Kay Starr...Jazz Singer.

This is a great L/P with "Kay" at her peak orchestrations great so what you waiting for !! give it a download !!

          10. My Honey's Lovin' Arms

Kay Starr...In A Blue Mood.

Catherine Laverne Starks (July 21, 1922 – November 3, 2016), known professionally as Kay Starr, was an American pop and jazz singer who enjoyed considerable success in the late 1940s and 1950s. She was of Iroquois and Irish heritage. Starr was successful in every field of music she tried (jazz, pop, and country), but her roots were in jazz.

At 15, she was chosen to sing with the Joe Venuti orchestra. Venuti had a contract to play in the Peabody Hotel in Memphis which called for his band to feature a girl singer, a performer he did not have at the time. Venuti's road manager heard Starr on the radio and recommended her although she was young and her parents insisted on a midnight curfew.

In 1939, she worked with Bob Crosby and Glenn Miller, who hired her to replace the ill Marion Hutton. With Miller she recorded "Baby Me" and "Love with a Capital You". They were not a great success, in part because the band played in a key that, while appropriate for Hutton, did not suit Kay's vocal range.After finishing high school, she moved to Los Angeles and signed with Wingy Manone's band. From 1943 to 1945 she sang with Charlie Barnet's ensemble, retiring for a year after contracting pneumonia and later developing nodes on her vocal cords as a result of fatigue and overwork.In 1946 Starr became a soloist and a year later signed a contract with Capitol Records. The label had a number of female singers signed up, including Peggy Lee, Ella Mae Morse, Jo Stafford, and Margaret Whiting, so it was hard to find her a niche of her own. In 1948 when the American Federation of Musicians was threatening a strike, Capitol wanted to have each of its singers record a back list for future release. Being junior to all these other artists meant that every song Starr wanted to sing was taken by her rivals on the label, leaving her a list of old songs which nobody else wanted to record.

In 1950 she returned home to Dougherty and heard a fiddle recording of "Bonaparte's Retreat" by Pee Wee King. She liked it so much that she wanted to record it. She contacted Roy Acuff's publishing house in Nashville and spoke to Acuff directly. He was happy to let her record it, but it took a while for her to make clear that she was a singer, not a fiddler, and therefore needed to have some lyrics written. Acuff came up with a new lyric, and "Bonaparte's Retreat" became her biggest hit up to that point, with close to a million sales.In 1955, she signed with RCA Victor Records. However, at this time, rock-and-roll was displacing the existing forms of pop music and Kay had only two hits, the aforementioned, which is sometimes considered her attempt to sing rock and roll, and sometimes as a song poking fun at it, "The Rock and Roll Waltz". She stayed at RCA Victor until 1959, hitting the top ten with "My Heart Reminds Me", then returned to Capitol.

Most of Starr's songs had jazz influences. Like those of Frankie Laine and Johnnie Ray, they were sung in a style that anticipated rock and roll songs. These included her hits "Wheel of Fortune" (her biggest hit, No. 1 for 10 weeks), "Side by Side", "The Man Upstairs", and "Rock and Roll Waltz". One of her biggest hits was her version of "(Everybody's Waitin' For) The Man with the Bag", a Christmas song that became a holiday favorite.

 She recorded several albums, including Movin' (1959), Losers, Weepers… (1960), I Cry By Night (1962), and Just Plain Country (1962).After leaving Capitol for a second time in 1966, Starr continued touring in the US and the UK. She recorded several jazz and country albums on small independent labels, including How About This, a 1968 album with Count Basie.

In 1993 she toured the United Kingdom as part of Pat Boone's April Love Tour. Her first live album, Live at Freddy's, was released in 1997. She sang with Tony Bennett on his album Playin' with My Friends: Bennett Sings the Blues (2001).

1. After You've Gone

2. A Woman Likes To Be Told

3. Maybe You'll Be There

4. I'm Waiting For Ships That Never Come In

5. What Will I Tell My Heart

6. Evenin'

1. He's Funny That Way

2. I Got The Spring Fever Blues

3. Don't Tell Him What Happened to Me

4. I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good

5. Everybody's Somebody's Fool

6. It Will Have to do Until The Real Thing Comes Along

         5. What will I Tell My Heart

Kay Starr

Some great Kay Starr sounds from the 40's !...A Cool 28 Tracks!...  The bonus tracks (19-28) are some great live performances !

