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Little Girl Blue (song)
"Little Girl Blue" is a popular music, popular song with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart, published in 1935. The song was introduced by Gloria Grafton in the Broadway theater, Broadway musical play, musical ''Jumbo (musical), Jumbo''. Film appearances *1962 Billy Rose's Jumbo - sung by Doris Day *1990 The Handmaid's Tale (film), The Handmaid's Tale Recordings Many popular and jazz artists have recorded the tune, including: *The Afghan Whigs *Louis Armstrong *Chet Baker *Polly Bergen - ''Little Girl Blue'' (1955) *Donald Byrd - ''Byrd in Flight'' (Blue Note 1960) *Ann Hampton Callaway - ''To Ella with Love'' (1996) *The Carpenters - ''Lovelines'' (1989) *Rosemary Clooney - ''Rosemary Clooney Sings Rodgers, Hart & Hammerstein'' (1990) *Sam Cooke - ''My Kind of Blues (Sam Cooke album), My Kind of Blues'' (1961) *Doris Day - ''Billy Rose's Jumbo (soundtrack), Billy Rose's Jumbo'' (1962) *Ethel Ennis - ''Eyes for You'' (1964) *Ella Fitzgerald - ''Ella Fitzgerald S ... [...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] |
The Carpenters
The Carpenters (officially known as Carpenters) were an American vocal and instrumental duo consisting of siblings Karen Carpenter, Karen (1950–1983) and Richard Carpenter (musician), Richard Carpenter (born 1946). They produced a distinct, soft, musical style, combining Karen's contralto vocals with Richard's harmonizing, arranging, and composition skills. During their 14-year career, the Carpenters recorded 10 albums along with numerous singles and several television specials. The siblings were born in New Haven, Connecticut, and moved to Downey, California, in 1963. Richard took piano lessons as a child, progressing to California State University, Long Beach, while Karen learned the drums. They first performed together as a duo in 1965 and formed the jazz-oriented Richard Carpenter Trio followed by the Middle of the road (music), middle-of-the-road group Spectrum. Signing as Carpenters to A&M Records in 1969, they achieved major success the following year with the hit si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alone (Judy Garland Album)
''Alone'' is a 1957 studio album by Judy Garland, arranged by Gordon Jenkins. Track listing Personnel Performance * Judy Garland - vocals * Gordon Jenkins - conductor, arranger In music, an arrangement is a musical adaptation of an existing composition. Differences from the original composition may include reharmonization, melodic paraphrasing, orchestration, or formal development. Arranging differs from orches ... References {{Authority control 1957 albums Judy Garland albums Albums produced by Voyle Gilmore Capitol Records albums Albums arranged by Gordon Jenkins Albums conducted by Gordon Jenkins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judy Garland
Judy Garland (born Frances Ethel Gumm; June 10, 1922June 22, 1969) was an American actress and singer. While critically acclaimed for many different roles throughout her career, she is widely known for playing the part of Dorothy Gale in '' The Wizard of Oz'' (1939). She attained international stardom as an actress in both musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist and on the concert stage. Renowned for her versatility, she received an Academy Juvenile Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Special Tony Award. Garland was the first woman to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, which she won for her 1961 live recording titled ''Judy at Carnegie Hall''. Garland began performing as a child with her two older sisters, in a vaudeville group " The Gumm Sisters" and was later signed to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as a teenager. She appeared in more than two dozen films for MGM. Garland was a frequent on-screen partner of both Mickey Rooney and Gene Kelly and regularly collaborated w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love Lost (album)
__NOTOC__ ''Love Lost'' is a studio album, released on June 11, 1959, by jazz vocal and instrumental group The Four Freshmen. Released at the height of their fame, the album is now considered a "vintage" recording. In the same year, The Four Freshmen won both the ''Metronome'' and ''Playboy'' polls as top jazz vocal group. The album was reissued in 1998 on a double CD with '' Voices in Love''. Track listing # “Love Lost” ( Bob Flanigan, Don Barbour, Ross Barbour, Ken Albers) # “Spring Is Here” (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) # “I'm a Fool to Want You” (Joel Herron, Frank Sinatra, Jack Wolf) # “I Should Care” (Axel Stordahl, Paul Weston, Sammy Cahn) # “I Could Have Told You” (Jimmy Van Heusen, Carl Sigman) # “If I Ever Love Again” (Russ Carlyle, Richard Reynolds) # “The Gal That Got Away” (Harold Arlen, Ira Gershwin) # “When Your Lover Has Gone” (Einar Aaron Swan) # “I Wish I Didn't Love You So” (Frank Loesser) # “I Wish I Knew” (Harry Warren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Four Freshmen
The Four Freshmen is an American male vocal quartet that blends open-harmonic jazz arrangements with the big band vocal group sounds of The Modernaires, The Pied Pipers, and The Mel-Tones, founded in the barbershop tradition. The singers accompany themselves on guitar, horns, bass, and drums, among other instrumental configurations. The group was founded in 1948 in Indiana and reached its peak popularity in the mid-1950s. The last original member retired in 1993, but the group continues to tour internationally. It has recorded jazz harmonies since its founding in the late 1940s in the halls of the Jordan School of Music at Butler University in Indianapolis. History Early beginnings Brothers Don and Ross Barbour grew up in a musical family in Columbus, Indiana, and had sung with their cousin Bob Flanigan as kids. In 1947, while attending the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana, music theory classmate Hal Kratzsch convinced the Barb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Rodgers & Hart Songbook
''Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers and Hart Song Book'' is a 1956 studio album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, with a studio orchestra conducted and arranged by Buddy Bregman, focusing on the songs written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. This album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999, which is a special Grammy award established in 1973 to honor recordings that are at least twenty-five years old, and that have "qualitative or historical significance." In 2000 it was voted number 642 in Colin Larkin's ''All Time Top 1000 Albums''. Track listing For the 1956 Verve 2-LP album, Verve MG V-4002-2 In 2012, Verve also released an audiophile downloadable version of the LP in up to 192 kHz/24 bit lossless FLAC quality. Personnel * Ella Fitzgerald - Vocals * Buddy Bregman - Arranger, Conductor. Liner notes by Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, William Simon and Norman Granz Norman Granz (August 6, 1918 – November 22, 2001) was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917June 15, 1996) was an American jazz singer, sometimes referred to as the "First Lady of Song", "Queen of Jazz", and "Lady Ella". She was noted for her purity of tone, impeccable diction, phrasing, timing, intonation, and a "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing. After a tumultuous adolescence, Fitzgerald found stability in musical success with the Chick Webb Orchestra, performing across the country but most often associated with the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem. Her rendition of the nursery rhyme "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" helped boost both her and Webb to national fame. After taking over the band when Webb died, Fitzgerald left it behind in 1942 to start her solo career. Her manager was Moe Gale, co-founder of the Savoy, until she turned the rest of her career over to Norman Granz, who founded Verve Records to produce new records by Fitzgerald. With Verve she recorded some of her more widely noted works, particularly he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethel Ennis
Ethel Llewellyn Ennis (November 28, 1932 – February 17, 2019) was an American jazz musician whose career spanned seven decades. Ennis spent the majority of her life in her hometown of Baltimore, Maryland, where she was affectionately known as the "First Lady of Jazz". Life and career Ennis was born in a row house on North Calhoun Street in Baltimore, Maryland, and grew up in the Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood. She began performing as a church pianist at a young age. Embarking on a solo singing career, she recorded a number of songs for Atlantic Records before her LP debut, ''Lullabies for Losers'', was released by Jubilee Records in 1955. In 1957, she moved to Capitol Records for a two-album contract, and released ''A Change of Scenery''. Soon after the 1958 follow-up LP ''Have You Forgotten'', Ennis took a six-year hiatus from recording, during which she toured Europe with Benny Goodman. Two of her recordings 'Call Me Young' and 'Sing Me A tune' were used in the UK during ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Rose's Jumbo (soundtrack)
'Billy Rose's Jumbo' is the soundtrack album to the 1962 film of the same name: featuring Doris Day, Stephen Boyd, Jimmy Durante, and Martha Raye. Columbia Masterworks Records released the recording on November 12, 1962 under catalog numbers OL-5860 (monaural LP) and OS-2260 (stereophonic). "Over and Over Again" was released as a single on CBS with "This Can't Be Love" as the B-side. Track listing #"Over and Over Again" (Rodgers, Hart)—Doris Day #"The Circus is on Parade" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart)—Doris Day, Jimmy Durante & Martha Raye #"Why Can't I?" (Rodgers, Hart)—Doris Day & Martha Raye #" This Can't Be Love" (Rodgers, Hart)—Doris Day #" The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" (Rodgers, Hart)—Stephen Boyd (dubbed by James Joyce) #" My Romance" (Rodgers, Hart)—Doris Day #"The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" - Reprise—Jimmy Durante #" Little Girl Blue" (Rodgers, Hart)—Doris Day #"Sawdust, Spangles and Dreams" (Roger Ede ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Kind Of Blues (Sam Cooke Album)
''My Kind of Blues'' is the seventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Sam Cooke. Record producer by Hugo & Luigi, the album was released in October 1961 in the United States by RCA Victor. The album was remastered in 2011 as a part of ''The RCA Albums Collection''. Track listing All songs arranged and conducted by Sammy Lowe. Side one # "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" ( Bob Russell, Duke Ellington) – 3:10 # " Little Girl Blue" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 2:55 # "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" (Jimmy Cox) – 3:20 # "Out in the Cold Again" (Ted Koehler, Rube Bloom) – 2:25 # " But Not for Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 2:29 # " Exactly Like You" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) – 2:05 Side two # " I'm Just a Lucky So and So" (Duke Ellington, Mack David) – 3:10 # " Since I Met You Baby" (Ivory Joe Hunter) – 3:00 # "Baby, Won't You Please Come Home" (Charles Warfield, Clarence Williams) � ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Cooke
Samuel Cook (January 22, 1931 – December 11, 1964), known professionally as Sam Cooke, was an American singer and songwriter. Considered to be a pioneer and one of the most influential soul artists of all time, Cooke is commonly referred to as the " King of Soul" for his distinctive vocals, notable contributions to the genre and significance in popular music. Cooke was born in Clarksdale, Mississippi and later relocated to Chicago with his family at a young age, where he began singing as a child and joined the Soul Stirrers as lead singer in the 1950s. Going solo in 1957, Cooke released a string of hit songs, including "You Send Me", " A Change Is Gonna Come", "Cupid", " Wonderful World", " Chain Gang", "Twistin' the Night Away", " Bring It On Home to Me", and "Good Times". During his eight-year career, Cooke released 29 singles that charted in the Top 40 of the ''Billboard'' Pop Singles chart, as well as 20 singles in the Top Ten of ''Billboard'' Black Singles chart. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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