Tiny Irvin

 Here we have a lady singer that I have not heard of and unfortunately this seems to be the only studio L/P (Album) that she has recorded...which is a pity I would have liked to hear more of her  there is some great Piano playing from Carl Arter and this is a A1 set of songs !....So here is some Info about this Fab singer !!

Tiny Irvin is a native Pittsburgh who is a quiet, private person, who loves people and always tries to be happy. Tiny has sung with Sammy Davis, Jr., Carmen McRae, Dean Martin, Sarah Vaughn, Dizzy Gillespie and Betty Bebop Carter.

Tiny had impeccable tone and phrasing, with a lot of blues feeling and swing. She was a great scat singer too. Fans of Ella Fitzgerald, Betty Carter, Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughn will hear their influences in Tiny's singing, but she was no copyist, she had a distinctive style of her own. 

Since the mid 1960s Tiny has worked regularly with Carl Arter, who has been her bandleader, arranger, and mentor.

With pianist Carl Arter, Tiny has been the star attraction at Eileen's Zebra Room in Pittsburgh for five years on weekends.

Tiny made her only recording,  accompanied by the Carl Arter Trio, for Earwig Music Company in 1982. She retired from singing in the late 1980s. 

1. You Don't Know What Love is

2. Watch What Happens

3. My One And Only Love

4. Moanin'

1. Skylark

2. I'll Remember April

3. You Stepped Out Of A Dream

4. You've Changed

5. Satin Doll

        1. You Don't Know What Love Is

The Tillman Franks Singers

 A tribute to Hank Williams...Sung straight no gimicks so if you like your country music then this could be the one for you !!

Tillman Ben Franks, Sr. (September 29, 1920 – October 26, 2006), was an American bassist and songwriter and the manager for a number of country music artists.

A veteran bassist and songwriter who appeared on the first-ever broadcast of radio's famed Louisiana Hayride, Tillman Franks nevertheless enjoyed his greatest influence on country music as a manager and producer, helping the careers of acts including Webb Pierce, Johnny Horton, and David Houston.

Franks played bass behind singer and former Louisiana governor Jimmie Davis, and led his own Tillman Franks Singers. 

1. Your Cheating Heart

2. Hey Good Looking

3. I Saw The Light

4. Cold Cold Heart

5. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry

1. I Can't Help It If I'm Still In Love With You

2. Jambalaya

3. There'll Be No Teardrops Tonight

4. Long Gone Lonesome Blues

5. Kawliga

Tillman Franks

       4. Cold Cold Heart

Terry Snyder & The All Stars

Some great Stereo Now !!

Persuasive Percussion was an LP album performed by Terry Snyder and the All Stars and released in 1959 by Command Records (run by Enoch Light). The packaging includes the first use of the gatefold cover which, upon being unfolded, lists information about each selection. The liner notes state that the album may be used to test audio equipment, due to the stereo placement of sounds independently in either the left or right channel (something common today, but extremely innovative in 1959). The album cover artwork, by Josef Albers, is minimalistic in style, consisting of an arrangement of dots. The album was the first volume in a series of Persuasive Percussion releases. 

In August 1960, Persuasive Percussion was No. 1 on The Billboard's Stereo Action Album chart.

1. I'm In the mood For Love

2. Whatever Lola Wants

3. Misirlou

4. I Surrender Dear

5. Orchids In The Moonlight

6. I Love Paris

1. My Heart Belongs To Daddy

2. Tabu

3. The Breeze And I

4. Aloha Oe

5. Japanese Sandman

6. Love Is A Many Splendoured Thing

      6. I Love Paris

The Golden Age Of Hollywood Musicals..VA

Not only do we have songs from the M.G.M musicals  but also from the rest of the Hollywood studios and as it says on the cover digitally remastered so on some tracks you do get some extra sounds that you didn't get on the original releases....its a great retro treat !!

