echo beach   592 #37 Posted April 9, 2009 Old enough to remember a lot of Crookes' comprehensive list. The first record I bought ( a 78 rpm in 1955 ) was The Ballad of Davy Crockett / Theme from Robin Hood - remember Richard Todd riding through the glen? That followed seeing the film and my Auntie buying me a coonskin cap from Woolworths for my birthday. Next came April Love by Pat Boone and Perry como's Magic Moments / Catch a Falling Star. I must have been a young romantic in those long gone days! After that in 1957 I bought my first E P - remember them? Elvis' Jailhouse Rock. From that point it was onwards and upwards. All those original records have disappeared over the years. Pity, they might be worth something now. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
flyer   10 #38 Posted April 9, 2009 Ramsbottom ,Enock and Frank Lovejoy "we Three in Harmony working for the B.B.C" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
crookes   10 #39 Posted April 9, 2009 (edited) there i was diggin this hole....bernard cribbens what year was that crooksey ?  Bernard Cribbins' Hole In The Ground was at number 10 in March 1962 and spent 7 weeks in the top 20. I'm Crookes and have been compiling the lists. There's a Crookesey, but no Crooksey. Edited April 10, 2009 by crookes Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
flyer   10 #40 Posted April 10, 2009 followed by Itmar,big hearted A Askey,Old Mother Riley and Tommy Hanley who was ban for life fm the BBC for a remark that today would past in any school yard Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
hillsbro   33 #41 Posted April 10, 2009 ...there was one about a troll who lived under a bridge but i cant recall who sang it.  That was "Billy Goats Gruff" sung by Frank Luther, based on a Norwegain fairy tale.  The earliest songs I can remember are "I see the moon, the moon sees me" and "Walkin' my baby back home". Must have been c. 1954  I was 61 last week. No flowers by request.. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
flyer   10 #42 Posted April 10, 2009 Who sang There's a hole in my bucket dear Liza dear Liza? I like Paul Robeson's Ole Man River.  Hole in my,I remember his face but just can't recall the name, very big man band leader of fame I seem to think he was fm middle east (British)or semi colour and a bit of a comic the name will come in time:confused: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Nigel Womersle   10 #43 Posted April 10, 2009 No one has mentioned Marion Ryan. She was my fifties favourite. Sad she is no longer with us. 'Love me forever', 'Stairway of love'. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
hillsbro   33 #44 Posted April 10, 2009 Who sang There's a hole in my bucket dear Liza dear Liza?  Burl Ives (1909-1995) - a wonderful entertainer http://www.ciakhollywood.com/oscar/1958/Burl%20Ives.jpg  http://artists.letssingit.com/burl-ives-lyrics-theres-a-hole-in-my-bucket-hcd73j3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
jfish1936 Â Â 10 #45 Posted April 10, 2009 So disappionting! Over here in Oz we find CDs claiming to be British pops of this period, but they don't seem to have any of the real good ones I remember. Â I had a good buying session in 2006 at a shop in Llandudno (I think), where I got several good collections from 1945-60 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
depoix   11 #46 Posted April 10, 2009 just thought of charlie drake,...please mr custer and my boomerang wont come back Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
