tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23574531870354283512024-02-07T06:20:59.150-08:00easy memories pop standards radioEasy music radio pop vocals and classic instrumentals...It's easy. R Alan Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02632938893729680203noreply@blogger.comBlogger242125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357453187035428351.post-36513732905705489112022-01-25T02:46:00.000-08:002022-01-25T02:46:00.941-08:00JOHN DOREMUS SHOW "AFRTS"<p> </p><div class="separator"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjCnExoeBnqm3a3D0d3mv1OLBQt_JSkRbVSB6pynXnp2t3zYZblNSjHBOUS912oM7rBe4El5bEEiB9a0-vYO80bu9kyzdJAQfrftzrfxssNPjZ81vpkzrq2-UnOs-axtTOhcawIV8ufpJn7XQXZwq7q4_5As2veroQhiS3tp1MFbzIlZBSl5DJx1Jl8=s240" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="210" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjCnExoeBnqm3a3D0d3mv1OLBQt_JSkRbVSB6pynXnp2t3zYZblNSjHBOUS912oM7rBe4El5bEEiB9a0-vYO80bu9kyzdJAQfrftzrfxssNPjZ81vpkzrq2-UnOs-axtTOhcawIV8ufpJn7XQXZwq7q4_5As2veroQhiS3tp1MFbzIlZBSl5DJx1Jl8=w175-h200" width="175" /></a></div><p> </p><iframe frameborder="0" height="102px" scrolling="no" src="https://anchor.fm/ralan-campbell/embed/episodes/JOHN-DOREMUS-SHOW-AFRTS-e1de64s" width="400px"></iframe><div><br /></div><div>Wonderful stories wound into beautiful orchestral music.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />R Alan Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02632938893729680203noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357453187035428351.post-66619514017242359742022-01-12T13:12:00.007-08:002022-01-12T13:12:55.240-08:00sketches in sound<p> </p><iframe frameborder="0" height="102px" scrolling="no" src="https://anchor.fm/ralan-campbell/embed/episodes/PETE-SMITH-SHOW-AFRTS-3-e1cserj" width="400px"></iframe><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh2ZYwMUfRIB6QZ_-vzXfnax6hWeGmwKS7anJDLwMZO9rcLKLv34jPNeUCnXbP5cVnH6SPw8oW3ShIJPa7JAs_sV2APz1_T62lPEGo3WqJjhUsRP8eHuHVEF17aYVtPeqOkhkimlyXyBVluYCy3f-Sp32Eo1s8lPnbDJ1VCV7cG404LlMuoRwN570hX=s300" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="169" data-original-width="300" height="113" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh2ZYwMUfRIB6QZ_-vzXfnax6hWeGmwKS7anJDLwMZO9rcLKLv34jPNeUCnXbP5cVnH6SPw8oW3ShIJPa7JAs_sV2APz1_T62lPEGo3WqJjhUsRP8eHuHVEF17aYVtPeqOkhkimlyXyBVluYCy3f-Sp32Eo1s8lPnbDJ1VCV7cG404LlMuoRwN570hX=w200-h113" width="200" /></a><div><br /></div><div>Pete Smith's Sketches In Sound for AFRTS.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />R Alan Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02632938893729680203noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357453187035428351.post-36517123996407060362022-01-10T16:45:00.000-08:002022-01-10T16:45:02.810-08:00JIM AMECHE TIME "Tony Bennett"<p> </p><iframe frameborder="0" height="102px" scrolling="no" src="https://anchor.fm/ralan-campbell/embed/episodes/JIM-AMECHE-TIME-Tony-Bennett-e1cpj26" width="400px"></iframe><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEihJv1sQA9-GMsiu0fUiDZNl8E1LM9T5oTKMGr8a5C1-q10sO16Pl_IdFQ5V8JU6e9uvGNvDrQvZs_E1etdrNsudUrYX9gA1t0qLfwtrADcIk5ngndr1jWDdG9S5_-XUduCjssgUsi8zfUwUBom5NWL56guhafQnOFb1D-OYA5smmr0JK1SwxwoVhJ8=s496" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="260" data-original-width="496" height="105" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEihJv1sQA9-GMsiu0fUiDZNl8E1LM9T5oTKMGr8a5C1-q10sO16Pl_IdFQ5V8JU6e9uvGNvDrQvZs_E1etdrNsudUrYX9gA1t0qLfwtrADcIk5ngndr1jWDdG9S5_-XUduCjssgUsi8zfUwUBom5NWL56guhafQnOFb1D-OYA5smmr0JK1SwxwoVhJ8=w200-h105" width="200" /></a><div><br /></div><div>Episode 79 for AFRTS opens up with a selection by Tony Bennett.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />R Alan Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02632938893729680203noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357453187035428351.post-6538624438071298442022-01-10T12:56:00.000-08:002022-01-10T12:56:03.951-08:00IRA COOK SHOW<p> </p><a href="https://otrthen.blogspot.com/search/label/IRA%20COOK%20SHOW">LINK TO IRA COOK SHOWS</a>
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Sondheim's best-known works as composer and lyricist include A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962), Company (1970), Follies (1971), A Little Night Music (1973), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979), Sunday in the Park with George (1984), and Into the Woods (1987). He was also known for writing the lyrics for West Side Story (1957) and Gypsy (1959).
