Songs & Movies that entertained us. Just a short list of what we might have been watching at the movies or listening to on the radio over the years: In 1943 we would have listened to popular songs such as • As Time Goes By sung by Rudee Vallee • Boogie Woogie by Tommy Dorsey • Brazil by Xavier Cugat • Comin’ In On a Wing and a Prayer by The Song Spinners • Don’t Get Around Much Anymore by The Ink Spots • Goodbye Sue by Perry Como • I Had the Craziest Dream & I’ve Heard That Song Before both by Harry James • I’m Old Fashioned by Fred Astaire and • I’m In the Blue of the Evening by Tommy Dorsey and we would probably have seen the following movies at Quakers Hill Hall • Casablanca • The Song of Bernadette • This is the Army • For Whom the Bell Tolls • Coney Island • Stage Door Canteen • Sweet Rosie O’Grady & • Heaven Can Wait In 1946 we would have been very familiar with songs & music such as: • A Fine Romance by Martha Tilton & Johhny Mercer • Aren’t You Glad You’re You? by Les Brown & His Orchestra with Doris Day • Candy by Johnny Mercer, Jo Stafford & The Pied Pipers • Choo Choo Ch’Boogie by Loius Jordan & His Tympany Five • The Christmas Song by The King Cole Trio • The Coffee Song; Day By Day; & Five Minutes More by Frank Sinatra • Coming Home by Dorothy Squires • Day By Day & Five Minutes More by Frank Sinatra • Doin’ What Comes Natur’lly by Dinah Shore with Spade Cooley & His Orchestra while we would have been enthralled by movies such as: • The Best Years of Our Lives • Song of the South • Duel in the Sun • The Postman Always Knocks Twice • Blue Skies • The Yearling • The Razor’s Edge and • Notorious 1954 would have us enjoying tracks such as • Little Things Mean a Lot by Kitty Kallen • Oh!, My Pa-Pa by Eddie Fisher • Wanted by Perry Como • Sh-Boom by the Crew Cuts • Mr Sandman by The Chordettes • Hey There by Rosemary Clooney • I Need You Now by Eddie Fisher • Secret Love by Doris Day • Make Love To Me by Jo Stafford • This Ole House by Rosemary Clooney And movies like: • On the Waterfront • White Christmas • 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea • Rear Window • Carmen Jones • The Caine Mutiny • The Country Girl • The Barefoot Contessa and • A Star Is Born By 1959 we were listening to: • Mack the Knife sung by Bobby darin • The Battle of New Orleans by Johnny Horton • Personality & Stagger Lee by Lloyd Price • Venus by Frankie Avalon and watching: • Ben Hur • Sleeping Beauty • North By Northwest • Some Like It Hot • Pillow Talk • Imitation of Life • Suddenly Last Summer • The Nun’s Story and • Rio Bravo
Posted on: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 01:03:20 +0000
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