C & W - R & R

Carl Mann
Conway Twitty

Some Country and Western songs rock and rolled by Carl Mann and Conway Twitty.

Carl is live with South of the Border and You win again while from the studio he performs Till I waltz again with you.

Conway Twitty (born Harold Jenkins and died young at 59) has his famous rock version of Mona Lisa and Its only make believe - which was the B side of his record but luckily somebody turned it over and he was on his way.
(Link in the previous post)

FOUR KIWIS

Ray and his group were the first Kiwis to top the Ozzie charts with the fantastic She's a mod.

Ray Columbus and the Invaders - I wanna be your man and I saw her standing there
Bill and Boyd - Chulu Chululu and Cloudy summer afternoon
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From 30's to fifties

Some more oldies starting with Bing (not the Search Engine) Crosby with the wonderful Andrews Sisters - Quicksilver.

Kingston Trio - MTA

Jimmy Young - Man from Laramie

David Whitfield - Rags to riches (Tony Bennett and Gene Pitney also have a great version)

Ricky Nelson - Honeycomb from 1957

Anthony Newley - Saturday Night Rock a Boogie from the film Idle on Parade.

Beverley Sisiters - Greensleeves (written by Henry the Vlll

And from the musical Cabaret - Tomorrow belongs to me

MORE KIWIS AND SOME ODDITIES.

The Keil Isles again here with Your cheating heart, My heart cries for you and Pretty Suzie Sunshine.

Plus some odds with

Johnny Tillotsen and his Take 1 (previously unreleased) It keeps right on a hurting,

Tiny Tim with Great balls of fire, he of the strange falsetto voice who had ahit with Tiptoe thru the tulips

Norman Greenbaum and a Demo Version of his Spirit in the sky,

The Brothers (Dean & Mark) with Tell him no, not as good as Travis & Bob

Sousa - The stars & stripes forever,

Terry Lightfoots Jazzmen and True Love, a great more up-tempo version

Rusty Draper-In the middle of the house.

Back again

Mike Preston in Australia (he is top right) with The Bachelors and Twinkle.

A shot from an Australian TV cop show

Been away so some more of the real oldies from Bing Crosby with Quicksilver plus a terrific song that I have finally located, Mike Preston with My lucky love. Mike was born in Hackney U.K. in 1938 and emigrated to Australia where it seems he gave up singing (previously was a boxer) to go into acting and getting steady work in various T V shows.

Also all here today - Al Oster with Way up Alaska Way, Conway Twitty - Hey little Lucy, Bill Justis and Tamoure.

POLITICAL & ODDITIES

A couple of political ones here -

Leonard Cohen - Democracy - a brilliant song. His album with this on is worth every penny
Billy Bragg - Internationale - the song of the working class - or the Communists (the very opposite of democracy!!)

It was until 1944 the national Anthem of the Soviet Union until replaced by Hymn of the Soviet Union as it seems the soldiers were prepared to die for mother Russia but not the working class.

Some odds -

David Whitfield - Cara Mia - almost classical
Joe Dassin - Pour Un Flirt Avec Toi - a little bit of France
Millie Small -Tom Hark - the Elias and his Zig Zag Jive Flutes version is said to the the most played song at UK football (Soccer) grounds
Royal teens - Who wears shorts shorts
Tommy Steele - What a mouth - a brilliant piece sung live by the great steelman himself who did turn himself into an allround entertainer and sculptor.

ANOTHER LOT FEATURING TWO RONNIES

Ronnie Carroll - Footsteps - the original was by Steve Lawrence

The original two Ronnies above - Corbett and Barker. It is claimed that at 1m 56 (5'1) Corbett who served in the RAF was the shortest commissioned officer ever.

Chris Andrews - Pretty Belinda
Everly Bros - True Love
Lonnie Donnegan - The Party's Over
Marty Robbins Return to me.
Seekers - Isa lei
Sir Douglas Quintet - Mendocino

(See link in previous posting)