[78-L] When Liberace winks

[David Lennick]

Incidentally, the song was written by Bobby Gimby (great Canadian trumpeter and 
better known in the 60s as "The Pied Piper of Canada") and Johnny Wayne (of 
Wayne & Shuster).

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On 9/10/2010 9:15 AM, David Lennick wrote:
> Definitely not Libby Morris, whose voice was lower. Her recording was for
> Alvina, a Canadian label (also issued on a US pressing with a yellow label).
>
> dl
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> On 9/10/2010 8:50 AM, Ray Kilcoyne wrote:
>> It looks like Peggy King to me.  Sounds like her too.  Here's a not very
>> good photo of her on Wikipedia......
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_King
>> RayK
>>
>> From: "Kristjan Saag"
>>> There's a video on youtube, from a BBC (?) documentary, where a girl
>>> sings "When Liberace Winks At Me" - taken from an early 1950's Liberace
>>> Show.
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMg83t9mej0
>>> I haven't been able to trace the singer, though, although the recording
>>> is available on some Liberace compilation albums. I know Libby Morris
>>> recorded the song for a Canadian label in 1954 (before she moved to
>>> Britain - there was a version on Parlophone issued in 1956, probably the
>>> same), but pictures of her don't really fit the face in the movie clip.
>>> Could it be a dub? Or a completely unknown, forgotten young singer?
>>
>> ___________