1. Singin' In The Rain......Gene Kelly

2. There's No Business Like Show Business.....Betty Hutton, Howard Keel,Keenan Wynn

3. 'S Wonderful.....Gene Kelly & Georges Guetary

4. That's Entertainment.....Fred Astaire, Jack Buchanan.Annette Fabray,Oscar Levant

5. Stranger In Paradise......Anne Blythe & Vic Damone

6. Easter Parade......Judy Garland & Fred Astaire

7. Lullaby Of Broadway......Winifred Shaw & Dick Powell

8. Get Happy......Judy Garland

9. Night And Day......Fred Astaire

10. True Love......Bing Crosby & Grace Kelly

11. Honeysuckle Rose......Lena Horne with Benny Carter

12. Milkman' Keep Those Bottles Quiet......Nancy Walker & Tommy Dorsey

13. Baby Its Cold Outside......Esther Willians & Ricardo Montalban

14. For Me And My Gal......Gene Kelly & Judy Garland

15. Puttin' On The Ritz......Clark Gable & Co

16. Hallelujah.....Tony Martin, Vic Damone, Kay Armen, Ann Miller. Debbie Reynolds

17. Bless Your Beautiful Hide.....Howard Keel

18. Takin' A Chance On Love.....Ethel Waters & Eddie "Rochester" Anderson

19. As Time Goes By.....Dooley Wilson & Elliot Carpenter

20. Lara's Theme (Main Title)......The MGM Studio Orchestra

21. Over The Rainbow......Judy Garland

22. Its A Most Unusual Day.....Jane Powell

23. Wunderbar..... Kathryn Grayson & Howard Keel

24. Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man......Ava Gardner

25. Going Hollywood......Bing Crosby

26. The Trolley Song.....Judy Garland & The MGM Studio Chorus

27. Gigi......Louis Jourdan

28. I Got Rhythm......Judy Garland & Micky Rooney & Co

29. Aba Daba Honeymoon......Debbie Reynolds & Carleton Carpenter 

30. The Lady Is A Tramp......Lena Horne

31. The Best Things In Life Are Free......June Allyson & Peter Lawson

32. Cheek To Cheek.....Fred Astaire

33. A Kiss To Build A Dream On......Louis Armstrong

34. Put Em' In A Box......Doris Day & The Page Cavanaugh Trio

35. If Swing Goes I Go To......Fred Astaire

36. Almost Like Being In Love.....Gene Kelly

37. Let's Face The Music And Dance......Fred Astaire

38. Be A Clown......Gene Kelly & Judy Garland

39. Embracable You......Connie Francis

41. On The Atchison Topeka And The Santa Fe......Judy Garland & Co

41. One For My Baby And One More For The Road......Fred Astaire

        1. Singin' In The Rain

Judy Garland Classic Duets 2

Here's No 2 of the Duets of Judy Garland.

Judy on the radio !...Judy from soundtracks !....Judy on 78's....All re-mastered fantastically not a hiss or scratch or fades heard... could have been recorded yesterday!!...BUT all tracks are from 1936 to 1943 !!

