Joe Derise

Not a very good cover but the voice makes up for that !!....I have never heard of this singer so it's a first of the forgotten Male singers...Introducing "Joe Derise " !!

A pianist and vocalist who recorded for Bethlehem in the '50s, then resurfaced in the late '70s and was very active during the '80s. Derise played in a bebop style, though he also recorded with a big band and even with The Australian Jazz Quartet. But most of his dates were with a small combo.

Derise became a band vocalist with Tommy Dorsey at the age of 21 and then worked as a guitarist, singer and arranger with the Claude Thornhill Orchestra in 1948-50 ("Easy Does It", V-Disc , 1948). In the same year he recorded "You Can not Buy Happiness" in a duet with singer Barbara Lynn ..In 1953 he recorded for Bethlehem Records the LP Joe Derise Sings , in which Milt Hinton and Osie Johnson participated and he sang standards such as " It Might be Well Be Spring ", " How Long Has This Been Going On?"  "My Romance ".

From 1969 to 1978 he toured with the Diamonds as musical director and vocalist.

2. It Might As Well Be Spring.