If I Had Three Wishes Ray Starita and his Band
With my three late Columbia Ray Starita recordings I ve tried to be varied. I m that way over you, provided a hot instrumental performance. Whereas Are you a Russian was a comedy number. With my third and final Starita Columbia it s more on the sentimental side. Ray also recorded If I had three wishes as part of a medley from the show Blue roses as did the other than that it is ignored by dance bands, pity as it s a rather fine tune. Maurice Elwin takes the vocal on Ray s penultimate 10inch Columbia which was recorded on 20th January 1931. The most likely CB Columbia of Ray Starita to be found is The Kings horses. It s been uploaded to You tube many timesyou re spoilt for choice. So it was pointless uploading again. Instead I ve offered three Starita issues new to Youtube. In forty plus years I ve only seen 2 copies of the three Starita I ve shared. I once asked Sandy Forbes why Ray St
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