Forces' Sweethearts and Heart Throbs of World War II - 47 original mono recordings 1939-1945

 

The Forces Sweethearts

1-1 Judy Garland– Over The Rainbow

1-2 Vera Lynn– We’ll Meet Again

1-3 Gracie Fields– Wish Me Luck As You Wave Me Goodbye

1-4 Martha Raye– Melancholy Mood

1-5 Connie Boswell– On The Isle Of May

1-6 The Andrews Sisters– I’ll Be With You In Apple-Blossom Time

1-7 Ella Fitzgerald– Imagination

1-8 Helen Ward– I Cover The Waterfront

1-9 Elsie Carlisle– A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square

1-10 Peggy Lee– Somebody Else Is Taking My Place

1-11 Helen Forrest– I Don’t Want To Walk Without You

1-12 The Andrews Sisters– Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy

1-13 Lena Horne– Stormy Weather

1-14 Maxine Sullivan– When Your Lover Has Gone

1-15 Dinah Shore– Skylark

1-16 Peggy Lee– The Way You Look Tonight

1-17 Vera Lynn– The White Cliffs Of Dover

1-18 Frances Langford– Serenade In Blue

1-19 Deanna Durbin– Say A Prayer For The Boys Over There

1-20 Anne Shelton– Lili Marlene

1-21 Jo Stafford– I Love You

1-22 Dinah Shore– I’ll Walk Alone

1-23 Doris Day– Sentimental Journey

1-24 Anne Shelton– I’ll Be Seeing You

1-25 Mary Martin– Goodnight, Wherever You Are

The Heart-Throbs

2-1 Frank Sinatra– This Love Of Mine

2-2 Chick Henderson– Begin The Beguine

2-3 Dick Todd– To You Sweetheart, Aloha

2-4 Jean Sablon– J’attendrai

2-5 Ray Eberle– Faithful Forever

2-6 Denny Dennis– Stardust

2-7 Frank Sinatra– I’ll Never Smile Again

2-8 Bing Crosby– Only Forever

2-9 Al Bowlly– Dreaming

2-10 Bob Eberly– Blue Champagne

2-11 Tony Martin – Where In The World?

2-12 Ray Eberle – Skylark

2-13 Kenny Baker – Always In My Heart

2-14 Vaughn Monroe– When The Lights Go On Again

2-15 Fred Astaire– Dearly Beloved

2-16 Turner Layton– As Time Goes By

2-17 Dick Haymes– You’ll Never Know

2-18 Hutch – You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To

2-19 Nat King Cole– Embraceable You

2-20 Perry Como– Long Ago And Far Away

2-21 Bing Crosby– I'll Be Seeing You

2-22 Donald Peers– In A Shady Nook, By A Babbling Brook

2-23 Sam Browne– I’m So All Alone

2-24 Dick Haymes– Love Letters

Forces' Sweethearts and Heart Throbs

Dean Martin – Dino: Italian Love Songs / Cha Cha De Amor

 

Dino: Italian Love Songs

1 Just Say I Love Her

2 Arrivederci, Roma

3 My Heart Reminds Me

4 You're Breaking My Heart

5 Non Dimenticar

6 Return To Me

7 Vieni Su

8 On An Evening In Roma

9 Pardon

10 Take Me In Your Arms

11 I Have But One Heart

12 There's No Tomorrow

Cha Cha De Amor

13 Somebody Loves You

14 My One And Only Love

15 Love (Your Spell Is Everywhere)

16 I Wish You Love

17 Cha Cha Cha D'Amour

18 A Hundred Years From Today

19 I Love You Much Too Much

20 (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons

21 Let Me Love You Tonight

22 Amor

23 Two Loves Have I

24 If Love Is Good To Me

Dino: Italian Love Songs / Cha Cha De Amor

Various Artists – What A Wonderful World: Hits Of Yesteryear...popular hits from the 50's and 60's

 

An eclectic mix of popular and classic hits from the 50's and 60's covering rock and roll, jazz-pop, soul, popular, crooners, swing, calypso, reggae and lounge.

