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It's Easy To Remember
"It's Easy to Remember (And So Hard to Forget)" is a popular song written by Richard Rodgers with lyrics by Lorenz Hart. History Published in 1935, the song was written for the 1935 film ''Mississippi'' starring Bing Crosby and W.C. Fields. Crosby introduced the song in the film and his recording for Decca Records made on February 21, 1935 with Georgie Stoll and his Orchestra and Rhythmettes and Three Shades of Blue topped the charts of the day. Crosby recorded the song again in 1954 for his album '' Bing: A Musical Autobiography''. The song is now considered a standard, with many recordings having been made by many artists. Other notable recordings * Jane Ira Bloom – in her double album '' Wild Lines: Improvising Emily Dickinson'' (2017) * Fred Astaire – in the album '' A Couple of Song and Dance Men'' (1975) * Rosemary Clooney – ''Rosie Sings Bing'' (1978) * John Coltrane – ''Ballads'' (1962) * Perry Como – recorded for his album ''We Get Letters'' (1957) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorenz Hart
Lorenz Milton Hart (May 2, 1895 – November 22, 1943) was an American lyricist and half of the Broadway songwriting team Rodgers and Hart. Some of his more famous lyrics include " Blue Moon", " The Lady Is a Tramp", "Manhattan", "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered", and "My Funny Valentine". Life and career Hart was born in Harlem, New York City, the elder of two sons, to Jewish immigrant parents, Max M. and Frieda (Isenberg) Hart, of German background. Through his mother, he was a great-grandnephew of the German poet Heinrich Heine. His father, a business promoter, sent Hart and his brother to private schools. (His brother, Teddy Hart, also went into theatre and became a musical comedy star. Teddy Hart's wife, Dorothy Hart, wrote a biography of Lorenz Hart.) Hart received his early education from Columbia Grammar School and entered Columbia College in 1913, before switching to Columbia University School of Journalism, where he attended for two years. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosie Sings Bing
''Rosie Sings Bing'' is a 1978 studio album by the American jazz singer Rosemary Clooney, recorded in tribute to Bing Crosby, who had died the previous year. The album was the second Clooney made for Concord Records. Clooney and Crosby recorded two albums of duets, '' Fancy Meeting You Here'' (1958) and ''That Travelin' Two-Beat'' (1965), and Clooney accompanied Crosby at his 1977 performances at the London Palladium shortly before Crosby died. Clooney recorded her tribute to Crosby with a quintet of jazz musicians that included saxophonist Scott Hamilton, Cal Collins, Nat Pierce, Monty Budwig, and Jake Hanna. All but Collins had appeared on her previous Concord album. Drummer Jake Hanna had also performed with Bing live on stage in Norway on 27 August 1977. The liner notes for this album were written by Bing's widow, Kathryn Crosby. Track listing # " But Beautiful" ( Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 4:04 # " Pennies from Heaven" (Burke, Arthur Johnston) – 4:20 # " Blue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Jones (singer)
John Allan Jones (born January 14, 1938) is an American singer and actor. Jones is primarily a straight-pop singer (even when he recorded contemporary material) whose forays into jazz are mostly of the big-band/swing variety. He has won two Grammy Awards. Jones continues to perform concerts around the world and remains popular in Las Vegas, Nevada, Las Vegas. He is perhaps most widely known for his recordings of "Lollipops and Roses (song), Lollipops and Roses" (Grammy Awards of 1962, 1962 Grammy Award for Best Vocal Performance, Male, Grammy Award, Best Pop Male Performance), "Wives and Lovers" (Grammy Awards of 1964, 1964 Grammy Award for Best Vocal Performance, Male, Grammy Award, Best Pop Male Performance), "The Race Is On (song), The Race Is On", "The Impossible Dream (song), The Impossible Dream", "Call Me Irresponsible", and "Love Boat (song), The Love Boat Theme". He also sang the opening theme tune for the 1968 film ''Anzio (film), Anzio'' ("This World Is Yours"). M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
At The Deer Head Inn
