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Post by david on Jun 7, 2010 8:03:31 GMT -5
December 16, 1950 US Audio only: Guy Mitchell - My Heart Cries for You www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKANNp57Ti8Not on YouTube: Perry Como - The Best Thing for You Gary, Phillip, Dennis, Lindsay and Bing Crosby - A Crosby Christmas (Parts 1 & 2) Vic Damone - My Heart Cries for You Sammy Kaye and His Swing and Sway Orchestra - Sugar Sweet Bill Lawrence - Can't Seem to Laugh Anymore The Orioles - Can't Seem to Laugh Anymore Les Paul - Sugar Sweet Dinah Shore - My Heart Cries for You Jimmy Wakeley - My Heart Cries for You #1 this week: Phil Harris - The Thing Pick of the week: Pass
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Post by cripes on Jun 7, 2010 12:24:06 GMT -5
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Post by david on Jun 7, 2010 15:08:24 GMT -5
Elvis seems to have covered a lot of these songs. This is only part of the story, since I don't have the r&b and country charts, but pre-rock pop music was a big part of what Elvis came out of.
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Post by david on Jun 7, 2010 15:14:33 GMT -5
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Post by cripes on Jun 7, 2010 15:53:06 GMT -5
Know your stars: Dennis Day Boyish tenor with a high sperm count. Dennis Day (May 21, 1916 – June 22, 1988) born Owen Patrick Eugene McNulty, was an Irish-American singer and radio, television and film personality.
Day appeared for the first time on Jack Benny's radio show on October 8, 1939, taking the place of another famed tenor, Kenny Baker. He remained associated with Benny's radio and television programs until Benny's death in 1974. He was introduced (with actress Verna Felton playing his mother) as a young (nineteen year old), naive boy singer — a character he kept through his whole career. His first song was "Goodnight My Beautiful". Besides singing, Dennis Day was an excellent mimic. He did many imitations on the Benny program of various noted celebrities of the era, such as Ronald Colman, Jimmy Durante, and James Stewart.
In 1948, Day married Peggy Almquist; the marriage lasted until his death in 1988. The couple had ten children
Day died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (more commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease), in Los Angeles, California. His star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is at 6646 Hollywood Boulevard. He is interred in Culver City's Holy Cross Cemetery.
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Post by david on Jun 7, 2010 17:33:10 GMT -5
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Post by david on Jun 8, 2010 8:49:40 GMT -5
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Post by manho on Jun 8, 2010 13:01:03 GMT -5
looks like frankie laine was on a record a week schedule at this point.
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Post by cripes on Jun 8, 2010 13:40:19 GMT -5
We're going to be seeing this name pop up quite a few times in the coming decade, so let's know this star: Guy Mitchell Can anyone quickly name the boby connection here? Guy Mitchell (February 27, 1927 - July 1, 1999) was an American pop singer, successful in his homeland, the U.K. and Australia. As an international recording star of the 1950s he achieved record sales in excess of 44 million units and this included six million-selling singles.
He was born Albert George Cernik, son of immigrants from Croatia, in Detroit, Michigan. At the age of eleven, he was signed by Warner Brothers Pictures, to be groomed as a child star, and he also performed on the radio on Station KFWB in Los Angeles, California. After leaving school, he worked as a saddlemaker, but supplemented his income by singing whenever he could. At this point in his life, Dude Martin, who had a country music broadcast in San Francisco, noticed him and hired him to perform with his band. He served in the United States Navy for two years, and after leaving the service became a singer with Carmen Cavallaro's big band. In 1947 he made recordings for Decca with Cavallaro's band, but had to leave due to food poisoning. He eventually went to New York City, and made records for King Records under the name Al Grant (one in particular, "Cabaret", appeared in the Variety magazine charts). He won on the radio show Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts during this time and in 1949 won as a soloist. Mitch Miller, who was in charge of talent at Columbia Records, noticed Cernik in 1950, and he joined Columbia and got his new stage name at Miller's urging: Miller is supposed to have said, "my name is 'Mitchell' and you seem a nice 'guy', so we'll call you Guy Mitchell."
His first hit was 1951's "My Heart Cries for You".
Though he is a pre-rock pop singer, many of his songs have a decided rock beat to them, including "Knee Deep in the Blues", "Heartaches by the Number", "Rock-a-Billy", "The Same Old Me" and his biggest hit, "Singing the Blues", which was number one for 10 weeks in 1956.
Mitchell was an alcoholic. By 1984 he had been divorced three times, and was a cancer survivor. He died on July 1, 1999 of surgical complications due to his cancer.Croatia, Mitch Miller, and alcoholism--this 'Guy' had it all.
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Post by manho on Jun 8, 2010 14:35:55 GMT -5
"Can anyone quickly name the boby connection here?"
both alcoholics?
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Post by cripes on Jun 8, 2010 14:53:53 GMT -5
Besides that.
I seem to remember reading somewhere that 'Living The Blues' from Self Portrait was a direct lift from Guy Mitchell's 'Singing the Blues'. I checked Guy's tune and it's different enough to put in the grey area, but it's pretty close.
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Post by manho on Jun 8, 2010 15:59:37 GMT -5
yeah, i knew that one but i went with the joke instead. i'd say the two songs are completely different and i know what i'm talking about cos singing the blues was the first song i learned by heart. word for word. i was only about 7 at the time and it took quite a while to pull it off.
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Post by david on Jun 8, 2010 18:03:12 GMT -5
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Post by david on Jun 8, 2010 18:25:22 GMT -5
January 13, 1951 Audio only: The Weavers with Gordon Jenkins and His Orchestra - so Long (It's Been Good To Know Yuh) www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm9ml9VsJIsThe Ink Spots - Time Out for Tears www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzBAwHeAKlsNot on YouTube: Nat King Cole - Time Out for Tears Perry Como - So Long, Sally Jan Garber and His Orchestra - So Long, Sally Bill Kenny and the Song Spinners - It's No Secret Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians - Use Your Imagination Tony Martin - The Sea of the Moon Danny Scholl - I'm Gonna Live Till I Die #1 this week: Patti Page - Tennessee Waltz Pick of the week: The Weavers, I guess. It's still a great song, even if all references to dusty old duststorms were surgically removed. I honestly don't know why anybody bothered to blacklist the Weavers, since a more harmless bunch of lefties would be difficult to find. The Ink Spots tune isn't bad either. Real version of So Long, It's Been Good To Know You (audio only): www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqiblXFlZuk
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Post by david on Jun 8, 2010 23:08:29 GMT -5
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Post by david on Jun 9, 2010 8:47:10 GMT -5
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Post by david on Jun 9, 2010 21:46:32 GMT -5
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Post by cripes on Jun 9, 2010 23:55:52 GMT -5
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Post by david on Jun 10, 2010 7:19:19 GMT -5
An English horse!
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Post by david on Jun 10, 2010 8:20:02 GMT -5
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