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This is a great version of "Can't We Be Friends?" Why not put the title of the tune in the title of the link?

Typo: halve a step should be half a step.

The key on the recording is d-minor. The published key for this song is c-minor

(continued) See youtube for Jimmy Fontana's performance of "La Nostra Favola" and note that the music is identical, note-for-note, to that of "Delilah."

(continued) I checked Vesti la Giubba and it's in the key of e minor. It's highest note, so far as I can determine, by comparison with on line tuning fork, is E, a minor sixth below high C, so I still don't know whether Bolton has a high C. High B is only a half step below high C, so it's most ...

"Duettino - Sull'aria"

from opera "Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)"

Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte (uncredited)

Performed by Edith Mathis (uncredited) and Gundula Janowitz (uncredited)

Chor und Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin

Conducted by Karl Böh...

My customary sequence is verse and chorus on trumpet, first vocal verse and chorus, verse and chorus on soprano saxophone, second vocal verse and final chorus, second verse and final chorus on trumpet. I have to learn the song first and that may be a while, since I'm preparing for examinations. ...

Ezio Pinza sang Some Enchanted Evening in the published key of C. Tozzi sang it in Bb, a whole step lower, probably for comfort.

"I wish I were what you desire," the opening line, goes to a great song. What song is it? Google yields no hits. Any ideas?

[Chorus 2]:

YOU GOTTA BE A FOOTBALL HERO

TO GET ALONG WITH THE BEAUTIFUL GIRLS.

IN SPITE OF ALL A MILLION DOLLARS CAN DO,

A TACKLE OR TWO

WILL MEAN MORE TO YOU.

IF YOU CAN MAKE THE WINNING TOUCHDOWN,

YOU`LL NEVER HAVE TO BUY THEM PEARLS;

YOU GOTTA BE A FOOTBALL HERO

TO GET ALONG WITH THE BEAUTIFU...

In response to Gary in Arizona:

The photograph shows a cornet but its width is foreshortened by the angle at which he holds it. The giveaway is how far the third-valve crook extends forward, beyond the main crook.

Eric of Florida

This track is mislabeled. The singers are Louis Prima and Keely Smith, his wife, not Ella Fitzgerald. Keely Smith mentions "little Indians" that really fit you, because she has Cherokee ancestry, and he mentions little Sicilians, because that's his ancestry.

This is just a poor imitation, word-for-word, note-for-note of the long ago version by Louis Prima and Sam Butera. It's little wonder it is not commercially availble or it would be a copyright-violation.

Lyrics for the chorus (I don't have access to those for the verse):

When you have another's arms around you,

Do you ever think of me?

When you whisper, "I can't live without you,"

Do you ever think of me?

And when your eyes disguse

The same old loving lies,

You tell so tenderly,

Deep in your hea...

That pulling of the punch from the punchline must have made the recording acceptable to the "decency" censors, whereas Lawrence's racier lyric was probably unacceptable to them. The distinctions don't amount to much, but they may have been enough to make the recording "decent" in its time.

Do you know the lyrics for "O?"

The soloist at 3:30 sounds like Chu Berry, tenor saxophone, to me.