Tracklist
1-1    Carl Perkins–    Shake, Rattle And Roll
1-2    The Crickets –    Oh Boy!
1-3    Jerry Lee Lewis–    Great Balls Of Fire
1-4    Elvis Presley–    Suspicious Minds
1-5    The Crystals–    Da Doo Ron Ron
1-6    Neil Sedaka–    Oh! Carol
1-7    Del Shannon–    Runaway
1-8    The Isley Brothers–    Should (Part 1 & 2)
1-9    Ben E. King–    Stand By Me
1-10    The Drifters–    Under The Boardwalk
1-11    Dion –    The Wanderer
1-12    Everly Brothers–    Bye Bye Love
1-13    Chris Montez–    The More I See You
1-14    Bobby Darin–    Dream Lover
1-15    Paul Anka–    Put Your Head On My Shoulder
1-16    Bing Crosby–    Dream A Little Dream Of Me
1-17    Frank Sinatra–    When You're Smiling (The Whole World Smiles With You)
1-18    Bobby Vinton–    Blue Velvet
1-19    The Righteous Brothers–    Unchained Melody
1-20    Percy Sledge–    When A Man Loves A Woman
1-21    Rosemary Clooney With Perez Prado And His Orchestra–    Sway

2-1    Sammy Davis Jr.–    Mr Bojangles
2-2    Jimmy Durante–    As Times Go By
2-3    Doris Day–    Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)
2-4    Buddy Greco–    One For My Baby
2-5    Charlie Rich–    The Most Beautiful Girl
2-6    Lesley Gore–    It's My Party
2-7    Mel Tormé–    I've Got You Under My Skin
2-8    Harold Melvin And The Blue Notes–    If You Don't Know Me By Now
2-9    Etta James–    At Last
2-10    Perry Como With Mitchell Ayres And His Orchestra–    Young At Heart
2-11    Ray Peterson With Shorty Rogers–    The Wonder Of You
2-12    Screamin' Jay Hawkins–    I Put A Spell On You
2-13    The Chordettes–    Lollipop
2-14    The Champs–    Tequila
2-15    Chuck Berry–    Johnny B. Goode
2-16    Johnny Nash–    I Can See Clearly Now
2-17    Mario Lanza–    O Sole Mio
2-18    Tony Bennett–    I Left My Heart In San Francisco
2-19    Johnny Ray & The Four Lads–    Cry
2-20    Harry Belafonte–    Banana Boat (Day-O)

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Chart-Toppers of the Thirties - The 25 Greatest Hits of the Decade

 

Tracklist
1    Rudy Vallee–    Stein Song
2    Nathaniel Shilkret–    Dancing With Tears In My Eyes
3    Gus Arnheim–    Sweet And Lovely
4    Bing Crosby–    Please
5    Ted Lewis–    In A Shanty In Old Shanty Town
6    Fred Astaire–    Night And Day
7    Harold Arlen–    Stormy Weather
8    Al Bowlly–    Love Is The Sweetest Thing
9    George Olsen–    The Last Round Up
10    Paul Whiteman–    Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
11    Bing Crosby–    June In January
12    Al Bowlly–    Isle Of Capri
13    Fred Astaire–    Cheek To Cheek
14    Benny Goodman–    The Glory Of Love
15    Bing Crosby–    Pennies From Heaven
16    Fred Astaire–    The Way You Look Tonight
17    Bing Crosby–    Sweet Leilani
18    Tommy Dorsey–    Once In A While
19    Ella Fitzgerald–    A Tisket A Tasket
20    Tommy Dorsey–    Music Maestro Please
21    Larry Clinton–    My Reverie
22    Artie Shaw–    Begin The Beguine
23    Larry Clinton–    Deep Purple
24    Glenn Miller–    Over The Rainbow
25    Frankie Masters–    Scatterbrain

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Steve Conway...My Foolish Heart...24 original mono recordings 1946-1951...British balladeer

 

Steve Conway received notoriety as a British balladeer in the post-World War II era. Although forgotten today, he was considered a star being compared to Bing Crosby, had a string of best-selling 78rpm records, sung to sell-out performances, and his own BBC radio show on Sunday afternoons.

b. Walter James Groom, 24 October 1920, Hackney, London, England, d. 19 April 1952, London, England. Conway was a ballad singer with a smooth, straightforward delivery, sometimes compared to the 30s heartthrob, Al Bowlly. As a young boy Conway suffered rheumatic fever that left him with a weak heart, making him unsuitable for military service during World War II. After singing in local bars and ballrooms, he made his broadcasting debut in 1945 on Variety Bandbox, followed by appearances with top dance bands Lew Stone and Ambrose and a series of broadcasts with Peter Yorke and His Concert Orchestra. 

