I Wish I Were In Love Again
"I Wish I Were in Love Again" is a show tune from the 1937 Rodgers and Hart musical ''Babes in Arms''. In the original show, Dolores, the Sheriff's daughter (played by Grace McDonald), talks to Gus, her former boyfriend (Rolly Pickert), who tries to woo her unsuccessfully. They then sing about how they do not care that their relationship is over. The song was omitted from the 1939 film version. Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney performed it in the 1948 film '' Words and Music''. Rooney and Garland released it as a single in 1948 as a b-side with "Johnny One Note." Notable recordings *Judy Garland - recorded November 15, 1947 for Decca Records (catalog No. 24469). *Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney - recorded for MGM Records (catalog No. 30172). *Ella Fitzgerald - ''Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers & Hart Songbook'' (1956) *Mel Torme - '' Songs for Any Taste'' (1957) * Frank Sinatra - ''A Swingin' Affair!'' (1957) * Eddie Fisher - ''As Long as There's Music'' (1958). * Johnny Mathis ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Chappell & Co
Chappell & Co. was an English company that published music and manufactured pianos. Founded by pianist Samuel Chappell, the company was one of the leading music publishers and piano manufacturers in Britain until 1980 when Chappell sold its retail activities to concentrate solely on music publishing. After some previous acquisitions by other companies, the ''Chappell'' brand name is currently owned by Warner Chappell Music (part of Warner Music Group, which acquired it for $200 million in 1987.Warner Reportedly Will Acquire Chappell : $200-Million Deal Would Merge 2 of 3 Biggest U.S. Music Publishers by KATHRYN HARRIS on ''Los Angeles Times'', 12 May 1987 History [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert Sinatra (; December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer and actor. Nicknamed the "Honorific nicknames in popular music, Chairman of the Board" and later called "Ol' Blue Eyes", Sinatra was one of the most popular entertainers of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. He is among the List of best-selling music artists, world's best-selling music artists with an estimated 150 million record sales. Born to Italian immigrants in Hoboken, New Jersey, Sinatra was greatly influenced by the intimate, easy-listening vocal style of Bing Crosby and began his musical career in the swing era with bandleaders Harry James and Tommy Dorsey. He found success as a solo artist after signing with Columbia Records in 1943, becoming the idol of the "Bobby soxer (music), bobby soxers". Sinatra released his debut album, ''The Voice of Frank Sinatra'', in 1946. When his film career stalled in the early 1950s, Sinatra turned to Las Vegas, where he became one of its best-known concert ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Susannah McCorkle
Susannah McCorkle (January 1, 1946 – May 19, 2001) was an American jazz singer. Life and career A native of Berkeley, California, McCorkle studied Italian literature at the University of California at Berkeley before dropping out to move to Europe. She was inspired to become a singer when she heard Billie Holiday sing "I've Got a Right to Sing the Blues". She began her career in the early 1970s by singing at pubs in London with bandleader John Chilton. She also worked in London with Keith Ingham and Dick Sudhalter and recorded her first two albums, one a tribute to Harry Warren, the other to Johnny Mercer. After moving back to the U.S. in the 1970s, she sang at the Cookery in Greenwich Village and the Riverboat in Manhattan. Later in her career she sang often at the Algonquin Hotel. ''No More Blues'' (1989), her first album for Concord Jazz, was recorded with guitarists Emily Remler and Bucky Pizzarelli and pianist Dave Frishberg. Her writing was published in ''Cosmopolitan ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Julie Andrews
