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Hold Tight, It's Lena [1] [2] is the seventh and final album by Scottish singer Lena Zavaroni, released in 1982 by BBC Records.
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Hold Tight, It's Lena [1] [2] is the seventh and final album by Scottish singer Lena Zavaroni, released in 1982 by BBC Records.
Louis Leo Prima was an American singer, songwriter, bandleader, and trumpeter. While rooted in New Orleans jazz, swing music, and jump blues, Prima touched on various genres throughout his career: he formed a seven-piece New Orleans-style jazz band in the late 1920s, fronted a swing combo in the 1930s and a big band group in the 1940s, helped to popularize jump blues in the late 1940s and early to mid 1950s, and performed frequently as a Vegas lounge act beginning in the 1950s.
Lou Monte was an Italian American singer best known for a number of best-selling, Italian-themed novelty records which he recorded for both RCA Victor and Reprise Records in the late 1950s and early 1960s, most famously "Lazy Mary" (1958) and the 1962/63 million-selling US hit "Pepino the Italian Mouse", plus the seasonal track "Dominick the Donkey". He also recorded on Roulette Records, Jubilee Records, Regalia Records, Musicor Records, Laurie Records, and AFE Records.
Lena Hilda Zavaroni was a Scottish singer and a television show host. At ten years of age, with her album Ma! , she was the youngest person in history to have an album in the top ten of the UK Albums Chart. Later she starred in her own television series, made numerous TV guest star appearances, and appeared on stage. From the age of thirteen, Zavaroni suffered anorexia nervosa and also developed clinical depression when she was fifteen. Following an operation to cure her depression, Zavaroni died at the age of thirty-five from pneumonia on 1 October 1999.
"Do Nothing till You Hear from Me" is a song with music by Duke Ellington and lyrics by Bob Russell. It originated as a 1940 instrumental that was designed to highlight the playing of Ellington's lead trumpeter, Cootie Williams. Russell's words were added later. In 1944, Ellington's own recording of the song was a number one hit R&B chart for eight non-consecutive weeks and number six on the pop chart.
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In the folk tradition, there are many traditional blues verses that have been sung over and over by many artists. Blues singers, who include many country and folk artists as well as those commonly identified with blues singers, use these traditional lyrics to fill out their blues performances. Artists like Jimmie Rodgers, the "blue yodeler", and Big Joe Turner, "the Boss of the Blues" compiled virtual encyclopedias of lyrics. Turner reputedly could sing the blues for hours without repeating himself.
Hold Tight may refer to:
Lena Zavaroni and Music was a music, comedy and variety programme featuring Lena Zavaroni and her guests. Six episodes were aired by the BBC in the spring of 1979. The BBC also released an LP called Lena Zavaroni And Her Music, manufactured and distributed by CBS Records and copyrighted by Galaxy Records.
On September 18th 1978, the BBC broadcast Lena Zavaroni On Broadway it was chosen for the 1978 Golden Sea Swallow Festival, where it won the silver award.
If My Friends Could See Me Now is the second album by Scottish singer Lena Zavaroni. It was released in 1974 on Philips Records and produced by Johnny Franz.
Ma! is the debut album by Scottish singer Lena Zavaroni, released in 1974 on Philips Records.
Songs Are Such Good Things is the fifth album by Scottish singer Lena Zavaroni, released in 1978 by Galaxy Records.
Lena Zavaroni in South Africa was the third album by the Scottish singer Lena Zavaroni, released in 1975 by the Record and Tape Company.
Presenting Lena Zavaroni is the fourth album by Scottish singer Lena Zavaroni, released in 1977 by Galaxy Records.
Lena Zavaroni And Her Music is the sixth album by Scottish singer Lena Zavaroni, released in 1979 by Galaxy Records. It was manufactured and distributed by CBS Records.
"Speak to Me Pretty" is a song written by By Dunham and Henry Vars and performed by Brenda Lee. The song featured on Lee's 1961 album, All the Way. Not chosen to be a single in the United States, the song was selected by Lee's U.K. record label as a single and reached No.3 in the U.K. singles chart in May 1962, which made it the highest-placing chart single Lee ever had in the U.K. The single also made No.57 on the overall U.K. sales chart for 1962. "Speak to Me Pretty" reached No.8 in the Norwegian charts in 1962 also.
"Ma, He's Making Eyes At Me" alternatively sung as "Ma, She's Making Eyes At Me" is a song published in 1921.
Ma, He's Making Eyes at Me may refer to:
Hi Summer was a British television variety show made by London Weekend Television and shown on UK television in 1977 by ITV, the oldest commercial network in the UK. A total of eight episodes were made and featured a cast that included Leslie Crowther, Lena Zavaroni, Carl Wayne, Pearly Gates, Anna Dawson, Derek Griffiths, Chris Quinten and Stephanie Lawrence. This travelling variety show featured sketches, topical comedy and musical numbers that were recorded both in studio and on location. The theme tune was composed by Lynsey de Paul, and sung by Carl Wayne and was released as a single. De Paul's theme was later re-used on commercials for TVTimes.
"Tennessee Wig Walk" is a popular song by the American composer Larry Coleman, with lyrics by Norman Gimbel.
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