In 1945 Conway signed for Columbia Records (UK), and recorded nearly 100 titles through to 1951. Some of these were solemn ballads such as ‘Bless This House’, ‘At The End Of The Day’ and ‘Good Luck, Good Health, God Bless You’. The rest included schmaltzy treatments of standard songs such as ‘My Foolish Heart’, ‘Mona Lisa’, ‘Look For The Silver Lining’, ‘The Gypsy’ and ‘Too Young’. Orchestra accompaniments were by Roberto Inglez, Peter Yorke, Jack Byfield, Arthur Young, Jackie Brown and Philip Green with occasional assistance from the Hastings Girls’ Choir. 

In the late 40s and early 50s Conway toured the UK variety circuit, but his health steadily deteriorated. After collapsing onstage in December 1951, he died a few months later at Guy’s Hospital, London. 

Steve Conway

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Christmas Crooner Wesley Alfvin and Grammy Winning Production Team Marry New with Nostalgia in Holiday Album

 

Like a ride on a sleigh through a twinkling town dressed in white, a new album from velvet-voiced Wesley Alfvin makes its way to the fore. Offering listeners a romp through a sentimental wonderland of all things festive, “The Magic of Christmas Eve” is what one could call a well-won respite wrapped in holiday cheer. Containing five original songs and four re-imagined classics, the Christmas album debuted at #37 on the iTunes Top 200 Holiday Chart. This nod is high-acclaim in any environment, especially for a self-produced album that, despite quarantine, embraced musicians’ talents from all over the world keen to share their art. Partner that with the expertise of a Grammy and Emmy award-winning production team who kept company with the Sinatras, and it’s no wonder it’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas.

Infused with a nostalgic gait fresh from the 1940's, the album was arranged by Ryan O’Connell, who assisted with orchestrations for “Sinatra 100” on CBS and “Michael Bublé’s Christmas in Hollywood” on NBC. Adding to the impressive list, the tracks were mixed by Grammy and Emmy award-winner Carl Glanville, who worked on Frank Sinatra’s final studio albums, “Duets” and “Duets II.” Enlisting the expertise of yet another Grammy winner, all holiday songs were mastered by Dave Collins, who worked on Nancy Sinatra’s album “Shifting Gears.”

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The Many Moods of Mad Men.....a musical companion....various artists...from the 40's to the 60's

Tracklist
1-1 –Don Cherry Band Of Gold
1-2 –George Jenkins And His All Stars Caravan
1-3 –Vic Damone On The Street Where You Live
1-4 –The Andrews Sisters With The Gordon Jenkins Orchestra* I Can Dream, Can’t I?
1-5 –Ella Fitzgerald Manhattan
1-6 –Miles Davis Blue In Green
1-7 –The Aquatones You
1-8 –Percy Faith Non Dimenticar
1-9 –The Bud Powell Trio There Will Never Be Another You
1-10 –Luiz Bonfá Night And Day
1-11 –Rosemary Clooney Botch-A-Me
1-12 –Miles Davis Concierto De Aranjuez
1-13 –Rinky Dinks Choo Choo Cha Cha
1-14 –Chubby Checker The Twist
1-15 –Bobby Helms My Special Angel
1-16 –McGuire Sisters Volare
1-17 –Yma Sumac Gopher Mambo
1-18 –Frankie Laine Metro Polka
1-19 –Chubby Checker Let’s Twist Again
1-20 –Baby Washington & The Plants Congratulations Honey
1-21 –Kyu Sakamoto Ue O Muite Arko (Sukiyaki)
1-22 –Jack Jones Lollipops And Roses
1-23 –Perry Como Blue Room
1-24 –The Percy Faith Orchestra Theme From A Summer Place
1-25 –The Pentagons I’m In Love
1-26 –Brenda Lee Break It To Me Gently

