Ronnie Deauville - Nice Work If You Can Get It (1959)

Born in 1925, Ronnie Deauville had a promising career ahead of him when a tragic accident, coupled with a tragic illness brought an eventual halt. He had been making a name for himself, singing with big bands and appearing on TV and radio shows, when he was involved in a serious auto accident in 1956 that left him paralyzed from the neck down. Not long after, he contracted polio (just a few months before the preventive vaccine was discovered). He spent almost a year in an iron lung and was told he'd never sing again, due to diminished lung capacity. But through therapy he was able to regain most of his singing voice and made an attempt at resuming his career. Due to his precarious health he had to give up live performing and club dates. In later years, he dubbed singing for various movies, etc. and died in 1990 of cancer. This song was from an album he recorded 3 years after his accident and contracting polio, entitled "Ronnie Deauville" (aka Romance With Ronnie - Ronnie Deauville Sings)on Imperial (released as mono only)
For additional songs by Ronnie that are downloadable for free, as mp3, go to this fan site called box.net (I've spaced the link out because You Tube does not like links, so be sure to close this back up when you copy and paste it into your address field/URL)
w w w (dot) box (dot) net / ronniedeauville

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[wally1435]

@fasbc You are very welcome; thanks for commenting, it is appreciated.

[fasbc]

I really enjoy Ronnie's singing. Thank's for posting him.

[wally1435]

For additional songs by Ronnie that are downloadable for free, as mp3, go to this fan site called box (dot) net (I've spaced the link out because You Tube does not like links, so be sure to close this back up when you copy and paste it into your address field/URL)

w w w (dot) box (dot) net / ronniedeauville