If I Had Three Wishes - Ray Starita and his Band

With my three late Columbia Ray Starita recordings I’ve tried to be varied. “I’m that way over you“, provided a hot instrumental performance. Whereas “Are you a Russian?“was a comedy number. With my third and final Starita Columbia it’s more on the sentimental side. Ray also recorded “If I had three wishes“ as part of a medley from the show “Blue roses“ as did the . other than that it is ignored by dance bands, pity as it’s a rather fine tune. Maurice Elwin takes the vocal on Ray’s penultimate 10inch Columbia which was recorded on 20th January 1931. The most likely CB Columbia of Ray Starita to be found is “The Kings horses“. It’s been uploaded to You tube many times-you’re spoilt for choice. So it was pointless uploading again. Instead I’ve offered three Starita issues new to Youtube. In forty plus years I’ve only seen 2 copies of the three Starita I’ve shared. I once asked Sandy Forbes why Ray St
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