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DIAHANN CARROLL was an American actress, singer, and model. She rose to stardom in performances in some of the earliest major studio films to feature black casts, including Carmen Jones in 1954 and Porgy and Bess in 1959. In 1962, Carroll won a Tony Award for best actress, a first for a black woman, for her role in the Broadway musical No Strings.<br />
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Diahann Carroll and Richard Kiley sing their beautiful rendition of "The Sweetest Sounds" from the Richard Rodgers musical NO STRINGS:
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Doris Day, the perennial girl-next-door whose career as a singer and actress spanned almost 50 years and made her one of the biggest Hollywood stars and most popular entertainers in the United States, has died. ... The Doris Day Animal Foundation told Fox News Day died early Monday 13 MAY 2019.
Doris Day (born Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff; April 3, 1922 – May 13, 2019) was an American actress, singer, and animal welfare activist. After she began her career as a big band singer in 1939, her popularity increased with her first hit recording "Sentimental Journey" (1945). After leaving Les Brown & His Band of Renown to embark on a solo career, she recorded more than 650 songs from 1947 to 1967, which made her one of the most popular and acclaimed singers of the 20th century.
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R Alan Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02632938893729680203noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357453187035428351.post-59460128131344846942019-01-30T06:22:00.001-08:002019-01-30T06:23:44.036-08:00Grammy-winning R&B singer James Ingram dies at 66<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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James Edward Ingram (February 16, 1952 – January 29, 2019) was an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and instrumentalist. He was a two-time Grammy Award-winner and a two-time Academy Award nominee for Best Original Song.
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Daryl Frank Dragon (August 27, 1942 – January 2, 2019) was an American musician and songwriter, known as Captain from the pop musical duo Captain & Tennille with his then wife, Toni Tennille.<br />
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American singer whose career spanned over five decades, from the mid–1950s until her retirement in the early–2010s. She was notable for her single "(You Don't Know) How Glad I Am" and her version of the standard "Guess Who I Saw Today". Wilson recorded more than 70 albums and won three Grammy Awards for her work. During her performing career Wilson was labeled a singer of blues, jazz, R&B, pop, and soul, a "consummate actress", and "the complete entertainer". The title she preferred, however, was "song stylist". She received many nicknames including "Sweet Nancy", "The Baby", "Fancy Miss Nancy" and "The Girl With the Honey-Coated Voice".
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French singer and songwriter Charles Aznavour has died at 94 after a career lasting more than 80 years, a spokesman has confirmed. </div>
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The star died at one of his homes in the south east of France.</div>
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The performer, born to Armenian immigrants, sold more than 180 million records and featured in over 60 films. </div>
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He was best known for his 1974 hit She and was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2017. Aznavour married three times and had six children. </div>
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He was named entertainer of the century by CNN in 1998.</div>
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Vic Damone, the postwar crooner whose intimate, rhapsodic voice captivated bobby soxers, middle-age dreamers and silver-haired romantics in a five-decade medley of America's love songs and popular standards, died on Sunday, 11 February 2018 in Miami Beach. He was 89. Vic Damone (June 12, 1928 – February 11, 2018) was an American traditional pop and big band singer, actor, radio and television presenter, and entertainer who is best known for his performances of songs such as "You're Breaking My Heart" (a number one hit), the number four hit "On the Street Where You Live" (from My Fair Lady), and "My Heart Cries for You".
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Dorothy Jacqueline Keely (March 9, 1928 – December 16, 2017), known as Keely Smith, was a Grammy Award-winning American jazz and popular music singer, who performed and recorded extensively in the 1950s with then-husband Louis Prima, and throughout the 1960s as a solo artist.<br />
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Della Reese (born Delloreese Patricia Early; July 6, 1931 – November 19, 2017) was an American nightclub, jazz, gospel, and pop singer; film and television actress; one-time talk-show hostess; and ordained minister, whose career spanned six decades. She also appeared as a guest on several talk shows and as a panelist on numerous game shows.
Reese's long career began as a singer, scoring a hit with her 1959 single "Don't You Know?". In the late 1960s, she hosted her own talk show, Della, which ran for 197 episodes. She also starred in films beginning in 1975, including playing opposite Redd Foxx in Harlem Nights (1989), Martin Lawrence in A Thin Line Between Love and Hate (1996) and Elliott Gould in Expecting Mary (2010). She achieved continuing success in the television religious supernatural drama Touched by an Angel (1994–2003), in which Reese played the leading role of Tess.
