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Maybe You'll Be There
"Maybe You'll Be There" is a popular music, popular song composed by Rube Bloom, with lyrics written by Sammy Gallop. The song was published in 1947 in music, 1947. The recording by Gordon Jenkins was released by Decca Records as catalog number 24403. It first reached the Billboard magazine Best Seller chart on June 11, 1948 and lasted 30 weeks on the chart, peaking at No. 3. This recording was Jenkins' first charting record. The vocal on that recording featured the piano player Charlie LaVere, Charles LaVere. In the UK, a contemporary cover version by Steve Conway (singer), Steve Conway was released on Columbia Graphophone Company, Columbia. It has become a pop standard, recorded by many artists since its composition, with a well-known recording being by The Four Aces. Notable later recordings *Kay Starr - ''In a Blue Mood'' (1954) *June Christy - ''The Misty Miss Christy'' (1956) *Frank Sinatra - ''Where Are You? (Frank Sinatra album), Where Are You?'' (1957) *Jane Morgan - for h ... [...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] |
Where Are You? (Frank Sinatra Album)
''Where Are You?'' is the thirteenth studio album by Frank Sinatra. This is the first album Sinatra recorded at Capitol without Nelson Riddle, as well as the first he recorded in stereo. In 1970 it was re-issued as a ten track album under the name ''The Night We Called It a Day''. Track listing #" Where Are You?" (Harold Adamson, Jimmy McHugh) – 3:30 #" The Night We Called It a Day" (Matt Dennis, Tom Adair) – 3:28 #"I Cover the Waterfront" (Johnny Green, Edward Heyman) – 2:58 #"Maybe You'll Be There" (Rube Bloom, Sammy Gallop) – 3:07 #" Laura" (David Raksin, Johnny Mercer) – 3:28 #" Lonely Town" (Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden, Adolph Green) – 4:12 #" Autumn Leaves" (Jacques Prévert, Mercer, Joseph Kosma) – 2:52 #"I'm a Fool to Want You" (Frank Sinatra, Jack Wolf, Joel Herron) – 4:51 #"I Think of You" ( Jack Elliott, Don Marcotte) – 3:04 #"Where Is the One?" (Alec Wilder, Edwin Finckel) – 3:13 #"There's No Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan (legally Robert Dylan, born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. Often regarded as one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture during a career spanning more than 60 years. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s, when songs such as "Blowin' in the Wind" (1963) and " The Times They Are a-Changin' (1964) became anthems for the civil rights and antiwar movements. His lyrics during this period incorporated a range of political, social, philosophical, and literary influences, defying pop music conventions and appealing to the burgeoning counterculture. Following his self-titled debut album in 1962, which comprised mainly traditional folk songs, Dylan made his breakthrough as a songwriter with the release of ''The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan'' the following year. The album features "Blowin' in the Wind" and the thematically complex " A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall". Many of his s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Andrews & The Hearts
Lee Andrews & the Hearts were an American doo-wop quintet from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, formed in 1953. They recorded on the Gotham, Rainbow, Mainline, Chess, United Artists, Grand and Gowen labels. Managed by Kae Williams, in 1957 and 1958 they had their three biggest hits, "Tear Drops", "Long Lonely Nights" and "Try the Impossible". Members The group consisted of Lee Andrews (lead), Roy Calhoun (first tenor), Thomas "Butch" Curry (second tenor), Ted Weems (baritone) and Wendell Calhoun (bass). Lee Andrews was born Arthur Lee Andrews Thompson on June 2, 1936, in Goldsboro, North Carolina. He was the father of Ahmir 'Questlove' Thompson and singer songwriter Donn T. He was the son of a singer, Beachy Thompson of the gospel music group The Dixie Hummingbirds. Andrews died on March 16, 2016 at the age of 79. Discography Albums * ''Dean Tyler Presents Lee Andrews and the Hearts - Live on Stage'' (1965) Lost Nite Records Singles * "Maybe You'll Be There" (195 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Live In Paris (Diana Krall Album)
''Live in Paris'' is the first live album and video album by Canadian singer Diana Krall, released on October 1, 2002, by Verve Records. The album was recorded during Krall's sold-out concerts at Paris's Olympia from November 29 to December 2, 2001, and includes songs from her albums ''Only Trust Your Heart'' (1995), '' All for You: A Dedication to the Nat King Cole Trio'' (1996), '' When I Look in Your Eyes'' (1999), and '' The Look of Love'' (2001). In the United States alone, the album has sold over 500,000 copies while the video has sold over 200,000 copies. The album won the 2003 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album and the 2003 Juno Award for Vocal Jazz Album of the Year. ''Billboard'' ranked the album at number eight on the magazine's Top Jazz Albums of the Decade. The CD album was released in the United Kingdom under the title ''A Night in Paris'' with a different cover art; the track listing omits the track "Maybe You'll Be There", while including the bonus track " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Look Of Love (Diana Krall Album)
''The Look of Love'' is the sixth studio album by Canadian singer Diana Krall, released on September 18, 2001, by Verve Records. It became Krall's first album to top the Canadian Albums Chart. In 2002, the album earned Al Schmitt the Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical, and received the Juno Award for Album of the Year in Canada. Arranger Claus Ogerman uses a similar orchestration for "S'Wonderful" as the one he wrote for the 1976 João Gilberto album '' Amoroso''. Critical reception Jim Santella of All About Jazz commented, "Lush strings and gliding flutes surround Diana Krall's tender vocals. Even her substantial piano interludes take on the appearance of drifting mists, through the mix of orchestral timbres. With an emphasis on her sultry vocal interpretations, the latest album reaches out to a broad, popular music audience. Nothing wrong with that. It's just that jazz fans usually want the improvised licks along with their melodies... By interpreting classic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diana Krall