1. Its A Great Day For the Irish...with Douglas McPhall...(Little Nelly Kelly)...1940

2. We Must Have Music...with Tony Martin...(Ziegfield Girl)...1940

3. Laugh? I Thought I'd Split My Sides...Charles Winninger...(Ziegfield Girl)...1941

4. Ballin' The Jack...with Gene Kelly...(For Me And My Gal)...1942

5. For Me And My Gal...with Gene Kelly...(For Me And My Gal)...1942

6. For Me And My Gal...with Gene Kelly...(Decca 78rpm)...1942

7. When You Wore A Tulip And I Wore A Big Red Rose...with Gene Kelly...(Decca 78rpm)..1942

8. All Through The Day...Gene Kelly...(Hollywood Bowl Rehearsal)...1946

9. Be A Clown...with Gene Kelly...(The Pirate)...1947

10. (Howdy Neighbor) Happy Harvest...with Gene Kelly...(Summer Stock)...1950

11. All For You...with Gene Kelly...(Summer Stock)...1950

12. You Wonderful You...with Gene Kelly...(Summer Stock)...1950

13. Where Do We Go From Here...with The King's Men...(for Me And My Gal)...1950

14. Bidin' My Time...with The King's Men...(Girl Crazy)...1943

15. Play That Barbershop Chord...The King's Men...(In The Good Old Summertime)...1948

16. Every Little Movement Has A Meaning...with Mary Kent...Presenting Lily Mars...1942

17. There'll Always Be An England...with Charles Thomas...(Radio)...1943

18. People Will Say We're In Love...with Bing Crosby...(Radio)...1943

19. People Will Say We're In Love...with Bing Crosby...(Radio)...1944

20. You Tell Me Your Dream...with Bing Crosby...(Radio)

21. Something To Remember You By...with Bing Crosby...(Radio)...1944

22. The Way You Look Tonight...with Bing Crosby...(Radio)...1944

23. Medley...with Bing Crosby...(Radio)...1944

24. You've Got Me Where You Want Me...with Bing Crosby...(Decca 78rpm)

25. Mine...with Bing Crosby...(Decca 78rpm)

26. Connecticut...with Bing Crosby...(Decca 78rpm)

27. Yah-Ta-Ta-Yah-Ta-Ta (Talk Talk Talk)...with Bing Crosby...(Decca 78rpm)

       7. When You Wore A Tulip And I Wore A Big Red Rose

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.

Jane Harvey.

Here we definatly have a Jazz singer !!


Jane Harvey (January 6, 1925, – August 15, 2013) was an American jazz singer, known for recording several tracks with famous musicians and Benny Goodman during the 1940s. Harvey began her musical career at Barney Josephson's nightclub, occasionally performing there.

In 1946, she joined Desi Arnaz's Orchestra, until she left in 1958 to raise her son, Bob Thiele Jr. She also entertained at military bases overseas with Bob Hope. Around the time of her death, she performed locally, all over the Los Angeles area.

Jane Harvey's a singer who didn't record much in the late 50s (according to the notes, she spent most of her time playing house with Bob Thiele!) -- but she's a hell of a great singer, and one we wish had issued more sessions like this! She's got a voice trained in the big bands, one with more than enough punch to swing out in front of a large group on the stage -- but she's also recording here in a hipper 50s jazz setting, one that brings a nice "close up" feel to her dynamic energy -- letting it open up strongly on some swingers, and sparkle in more subtle ways on some of the gentler backings. The arrangements aren't credited, but they're pretty fresh, and free from hoke -- and titles include "Telephonez Moi", "Witchcraft", "Blue Again", "A Lover In The House", "Impossible", "Misty", and "Can't Get Out Of This Mood".

(Info from SwingbossaJazz.Blogspot)


Popular culture fondly remembers vocalist Jane Harvey mostly for her associations with bandleaders Benny Goodman and Desi Arnaz. Harvey’s time with both orchestras was brief, however, and she spent the majority of the 1940s singing in nightclubs. Harvey made only a handful of recordings during the big band era, none of them hits, though her legacy has continued to endure. A great deal of false information exists about Harvey’s career, including an incorrect attribution to singing with Duke Ellington’s orchestra.

1. Sent For You Yesterday And Here You Come Today
2. Misty
3. Everything But You
4. Impossible
5. A Lover In The House
6. Telephonez Moi

1. Witchcraft
2. Trav'lin Light
3. The Man That Got Away
4. Blue Again
5. Can't Get Out Of This Mood

2. Trav'lin Light

ILene Woods.

Jacqueline Ruth "Ilene" Woods (May 5, 1929 – July 1, 2010) was an American actress and singer. Woods was the original voice of the title character of the Walt Disney animated feature Cinderella, for which she was named a Disney Legend in 2003.

This was the only studio recording that she made apart from her "Disney" work "Cinderella" & "Snow White".......her voice has that gentle quality to it wouldn't say it was in the Jazz type but it's blended to  the well known standard songs that most of the lady singers of the jazz style did....Its sad that she did not record any more and even sadder about her later life...For something realy good and pleasant this is a must to listen to !!!