2-1 –Peter, Paul & Mary Early In The Morning
2-2 –Marilyn Monroe I’m Through With Love
2-3 –The Gigalos Swingin’ Saints
2-4 –The Tornadoes Telstar
2-5 –Martin Denny Misirlou
2-6 –Johnny Mathis What’ll I Do
2-7 –George Jones Cup Of Loneliness
2-8 –Acker Bilk Stranger On The Shore
2-9 –The Pentagons To Be Loved
2-10 –Big Sid Catlett Quartet Featuring Ben Webster Memories Of You
2-11 –Bob Dylan Song To Woody
2-12 –Pete Mann I Followed My Heart
2-13 –Tennessee Ernie Ford Sixteen Tons
2-14 –Bobby Van & Kay Coulter There’s A Small Hotel
2-15 –Clyde Stacy & The Nitecaps So Young
2-16 –Skeeter Davis The End Of The World
2-17 –Teresa Brewer I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
2-18 –Patti Page Old Cape Cod
2-19 –Doris Day I Enjoy Being A Girl
2-20 –Etta James Trust In Me
2-21 –Gillian Hills Zou Bisou Bisou
2-22 –Ken Griffin Ebb Tide
2-23 –The Crystals He Hit Me (And It Flet Like A Kiss)
2-24 –Connie Conway I Should Not Be Seeing You
2-25 –Maurice Chevalier Sweepin’ The Clouds Away

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Doris Day....Hits, Hollywood and Broadway

Doris Day (born Doris Mary Kappelhoff; April 3, 1922 – May 13, 2019) was an American actress, singer, and animal welfare activist. She began her career as a big band singer in 1939, achieving commercial success in 1945 with two No. 1 recordings, "Sentimental Journey" and "My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time" with Les Brown & His Band of Renown. She left Brown to embark on a solo career and recorded more than 650 songs from 1947 to 1967.

Day's film career began during the latter part of the classical Hollywood era with the film Romance on the High Seas (1948), leading to a 20-year career as a motion picture actress. She starred in films of many genres, including musicals, comedies, and dramas. She played the title role in Calamity Jane (1953) and starred in Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) with James Stewart. Her best-known films are those in which she co-starred with Rock Hudson, chief among them 1959's Pillow Talk, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She also worked with James Garner on both Move Over, Darling (1963) and The Thrill of It All (1963), and also starred with Clark Gable, Cary Grant, James Cagney, David Niven, Jack Lemmon, Frank Sinatra, Richard Widmark, Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall and Rod Taylor in various movies. After ending her film career in 1968, only briefly removed from the height of her popularity, she starred in the sitcom The Doris Day Show (1968–1973).

Day became one of the biggest film stars in the early 1960s, and as of 2012 was one of eight performers to have been the top box-office earner in the United States four times. In 2011, she released her 29th studio album My Heart which contained new material and became a UK Top 10 album. She received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and a Legend Award from the Society of Singers. In 1960, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, and was given the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures in 1989. In 2004, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom; this was followed in 2011 by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association's Career Achievement Award.

HITS HOLLYWOOD BROADWAY

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Mel Torme..Swingin' On the Moon...classic album from 1960 on Verve

Mel Tormé was so outrageously talented that even the fans of his "velvet fog" timbre under-estimate him--undoubtedly the one singer who approaches Lady Ella in terms of his commanding musicianship, his voice and all that he could do with it. He had definitely reached his prime by 1960, and this Sinatra-type "concept album," an idea stolen from Frank, pre-dates by five years the album ("Moonlight Sinatra") Ole Blue devoted to moon songs. Either way you can't go wrong.

Melvin Howard Tormé (September 13, 1925 – June 5, 1999), nicknamed The Velvet Fog, was an American musician, best known as a singer of jazz standards. He was also a jazz composer and arranger, drummer, an actor in radio, film, and television, and the author of five books. He composed the music for "The Christmas Song" ("Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire") and co-wrote the lyrics with Bob Wells.

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Frank Sinatra...Songs for Young Lovers and Swing Easy!

These 2 albums were originally released back to back in 1954 on Capitol Records. Both have orchestra conducted by Nelson Riddle and were very popular with Sinatra fans at the time. They have since become classics in their own right and essential listening for any Sinatra buff or collector.

