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  • Adam was Asian, and Eve was black. Why do you think they were white?

  • "W" dropped bombs on the garden of eden lol

  • I knew Joe back in the late 70's, I worked for him!. Joe (Monte), lovely wife Sidney, little kids Nicole and (brain freeze-can't remember). We sold retirement annuities to school teachers. We both lived in Hanover, MA. Joe was always involved in music, Played baritone and tenor sax, helped friend Bruce Petterson form a 17 piece big band which I "managed' (made t-shirts). Could always be persuaded to sing Volare. A good guy and friend, Very sad to hear he passed.

  • Look at my Channel to see the real Garden of Eden. I'm the one who found it. It's location is in the Northwest section of Iran, not where everyone else is telling you to look.

  • Wonderful to hear this again.....memories!!

  • @libramoon2 There is nothing like memories. I think sometimes we can only make it through what seems like hard times is the memories of what we believe were better times. You can color the past but you can't the present and only hope for a better future.

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  • that's my great uncle!!

  • A little more about the song. The song became a No. 1 hit for Frankie Vaughan in the UK in early 1957. It was on the VIK label, and the flip side was "Caravan."

  • A little info about Joe Valino, who died in South Philadelphia in 1996 at the age of 67. [He was also born in South Philly]. Prior to this 1956 hit -- which reached No. 12 on theBillboard charts, where it stayed for 20 weeks -- Joe sang with Big Band orchestras headed by Woody Herman, Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey. He also had mild success with "Learnin' The Blues," but Frank Sinatra immediately covered the song and had the big hit with it. Joe also, for a time, played piano for Sarah Vaughn.

  • @vandywilliam Thanks for the info on Valino. It's hard to find anything on him. But I do remember reading somewhere that Sinatra put the squeeze on Valino's record Co to pull

    Joe's recording of "Learning The Blues" Because Frank wanted the number all to himself.

  • Thanks for the email, I remember back in the fifities we had a candy store in the neighborhood that had a Jukebox and we use to play the songs for a NICKEL each (it went up to 3/.25cents) and it had the Garden of Eden on it for about 2 maybe three

    weeks and taken off because it was too NAUGHTY for our young ears, now listen too the music our grandkids are listening too, WOW,

  • Here it is 2010, and I thought I would never hear this song again. I have been trying for years to get someone to play this song on a slew of Oldies/Goodies channels, but to no avail. This was one of the song whem I was coming up that was "TABOO" to listen to, I had the originial 45RPM, but somewhere along the road I lost it. GREAT TO HEAR IT AGAIN,

    Thanks You Tube

  • @joeboo54 This is a very hard record to find and the only hit that

    Joe Valino had so not many people have even heard of him. I think all these Oldie Radio Stations play only what they find on CD's. I don't think Valino ever had a LP of his music so no CD's were ever put out of his work.

  • @markalson1938

    this is incorrect there is a CD that we as a family put together and produced. In fact its one that his great niece (my daughter) loves.

  • @shipmates04 It's great that the family put together a CD, But where can you buy it?

    I've looked on Amazon and E-Bay plus my local record store (There are still some around) before making my last comment about no CD of his work. I could find none listed anywhere.

  • @markalson1938 He is my uncle as well...I have two copies of the CD, my aunt Mary(his mother) gave them to me years ago..Its a great CD

  • Maybe you haven't heard it in a long time because I know in our area of USA (SouthEast) it was banned due to being too suggestive. Listen to what is played now and you see how very mild

  • A great find (for me). thanks. Joe never got the push or maybe was pushed aside by the onslaught of Rock and Roll.  A lot of good vocalists bit the dust in those days.

  • aww I love this song! I used to listen to it on casette when I was like 6, now I am 17 and I still love it! ^_^

  • Nice video old timer...lol I'm 51 I can call you that.

    Thanks this, and the Burl Ives post I never thought I would hear again.

    Nice work again on the video.

    I hope you have more great oldies, I'll be waiting

  • Glade you like them and I have plenty more on the way.

  • @markalson1938 I have the original 45 rpm of this song which I bought when I was 12 years old in Queens, NY. I can make a photo of the label and send it to you to post along with the song if you like. Just let me know. - Joe

  • thanks for this post!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Wow..I never ever thought that I would hear this song again.. First heard it in the early fifties...Many thanks Mark.

    You are the greatest..

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