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  • Pauline Byrne is singing here; and the tune is indeed "Stranger In Paradise" with other lyrics, though.

  • my fantasy es un plagio de la cancion stranger in paradise de borodin.

  • Very similar in melody to A STRANGER IN PARADISE!

  • Who is sining?!, Ella?, Billie?....

  • And THANK YOU for posting... a beautiful song and one of my favorite records.

  • Pauline Byrne is correct. My mistake. And I should know this... I have the original 78!

  • Why all the pictures of Kitty Kallen? That's Bonnie Lake doing the vocal.

  • When I made this, for a presentation at the retirement home where I work, somehow I obtained this piece of misinformation and did not know any better. Some people have commented that it was Pauline Byrne.

  • @duaneandfloppy No, it's Pauline Byrne, who also sang on the flip side, Gloomy Sunday

  • The third and final vocal by Pauline

    Byrne with Shaw on this session is

    finally posted(Don't Fall Asleep). Just

    enter her name in the search space.

  • Yeah for real. Gloomy Sunday is one of my favorite songs. I wish I lived in the 40's. In stead I am a teen age-er growing up in this shit time. Not fair.

  • Very rough to be a teenager in these days. Stay smart.

  • @blueidblonde881 Haha, same here. Today at school I was made fun of for listening to jazz. What kind of a world is this!?

  • @blueidblonde881 I am not a teenager - and also agree. So let us listen HipHop & RNB :-(

  • Yes it's Borodin. Same piece became "Stranger In Paradise" from the musical Kismet.

  • Wow, what a great song... I've been looking into finding more music with Pauline Byrne's voice. It all started when I heard the song Gloomy Sunday in the movie Wristcutters.

    Does anyone have a complete or at least semi-list of more songs with Pauline Byrne?

  • I will listen to Gloomy Sunday. I am new to Artie Shaw. I made this clip because I was doing a classical music program at the retirement home where I work and this was an example of a song taken from classical music. In this case the source was the Gliding Dance of the Maidens from the Polovetsian Dances in Borodin's Prince Igor.

    I

  • Haha I was wondering why I was hearing Borodin, but big band sounding! :) Another great example of different styles of music being "borrowed" is Shostokovich's Tahitian Trot, aka Tea for Two

  • @sherhino You should also (go to the trouble) of checking out Marinella (1941) also by Shaw, and the lovely jazz of both Shaw's arrangement of "Tabu" and "Lady Day". If you find any or better yet, all 3 of those, you won't regret the use of your time to track them down.

  • @sherhino P.P.S - also recommend the big band translation of classical opera piece from Samson And Delilah of "My Heart At Thy Sweet Voice" by Larry Clinton (big band) Orchestra, featuring "girl" singer Bea Wain singing in front of them. Best place to find this would be from collection "This Is Larry Clinton", frankly; once on vinyl out of America on RCA, but re-issued on CD in England recently.

  • There is another tune posted by Shaw

    and Pauline Byrne. It is the better

    known Gloomy Sunday. This was from

    the same session as My Fantasy.

  • Okay, thanks. I am checking on this. Where did I get Kitty Kallen from? I appreciate the correction.

  • Kitty Kallen once sang for awhile with Shaw, but she was known for "My Heart Belongs To Daddy" with his band. This, as rminnewawa correctly states, is not Kallen, I will confirm or 2nd that fact. A number of female singers sang with Shaw, including Peg LaCentra and even Bea Wain for a session or so, but the longest lasting tenure was that of Helen Forrest.

  • This is a 1940 recording with

    Pauline Byrne as the vocalist.

    Kitty Kallen did My Heart Belongs to

    Daddy with Shaw in 1946.

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