Dame Julie Andrews (born Julia Elizabeth Wells; 1 October 1935) is an English actress, singer, and author. She has garnered numerous accolades throughout her career spanning over seven decades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, three Grammy Awards and six Golden Globe Awards. She has also received three Tony Award nominations. Andrews was made a Disney Legend in 1991, and has been honoured with an Honorary Golden Lion, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2007, and the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2022. In 2000, Andrews was made a dame by Queen Elizabeth II for services to the performing arts. Andrews, a child actress and singer, appeared in the West End in 1948 and made her Broadway debut in '' The Boy Friend'' (1954). Billed as "Britain's youngest prima donna", she rose to prominence starring in Broadway musicals such as ''My Fair Lady'' (1956) playing Eliza Doolittle and ''Camelot'' (1960) playing Quee ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Nothing Without You (Mel Tormé And Cleo Laine Album)
''Nothing Without You'' is a 1991 studio album by the jazz singers Mel Tormé and Cleo Laine. Track listing # "I'm Nothing Without You" (Cy Coleman, David Zippel) – 3:04 # "I Thought About You" (Johnny Mercer, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 3:51 # "Where or When" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 5:09 # "I Wish I Were in Love Again" (Hart, Rodgers) – 3:11 # " Girl Talk" (Neal Hefti, Bobby Troup) – 5:09 # " After You've Gone" (Henry Creamer, Turner Layton) – 4:44 # "Brazil"/"Bahia" (Ary Barroso)/( Sidney Keith Russell) – 4:19 # "Birdsong" (Sambalaya) (Johnny Dankworth) – 2:53 # "Isn't It a Pity?" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 4:04 # "Love You Madly" (Duke Ellington) – 3:34 # " Angel Eyes" (Earl Brent, Matt Dennis) – 4:34 # "Two Tune Medley" (Tormé, Laine) – 4:52 # "I Don't Think I'll Fall in Love Today" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 3:45 # "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" (Cole Porter) – 2:55 Personnel * Cleo Laine - vocals * Mel Tormé Melvin Howard T ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Cleo Laine
Dame Cleo Laine, Lady Dankworth (born Clementine Dinah Bullock; 28 October 1927)Cleo Laine birth registry in Uxbridge via Free UK Genealogy CIO, a charity registered in England and Wales, Number 1167484, under the auspices of the General Register Office of England and Wales Accessed 22 November 2022. is an English and pop singer and an actress, known for her and for her vocal range. Though her natural range is that of a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Show Tunes (album)
''Show Tunes'' is a 1989 album by Rosemary Clooney, of show tunes. Track listing # "I Wish I Were in Love Again" ( Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 3:07 # "Manhattan" (Hart, Rodgers) – 5:18 # "I Stayed Too Long at the Fair" ( Billy Barnes) – 4:42 # "Ev'rything I've Got" (Hart, Rodgers) – 5:06 # "How Are Things in Glocca Morra?" (Yip Harburg, Burton Lane) – 5:06 # "Come Back to Me" (Lane, Alan Jay Lerner) – 4:59 # "Where Do You Start?" ( Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, Johnny Mandel) – 2:58 # "Taking a Chance on Love" (Vernon Duke, Ted Fetter, John La Touche) – 3:28 # "I'll See You Again" ( Noël Coward) – 3:26 # " All the Things You Are" ( Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) – 3:44 # "Guys and Dolls" (Frank Loesser) – 4:43 # "My Ship" ( Ira Gershwin, Kurt Weill) – 3:12 Personnel * Rosemary Clooney – vocals * Warren Vaché Jr. – cornet * Scott Hamilton – tenor saxophone * John Oddo – piano * John Clayton John Clayton may refer to: Arts and ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Swing Around Rosie
''Swing Around Rosie'' is a 1959 studio album by Rosemary Clooney, accompanied by the Buddy Cole trio. Track listing # "'Deed I Do" (Walter Hirsch, Fred Rose) – 1:49 # "You Took Advantage of Me" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 2:24 # "Blue Moon" (Hart, Rodgers) – 2:27 # " Sing, You Sinners" (Sam Coslow, W. Franke Harling) – 2:16 # "A Touch of the Blues" (Don George, Eddie Wilcox) – 2:43 # "Goody Goody" (Matty Malneck, Johnny Mercer) – 2:07 # "Too Close for Comfort" (Jerry Bock, Larry Holofcener, George David Weiss) – 2:39 # "Do Nothin' Till You Hear from Me" (Duke Ellington, Bob Russell) – 2:49 # "Moonlight Mississippi (A Whistle Stop Town)" (Willard Robison) – 2:36 # "I Wish I Were in Love Again" (Hart, Rodgers) – 2:23 # "Sunday in Savannah" (Hugh Mackay) – 2:31 # " This Can't Be Love" (Hart, Rodgers) – 2:06 Personnel Performance * Rosemary Clooney – vocal The human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal tract, including ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Rosemary Clooney
