Polka Dots & Moonbeams - Johnny Desmond (Vocal) with Ray McKinley & The New Glenn Miller Orch. скачать в хорошем качестве

Polka Dots & Moonbeams - Johnny Desmond (Vocal) with Ray McKinley & The New Glenn Miller Orch.

Johnny Desmond in good voice and Polka Dots & Moonbeams on Glenn Miller Time in 1961. Johnny Desmond (born Giovanni Alfredo De Simone; November 14, 1919 – September 6, 1985) was an American singer who was popular in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Desmond was born in Detroit, Michigan, United States; As a boy he sang on a local radio station, but at age 15 he quit to work at his father's grocery. He retained a love of music, and briefly attended the Detroit Conservatory of Music before heading to the nightclub circuit, playing piano and singing. In 1939, he formed his own singing group. The group was first called the Downbeats. After being hired to work with Bob Crosby's big band in 1940, it was renamed the Bob-O-Links. In the middle of 1941, Desmond decided to leave the Bob-O-Links to go solo. He became the featured vocalist for Gene Krupa's band, replacing Howard Dulaney, in September, recording over a dozen songs, the last of which was "All Those Wonderful Years", a song from the movie Keep 'em Flying, which reached No. 21 on the US chart. In 1942, he enlisted in the United States Army, but his military service was in fact a continuation of his singing career. He was a member of Glenn Miller's Army Air Forces Orchestra and replaced singer Tony Martin after he joined the US Navy, from November 1943 until July 28, 1945, when the band was shipped home. He and the band played troop and air bases in England, and eventually went to France in December 1944. He made a number of radio broadcasts with the Miller band, and was given his own show called "A Soldier and a Song."on the American Forces Network (and sometimes on BBC Radio). His discharge took place on November 23, 1945. Desmond was a guest on the early television series, Faye Emerson's Wonderful Town, which aired on CBS from 1951 to 1952. In 1957, Desmond joined Boris Karloff in a guest appearance on NBC's The Gisele MacKenzie Show. A pair of 1957 films from Columbia Pictures cast Desmond in starring roles, the musical Calypso Heat Wave and the crime drama Escape from San Quentin, as did a 1958 adventure film, Desert Hell. In 1961, Desmond co-starred on the CBS summer replacement series Glenn Miller Time, which featured the Miller orchestra under the direction of host Ray McKinley. On Broadway, Desmond appeared in Say, Darling (1958) and as Nick Arnstein in Funny Girl, after Sydney Chaplin left the cast. In September 1985, he died of cancer in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 65.