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Lita Roza

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Lita Roza (14 March 1926 – 14 August 2008) was an English singer whose 1953 hit record "(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?" made her the first British solo singer to top the UK Singles Chart. [1]

67 relations: Accordion, Allentown Jail, BBC Radio Merseyside, Bell Bottom Blues (Leon Carr and Hal David song), Changing Partners, Come What May (1952 song), Cover version, Crazy Man, Crazy, Dick Rowe, Edmundo Ros, Elton John, Eurovision Song Contest, Filipinos, Florida, Harry Roy, Have You Heard?, Hernando's Hideaway, Hey There, Hey! Jealous Lover, Hit record, I Could Have Danced All Night, I Need Somebody, I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair, I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy, Lancashire, Let Me Go, Lover!, List of artists who reached number one on the UK Singles Chart, List of Decca Records artists, Liverpool, Liverpool Wall of Fame, Lucky Lips, Make Love to Me (1954 song), Mathew Street, Maybe You'll Be There, Melody Maker, Miami, Music of Liverpool, NME, Oakie Boogie, Once in a While (1937 song), Pantomime, Patti Page, Record chart, Secret Love (Doris Day song), Seven Lonely Days, Smile (Charlie Chaplin song), Southport, Ted Heath (bandleader), Ted Ray (comedian), That Old Black Magic, ..., That Old Feeling (song), The Cavern Club, The Mama Doll Song, The Man in the Raincoat (song), Too Marvelous for Words, Traditional pop music, Two Hearts, Two Kisses (Make One Love), UK Singles Chart, United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 1957, United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 1959, United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 1960, Volare (song), Why Don't You Believe Me?, World War II, You've Changed, Young at Heart (Frank Sinatra song), (How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?. Expand index (17 more) »

Accordion

Accordions (from 19th-century German Akkordeon, from Akkord—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type, colloquially referred to as a squeezebox.

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Allentown Jail

"Allentown Jail" is a folk-style song.

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BBC Radio Merseyside

First studio was in Sir Thomas Street and the frequency was 95.85 BBC Radio Merseyside is the BBC Local Radio service for Merseyside, England.

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Bell Bottom Blues (Leon Carr and Hal David song)

"Bell Bottom Blues" is a popular song.

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Changing Partners

"Changing Partners" is a pop song with music by Larry Coleman and lyrics by Joe Darion, published in 1953.

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Come What May (1952 song)

"Come What May" (aka "The Gipsy Song") is a popular song, with lyrics by Allen Schiller and music by Al Sanchez.

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Cover version

In popular music, a cover version, cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording by someone other than the original artist or composer of a previously recorded, commercially released song.

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Crazy Man, Crazy

"Crazy Man, Crazy" was the title of an early rock and roll song written by, and first recorded by Bill Haley & His Comets in April 1953.

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Dick Rowe

Richard Paul "Dick" Rowe (9 June 1921 – 6 June 1986) was an A&R man at Decca Records from the 1950s to the 1960s.

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Edmundo Ros

Edmundo Ros OBE FRAM (7 December 1910 – 21 October 2011), born Edmund William Ross, was a Trinidadian- Venezuelan musician, vocalist, arranger and bandleader who made his career in Britain.

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Elton John

Sir Elton Hercules John (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight; 25 March 1947) is an English singer, pianist, and composer.

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Eurovision Song Contest

The Eurovision Song Contest (Concours Eurovision de la chanson), often simply called Eurovision, is an international song competition held primarily among the member countries of the European Broadcasting Union.

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Filipinos

Filipinos (Mga Pilipino) are the people who are native to, or identified with the country of the Philippines.

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Florida

Florida (Spanish for "land of flowers") is the southernmost contiguous state in the United States.

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Harry Roy

Harry Roy (12 January 1900 – 1 February 1971) was a British dance band leader and clarinet player from the 1920s to the 1960s.

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Have You Heard?

"Have You Heard?" is a popular song written by Lew Douglas, Frank LaVere and LeRoy W. Rodde and published in 1952.

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Hernando's Hideaway

"Hernando's Hideaway" is a tango show tune, largely in long metre, from the musical The Pajama Game, written by Jerry Ross and Richard Adler and published in 1954.

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Hey There

"Hey There" is a show tune from the musical play The Pajama Game, written by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross.

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Hey! Jealous Lover

"Hey! Jealous Lover" is a song written by Sammy Cahn, Bee Walker, and Kay Twomey and performed by Frank Sinatra featuring Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra.

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Hit record

A hit record is an audio recording, usually in the form of a single or album, that sells a large number of copies or otherwise becomes broadly popular or well-known, through airplay, club play, inclusion in a film or stage play soundtrack, causing it to have "hit" (appeared on) one of the popular chart listings.

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I Could Have Danced All Night

"I Could Have Danced All Night" is a song from the musical My Fair Lady, with music written by Frederick Loewe and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, InternetBroadwayDatabase, accessed August 23, 2011 published in 1956.

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I Need Somebody

"I Need Somebody" is a pop–dance song by Australian pop group Bardot and was the second single from their second album Play It Like That (2001).

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I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair

"I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair" is a song from the musical South Pacific, sung by Nellie Forbush, the female lead, originally played by Mary Martin in the 1949 Broadway production.

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I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy

"A Wonderful Guy" is a show tune from the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific. It was first introduced by Mary Martin in the original Broadway production and sung by Mitzi Gaynor in the 1958 film adaptation.

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Lancashire

Lancashire (abbreviated Lancs.) is a county in north west England.

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Let Me Go, Lover!

"Let Me Go, Lover!", a popular song, was written by Jenny Lou Carson and Al Hill, a pseudonym used by Fred Wise, Kathleen Twomey, and Ben Weisman.

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List of artists who reached number one on the UK Singles Chart

This is a list of artists that have reached number-one on the UK Singles Chart as recorded by the Official Charts Company.

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List of Decca Records artists

Decca Records is a recording label.

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Liverpool

Liverpool is a city in North West England, with an estimated population of 491,500 in 2017.

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Liverpool Wall of Fame

The Liverpool Wall of Fame on Mathew Street, Liverpool, England, in front of the Cavern Club is a litany of, and a tribute to, the groups which played at the original Cavern Club, including acts from the city which have reached number one in the UK Singles Chart.

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Lucky Lips

Lucky Lips is a song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller.

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Make Love to Me (1954 song)

"Make Love to Me" is the title of a 1954 popular song with words and music written by a larger team than normally is known to collaborate on a song: Bill Norvas, Alan Copeland, and the New Orleans Rhythm Kings, comprising Leon Rappolo, Paul Mares, Ben Pollack, George Brunies, Mel Stitzel, and Walter Melrose.

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Mathew Street

Mathew Street is a street in Liverpool, England, best-known worldwide as the location of the Cavern Club, where The Beatles played on numerous occasions in their early career.

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Maybe You'll Be There

"Maybe You'll Be There" is a popular song composed by Rube Bloom, with lyrics written by Sammy Gallop.

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Melody Maker

Melody Maker was a British weekly music magazine, one of the world's earliest music weeklies, and—according to its publisher IPC Media—the earliest.

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Miami

Miami is a major port city on the Atlantic coast of south Florida in the southeastern United States.

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Music of Liverpool

Liverpool has a lengthy tradition of music both classical and pop.

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NME

New Musical Express (NME) is a British music journalism website and former magazine that has been published since 1952.

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Oakie Boogie

"Oakie Boogie" (sometimes "Okie Boogie") is a Western swing dance song written by Johnny Tyler in 1947.

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Once in a While (1937 song)

"Once in a While" is a popular song, written by Michael Edwards with lyrics by Bud Green.

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Pantomime

Pantomime (informally panto) is a type of musical comedy stage production designed for family entertainment.

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Patti Page

Clara Ann Fowler (November 8, 1927 – January 1, 2013), known by her stage name Patti Page, was an American singer of pop and country music.

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Record chart

A record chart, also called a music chart, is a ranking of recorded music according to certain criteria during a given period of time.

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Secret Love (Doris Day song)

"Secret Love" is a song composed by Sammy Fain (music) and Paul Francis Webster (lyrics) for Calamity Jane, a 1953 musical film in which it was introduced by Doris Day in the title role.

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Seven Lonely Days

"Seven Lonely Days" is a song written by Earl Shuman, Alden Shuman, and Marshall Brown.

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Smile (Charlie Chaplin song)

"Smile" is a song based on an instrumental theme used in the soundtrack for Charlie Chaplin's 1936 movie ''Modern Times''.

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Southport

Southport is a large seaside town in Merseyside, England.

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Ted Heath (bandleader)

George Edward "Ted" Heath (30 March 1902 – 18 November 1969) was an English musician and big band leader.

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Ted Ray (comedian)

Ted Ray (born Charles Olden; 21 November 1905 – 8 November 1977) was an English comedian of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, on radio and television.

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That Old Black Magic

"That Old Black Magic" is a 1942 popular song written by Harold Arlen (music), with the lyrics by Johnny Mercer.

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That Old Feeling (song)

"That Old Feeling" is a popular song written by Sammy Fain, with lyrics by Lew Brown.

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The Cavern Club

The Cavern Club is a nightclub at 10 Mathew Street, in Liverpool, England.

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The Mama Doll Song

"The Mama Doll Song" is a popular music song that was written by Nat Simon with lyrics by Charles Tobias.

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The Man in the Raincoat (song)

"The Man in the Raincoat" is a song written by Warwick Webster, which was first released by Priscilla Wright in April 1955, and became a hit in the United States.

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Too Marvelous for Words

"Too Marvelous for Words" is a popular song written in 1937.

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Traditional pop music

Traditional pop (also classic pop or pop standards) is music that was recorded or performed after the Big Band era and before the advent of rock music.

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Two Hearts, Two Kisses (Make One Love)

"Two Hearts, Two Kisses (Make One Love)" is a popular song, written by Otis Williams and Henry Stone in 1954.

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UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently entitled Official Singles Chart) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 1957

The United Kingdom took part in the Eurovision Song Contest for the first time in 1957.

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United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 1959

The United Kingdom held a national preliminary round to choose the song that would go to the Eurovision Song Contest 1959.

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United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 1960

The United Kingdom held a national preselection to choose the song that would go to the Eurovision Song Contest 1960.

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Volare (song)

"Nel blu dipinto di blu" ("In the blue painted blue"), popularly known as "Volare" (meaning "To fly"), is a song recorded by Italian singer-songwriter Domenico Modugno.

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Why Don't You Believe Me?

"Why Don't You Believe Me?" is a popular song written by Lew Douglas, King Laney, and Roy Rodde and published in 1952.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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You've Changed

"You've Changed" is a popular song written by Bill Carey with music by Carl Fischer in 1941.

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Young at Heart (Frank Sinatra song)

"Young at Heart" is a pop standard, a ballad with music by Johnny Richards and lyrics by Carolyn Leigh.

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(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?

"(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?" is a popular novelty song published as having been written by Bob Merrill in 1952 and loosely based on the folk tune Carnival of Venice.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lita_Roza

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