Great Vocals

Dick Haymes sings Eternal Love which is an unissued recording. Recording date believed to be in the mid to late 1970's. Don Beamsley on Piano. The author of this song is currently unknown.

Anthony’s great Elvis Birthday show at Annabella’s in East Rutherford, NJ Saturday January 13, 2024. Video Recorded by Mary.

Julius La Rosa sings "A Christmas Gift" written by Al Petrone, Arranged and Conducted by Torrie Zito. Recorded in 1981

Dick Haymes - Stardust (Carmichael - Parish) Alternate Version - April 14, 1946 - Remastered - Earle Hagen Orchestra

Dick Haymes sings You'll Never Know (Warren - Gordon), September 28, 1971 interview on The Tonight Show

Dick Haymes sings "I Like The Likes of You" (Duke - Harburg) from 2CD set, Dick Haymes "I Like The Likes of You" Broadcast Recordings 1947-1962. All tracks digitally remastered. Featuring Fran Jeffries, Peggy Lee and Martha Tilton. Available at www.amazon.com, www.ccmusic.com, www.oldies.com, www.acrobatmusic.net, www.trapezemusic.com

Dick Haymes sings "The More I See You" (Warren - Gordon) 1959 from the new 2 CD set., Dick Haymes "I Like The Likes of You" Broadcast Recordings 1947-1962. All tracks digitally remastered. Featuring Fran Jeffries, Peggy Lee and Martha Tilton. Available at www.amazon.com, www.ccmusic.com, www.oldies.com, www.acrobatmusic.net, www.trapezemusic.com

Dick Haymes sings "All My Love" (Contet - Durand - Parish) 1950 with Victor Young Orchestra, from the new 2 CD set.., Dick Haymes "I Like The Likes of You" Broadcast Recordings 1947-1962. All tracks digitally remastered. Featuring Fran Jeffries, Peggy Lee and Martha Tilton. Available at www.amazon.com, www.ccmusic.com, www.oldies.com, www.acrobatmusic.net, www.trapezemusic.com

Frank Griffith mentions the new Dick Haymes 2 CD set, "I Like the Likes of You". Frank plays "Let's Get Away from it All" & "The Carioca" from Jackie Gleason's Stage Show 1956. Listen to Frank Griffith's Jazz Cavern here: http://www.purejazzradio.com/

Dick Haymes - "The Way We Were" - 1979 - Remastered Audio, composed by Bergman - Bergman - Hamlisch. This was on Hugh Downs Over Easy Show.

Dick Haymes sings It Might As Well Be Spring, 1978 Remastered from Hugh Down's show Over Easy. Written by Rodgers & Hammerstein from State Fair, arrangement by Alan Copeland from his State Fair Medley.

