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I Can't Begin To Tell You
"I Can't Begin to Tell You" is a popular song with music written by James V. Monaco and lyrics by Mack Gordon. The song was published in 1945. The song was introduced by John Payne and reprised by Betty Grable in the film '' The Dolly Sisters.'' "I Can't Begin to Tell You" was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1946, but lost out to "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe". A version by Bing Crosby was the best-known recording, reaching its peak of popularity in 1945. Hit versions *The recording by Bing Crosby (with Carmen Cavallaro on piano) was recorded on August 7, 1945 and released by Decca Records as catalog number 23457. It first reached the ''Billboard'' Best Seller chart on November 15, 1945, and lasted for 17 weeks on the chart, peaking at No. 1. *The recording by Andy Russell was released by Capitol Records as catalog number 221. It first reached the ''Billboard'' Best Seller chart on December 27, 1945, and lasted for two weeks on the char ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Payne (actor)
John Howard Payne (May 23, 1912 – December 6, 1989) was an American film actor who is mainly remembered from film noir crime stories and 20th Century Fox musical films, and for his leading roles in '' Miracle on 34th Street'' and the NBC Western television series '' The Restless Gun''. Early life Payne was born in Roanoke, Virginia on May 23, 1912. His mother, Ida Hope (), a singer, graduated from the Virginia Seminary in Roanoke and married George Washington Payne, a developer in Roanoke. They lived at Fort Lewis, an antebellum mansion that became a state historic property, but was destroyed by fire in the late 1940s. Payne attended prep school at Mercersburg Academy in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, and then went to Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia. He then transferred to Columbia University in New York City in the fall of 1930. He studied drama at Columbia and voice at the Juilliard School. To support himself, he took on a variety of odd jobs, including wrestling as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nancy Norman
Nancy Norman (born Florence Berman, April 23, 1925 – May 27, 2024) was an American singer. Life and career Norman was born in Los Angeles, California on April 23, 1925. Norman studied voice while attending Roosevelt High School. She sang with a swing orchestra led by Edmundo Martinez Tostado. During this time, Norman learned that "Swing and Sway" big band leader Sammy Kaye was holding a contest in Los Angeles. She entered the ''Who Wants to Sing With the Band'' contest and Kaye was so impressed with Norman that he immediately signed her on as one of his "girl singers" in his band. At just 4,'11", barely 100 pounds, and only 16 years old, "Little Nancy Norman" as she was frequently introduced, was underaged and had to be accompanied by her mother when she traveled back to New York City, as well as traveling to other cities with the orchestra. Norman was Kaye's lead female singer from 1942 to 1945. Hits featuring her vocals in the 1940s include " Chickery Chick", " Saturday Night ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
You're My Everything (film)
''You're My Everything'' is a 1949 American comedy film, comedy musical film directed by Walter Lang and starring Dan Dailey and Anne Baxter. Plot In 1924 Boston, a starstruck Hannah Adams waits outside in the rain to meet Tim O'Connor, who has just performed in a musical on stage. She invites him home to meet her family, and soon they are in love and engaged to be married. Tim is offered a Hollywood screen test, and Hannah is asked to read with him. However, it is she who is offered a contract following the test, and she becomes a star in Silent film, silent films. At the advent of sound, she retires to have a baby and live with Tim on a farm. Tim takes their daughter Jane to studio chief Henry Mercer when a child's role in a film becomes available. Hannah hesitantly agrees to permit her daughter to appear in just one film, but Tim conceals the fact that Jane has been offered a three-film contract. The conflict threatens to fracture the family. Cast *Dan Dailey as Timothy O'Con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddie Rabbit
Edward Thomas Rabbitt (November 27, 1941 – May 7, 1998) was an American country music singer and songwriter. His career began as a songwriter in the late 1960s, springboarding to a recording career after composing hits such as "Kentucky Rain" for Elvis Presley in 1970 and " Pure Love" for Ronnie Milsap in 1974. Later in the 1970s, Rabbitt helped to develop the crossover-influenced sound of country music prevalent in the 1980s with such hits as " Suspicions", "I Love a Rainy Night" (a number-one hit single on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100), and "Every Which Way but Loose" (the theme from the film of the same title). His duets " Both to Each Other (Friends and Lovers)" with Juice Newton and " You and I" with Crystal Gayle later appeared on the soap operas ''Days of Our Lives'' and ''All My Children''. Early life Rabbitt was born to Irish immigrants Thomas Michael and Mae (née Joyce) Rabbitt in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, in 1941, and was raised in the nearby community of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marty Robbins
Martin David Robinson (September 26, 1925 – December 8, 1982), known professionally as Marty Robbins, was an American country and western singer and songwriter. He was one of the most popular and successful singers of his genre for most of his nearly four-decade career, which spanned from the late 1940s to the early 1980s. He was also an early outlaw country pioneer. Born in Glendale, Arizona, Robbins taught himself guitar while serving in the U.S. Navy during World War II, and subsequently drew fame performing in clubs in and around his hometown. In 1952, he released his first number-one country song, " I'll Go On Alone". Four years later, he released his second number-one hit " Singing the Blues", and one year later, released two more number-one hits, " A White Sport Coat" and " The Story of My Life". In 1959, Robbins released his signature song, " El Paso", for which he won the Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Recording. The song began Robbins' association wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Without A Song (album)
