Fave songs from way back when!!

[Silentrunning]

Ever since I was a young kid I liked the great singers of the 40s and 50s. Guys like Frank Sinatra, Perry Como and even Dean Martin. The orchestration and vocals from those people still sound wonderful. I also had a crush on Dinah Shore. She had a great voice and was such a happy person. I still love to spend an afternoon with the headphones on listening to that era of music.

 

[Sean Regan]

Ever since I was a young kid I liked the great singers of the 40s and 50s. Guys like Frank Sinatra, Perry Como and even Dean Martin. The orchestration and vocals from those people still sound wonderful. I also had a crush on Dinah Shore. She had a great voice and was such a happy person. I still love to spend an afternoon with the headphones on listening to that era of music.

A lot of ex-big band singers had rewarding careers in the fifties and early sixties.

There were some great songs for them to sing. Some I find quite emotive.

Like this one, by Jo Stafford. She was originally the lead singer of "The Pied Pipers" Tommy Dorsey's Band's vocal group.
Over a million have listened to it on YouTube.

It was featured in the first series of "A Place to Call Home," when they were using all contemporary original recordings, that suited and enhanced the scene over which they were played.

This went out the window in series two, when the used mostly naff covers and "the magic was lost."

 

[Logan]

Kathy Curby springs to mind with secret love. I was under 5, I wanted to be a singer. I was amazed at her red lipstick and her white teeth. Of course i was guessing it was red. thought that i have to have white teeth to be one.
Maureen Evens Like i do

 

[Sean Regan]

Here's another favourite, "The liltin' Miss Tilton," used in another Cold Case ending. She was popular in the USA during WW2.

I've not linked the video as the reproduction is poor. The episode was about WASP, the American women who did the same job as our. ATA. The Air Transport Auxiliary, delivering new planes to airfields.

I'm digressing now but one of our ATA girls was Diana Barnato-Walker

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Barnato_Walker.

There's been a BBC documentary on her.

She was the daughter of Millionaire Woolf Barnato

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woolf_Barnato

This was the family home in West London, designed by architect Edwin Lutyens' son.

When I took this photo nearly twenty years ago it had long become a nursing home. The grandmother of our daughter's partner, lived there.

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Otis Redding........brilliant ,esp Dock of the Bay. Died so young in a tragic accident. Loved his voice....still have the records

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Buffy St Marie........Soldier Blue ......saw the fi!m when it first came out.......very moving and she captured it well in the lyrics

 

[Upsy Daisy]

No stopping me now......and I'm suppose to be sowing my Sweet Peas!

Melanie.......Ruby Tuesday and Look What They've Done To My Song Ma

 

[Upsy Daisy]

And Millie...My Boy Lollipop.......love it!!!



I'm off now.....I could reminisce all day

 

[Colin]

Hi,

Brings back memories.

Foreigner; I want to know what love is.

Eric Clapton. Wonderful tonight.

Rod stewart & Amy Belle; I don't want to talk about it.

Nat king cole. Unforgettable.

Louis armstrong; What a wonderful world.

Jennifer rush; The power of love.

Beach boys. God only knows & Good vibrations.

Any Abba.

The Temperance seven; Pasadena.

Kyu sakamoto; Sukiyaki.

Kind regards, Colin.

 

[Sean Regan]

Otis Redding........brilliant ,esp Dock of the Bay. Died so young in a tragic accident. Loved his voice....still have the records

Yep!

He fell off the dock.

Not really, he and all the other passengers died when their plane crashed into a lake. The only survivor was a non-swimmer.

 

[Sean Regan]

Some more favourites of mine, must be as I've 45s of them in one of my jukeboxes.
Ruby and the Romantics. A singing group that had the same personnel for the ten years they were recording.
Hard to categorise them, I guess the nearest genre is Doo-Wop.

The Fifth Dimension.

Lead singer Marilyn McCoo.

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Louis Armstrong's.....What a Wonderful World and Hello Dolly !!! Love his voice.

 

[Sean Regan]

I like playing this, but this is the original version, you might think if you'd not heard it before it was a black Motown girl group. but it was three "respectable looking" white girls from New Jersey.

 

[M Froggatt]

As a young man, I was obsessed with the music of Jethro Tull. Now, in my late 50's my preference is along the lines of this, absolute stellar performance from Etta James:

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Gosh Jethro Tull.......that takes me back!