Tony Bennett interview with Les Block (University of Minnesota) concerning David Allyn, "The Singer's Singer". This interview took place on September 24, 2012. Tony and David were great friends and roommates when they were both starting out in the business. We are posting this as a tribute to two great singers in light of the recent passing of Tony Bennett today. David Allyn is best known for his two masterpiece collaborations with Johnny Mandel: David Allyn Sings Jerome Kern, A Sure Thing and In The Blue of Evening. David Allyn (19th July 1919 - 22 November 2012 in West Haven , Connecticut ) was an American pop and jazz singer who was admired by many in the business. Frank Sinatra was a friend and supporter. Sammy Davis Jr. wrote liner notes to one of his later albums. David Allyn was born Albert DiLello in Hartford, Connectict. His father played French horn with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, his mother was a singer. Influenced by Bing Crosby, he began performing as a singer in high school. From 1940 to 1942 he recorded with Jack Teagarden's Big Band and in 1945 in the studio orchestra of Lyle Griffin. Allyn was rising fast in the band-singer sweepstakes, but his career was cut short by World War II. Drafted into the army, he fought in North Africa with the First Division until he was seriously wounded at El Guettar. Discharged from the army, he sang with the Van Alexander Orchestra. By now he had given up his Bing Crosby style, and was listening with interest to Sarah Vaughan, Dick Haymes, early Al Hibbler, Peggy Lee, and Frank Sinatra, but was developping his own style. David moved next to the early Henry Jerome band, with sidemen such as Al Cohn, Tiny Kahn, Harry Biss, Ollie Wilson, and most of all, Johnny Mandel. After the Jerome band broke up, David sang at WHN and WNEW radio and spent a short stint with the Bob Chester band, before joining Mandel in the new experimental Boyd Raeburn Band in 1945, a job that brought him considerable renown and should have catapulted him to the top. A decade before, Allyn had been among the most celebrated pop-jazz vocalists, thanks to such Raeburn gems as ''Forgetful'' and ''I Only Have Eyes For You.'' But now, in the late-1950s, he was a forgotten man--not only because he had been off the scene for so many years but also because his nobly straightforward style of singing was being shunted aside by rock `n` roll. But some old friends did not forget, and in 1957 one of Allyn`s former Raeburn band- mates, composer-arranger Johnny Mandel, collaborated with Allyn on an album of Jerome Kern songs titled ''A Sure Thing.'' This vocal masterpiece is an essay in romanticism so deeply felt, that it comes as no surprise to learn that tears were streaming down Allyn`s face when he recorded his trance-like version of ''Dearly Beloved.'' By this time, Allyn was a better singer than he had been during his Raeburn days, darker in tone and more emotionally mature. And his ability to sing a ballad remained unique, for Allyn favored the slowest tempos imaginable and seemed to place no distance between himself and the song. The 60’s saw Allyn with the Stan Kenton Orchestra and in 1964 with Count Basie in Lake Tahoe. He also frequently appeared in clubs such as the Playboy Club, but recording dates for jazz singers of Allyn's ilk were scarce. Then his career got into a crisis again due to drug problems. But the state of the music business was such that for the most part Allyn`s efforts fell on deaf ears--so much so that his second album with Mandel, ''In the Blue of the Evening,'' wasn`t even released at the time. So Allyn settled in Los Angeles, working in small clubs when he wasn`t serving as an addiction counselor at a Veterans Administration hospital, until he finally gave up on professional singing altogether--except for a superb but long-out-print 1975 album, ''Don`t Look Back'' , that paired him with pianist Barry Harris. By the 1980s Allyn was living in Minneapolis, working as a night manager in a hardware store, when his fate began to turn around. ''No one knew I was a singer,'' Allyn says, ''but then I came home one night and heard one of my sides being played on the local jazz station. I called the disc jockey to thank him, he said `Let`s do an interview` and one thing led to another. Before I knew it, I was singing with a couple of good big bands.'' In the early 1990s he moved to New York, where he performed at Gregory’s. He then put together a big band with the greatest arrangements in the business, including many supplied by Frank Sinatra. Paul Cammarata booked him at The Red Blazer Too in NYC, a gig which lasted many years. This led to a trip to Spain and a new recording featuring many of his arrangements which came from the original Boyd Raeburn book. He retired in 2010 and struggled with his health, especially in his later years. He died November 21, 2012 at the Veterans Administration Hospital in West Haven, Connecticut, at the age of 93.

Presented in memory of Vic Cenicola (May 10, 2023) and Jerry Bruno (June 22, 2020). Back in the day when you could still find great jazz in local New Jersey restaurants, I was able to record a few of the performances. This performance was on April 25, 2013 and it captures them playing Satin Doll. Vic and Jerry were very dear friends. I was fortunate enough to have sung on a few occasions with Vic on guitar and he was easily the greatest accompanist\musician I have ever performed with. Jerry Bruno was an incredible bass player musician and gentleman. I first saw him play live with the David Allyn Big Band at The Red Blazer Too in NYC. Both Vic and Jerry will be truly missed and not forgotten.

