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.

The Big Brass Band From Brazil

Art Mooney and His Orchestra with The Galli Sisters
MGM Records 1947, #10119-A 

Art Mooney and His Orchestra recorded this in 1947 with The Galli Sisters.  The Galli sisters were a vocal trio, led by Norma Galli, and were quite popular from the late 1930s through the early 1950s. They started off as children singing on the radio and later sang with Art Mooney's band in the late 1940s

"The Grocery Man"   Nicola Paone   
Columbia Records  #15153-F CO 37351

Nicola Paone, whose dialect-inflected songs about the joys, sorrows and insecurities of Italian immigrants sold millions of records and made him ''the Italian Bing Crosby.  Here are two samples of his light-hearted music.

"I Love Ballare With You"     Nicola Paone
Columbia Records  #15153-F  CO 37350