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Is Everybody Happy
Is Everybody Happy? is a catchphrase of Ted Lewis that was used in the song, "Wear A Hat With A Silver Lining" by Al Sherman and Albert Bryan. The catchphrase also was the title of two films starring Lewis: * ''Is Everybody Happy?'' (1929 film), an American Pre-Code musical film * ''Is Everybody Happy?'' (1943 film), an American black and white musical film Is Everybody Happy? may also refer to: Music * "Is Everybody Happy?", a song by Gigolo Aunts on the album ''Everybody Happy ''Everybody Happy'' is the debut studio album by the rock band Gigolo Aunts. It was released in 1988 on Coyote Records. Critical reception ''Trouser Press ''Trouser Press'' was a rock and roll magazine started in New York in 1974 as a mimeo ...'' * "Is Everybody Happy?", lyric from "Happy?" by Public Image Ltd on the album '' 9'' See also * Happy (other) {{disambiguation Catchphrases Quotations from music 1920s neologisms ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Is Everybody Happy? (1943 Film)
''Is Everybody Happy?'' is an American black and white musical film released in 1943. The movie was in effect a biopic for Ted Lewis. The taglines for the film were: "''18 of the grand songs made famous by the High-Hatted Tragedian of Song'", "''A FAST-STEPPING MUSICAL JAMBOREE!''", "''GET HAPPY! – Here comes the sweetest show in town!''" and "''IT'S GAY IN A GREAT BIG WAY!''". Cast * Ted Lewis – Ted Lewis aka Tom Todd *Michael Duane – Tom Todd *Nan Wynn – Kitty O'Riley *Larry Parks – Jerry Stewart *Lynn Merrick – Ann * Bob Stanton – Artie (as Bob Haymes) *Dick Winslow – Joe *Harry Barris – Bob * Robert Stanford – Frank Stewart, Jr. *Fern Emmett – Mrs. Broadbelt, Landlady *Eddie Kane – Salbin * Ray Walker – Lou Merwin *Anthony Marlowe – Carl Muller * George Reed – Missouri Soundtrack *"Am I Blue?" :Music by Harry Akst :Lyrics by Grant Clarke :Sung by Nan Wynn *" Cuddle Up a Little Closer" :Music by Karl Hoschna :Lyrics by Otto Harbach *"On th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ted Lewis (musician)
Theodore Leopold Friedman (June 6, 1890 – August 25, 1971), known as Ted Lewis, was an American entertainer, bandleader, singer, and musician. He fronted a band and touring stage show that presented a combination of jazz, comedy, and nostalgia that was a hit with the American public before and after World War II. He was known by the moniker "Mr. Entertainment" or Ted "Is Everybody Happy?" Lewis. He died of lung failure in August 1971. Early life Born in Circleville, Ohio, Lewis was one of the first Northern musicians to start imitating the New Orleans jazz musicians who came up to New York in the teens. He first recorded in 1917 with Earl Fuller's Jazz Band, who were attempting to copy the sound of the city's newest sensation, the Original Dixieland Jass Band. At the time, Lewis did not seem to be able to do much on the clarinet other than trill. (Promoting one recording the Victor catalog stated: "The sounds as of a dog in his dying anguish are from Ted Lewis' clarinet".) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Sherman
Avrum Sherman (September 7, 1897 – September 16, 1973), pen name Al Sherman, was a Russian-American songwriter and composer active during the Tin Pan Alley era in American music history. Some of his most recognizable song titles include: "You Gotta Be a Football Hero," " Now's the Time to Fall in Love" and "Lindbergh (The Eagle of the U.S.A.)." Sherman is one link in a long chain of family members who were musical. Most notably, his sons, Robert and Richard (referred to popularly as the Sherman Brothers) were to join the ranks of America's most highly regarded songwriters. Pairing up and mentoring the Sherman Brothers team has often been referred to as Al Sherman's greatest songwriting achievement. Early life Al Sherman was born into a musical Jewish family in Kiev, Ukraine, in what was then the Russian Empire. His father, violinist Samuel Sherman, fled a Cossack pogrom in 1903. Samuel settled in Prague which was at that time part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He ev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Is Everybody Happy? (1929 Film)
''Is Everybody Happy?'' (1929) is an American pre-Code musical film starring Ted Lewis, Alice Day, Lawrence Grant, Ann Pennington, and Julia Swayne Gordon, directed by Archie Mayo, and released by Warner Bros. The music for the film was written by Harry Akst and Grant Clarke, except for "St. Louis Blues" by W. C. Handy and "Tiger Rag". The film's title comes from Lewis's catchphrase "Is everybody happy?" The film's soundtrack exists on Vitaphone discs preserved at the UCLA Film and Television Archive, but the film itself is considered a lost film, according to the Vitaphone Project website. A five-minute clip from the film can be found on YouTube. Lewis and his orchestra also appeared in a short subject called ''Is Everybody Happy?'' (1941), consisting of musical numbers cut from the Abbott and Costello feature film '' Hold That Ghost'' (1941) released by Universal Studios. Columbia Pictures released a feature-length biopic of Lewis also titled '' Is Everybody Happy?'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gigolo Aunts