Songs for Young Lovers was the seventh studio album by Frank Sinatra and his first on Capitol Records. It was issued as an 8-song, 10" album (Capitol H-488) and as a 45rpm EP set, but it was the first Sinatra "album" to not have a 78rpm multi-disc-album release. In 2002, it was one of 50 recordings chosen that year by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry. Read more on Wikipedia HERE.

Swing Easy! was the eighth studio album by Frank Sinatra. It was released in 1954 as a 10" album (Capitol H-528) and consisted of only eight songs, as each side of the record only allowed approximately fourteen minutes of music. The album was Sinatra's second for Capitol and the first to feature arrangements by Nelson Riddle (Riddle had merely conducted on Songs For Young Lovers). As its title implies, the record concentrates on up-tempo swingers done with a light touch. Again, the songs were all standards -- "Just One of Those Things," "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams," "All of Me" -- which the singer felt benefited from the new thematic setting, new arrangements, and his increasingly playful and textured vocal style. Read more on Wikipedia HERE.

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I Can Dream, Can't I? Hits of 1950...Various Artists

A nostalgic, 25 track collection of classic hits on the Living Era label from the year of 1950. This was the era of crooners, male and female vocal groups, popular vocalists and novelty songs that are well remembered. 

Artists include Patti Page, Peggy Lee, Mel Torme, Bing Crosby, Billy Eckstine, The Ames brothers, Doris Day, Nat King Cole, The Andrews Sisters, Teresa Brewer, The Weavers, Perry Como, The Weavers and The Mills Brothers.

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Dick Haymes...Soft Lights and Sweet Music

Dick Haymes was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1918. He became a vocalist in a number of big bands, worked in Hollywood, on radio, and in films throughout the 1940's/1950's.

Though never achieving the immensely popular status of fellow baritone crooners like Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, or Perry Como, Haymes was nonetheless just as respected for his musical ability. On September 3, 1942, Sinatra introduced Haymes on radio as Sinatra's replacement in the Tommy Dorsey band. Prior to joining Dorsey's group, Haymes sang with the Harry James orchestra.

In 1945 Haymes co-starred with Jeanne Crain, Dana Andrews and Vivian Blaine in the musical State Fair. He teamed with female vocalist Helen Forrest for many hit duets during World War Two, including "Together," "I'll Buy That Dream," and "Long Ago and Far Away"; he sang with Judy Garland on two Decca recordings of songs from the film The Shocking Miss Pilgrim, in which he appeared with Betty Grable.

He paired repeatedly with the Andrews Sisters (Patty, Maxene, and LaVerne) on a dozen or so Decca collaborations, including the Billboard hit "Teresa," "Great Day," "My Sin," and a 1952 rendering of the dramatic ballad "Here in My Heart," backed by the sisters and Nelson Riddle's lush strings. His duets with Patty Andrews were also well received, both on Decca vinyl and on radio's Club Fifteen with the sisters, which he hosted in 1949 and 1950. He also joined Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters for 1947 session that produced the Billboard hit "There's No Business Like Show Business," as well as "Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better)." His popular renditions of tender ballads such as "Little White Lies" and "Maybe It's Because" were recorded with celebrated arranger Gordon Jenkins and his orchestra and chorus.

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So Rare...Gramophone Records Compilation by Barry Humphries ...update of expired link

This was the first post on this blog way back in January, 2013. It has been very popular with numerous hits and the expired link has now been updated. 

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Steven Chera Pays Homage to Elvis with New Album "My Tribute To The King"

NYC Crooner, Steven Chera, pays homage to Elvis Presley in MY TRIBUTE TO THE KING

New Album Out Now!

Steven Chera is a singer and song stylist of 1940-1960′s era music — born, bred, and still living in New York City. He has four released CDs, including his most recently released album Smile–his first CD of original material–written for him by his director and coach, Shellen Lubin.

Following last year’s releases of In The Key of Jazz: A Tribute to The Beatles, out last July and Smile, released last October, Steven Chera releases My Tribute To The King, comprised entirely of his take on Elvis classics. Chera’s chief influences range from American Songbook to Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra, to the Beatles and the Doors. Reigning supreme among his musical heroes, though, is Elvis Presley, whose music Chera fell in love with early in life. In honor of the king of rock 'n' roll, the release of My Tribute To The King coincided with the anniversary of Elvis' passing (August 16th).