In 1948, two of her songwriter friends, Mack David and Jerry Livingston, called Woods to record "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo", "A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes", and "So This is Love". Soon, the songs were presented to Walt Disney so that they could be used in the English version of Cinderella. Walt Disney heard the demo recordings, and two days later asked Ilene to voice the star role of Cinderella. She gladly accepted  She said in an interview for Classicfilm, "Seeing it [the film] in its new form was breathtaking for me. It's so beautiful. The color is magnificent, it just took my breath away, it was so wonderful. I sort of forget when I'm watching the movie that I had anything to do with it. 


Suffering from Alzheimer's disease in a nursing home at Canoga Park, Woods didn't remember that she voiced Cinderella but was mostly comforted by the film's song "A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes" and the nurses played it for her as often as possible, realizing she liked it. She died on July 1 2010.

1. Its A Blue World
2. Everytime
3. When Your Lover Has Gone
4. If I Love Again
5. What A Difference A Day Makes
6. Estrelita

1. While We're Young
2. If You Were Mine
3. I'm Old Fashioned
4. You're Blase
5. I Remember You
6. It's Late

3. When Your Lover Has Gone.

Kitty White.

Another classy forgotten singer from the 50's/ 60's well worth a listen to  

Kitty Jean Bilbrew, better known as Kitty White (July 7, 1923 – August 11, 2009) was an American jazz singer who was popular in Los Angeles nightclubs.

She was a popular jazz vocalist best remembered for the song "Crawfish" which she sang as a duet with Elvis Presley in the film "King Creole" (1958).

She started her career at the age of sixteen as a singer and a pianist. She appeared in local night clubs in her home town Los Angeles like the Hob Nob, the Club Gala, the Haig and The Captain's Table. When Kitty branched out and opened at the Black Orchid in Chicago, Illinois, she was introduced to the executives of Mercury Records, and she became a Mercury recording artist.In the 1960s, she recorded for the jazz division of Mercury Records with hits including "The End", The Ballad of Emmett Till", "Roly Poly", "Rather Have the Blues" and "I Went to Your Wedding". She also performed and recorded with jazz artists, Duke Ellington, Laurindo Almeida, Red Callendar, Buddy Collette and Ben Webster.

9. Porgy.

Helen Humes

Helen Humes (June 23, 1913 – September 9, 1981) was an American jazz and blues singer.

This L/P was recorded in 1960 and I am wondering why I have never heard of her before because , as the notes say's below she sounds like a young Ella which as soon as I heard this L/P that was my first thought......It does nothing to take away the fact that she was a fine underrated singer that I feel should have been more popular....


Humes was a teenage blues singer, a vocalist with Count Basie's band, a saucy R&B diva, and a mature interpreter of the classy popular song. Along with other well-known jazz singers of the swing era, Humes helped to shape and define the sound of vocal swing music.
Humes's vocal range was from G3 to C5, as she stated in a letter to the arranger Buck Clayton in preparation for a European tour, along with a list of her preferred songs. According to many critics, her voice was versatile, suiting pop songs and ballads as well as blues. She was compared to Ethel Waters and Mildred Bailey from early in her career and was often recorded singing the blues after her association with Basie. In an interview with the jazz critic Whitney Balliett, Humes explained, "I've been called a blues singer, a jazz singer, and a ballad singer – well, I'm all three, which means I'm just a singer." A review from Downbeat Magazine of her albums Talk of the Town, Helen Comes Back, and Helen Humes with Red Norvo and His Orchestra said the following about her collaboration with Red Norvo:


Norvo's sparkling vibes are the ideal compliment to Helen's lithe, light timbered clarity…Helen is in particularly fine voice…with an uncanny resemblance to early Ella [Fitzgerald] in her sound and phrasing.

1. If I Could Be With You.

Ronnie Carroll

 With a voice that is similar to Nat King Cole  and a wife by the name of Millicent Martin he should have been more successful than he was...here is a great selection of songs that is Happy and Blue !!

Ronnie Carroll (born Ronald Cleghorn; 18 August 1934 – 13 April 2015) was a Northern Irish singer, entertainer and political candidate.

He scored his first hit in 1956 with "Walk Hand in Hand" on the Philips label.He is the only singer to have represented the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest two years in succession.[ Having taken part in the 1960 UK Eurovision selection contest with the song "Girl with a Curl", he returned to win the selection and be Britain's entry in the 1962 contest, and with the song "Ring-a-Ding Girl" shared fourth place, the same placing he reached in 1963 with "Say Wonderful Things". This success was followed by two Top 10 hits during 1962 and 1963, but a lack of good material meant that he could not sustain a chart presence. In 1962 he appeared on the bill of "The Winifred Atwell Show". From Monday, 17th September, 1962, for one week only, he gave twice nightly performances at the Brighton Hippodrome.


Carroll subsequently worked on cruise ships, including the QE2, with John Marcangelo who was the drummer with the Ronnie Carroll Orchestra. He played a pop musician named 'Ronnie' in the 1965 film Man in the Dark. 

12. I'll Be Around.

Joanie Sommers.

If you like you music sung softly with the Brazilian Beat then have listen to this one !

Joanie Sommers (born Joan Drost, Buffalo, New York, February 24, 1941) is an American singer and actress with a career concentrating on jazz, standards and popular material and show-business credits. Once billed as "The Voice of the Sixties", and associated with top-notch arrangers, songwriters and producers, Sommers' popular reputation became closely tied to her biggest, yet most uncharacteristic, hit song, "Johnny Get Angry".

1. Meditation

2. Dear Heart

3. Watching The World Go By

4. Quiet Nights

5. Once

6. Softly As I Leave You

1. I Could Have Danced All Night

2. I'll Remember April

3. You Can't Go Home Again

4. Manha De Carnival

5. Old Guitron

6. Thats All

        

        4. Manha De Carnival

Teresa Brewer

A Great L/P that shows that the "Music Music Music" girl could sing the standards with feeling and later on in her career paved the way for the Jazz L/P's...

Teresa Brewer (born Theresa Veronica Breuer; May 7, 1931 – October 17, 2007) was an American singer whose style incorporated pop, country, jazz, R&B, musicals, and novelty songs. She was one of the most prolific and popular female singers of the 1950s, recording nearly 600 songs.

An agent, Richie Lisella, heard her sing and took her career in hand, and soon she was signed to a contract with London Records. In 1949 she recorded the song Copenhagen (a jazz perennial) with the Dixieland All-Stars. For the B side she recorded the song "Music! Music! Music!". Unexpectedly, it was not the A side but the B side which took off, selling over a million copies and becoming Teresa's signature song. Another novelty song, "Choo'n Gum", hit the top 20 in 1950, followed by "Molasses, Molasses". Although she preferred to sing ballads, her only recorded ballad to make the charts was "Longing for You" in 1951.

Brewer re-emerged as a jazz vocalist on Thiele's Amsterdam label in the 1980s and 1990s recording a number of albums including tribute albums to Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller and Irving Berlin. She also recorded with such jazz greats as Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Earl Hines, Svend Asmussen and Bobby Hackett. A landmark recording in her career was Softly I Swing (Red Baron Records, 1992) which was produced by Thiele and featured David Murray, Ron Carter, Kenny Barron and Grady Tate. And "Memories of Louis", also recorded for Thiele's Red Baron Records. 

1. When Your Lover has Gone

2. Maybe You'll Be There

3. I Had The Craziest Dream

4. Darn That Dream

5. Baby Don't Be Mad At Me

6. A Faded Summer Love

1. Mixed Emotions

2. You Go To My Head

3. More Than You Know

4. Music Maestro Please

5. Time Out For Tears

6. Fools Rush In

        2. Maybe You'll Be There