''Without a Song'' is a studio album by the American country singer Willie Nelson, released in 1983. Similar to '' Stardust'' (1978), it consists of renditions of traditional pop standards. The album was produced by Booker T. Jones. " As Time Goes By" was nominated for a Grammy Award, in the "Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal" category. Critical reception ''Rolling Stone'' noted that "the familiar vocal hesitations and throat-catchings are all in place, but straightforward readings of these mostly less-than-spectacular tunes are tossed off by Nelson with little energy." ''The New York Times'' wrote that "Mr. Jones's arrangements, with their simple, plodding rhythms, and guitar and harmonica solos that repeat the tunes, keep the mood appropriately informal... If the music became any barer, however, Mr. Nelson might start sounding like a contemporary Mitch Miller." Track listing #"Without a Song" (Billy Rose, Edward Eliscu, Vincent Youmans) - 3:54 #" Once in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willie Nelson
Willie Hugh Nelson (born April 29, 1933) is an American singer, guitarist, songwriter, actor and activist. He was one of the main figures of the outlaw country subgenre that developed in the late 1960s as a reaction to the conservative restrictions of the Nashville sound. The critical success of his album ''Shotgun Willie'' (1973), combined with the critical and commercial success of ''Red Headed Stranger'' (1975) and ''Stardust (Willie Nelson album), Stardust'' (1978), made Nelson one of the most recognized artists in country music. Nelson has acted in over 30 films, co-authored several books, and has been involved in activism for the use of biofuels and the Legalization of non-medical cannabis in the United States, legalization of marijuana. Nelson wrote his first song at age seven and joined his first band at ten. During high school, he toured locally with the Bohemian Polka as their lead singer and guitar player. After graduating from high school in 1950, he joined the U. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joni James
Giovanna Carmella Babbo (September 22, 1930 – February 20, 2022), known professionally as Joni James, was an American singer of traditional pop. Biography Giovanna Carmella Babbo was born to an Italian-American family in Chicago, Illinois, on September 22, 1930, as one of six children supported by her widowed mother. As an adolescent, she studied drama and ballet, and on graduating from Bowen High School, located in the South Chicago neighborhood, went with a local dance group on a tour of Canada. She then took a job as a chorus girl in the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago. After doing a fill-in in Indiana, she decided to pursue a singing career, and picked the stage name Joni James at the urging of her managers. Some executives at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) spotted her in a television commercial, and she was signed by MGM in 1952. Her first hit, " Why Don't You Believe Me?", sold over two million copies. She had a number of hits following that one, including " Your Cheatin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Holliday
Norman Alexander Milne (26 November 1924 – 29 October 1963), known professionally as Michael Holliday, was an English singer, who was popular in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He had a number of chart hits in the UK, including two number one singles, " The Story of My Life" and " Starry Eyed". Early life Michael Holliday was born in Liverpool, and brought up in the Kirkdale district of the city. His career in music began after he won an amateur talent contest, 'New Voices of Merseyside', at the Locarno Ballroom, West Derby Road, Newsham, Liverpool. According to Elvis Costello, while working as a seaman in the Merchant Navy, he used to smuggle obscure U.S. jazz records into the UK, where Costello's mother, Lilian Ablett, sold them. Finding himself in the U.S. as a seaman, Holliday was persuaded to enter a talent contest at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, and again he won, inspiring him to seek a career in show business. In 1951, he secured two summer seasons' wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Morgan
Jane Morgan (born Florence Catherine Currier; May 3, 1924) is an American former singer and recording artist of traditional pop. Morgan initially found success in France and the UK before achieving recognition in the US, receiving six gold records. She was a frequent nightclub and Broadway performer, and also appeared numerous times on American television, both as a singer and as a dramatic performer. Early life Morgan was born Florence Catherine Currier in Newton, Massachusetts, on May 3, 1924. one of five children born to musicians Olga (Brandenburg) and Bertram Currier. At five she began vocal lessons while continuing piano lessons. During the summers, she took on child roles and appeared in theater productions at the Kennebunkport Playhouse in Kennebunkport, Maine, which her brother, Robert Currier, had founded. In 1941, she was listed as the Treasurer of the Kennebunkport Playhouse. After graduating from Seabreeze High School, she was accepted into New York's Juil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brook Benton
Benjamin Franklin Peay (September 19, 1931 – April 9, 1988), known professionally as Brook Benton, was an American singer and songwriter whose music transcended rock and roll, rhythm and blues, and pop music genres in the 1950s and 1960s, with hits such as " It's Just a Matter of Time" and " Endlessly". His last hit was the 1970 ballad "Rainy Night in Georgia". Benton scored more than 50 ''Billboard'' chart hits as a singer/songwriter and with hits he wrote for other performers. Early life and career Benton began singing gospel music in a Methodist church choir in Lugoff, South Carolina, where his father was choir master. In 1948, Benton went to New York where he joined The Langfordaires and The Jerusalem Stars before joining The Sandmen. Epic Records signed The Sandmen in 1954, immediately sending the group to record at the Columbia studios in New York. Columbia placed The Sandmen on its Okeh Records. Upon a second recording session, Okeh decided to push Benton as a solo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Conway (singer)
Steve Conway (born Walter James Groom; 24 October 1920 – 19 April 1952) was a British singer who rose to fame in the 1940s, following the end of the Second World War. Known for romantic ballads, he made dozens of recordings for EMI's Columbia label, appeared regularly on BBC Radio and toured the UK, before his career was cut short by his early death, aged 31, resulting from a heart condition. He has been described as "Britain's first post-war male heart-throb, a masculine equivalent of Vera Lynn in his sincerity and clear diction." Early life Conway was born in Bethnal Green in east London, in 1920, and named Walter James Groom; he was known as Jimmy to friends and relatives. The eldest son of five children born to a labourer, Groom's family were poor, and their annual holiday was going hop picking in Kent every summer. The family experienced loss whilst Groom was still young: his twin brothers did not survive infancy, while his sister died at the age of five from mening ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
