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Lips Of Wine
"Lips of Wine" is a song written by Sy Soloway and Shirley Wolfe and performed by Andy Williams Howard Andrew Williams (December 3, 1927 β September 25, 2012) was an American singer. He recorded 43 albums in his career, of which 15 have been gold certified and three platinum certified. He was also nominated for six Grammy Awards. He hos .... The song reached #17 on the ''Billboard'' chart in 1957. Archie Bleyer's Orchestra played on the song. Retrieved June 4, 2013 References 1957 singles Andy Williams songs[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy Williams
Howard Andrew Williams (December 3, 1927 β September 25, 2012) was an American singer. He recorded 43 albums in his career, of which 15 have been gold certified and three platinum certified. He was also nominated for six Grammy Awards. He hosted ''The Andy Williams Show'', a television variety show, from 1962 to 1971, along with numerous TV specials. ''The Andy Williams Show'' won three Emmy Awards. He sold more than 45 million records worldwide, including more than 10 million certified units in the United States. Williams was active in the music industry for over 70 years until his death from bladder cancer in 2012, at the age of 84. Early life and education Williams was born in Wall Lake, Iowa, to Florence (''nΓ©e'' Finley) and Jay Emerson Williams, who worked in insurance and the post office. While living in Cheviot, Ohio, Williams attended Western Hills High School in Cincinnati, Ohio. He finished high school at University High School, in West Los Angeles, because of hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1957 In Music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1957. Specific locations * 1957 in British music * 1957 in Norwegian music Specific genres * 1957 in country music * 1957 in jazz Events * January 5 β Renato Carosone and his band start their American tour in Cuba. * January 6 β Elvis Presley makes his final appearance on ''The Ed Sullivan Show''. * January 16 β The Cavern Club opens in Liverpool, England, as a jazz club. * February 8 β Bo Diddley records his songs "Hey! Bo Diddley" and "Mona (I Need You Baby)". * March β Chicago's Cardinal Stritch bans all rock and roll and rhythm and blues music from Catholic-run schools, saying that "its rhythms encourage young people to behave in a hedonistic manner." * March 1 β The Everly Brothers record in Nashville their first single " Bye Bye Love" for Cadence Records. * March 3 β The second annual Eurovision Song Contest is staged in Frankfurt am Main, West Germany. The contest is won by Dutch singe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Popular Music
Popular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry. These forms and styles can be enjoyed and performed by people with little or no musical training.Popular Music. (2015). ''Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia'' It stands in contrast to both art music and traditional or "folk" music. Art music was historically disseminated through the performances of written music, although since the beginning of the recording industry, it is also disseminated through recordings. Traditional music forms such as early blues songs or hymns were passed along orally, or to smaller, local audiences. The original application of the term is to music of the 1880s Tin Pan Alley period in the United States. Although popular music sometimes is known as "pop music", the two terms are not interchangeable. Popular music is a generic term for a wide variety of genres of music that appeal to the tastes of a large segment of the population, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cadence Records
Cadence Records was an American record company based in New York City whose labels had a picture of a metronome. It was founded by Archie Bleyer, who had been the musical director and orchestra leader for Arthur Godfrey in 1952. Cadence also launched a short-lived jazz subsidiary, Candid Records. The first recording star for Cadence was a Godfrey alumnus, Julius La Rosa. Other Godfrey alumni signed to the label included the Chordettes. Bleyer had written a few hit songs in 1932β34 (Fletcher Henderson's "Business in F" is a good example) and had a band that recorded for ARC Records, ARC in 1934 and 1935 (his records were issued on Vocalion Records, Vocalion, Melotone Records (US), Melotone, Perfect Records, Perfect and Romeo Records, Romeo). According to legend, Bleyer was fired from the Godfrey show when he signed someone Godfrey regarded as a rival to a record deal (Godfrey later fired singer Julius La Rosa in October 1954, causing a storm of controversy at the time). The lab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sy Soloway
Sy is a given name, nickname/hypocorism (often of Seymour) and surname which may refer to: Surname In arts and entertainment * Brigitte Sy (born 1956), French actress and filmmaker * Latyr Sy (born 1972), Senegalese singer and percussionist * Omar Sy (born 1978), French actor and comedian * Oumou Sy (born 1952), Senegalese fashion designer In sports * Amara Sy (born 1981), Malian-French basketball player * Baba Sy (1935β1978), Senegalese draughts player, first world champion from Africa * Cheikha Sy (born 1990), Senegalese footballer * FounΓ©kΓ© Sy (born 1986), Malian footballer * Moussa Sy, Guinean football player * Pape Sy (born 1988), French-Senegalese basketball player * Bandja Sy (born 1990), Malian-French basketball player In politics * Chan Sy (1932β1984), Cambodian politician, Prime Minister of the People's Republic of Kampuchea from 1981 to 1984 * Ousmane Sy (born 1949), Malian politician * Seydina Oumar Sy (born 1937), Senegalese politician, Foreign Minister o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shirley Wolfe
