Matt Monro Forum

I should have posted this weeks ago, since we leave for Glasgow tomorrow and don't have online access while away from home. We will be in London July 22-26. I am wondering which radio stations in London might play Matt's music more frequently than others. I will check back in a few hours to see of a...

My wife and I will be visiting London this July. It will be my first visit there. I was wondering if there are any sites associated with Matt and his music. Matt was not very widely appreciated in America, but I hoped maybe in his native London there is some location that serves as a tribute to him,...

December 12th is Frank Sinatra's birthday. He was born on December 12, 1915 in Hoboken, New Jersey, and died on May 14, 1998 in Los Angeles. I think it is an interesting coincidence that Frank Sinatra and Matt Monro had birthdays only 11 days apart. I'm not a big believer in astrology but it does ma...

I have never heard Basia mentioned on here before--I do have one of her cds [single] called "Drunk on love", which I really like. I love Barbra Streisand and have all her cds and dvds. I thought she was great in "Yentl" one of my favourite films. You mentioned Gloria Estefan and Linda Ronstadt prev...

I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned her before, but Basia (full name: Basia Trzetrzelewska) is probably my favourite female singer. Though she is Polish born, she moved to the UK in 1981. I first noticed Basia on a Los Angeles "smooth jazz" station (called "The Wave") around 1990. Though she is a n...

I don't know if anyone has posted a similar list before, but here goes: 1.) Tony Bennett (Carnegie Hall, New York, 1971) 2.) Frank Sinatra (Boston Garden, 1974) 3.) Tony Bennett (2nd) (South Shore Music Circus, Cohasset, Mass. c. 1976) 4.) The Beach Boys (Providence, Rhode Island Civic Center, c. 19...

Thanks Warren for finding this old posting and resurrecting it. Actually, Matt Monro was quite popular in the US and often toured and appeared often in Las Vegas. Matt Monro Jnr often points out that his father sold more records in the US than in Britain. Of course, the US has 5 times the populatio...

My only difficulty is that Frank Sinatra and Matt Monro were so far above all their contemporaries that it's hard to decide between them! So I've given them a tie for first place! Incidentally, I wonder how Matt would have developed if he had lived longer than his too-short 54 years. I'll bet he wou...

Thanks for posting your six artists, Warren, from the state of jughandles and the greatest diners in the US! Happy to see Matt Monro at the top and Jerry Vale and your new neighbour Gloria Estefan on the list. She's had so many great recordings, with Here We Are, Don't Wanna Lose You, and Mi Tierra...

That's quite all right, Robert. I wasn't familiar with Johnnie Spence (British?) and the arrangement on My Kind of Girl did sound a lot like a typical Nelson Riddle arrangement. On another topic, my wife lived in England for several years in the late 50s and early 60s (her first husband was in the U...

mariana44 wrote: Nor did he sing "For your eyes only"--I believe that was Sheena Easton.

You are right, of course!

I was thinking of Matt's recording of "From Russia With Love"

This will definitely be the place for me to get all of my Matt Monro facts in order!

Thank you, all of you wonderful people who have already made me feel welcome here. Yes, Warren is my real first name, and I did indeed grow up in New Jersey, home to Frank Sinatra, the Four Seasons, and Bruce Springsteen. My father was a big Sinatra fan and listening to his records influenced my tas...

1.) Matt Monro
2.) Frank Sinatra
3.) Tony Bennett
4.) Jerry Vale
5.) Linda Ronstadt
6.) Gloria Estefan

I just joined this group and I'm glad that someone started it and I'm also glad to be here. My board name refers not to your island of Jersey but the U.S. state of New Jersey, where I was born and lived for the first 22 years of my life. I now live in Southwest Florida. I first paid attention to Mat...