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Mitch's Greatest Hits
''Mitch's Greatest Hits'' is an album by Mitch Miller, The Gang and Orchestra. It was released in 1961 on the Columbia label (catalog nos. CL-1544 and CS-8638). The album debuted on ''Billboard'' magazine's popular albums chart on March 6, 1961, peaked at No. 9, and remained on that chart for eight weeks. AllMusic later gave the album a rating of three-and-a-half stars. Reviewer Bruce Eder called the album "fun in its dorky '50s way" and "compelling in its exuberance." Track listing Side 1 # " March from The River Kwai & Colonel Bogey" :21# " The Yellow Rose Of Texas" :00# "Sing Along" :43# "The Bowery Grenadiers" :21# "Song for a Summer Night "Song for a Summer Night" is a song written by Robert Allen and performed by Mitch Miller and His Orchestra and Chorus. It reached #8 on the U.S. pop chart in 1956. The B-side of the single is the vocal version of the song. The song was intr ..." :08# "Silly Little Tune" :03 Side 2 # " The Children's Marching Song" :47# "Do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitch Miller
Mitchell William Miller (July 4, 1911 – July 31, 2010) was an American choral conductor, record producer, record-industry executive, and professional oboist. He was involved in almost all aspects of the industry, particularly as a conductor and artists and repertoire (A&R) man. Miller was one of the most influential people in American popular music during the 1950s and early 1960s, both as the head of A&R at Columbia Records and as a best-selling recording artist with an NBC television series, '' Sing Along with Mitch''. A graduate of the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester in the early 1930s, Miller began his musical career as a player of the oboe and English horn, making numerous highly regarded classical and popular recordings. Early life Mitchell William Miller was born to a Jewish family in Rochester, New York, on July 4, 1911. His mother was Hinda (Rosenblum) Miller, a former seamstress, and his father, Abram Calmen Miller, a Russian-Jewish immigrant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Easy Listening
Easy listening (including mood music) is a popular music genre and radio format that was most popular during the 1950s to 1970s. It is related to middle-of-the-road (MOR) music and encompasses instrumental recordings of standards, hit songs, non- rock vocals and instrumental covers of selected popular rock songs. It mostly concentrates on music that pre-dates the rock and roll era, characteristically on music from the 1940s and 1950s. It was differentiated from the mostly instrumental beautiful music format by its variety of styles, including a percentage of vocals, arrangements and tempos to fit various parts of the broadcast day. Easy listening music is often confused with lounge music, but while it was popular in some of the same venues it was meant to be listened to for enjoyment rather than as background sound. History The style has been synonymous with the tag "with strings". String instruments had been used in sweet bands in the 1930s and was the dominant sound tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Columbia Records
Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music, Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese Conglomerate (company), conglomerate Sony. It was founded on January 15, 1889, evolving from the Graphophone#Commercialization, American Graphophone Company, the successor to the Volta Laboratory and Bureau#Commercialization of phonograph patents, Volta Graphophone Company. Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in the recorded sound business, and the second major company to produce records. From 1961 to 1991, its recordings were released outside North America under the name CBS Records International, CBS Records to avoid confusion with EMI's Columbia Graphophone Company. Columbia is one of Sony Music's four flagship record labels, alongside former longtime rival RCA Records, as well as Arista Records and Epic Records. Artists who have recorded for Columbia include AC/DC, Adele, Aerosmith, Julie And ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Memories Sing Along With Mitch
''Memories Sing Along with Mitch'' is an album by Mitch Miller & The Gang. It was released in 1960 on the Columbia label (catalog nos. CL-1542 and CS-8342). The album debuted on ''Billboard'' magazine's popular albums chart on October 31, 1960, peaked at No. 5, and remained on that chart for 25 weeks. It was certified as a gold record by the RIAA The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is a trade organization that represents the music recording industry in the United States. Its members consist of record labels and distributors that the RIAA says "create, manufacture, and/o .... AllMusic later gave the album a rating of two stars. Track listing Side 1 # "My Blue Heaven" (G. Whiting, W. Donaldson) # Medley: "I'm Nobody's Baby" and "You Were Meant for Me" # Medley: "At Sundown" (W. Donaldson) and "Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue" # Medley: "Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis" (arranged by Jimmy Carroll) and "Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home" (arranged by Jimmy Carr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Happy Times! Sing Along With Mitch
''Happy Times! Sing Along with Mitch'' is an album by Mitch Miller and The Gang. It was released in 1960 on the Columbia label (catalog nos. CL-1568 and CS-8368). The album debuted on ''Billboard'' magazine's popular albums chart on March 13, 1961, peaked at No. 5, and remained on that chart for 23 weeks. It was certified as a gold record by the RIAA The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is a trade organization that represents the music recording industry in the United States. Its members consist of record labels and distributors that the RIAA says "create, manufacture, and/o .... Track listing Side 1 # Medley: "That's My Weakness Now" and "Last Night On The Back Porch" # Medley: "I Love My Baby, My Baby Loves Me" and "If You Knew Susie" # "Indiana" # Medley: "Where Do You Work-A, John" and "Yes! We Have No Bananas" # Medley: "Collegiate" and "Alabamy Bound" # "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine" Side 2 # "My Melancholy Baby" # "Side by Side" # "Anniversary S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billboard (magazine)
