Music from bygone years.
In “Anything you can do, I can do better,” there is a guitar duel between Tal Farlow and Mary Osborne and a trumpet battle between Clark Terry and Norma Carson. Swing is played by Glen Gray with the Casa Loma Orchestra, while Lee Wiley beautifully sings “Memories of You,” and trumpeter Ado Broodboom plays with the KRO-Dance Orchestra led by Klaas van Beek in “Spaceman.”
The melancholy also dripped from the vocal cords of the baritone singer with Mexican roots, Andy Russell, and Mrs. Miller, who went wild with a Beatles song. The same song was superbly performed by Goldie Hawn.
There are country songs by Patsy Cline (“I’ve loved and lost again”) and Roy Shaffer (“Disappointed in Love”), cool jazz by Chet Baker and Art Pepper, and the swinging accordion of Tony Murena.
And also Ella Fitzgerald, the vocal group The Revelers, the “father of exotica” bandleader Martin Denny, multi-talented Noël Coward, violinist Stuff Smith, and the Antwerp singing street attraction Paul Boey, whose “Ik heb de mot in m’n lijf” (“I’ve got the blues”) marked the beginning of the end.
