memry lane 'n all -
 

I just called my [90yr old] mum and sang her a bit of something from the hits of her twenties. She cracked up. Have fun with this!

ON RADIO... on the year that you were born)

It is on juke box that retrieves 60 years' of music:

whoo, what a find! - thanks Seree.

Couldn't find "Pale hands I loved beside the Shalimar", though.

Ser, thanks for posting this.

The best tune of all from my year of birth, 1958, is no doubt:

Nat King Cole - Mona Lisa

I love "Nature Boy", too.

I used to sing Mona Lisa as a little boy, with my brother. Later we graduated to entertaining old ladies at bus stops with early Frank Sinatra numbers like Cole Porter's:

I've got you under my skin

and

A Foggy Day (in London town)

Sigh...

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Thanks, Seree, that's a great link, and mum is lucky to have you. Too bad my puny connection can't sustain the music.


Best versions of a few standards:


Stella by starlight - Helen Reddy's

Sunday kind of love - Fran Warren's

Marieke - Elly Stone (Her English version, penned by Mort Schuman, is better than even Jacques Brel's original.)

Across the Universe - John Lennon's (Who else!)

Mona Lisa - Nat Cole (Duh!)

Nature Boy - Nat Cole (Duh!)

Stardust - Nat Cole's or Billy Ward's (Take your pick.)

After the ball - Francis Black (Irish female who is mesmerizing.)

Telestar - Joe Meek (Best instrumental to evoke the spirit of the early space race.

The Look of Love - Dusty Springfield's

Rehab - Amy Winehouse's, of course; a guilty pleasure.

You Belong to Me - Jo Stafford's

Anyone Who Had a Heart - Dionne Warwick's

I can't Get Started - Bunny Berigan's

Suzanne - Judy Collins'

Midnight with the Stars and You - Al Bowly (Sung over end credits of movie, The Shining.)

Danny Boy - John Gary's

Apple Blossom Time - The Andrew Sisters, Vera Lynn, Jo Stafford (Take your pick.)

Alice Blue Gown - Buddy Clark's

If You've Got Leavin' on Your Mind - Patsy Cline's

Marta - Arthur Tracy's (The old "Street Singer", whose version of Brother Can You Spare a Dime" was lip-synced in the movie Pennies From Heaven.)

At the End of a Rainbow _ Earl grant's

Hurt - Johnny Cash's (Better than Nine Inch Nails' original.)