Rosemary Clooney (May 23, 1928 – June 29, 2002) was an American singer and actress. She came to prominence in the early 1950s with the song "Come On-a My House", which was followed by other pop numbers such as " Botch-a-Me", " Mambo Italiano", "Tenderly", "Half as Much", "Hey There", "This Ole House", and " Sway". She also had success as a jazz vocalist. Clooney's career languished in the 1960s, partly because of problems related to depression and drug addiction, but revived in 1977, when her '' White Christmas'' co-star Bing Crosby asked her to appear with him at a show marking his 50th anniversary in show business. She continued recording until her death in 2002. Early life Rosemary Clooney was born in Maysville, Kentucky, the daughter of Marie Frances (née Guilfoyle) and Andrew Joseph Clooney. She was one of five children. Her father was of Irish and German descent, and her mother was of English and Irish ancestry. She was raised Catholic. When Clooney was 15, her mother a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Perfectly Frank
''Perfectly Frank'' is an album by Tony Bennett, released in 1992 and recorded as a tribute to Frank Sinatra. Part of Bennett's late-in-life comeback to commercial success, it achieved gold record status in the United States and won the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance in 1993. In 2006, the album was reissued with the same contents as ''Perfectly Frank: An American Classic Celebrates 80'', in conjunction with Bennett's 80th birthday. Track listing # " Time After Time" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) – 3:32 # " I Fall in Love Too Easily" (Cahn, Styne) – 2:01 # "East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)" (Brooks Bowman) – 4:11 # "Nancy (with the Laughing Face)" (Phil Silvers, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 3:14 # "I Thought About You" (Johnny Mercer, Van Heusen) – 2:55 # " Night and Day" (Cole Porter) – 3:35 # "I've Got the World on a String" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 2:52 # "I'm Glad There Is You" (Jimmy Dorsey, Paul Madeira) – 3:14 # "A Nightingale Sang in ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tony Bennett
Anthony Dominick Benedetto (born August 3, 1926), known professionally as Tony Bennett, is an American retired singer of traditional pop standards, big band, show tunes, and jazz. Bennett is also a painter, having created works under his birth name that are on permanent public display in several institutions. He is the founder of the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in Astoria, Queens, New York. Bennett began singing at an early age. He fought in the final stages of World War II as a U.S. Army infantryman in the European Theater. Afterward, he developed his singing technique, signed with Columbia Records and had his first number-one popular song with " Because of You" in 1951. Several tracks such as "Rags to Riches" followed in early 1953. He then refined his approach to encompass jazz singing. He reached an artistic peak in the late 1950s with albums such as ''The Beat of My Heart'' and ''Basie Swings, Bennett Sings''. In 1962, Bennett recorded his signature song, "I Left My ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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The Rhythms And Ballads Of Broadway
''The Rhythms and Ballads of Broadway'' is a double album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was released in September 1960 by Columbia Records. Despite the order of the words in the title, the ballads actually make up sides one and two while the uptempo numbers fill sides three and four. The album debuted on ''Billboard'' magazine's album chart in the issue dated October 3, 1960, and stayed on the list for 27 weeks, during which time it peaked at number six. Columbia also released the album as two separate LPs in 1960 titled ''Ballads of Broadway'' and ''Rhythms of Broadway''.(2017) ''The Voice of Romance: The Columbia Original Album Collection'' by Johnny Mathis D booklet New York: Sony Music Entertainment 88985 36892 2. The two-LP set was released for the first time on compact disc on June 7, 1999. Reception ''Billboard'' described it as a "power-packed item, from the chanter's pretty vocalizing, and smart Ralph Burns-Glenn Osser backings, to the attractive, eye-catch ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |