Kiki Dee

 Pauline Matthews (born 6 March 1947), better known by her stage name Kiki Dee, is an English singer. Known for her blue-eyed soul vocals, she was the first female singer from the UK to sign with Motown's Tamla Records.

Dee is best known for her 1973 hit "Amoureuse", her 1974 hit "I've Got the Music in Me" and "Don't Go Breaking My Heart", her 1976 duet with Elton John, which went to number 1 on both the UK Singles Chart and the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. Her 1981 single "Star" became the theme song for the talent show Opportunity Knocks when it was revived by the BBC in 1987. In 1993, she performed another duet with John for his Duets album, a cover version of Cole Porter's "True Love", which reached number 2 in the UK. During her career, she has released 40 singles, three EPs and 12 albums.

Cage The Song Bird was recorded in 1975 and intended as the follow-up

to 1974s I've Got The Music In Me but was never commercially released until 2008. The reasons were never clear but perhaps Rocket , management and maybe Kiki herself were a little unsure of the end result.

"Cage the Songbird" was a tribute to legendary French songstress Edith Piaf, and a year or so later was covered by Kiki Dee on an unreleased Rocket album, which finally was issued in 2008. 

         8. Rock 'N' Roll Me Baby

Carmen McRae

A great singer now leading the way to the 'Ladies Who Swing' below !!!

1. In Love In Vain

2. Where Did It Go

3. The Music That Makes Me Dance

4. Because Your Mine

5. Too Good

6. Once Upon A Summertime

1. The Night Has A Thousand Eyes

2. Cloudy Morning

3. Blame It On my Youth

4. Winter In May

5. My Reverie

6. And I Love Him

Carmen McRae and Oscar Peterson, 1956

          2. Where Did It Go 

Ladies Sing The Swing...VA

 Great singers singing some great swing songs.....enjoy some retro sounds before the weird ones below !!

          13. Baby Baby

Sounds Of The Unexpected..VA

 I guess the title says it all !!.....if you like your music a bit strange and wacky then give this a listen !!

           19. B'wana Bongos  

Tony Bennett

Vol 2 of Tony's singles....

1. Silly Dreamer

2. Sleepless

3. Somewhere Along The Way

4. I'm Lost Again

5. Have A Good Time

6. Here In my Heart

7. Roses Of Yesterday

8. You Could Make me Smile Again

9. Congratulations To Someone
10. Anywhere I Wander 

11. Stay Where You Are

12. Take Me

13.No One Will Ever Know

14. I'm The King Of Broken Heart

15. I'll Go

16. Rags To Riches

17. Here Comes The Heartache Again

           

          16. Rags To Riches

Rosemary Clooney And Harry James

Harry And Rosie Duo singing some Academy Award songs great listening !!

Hollywood's Best..... Review by William Ruhlmann Of ALLMUSIC..

Rosemary Clooney's success as a singles artist with a string of hits, including the chart-toppers "Come On-A My House" and "Half as Much," convinced Columbia Records that the time was right for her first LP, on which the rising star was paired with a faltering labelmate, trumpeter and bandleader Harry James, on an album consisting of eight of the 18 songs that won the Academy Award between 1934 and 1951. In essence, Clooney serves as the girl singer for Harry James & His Orchestra on this disc, with James' trumpet serving as a duet partner. His distinctive playing leads off the collection on a version of the 1943 Oscar-winner "You'll Never Know" before she comes in, sounding much more as she did singing in a legato style with Tony Pastor in the 1940s than as the comic dialect personality of "Come On-A My House." Clearly, this is intended as music for grownups, not for the novelty-happy hit-parade crowd. Often, these familiar songs also have familiar interpreters, and it can't be said that Clooney and James were going to make anyone forget Judy Garland's take on "Over the Rainbow" or Bing Crosby's on "Sweet Leilani" and 1951's "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening." But the album delivered exactly what it promised in the singer's clearly enunciated matter-of-fact phrasing and the instrumentalist's characteristically broad tone on some well-loved material. The album reached number three in the Billboard pop albums chart, while "You'll Never Know" spent a week in the pop singles chart.

1. You'll Never Know

2. On The Atchison Topeka And The Santa Fe

3. Ruby

4. It Might As Well Be Spring

5. Come On-a-My House

6. Over The Rainbow

1. Sweet Leilani

2. The Continental

3. Stella By Starlight

4. When You Wish Upon A Star

5. Red Garters

6. In The Cool Cool Of The Evening

          1. You'll Never Know

The Kirby Stone Four

 A very different live performance a bit hectic but entertaining....I guess if you were there it would have been delirious !! or what !!......It does go on a bit !!!.....more of a performance than musical !

 

1. Everything Is Coming Up 

2. Lazy River (Impressions)

3. British Rock-n-Roll

1. Zing Went The Strings Of My Heart

2. Show Stopper

3. Its A Really Big Shew

4. In The Good Old Summertime