Crooner Culture

Josh Groban’s “Noel” Christmas Album is out! (Amazon.Com List Price: $18.98 Current Price: $8.99!!)
Holy beautiful-ness, people…
1. Silent Night
2. Little Drummer Boy
3. I’ll Be Home For Christmas
4. Ave Maria
5. Angels We Have Heard On High
6. Thankful
7. The Christmas Song
8. What Child Is This (One of my all time favorite Christmas songs!)
9. First Noel
10. Petit Papa Noel
11. It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
12. Panis Angelicus
13. O Come All Ye Faithful

1 Comment

Michael returns to Australia for his third concert tour in May & June 2008. For the first time in Australia, Michael will perform in arenas and is bringing his current world tour production with him!
Tickets to concerts in Sydney & Perth go on sale Monday, December 3rd. Tickets to Canberra, Melbourne, Adelaide and Brisbane on sale Thursday. December 6th.
This tour follows 2005’s “It’s Time” visit, which saw 13 sold out shows. “Call Me Irresponsible” entered the Australian charts at number one. It is the biggest selling album released by an international artist this year, spending nearly five months in the …read more

Comments Off

This is a pretty cool story – goes to show you that good crooners just never give up!

Comments Off

Rev. Bob Glenn in Minnesota preaches the gospel by day, and croons his way through classics like “Meglio Stasera” with his jazz band at night.

Comments Off

From the movie “Holiday Inn” with Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, and Virginia Dale

Lyrics (less the buh-bu-bo-bom’s and scatting)
“I’ll Capture Your Heart”
[FRED:] Here she comes, down the street
[BING:] My, oh my, ain’t she sweet?
[FRED:] Why, here comes my hot toddy
[BING:] Over my dead body
[BING:] I’ll capture her heart singing
[FRED:] Just wait until she gets a load of my dancing
[BING:] Just wait till I start singing
[FRED:] I’ll take her strolling down the road with my dancing
[BING:]
I can’t go wrong, a tender song and she’ll discover my charms
[FRED:]
Some fancy taps and she’ll collapse and fall right into my arms
[BING:] I’ll capture her heart …read more

Comments Off

Two totally classic voices – undeniable in identity. Gotta love this!
Bing Crosby & Louis Armstrong – “Now You Have Jazz” video

Comments Off

Posting this one for Brian Layman – she look stunning, and I love how she disguised her voice.
On September 29, 1957, John Daly was on vacation, so regular panelist Bennett Cerf filled in as moderator. This clip features Julie London as the mystery guest. The panelists are Dorothy Kilgallen, Ernie Kovacs, Arlene Francis, and Cesar Romero.

Whatever happened to “classy” television like this? I mean, just the other night I heard the word “ass” being thrown around on Family Guy, and yesterday afternoon I was watching some movie on TNT and the censors forgot to blurp (yes, my new word – …read more

1 Comment

Baby since the day you came into my life
You made me realize that we were born to fly
You showed me everyday new possibilities
You proved my fantasies of love could really be
Let’s go to a place only lovers go
To a spot that we’ve never known
To the top of the clouds we’re floating away yeah
Ooh this feels so crazy
Oh this love is blazing
Baby we’re so high
Walking on cloud 9
(You’ve got me up so high) So high
(My shoes are scraping the sky) So high
(You’ve got me up so high) Oh
(My shoes are scraping the sky)
Maybe later we can go up to the moon
Or …read more

1 Comment

I’ve listened to the samples on Amazon of this album and I’m not so sure I’m a fan just yet. I might have to buy it, and/or a couple others, but it seems to me like he’s just trying to stylize Sinatra – and IMHO that’s just not a good thing. Doesn’t mean he’s bad – the samples sound good and the “big band” appeal is totally there. The man’s got fans too, though – he’s got a radio show and a website and forum with several active users.
Here’s what Pizzarelli had to say about the album:
“I realized the …read more

1 Comment

Actor Joe Mantegna, who played Dean Martin in HBO’s “The Rat Pack” bought the rights to Dean’s biography back in September of 2006, supposedly to make a movie of the famed crooner’s life.
“Mantegna and his producing partner, Danny Ramm, bought the film rights to Memories are Made of This, a biographical memoir written by Martin’s daughter, Deana Martin. – USA Today“
I tried checking IMDB for details on this, and the only thing I came up with was a supposed film made in 2003 that had no info on it. I’d love to see Mantegna play him again, but it seems …read more

Comments Off