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Moon Song (1932 Song)
"Moon Song (That Wasn't Meant for Me)" is a popular song and jazz standard with music by Arthur Johnston and lyrics by Sam Coslow that was published in 1932. The song was introduced by Kate Smith in the Paramount movie '' Hello, Everybody!'' Popular versions in 1933 were by Wayne King, Jack Denny (vocal by Paul Small) and by Art Kassel. The song has since been recorded by many other singers, including Doris Day on her album '' Day by Night'', Louis Armstrong and Oscar Peterson on their 1957 album ''Louis Armstrong Meets Oscar Peterson'', Sue Raney on her 1958 album ''When Your Lover Has Gone'', Mel Torme for his album '' Swingin' on the Moon'' (1960), Frank Sinatra on his album '' Moonlight Sinatra'' (1965), Jo Stafford on her album '' This Is Jo Stafford'' (1965) and Dan Barrett Dan Barrett is an American musician from Connecticut, New England. He is a member of the rock duo Have a Nice Life. Outside of this, he has released solo work primarily under the names Giles Corey ... [...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] |
Louis Armstrong Meets Oscar Peterson
''Louis Armstrong Meets Oscar Peterson'' is a 1959 studio album (recorded in 1957) by Louis Armstrong, accompanied by Oscar Peterson. The album was reissued in 1997 on CD with four bonus tracks, recorded at the sessions that produced ''Ella and Louis Again''. Verve Music Group. Accessed July 13, 2008. Track listing # " That Old Feeling" (, ) – 2:42 # " |
1932 Songs
Year 193 ( CXCIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sosius and Ericius (or, less frequently, year 946 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 193 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * January 1 – Year of the Five Emperors: The Roman Senate chooses Publius Helvius Pertinax, against his will, to succeed the late Commodus as Emperor. Pertinax is forced to reorganize the handling of finances, which were wrecked under Commodus, to reestablish discipline in the Roman army, and to suspend the food programs established by Trajan, provoking the ire of the Praetorian Guard. * March 28 – Pertinax is assassinated by members of the Praetorian Guard, who storm the imperial palace. The Empire is auctioned off ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebecca Kilgore
Rebecca Kilgore (born September 24, 1949) is an American jazz vocalist based in Portland, Oregon. She has been called "one of the best interpreters of the Great American Songbook." She has performed with jazz pianist and composer Dave Frishberg, trombonist Dan Barrett, tenor saxophonist Harry Allen, and many other musicians. She was inducted into the Oregon Music Hall of Fame in 2010. Discography * ''Looking at You'' with Dave Frishberg (PHD Music, 1994) * ''I Saw Stars'' with Dave Frishberg ( Arbors, 1994) * ''Cactus Setup'' with Jim Mason (PHD, 1995) * ''Not a Care in the World'' with Dave Frishberg (Arbors, 1996) * ''Stealin' Apples'' with the California Swing Cats (Jazzology, 1997) * ''It's Easy to Remember'' (Orb, 1998) * ''Concentratin' on Fats'' (Jazzology, 1999) * ''Moments Like This'' (Heavywood, 2001) * ''The Starlit Hour'' with Dave Frishberg (Arbors, 2001) * ''Rebecca Kilgore with the Keith Ingham Sextet'' (Jump, 2001) * ''A Remembrance of Maxine Sullivan: Harlem But ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Barrett (musician, Born 1955)
Dan Barrett (born December 14, 1955, in Pasadena, California) is an American arranger, cornetist, and trombonist. The earliest mention of Dan Barrett was in the ''Melody Maker'', 10 February 1973, which reported that he played "Ory's Creole Trombone" at the end of Kid Ory's Funeral on 28 January that year. He also played with Teddy Buckner, Andy Blakeney, and Alton Redd, all members of Ory's band, during the funeral proceedings. Barrett played valve trombone on the soundtrack to the film, ''The Cotton Club'', in 1984. In addition to leading a quintet with Howard Alden, Barrett has performed as a sideman with Benny Goodman and Buck Clayton. Barrett is the musical director for Arbors Records in Clearwater, Florida. Discography As leader * ''Strictly Instrumental'' (Concord Jazz, 1987) * ''Let's Be Buddies'' with George Masso (Arbors, 1994) * ''Reunion with Al'' (Arbors, 1995) * ''Two Sleepy People'' with John Sheridan (Arbors, 1996) * ''In Australia'' with Tom Baker (Arbors, 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
This Is Jo Stafford
