The Chordettes were huge in the 1950s and some of their songs are still familiar to this day, with their 1958 hit Lollipop & their 1st No 1 hit Mr Sandman being amongst the best known. We particularly remember the latter from the classic 1980s movie “Back To The Future” and more recently “Lollipop” was […] Continue reading → 
The Lemon Drop Kid despite its age remains one of our all time favourite X-Mas movies, holding special memories for some of us. The film should have introduced the world to the great festive song Silver Bells by Bob Hope & Marylyn Maxwell but due to the movies release being held back Bing Crosby and […] Continue reading → 
Classic 1950s Rock & Roll song from The 1956 film “Don’t Knock The Rock” which had a simple plot reminiscent of those simpler but somewhat suspicious times when Rock Music was frowned upon but the elder society. In the movie a DJ tries to prove that Rock & Roll wont corrupt the towns teenage population. […] Continue reading → 
“Hey, Good Lookin’” is one of Hank Williams best known songs, which he released in June 1951, It is not a wholly original song , being an adaptation of Cole Porters 1942 song. However this version is much better known having been covered by various artists on numerous occasions, and it was inducted into the […] Continue reading → 
“Mona Lisa” remains to this day one of the classics of easy listening and although many artists have covered it, none (in our opinion anyway) perform it better than Nat King Cole. The song was originally written by Ray Evans and Jay Livingston for the motion picture Captain Carey, U.S.A. which was released by Paramount […] Continue reading →