Reese was discovered by the gospel singer Mahalia Jackson, and her big break came when she won a contest, which gave her a week to sing at Detroit's well-known Flame Show Bar. Reese remained there for eight weeks. Although her roots were in gospel music, she now was being exposed to and influenced by such famous jazz artists as Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Billie Holiday. In 1953, she signed a recording contract with Jubilee Records, for which she recorded six albums. Later that year, she also joined the Hawkins Orchestra. Her first recordings for Jubilee were songs such as "In the Still of the Night" (originally published in 1937), "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm" and "Time After Time" (1947). The songs were later included on the album And That Reminds Me (1959).
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R Alan Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02632938893729680203noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357453187035428351.post-6631124006336753522017-06-02T08:07:00.004-07:002017-06-02T08:08:28.740-07:00Elena Angela Verdugo (April 20, 1925 – May 30, 2017) was an American singer and actress<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Elena Angela Verdugo (April 20, 1925 – May 30, 2017) began in films at the age of five in Cavalier of the West (1931). Her career in radio, television, and film spanned six decades.
Marcus Welby, MD's Elena Verdugo aka Consuelo Lopez Gone At 92.</span><br />
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The famous <i>Latin number "Tico Tico" was recorded by Xavier Cugat and his orchestra. The vocal was handled by the actress Elena Verdugo - who appeared in many "B" films, but is probably best remembered for her TV role with Robert Young in "Marcus Welby M.D." Elena had a brief singing career with Cugat in the early 1940s - but stuck with acting as opposed to singing. Conducted by Xavier Cugat.
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Alwin Lopez Jarreau was born in Milwaukee on March 12, 1940, into a musical family. His father, a minister, was a fine singer; his mother played the piano in church. Young Al began singing at 4, harmonizing with his siblings. As a youth he sang in church, as well as with street-corner harmony groups and local jazz bands.
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Alwin Lopez Jarreau (March 12, 1940 – February 12, 2017), better known by his stage name Al Jarreau, was an American singer and musician. He received a total of seven Grammy Awards and was nominated for over a dozen more. Jarreau is perhaps best known for his 1981 album Breakin' Away. He also sang the theme song of the late-1980s television series Moonlighting, and was among the performers on the 1985 charity song "We Are the World".
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Buddy Greco was born Armando Greco in Philadelphia. His mother introduced him to piano at the age of four. At an early age he was singing and performing on radio and, during his teens, in Philadelphia clubs. When he was 16, he was hired by Benny Goodman and toured worldwide. He spent four years with Goodman's orchestra, singing, playing piano, and arranging.
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Greco died on January 10, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada, aged 90
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Her breakout role was the portrayal of Helen Kane in the 1950 film Three Little Words, for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer. However, it was her first leading role in 1952 at age 19, as Kathy Selden in Singin' in the Rain, that set her on the path to fame. By the mid-1950s, she was a major star. Other notable successes include The Affairs of Dobie Gillis (1953), Susan Slept Here (1954), Bundle of Joy (1956 Golden Globe nomination), The Catered Affair (1956 National Board of Review Best Supporting Actress Winner), and Tammy and the Bachelor (1957), in which her rendering of the song "Tammy" reached number one on the music charts. In 1959, she released her first pop music album, entitled Debbie.
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VIDEO: Recorded in 1957 (when Debbie Reynolds was 23 years old) for the film "Tammy and the Bachelor," the song earned her a gold record and was the best-selling single by a female vocalist in 1957. The song spent 23 weeks on the "Top 40" charts. It was number one for five weeks on the Billboard pop charts. The song was nominated for a "Best Song" Academy Award in 1957, but lost to "All The Way" from the film, "The Joker Is Wild."
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She appeared in the 1963 film The Pink Panther, in which she sang "Meglio Stasera (It Had Better Be Tonight)" while dancing provocatively around a fireplace. She sang the opening song "Shadows of Paris" in the first sequel, A Shot in the Dark, although she was uncredited. Her figure was highlighted, albeit briefly, in a minor role in Sex and the Single Girl.
She sang on The Tom Jones Show in 1969 with the host, doing a duet of "You've Got What it Takes" as well as "The Smokey Robinson Show" from the following year, in which she did solo numbers as well as a duet with Smokey Robinson and Stevie Wonder and the rest of the cast. She was featured in Playboy several years later in 1971 at the age of 33 in a pictorial entitled "Frantastic!" In 1982 she posed a second time for Playboy at the age of 45. This second pictorial was titled "Still Frantastic".<br />
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VIDEO: "Meglio Stasera" known in English as "It Had Better Be Tonight" is a 1963 song with music by Henry Mancini, Italian lyrics by Franco Migliacci and English lyrics by Johnny Mercer. It was composed for the 1963 film The Pink Panther where it was performed by Fran Jeffries.
