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Friday 30 October 2020

Shani Wallis

Shani Wallis (born 14 April 1933) is a British actress and singer, who has worked in theatre, film, and television in both her native United Kingdom and in the United States. A graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, she is perhaps best known for her roles in the West End, and for the role of Nancy in the 1968 Oscar-winning film musical Oliver!.

1. Don't Ringa Da Bell
2. Our Melody
3. Personality
4. Please Don't Say No
5. Don't Take Your Love From Me
6. There Goes My Heart
7. Sixteen Reasons
8. Forever Forever
9. Where's The Boy
10. And Now
11. The Most Beautiful Words In The World
12. When Love Is young
13. Something In The Air
14. Let Me Go Lover
15. Rock around The World Medley Part 1
16. Rock Around The World Medley Part 2




     5.Don't Take Your Love From Me

Wednesday 28 October 2020

Alice Babs

Swingtime Again is a 1998 music album featuring Alice Babs . In addition, Charlie Norman and Anders Berglund Big Band participate .After having been retired for 18 years she released this new album at the tender age of 74 !

The recording was made in Atlantis Studio in Stockholm between August 31 and September 5, 1998. 

1. Me And You
2. Its Wonderful
3. Sugar
4. I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart
5. Our Love Is Here To Stay
6. A Sailboat in The Moonlight
7. Swing It Magistern
8. I Don't Mind
9. Who's Got The Other Half of Heaven
10. Regntunga Skyar
11. I'm Checkin' Out Go'om Bye
12. Drop Me Off In Harlem
13. Bluer Than Blue
     8. I Don't Mind

Tuesday 27 October 2020

The Crew Cuts


 The Crew-Cuts were a Canadian vocal quartet, that made a number of popular records that charted in the United States and worldwide. They named themselves after the then popular crew cut haircut, one of the first connections made between pop music and hairstyle. They were most famous for their recording of The Chords' hit record, "Sh-Boom".

Artist Biography by Richie Unterberger

On most informed lists of rock & roll villains, the Crew Cuts would have to rank near the top. They weren't rock & rollers in the first place: their clean-cut white harmony glee club approach was really in the style of early- and mid-'50s groups such as the Four Aces, the Four Lads, and the Four Freshmen. The Canadian quartet differed from those acts, however, in their concentration upon covers of songs originally recorded by R&B/doo wop vocal groups. Their cover of the Chords' "Sh-Boom" set the pattern, going to number one in 1954 and setting the stage for their other commercially successful pop treatments of R&B hits by the Penguins, Gene & Eunice, Otis Williams & the Charms, the Robins, the Spaniels, the Nutmegs, and others.

1. Crazy 'Bout You Baby
2. Sh Boom Sh Boom
3. Oop Shoop
4. A Story Untold
5. Don't Be Angry
6. Earth Angel
7. Gum Drop
8. Ko Ko Mo
9. Slam Bam
10. Two Hearts Two Kisses
11. Honey Hair Sugar lips Eyes Of Blue
12. Tell Me Why
13. Susie Q
14. Young love
15. You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby

     14. Young Love

Friday 16 October 2020

Helen Carr

With the exception of one song cut with Charles Mingus in 1946 and two with King Curtis later in the 1950s, this single CD (which consists of Helen Carr's two Bethlehem albums) has the complete output of the talented but short-lived singer who died in 1960 at age 36. Carr's interpretations fall between jazz and middle-of-the-road pop, yet her treatments of the standards consistently swing and uplift the material. On one occasion she is joined by a quintet with husband/pianist Donn Trenner, trumpeter Don Fagerquist and altoist Charlie Mariano, while the other session finds Carr interacting quite winningly with a trio consisting of guitarist Howard Roberts, bassist Red Mitchell and the muted (but fiery) trumpet of Cappy Lewis. Recommended.


  Helen Carr, Sammy Herman, Joe Bianco, and Donn Trenner, Nola's, New York, N.Y., ca. Feb. 1947
                                                         
    19. Your Getting To be A Habit With Me

Thursday 15 October 2020

The Vernons Girls


The Vernons Girls were an English musical ensemble of female vocalists. They were formed at the Vernons football pools company in the 1950s in Liverpool, settling down to a sixteen strong choir and recording an album of standards.
As a 16-piece vocal group, the Vernons Girls appeared on the ITV show Oh Boy with the house band between 1958 and 1959, and made a series of relatively successful singles for the label Parlophone between 1958 and 1961. Their 1958 LP released on Parlophone was arranged and conducted by Peter Knight, with sleeve notes by Eamonn Andrews. This record is significantly different from their later pop hits, featuring such fifties standards as "We'll Gather Lilacs", "Lonely Ballerina", and the "Cuckoo in the Clock".
Led by Maureen Kennedy, from 1961 the group reduced their membership to five and then three members, and by 1962 had signed to Decca Records where they recorded covers of American hits. Their cover of Clyde McPhatter's "Lover Please" and "You Know What I Mean" were both hits; the latter was also originally the B-side of "Lover Please". In the US, the group charted with the first Beatles tribute album there, We Love The Beatles. The Carefrees had previously charted with a Beatles tribute called "We Love You Beatles" in the UK in 1964.