''At the Deer Head Inn'' is a live album by American pianist Keith Jarrett with Gary Peacock and Paul Motian recorded in concert in September 1992 in Delaware Water Gap, Pennsylvania at the Deer Head Inn and released by ECM Records in 1994. The album was recorded at a venue where Jarrett performed very early in his career and was the first to feature Motian since ''Bop-Be'' in 1976. Reception The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars and states: "The inventive interpretations give listeners plenty of surprises and variety, making this a very enjoyable outing".Yanow, S. Allmusic Reviewaccessed March 30, 2010 The authors of ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz'' wrote: "Motian brings a lighter and more flowing pulse to the music than DeJohnette... 'Bye Bye Blackbird'... glides along without wires or other obvious support for more than ten minutes, a beautiful airborne performance... As so often, Peacock is more forceful and less complex out of the studio... It seems un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Jarrett
Keith Jarrett (born May 8, 1945) is an American jazz and classical music pianist and composer. Jarrett started his career with Art Blakey and later moved on to play with Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis. Since the early 1970s, he has also been a group leader and solo performer in jazz, jazz fusion, and classical music. His improvisations draw from the traditions of jazz and other genres, including Western classical music, gospel, blues, and ethnic folk music. His album, ''The Köln Concert'', released in 1975, became the best-selling piano recording in history. In 2008, he was inducted into the Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame in the magazine's 73rd Annual Readers' Poll. In 2003, Jarrett received the Polar Music Prize and was the first recipient to be recognized with prizes for both contemporary and classical music. In 2004, he received the Léonie Sonning Music Prize. In February 2018, Jarrett suffered a stroke and has been unable to perform since. A second stroke, in May 2018, left ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Love You, Paris
''I Love You, Paris'' is a 1992 live album by Shirley Horn, recorded at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. Reception The Allmusic review by Richard S. Ginell stated: "Horn is in peak form throughout this program, often sounding exquisite and using silence and pauses quite expertly...Highly recommended". ''I Love You, Paris'' was nominated for Best Jazz Vocal Performance in the 37th Annual Grammy Awards. Track listing # "Wouldn't It Be Loverly" (Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe) – 6:23 # " Just in Time" (Jule Styne, Betty Comden, Adolph Green) – 3:13 # "He Was Too Good to Me" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 4:51 # " Do It Again" (Buddy DeSylva, George Gershwin) – 8:17 # "Old Country" (Curtis Reginald Lewis, Nat Adderley) – 5:37 # "It's Easy to Remember (And So Hard to Forget)" (Hart, Rodgers) – 6:39 # " All Through the Night" (Cole Porter) – 2:32 # "L.A. Breakdown" (Larry B. Marks) – 6:47 # "I Loves You Porgy / Here Comes de Honey Man" (G. Gershwin, I. Gers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shirley Horn
Shirley Valerie Horn (May 1, 1934 – October 20, 2005) was an American jazz singer and pianist. She collaborated with many jazz musicians including Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Toots Thielemans, Ron Carter, Carmen McRae, Wynton Marsalis and others. She was most noted for her ability to accompany herself with nearly incomparable independence and ability on the piano while singing, something described by arranger Johnny Mandel as "like having two heads", and for her rich, lush voice, a smoky contralto, which was described by noted producer and arranger Quincy Jones as "like clothing, as she seduces you with her voice". Biography Shirley Horn was born and raised in Washington, D.C. Encouraged by her grandmother, an amateur organist, Horn began piano lessons at the age of four. Aged 12, she studied piano and composition at Howard University, later graduating from there in classical music. Horn was offered a place at the Juilliard School, but her family could not afford to send her th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lady In Satin
