 Исполнитель: Lita Roza Название альбома: Drinka Lita Roza Day Год выпуска: 1960, Pye Records Формат файлов: Mp3. 192 Размер архива: 65 Mb Скачать с: turbobit
At just 18, she retired from show business, marrying James Shepherd Holland, one of the Canadian servicemen who was stationed in the U.K.; they moved to Miami. The marriage did not last, however, and after the war she returned to Britain, finding work with another top bandleader of the time, Ted Heath, alongside Dickie Valentine and Denis Lotis. As many of her contemporaries, she combined working with a big band with a career as a solo singer, and in 1953, she recorded a version of Patti Page's "How Much Is That Doggie in the Window," which topped the charts in April for one week, easily beating off the challenge of the Page version, and only the eighth number one song in the then recently introduced British charts. Despite its success, Roza hated the song and would never perform it in public.
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue SeaShe left the Ted Heath band and married Ron Hughes, a trumpet player. She was voted Top Girl Singer of 1951-1952 in the Melody Maker dance band polls and won the Top Female Singer category in New Musical Express from 1951-1955 consecutively. Another couple of minor solo hits followed, "Hey There" and "Jimmy Unknown," but despite releasing a total of 55 singles and four albums on Decca -- Presenting Lita Roza, Listening in the After-Hours, Love Is the Answer, and Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea -- her record sales were halted by the arrival of rock & roll and in the mid-'50s she concentrated on television work (including her own show Lita Roza Sings and several appearances with Ted Heath and on the new TV pop show Six Five Special, the only pop show on TV in the mid-'50s) and working in cabarets around the world including in Australia, New Zealand, and the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas.
She was asked to join a series of Ted Heath reunion concerts in 1982 along with Denis Lotis and Don Lusher and most of the original musicians from the band. In 2001, Roza was honored as the first artist with a bronze disc placed on the Wall of Fame in Matthew Street, opposite the Cavern Club, which featured all the acts from Liverpool who had achieved a number one to date including everyone from Frankie Vaughan, Michael Holiday, and the Beatles to Sonia, Mel C, and Atomic Kitten. Throughout the late '90s and into the 21st century, Universal Music, which owns the rights to Roza's Decca recordings, released several compilations of her songs as well as her final album, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, and Ted Heath Singles 1951-1953. She gave her final performance on Radio Merseyside in November 2002. Lita Roza died at her home in London on August 14, 2008; she was 82 years old.
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Side 1
1. Don't Get Around Much Anymore
2. I Loves You Porgy
3. How Deep Is The Ocean
4. Trouble Is A Man
5. The Masquerade Is Over
6. What Is There To Say
Side 2
1. The Man That Got Away
2. Lush Life
3. Lover Man
4. Something To Live For
5. Love For Sale
6. Ill Wind
Recorded live at the Thames, London's East End, 4 May 1960.
Ronnie Hughes, tp
Ronnie Ross, as, bs
Ronnie Chamberlan, as, ss
Dunkan Lamont, ts
Johnny Keating, tb
Dave Lee, p
Kenny Napper, b
Andy White, ds
Lita Roza, voc
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