''This Is Jo Stafford'' is an album by Jo Stafford accompanied by the Ernie Freeman Orchestra released by Dot Records (catalog No. DLP 3745) in September 1966. It was also issued as a stereo album (Dot DLP 25745). Track listing # "Cry, Cry Darling" ( J. D. Miller / Jimmy C. Newman) # " Falling In Love Again" # "The Time of Day" # "Love Lies" # "Think of Me" # "I'd Climb the Highest Mountain" ( Lew Brown / Sidney Clare) # "Ev'ry Night When the Sun Goes In" # "A Little Kiss Each Morning" (Harry M. Woods Henry MacGregor Woods (November 4, 1896 – January 14, 1970) was a ) # "Cup Full of Tears" ( Bob Merrill) # " [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jo Stafford
Jo Elizabeth Stafford (November 12, 1917July 16, 2008) was an American traditional pop music singer, whose career spanned five decades from the late 1930s to the early 1980s. Admired for the purity of her voice, she originally underwent classical training to become an opera singer before following a career in popular music, and by 1955 had achieved more worldwide record sales than any other female artist. Her 1952 song " You Belong to Me" topped the charts in the United States and United Kingdom, becoming the second single to top the UK Singles Chart, and the first by a female artist to do so. Born in remote oil-rich Coalinga, California, near Fresno in the San Joaquin Valley, Stafford made her first musical appearance at age 12. While still at high school, she joined her two older sisters to form a vocal trio named the Stafford Sisters, who found moderate success on radio and in film. In 1938, while the sisters were part of the cast of Twentieth Century Fox's production of ''A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moonlight Sinatra
''Moonlight Sinatra'' is a studio album by Frank Sinatra, released in March 1966. All of the tracks on the album are centered on the Moon, and were arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle and his orchestra. The title of the album is a reference to Ludwig van Beethoven's ''Moonlight Sonata''. Track listing #" Moonlight Becomes You" ( Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 2:46 #" Moon Song" (Sam Coslow, Arthur Johnston) – 3:03 #"Moonlight Serenade" ( Glenn Miller, Mitchell Parish) – 3:26 #" Reaching for the Moon" (Irving Berlin) – 3:05 #" I Wished on the Moon" (Dorothy Parker, Ralph Rainger) – 2:53 #"Oh, You Crazy Moon" (Burke, Van Heusen) – 3:12 #"The Moon Got in My Eyes" (Burke, Johnston) – 2:52 #"Moonlight Mood" (Harold Adamson, Peter DeRose) – 3:08 #"Moon Love" (Mack David, André Kostelanetz) (adapted from Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony) – 4:14 #"The Moon Was Yellow (And the Night Was Young)" ( Fred E. Ahlert, Edgar Leslie) – 3:04 Personnel * Frank Sinat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert Sinatra (; December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer and actor. Nicknamed the "Honorific nicknames in popular music, Chairman of the Board" and later called "Ol' Blue Eyes", Sinatra was one of the most popular entertainers of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. He is among the List of best-selling music artists, world's best-selling music artists with an estimated 150 million record sales. Born to Italian immigrants in Hoboken, New Jersey, Sinatra was greatly influenced by the intimate, easy-listening vocal style of Bing Crosby and began his musical career in the swing era with bandleaders Harry James and Tommy Dorsey. He found success as a solo artist after signing with Columbia Records in 1943, becoming the idol of the "Bobby soxer (music), bobby soxers". Sinatra released his debut album, ''The Voice of Frank Sinatra'', in 1946. When his film career stalled in the early 1950s, Sinatra turned to Las Vegas, where he became one of its best-known concert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mel Torme
Mel, Mels or MEL may refer to: Biology * Mouse erythroleukemia cell line (MEL) * National Herbarium of Victoria, a herbarium with the Index Herbariorum code MEL People * Mel (given name), the abbreviated version of several given names (including a list of people with the name) * Mel (surname) * Manuel Zelaya, former president of Honduras, nicknamed "Mel" Places * Mel, Veneto, an ex-comune in Italy * Mel Moraine, a moraine in Antarctica * Melbourne Airport (IATA airport code) * Mels, a municipality in Switzerland *Métropole Européenne de Lille (MEL), the intercommunality of Lille in France Technology and engineering * Maya Embedded Language, a scripting language used in the 3D graphics program Maya * Michigan eLibrary, an online service of the Library of Michigan * Ford MEL engine, a "Mercury-Edsel-Lincoln" engine series * Minimum equipment list, a categorized list of instruments and equipment on an aircraft * Miscellaneous electric load, the electricity use of appliances, el ... [...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] |
