Signature songs of Crooners of the past...
(Several of these crooners of the past had more than one signature song. Where there were more than one, I just picked the one I liked best.)
Get ready to go back in time. Here we go:
1- "New York New York" by Frank Sinatra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KJQNMqVIug2- "The Candy Man" by Sammy Davis Jr.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zakTRnOB1Oc3- "Everybody Loves Somebody" Dean Martin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OohySgTM_c84- "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" Tony Bennett
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTBsZEZrcOo5- "Where the Blue of the Night (Meets the Gold of the Day)" by Bing Crosby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1rOvyJVBf8(Bonus track...! I couldn't leave Bing's buddy off this list. Though he really doesn't qualify as a crooner, I think his signature song does.)
6- "Thanks for the Memory" by Bob Hope & Shirley Ross
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ4bx05AdcA (The 78 rpm version.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIZZoaFzXaA (The motion picture version.)
(There's a little problem here. I think that Bob Hope and Shirley Ross sang this song in two movies. The first was "The Big Broadcast of 1938", where the song won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, and became Hope's signature tune. The second was the 1939 movie "Thanks for the Memory". My best guess is that the link I gave you shows a clip from the first movie, but I'm not sure.)
p.s. Both of the links to "Thanks for the Memory" I've given you, go on to other Bob Hope videos after the song is over, which are quite interesting and usually funny. However, after working on this post for a long time and checking things, I have found that the additional Bob Hope videos that come up change every time. If you are interested in Bob Hope, I think the best two to watch are the Dean Martin's "Man of the Hour, Celebrity Roast" of Bob Hope, and the "Biography" documentary about his life.)
Here's a link to Dean Martin's "Man of the Hour, Celebrity Roast" of Bob Hope (I should warn you that it goes on for nearly 50 minutes.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNg-NYcRnYEHere's a link to the "Biography" video of Bob Hope's life (It also goes on for a very long time.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djsara2WXNc