This recording marks a new chapter in Danny's illustrious career. All the songs chosen have a special meaning or relevance to Danny.

The opening songs "SMILE" and "THE SUNSHINE OF YOUR SMILE" not only mirror his attitude to life but are featured regularly in his cabaret performance and always to great acclaim.

Danny has always loved the music of Irving Berlin, so it's no coincidence that this unique collection features no fewer than three songs from the pen of the great composer ... "I'VE GOT MY LOVE TO KEEP ME WARM'. 'WHEN I LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND"

Danny delightfully duets with his long standing Show Biz friend BARBARA WINDSOR in

"A COUPLE OF SWELLS" 

The recording of the Neil Sedaka song "BETTY GRABLE" was for Danny a particularly poignant and emotional experience. Betty was a great personal friend  and often visited his West End nightclub.

Betts,' had opened in "Hello Dolly" in Las Vegas and, typically of Danny, he had sent her his personal good wishes from one ‘Dolly" to another. Betty was already dying from cancer. So great was her affection for Danny that she wrote to him thanking him for contacting her …unfortunately on the day the letter arrived, Betty passed away. The recording movingly features the unique 'voice' of Betty Grable taken from the film "Springtime In The Rockies" at the end of the song.

Another special moment during the making of the album came during the recording of the song "I'LL BE SEEING YOU". We could all tell from Danny's treatment of the words that they obviously had special significance for him. He revealed privately later that his dear friend the late 'Liberace' whose signature tune it was had asked him to carry on singing the song for him. This request Danny has wonderfully carried out.

The whole album is full of Danny's personal choices "I AM WHAT I AM". "THE BEST OF TIMES" both from "La Cage Aux Folles" representing another great success for Danny and of course, as previously mentioned, his original hit "ON MOTHER KELLY'S DOORSTEP" which entered the charts in December '68 and stayed there for nine weeks.

There are a number of songs that Danny sings on this recording for the very first time "LOSING MY MIND" from Sondheim’s "Follies", "ALMOST LIKE BEING IN LOVE" from Lerner and Loewe’s "Brigadoon", Gershwin's "SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME" and Andrew Lloyd Webber's "LOVE CHANGES EVERYTHING" from "Aspects of Love." It was however "COLO" from "Barnum" that so captivated Danny's imagination during the recording. In the early stages of rehearsals he had decided in fact not to include it on the album. As producer I felt the song was so right for Danny and the lyrics so relevant to his own life and philosophy that I pressed him to reconsider. Generously he did and the finished result speaks for itself.

Danny is one of our few national institutions, he is undoubtedly loved everywhere because of his unique warmth and talent. At the very pinnacle of his success we all wish him many more years and thank him for being, for so long. for all of us, the truly one and only DANNY LA RUE.

Gordon Lorenz