1953 Kay Starr: Comes A-Long A-Love

Well now this is more like it - the swing band backing to 'Comes A-Long A-Love' is lively enough to begin with and a lazy or lesser singer would have hidden behind it's bounce and ridden it in comfort, but Starr climbs straight into the saddle and quickly bests it into second place with a rapid fire vocal of verve with just enough predatory snarl to rough up the smooth edges. Very much a singer's song, you simply can't imagine a Cheryl Cole sticking their heads so far above the parapet as Starr does on this, and in so doing she manages to deliver one of the most modern (and joyous) sounding songs we're going to come across in quite a while. Nice one. On a trivia note, Kay Starr would be the only native American Indian to score a UK number one.