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(Up A) Lazy River
"(Up A) Lazy River" is a popular tune and song by Hoagy Carmichael and Sidney Arodin, published in 1930. The melody is by Arodin, arranged and with words modified by Carmichael. It is considered a jazz standard and pop standard, and has been recorded by many artists as listed below. Recorded versions *Acker Bilk *Adam Faith (1963) *Art Mooney and his orchestra (vocal: Cathy Ryan and The Clover Leafs) ( 1952) *Benny Goodman and his orchestra (vocal: Helen Forrest) (1941) *Betty Johnson ( 1950) *Bing Crosby & Louis Armstrong for their 1960 album ''Bing & Satchmo''. *Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys (1947) *Bobby Darin (1961) #14 hit on the Hot 100 *Brenda Lee ( 1962) * Casa Loma Orchestra (1938) *Chet Atkins *Cliff Richard on his album Bold As Brass *Chris Barber *Sidney Bechet * Mina *Crystal Gayle (1999) * Dick Todd *Eddy Howard *Gene Vincent (1956) *Georgie Fame and Annie Ross (1981) *Glenn Miller and his orchestra * Hank Thompson (1972) * Harry Connick Jr. (1988) *Harry J ...
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Popular Music
Popular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry. These forms and styles can be enjoyed and performed by people with little or no musical training.Popular Music. (2015). ''Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia'' It stands in contrast to both art music and traditional or "folk" music. Art music was historically disseminated through the performances of written music, although since the beginning of the recording industry, it is also disseminated through recordings. Traditional music forms such as early blues songs or hymns were passed along orally, or to smaller, local audiences. The original application of the term is to music of the 1880s Tin Pan Alley period in the United States. Although popular music sometimes is known as "pop music", the two terms are not interchangeable. Popular music is a generic term for a wide variety of genres of music that appeal to the tastes of a large segment of the population, ...
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1950 In Music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1950. Specific locations * 1950 in British music *1950 in Norwegian music Specific genres * 1950 in country music *1950 in jazz Events *January 3 – Sam Phillips launches Sun Records at 706 Union Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee. *March 14 – Pablo Casals terminates his recording contract with RCA Records and signs with their chief competitor, Columbia Records. * June 26 – Louis Armstrong records the first American version of '' C'est si bon'' with the English lyrics by Jerry Seelen. * August 29 – The first American Music Competition of the Sigma Alpha Iota music fraternity is won by Richard Winslow for ''Huswifery'', a choral composition for women's voices. *August – Herbert Howells' '' Hymnus Paradisi'' is premiered at the Three Choirs Festival. * September 24 – Alan Lomax sets sail from the United States for London and spends until 1959 recording in Europe for the ''Columbia World Library o ...
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