Your Cheatin' Heart   Columbia Records #39-938

Frankie Laine was born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio on March 30, 1913.  He was a successful American singer, songwriter and actor whose career spanned 75 years.  He was often call America’s Number One Song Stylist.  Laine began recording for Columbia Records in 1951 and recorded “Your Cheatin’ Heart” in 1953.  

For You Alone     RCA Records #49-3207

Described by Arturo Toscanini as “the greatest voice of the 20^th century”, Mario Lanza was born Alfredo Arnoldo Cocozza on January 31, 1921 in Philadelphia.    On 02/19/51, Mario Lanza remade the two rejected songs from the 8/26/50 recording session, “Because” and “For You Alone”.  Both the conductor and the location were changed and the end result was two approved recordings both done in one take. 

William Tell Overture     RCA #20-2861-A

  

Spike Jones and his City Slickers recorded this version of Gioachino Rossini’s “William Tell Overture” as a single in 1948.  It peaked at #6 on the charts.  This version reproduces the original with significant modification of style and replaces the conclusion with the imitated horse race calls of the famous announcer Clem McCarthy.   
  

Mambo Italiano    Columbia Records  #40361

Rosemary Clooney (May 23, 1928 – June 29, 2002) was an American singer and actress. She came to prominence in the early 1950s with the novelty hit "Come On-A My House".  "Mambo Italiano" was written by the songwriter Bob Merrill and first performed by Rosemary Clooney in 1954.  The song was banned by New York's WABC radio because of its suggestive lyrics. The radio station didn't understand them and thought they might be suggestive.

Somebody Loves Me

Varsity Records, 1954, #247    Dick Farney

Dick Farney (birthname Farnésio Dutra e Silva: born November 14, 1921; died August 4, 1987) was a Brazilian pianist, pop-composer, and "crooner" popular in the 1950s.

Too Many Times

Majestic Records, 1947, #1105,   Eddy Howard

Howard studied medicine at Stanford University before dropping out to become a singer of romantic ballads on the radio in Los Angeles.  Later he sang with bands led by Ben Bernie and Dick Jurgens.  He started his own band in 1939 and was the regular vocalist on “It Can Be Done”, Edgar A. Guest’s 1941 radio program on the Blue Network.  

Let Me Grow Old With You

  Decca Records, #24740   Dick Haymes

He was born Richard Benjamin Haymes in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1918.[1] His Irish-born mother, Marguerite Haymes (1894–1987), was a well-known vocal coach and instructor. He became the vocalist in a number of big bands, worked in Hollywood, on radio, and in many films throughout the 1940s and 1950s.