Billy Joel, you're braver than I am.   I listen to all kinds of music, movie/TV soundtracks, the more obscure the soundtrack the better I like it (as long as it's one of my favorite TV show's or movie's background music).   I don't really listen to one CD at a time anymore though, now I listen to different cuts from literally 100's of different CDs that I've downloaded onto my computer's "Media Player".   Thanks to this marvelous technology I can listen to 100s of my CDs every day (well, cuts from different CDs, as I have the Media Player set to "Random Play" where it picks the next cut from whatever album it goes to next.   This is really what I've always wanted, my own radio station that plays all my favorite music all the time, I never want to "turn the station" anymore, no commercials to suffer thru, just great songs from great albums/CD all the time.   I LOVE IT!!!

Been listening to amongst 100's of others Walter Brennan, Bill Frawley's "Sings The Old Ones" album, "2 For The See-Saw" soundtrack, Bing, of course, (I have more Bing CD downloads than any other artist), Sophie Tucker, Ted Lewis, Jimmy Durante, Jo Stafford, Peggy Lee, Rosie, Nat Cole, Johnny Hartman, Merle Haggard, John Conlee, classic instrumentals from '50's and '60's, Arthurs Godfrey & Tracy, Don Williams, Dean Martin, well, I'll stop myself now.   But every song's a winner in my listening world.   A couple really terrific inventions in my lifetime, DVDs & computers that play music from CDs and MP3  player that plays all my favorite music again downloaded from my computer's CD downloads.   Now even driving in my car it's one great wonderful song after another and NEVER do I feel like "turning the station" anymore. 

Life changing inventions that have made my life so much better.

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This morning I got out some old LPs of Johnny Mathis and Shirley Bassey and heard some beaut songs well sung. This arvo I've enjoyed Jonzo 50 as I once again work me way through the series chronologically and the variety of the songs Bing recorded never ceases to amaze me.

After a stretch of listening to primarily Bing Crosby, I have settled into a groove of listening to some old and new favorites, Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash, Michael Buble, Matt Monro, Bing, and a little Sinatra. 

Some British dance bands of the 1930s have been entertaining me, thanks to some CDs which friends have given me. The music which groups led by Jack Hylton, Ambrose, Roy Fox and others was splendid and received a lot of airplay on the wireless in Australia in those years.

I like some of the songs from 'silk stockings'.
Remember seeing the film in Seattle in 1957. Another film in LA was 'invitation to the dance' near Wiltshire Blvd in 1957 and in Vancouver, where I was then living 'around the world'
Like the Astaire song from SS - I like the looks of you.

A few years ago a 4-CD set titled FROM MELBA TO SUTHERLAND. AUSTRALIAN SINGERS ON RECORD was released on the Decca label. It's an anthology including, obviously, recordings by Aussie's most famous sopranos Dame Nellie Melba and Dame Joan Sutherland and other singers less well known. Most of the songs are what would have been described as 'serious' music but 'When father papered the parlour' by Billy Williams in 1910 provides some variety. As for as I can tell, only two of the songs were recorded by Bing: 'We'll gather lilacs' and 'Comi' through the rye'. Two of the tracks are by a soprano who was the subject of a Hollywood biopic many decades ago, titled (I think) INTERRUPTED MELODY. She was Marjorie Lawrence who was struck down by paralysis in her prime but returned to the stage in a wheelchair in 1942. I regularly play selections from this set when I feel like a change from Bing.

I've been listening to a lot of Perry Como, some Nat King Cole, and the newest Matt Monro release -=19px !importantStranger In Paradise - The Lost New York Sessions

No, Graham, I’m a “D” (Field) and not an ‘S’.
Although, one of the Brothers at Marist Kogarah used to call me Gracie after her.
I used to say - No ‘S’

This morning I listened to an hour's music which originated in a community radio station in Sydney which broadcast recordings of some remote  broadcasts from the early 1940s from USA. They featured Les Brown's band with vocals by Doris Day, Fats Waller and others. Fascinating!