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Memories Of You (album)
''Memories of You'' is a collection of traditional pop standards recorded by American singer Bette Midler between 1973 and 2006. The compilation was released by Rhino Entertainment on November 22, 2010 in the United Kingdom and was certified silver by British Phonographic Industry (BPI). Critical reception AllMusic editor Jon O'Brien called ''Memories of You'' "the ideal chance to showcase her uncanny ability to interpret material from any period, and in the process provides an intriguing musical history lesson for those not fully acquainted with the '30s/'40s American classics." Track listing #" For All We Know" #* From 1991 album ''For the Boys'' # "Come Rain or Come Shine" #* From 1991 album ''For the Boys'' #" I Remember You" #* From 1991 album ''For the Boys'' #"He Was Too Good to Me / Since You Stayed Here" #* From 1990 album ''Some People's Lives'' #"The Folks Who Live on the Hill" #* From 2005 album ''Bette Midler Sings the Peggy Lee Songbook'' #" What Are You Doing N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bette Midler
Bette Midler (;''Inside the Actors Studio'', 2004 born December 1, 1945) is an American singer, actress, comedian and author. Throughout her career, which spans over five decades, Midler has received List of awards and nominations received by Bette Midler, numerous accolades, including four Golden Globe Awards, three Grammy Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards and a Kennedy Center Honors, Kennedy Center Honor, in addition to nominations for two Academy Awards and a British Academy Film Award. Born in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, Hawaii, Midler began her professional career in several off-off-Broadway plays, prior to her engagements in ''Fiddler on the Roof'' and ''Salvation (musical), Salvation'' on Broadway theatre, Broadway in the late 1960s. She came to prominence in 1970 when she began singing in the Continental Baths, a local gay bathhouse where she managed to build up a core following. Since 1970, Midler has released 14 studio albums as a solo artist, sell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Some People's Lives
''Some People's Lives'' is the seventh studio album by American singer Bette Midler. It was released by Atlantic Records on September 4, 1990 in the United States. It contains one of her biggest hits, "From a Distance," which won songwriter Julie Gold a Grammy Award for Song of the Year in 1991. ''Some People's Lives'' became the biggest commercial success of Midler's musical career, peaking at number 6 in the US and number 5 in the UK. It was later awarded double platinum by the RIAA for sales of over two million copies in the US alone. Background Following a series of successful Hollywood movies made throughout the 1980s, among them '' Down and Out in Beverly Hills'', ''Ruthless People'', '' Outrageous Fortune'', ''Oliver and Company'' and ''Big Business'', Midler returned to the music scene with a proper studio album in 1990, her first since 1983's rock and new wave-influenced '' No Frills''. ''Some People's Lives'', however, had more in common with the preceding soundtrac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2010 Compilation Albums
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Is That All There Is?
"Is That All There Is?", a song written by American songwriting team Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller during the 1960s, became a hit for American singer Peggy Lee and an award winner from her album of the same title in November 1969. The song was originally performed by Georgia Brown in May 1967 for a television special. It was first recorded by disc jockey Dan Daniel in March 1968, but this was an unauthorized recording that, while played on Daniel's own radio show, went unissued at the songwriters' request. The first authorized recording was by Leslie Uggams in August 1968. Then came the hit Peggy Lee version in August 1969, followed by Guy Lombardo in 1969 and Tony Bennett on 22 December 1969. Peggy Lee's version reached number 11 on the U.S. pop singles chart — becoming her first Top 40 pop hit since "Fever" eleven years earlier—and doing even better on the adult contemporary scene, topping that ''Billboard'' chart. It also reached number six in Canada. It won Lee the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bette Midler Sings The Rosemary Clooney Songbook
''Bette Midler Sings the Rosemary Clooney Songbook'' is an album by the American singer Bette Midler. It was produced by Barry Manilow and marked the first time that Midler had worked with Manilow in more than twenty years. It was also Midler's first album for Columbia Records after nearly 30 years recording for Warner Music Group (being signed at times to both Atlantic Records and Warner Bros. Records). Columbia Records is owned by Sony Music Entertainment. After the death of singer Rosemary Clooney in the summer of 2002, Manilow claims to have had a dream that he would produce a tribute album and Midler would be the singer on the album. In the liner notes, Midler writes, "When Barry approached me ("I had this dream!") about recording an album of Rosemary's standards, I was excited, but apprehensive. I wanted to be respectful, but I felt we had to find something new to say as well, and in these (mostly) new arrangements...I believe we have." ''Bette Midler Sings the Rosema ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Memories Of You
"Memories of You" is a popular song about nostalgia with lyrics written by Andy Razaf and music composed by Eubie Blake and published in 1930. Song history The song was introduced by singer Minto Cato in the Broadway show '' Lew Leslie's Blackbirds of 1930''. A 1930 version recorded by Louis Armstrong featuring Lionel Hampton is the first known use of the vibraphone in popular music. The Armstrong recording in 1930 was reviewed by ''Times'' magazine's monthly record review alongside opera records and Western art music records of composers such as Bach, Beethoven, Schumann, and Ravel. A version of the song recorded by The Four Coins from the biopic '' The Benny Goodman Story'' reached #22 on the ''Billboard'' magazine chart in 1955. Doc Severinsen and the NBC Orchestra performed an instrumental version on the final episode of ''The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson'', on May 22, 1992. The song played over a five-minute montage showing brief silent clips of some of Carson's fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bette Midler (album)