Shirley may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Shirley'' (novel), an 1849 novel by Charlotte BrontΓ« * ''Shirley'' (1922 film), a British silent film * ''Shirley'' (2020 film), an American film * ''Shirley'' (album), a 1961 album by Shirley Bassey * "Shirley" (song), a 1958 song by John Fred and the Playboys * ''Shirley'' (TV series), a 1979 TV series People *Shirley (name), a given name and a surname *Shirley (Danish singer) (born 1976) *Shirley (Dutch singer) (born 1946), Dutch singer and pianist Places United Kingdom *Shirley, Derbyshire, England * Shirley, New Forest, a location near Bransgore in Hampshire *Shirley, Southampton, a district of Southampton, Hampshire, England *Shirley, London, in Croydon *Shirley, West Midlands, England United States *Shirley, Arkansas *Shirley, Illinois *Shirley, Indiana *Shirley, Maine *Shirley, Massachusetts, a New England town **Shirley (CDP), Massachusetts, the main village in the town *Shirley, Minnesota *Shirley, Missouri *Shirley, Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Like Your Kind Of Love
"I Like Your Kind of Love" is a song written by Melvin Endsley, and performed by Andy Williams, with additional vocals by Peggy Powers. Archie Bleyer's Orchestra played on the song. Chart performance In the US, "I Like Your Kind of Love" reached number 8 on the ''Billboard'' chart, and outside the US, it peaked at number 16 in the UK in 1957. Musicvf.com, Retrieved June 4, 2013 Cover versions *Endsley also recorded a version of the song while he was under contract withRCA Records
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Are You Sincere
"Are You Sincere" is a song written by Wayne Walker, originally released in 1957. Andy Williams recorded the song, which Cadence Records issued as a single in 1958, with an orchestra conducted by Archie Bleyer. Since Williams' success, the song has been covered many times in pop and country styles. Notable covers include versions by: The Platters (1959), Eddy Arnold (1961), Gene McDaniels (1961), Marty Robbins (1961), Lenny Welch (1963), Trini Lopez (1965), Ray Anthony (1968), Bobby Vinton (1969), Brook Benton (1970), Jean Shepard (1973), Elvis Presley (1973), Mel Tillis (1979), Charley Pride (1986), Chart performance "Are You Sincere" reached number three on the ''Billboard'' Most Played by Disc Jockeys chart. Elvis Presley recording Elvis Presley recorded it on September 24, 1973, at his home in Palm Springs, California Palm Springs (Cahuilla: ''SΓ©c-he'') is a desert resort city in Riverside County, California, United States, within the Colorado Desert's Coachella Vall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billboard Hot 100
The ''Billboard'' Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by '' Billboard'' magazine. Chart rankings are based on sales (physical and digital), radio play, and online streaming in the United States. The weekly tracking period for sales was initially Monday to Sunday when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991, but was changed to Friday to Thursday in July 2015. This tracking period also applies to compiling online streaming data. Radio airplay, which, unlike sales figures and streaming, is readily available on a real-time basis, is also tracked on a Friday to Thursday cycle effective with the chart dated July 17, 2021 (previously Monday to Sunday and before July 2015, Wednesday to Tuesday). A new chart is compiled and officially released to the public by ''Billboard'' on Tuesdays but post-dated to the following Saturday. The first number-one song of the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 was " Poor Little Fool" by Ricky Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archie Bleyer
Archibald Martin Bleyer (June 12, 1909 β March 20, 1989) was an American song arranger, bandleader, and record company executive. Early life Bleyer was born in the Corona section of the New York City borough of Queens. His father was a well-known trumpet player who had played with the Metropolitan Opera. The younger Bleyer began playing the piano when he was only seven years old. In 1927, he attended Columbia College, intending to become an electrical engineer, but as a sophomore switched to a music major. Without graduating, he left to become an arranger. In the early 1930s, Bleyer wrote a number of songs that were recorded, all 'hot' novelty numbers, including "Mouthful O'Jam", "Business In F" and "Business In Q". In 1934, he began to lead his own band at Earl Carroll's club in Hollywood, California. Bleyer's orchestra recorded for Vocalion Records in 1934 and in 1935 moved to the ARC group of labels (Melotone, Perfect, Romeo, Oriole). One of the vocalists who worked with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1957 Singles
1957 ( MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1950s decade. Events January * January 1 β The Saarland joins West Germany. * January 3 β Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch. * January 5 β South African player Russell Endean becomes the first batsman to be dismissed for having ''handled the ball'', in Test cricket. * January 9 β British Prime Minister Anthony Eden resigns. * January 10 β Harold Macmillan becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. * January 11 β The African Convention is founded in Dakar. * January 14 β Kripalu Maharaj is named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher), after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars. * January 15 β The film ''Throne of Blood'', Akira Kurosawa's reworking of ''Macbeth'', is rele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy Williams Songs
Andy may refer to: People *Andy (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters *Horace Andy (born 1951), Jamaican roots reggae songwriter and singer born Horace Hinds *Katja Andy (1907β2013), German-American pianist and piano professor *Andy (singer) (born 1958), stage name of Iranian-Armenian singer Andranik Madadian Music * ''Andy'' (1976 album), an album by Andy Williams * ''Andy'' (2001 album), an album by Andy Williams * ''Andy'' (Raleigh Ritchie album), a 2020 album by Raleigh Ritchie * "Andy" (song), a 1986 song by Les Rita Mitsouko Other uses * ''Andy'' (film), a 1965 film * Andy (goose) (1987β1991), a sneaker-wearing goose born without webbed feet * Andy (typeface), a monotype font * Andy, West Virginia, US, a former unincorporated community See also *Andi (other) Andi or ANDI may refer to: People and fictional characters * Andy (given name), including people and fictional characters with the name Andi * Andi people, an ethnic group of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