0:00 Nora Me Darlin 2:29 I Only Have Eyes for You 5:30 Mamselle 8:39 Stella By Starlight Side A1 Nora Me Darlin' Backing Band – Victor Young And His Orchestra Written-By – Al Lerner, Hy Heath, Johnny Lange Side A2 I Only Have Eyes For You Backing Band – Sonny Burke And His Orchestra Written-By – Al Dubin, Harry Warren (2) Side A3 Mam'selle Backing Band – Gordon Jenkins And His Orchestra Written-By – Edmund Goulding, Mack Gordon Side A4 Stella By Starlight Backing Band – Gordon Jenkins And His Orchestra Written-By – Ned Washington, Victor Young Side B1 Laura Backing Band – Victor Young And His Orchestra Written-By – David Raksin, Johnny Mercer Side B2 The Girl That I Marry Backing Band – Charles Dant And His Orchestra Written-By – Irving Berlin Side B3 Naughty Angeline Written-By – Allan Roberts, Lester Lee (2) Side B4 ...And Mimi Backing Band – Gordon Jenkins And His Orchestra Written-By – Jimmy Kennedy, Nat Simon

Dick Haymes Jr., First Public Appearance, Merv Griffin's "Play Your Hunch" show. June 20, 1962. Dick sings "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face"(Lerner & Loewe) and "Bye Bye Blackbird"(Dixon & Henderson). Orchestra is conducted by Joe Harnell.

A new 2CD collection of broadcast recordings. These are mainly off air recordings and they have been restored and remastered. This is an important period in the career of Dick Haymes as it reflects his change from being a crooner to that of a song stylist and the 1955 to 1957 period was when he recorded for Capitol Records. The depth and style of that period is well reflected in the recordings with Johnny Guarnieri. We are pleased to say that this collection will be released on the Acrobat Music label on 2 June 2023 in the UK and will also be available in the USA and elsewhere.

Bill Black sings Deep Purple with the Gene Krupa Orchestra, circa late 1940's. Audio has been remastered with minimal noise reductions. BIO: "Bill Black was born in 1927 to a musical family in Granite City, Illinois. He started singing professionally at an early age and, after several years in St. Louis, headed for New York. Gene Krupa hired Black as his band's vocalist in 1948. Black, who was with Krupa for 18 months, was the last fully-employed 'boy' singer with the band before it folded in 1950. George T. Simon predicted that Black would become the next big singer, in the lineage of Crosby, Sinatra, Haymes and Como. In the 1949 "Down Beat" magazine readers' poll of Band Singers, he came in fourth, just behind Johnny Hartman and one notch ahead of Buddy Greco. But Black's career did not progress after he left Krupa. He fled to Canada and changed his name to Clay Mundey, according to Black, to avoid a tax problem. However, others have said that in 1951 Black was attacked by the Mob and left on a Los Angeles freeway, and that his injuries required a year of recuperation. Around this time he had signed as a solo artist with Mercury Records, but for whatever reason, it was a contract he was never to fulfill. - Bill Reed

The Fred Hall Interview with Dick Haymes, 1978

Fred Hall interviews Dick Haymes at his home in Oxnard California, 1978

Part 2, Fred Hall Interviews Dick Haymes at his home in Oxnard California, 1978

Dick Haymes sings "Oh You Crazy Moon" Live, January 18, 1953 with the Frank De Vol Orchestra. Music by Jimmy Van Heusen, Lyrics by Johnny Burke.

Dick Haymes & Fran Jeffries Live April 23, 1961, Remastered from the original kinescope. Dick & Fran sing a duet, followed by Fran singing "A Lot of Living to Do" (Charles Strouse, Lee Adams), Dick sings "You are Too Beautiful" (Rodgers and Hart), followed by a closer duet. Remastered from original kinescope, audio has been digitally remastered with minimal noise reduction and sound level restoration. https://www.facebook.com/groups/24427...