We listened to a lot of The Ames Brothers, and Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians. When Mitch Miller started his “Sing Along With Mitch” tv series in 1961, we watched it every week. My Dad loved the old songs they sang, and we bought the albums which had all the lyrics included so we could sing along at home.
My mother LOVES the Ames Brothers.
I bought her an old album when I was in college (had the used LP stores there) which apparently did not have all the songs as ORIGINALLY recorded, but they were in the ‘50s and the “Sentimental Me” version was so big-band fantastic!
I ended up warping that record beautifully. Left it for a long time in our little stereo which was in the sun room. Finally got to it and the record completely waved all around some 3 inches each way! Too bad, loved the sound.