Though we get D-, it isn't on account of shyness

Continuing my trip back through the 1961 album charts.

03/09/61 : The Student Prince/The Vagabond King - John Hanson

We have met The Student Prince before with Mario Lanze and it was a very peculiar affair indeed - I struggle to imagine this is going to be any less curious.

It is indeed curious, because John Hanson is a singer and the first two tracks are both instrumentals.  But when he gets going, he's got a nice enough voice but it's all very firmly routed in the 50s.  Seventeen tracks in 40 minutes is impressive though - he doesn't hang around!

We're at #9 in the charts this week on his second week of a six week run, with this being as high as it got.  The top five this week were South Pacific, George Mitchell, Elvis, Barber/Bilk and The Sound Of Music (Original Broadway Cast) - and it's important I tell you it's the Broadway version, because the London cast version is at #6.  There was one new entry for Stop The World I Want To Get Off (#20) and there are five albums we've yet to meet, so we might make it to the end of the year after all.

Wikipedia doesn't have an entry on the album although it is mentioned in passing in his entry which isn't exactly encyclopaedic.  He was best known for appearing in musicals in the 50s and 60s and also appeared on the 1973 Morecambe & Wise Christmas special.

"Customers also listened to" "no similar recommendations" - which doesn't overly surprise me.  This is very much of its time - with its time being considerably before 1961, so it felt out of place in this year.  He does have a nice voice though!

27/08/61 - An interesting historical listen
10/09/61 - Oh good, it's him again!