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The Life And Times of Buddy Clark
Next to Bing Crosby, Buddy Clark is my 2nd favorite male singer. A few weeks ago I did a profile of his talented but short life...
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Thanks for posting!
Buddy Clark was a fine singer of the big band era.Love Somebody is one of his best records. He was very good in duets as well.
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Well done, David. I enjoyed your tribute to Buddy Clark. He had many hit records and fans in Australia. I was in high school when he died and I recall hat one of my classmates was quite distressed by the news.
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I bought three Buddy Clark CDs on E Bay about three years ago, a very good singer who died tragically young , up there with Bing, Dick Haymes, Perry Como, Billy Eckstine, Vic Damone, Tony Martin and Frank Sinatra.,I first became familiar with him when the late Frank Skerrett a radio presenter on Radio Clyde in Glasgow, Scotland had often played his records on his show he hosted from 1974 until his death in 1992 otherwise i probably wouldn't have known his music as his recordings were only available on imports.. Jerry Vale recorded a tribute album "I Remember Buddy" in 1958. Frank Skerrett also hosted a one hour special playing his music sometime back in 1986.
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STEPO wrote:
I bought three Buddy Clark CDs on E Bay about three years ago, a very good singer who died tragically young , up there with Bing, Dick Haymes, Perry Como, Billy Eckstine, Vic Damone, Tony Martin and Frank Sinatra.,I first became familiar with him when the late Frank Skerrett a radio presenter on Radio Clyde in Glasgow, Scotland had often played his records on his show he hosted from 1974 until his death in 1992 otherwise i probably wouldn't have known his music as his recordings were only available on imports.. Jerry Vale recorded a tribute album "I Remember Buddy in 1958. Frank Skerrett also hosted one hour special playing his music sometime back in 1986.
For years now Buddy Clark has been my second favorite singer after Bing.
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Thanks for the Buddy Clark tribute, i enjoyed it if it wasn't for you and other people like the late Frank Skerrett , there's a danger that Buddy Clark would have been forgotten today.
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Thanks for the Buddy Clark tribute, i enjoyed it if it wasn't for you and other people like the late Frank Skerrett , there's a danger that Buddy Clark would have been forgotten today.
Another completely forgotten crooner is Dick Todd. I am working on a tribute to him as well.
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I'm looking forward to the tribute to Dick Todd
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A very good profile of Buddy Clark, who is also one of my favorite male singers of that era, along with Dick Haymes and a few others. I don't know if you've come across this piece that I wrote about Buddy years ago:
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A very good profile of Buddy Clark, who is also one of my favorite male singers of that era, along with Dick Haymes and a few others. I don't know if you've come across this piece that I wrote about Buddy years ago:
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I love your Vintage Bandstand blog. I think I have it linked to my blog, and your story on Buddy Clark as always is great. You haven't updated your blog for awhile. Are you done working on that? I started my blog in 2010, and still post new things on it, but the traffic doesn't go there as much as it used to. Although my Bing Crosby blog last month got more views than it ever had before!
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It's regrettable that there was never a complete boxset of all of Buddy Clark's commercial recordings issued on CD, perhaps it's hard to find useable metal parts or mint 78s to master a complete set however i think it would have sold well qute well .
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I love your Vintage Bandstand blog. I think I have it linked to my blog, and your story on Buddy Clark as always is great. You haven't updated your blog for awhile. Are you done working on that? I started my blog in 2010, and still post new things on it, but the traffic doesn't go there as much as it used to. Although my Bing Crosby blog last month got more views than it ever had before!
You're right, David, I haven't posted on The Vintage Bandstand for a while, mostly since I began my YouTube channel back in 2017. There was a time when I thought I wanted to keep posting on the blog, but it had been dormant for so long that I lost access to the email account that I used for it, and for that reason, I haven't been able to revive it. Instead of that, I have been devoting time to my YouTube channel, but I don't discard the option of starting a new blog sometime down the road. It just won't be the same Vintage Bandstand one because I don't have access to that account anymore...