How High The Moon is the top video in more than one way. Besides the fabulous June Christy doing the vocal, two other legendary singers don’t utter a solitary note! Instead, Mel Torme is on drums and Nat ‘King’ Cole plays piano, which of course was his original musical calling. Lower left is June in her prime with That Old Feeling and on the lower right she is featured with the Stan Kenton Orchestra Just A-Sittin’ And A-Rockin’. Christy, of course, was the replacement chanteuse for the incredible Anita O’Day after she left the Kenton band … one of the few singers who could have filled O’Day’s stylish ‘pumps’ fronting that powerful, creative Orchestra.
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