Old Time Crooners ....

[jambutty]

Dean Martin
Al Jolson
Al Bowlly
Johnny Ray
Not exactly crooners but Patsy Cline, Jean Sheppard, Helen Shapiro, Ella Fitzgerald, Connie Francis and Mama Cass can sing to me all day long.

[Ianto.W.]

willow the whisp[ouote] Was that Bobby Darrin?[/quote]That's him racked my wine sodden head last night, thanks, Ian.

[Sparkologist]

The Chairman of the Board... Mr Francis Albert Sinatra. He's the man!

[panther]

WHO?? my god i feel really young! heheh!

[Wynonie Harris]

Billy Eckstine - "Mr B" - a superb vocalist with a nice jazzy feel to his style.

[WillowTheWhisp]

Ooh hang on a minute Wynonie, who was that he did a duet with? Sarah Vaughan was it? I can't remember what the song was but it was a goodun.

[Ianto.W.]

Billie Holliday she was a class act. Ertha Kitt who 'Went for a job doing anything' the day that the circus hit town.

[Wynonie Harris]

"Passing Strangers", Willow. A real classic. I remember going into Mary's to buy it for my mum and feeling embarrassed at having to ask for something so "unhip"! But that was then and this is now...

[Ianto.W.]

They just do not write songs of that calibre today Wynonie, passing strangers was certainly a 'one off'.

[Wynonie Harris]

They surely don't, Ianto. The likes of Billy Eckstine and Sarah Vaughan could blow these young whippersnappers offstage!

[WillowTheWhisp]

"Passing Strangers" that's the one! I loved that.

[West Ender]

I think Frank Sinatra was still singing well right up to the end. His voice was very distinctive but what made him more special was his phrasing and his breath control technique. If you listen, carefully, to any of his recordings you'll hear what I mean.

I loved Dean Martin. He had that "boozy" quality in his voice, always sounded as though he'd had a scotch or 8, but he never actually drank before a performance or during one. He always had a glass of amber liquid on stage, it was part of his act, but it was ginger ale - the booze came later. Very handsome, too, in his younger days.

What's the definition of a crooner? It used to mean someone who sang ballads in a non-operatic style so would you describe anyone who's around now as a crooner?

[cashman]

Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris

"Passing Strangers", Willow. A real classic. I remember going into Mary's to buy it for my mum and feeling embarrassed at having to ask for something so "unhip"! But that was then and this is now...

very well put wyn,i too got that T-Shirt lol maybe were just passing strangers. i could tell a similar story about summer wind.

[steeljack]

Does Jim Reeves count ?........the 'put your sweet lips a little closer to the phone ....and tell your friend there with you he'll have to go' song

[cashman]

Originally Posted by steeljack

Does Jim Reeves count ?........the 'put your sweet lips a little closer to the phone ....and tell your friend there with you he'll have to go' song

he used to count steeljack,was last heard counting sheep on mountains.