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Saturday 19 December 2020

Harry Connick Jnr


 Some Piano playing now with an occasional song or two !!

Joseph Harry Fowler Connick Jr. (born September 11, 1967) is an American singer, pianist, composer, actor, and television host. He has sold over 28 million albums worldwide. Connick is ranked among the top 60 best-selling male artists in the United States by the Recording Industry Association of America, with 16 million in certified sales. He has had seven top 20 US albums, and ten number-one US jazz albums, earning more number-one albums than any other artist in US jazz chart history.
He made his first record – mainly instrumental standards – on the Columbia label (Harry Connick, Jr.) in 1987; his next album, made the following year when he was twenty, featured his singing as well ...20 is an album that Harry Connick Jr. recorded in his 20th year. It is his second album from Columbia Records, but his first album with vocal (on 6 of 11 tracks), from the label. As with his previous album, he dedicated it "to the memory of my loving mother, Anita Connick."

1. Avalon
2. Blue Skies
3. Imagination
4. Do You Know What it Means To Miss New Orleans
5. Basin Street Blues

1. Lazy River
2. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
3. Stars fell on Alabama
4. 'S'Wonderful
5. If I Only Had A Brain
6. Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me



      6. Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me

Gale Robbins

Gale Robbins (born Betty Gale Robbins (or Betty Gale Murphy), May 7, 1921 – February 18, 1980) was an American actress and singer.In 1939, Robbins was a singer in the stage show at the Hotel Sherman's College Inn in Chicago, Illinois. She apparently changed her stage name at that time. An article in the August 6, 1939, issue of the Chicago Tribune reported: "Betty Robbins, Chicago singer who joined ths show recently, holds over for the new program, under the name Gale Robbins. Gale is her middle name.
In September 1957, Robbins signed with Vik Records and made her first recordings for that label.
In the late 50s the gal with the smooth and sexy vocal style released an easy-listening album ("I'm a Dreamer") for the Vik Label backed by Eddie Cano & His Orchestra. She covered such standards as "Them There Eyes" and "What Is This Thing Called Love." 

1. What Is This Thing Called love
2. Them There Eyes
3. How deep Is The Ocean
4. Ain't Nothing Wrong With That Baby
5. Golden Earrings
6. The Nearness Of You

1. They Can't Take that Away From Me
2. Here I Go
3. I'm a Dreamer Aren't We All
4. Best Of All
5. Music Maestro Please
6. Ain't Misbehavin'



      2. Here I Go

Friday 18 December 2020

The Fontane Sisters

The line-up of this close-harmony 50s US vocal group, whose initial success was achieved by making cover versions of black R&B records, comprised Marge Rosse (b. New Milford, New Jersey, USA; lead), Bea Rosse (b. New Milford, New Jersey, USA; low harmony) and Geri Rosse (b. New Milford, New Jersey, USA; harmony). Their mother was a choral director and organist.
 Signed to RCA - Victor Records in 1949, they had several minor hits in the early 50s, including ‘Tennessee Waltz’, ‘Let Me In’ (with Texas Jim Robertson) and ‘Cold, Cold Heart’.
In 1954 the group switched to Dot Records, a label that specialized in making cover versions of established hits, and came under the influence of Dot’s musical director, Billy Vaughn, who, with his orchestra, provided the backing for most of their successful records. Early that year, they made the US charts with ‘Happy Days And Lonely Nights’.

1. Happy Days And Lonely Nights
2. Hearts Of Stone
3. Rock Love
4. Rollin' Stone
5. If I Could Be With You
6. Seventeen
7. Adorable
8. Daddy O
9. Eddie My Love
10. I'm In Love Again
11. Voices
12. Please Don't Leave Me
13. I'm Stickin' With You
14. Dancing To The Rock And Roll
15. Which Way To Your Heart
16. Summertime Love
17. Chanson D'Amour
18. Jealous Heart



      9. Eddie My Love


Tuesday 15 December 2020

Harpers Bizarre


 Harpers Bizarre was an American sunshine pop band of the 1960s, best known for their Broadway/sunshine pop sound and their cover of Simon & Garfunkel's "The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)."

1. Come to The Sunshine
2. Happy Talk
3. Come Love
4. Raspberry Rug
5. 59th Street Bridge Song..Feelin' Groovy

1. The Debutantes Ball
2. Happyland
3. Peter And The Wolf
4. I Can Hear The Darkness
5. Simon Smith And The Amazing Bear

     5. Simon Smith And The Amazing Dancing Bear