Rashers

Yes, Rudy was stunning – the embodiment of the romantic matinée idol - but always with a dangerous undercurrent, hinting at the taboo and the forbidden, which sent a wicked shiver of anticipation down the spine! Nice version of “Sheikh of Araby”, too.

Hutch was indeed attractive to both sexes and liked each. If rumour’s to be believed, he was not only the composer’s protégé in `20s NY but counted two notches on his bedpost with members of the Royal Family, excluding Edwina Mountbatten (?and her husband?). He died penniless and alone; Dickie Mo...

I love Anne Shelton's unique voice & she made some of her best recordings with Bert Ambrose, who had a gift for spotting exceptional, young, female vocalists. From the first note of anything she sings, it can't be anyone else. Has anyone an uploadable recording of a rare but beautiful number sung...

Think I prefer this to the arrangment in (2), altho' slower tempo than usual. Both enjoyable. I can't understand people's prejudice against any good instrument, well-played; or how they can't appreciate the ingenuity and skill which when into creating something with such a broad musical range. Wh...

Interesting version of this tango but I’m not sure about Mr. Smith’s interpretation, particularly the syncopation... The popular song to me is inextricably associated in my mind with Tauber who, IMHO, a year later recorded the definitive version. If the story is true about Jack Smith’s having bee...

Thanks for the upload. Sam Browne also sang with Bert Ambrose's orchestra. If I may help with barbcard's question: "catastral" refers to real property. Poland is introducing tax on this. Similar taxes apply in Europe (e. g. "valor catastral" in Spain) on the registered values of land & buildings....

240252, thank you for uploading this. To which Kalman operetta do you refer? "La Violette de Montmartre"? I disagree, btw, with lojundolo about his singing not operetta but opera today. Operetta can wrongly be perceived as a "poor relation" of [grand] opera; many great opera singers have made ope...

Talk about the “law of unintended consequences” – I’ve never had much time for Piers Morgan, whom I regard as a slick populist, but anyone publicly calling Rick Santorum a “bigot” goes up in my estimation! If this man gains the GOP nomination, not only will the Empire be over (it’s over anyway, f...

Thank you for posting this. The German lyrics remind me that I saw “The Rose” one Sunday morning [perhaps because it was in English, therefore “minority interest”] in the winter of 1979 at a cinema on the Jungfernstieg in Hamburg. Lovely song from the Divine Miss M.

Thank you for the response.

One of many "covers" (interpretations, in English!) of a great Weill song. Bowie has fun here; it may not be "Gigolo" but he's still hot as Hell, too! The guitar work's also great.

Great and a nice, instrumental version of Weill's song.

Lovely. I came across this and Lys Gauty looking for (and finding) "J'Attends un Navire" by Weill. Thank you.

Thanks for your channel of Eartha's work - she was a great entertainer as well as a special talent. I liked both her early & her later performances, when she "crossed over"; her collaborations with Bronski Beat in the `80s were enjoyable. Anyone who perceives humanity, art or music in terms of ra...