crookes   10 #47 Posted April 10, 2009 (edited) Some old 'uns from the 20s, 30s & 40s  A Lovely Way To Spend An Evening –– FRANK SINATRA A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square –– ANNE SHELTON After You Get What You Want, You Don't Want It –– MARILYN MONROE Again –– DORIS DAY Alice Blue Gown –– IRENE DAYS All Of Me –– LOUIS ARMSTRONG Amapola –– JIMMY DORSEY & HIS ORCHESTRA Avalon –– AL JOLSON Begin The Beguine –– ARTIE SHAW & HIS ORCHESTRA Betty Co-Ed –– RUDY VALLÉE Beyond The Blue Horizon –– GEORGE OLSEN & HIS MUSIC Blues In The Night –– DINAH SHORE Body And Soul –– PAUL WHITEMAN Boogie Woogie –– TOMMY DORSEY & HIS ORCHESTRA Bye Bye Blues –– BERT LOWN, FRANK LUTHER Caravan –– LES PAUL Chattanooga Choo Choo –– TEX BENEKE, GLENN MILLER & HIS ORCHESTRA Cocktails For Two –– SPIKE JONES & HIS CITY SLICKERS Confessin' (That I Love You) –– GUY LOMBARDO & HIS ROYAL CANADIANS Cruising Down The River –– RUSS MORGAN Dancing With Tears In My Eyes –– BEN SELVIN ORCHESTRA Dardanella –– BEN SELVIN ORCHESTRA Der Fuhrer's Face –– SPIKE JONES Dinah –– BING CROSBY & THE MILLS BROTHERS Don't Get Around Much Anymore –– DUKE ELLINGTON & HIS ORCHESTRA Everything Stops For Tea –– JACK BUCHANAN Ferryboat Serenade –– THE ANDREWS SISTERS Fine And Dandy –– VICTOR ARDEN, PHIL OHMAN & HIS ORCHESTRA Fools Rush In –– TONY MARTIN WITH RAY SINATRA AND HIS ORCHESTRA Frenesi –– ARTIE SHAW & HIS ORCHESTRA Friendship –– KAY KYSER AND HIS ORCHESTRA Green Eyes –– JIMMY DORSEY & HIS ORCHESTRA Happy Days Are Here Again –– BEN SELVIN ORCHESTRA Holiday For Strings –– DAVID ROSE & HIS ORCHESTRA How High The Moon –– HELEN FORREST & THE HARRY JAMES ORCHESTRA Hut Sut Song –– THE KING SISTERS I Hear A Rhapsody –– DINAH SHORE I Only Have Eyes For You –– AL JOLSON I'll Be With You In Apple Blossom Time –– HENRY BURR, ALBERT CAMPBELL I'll Never Smile Again –– TOMMY DORSEY & HIS ORCHESTRA I'm Beginning To See The Light –– DUKE ELLINGTON & HIS ORCHESTRA In The Mood –– GLEN MILLER & HIS ORCHESTRA Indian Love Call –– NELSON EDDY & JEANETTE MACDONALD Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby –– LOUIS JORDAN & HIS TYMPANY FIVE It Happened In Monterey –– PAUL WHITEMAN It Must Be True –– GUS ARNHEIM & HIS ORCHESTRA Let The Rest Of The World Go By –– HENRY BURR, ALBERT CAMPBELL Lili Marlene –– MARLENE DIETRICH Linda –– BUDDY CLARK & ANITA GORDON Little Bird Told Me –– EVELYN KNIGHT Little White Lies –– FRED WARING & HIS PENNSYLVANIANS Love Letters –– PERRY COMO Macnamara's Band –– BING CROSBY Mad Dogs And Englishmen –– NOEL COWARD Minnie The Moocher –– CAB CALLOWAY & HIS ORCHESTRA Mona Lisa –– NAT KING COLE Moon Shines On The Moonshine –– BERT WILLIAMS Moonlight Cocktail –– RAY EBERLE & THE MODERNAIRES Mule Train –– FRANKIE LAINE Music Maestro Please –– FLANAGAN & ALLEN My Mammy –– AL JOLSON Night And Day –– FRED ASTAIRE Oh! By Jingo! –– MARGARET YOUNG Ole Buttermilk Sky –– HOAGY CARMICHAEL On The Sunny Side Of The Street –– TOMMY DORSEY & HIS ORCHESTRA Pistol Packin' Mama –– RAY MCKINLEY Puttin' On The Ritz –– EARL BURTNETT & HIS LOS ANGELES BILTMORE HOTEL ORCHESTRA September Song –– WALTER HUSTON St Louis Blues –– MARION HARRIS Stardust –– ARTIE SHAW & HIS ORCHESTRA Stormy Weather –– LENA HORNE String Of Pearls –– MILLER, GLENN & HIS ORCHESTRA Swanee –– AL JOLSON Temptation –– PERRY COMO Ten Cents A Dance –– RUTH ETTING The Breeze And I –– JIMMY DORSEY AND HIS ORCHESTRA The Last Rose Of Summer –– DEANNA DURBIN The Loveliest Night Of The Year –– MARIO LANZA The Sun Has Got His Hat On –– SAM BROWN The White Cliffs Of Dover –– VERA LYNN There! I've Said It Again –– VAUGHN MONROE & HIS ORCHESTRA These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You) –– PEGGY LEE They Can't Take That Away From Me –– BING CROSBY & PEGGY LEE Tuxedo Junction –– GLEN MILLER & HIS ORCHESTRA Underneath The Arches –– FLANAGAN & ALLEN When I'm Cleaning Windows –– GEORGE FORMBY When My Baby Smiles At Me –– TED LEWIS & HIS BAND When You Wish Upon A Star –– CLIFF EDWARDS & THE KEN DARBY SINGERS Whispering –– PAUL WHITEMAN Woodpecker Song –– THE ANDREWS SISTERS You Made Me Love You –– HARRY JAMES & HIS ORCHESTRA You'd Be Surprised –– EDDIE CANTOR You'll Never Know –– DICK HAYMES You're Driving Me Crazy –– GUY LOMBARDO & HIS ROYAL CANADIANS Edited April 10, 2009 by crookes Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Texas   10 #48 Posted April 11, 2009 Hey crooksey, you forgot 'Maresy dotes and Dozy dotes' ( and Little Lambs itivy). About the same time as 'The Hutsut Song'. Both of 'em a bit barmy. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...