Werner Muller & His Orchestra

Fancy a dance in the old fashioned way !!....even grandma in her apron is giving it a go ! the Foxtrot and Rumba are being dusted off in this selection of music !

      9. La Cucaracha

Helen Shapiro

Now we have some not so well known singles from a great 60's Singer !

Helen Kate Shapiro (born 28 September 1946) is a British pop singer, jazz singer, and actress. In 1961, aged fourteen, she had a UK No. 3 hit with her first single, "Don't Treat Me Like a Child" and two number one hits in the UK, "You Don't Know" and "Walkin' Back to Happiness". The latter did not top the UK chart until 19 October 1961, by which time Shapiro had reached 15. Both singles sold over a million copies, earning Helen Shapiro two gold discs. Her next single release, "Tell Me What He Said", peaked at No. 2, achieving her first four single releases in the top three of the UK Singles Chart. Most of her recording sessions were at EMI's studios at Abbey Road in north west London. Her mature voice made her an overnight sensation, as well as the youngest female chart topper in the UK...Shapiro's final UK Top Ten hit single was with the ballad "Little Miss Lonely", which peaked at No. 8 for two weeks in 1962. Shapiro's recording manager at the time was Norrie Paramor.

By the time she was in her late teens, Shapiro's career as a pop singer was on the wane. With the new wave of beat music and newer female singers such as Dusty Springfield, Cilla Black, Sandie Shaw, and Lulu, Shapiro appeared old-fashioned and emblematic of the pre-Beatles era of the 1950s........Between 1984 and 2001, she toured extensively with the British jazz trumpeter Humphrey Lyttelton and his band, whilst still performing her own jazz and pop concerts. Her one-woman show, Simply Shapiro, ran from 1999 to the end of 2002.

      14. A Glass of Wine

Steve Lawrence

Not had a male vocal for a while so here's a good one !!

Steve Lawrence (born Sidney Liebowitz; July 8, 1935) is an American singer and actor, best known as a member of a duo with his late wife Eydie Gormé, billed as "Steve and Eydie." The two first appeared together as regulars on Tonight Starring Steve Allen in 1954 and continued performing as a duo until Gormé's retirement in 2009. Gormé died August 10, 2013.

1. You Made Me Love You

2. You Call It Madness But I Call It Love

3. Where Or When

4. The More I See You

5. Walkin' My Baby Back Home

6. I Only Have Eyes For You

1. Lazy River

2. Day In Day Out

3. Easy To Love

4. I've Got You Under My Skin

5. They Didn't Believe Me

6. Music Maestro Please

      5. Walkin' My Baby Back Home

Nancy Wilson

Just for Now is a 1967 studio album by Nancy Wilson, featuring arrangements by Billy May, Oliver Nelson, and Sid Feller. The album entered the Billboard 200 on June 3, 1967, and remained on the chart for 15 weeks, peaking at No. 40. It reached #8 on the Hot R&B LPs chart.

1. Born Free

2. That's Life

3. What Now My Love

4. Rain Sometimes

5. Alfie

6. Mercy Mercy Mercy

1. Winchester Cathedral

2. If He Waked Into My Life

3. Love Can Do Anything

4. Just For Now

5. I'll Make A Man Of The Man

      1. Born Free

Samantha Jones

 We now have a singer that should have been more successful than she was she has great individual voice !.....just listen to the sound bite !!

Jean Owen (born 17 November 1943), known as Samantha Jones is a former English singer whose career spanned the mid-1960s through the early 1980s. She won three international pop music contests and charted records in the Benelux countries. Her recordings later experienced a revival on the Northern soul scene.Jean Owen started her career in 1961 as part of popular English vocal group The Vernons Girls. During her time with the group, the line-up went from sixteen members to just three girls. The Vernons Girls enjoyed a couple of top 40 hits, including "Lover Please", "Only You Can Do It," (also released by Françoise Hardy) and recorded one of the first Beatles tribute songs, "We Love The Beatles". They also opened for The Beatles several times and appeared with them in a 1964 TV special, Around The Beatles.

In 1964, with the help of producer Charles Blackwell, Owen embarked on a solo career and signed with the international record label United Artists, who gave her the stage name Samantha Jones. Her first TV performance as a solo performer was a duet with Long John Baldry on 20 November 1964, with whom she had also duetted in Around the Beatles while a member of the Vernons Girls. She released several unsuccessful 45s (amongst them "Surrounded by a Ray of Sunshine," later a staple on the Northern soul circuit). Two of Jones' songs were covered by Françoise Hardy and released on the LP known as L'Amitié.

      13. Can't Take my Eyes Off  Of You

Nina Simone

Little Girl Blue (also known as Jazz As Played in an Exclusive Side Street Club) is the debut album by Nina Simone. The album was reissued by Bethlehem in 1992 on CD (Bethlehem 30042), with three additional tracks from the same session: "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands", "For All We Know" and "African Mailman".

