Danny Kaye : Danny Kaye the singer

Danny Kaye the singer


Hello everybody! (Hello dr. Nick!)

I think Danny Kaye is my favourite artist. Perhaps somewhat surprising, I do not think of him as really funny. For me it is his singing and tonguetwisting. I thought it would be nice to start a discussion about his vocals. Today Danny Kaye is quite forgotten, and maybe you can 5b4 guess what I want to say, when he's remembered it mostly is as a comedian (still not without a light musical link). Well, who's the world's greatest singer? When people listen up that question and take a look in the past of popular music, the names you can count on to be called are Sinatra, Elvis, John Lennon, Freddie Mercury and Stevie Wonder, with an occasional wink to Bing Crosby.

My question is: What kind of a place does Danny Kaye earn as a singer?
A few according to me important tunes of him are:

Minnie the Moocher
The Frim Fram Sauce
Dinah
Lobby Number
Tchaikovsky
Anatole of Paris
Yacovs Elixir
Tongue Twisters
Stanislavsky
Let's not talk about love

I got another question, one wherupon I can't give quite an answer: What were his influences for singing? I read in the book by Kurt Singer (an antic translation of it in Dutch!) that Bing Crosby was a childhood idol of him. An idol, quite probable, but not so much a childhood one (it was in 1930 in the King of Jazz, that Crosby first hit the screen). Which of inspirators can you think of?

From Amsterdam, the Netherlands,

Daniel

Re: Danny Kaye the singer

I know that Kaye was inspired by Harry Ritz of the Ritz Brothers.
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