Catherine Laverne Starks (July 21, 1922 – November 3, 2016), known professionally as Kay Starr, was an American pop and jazz singer who enjoyed considerable success in the late 1940s and 1950s. She was of Iroquois and Irish heritage. Starr was successful in every field of music she tried (jazz, pop, and country), but her roots were in jazz

          23. The Very Thought Of You

Mitchell Torok--Tab Hunter--Charlie Kunz--Kay Starr--Ken Mackintosh--Alma Cogan

With one side missing and just one bio, maybe babe its holidy time and it's Hot in the Caribbean !

1. Caribbean......Mitchell Torok

2. Weep Away......Mitchel Torok

3. Young Love......Tab Hunter

4. Red Sails In The Sunset.....Tab Hunter

5. Piano Medley No D 20 (Part 1)......Charlie Kunz

6. Piano Medley No D 20 (Part 2)......Charlie Kunz

7. Oh Babe......Kay Starr

8. The Texas Song......Kay Starr

9. Six Five Blues......Ken Mackintosh & His Orchestra

10. Softly Softly.......Alma Cogan

11. Paper Kisses......Alma Cogan

Kenneth Victor Mackintosh (4 August 1919 – 22 November 2005) was an English saxophonist, composer and bandleader. He accompanied singers such as Tom Jones, Shirley Bassey and Matt Monro..After a period in the Army, he went to London, and joined various big bands, such as the Oscar Rabin Band. Following the Second World War, he formed his own orchestra, making appearances at the Astoria Ballroom, Nottingham. He brought his band to the Wimbledon Palais in London, touring extensively at home and abroad. He also had great singing strength with such well-versed vocalists as Kenny Bardell, Gordon Langhorn and The Mackpies. His orchestra was featured on BBC Radio almost every week in the 1950s and early 1960s. In 1955, he appeared in the BBC Light Programme's "festival of dance music" at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

Mackintosh also wrote his own music, such as "The Creep" (written under the pseudonym Andy Burton, with Brian Fahey). He had three entries in the UK Singles Chart between 1954 and 1960, with "The Creep" being his highest placed hit record, reaching No. 10 in January 1954. Among his fans was the Queen Mother, for whom he played twice at Windsor Castle

          9. Six Five Blues

Tim..26 June 2024 at 09:51

Afraid this link is now lost. I am trying to collate all the Charlie Kunz records!! Thank you

Link is now active !....Second dip into the heavy brittle 78's of a bygone age !!

Kay Starr

 Some early Kay Starr from the 50's

          6. Tonight You Belong To Me

Kay Starr

Some vintage Kay Starr is always great to get the feet tippy tappin' !!

1. A Hundred Years From Today

2. Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams

3. Glad Rag Doll

4. Fit As A Fiddle

5. My Buddy

6. You Can Depend on Me

1. I Want A Boy

2. I'll Never Say Never Again Again

3. The Prisoner's Song

4. Once More

5. Georgia On My Mind

6. Jump For Joy

     6. You Can Depend On Me

Kay Starr

Miss Kay Starr and not a "Pop Song" in sight !!!....she does a great job with some standard love songs that comes under the umbrella of ..."Losers, Weepers"...every track is a Gem !!!...I had a hell of a job trying to pick a track to play !!!

04-dont_take_your_love_from_me.mp3

Kay Starr.320 Kbps

Here's a great L/P all full of 50's magic !!....I had most of these tracks on 45's in my younger days !!....But it's great to hear them in "Stereo" and it's one I will play again ! and again ! and again ! and again !!!!!

1. Side By Side
2. So Tired
3. Mississippi
4. I'm The Lonesomest Gal In Town 
5. Half A Photograph
6. Comes a Long a Love 

1. Bonapartes Retreat
2. Wheel Of Fortune
3. The Rock And Roll Waltz
4. Hoop Dee Doo
5. Allez Vous En Go Away
6. Foolin' Around

 

Kay Starr.320 Kbps

The great husky voice of "Kay" doing some great songs of the time !!

Tracks  2 & 3 are in (STEREO)