Little Girl Blue, released in 1957, was Nina Simone's first recording, originally issued on the Bethlehem label. Backed by bassist Jimmy Bond and Albert "Tootie" Heath, it showcases her ballad voice as one of mystery and sensuality and showcases her up-tempo jazz style with authority and an enigmatic down-home feel that is nonetheless elegant. The album also introduced a fine jazz pianist. Simone was a solid improviser who never strayed far from the blues. Check the opener, her reading of Duke Ellington's "Mood Indigo," which finger-pops and swings while keeping the phrasing deep-blue. It is contrasted immediately with one of the -- if not the -- definitive reads of Willard Robison's steamy leave-your-lover ballad "Don't Smoke in Bed." The title track, written by Rodgers & Hart, features "Good King Wenceslas" as a classical prelude to one of the most beautiful pop ballads ever written. It is followed immediately by the funky swing in "Love Me or Leave Me" with a smoking little piano solo in the bridge where Bachmeets Horace Silver and Bobby Timmons.

1. Mood Indigo

2. Don't Smoke in Bed

3. He Needs Me

4. Little Girl Blue

5. Love Me Or Leave Me

6. My Baby just Cares For Me

7. Good Bait

1. Plain Gold Ring

2. You'll Never Walk Alone

3. I Loves You Porgy

4. Central Park Blues

5. He's Got The Whole World In His Hands

6. For All We Know

7. African Mailman

 

      4. Little Girl Blue

Edmundo Ros

 Edmundo Ros OBE (7 December 1910 – 21 October 2011), born Edmund William Ross, was a Trinidadian-Venezuelan musician, vocalist, arranger and bandleader who made his career in Britain. He directed a highly popular Latin American orchestra, had an extensive recording career and owned one of London's leading nightclubs.

In the 2000 New Year Honours, Ros (then aged 90), was appointed by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II as Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in ceremony at Buckingham Palace. He turned 100 on 7 December 2010.

1. Amour Amour

2. Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps

3. Granada

4. Frenesi

5. Green Eyes

6. Besame Mucho

7. Adios

8. Brazil

1. Tici- Tico

2. Always In My Heart

3. Maria Elena

4. Perfidia

5. Magic Is In The Moonlight

6. Baia

7. You Belong To My Heart

8. Come To The Mardi Gras

     5. Green Eyes

Lita Roza

 A favourite singer of mine from my teens with some great standards !

Lilian Patricia Lita Roza (14 March 1926 – 14 August 2008) was an English singer whose 1953 hit record "(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?" made her the first British solo singer to top the UK Singles Chart.n 1956, she married the trumpet player Ronnie Hughes. She remained a top UK recording artist during the remainder of the 1950s and was voted the 'Top British Female Singer' in the New Musical Express poll winners' charts from 1951 to 1955. Melody Maker readers also voted her their 'Top Girl Singer' in the dance band section of the poll in 1951 and 1952.

 Elton John said that "we just don't make singers like Lita Roza anymore".

1. Too Marvellous For Words

2. Don't Worry 'Bout Me

3. I Don't Want To Walk Without You

4. The Nearness Of You

5. You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To

6. That Old Black Magic

7. You'll Never Know

1. Hernando's Hideaway

2. Man In The Raincoat

3. Idle Gossip

4. Hey There

5. Make Yourself Comfortable

6. How Did He Look

7. Stars fell on Alabama

      6. How Did He Look

Astrud Gilberto

 Brazilian Music is the order of the day and it's lovely !

The soothing voice of "Miss Ipanema" giving some songs the bossa nova beat.! a great L/P and I wish I had bought it when it first came out !!

Astrud Gilberto (Brazilian Portuguese); born Astrud Evangelina Weinert, March 29, 1940) is a Brazilian samba and bossa nova singer. She became popular in the 1960s after her performance of the song "The Girl from Ipanema".

She sang on two tracks on the influential 1963 album Getz/Gilberto featuring João Gilberto, Stan Getz, and Antônio Carlos Jobim, despite having never sung professionally before this recording. The 1964 single version of "The Girl from Ipanema", taken from the 1963 album, omitted the Portuguese lyrics sung by João Gilberto, and established Astrud Gilberto as a Bossa Nova singer. It sold over one million copies and was awarded a gold disc.

1. The Shadow Of Your Smile

2. Portuguese Washerwoman

3. Look To The Rainbow

4. Meditation

5. Non Stop To Brazil

6. Manha De Carnaval

7. The Girl From Ipanema

1. Berimbau

2. It's A Lovely Day Today

3. Fly Me To The Moon

4. Felicidade

5. A Certain Sadness

6. Dreamer

7. The Telephone Song

       7. The Girl From Ipanema

Kitty White

 This is the third visit from this singer...so if you like your music slow and smokey then this could be for you it's a cool one !!...and it has 3 bonus tracks 

1. Visit Me

2. Summer In The City

3. My Kind Of Guy

4. Happiness Is A Thing Called Joe

5. So Many Beautiful Men

6. Do It Again

7. Call Me Darling

1. Disenchanted Lady

2. Would I Love You

3. Bossa Nova All The Way

4. Say It Isn't So

5. Just In Time

6. Mood Indigo

7. Honeysuckle Rose 

8. So Many Beautiful Men

9. My Love Is A Wanderer

       4. Happiness Is A Thing Called Joe