Bringing back the best male singers of the 50s and 60s

STEREO version. The Four Lads is a male singing quartet from Canada that enjoyed major success in the 1950s. In 1950 they were recruited by Mitch Miller who asked them to do backup for some of the artists he recorded. Johnnie Ray became a major star in 1951 with Cry and The Little White Cloud That Cried with The Four Lads backup. Their first hit single was The Mocking Bird released in 1952. In 1953 they made their first gold record Istanbul (Not Constantinople), which established them as major stars. Their most famous hits were Moments to Remember in 1955 followed by Standin’ on the Corner. The Mocking Bird was rerecorded for release on the Columbia label twice in the 1950s, including this stereo version.

“Manzil” [1960] is an Indian Hindi film directed by Mandi Burman. Starring Dev Anand, Nutan Behl, KN Singh, David Abraham and Achala Sachdev. Music is by Sachin Dev Burman. Lyrics by Majrooh Sultanpuri ………………….. Geetā Dutt (Born Geetā Ghosh Roy Chowdhuri) [November 23, 1930 July 20, 1972] was a prominent Indian playback singer in Hindi movies in the 1950s and 60s, and also a singer of modern Bengali songs. Initially, Geeta was a singer known for singing bhajans and sad songs, but her renderings of composer SD Burman’s jazzy musical scores in Bāzi in 1951 demonstrated a new facet of Geeta’s singing. The sexiness in her voice and her easy adaptation to “western” tunes. From then on in the 1950s, Geeta was people’s first choice for singing seductive songs and providing song accompaniments in dance clubs. SD Burman recognized the magic in Geeta’s voice through her songs in “Do Bhāi”. He effectively used the Bengali lilt in her voice in movies like Devdās (1955) and Pyāsā (1957). The song “Aaj Saajan Mohe Ang Lagaa Lo” in “Pyasa” is a prime example of a Bengali keertan being presented in its Hindi version. During Geeta’s recording of songs for the movie Baazi, she met the movie’s young and upcoming director, Guru Dutt. Their romance culminated in marriage on May 26, 1953…. In 1964, Guru Dutt died from a combination of alcohol and an overdose of sleeping pills. (His death was widely perceived as a suicide following two earlier attempts) Geeta then suffered a …
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