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Max Bygraves - Singalongamaxbox (2013)

Max Bygraves - Singalongamaxbox (2013)

BAND/ARTIST: Max Bygraves

  • Title: Singalongamaxbox
  • Year Of Release: 2002 / 2013
  • Label: Sanctuary Records
  • Genre: Pop, Easy Listening
  • Quality: FLAC (tracks) / MP3
  • Total Time: 2:27:06
  • Total Size: 786 / 343 MB
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Tracklist:

01. Medley: Me and My Shadow / Moonlight and Roses / You Were Meant for Me / You Are My Sunshine / Let the Rest of the World Go By
02. Medley: Bye Bye Blackbird / Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home? / Ma! (He's Making Eyes At Me) / Oh! You Beautiful Doll / Alexander's Ragtime Band
03. Medley: I'll Be With You In Apple Blossom Time / If I Had My Way / Edelweiss / The Whiffenpoof Song
04. Medley: If You Were the Only Girl In the World / Marie / Mary's a Grand Old Name / Daisy Bell / for Me and My Gal
05. Medley: I Whistle a Happy Tune / The Girl That I Marry / Cabaret / Mame / Hello, Dolly!
06. Medley: Bye Bye Blues / I'll See You In My Dreams / It's Time to Say Goodnight / Goodnight Sweetheart
07. Medley: One of Those Songs / Baby Face / Toot Toot Tootsie (Goo'bye) / Swanee / One of Those Songs
08. Medley: I Don't Know Why (I Just Do) / You Made Me Love You
09. Medley: Ramblin' Rose / Tip Toe Through the Tulips / The Honeysuckle and the Bee / When You Wore a Tulip (And I Wore a Big Rose)
10. Medley: Hello, Young Lovers / Change Partners / People Will Say We're In Love
11. Medley: You'd Be So Nice to Come Home to/ I Love You Because/ True Love
12. Medley: Let Me Call You Sweetheart / Girl of My Dreams / Where the Blue of the Night (Meets the Gold of the Day)
13. Medley: Everybody Loves Somebody / Just One More Chance
14. Medley: Au Revoir / Auf Wiedersehen Sweetheart / Arrivederci, Roma / Goodbye Blues
15. Medley: I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony) / Everywhere You Go / All I Do Is Dream of You / If I Had a Talking Picture of You / I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect H
16. Medley: If You Knew Susie / How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down On the Farm? / Row, Row, Row / Waiting for the Robert e Lee
17. Medley: If I Had You / My Mother's Eyes (Stereo)
18. Medley: It Had to Be You / I'll Get By / I'll String Along With You / I'll Be Seeing You (GBUM71026491)
19. Medley: Hold Me / My Happiness / My Melancholy Baby / Love Me a Little More (Stereo)
20. Medley: Should I? / Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue / I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles / Ain't She Sweet?
21. Medley: Home Town / In a Shanty In Old Shanty Town / Heart of My Heart / Underneath the Arches
22. Medley: Wyoming Lullaby / What'll I Do? / When Your Hair Has Turned to Silver / 'Til We Meet Again
23. Medley: South of the Border / It Happened In Monterey / In a Little Spanish Town / Mexicali Rose
24. Medley: Somewhere My Love / Pigalle / Domino
25. Medley: What a Wonderful World / A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square / (I Left My Heart) In San Francisco
26. Medley: Rolling Round the World / Is It True What They Say About Dixie? / Home in Pasadena / Deep In the Heart of Texas
27. Medley: How Wonderful to Know / More / What Now, My Love?
28. Medley: Volare / Ciao Ciao Bambina / C'est Si Bon / I Love Paris
29. Medley: Wonderful Copenhagen / Wunderbar / Que Sera, Sera / Tulips from Amsterdam
30. Medley: Around the World / Falling In Love Again / Now Is the Hour / Around the World (Reprise)

Singer/songwriter Max Bygraves was enormously popular in postwar England, releasing a steady stream of popular "singalong" records while being widely seen and heard on television, radio, and in the movies. His most famous catch phrase was "I wanna tell you a story!"; his own story is a real-life tale of rags to riches.

Walter William Bygraves was one of six children of Battling Tom Smith, a flyweight professional boxer and occasional dockworker, in a rough part of London. Bygraves showed his talent early, singing and doing impersonations for customers along his paper route and at parties, and was tapped for a solo performance at Westminster Abbey under the sponsorship of his music teacher. He joined the RAF at the start of the second World War, and on his first night in the barracks entertained his fellow troops with an impersonation of "The Cheeky Chappie," a 1930s music hall comedian named Max Miller. His fellow soldiers started calling him "Max," and the name stuck.

Bygraves married a WAAF sergeant in 1942, and continued to entertain his fellow soldiers, being asked to perform in larger and larger concerts. After the war, Max tried to find work as a carpenter, and was considering emigrating to Australia, when the BBC approached him about doing an ex-servicemen's show. In addition to Bygraves, They're Out featured such up-and-comers as Benny Hill, Harry Secombe, and Spike Milligan; the show's bandleader, Jack Payne, was impressed enough by him to invite him to join his orchestra. By 1951 Max had played the Palladium, been featured on some radio and television spots, and become friends with rising comic Eric Sykes. Sykes began writing for Bygraves, first in a radio script called Educating Archie, which was to be his breakthrough: Sykes played a ventriloquist dummy, and Max his comic foil; the show became a big hit, making Max a national celebrity.

His first album, entitled The Cowpuncher's Cantata, was released in 1952, to capitalize on his new fame. The title track mashed up four catchy hit songs -- "The Cry of the Wild Goose," "Riders in the Sky," "Mule Train," and "Jezebel" -- and promptly hit number one on the new Hit Parade charts. Max Bygraves had arrived as a superstar. He headlined the Palladium, starred in movies (most memorably the lead in Charlie Moon), famously bought a Rolls-Royce with the license plate "MB 1," supported Judy Garland in New York, and was awarded the Order of the British Empire. He rode the "Cowpuncher's Cantata" formula to enormous financial success, spinning out a series of popular hit records using continuous medleys of popular songs, even using the mash-up concept in his titles -- he released ten albums alone in the Singalongmax series, as well as multiple releases with such titles as Singalongpartysongs and Singalongmemories.

Bygraves retired to Australia in the 1990s, and published his autobiography, Max Bygraves in His Own Words, in 1997. He was coaxed out of retirement for a series of tours with the Beverly Sisters in 2002, then did a farewell set of performances in 2006. His recordings remain quite popular, and many titles and compilations are available on CD. Not bad for the poor son of an occasional dockworker! ~ Laurie Mercer


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  • mufty77
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Many thanks for lossless.