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Julius La Rosa was an Italian-American traditional popular music singer, who worked in both radio and television beginning in the 1950s.
La Rosa's third recording, "Eh, Cumpari", hit #1 on the Cash Box chart and #2 on the Billboard chart, with La Rosa getting an award as the best new male vocalist of 1953. "Eh, Cumpari" was followed by another major hit, "Domani." For thirteen weeks during the summer of 1955, La Rosa had a three-times-a-week television series on CBS, The Julius La Rosa Show, featuring Russ Case and his Orchestra. The Julius La Rosa Show aired in an hour-long format in the summers of 1956 and 1957 at 8 p.m. Eastern on Saturdays on NBC as a seasonal replacement for The Perry Como Show (Como previously had La Rosa, on occasion, fill in for him during the 1954-'55 season of his CBS series).
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<b>Francis Wayne Sinatra (January 10, 1944—March 16, 2016), </b>professionally known as Frank Sinatra, Jr., was an American singer, songwriter and conductor.
Frank Jr. son of singer and actor Frank Sinatra and his first wife, Nancy Barbato Sinatra. He is the younger brother of singer and actress Nancy Sinatra, and the older brother of television producer Tina Sinatra....<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Sinatra,_Jr.">WIKIPEDIA</a><br />
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Although she made albums and appeared on television into the 1960s, Gogi Grant's popularity declined and she initially retired from singing in 1967 after a final US chart single, "The Sea" (top 20 on Billboard's Easy Listening chart). An album of hers was released in UK some 20 years later. Grant survived cancer surgery and was in remission. In 2004, aged 80, she made an appearance on the PBS 1950s pop music special Magic Moments and sang "The Wayward Wind."
Grant headlined with The Fabulous Palm Springs Follies in Palm Springs, California. One of her more notable appearances of her later years was with the Follies on December 31, 2006. She was still performing as late as 2013, at the age of 89.
In 1959, Grant married attorney Robert Rifkind. The couple had two children. Grant died on March 10, 2016, aged 91. Her death was announced by her son, Joshua Beckett. She also had a daughter, Jeri Brown.<br />
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<b><i>Kitty Kallen</i></b>, her voice sweet and clear, welcomed the troops home from World War II, singing: “Kiss me once, then kiss me twice, then kiss me once again. It’s been a long, long time.” She turned out hits like “Bésame Mucho,” “I’m Beginning to See the Light,” “In the Chapel in the Moonlight” and “Little Things Mean a Lot” — many reaching the Top 10.
And after singing with many of her era’s top bandleaders — Artie Shaw, Harry James, Jimmy Dorsey, Jack Teagarden — she outlasted their era. Her last hit, “My Coloring Book,” was in 1962.
Ms. Kallen died on Thursday, 7 January 2016, at her home in Cuernavaca, Mexico. She was 94. Her son, Jonathan Granoff, who confirmed her death, said she had been living year-round in Mexico, where she had long had a vacation home while spending most of her adult life in Englewood, N.J.
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Kitty Kallen (born Katherine Kalinsky; May 25, 1921 – January 7, 2016) was an American popular singer whose career spanned from the 1930s to the 1960s—to include the Swing era of the Big Band years, the post-WWII pop scene and the early years of rock 'n roll.
She is best known for her 1954 solo recording '"Little Things Mean a Lot" — a song that stayed at the U.S. number one spot for nine consecutive weeks, charted in the U.S. for almost seven months.
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Natalie Cole, the American singer who overcame battles with substance abuse and the long shadow of her famous father to earn worldwide success of her own, has died. She was 65.
Publicist Maureen O'Connor told The Associated Press Cole died Thursday night. O'Connor had no details about how or where Cole died.
The daughter of Nat "King" Cole built a chart-topping career with hits such as "This Will Be", "Inseparable" and "Our Love." She fought health problems for years and received a kidney transplant in 2009 after developing hepatitis.
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Natalie Maria Cole (February 6, 1950 – December 31, 2015) was an American singer, songwriter, and performer. The daughter of Nat King Cole, Natalie rose to musical success in the mid-1970s as an R&B artist with the hits "This Will Be", "Inseparable", and "Our Love". After a period of failing sales and performances due to a heavy drug addiction, Cole re-emerged as a pop artist with the 1987 album, Everlasting, and her cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Pink Cadillac". In the 1990s, she re-recorded standards by her father, resulting in her biggest success, Unforgettable... with Love, which sold over seven million copies and also won Cole numerous Grammy Awards. She sold over 30 million records worldwide... <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie_Cole">WIKIPEDIA</a> VIDEO:<br />
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