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I Believe In You (Frank Loesser Song)
"I Believe in You" is a 1961 song written by Frank Loesser for his musical ''How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying'', where it was introduced by Robert Morse. The protagonist of the musical, J. Pierrepont Finch, sings the song to himself in the mirror while shaving. In the movie version, Rosemary (played by Michele Lee) also sings it to Pierrepont (again played by Morse). Notable recordings * Anita O'Day – included in her album '' Time for 2'' (1962) * Peggy Lee – '' Sugar 'n' Spice'' (1962) * Jack Jones – for his album ''She Loves Me'' (1963). * Sarah Vaughan – ''The Explosive Side of Sarah Vaughan'' (1963) * Nancy Wilson – ''Broadway – My Way'' (1964) * Frank Sinatra and Count Basie – ''It Might As Well Be Swing'' (1964) * Shirley Bassey – ''Shirley Stops the Shows'' (1965) * Ron Collier Tentet - ''Ron Collier Tentet'' (1965) *Bobby Darin – ''In a Broadway Bag (Mame)'' (1966) * Dionne Warwick – ''On Stage and in the Movies'' (1967) * Steve Lawrence ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Loesser
Frank Henry Loesser (; June 29, 1910 – July 28, 1969) was an American songwriter who wrote the music and lyrics for the Broadway musicals ''Guys and Dolls'' and ''How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying'', among others. He won a Tony Award for ''Guys and Dolls'' and shared the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for ''How to Succeed''. He also wrote songs for over 60 Hollywood films and Tin Pan Alley, many of which have become standards, and was nominated for five Academy Awards for best song, winning once for Baby, It's Cold Outside. Early years Frank Henry Loesser was born to a Jewish family in New York City to Henry Loesser, a pianist,Frank Loesser biography pbs.org, accessed December 5, 2008 and Julia Ehrlich. He grew up in a house on West 107th Street in M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
It Might As Well Be Swing
''It Might as Well Be Swing'' is a 1964 studio album by Frank Sinatra, accompanied by Count Basie and his orchestra. It was Sinatra's first studio recording arranged by Quincy Jones. The recording of "Fly Me to the Moon" which appears on this album has become one of Sinatra's most popular. This was Sinatra and Basie's second collaboration after 1962's '' Sinatra-Basie''. Sinatra's cover version of "Hello Dolly" on the album features a new second verse improvised by Sinatra, which pays tribute to Louis Armstrong, who had topped the Billboard charts with his own version of the song earlier in 1964. ''It Might as Well Be Swing'' is a reference to the title of the well known jazz standard "It Might as Well Be Spring". Track listing Personnel * Frank Sinatra - vocals * Count Basie - piano * Quincy Jones - arranger, conductor ;The Count Basie Orchestra: * Al Porcino, Don Rader, Wallace Davenport, Al Aarons, George Cohn and Harry "Sweets" Edison - trumpets *Henry Coker, Grover Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1961 Songs
Events January * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba (Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015). ** Aero Flight 311 (Koivulahti air disaster): Douglas DC-3C OH-LCC of Finnish airline Aero crashes near Kvevlax (Koivulahti), on approach to Vaasa Airport in Finland, killing all 25 on board, due to pilot error: an investigation finds that the captain and first officer were both exhausted for lack of sleep, and had consumed excessive amounts of alcohol at the time of the crash. It remains the deadliest air disaster to occur in the country. * January 5 ** Italian sculptor Alfredo Fioravanti marches into the U.S. Consulate in Rome, and confesses that he was part of the team that forged the Etruscan terracotta warriors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ** After the 1960 military coup, General Cemal Gürsel forms the new government of Turkey (25th government). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warren Covington
Warren Covington (August 7, 1921 – August 24, 1999) was an American big band trombonist. He was active as a session musician, arranger, and bandleader throughout his career. Biography Covington, who was born in Philadelphia, played early on with Isham Jones (1939), then with Les Brown in 1945-46 and Gene Krupa later in 1946. Following this he became a staff musician for CBS radio. With Ralph Flanagan in 1949 and again in 1955-56. He played briefly with Tommy Dorsey in 1950. In 1956, he replaced Eddie Grady as leader of the Commanders, a Decca recording and touring band which lasted until the middle of 1957. Covington recorded two albums and one single with this band. After Tommy Dorsey died suddenly in November 1956, the Dorsey band continued under the direction of Jimmy Dorsey. However, the Tommy Dorsey estate soon took back Tommy's arrangements and approached Covington to form a new Tommy Dorsey band, which he led, touring and recording for Decca, into 1961. Among his hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jo Stafford
Jo Elizabeth Stafford (November 12, 1917July 16, 2008) was an American traditional pop music singer, whose career spanned five decades from the late 1930s to the early 1980s. Admired for the purity of her voice, she originally underwent classical training to become an opera singer before following a career in popular music, and by 1955 had achieved more worldwide record sales than any other female artist. Her 1952 song " You Belong to Me" topped the charts in the United States and United Kingdom, becoming the second single to top the UK Singles Chart, and the first by a female artist to do so. Born in remote oil-rich Coalinga, California, near Fresno in the San Joaquin Valley, Stafford made her first musical appearance at age 12. While still at high school, she joined her two older sisters to form a vocal trio named the Stafford Sisters, who found moderate success on radio and in film. In 1938, while the sisters were part of the cast of Twentieth Century Fox's production of ''A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eydie Gorme
