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)

OVER 50 YEARS AGO

The great Billy T James (The Tainui Kid)

"I'm half Scot, half Maori. One half wants to get pissed
(drunk) the other doesn't want to pay for it"

Some from well in the past - well they seem to be from a hundred years ago; still I like them

Billy T James - Goodnight everyone - from his TV show. The Entertainer of the Decade in the 80's.

Not one to worry about being 'politically correct' he was the star of the film Came a Hot Friday
as The Tainui Kid.

Winifred Attwell - Big Ben Boogie
John Charles Thomas - Bluebird of happiness
Donald Peers - Dads birthday waltz
Jo Stafford - Ragtime cowboy Joe
Johnny Standly - Its in the book
Rudy Valee - The stein song
Richard Tauber - Pedro the fisherman
Bing Crosby, William Bendix, Sir Cedric Hardwicke -Busy doing nothing
Wilfred Pickles-Good luck good health god bless you
Joseph Locke - Blaze away - in the 'good old days' of State Radio I think they played this every morning at about 10 to 8 to remind the kids to leave for school as it was a marching song played over speakers into the playground that we marched along to. !!! Ahhhhhh.....

1950's STRIKE AGAIN

All Dave Burgess who sang I'm available - a song I would take on a trip to Mars -
Butterfly - A white sports coat - A teenagers romance

Plus some more from over a half a century ago -

Alma Cogan - Mama teach me to dance
Buddy Holly - It's So Easy
Eddie Fisher - I Wanna Go Where You Go, Do What You Do (Then I'll Be Happy)
Gaylords - O Sole Mio (There's No Tomorrow)
Johnny Ray - I'm gonna walk & talk with my Lord
Michael Holiday - Starry Eyed
Morecome & Wise - Run rabbit run
Perry Como - Catch a Falling Star
Richard Chamberlain - True love
Ted Heath - The Faithful Hussar