Anita Harris - Swinging On A Star (2011)

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Title: Swinging On A Star
Year Of Release: 2011
Label: Vanilla OMP
Genre: Vocal Jazz
Quality: Mp3 320 / Flac (tracks)
Total Time: 01:13:11
Total Size: 182/465 Mb
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Tracklist:

01. Somewhere Over the Rainbow
02. Sunshine Superman
03. Swinging On a Star
04. The Clapping Song
05. Watermelon Man
06. When You Were a Child
07. Yes We Have No Bananas
08. Lullaby of the Leaves
09. Maxwell's Silver Hammer
10. Messing About On the River
11. Old Queenie Cole
12. Oranges and Lemons
13. Right Said Fred
14. Somebody's in My Orchard
15. A Taste of Honey
16. Bad For Me
17. Butterfly with Coloured Wings
18. Cherry Ripe
19. Do You Know the Way to San Jose
20. Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree
21. Eleanor Rigby
22. Flash Bang Wallop
23. He's a Tramp
24. Honeysuckle Rose

Anita Harris is known as an all-round entertainer, singing, acting, and dancing all part of her repertoire. Sharing musical arranger Kenny Clayton with Petula Clark, her clear vocal quality invited comparisons with Clark and other top female singers from the mid- to late '50s. She was born on June 3, 1942, in Midsomer Norton, Somerset, and began her show business career as soon as she had left school, traveling to Las Vegas to train in choreographed skating. Her first professional engagement, however, was a singer with the easy listening vocal ensemble the Cliff Adams Singers, who enjoyed an extended run on BBC radio with the program Sing Something Simple, a selection of mainly MOR ballads and show tunes that ran from 1959 through to the death of its creator, Cliff Adams, in 2001. She made her debut on record backed by the John Barry Seven, but the single, a double A-side of "I Haven't Got You" and "Mr One And Only," was not a success. Moving into acting, she became famous for very cheeky performances in two of the Carry On films, particularly Carry on Doctor and Follow That Camel, both from 1967. This was her peak year for chart activity too as her friend Dusty Springfield provided her with a hit single written by her brother Tom, "Just Loving You," which peaked at number six. Two further singles were released, both cover versions of the songs "Anniversary Waltz" and "Dream a Little Dream of Me." Her one and only visit to the album charts was with the album also called Just Loving You, which hit number 29 early in 1968. In the 1970s, she appeared on various television programs, including The Morecambe & Wise Show, and she also co-hosted the David Nixon Magic Show and was still appearing as herself on programs up to 2001, notably Boom Boom: The Best of the Original Basil Brush Show, French & Saunders, and Bob Monkhouse: A BAFTA Tribute. ~ Sharon Mawer