Darktown Strutters’ Ball (Italian Style) (Brooks) by Lou Monte, orchestra conducted by Hugo Winterhalter
Italian-American entertainer Monte enjoyed his greatest recording successes with such novelties as “Lazy Mary” (1958), “Pepino The Italian Mouse” (1962), and this top-10 re-thinking of the 1917 pop-jazz standard, sung partly in Italian.
THE 1954 HITS ARCHIVE - here in one place, a good-quality library of original-release-version best-sellers and songs that made an impact that were either released or enjoyed a major chunk of their popularity within the calendar year 1954 (some were recorded in 1953).