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More great movie music written by Ennio Morricone, from the 1968 film Once Upon a Time in the West (Italian title C'era Una Volta Il West), as performed by the Danish National Symphony featuring Tuva Semmingsen.

A very good year -

A great Bing song from the film Holiday Inn - the same film that gave us "White Christmas".

Found this tonight. The only two songs (to my knowledge) ever recorded by a British group called Patches. Featuring one Leo Sayer on vocals. Leo of course went on to make quite a name for himself as a solo artist with hits like "The Show Must Go On" and "Long Tall Glasses" among others.

A change of pace.

A dulcimer, guitar, mandolin, fiddle and bass!  Amazing how much music can come from such a strange assortment of instruments. 

A more "authentic" version of "House of the Rising Sun" done by some talented New Orleans musicians - Doreen Ketchens (clarinet and vocals), her daughter Dorian (drums) and husband Lawrence (sousaphone) plus an unknown trombonist. The Animals may have made the song more mainstream, but this is how it's done...

You are right, Oldiesman. Also, I haven't heard a Sousaphone in quite a while. Thank you for finding that. My sister has been to New Orleans several times, so she got to listen to New Orleans jazz in person. I don't know if she saw the Ketchens, though.

The first time I heard House of the Rising Sun, it was being played on WBZ up in Boston, MA. I pested the daylights out of my local rock station's program manager to get it. I told him it was going to be a big hit.

Back in 1963, a dixieland (trad) jazz group from New York called The Village Stompers had a big hit with an instrumental tune called "Washington Square". At some point after the single was released, one of the songwriters added lyrics to it, and that version was recorded by several groups as well. Here's a vocal version from 1964 by a Dutch group. Vocal versions also exist in several other languages.

An unusual version of the classic Herman's Hermits tune sung by a drunken-sounding guy with a British accent. The group name may have been inspired by Mrs. Miller, an American housewife who gained fame for her shrill off-key renditions of pop tunes around the same time.

Johnny Mathis....A Certain Smile....

Jackie --- That's a good lead 
I'll follow up with

Here's another Johnny Mathis hit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVmTvtVNkyA




 

I like this one better.  What a Wonderful World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt4FQhibxoY

As talented as Johnny Mathis was, the best version of that song will always be the original by Louis Armstrong.

Welcome Marilyne and Rammel to our Johnny Mathis fan club...
Marilyne, your video link says " unavailable " to me...Rammel, " Misty " is so calming and relaxing...

Michael, yes Louis Armstrong is our original of " What a Wonderful World " and would take some beating...

Jackie,
Marilyne's link works OK here. Maybe it's one of those Country things. I like them all

Marilynes first link is the link that is not available to me ( my country ) the link underneath i can view..

Jackie and Rick -  My computer crashed last night,  including email.  It took forever to boot up again, and doesn't look right this morning . . . so no telling what's missing here in this folder or anywhere in S&F? 

I'm a Johnny Mathis fan also. 

Our Johnny Mathis fan club is getting bigger...

Quote from: Vanilla-Jackie on April 30, 2022, 09:42:55 AMMarilynes first link is the link that is not available to me ( my country ) the link underneath i can view..

This one should work in the UK

Michael, yes, thank you...

Another - Something different.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRTfoRtCRHA

Wandering around tonight & discovered you guys.... and stopped to play Misty.... one song that still puts the feet into motion, what a tune to swing & sway to.  I still have radios all over the house, one local station plays the old music of the '40s & '50 but only from 11:00 am to thru the night. Mornings are shared with religious programs on that station and sorry to say, I don't want to be preached to except when I go to church. Happy to find y'all, I do approve of your music.

What a coincidence.  Two birds with one stone.

Beautiful.  What a surprise - What a voice!