>>130687809
it's never a good sign when you see that red Columbia label on a record

Jill Corey was hot but this is a typical Mitch Miller "Tiptoe Through The Tulips" wicky wacky kind of record.

>>130688028
one thing you can say about that dude was his consistently poor judgement in signing singers

>Guy Mitchell
>Mindy Carson
>the Four Lads
>Tony Bennett
>Jill Corey
>Johnnie Ray
>Joan Weber
>Beverly Ross
>letting the Everly Brothers and Connie Francis get away
excepting Bennett, who refused to bow to his whims, this was a real bunch of winners who had great long term success.

>>130688028
it's a remake of a song from 1926 by Elsie Carlisle, who was Britain's first true pop star. the original is better anyway.

>>130688028
she recorded a lot but had few hits, the OP one the biggest. i suspect that her shout-singing voice wasn't considered especially radio-friendly. Patti Page had the perfect voice for the radio so she had tons more hits than any of her contemporaries.

>>130688193
>people get old
That's a revelation.

>>130688063
>Guy Mitchell
Miller imagined him as his replacement for Sinatra, even gave him a stage name named after himself instead of his real name Al Cernik. Mitchell was briefly popular until Johnnie Ray displaced him, then he was irrelevant for a few years until a late 50s comeback when Jimmy Carroll came to CBS as an arranger. Spent his later years mostly in the UK where they loved him and he had a big following.
>Mindy Carson
Originally with RCA, actually did most of her recording there, signed to CBS in '52 but never did much. She wasn't much of a singer and generally seemed to treat music as a hobby she was never that serious about, perhaps because she was married to a guy who owned a music publishing outfit and was independently wealthy so had no real motivation to get good at all (why bother when you can live off your husband's money?) Quit in the late 50s and quietly disappeared back to private life.
>the Four Lads
Johnnie Ray's backing guys Miller spawned off as their own act. Famously atrocious slop songs.
>Tony Bennett
Didn't let Miller be involved with his music, CBS punished him by not releasing his albums or promoting them.
>Jill Corey
Mostly covered already ITT.
>Johnnie Ray
Teen idol fad for a while, soon displaced by Elvis. Really, he was a pretty bad singer.
>Joan Weber
Oh boy, this is a sad one.

>>130688275
Columbia was really a joke and nearly dead in the early 60s with nothing except Miller's own sing-a-long records selling.