Chera has been honing his Elvis impression to perfection from an early age, as is evidenced in songs like "Mean Woman Blues" and “I Want You, I Need You, I Love You”. The self-taught singer reaches the latter song’s peak as he croons, “But now I know that I will go on loving you eternally,” effortlessly singing in the style of the King while infusing his own brand of charisma.

The Brooklyn-born Chera spent his early years listening to and studying music legends like Nat King Cole, Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra, and Bobby Darin. He started to perform at the age of 13, and has never stopped pursuing his music alongside his responsibilities to the family retail business. His work reflects a range of musical styles and appeals to the fans of Elvis Presley and the Beatles, to Queen and the Doors.


                                             

My Tribute To The King - track listing
1. That's Alright Mama
2. Love Me
3. Mean Woman Blues
4. I Want You, I Need You, I Love You
5. Trying To Get To You
6. One Night With You
7. Little Sister
8. It's Now Or Never
9. Suspicious Minds
10. Wonder Of You

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Marty's review: There have been many artists releasing albums of Elvis covers and tributes (not to mention the numerous amount of Elvis impersonators worldwide), but Steven Chera has done a sterling job of presenting a selection of Elvis favorites done in his own style. Without trying to sound exactly like the King, Steven's voice is more than suited to these tracks and he does it in a style that compliments the originals without changing the arrangements too dramatically. Whether you're an Elvis fan or not, this album will certainly appeal as a collection on its own and deserves attention and listening.

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L.A.Confidential original soundtrack Vintage Sounds from the 1950's

Compilation soundtracks are a great way to collect songs from different artists, eras and genres, and this soundtrack is no exception.  Each vintage recording from the 50s perfectly underscores every scene in the film and the 50s period itself. With a fine selection of artists including Gerry Mulligan, Kay Starr, Johnny Mercer, Chet Baker, Lee Willey, Joni James, Jackie Gleason and Betty Hutton - all household names at the time and musical kingpins in this award-winning, romantic crime thriller, this soundtrack is the perfect backdrop for some excellent vintage sounds. 

It was Jackie Gleason who was perhaps the first to introduce "mood" music - music for lovers - and it caught on big-time during most of the 50s. Picture long flowing hair on the women, cool martinis, a black and white legal system, racial tension between the haves and have-nots - and this soundtrack captures it almost perfectly. As a bonus, there are two tracks of the original motion picture score by Jerry Goldsmith, including the emotionally evocative closing credits with the understated trumpet lead. 

1. 'Badge Of Honor' - Jerry Goldsmith

2. Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive - Johnny Mercer

3. The Christmas Blues - Dean Martin

4. Look For The Silver Lining - Chet Baker

5. Makin' Whoopee - Gerry Mulligan Quartet

6. Hit The Road To Dreamland - Betty Hutton

7. Oh! Look At Me Now - Lee Wiley

8. The Lady Is A tramp - Gerry Mulligan Quartet

9. Wheel Of Fortune - Kay Starr

10. But Not For Me - Jackie Gleason

11. How Important Can It Be - Joni James

12. Looking At You - Lee Wiley

13. Powder Your Face With Sunshine - Dean Martin

14. L.A. Confidential - Jerry Goldsmith

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Frank Sinatra .. Sinatra Sings the Songs of Van Heusen and Cahn

Here's a conversation many years ago between Frank Sinatra and his favorite lyricist Sammy Cahn one night at the Palladium Ballroom during the earliest part of his musical career:
Sinatra: "I'm gonna be the best singer in the world."
Cahn: "There's no doubt about it."

Yes, indeed, both Sinatra and Cahn were right about it. Cahn didn't doubt Sinatra when he said that he's going to be the best singer in the world. Of course, he became the best of the best, unmatched, one-of-a-kind and unsurpassed.