Diana Jean Krall (born November 16, 1964) is a Canadian jazz pianist and singer known for her contralto vocals. She has sold more than 15 million albums worldwide, including over six million in the US. On December 11, 2009, '' Billboard'' magazine named her the second greatest jazz artist of the decade (2000–2009), establishing her as one of the best-selling artists of her time. Krall is the only jazz singer to have had eight albums debuting at the top of the ''Billboard'' Jazz Albums. To date, she has won three Grammy Awards and eight Juno Awards. She has also earned nine gold, three platinum, and seven multi-platinum albums. Early years Krall was born on November 16, 1964, in Nanaimo, British Columbia, the daughter of Adella A. (''née'' Wende), an elementary school teacher, and Stephen James "Jim" Krall, an accountant. Krall's only sibling, Michelle, is a former member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). Krall's father played piano at home, and her mother sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Bickert
Edward Isaac Bickert, (November 29, 1932 – February 28, 2019) was a Canadian guitarist who played mainstream jazz and swing music. Bickert worked professionally from the mid-1950s to 2000, mainly in the Toronto area. His international reputation grew steadily from the mid-1970s onward as he recorded albums both as a bandleader and as a backing musician for Paul Desmond, Rosemary Clooney, and other artists, with whom he toured in North America, Europe and Japan. Early life Bickert was born in the small Plautdietsch-speaking Mennonite village of Hochfeld, Manitoba to Harry Bickert, a Russian Mennonite immigrant from Molotschna colony and Helen Dyck of Plum Coulee, Manitoba. Bickert's parents were semi-professional musicians, his father playing fiddle and his mother playing piano. As a child, Bickert and his family moved to Vernon, British Columbia where his parents operated a chicken farm and had a small country dance band. When he was ten years old, Bickert started playing a g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timi Yuro
Rosemary Victoria Yuro (August 4, 1940 – March 30, 2004), known professionally as Timi Yuro, was an American singer-songwriter. Sometimes called "the little girl with the big voice," she is considered to be one of the first blue-eyed soul stylists of the rock era. According to one critic, "her deep, strident, almost masculine voice, staggered delivery and the occasional sob created a compelling musical presence."Bob Dickinson, ''Timi Yuro: Feisty white singer with a black soul voice'', The Guardian, 10 April 2004 Retrieved February 4, 2013 Yuro possessed a vocal range. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sue Raney
Raelene Claire Claussen, known professionally as Sue Raney (born June 18, 1940, in McPherson, Kansas) is an American jazz singer. Raney was signed by Capitol Records in 1957 at age 17. That same year, she recorded her debut album, ''When Your Lover Has Gone,'' produced by Nelson Riddle. Biography Raney was born to Richard LeRoy Claussen (1913–1967) and Mildred Augusta Vonderfecht ''(maiden;'' 1915–2005). She began singing at age four, and, encouraged by her mother, began singing professionally before becoming a teenager. When she was nearly 14, she joined Jack Carson's radio show in Los Angeles in 1954 and later worked on television as the singer in Ray Anthony's band. In 1960, Raney recorded, "Biology" – Bill Holman directing – which became Capitol's first single elevated to national promotion after introducing it in regional pre-testing that same year. Raney was featured with the Stan Kenton orchestra in 1962 on the hour-long television special ''Music of 1960s''. Ran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Gene (Gene Pitney Album)
''Blue Gene'' is American singer Gene Pitney's fifth album, released on the Musicor label in 1964. The album contained the Burt Bacharach and Hal David hit "Twenty Four Hours from Tulsa", a top 10 hit in the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia and a top 20 hit on the US Billboard Hot 100 (#17), as well as the minor hit "Yesterday's Hero" (#64). Track listing #"Twenty Four Hours from Tulsa" (Hal David, Burt Bacharach) – 3:00 #" Autumn Leaves" (Johnny Mercer, Joseph Kosma) – 2:38 #"Half the Laughter, Twice the Tears" (Carl Spencer, Al Cleveland) – 2:12 #" I'll Be Seeing You" (Irving Kahal, Sammy Fain) – 2:59 #"Lonely Night Dreams" (John Gluck, Jr., Neval Nader) – 2:42 #"Answer Me, My Love" (Carl Sigman, Gerhard Winkler) – 3:04 #"Blue Gene" (C. Taylor) – 2:09 #"Yesterday's Hero" (Al Cleveland, Carl Spencer) – 2:33 #"Maybe You'll Be There" (Rube Bloom, Sammy Gallop) – 2:42 #"Keep Tellin' Yourself" (Ellie Greenwich, Elmo Glick, Tony Powers) – 2:23 #"I Can't Ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gene Pitney
Gene Francis Alan Pitney (February 17, 1940 – April 5, 2006) was an American singer-songwriter and musician. Pitney charted 16 top-40 hits in the United States, four in the top ten. In the United Kingdom, he had 22 top-40 hit singles, including 11 in the top ten. Among his most famous hits are "Town Without Pity", "(The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance", "Twenty Four Hours from Tulsa", " I'm Gonna Be Strong", " It Hurts to Be in Love", and "Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart". He also wrote the early-1960s hits "Rubber Ball" recorded by Bobby Vee, "Hello Mary Lou" by Ricky Nelson, and " He's a Rebel" by the Crystals. In 2002, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Early years Pitney was born in Hartford, Connecticut, United States, the son of Anna A. (Orlowski) and Harold F. Pitney. The third of five children of a lathe operator, Pitney lived with his family in Rockville, Connecticut, during his formative years. He grew up in Rockville, now part of Vernon, Conne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
