The Islanders were an American

United States

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 group

Musical ensemble

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 which included Frank Metis (accordion

Accordion

The accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist....

)and Randy Starr

Randy Starr

Randy Starr is the stage name of Warren Nadel . He was educated at Columbia University where he took his undergraduate degree from Columbia College in 1951, and his DDS degree in dentistry from Columbia College of Dental Medicine in 1954...

 (guitar

Guitar

The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

), in addition to using special sound effect

Sound effect

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s by Ralph F. Curtiss. They are most noted for their 1959 hit single

Hit single

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, "The Enchanted Sea", which reached number 15 on the Billboard Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

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 chart

Record chart

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.

None of their subsequent singles

Single (music)

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 for Mayflower were successful. An LP

Album

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 The Enchanted Sound of The Islanders was released by Mayflower Records in 1960, but it has not yet been re-issued as a CD

Compact Disc

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.

Randy Starr, whose original name was Warren Nadel, was a guitar-playing, songwriting

Songwriter

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 dentist

Dentist

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 from the Bronx. He also performed as a solo

Solo (music)

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 singer for a number of record label

Record label

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s, as well as penning song

Song

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s for other artists

Musician

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, including "Kissin' Cousins

Kissin' Cousins

Kissin' Cousins is a 1964 musical film comedy starring Elvis Presley in two roles, one as an American soldier, the other a hillbilly. The screenplay was nominated in the category of best written American musical by the Writers Guild of America...

" with Fred Wise

Fred Wise (lyricist)

Fred Wise was the co-writer of the lyrics to the 1948 song "'A' — You're Adorable" with Buddy Kaye. He subsequently wrote many of the songs sung by Elvis Presley in his movies....

, for Elvis Presley

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.

Side A

• "Autumn Leaves
  Autumn Leaves (song)
  "Autumn Leaves" is a much-recorded popular song. Originally it was a 1945 French song "Les Feuilles mortes" with music by Joseph Kosma and lyrics by poet Jacques Prévert. Yves Montand introduced "Les feuilles mortes" in 1946 in the film Les Portes de la Nuit...
  
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• "The Breeze and I
  The Breeze and I
  "The Breeze and I" is a popular song.The song is based on a Spanish language song, "Andalucia." The music to the original song was written by Ernesto Lecuona, with Spanish lyrics by Emilio de Torre; the English language lyric was written by Al Stillman....
  
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• "Blue Rain"
• "Tramp Steamer"
• "Sleepy Lagoon
  Sleepy Lagoon (song)
  By the Sleepy Lagoon is a light orchestral "valse serenade" by British composer Eric Coates composed in 1930. In 1940, lyrics were added with Coates' approval by Jack Lawrence, and the resultant song "Sleepy Lagoon" became a popular music standard of the 1940s.Coates had originally been inspired to...
  
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• "Paradise Lost"

Side B

• "The Enchanted Sea"
• "Kon-Tiki"
• "Dreamer"
• "Tornado"
• "Blue Tango
  Blue Tango
  "Blue Tango" is an instrumental composition by Leroy Anderson. it was later turned into a popular song with lyrics by Mitchell Parish. It was published in 1952...
  
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• "City under the Sea"