Cat No:
JASCD347
Release Date: 01 January 1999
Label: Jasmine Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 604988034721
Genres: Easy Listening
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Description
Julius LaRosa was born on 2nd January, 1930, in Brooklyn, New York City, of Italian parentage. As a youth he admired the rising star Frank Sinatra but did not imagine following in those footsteps, expecting instead to join his father's radio repair business. However, upon joining his High School's Glee Club for the purposes of avoiding some of the lessons he disliked, LaRosa's aptitude for singing became apparent.
Whilst doing his National Service in the Navy he became involved in various entertainment shows and this led to him being 'talent-spotted" to appear on Arthur Godfrey's prestigious radio "Talent Scouts Shows" in 1950. Upon discharge from the Navy, he became a regular guest the following year, then transferred to television. This was the early 1950s and TV was still in its infancy: "I guess I was the first nonentity to appear on television," LaRosa later recalled, and arguably he was one of the first test cases to prove that TV does not need celebrities, it creates them. He became the featured 'boy singer' on the Arthur Godfrey Show, and may have remained so if it were not for his very public sacking on 'live' TV by Godfrey on 19th October, 1953. Arthur Godfrey had a strict training regime for all his cast, and LaRosa had been skipping the obligatory ballet lessons because of other commitments - he had become a client of the GAC booking agency and had already started a successful recording career on the Cadence label, run by Godfrey's Music Director Archie Bleyer.
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Tracklisting
- 1. Change Partners
- 2. Our Language Of Love
- 3. When The World Was Young
- 4. Out Of This World
- 5. You Don't Know What Love Is
- 6. Let Me Sing And I'm Happy
- 7. My Romance
- 8. Cheek To Cheek
- 9. There'll Never Be Another You
- 10. My Shining Hour
- 11. Now I Know
- 12. Moon River
- 13. When The Sun Comes Out
- 14. Just Say I Love Her
- 15. A Fine Romance
- 16. Aren't You Glad You're You
- 17. Where Or When
- 18. If I Had You
- 19. My Favourite Things
- 20. Stella By Starlight
- 21. Gonna Build A Mountain
- 22. This Is All I Ask
- 23. Bye Bye Blues
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Embassy Records The 78rpm Years 1954-1957
Various Artists
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Britain's Mr & Mrs Of Country Music - As & Bs & EPs ...
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The Jasmine EP Collection
Marty Robbins
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Bull Doze Blues
Henry "Rag Time Texas" Thomas
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If You Try - Complete Recordings 1956-1962
Gene Allison
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And Then! Selected Singles 1950-1962
Edmundo Ros
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No Crazy Kid!
Freddy Cole
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Gloria Hunniford
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Embassy Records The 78rpm Years 1954-1957
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And Then! Selected Singles 1950-1962
Edmundo Ros
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The Best of Danny Williams
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Embassy Girls Volume 2
Kay Barry / Maureen Evans
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Our Love Affair
Charlie Applewhite
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MGM's Centenary Album
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