The Mary Kaye Trio – Just Us

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Still Sealed,

The Mary Kaye Trio was a staple of Las Vegas nightlife for many years. Mary Kaye herself was an expressive singer with a superb voice. Those skills are in evidence here as well, although they are subordinate to the vivid, larger-than-life presence that the Trio exhibited in its day-to-day battle to be heard above the din of a lounge bar, where they made their name and living. That means elaborate and sometimes explosive vocal arrangements where subtlety was not a consideration. A few generations of cocktail lounge groups copied the trio’s approach.

The Mary Kaye Trio is sometimes said to have invented the lounge act in Las Vegas in the early 1950s, which seems unlikely. The ad at left in fact shows them as appearing in the Theatrical Grille in Cleveland in 1948, and the Theatrical certainly was a lounge bar. Mary, her brother Norman Kaye and Frankie Ross were probably no different from many other acts that appeared on the nightclub circuit, sometimes appearing solo and sometimes as an opener to a bigger act. What is likely is that the trio was the first to be booked into a Las Vegas lounge as overnight entertainment for the drinkers and gamblers who didn’t want to go home. And it is there that they found a following.

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Movietone Records S 72027 Stereo LP, Album US

A1. What’s Yours? 2:33
A2. Charade 2:02
A3. Stay 2:25
A4. Man’s Favorite Sport 2:15
A5. Dancing 2:28
B1. Night Life 3:00
B2. Spring is Here 1:57
B3. More 2:38
B4. The Feeling of Paree 2:07
B5. Sleeves of Green 3:01

Credits:

Conductor – Bob Smale

Media Condition: Mint (M)
Sleeve Condition: Mint (M)

 

 

 

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Weight 0,23 kg
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