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Thursday 15 April 2021

Pam Garner

Again we have a singer that has only made a couple of L/P's and here is one of them !...she has a great voice that should be heard more !...What a great recording of "In The Still Of The Night"!!



1. Softly As In Morning Sunrise
2. Lonesome Road
3. Sweet Silence
4. In The Still Of The Night
5. Me And My Shadow
6. Swing Low Sweet Chariot

1. My Heart Stood Still
2. Quietly 
3. The Lamp Is Low
4. A Stranger In Town
5. Let Me Hear You Whisper
6. Speak Low


      4. In The Still Of The Night

The Four Aces

The Four Aces are an American male traditional pop music quartet, popular since the 1950s. Over the last half-century, the group amassed many gold records. Its million-selling signature tunes include "Love is a Many-Splendored Thing", "Three Coins in the Fountain", "Stranger in Paradise", "Tell Me Why", and "(It's No) Sin". Other big sellers included "Shangri-La", "Perfidia", and "Sincerely". The original members, responsible for every song made popular by the group, included Al Alberts, Dave Mahoney, Lou Silvestri, and Rosario "Sod" Vaccaro.

1. I'll String Along With You
2. I'm Confessin'
3. I May Be Wrong
4. Maybe You'll Be There
5. I'll Never Say Never Again
6. Yearning

1. Amapola
2. Gone With The Wind
3. Blueberry Hill
4. You're Driving Me Crazy
5. Once In A While
6. Bye Bye Blackbird


      1. Amapola

Monday 12 April 2021

Jo Stafford

No problem on finding info on this singer !!.....one of the best !

Jo Elizabeth Stafford (November 12, 1917 – July 16, 2008) was an American traditional pop music singer and occasional actress, whose career spanned five decades from the late 1930s to the early 1980s. Admired for the purity of her voice, she originally underwent classical training to become an opera singer before following a career in popular music, and by 1955 had achieved more worldwide record sales than any other female artist. Her 1952 song "You Belong to Me" topped the charts in the United States and United Kingdom, becoming the second single to top the UK Singles Chart and the first by a female artist to do so.Stafford met the future members of the Pied Pipers and became the group's lead singer. Bandleader Tommy Dorsey hired them in 1939 to perform back-up vocals for his orchestra.

In addition to her recordings with the Pied Pipers, Stafford featured in solo performances for Dorsey. After leaving the group in 1944, she recorded a series of pop standards for Capitol Records and Columbia Records. Many of her recordings were backed by the orchestra of Paul Weston. 

 
      2. Make Love To Me

Nancy Steele

Only one L/P from this songbird !...and not much info about her which is a pity would have liked to known a bit more about her !...I thank "The Cheerful Earful" for this contribution !

1. Lost In The Fog
2. Why Try To Change Me Now
3. You'll Never Know
4. Nitey Nite
5. Year After Year
6. Tired Routine

1. Let There Be Love
2. Skylark
3. Sugar
4. Isn't This A lovely Day
5. Salt lake City
6. Shooting High


      
      2. Why Try To Change Me Now

Sunday 11 April 2021

Kay Starr

Some great Kay Starr sounds from the 40's !...A Cool 28 Tracks!...  The bonus tracks (19-28) are some great live performances !

Catherine Laverne Starks (July 21, 1922 – November 3, 2016), known professionally as Kay Starr, was an American pop and jazz singer who enjoyed considerable success in the late 1940s and 1950s. She was of Iroquois and Irish heritage. Starr was successful in every field of music she tried (jazz, pop, and country), but her roots were in jazz





 

      23. The Very Thought Of You

Tuesday 6 April 2021

Jose Feliciano

Here's A Strange One !....Is it Live ??...what happened to the audience !

José Monserrate Feliciano García (born September 10, 1945), better known simply as José Feliciano is a Puerto Rican musician, singer and composer, best known for many international hits, including his rendition of the Doors' "Light My Fire" and the best-selling Christmas single, "Feliz Navidad." His music is known for its fusion of styles—Latin, jazz, blues, soul and even rock—created primarily with his unique, signature acoustic guitar sound. His oftentimes mellow easy listening influences are easily recognizable in many songs heard around the world.
In the United States, he first received widespread popularity in the 1960s, particularly after his 1968 album Feliciano! reached number two on the music charts. Thus far, he has released over fifty albums, worldwide, in both English and Spanish.
 


      5. California Dreaming

Teal Joy

Another great not very well known singer !...again not much info about her but the voice is unusual and definitely needs a listen to !  She only seems to have recorded two L/P's...so if anyone has a link to her other one "Mood In Pink" it would be great to have that ...

Teal Joy was a nightclub singer born Elsie Itashiki in Washington, state. On her first record Ted Steele Presents Miss Teal Joy (1957) she sings in Japanese, Yiddish, Italian, French and Spanish as well as English, which she pulls off well. Three years later in 1960 she released Mood in Pink. 

1. Let's Fall In Love
2. Easy To Remember
3. Since I fell For You
4. Misirlou
5. Don't Worry About Me
6. Deed I Do

1. For You My Love
2. That Ole Devil Called Love
3. Who's Sorry Now
4. Come back To Sorrento
5. Autumn Leaves
6. El Cumbanchero
      6. El Cumbanchero

Friday 2 April 2021

Jerry Lewis

Jerry Lewis (born Joseph Levitch; March 16, 1926 – August 20, 2017), nicknamed "The King of Comedy", was an American comedian, actor, singer, filmmaker and humanitarian, who appeared in over sixty films (with only 13 Lewis directed) and other media, from the Martin & Lewis partnership with singer Dean Martin to his "one-man" solo act.
In 1945, Lewis met a young singer named Dean Martin at the Glass Hat Club in New York City where the two performed until they debuted at Atlantic City's 500 Club as Martin and Lewis on July 25, 1946. The duo gained attention as a double act with Martin serving as the straight man to Lewis' zany antics. Along with being physically attractive, they played to each other and had ad-libbed improvisational segments within their planned routines, which added a unique quality to their act and separated them from previous comedy duos.
Jerry's single of Rock-a-Bye Your Baby went to No. 10 and the album "Jerry Lewis Just Sings" went to No. 3 on the Billboard charts, staying near the top for four months and selling a million and a half copies.

1. I'm Sitting On Top Of The World
2. Get Happy
3. Sometimes I'm Happy
4. I've Got The World On a String
5. My Mammy
6. Shine On Your Shoes
7. Come Rain or Come Shine
8. It All Depends On You
9. Back In Your Own Back Yard
10. Bye Bye Baby
11. How Long Has This Been Going On
12. Rock A Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody
13. With These Hands
14. By Myself
15. Birth Of The Blues
16. Let Me Sing And I'm Happy




 

      13. With These Hands