Gigolo Aunts are an American power pop band, who formed in 1981. Biography Early history The band was formed by middle school students Steve Hurley, Dave Gibbs, Phil Hurley, and Paul Brouwer in 1981 in Potsdam, New York, United States, originally known as Sniper. In 1986, their name changed to Gigolo Aunts (after the Syd Barrett song, "Gigolo Aunt", from his 1970 album '' Barrett'') and became a staple on the Northern New York music scene, gaining a reputation for frenetic live sets that featured the close harmonies of the Hurley brothers and Gibbs. In the summer of 1987 the band relocated to Boston, Massachusetts, and within a year were signed to Hoboken's Coyote Records (then home of the Feelies and Yo La Tengo). Their first album entitled ''Everybody Happy'' was produced by former Bongo bassist (and late version Velvet Underground member), Rob Norris, and released in 1988. After touring up and down the east coast, the band returned to Boston and began working on their follo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Everybody Happy
''Everybody Happy'' is the debut studio album by the rock band Gigolo Aunts. It was released in 1988 on Coyote Records. Critical reception ''Trouser Press ''Trouser Press'' was a rock and roll magazine started in New York in 1974 as a mimeographed fanzine by editor/publisher Ira Robbins, fellow fan of the Who Dave Schulps and Karen Rose under the name "Trans-Oceanic Trouser Press" (a reference ...'' called the album "sprightly but wimpy and amateurish." '' Spin'' called it a "spent piece of used jet trash." Track listing US Version (Coyote Records) Catalog Number: TTC 88146 (1988), Formats: LP, Cassette #"Summertime Evening" (S. Hurley) 3:50 #"Avalanche" (S. Hurley) 2:43 #"Slipping Away" (S. Hurley) 3:17 #"Marble Statue" (S. Hurley) 3:20 #"Outside-Inside" (S. Hurley) 3:25 #"Her Face Contorted" (S. Hurley) 4:25 #"I Can See" (D. Gibbs, P. Hurley, S. Hurley) 2:47 #"Coming Clean" (D. Gibbs) 3:12 #"People Walk Up" (S. Hurley) 4:10 #"Not for Me" (S. Hurley) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
9 (Public Image Ltd Album)
''9'' is the seventh studio album by Public Image Ltd, but their ninth full-length release including the live albums '' Paris au Printemps'' and '' Live in Tokyo''. It was released in May 1989 on the Virgin Records label (see 1989 in music). Background The band that recorded ''9'' consisted of John Lydon, bassist Allan Dias, guitarist John McGeoch and drummer Bruce Smith. Former guitarist Lu Edmonds left the band by the time the album was recorded due to problems with tinnitus. However, Edmonds received a writing co-credit on all tracks, although he does not play on the album. Ted Chau, who replaced Edmonds in the band, does not perform on ''9''. The album was produced by Stephen Hague, Eric "ET" Thorngren, and the band. Bill Laswell, who had produced ''Album'' three years earlier, had originally been lined up to produce ''9''. However, tension between Laswell and Lydon after the recording of that album, coupled with Laswell's desire to once again use his own cast of session m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Happy (other)
To be happy is to experience happiness: a feeling of contentment or joy. Happy may also refer to: Places * Happy, Arkansas, an unincorporated community * Happy, Perry County, Kentucky, an unincorporated community * Happy, Texas, a town * Happy Isles, Yosemite National Park, California * Happy Township, Graham County, Kansas People * Happy (nickname), a list of people * Happy (video game player) (born 1991), French ''Counter-Strike'' player Vincent Cervoni Schopenhauer * Happy Hall (born 1987), Bahamian international footballer * Happy Hogan (baseball) (1877–1915), American baseball player * Happy Jele (born 1987), South African footballer * Happy Pieterse (1942–2013), South African boxer * Happy Salma (born 1980), Indonesian actress, model and writer Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional characters * Happy (dog actor), a dog in the TV series ''7th Heaven'' * Happy (manga character), a main character in the Japanese manga series ''Fairy Tail'' and ''Edens Zero'' * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catchphrases
A catchphrase (alternatively spelled catch phrase) is a phrase or expression recognized by its repeated utterance. Such phrases often originate in popular culture and in the arts, and typically spread through word of mouth and a variety of mass media (such as films, internet, literature and publishing, television, and radio). Some become the de facto or literal "trademark" or "signature" of the person or character with whom they originated, and can be instrumental in the typecasting of a particular actor. Catchphrases are often humorous, but are never long enough or structured enough to be jokes in themselves. However, a catchphrase can be (or become) the punchline of a joke, or a reminder of a previous joke. Culture According to Richard Harris, a psychology professor at Kansas State University who studied why people like to cite films in social situations, using film quotes in everyday conversation is similar to telling a joke and a way to form solidarity with others. "People ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quotations From Music
A quotation is the repetition of a sentence, phrase, or passage from speech or text that someone has said or written. In oral speech, it is the representation of an utterance (i.e. of something that a speaker actually said) that is introduced by a quotative marker, such as a verb of saying. For example: John said: "I saw Mary today". Quotations in oral speech are also signaled by special prosody in addition to quotative markers. In written text, quotations are signaled by quotation marks. Quotations are also used to present well-known statement parts that are explicitly attributed by citation to their original source; such statements are marked with ( punctuated with) quotation marks. Quotations are often used as a literary device to represent someone's point of view. They are also widely used in spoken language when an interlocutor wishes to present a proposition that they have come to know via hearsay. As a literary device A quotation can also refer to the repeated use of un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
