Showing posts with label Alice Faye. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alice Faye. Show all posts

Monday, 8 May 2023

Alice? Alice? Who the fuck is Alice?


She never knows what to do with her hands when she's dancing

I could get used to these three-day weekends! Here we are at the start of another week, and I've been able to catch up on sleep for a change.

Still, as the dark clouds gather, we need a bit of brightness to perk us up. As it would have been the birthday today of the lovely Miss Alice Faye, who better on this Tacky Music Monday to provide it?! All this and Bing and Phil, too:

Alice Faye (5th May 1915 – 9th May 1998)

Monday, 5 May 2014

A Sunny Faye


Anemone du Caen in the gardens at Dolores Delargo Towers

It is another Bank Holiday here in the UK, and potentially a sunny one - yay!

Speaking of sunny, it's not just Tacky Music Monday but also the birthday of Miss Alice Faye (who would have been 99 years old today) - so here, to jolly things along, is the lovely lady herself on the Dean Martin Show:


Have a great Faye May Day, dears...

Alice Faye (5th May 1915 - 9th May 1998)

Saturday, 15 February 2014

Let marimba rhythms start to play



On what would have been the birthday today of the fabulously camp Cesar Romero (long-renowned for his affairs with many of Hollywood's leading men, especially Tyrone Power - and for his (ahem!) enormous chorizo) what better way to celebrate but with this rather faboo number from the musical Weekend in Havana?

Let's go with the flow, as he apparently captures the heart of Miss Alice Faye with a Romance and Rhumba - much to the chagrin of the very gorgeous John Payne. But of whom is Mr Payne actually jealous, one wonders?


Cesar Romero (15th February 1907 – 1st January 1994)

Sunday, 5 May 2013

Fayeness



The lovely Miss Alice Faye would have celebrated her 98th birthday today!

Let us celebrate the anniversary of that great Hollywood showgirl with a little number she happened to do back in the 60s with two other dearly departed troupers, Bing Crosby and Phil Harris - at The Hollywood Palace (where else?):


Alice Faye (5th May 1915 – 9th May 1998)

Sunday, 6 May 2012

Oh, ma honey



I am reminded by the lovely Muscato at the world of wonders that is Cafe Muscato, that yesterday would have been the 97th birthday of the glittering and feisty Alice Faye.

The great man's tribute to Miss Faye is far more erudite than anything I would care to add, so without further ado, let us just enjoy a small sample of her talent and chutzpah, accompanied here by her husband Phil Harris and the arch-crooner Bing Crosby...


As I recounted over at Muscato's place, one of my earliest musical treats was discovering my grandparent's surviving 78rpm records, among which were such gems as Les Compagnons de la Chanson Trois Cloches and Alice Faye's Alexander's Ragtime Band. I adored her voice, even as a small child. And here is the original...


An inspiration.

Alice Faye official website