As session singers for Decca, the Vernons Girls were the female backing voices on many hit singles during the 1960s – one of the first being Billy Fury's "Maybe Tomorrow". The trio of Jean Owen (aka Samantha Jones), Frances Lea, and Maureen Kennedy.


Jean Owen had solo success under the name Samantha Jones.

1. Lover Please
2. You Know What I Mean
3. Dat's Love
4. Be Nice To Him Mama
5. Don't Wanna Go
6. The Locomotion
7. See For Yourself
8. Funny All Over
9. Do The Bird
10. I'm Gonna Let My Hair Down
11. Stay at Home
12. He'll Never Come back
13. Mama Doesn't Know
14. Just Another Girl
15. Tommorow Is Another Day
16. Why Why Why
17. Hey Lover Boy
18. Stupid Little Girl
19. We Love The Beatles
20. Only You Can Do It
21. It's A Sin To Tell a Lie
22. Don't Say Goodbye 


      1. Lover Please.

Vicky Lane

This Cool Lady only recorded this one L/P....Shame !!


Vicky Lane was born Grace Patricia Rose Coghlan in Dublin, Ireland in 1926. At a relatively young age, she had already traveled around the world twice before settling with her family in Mexico, then Nevada, and finally Beverly Hills.
Lane first went to Mexico with her family, then to the United States. As a teenager, her first Hollywood role was in 1942. She became known for her role as the Ape Woman Paula Dupree in the horror film The Jungle Captive (1945, directed by Harold Young).It was followed by supporting roles in films such as The Cisco Kid Returns (1945) 
After a brief marriage to film actor Tom Neal (1948–49), Lane married jazz musician and bandleader Pete Candoli in 1953, Around 1953, she recorded several songs for the Sunset label with Candoli, Jimmy Rowles, Joe Mondragon and Shelly Manne such as 'S Wonderful and I Got Nothin' But the Blues. Candoli also arranged the songs for her only solo album, which she recorded with the Candoli Orchestra in 1959 for Time Records, I Swing for You. 
(Info Edited From Wikipedia)....Note Track "Song Is You" 47 seconds X three !!


AllMusic Review by Ken Dryden
This RCA Victor LP marked the recording debut of Vicky Lane, a native of Ireland who was also an actress. Although gifted with an attractive voice in the alto range, Lane evidently didn't make much of an impression with record buyers, as this also seems to be the only recording under her name. This doesn't mean this is a bad record; in fact, she shows a lot of promise for a first-time recording artist, assisted by Pete Candoli's swinging arrangements and a supporting cast that also includes Jimmy Rowles, Barney Kessel, Alvin Stoller, and Joe Mondragon, along with a host of additional percussionists. Perhaps her selection of all upbeat songs instead of mixing a wider variety of material worked against her, though it is impossible to tell almost a half century after these sessions were completed.

1. The Trolley Song
2. Our Very Own
3. My Romance
4. You Hit The Spot
5. Love Isn't Born It's Made
6. My Heart Stood Still

1. They Say It's Wonderful
2. The Song Is You
3. Long Ago And far Away
4. I Love You
5. Right As Rain
6. This Heart Of Mine

    5. Right As The Rain



Tuesday 13 October 2020

Janice Harper


  We now have a singer that seems to be well forgotten there is hardly anything about her on the internet which is a pity because she has got a great voice and should have been heard more in her time...she should have been with that voice a top seller for "Capitol" records but somehow she missed out.....So here you can find out what people have missed all these years.....

1. Cry Me A River
2. Always
3. I Am Forgetting You
4. If You Are But A Dream
5. If You Love Me Really Love Me
6. I'm Thru With Love

1. The Thrill Has Gone
2. All The Things You Are
3. Just Say I Love him
4. I Hadn't Anyone Till You
5. For All We Know
6. I Believe
7. Bon Voyage





    5. If You Love Me Really Love Me

Saturday 10 October 2020

Re-Posts !!

Okay Folks....Files have been sorted out now.....So please leave a comment on the post if you want any Re-posted and I will re-post them... any files after this should be okay...Fingers crossed !!...cheers