Eydie may refer to: * Eydie Gormé (1928–2013), American singer. * Steve and Eydie, an American pop vocal duet, * Eydie Whittington Eydie D. Whittington is a Democratic politician in Washington, D.C. Advisory Neighborhood Commission While working as a legal secretary, Whittington represented the neighborhood of Douglas Gardens on the Advisory Neighborhood Commission. 19 ..., a Democratic politician in Washington, D.C. * The World Of Steve & Eydie, a 1972 album released by Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme. * Eydie in Love, a 1958 album by Eydie Gormé. {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Lawrence
Steve Lawrence (born Sidney Liebowitz; July 8, 1935) is an American singer, comedian and actor, best known as a member of a duo with his wife Eydie Gormé, billed as " Steve and Eydie", and for his performance as Maury Sline, the manager and friend of the main characters in ''The Blues Brothers''. Steve and Eydie first appeared together as regulars on ''Tonight Starring Steve Allen'' in 1954 and continued performing as a duo until Gormé's retirement in 2009. Gormé died August 10, 2013.2003 Interview with , from a website (web archive from |
On Stage And In The Movies
''On Stage and in the Movies'' is Dionne Warwick's seventh album for Scepter Records, and was recorded and released on May 14, 1967. The LP was issued as number 559 in the Scepter Catalog. History The cover art for this LP was simple: Warwick in a multicolored gown against a black background. As mentioned in the liner notes of the Rhino Records 1984 collection ''Dionne Warwick Anthology'', this LP was one of three concept albums recorded by Warwick during her tenure with Scepter. The other two albums identified in the notes are '' Soulful'' and ''The Magic of Believing''. While there were no hit singles from this album, some of the songs that were featured were " Summertime"; a humorous reading of " Anything You Can Do" (alongside an uncredited Chuck Jackson); "You'll Never Walk Alone"; " Something Wonderful", and "Baubles, Bangles, and Beads". The album, like most of Warwick's Scepter work, was arranged by Burt Bacharach and produced by Bacharach and Hal David; however, none ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dionne Warwick
Marie Dionne Warwick (; born December 12, 1940) is an American singer, actress, and television host. Warwick ranks among the 40 biggest U.S. hit makers between 1955 and 1999, based on her chart history on ''Billboard'''s Hot 100 pop singles chart. She is the second-most charted female vocalist during the rock era (1955–1999). She is also one of the most-charted vocalists of all time, with 56 of her singles making the Hot 100 between 1962 and 1998 (12 of them Top Ten), and 80 singles in total – either solo or collaboratively – making the Hot 100, R&B and/or adult contemporary charts. Dionne ranks #74 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100's "Greatest Artists of all time". During her career, she has sold more than 100 million records worldwide and she has won many awards, including six Grammy Awards. Warwick has been inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the Grammy Hall of Fame, the R&B Music Hall of Fame and the Apollo Theater Walk of Fame. In 2019 she won the Grammy Lifetim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
In A Broadway Bag (Mame)
''In a Broadway Bag (Mame)'' is an album by American singer Bobby Darin, released in 1966. The album consists of songs from then-current hit Broadway musicals, including '' Funny Girl'', ''How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying'', ''Mame'', '' The Roar of the Greasepaint, the Smell of the Crowd'', and others. ''In a Broadway Bag (Mame)'' was reissued on CD in 2007 along with ''Bobby Darin Sings The Shadow of Your Smile''. Reception In his Allmusic review, critic JT Griffith wrote "The Shadow of Your Smile began the second highly successful period in the artist's career, after the "Splish Splash" and "Mack the Knife" days. In a Broadway Bag continued that success, and "Mame" was his biggest hit in three years. In a Broadway Bag is generally considered one of Bobby Darin's best (and certainly most cohesive) LPs." Track listing Side one #"Mame" (Jerry Herman) – 2:13 #"I Believe in You" (Frank Loesser) – 3:49 #"It's Today" (Herman) – 2:05 #"Everybody Has the Right t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobby Darin
Bobby Darin (born Walden Robert Cassotto; May 14, 1936 – December 20, 1973) was an American musician and actor. He performed jazz, Pop music, pop, rock and roll, Folk music, folk, Swing music, swing, and country music. He started his career as a songwriter for Connie Francis. He recorded his first million-selling single, "Splish Splash (song), Splish Splash", in 1958. That was followed by "Dream Lover", "Mack the Knife#Popular song, Mack the Knife", and "Beyond the Sea (song), Beyond the Sea", which brought him worldwide fame. In 1962, he won a Golden Globe Award for his first film, ''Come September'', co-starring his first wife, actress Sandra Dee. During the 1960s, he became more politically active and worked on Robert F. Kennedy's Democratic presidential campaign. He was present at the Ambassador Hotel (Los Angeles), Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles at the time of Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy's assassination in June 1968. During the same year, he d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Collier
Ron Collier, (July 3, 1930 – October 22, 2003) was a Canadian jazz trombonist, composer, and arranger. He performed in and led a number of jazz groups, and created orchestrations for and recorded with Duke Ellington. Early life and education A native of Coleman, Alberta, Collier began his musical training in Vancouver. He was a member of the Kitsilano Boys' Band. He studied music privately in Toronto with Gordon Delamont."Ron Collier" ''AllMusic'', Biography by Eugene Chadbourne The first jazz musician to receive a Canada Council grant, he studied orchestration in New York in 1961 and 1962. Career Collier formed the Ron Collier Jazz Quartet, which performed in the 1950s at the Stratford Festival and on CBC's ''Tabloid'' with |
