 1955, American musician Johnny Maddox played a medley of his songs, entitled "The Crazy Otto Medley"; this went to #2 on the U.S. charts, and in the U.S. both Reichel and Maddox were subsequently known as "Crazy Otto", to some confusion.

          2. Rocking Through The Rye

          10. Piano Medley 2

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