''Lady in Satin'' is an album by the jazz singer Billie Holiday released in 1958 on Columbia Records, catalogue CL 1157 in mono and CS 8048 in stereo. It is the penultimate album completed by the singer and last released in her lifetime (her final album, ''Last Recording'', being recorded in March 1959 and released just after her death). The original album was produced by Irving Townsend and engineered by Fred Plaut. Background For the majority of the 1950s, Billie Holiday was signed to jazz producer Norman Granz's Clef Records, which was later absorbed into the newly founded Verve Records by 1956. All of her work for Norman Granz consisted of small jazz combos, reuniting her with musicians she recorded with back in the 1930s when she made her first recordings with Teddy Wilson. There were talks in the early 1950s of Holiday making albums, or songbooks, dedicated to composers such as George and Ira Gershwin and Jerome Kern, but they fell through and ended up going to Ella Fitzge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan; April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American jazz and swing music singer. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and music partner, Lester Young, Holiday had an innovative influence on jazz music and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo. She was known for her vocal delivery and improvisational skills. After a turbulent childhood, Holiday began singing in nightclubs in Harlem, where she was heard by producer John Hammond, who liked her voice. She signed a recording contract with Brunswick in 1935. Collaborations with Teddy Wilson produced the hit "What a Little Moonlight Can Do", which became a jazz standard. Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, Holiday had mainstream success on labels such as Columbia and Decca. By the late 1940s, however, she was beset with legal troubles and drug abuse. After a short prison sentence, she performed at a sold-out conce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hooray For Hollywood (album)
''Hooray for Hollywood'' is a two-album set recorded by Doris Day, released by Columbia Records. Frank De Vol arranged and conducted the orchestra for the recordings. All but one of the songs were recorded between October and November 1957. The collection was to originally feature Day's recording of "A Very Precious Love", but this was released as a single and replaced on the album with the 1952 re-recording of "It's Magic".Daye, Martyn: ''Doris Day - Hooray For Hollywood'' reissue sleevenotes, 1997 The two-album set was released by Columbia under the catalog number C2L-5 on February 24, 1958. It was subsequently reissued as two separate volumes in both monaural and stereophonic versions as indicated below. Record 1 The first record was reissued by Columbia as ''Hooray For Hollywood - Vol. 1'' on October 20, 1958. The catalog number of the mono version was CL-1128, and of the stereo version, CS-8066. On April 23, 2007 it was released, together with ''You'll Never Walk Alone,'' as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doris Day
Doris Day (born Doris Mary Kappelhoff; April 3, 1922 – May 13, 2019) was an American actress, singer, and activist. She began her career as a big band singer in 1939, achieving commercial success in 1945 with two No. 1 recordings, " Sentimental Journey" and "My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time" with Les Brown & His Band of Renown. She left Brown to embark on a solo career and recorded more than 650 songs from 1947 to 1967. Day was one of the biggest film stars of the 1950s–1960s. Day's film career began during the Golden Age of Hollywood with the film ''Romance on the High Seas'' (1948). She starred in films of many genres, including musicals, comedies, dramas, and thrillers. She played the title role in ''Calamity Jane'' (1953) and starred in Alfred Hitchcock's '' The Man Who Knew Too Much'' (1956) with James Stewart. Her best-known films are those in which she co-starred with Rock Hudson, chief among them 1959's ''Pillow Talk'', for which she was nominated fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
We Get Letters
''We Get Letters'' is a 1957 album by Perry Como, his second RCA Victor 12" long-play album. The LP's concept is an album of requests from Como's television show, but forgoing the usual big-band sound of Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra and the Ray Charles Singers for a small group known as "Como's little Combo", with soft, breezy jazz arrangements by Joe Lipman. The album was recorded between June 1956 and February 1957. As with his first LP '' So Smooth'', Como avoided the type of novelty songs he often recorded for single releases in favor of pop standards dating back to the 1920s and 30s. Track listing Side one #"Swingin' Down the Lane" (Music by Isham Jones and lyrics by Gus Kahn, 1923) - 2:13 #" It's Easy To Remember" (Music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart, 1935) - 3:15 #" South of The Border" (Words and Music by Jimmy Kennedy and Michael Carr, 1939) - 2:17 #"That's What I Like" (Words and Music by Mae Boren Axton and Glenn Reeves) - 2:38 #"Honey, Honey (Bless ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
