Jazz, blues and nostalgia, by Sjaak Roodenburg. This time, special attention for Dinah Shore.
This singer would become famous for her TV-shows where she drew milions of Americans to their television sets for four decades. Although her voice was small, and she auditioned unsuccessfully for the bands of Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey and Jimmy Dorsey, she knew how to impress in a smaller setting and in the 40’s, become one of the most successful vocalists. Also in today’s Palace: Webster Young, the trompettist who continued to play like a young Miles Davis for his entire life, the German nostalgia-filled orchestra of Marek Weber, who fled from nazi Germany in the nick of time and became famous in the US as ‘The Radio Waltz King’, comedian Stan Freberg with a lethal parody of ‘The Great Pretender’ by The Platters, Mel Tormé, ‘Hawaiian String Virtuoso’ King Benny Nawahi and the loud Odetta Holmes.
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