''Bette Midler'' is the second studio album by American singer Bette Midler, released in 1973 on the Atlantic Records label. Produced by Arif Mardin and Barry Manilow, ''Bette Midler'' includes Midler's interpretations of Johnny Mercer and Hoagy Carmichael's "Skylark", Berthold Brecht and Kurt Weill's "Surabaya Johnny", Bob Dylan's "I Shall Be Released" and Glenn Miller's "In the Mood" as well as a Phil Spector medley. ''Bette Midler'' reached No. 6 on the US albums chart and was later awarded a Gold Disc by the RIAA. The album was released on CD for the first time in 1989. A remastered version of the album was released by Atlantic Records/Warner Music in 1995. Track listing Personnel * Bette Midler – lead vocals * Barry Manilow – piano, percussion, backing vocals, musical arranger, musical conductor * Ken Ascher – keyboards * Pat Rebillot – keyboards * Don Grolnick – keyboards * David Spinozza – guitars * Cornell Dupree – guitars * Frank Vento – guitars * H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drinking Again
"Drinking Again" is a 1962 torch song, with lyrics by Johnny Mercer and music by Doris Tauber. The song has been recorded by Frank Sinatra (''The World We Knew''), Dinah Washington ('' Drinking Again''), Aretha Franklin ('' Unforgettable: A Tribute to Dinah Washington''), Bette Midler (''Bette Midler'') anJames Anthony('' Blue Again'') among others. The song was recorded by The Jeff Beck Group The Jeff Beck Group was a British rock band formed in London in January 1967 by former Yardbirds guitarist Jeff Beck. Their innovative approach to heavy-sounding blues, rhythm and blues and rock was a major influence on popular music. First ... in 1968 (with altered lyrics and music) as " I've Been Drinking". References Songs with lyrics by Johnny Mercer Songs about alcohol Frank Sinatra songs 1962 songs {{Pop-standard-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greatest Hits
A greatest hits album or best-of album is a type of compilation album that collects popular and commercially successful songs by a particular artist or band. While greatest hits albums are typically supported by the artist, they can also be created by record companies without express approval from the original artist as a means to generate sales. They are typically regarded as a good starting point for new fans of an artist, but are sometimes criticized by longtime fans as not inclusive enough or necessary at all. It is also common for greatest hits albums to include new recordings, remixes or unreleased alternate takes of the hit songs, plus other new material as bonus tracks to increase appeal for longtime fans (who might otherwise already own the recordings included). At times, a greatest hits compilation marks the first album appearance of a successful single that was never attached to a previous studio album. History The first greatest hits album was Johnny Mathis's ''Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
''The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson'' was an American late-night talk show hosted by Johnny Carson on NBC, the third iteration of the ''Tonight Show'' franchise. The show debuted on October 1, 1962, and aired its final episode on May 22, 1992. Ed McMahon served as Carson's sidekick and the show's announcer. For its first decade, Johnny Carson's ''The Tonight Show'' was based at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York City, with some episodes recorded at NBC Studios in Burbank, California; on May 1, 1972, the show moved to Burbank as its main venue and remained there exclusively after May 1973 until Carson's retirement. The show's house band, the NBC Orchestra, was led by Skitch Henderson, until 1966 when Milton Delugg took over, who was succeeded by Doc Severinsen less than a year later. The series has been ranked as one of the greatest TV shows of all time in polls from both 2002 and 2013. Format Johnny Carson's ''Tonight Show'' established the modern format of the late ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One For My Baby (and One More For The Road)
"One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)" is a hit song written by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer for the movie musical '' The Sky's the Limit'' (1943) and first performed in the film by Fred Astaire. Background Harold Arlen described the song as "another typical Arlen tapeworm" – a "tapeworm" being the trade slang for any song which went over the conventional 32-bar length. He called it "a wandering song. yricistJohnny ercertook it and wrote it exactly the way it fell. Not only is it long – fifty-eight bars – but it also changes key. Johnny made it work." In the opinion of Arlen's biographer, Edward Jablonski, the song is "musically inevitable, rhythmically insistent, and in that mood of 'metropolitan melancholic beauty' that writer John O'Hara finds in all of Arlen's music." It was further popularized by Frank Sinatra. Sinatra recorded the song several times during his career: in 1947 with Columbia Records, in 1954 for the film soundtrack album '' Young at Heart'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cool Yule
''Cool Yule'' is a holiday album by Bette Midler released on October 10, 2006, through Columbia Records. Midler's first seasonal release, the album features many standard Christmas tunes as well as a reworking edition of her Grammy-winning hit "From a Distance". As of July 14, 2007 it had sold 271,000 copies in United States according to Nielsen Soundscan. In 2008, the album was nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album category. Track listing #"Merry Christmas" (Fred Spielman, Janice Torre) – 3:13 #" Cool Yule" (Steve Allen, Eric Kornfeld) – 2:28 #"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin) – 3:55 #"Winter Wonderland/ Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!"(Felix Bernard, Richard B. Smith/Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) – 2:46(Duet with Johnny Mathis) #"I'll Be Home for Christmas" ( Kim Gannon, Walter Kent) – 3:21 #" What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?" (Frank Loesser) – 3:58 #"I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm" (Irv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