''Billboard'' (stylized as ''billboard'') is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation. The magazine provides music charts, news, video, opinion, reviews, events, and style related to the music industry. Its music charts include the Hot 100, the 200, and the Global 200, tracking the most popular albums and songs in different genres of music. It also hosts events, owns a publishing firm, and operates several TV shows. ''Billboard'' was founded in 1894 by William Donaldson and James Hennegan as a trade publication for bill posters. Donaldson later acquired Hennegan's interest in 1900 for $500. In the early years of the 20th century, it covered the entertainment industry, such as circuses, fairs, and burlesque shows, and also created a mail service for travelling entertainers. ''Billboard'' began focusing more on the music industry as the jukebox, phonograph, and radio became commonplace. Many topics it covered were spun-off int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billboard 200
The ''Billboard'' 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States. It is published weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine and is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists. Often, a recording act will be remembered by its "number ones", those of their albums that outperformed all others during at least one week. The chart grew from a weekly top 10 list in 1956 to become a top 200 list in May 1967, and acquired its current name in March 1992. Its previous names include the ''Billboard'' Top LPs (1961–1972), ''Billboard'' Top LPs & Tape (1972–1984), ''Billboard'' Top 200 Albums (1984–1985) and ''Billboard'' Top Pop Albums (1985–1992). The chart is based mostly on sales – both at retail and digital – of albums in the United States. The weekly sales period was originally Monday to Sunday when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991, but since July 2015, tracking week begins on Friday (to coincide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as All-Music Guide by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as CDs replaced LPs as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it, he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he researched using metadata to create a music guide. In 1990, in Big Rapids, Michigan, he founded ''All Music Guid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colonel Bogey March
The "Colonel Bogey March" is a British march that was composed in 1914 by Lieutenant F. J. Ricketts (1881–1945) (pen name Kenneth J. Alford), a British Army bandmaster who later became the director of music for the Royal Marines at Plymouth. The march is often whistled. Featuring in films since it first appeared in '' The Bridge on the River Kwai'' in 1957, ''Empire'' magazine included the tune in its list of 25 of Cinema's Catchiest Earworms. History Since service personnel were, at that time, not encouraged to have professional lives outside the armed forces, British Army bandmaster F. J. Ricketts published "Colonel Bogey" and his other compositions under the pseudonym Kenneth J. Alford in 1914. One supposition is that the tune was inspired by a British military officer who "preferred to whistle a descending minor third" rather than shout "Fore!" when playing golf. It is this descending interval that begins each line of the melody. The name "Colonel Bogey" began in the l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Yellow Rose Of Texas (song)
"The Yellow Rose of Texas" is a traditional American folk song dating back to at least the 1850s. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time. Several versions of the song have been recorded, including by Elvis Presley, Willie Nelson and Mitch Miller. Origin The earliest known version is found in ''Christy's Plantation Melodies. No. 2'', a songbook published under the authority of Edwin Pearce Christy in Philadelphia in 1853. Christy was the founder of the blackface minstrel show known as the Christy's Minstrels. Like most minstrel songs, the lyrics are written in a cross between a parody of a generic creole dialect historically attributed to African-Americans and standard American English. The song is written in the first person from the perspective of an African-American singer who refers to himself as a " darkey," longing to return to "a yellow girl" (that is, a light-skinned, or bi-racial woman born of African/Afri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Song For A Summer Night
"Song for a Summer Night" is a song written by Robert Allen and performed by Mitch Miller and His Orchestra and Chorus. It reached #8 on the U.S. pop chart in 1956. The B-side of the single is the vocal version of the song. The song was introduced on '' Westinghouse Studio One Summer Theatre''. Other versions *Johnny Brandon released a version of the song as the B-side to his 1956 single " Glendora". *Jack Nitzsche Bernard Alfred "Jack" Nitzsche ( '; April 22, 1937 – August 25, 2000) was an American musician, arranger, songwriter, composer, and record producer. He first came to prominence in the early 1960s as the right-hand-man of producer Phil Spec ... released a version of the song as a single in 1963, but it did not chart. It was produced by Jimmy Bowen. References Songs about music Songs about nights 1956 songs 1956 singles 1963 singles Songs with music by Robert Allen (composer) Song recordings produced by Jimmy Bowen Columbia Records singles [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
This Old Man
"This Old Man" is an English language children's song, counting exercise and nursery rhyme with a Roud Folk Song Index The Roud Folk Song Index is a database of around 250,000 references to nearly 25,000 songs collected from oral tradition in the English language from all over the world. It is compiled by Steve Roud (born 1949), a former librarian in the London ... number of 3550. Origins and history The origins of this song are obscure. The earliest extant record is a version noted in Anne Gilchrist's ''Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society'' (1937), learned from her Welsh nurse in the 1870s under the title "Jack Jintle" with the lyrics: My name is Jack Jintle, the eldest but one, And I can play nick-nack upon my own thumb. With my nick-nack and click-clack and sing a fine song, And all the fine ladies come dancing along. My name is Jack Jintle, the eldest but two, And I can play nick-nack upon my own shoe. With my nick-nack and click-clack and sing a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
