With special guests, singer Agnetha Faltskog and actress and director Maria Friedman. 
Music Played
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Judy Garland & Johnny Mercer Friendship
“Personality; Johnny Mercer Sings”
ASV Living Era, CD AJA 5430
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Sue Raney I Remember You
“When Your Lover Has Gone/Songs For A Raney Day”
Capitol, 7243 8 59839 2 4
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The Four Lads Gilly Gilly Ossenfeffer Katzenellenbogen
“The Four Lads – Moments To Rembember”
Jasmine, JASCD 492
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Andy Williams The Hawaiian Wedding Song
“To You Sweetheart, Aloha – Andy Williams”
Varese Sarabande, 302 066 253-2
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Hermione Gingold & Gilbert Harding Takes Two To Tango
“Hermione Gingold Live At The Café De Paris – Plus”
Stage Door, 5055122190103
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Jane Morgan Fascination
“Jane Morgan: Fascination – The Ultimate Collection”
Jasmine, JASCD 489
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Doris Day I’m Confessin’
“Doris Day: ‘You’re My Thrill’/ ‘Young At Heart’
Sony/BMG Columbia, 88697092822
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Fats Waller and His Buddies Lookin’ For Another Sweetie
“Fats Waller: Complete Recorded Works Vol 2”
JSP, JSP 928B
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Danny Kaye Ballin’ The Jack
“Danny Kaye – Ballin’ The Jack”
Memoir, CDMOIR 559
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Carrie Smith & Ny Jazz Repertory Company Cake Walking Babies From Home
“Satchmo Remembered At Carnegie Hall”
Atlantic, SD 1671
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Nina Simone Gin House Blues [Sic – Actually ‘Me & My Gin’]
“Nina Simone: The Best Of The Colpix Years”
EMI/Roulette, CDP 7985842
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Jack Jones I Believe In You
“Jack Jones: 2 LPs - She Love Me/There’s Love &Co”
MCA, MCLD 19378
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Judy Garland & Fred Astaire Irving Berlin Medley From “Easter Parade”:
“The Great MGM Stars – Judy Garland”
MGM/EMI, CDP 79 5856 2
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This Week's Show:
This week we’ve marked the centenary of Dick Manning, who left us the lyrics of such deathless ditties as “Hot Diggity”, “Papa Loves Mambo”, “The Morningside Of The Mountain”, “You Can’t Be True To Two”, “While The Angelus Was Ringing” etc. – in addition to the ones we high-lighted on the show … so no Larry Hart or Cole Porter he. It’s surprising that he’s as much known for his work as a lyricist (usually in collaboration with Al Hoffman) as he is as a composer, for he was a more than merely competent musician, having attended the Julliard School Of Music. Indeed, he was a very busy man and in the early years of his long career (he died in April 1991) was a working musician, leading the band, under his original name of Sam Medoff. From 1940 he performed for New York’s Radio WHN on their regular show: “Yiddish Melodies In Swing”, where he led the Yiddish Swing Orchestra and the Yiddish Swingtet. Along with singers like The Barry Sisters, he continued successfully into the late ‘40s when, with his career as a songwriter developing, he adopted a new persona as Dick Manning. Some of his early work as pianist-bandleader is available on CD on “Music From The Yiddish Radio Project”; Shanachie 6057.
Our grateful thanks go to listener Mr Frank Harvey for reminding us of the “I’m Confessin’/”Lookin’ For Another Sweetie” mystery. If you have any similar anomalies for us to investigate, do, please drop us a line. We can’t promise to answer all queries but are always keen to have a go! -
Featured In This Week's Show: Hermione Gingold
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Recommendations:
Of all the volumes in JSP’s monumental series charting every single commercial recording by Thomas Fats Waller (there are six boxes, five with 4 CDs, the final one with 5), we reckon the one we used for that recording of “Lookin’ For Another Sweetie” has to be our favourite. Beginning with the famous session in March 1st 1929 that gave us ‘Harlem Fuss’ and ‘The Minor Drag’, so hilariously described by Eddie Condon in “We Called It Music” and encompassing dates with The Chocolate Dandies, McKinney’s Cotton Pickers, the orchestras of Jimmy Johnson, Jack Teagarden and Ted Lewis, Red McKenzie’s Blue Blowers and the great Rhythmakers sessions of July 1932 PLUS the first and some would say finest of the hundreds of “Fats Waller And His Rhythm” sides (the ones with Bill Coleman on trumpet) this is a great banquet of Fats, serving to show him in many guises. Oh – and some of the best of his piano solos are also included along the way, too. A great set, expertly re-mastered by Ted Kendall, it’s on JSP 928. Only downer, we could have done with some more comprehensive notes.
Jasmine’s “Jane Morgan – Fascination, The Ultimate Collection” has a generous 58 tracks that take in plenty of decent ballads (‘Speak Low’, ‘My Man’) among the pop ephemera (‘Makin Love’, ‘I’ve Got Bells On My Heart’), and including both French and English language versions of “The Day The Rains Came”. Fascinating to compare Jane’s approach to ‘Who’s Sorry Now’ with that of Connie Francis. The number is JASCD 489.
Broadcasts
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BBC Radio 2Sun 10 Jun 2012 21:00 BBC Radio 2
Come Fly With Me: A Celebration of Sammy Cahn ticket information
Sir Michael Parkinson hosts our tribute to the writer of over sixty classic Sinatra hits
