ralper

If you can find a 78 rpm version of this record you'll have something worth quite a few thousand dollars. Only 200 were ever pressed and only 4 or 5 are known to exist. It is considered to be the rarest of all the R & B 78s ever made. It's not my favorite version of this great song, but I wish I had the 78.

ralper

Another R & B version of the song. I like this one better. Not as good as the version by Lena Horne, but a pretty good version.

ralper

Nobody sings it like Lena

windhund116

Best seen & heard in HD!

skunkworks

Grew up listing to this type of music along with Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington, and Tommy Dorsey.

ralper

Jim Pike, lead singer of the Lettermen, died the other day at the age of 82

The obituary
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/20/a...pike-dead.html

This remake of a 1936 song from the movie "Swing Time" was a big hit for the Lettermen in 1961

This was another of their top 10 hits, recorded in 1962.

ralper

Dave Bartholomew died at the age of 100. He was a producer, arranger, writer and trumpet player and a mainstay of New Orleans R & B. He was active from the 1940s until recently and worked with many of music's greats. He was elected to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame n 1991.

The obituary
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/23/o...es-at-100.html

This record, written together with Fats Domino in 1949 and produced by Dave Bartholomew is thought by some to be the very first Rock & Roll record.

S1997

From 1966

S1997

This beautiful lady is now 72 years old. Wow!

ralper

That is hard to believe. Where did the years go?