Jazz, blues and nostalgia, by Sjaak Roodenburg.
Featuring the vocal group, the Hi-Lo’s (‘Fascinatin’ Rhythm’), a bitter-refined insult tango by Robert Long, from Mexico, the “nightingale of the Americas” singer and actor Pedro Vargas, and Danish-American entertainer Victor Borge, who humorously expounds on his family background.
Also included are trumpeter Bobby Hackett with ‘Bobby’s Blues’, the ‘British Sinatra’ Matt Monro (‘Music to Watch Girls By’), Wim Sonneveld sings about the fate of Mr. Poepjes, melancholy by Billie Holiday (‘I’ll Be Seeing You’), and Josephine Baker wonders in a banana skirt what it would have been like if she were white.
Country singer, fighter, and later preacher Stuart Hamblen with ‘This Ole House’, the hit once made famous by Rosemary Clooney, who we hear herself with ‘Angry’ and the early ‘At a Sidewalk Penny Arcade’.
And musician, composer, producer Dave Bartholomew (the brain behind Fats Domino) and arranger and composer Sid Norton Ramin.
