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15/05/2011

Bookended by two songs with a 'maytime' mention, much of the show is concerned with marking the centenary of singer Maxine Sullivan, born 13 May 1911.

Bookended by two songs with a "maytime" mention, much of this week's show is concerned with marking the centenary of singer Maxine Sullivan (born 13 May 1911) and we hear no less than five samples of her distinctively cool and sweet singing from 1937 to 1969. An instrumental tribute to her first hit, Loch Lomond, by pianist Dick Hyman is included, too.

Her recording of Who Is Sylvia gives Russell an opportunity to play Sylvia Syms' strange song English Muffins and Irish Stew, the composer of which who also wrote a more orthodox ballad - In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning - sung for us by Johnny Hartman.

Then Maxine's A Brown Bird Singing prompts a three-brown-birds-of-a-kind featurette (Nightingale, Bob White and Skylark) with Richard Rodney Bennett, Johnny Mercer and Bobby Darin and Miss Sullivan herself again. There's an excruciating link to Lorraine Feather, with Where Are My Keys? and Russell reviews a new release of Felice and Boudleaux Bryant songs before a final May-mentioning song from Maxine - Barbara Allen - winds up the show.

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Sun 15 May 2011 21:00
麻豆约拍 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Tony Bennett

    I've Got The World On A String

    鈥淭ony Bennett 鈥� Perfectly Frank鈥�

    • Columbia.
    • 472222 2.

  • Maxine Sullivan

    Loch Lomond

    鈥淢axine Sullivan: 鈥業t鈥檚 Wonderful鈥� 4 CD Box鈥�

    • Proper.
    • Properbox 130.

  • Dick Hyman

    Loch Lomond

    鈥淢usic Of 1937 鈥� Dick Hyman, Piano鈥�

    • Concord CCD.
    • CCD 4415.

  • Maxine Sullivan

    Who Is Sylvia?

    鈥淢axine Sullivan: 鈥業t鈥檚 Wonderful鈥� 4 CD Box鈥�

    • Proper.
    • Properbox 130.

  • Sylvia Syms

    English Muffins And Irish Stew

    鈥淟ost And Found 50鈥檚 And 60鈥檚 Records鈥�

    • Master Classics Records.

  • Johnny Hartman

    In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning

    鈥淛ohnny Hartman 鈥� Just Dropped By To Say Hello鈥�

    • Impulse.
    • IMP 11762.

  • Maxine Sullivan

    A Brown Bird Singing

    鈥淢axine Sullivan: 鈥業t鈥檚 Wonderful鈥� 4 CD Box鈥�

    • Proper.
    • Properbox 130.

  • Richard Rodney Bennett

    A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square

    鈥淚 Never Went Away 鈥� Richard Rodney Bennett鈥�

    • Delos.
    • DE 5001.

  • Bobby Darin & Johnny Mercer - Bob White

    Bobby Darin & Johnny Mercer: Two Of A Kind

  • Maxine Sullivan With Bob Wilber Orchestra

    Skylark

    鈥淭he Music Of Hoagy Carmichael鈥� [1969 Album]

    • Audiophile.
    • ACD 220.

  • Lorraine Feather

    Where Are My Keys?

    鈥淟orraine Feather - Language鈥�

    • Jazzed Media.
    • JM 1032.

  • Buddy Holly

    Raining In My Heart

    The Quiller Memorandum Vol 1 [The Bryants]

    • Fantastic Voyage.
    • FVCD 097.

  • Maxine Sullivan

    Barbara Allen

    鈥淢axine Sullivan 鈥� The Fifties: 1952-1959鈥�

    • Baldwin Street Music.
    • BJH 314.

Broadcast

  • Sun 15 May 2011 21:00
    麻豆约拍 Radio 2