In this remarkable album, Sinatra sings the songs of an exceptional songwriting pair of Sammy Cahn and Jim Van Heusen, who have written some of the most beautiful songs from the Great American Songbook. Sammy Cahn's compositions are exceptionally charming and he really had a way with words. Five out of twenty-two songs are from the creative pens of Jim Van Heusen and Johnny Burke. All these are the songs made popular by the Chairman of the Board and were recorded between 1960 and 1968 with seven creative and the best arrangers/conductors of all-time: Nelson Riddle, Gordon Jenkins, Johnny Mandel, Sy Oliver, Quincy Jones, Neal Hefti and Torrie Zito. He left his indelible mark of excellence into these songs and made them his very own. 

One of the most influential and humanitarian people in the world, Bono, once said, "Sinatra's songs are his home, and he lets you in." It's very true, one can just imagine the beauty that he injected into each song even the most ordinary and obscure songs. They become magically wonderful to the ears of the listeners when he interpreted them.

1. Ring-A-Ding-Ding
2. The Last Dance
3. Imagination
4. Polka Dots and Moonbeams
5. It's Always You
6. Indiscreet
7. Come Waltz With Me
8. The Look of Love
9. The Tender Trap
10. Come Blow Your Horn
11. Call Me Irresponsible
12. All The Way
13. Swinging On A Star
14. My Kind Of Town
15. I Like to Lead When I Dance
16. The September Of My Years
17. I'll Only Miss Her When I Think Of Her
18. Come Fly With Me
19. Love And Marriage
20. Moonlight Becomes You
21. Oh, You Crazy Moon

22. Star!

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The Very Best of Frank Sinatra..40 Greatest Hits from the Swing Years

Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer and film actor. Beginning his musical career in the swing era as a boy singer with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra found success as a solo artist from the early to mid-1940s after being signed by Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the "bobby soxers", he released his first album, The Voice of Frank Sinatra in 1946. His professional career had stalled by the early 1950s, but it was reborn in 1953 after he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in From Here to Eternity. 

He signed with Capitol Records in 1953 and released several critically lauded albums (such as In the Wee Small Hours, Songs for Swingin' Lovers!, Come Fly with Me, Only the Lonely and Nice 'n' Easy). Sinatra left Capitol to found his own record label, Reprise Records in 1961 (finding success with albums such as Ring-a-Ding-Ding!, Sinatra at the Sands and Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim), toured internationally, was a founding member of the Rat Pack and fraternized with celebrities and statesmen, including John F. Kennedy.

Sinatra is one of the best-selling artists of all time. He was honored at the Kennedy Center Honors in 1983 and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Ronald Reagan in 1985 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 1997. Sinatra was also the recipient of eleven Grammy Awards, including the Grammy Trustees Award, Grammy Legend Award and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

This 40 track collection highlights his early swing recordings with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey.

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Bing Crosby..CBS Radio 1943-44

Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American singer and actor. Crosby's trademark bass-baritone voice made him one of the best-selling recording artists of the 20th century, with over half a billion records in circulation.

A multimedia star, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby was a leader in record sales, radio ratings and motion picture grosses. His early career coincided with technical recording innovations; this allowed him to develop a laid-back, intimate singing style that influenced many of the popular male singers who followed him, including Perry Como, Frank Sinatra, and Dean Martin. Yank magazine recognized Crosby as the person who had done the most for American G.I. morale during World War II and, during his peak years, around 1948, polls declared him the "most admired man alive," ahead of Jackie Robinson and Pope Pius XII. Also in 1948, the Music Digest estimated that Crosby recordings filled more than half of the 80,000 weekly hours allocated to recorded radio music.

On September 2, 1931, Crosby made his solo radio début. Before the end of the year, he signed with both Brunswick Records and CBS Radio. Doing a weekly 15-minute radio broadcast, Crosby quickly became a huge hit. His songs "Out of Nowhere", "Just One More Chance", "At Your Command" and "I Found a Million Dollar Baby (in a Five and Ten Cent Store)" were all among the best selling songs of 1931.

During the "Golden Age of Radio," performers often had to recreate their live shows a second time for the west coast time zone. Through the medium of recording, Crosby constructed his radio programs with the same directorial tools and craftsmanship (editing, retaking, rehearsal, time shifting) being used in motion picture production. This became the industry standard.

This 25 track collection from the 1940s contains live numbers recorded with The Henderson Choir, The Andrews Sisters, The Charioteers and Bob Hope, and a beautiful version of "White Christmas".

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