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Open The Door (Betty Carter Song)
"Open the Door" is a popular song written by Betty Carter in 1964. Carter recorded it several times and made it a frequent part of her live performances, to the extent that it became her signature song. It has also been performed and recorded by other singers including Elsa Hedberg. Carter's biographer William R. Bauer wrote of "Open the Door": The song's persistent bossa nova rhythm and its haunting, sensual melody make it easy to hear the lyrics as a sexy come-on. But in such phrases as "I must get in your heart" and "No matter how you try to avoid me you can't get away so easily," hints of aggressiveness surface, suggesting that, although the narrator seems to be offering herself, she is in fact seeking her lover's surrender. Her sexuality becomes a means of obtaining control over the object of her desire and making him accept her as she is.Bauer, William R. ''Open the Door: The Life and Music of Betty Carter'' (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2002), 99. Carter' ... [...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] |
Song
A song is a musical composition intended to be performed by the human voice. This is often done at distinct and fixed pitches (melodies) using patterns of sound and silence. Songs contain various forms, such as those including the repetition and variation of sections. Written words created specifically for music, or for which music is specifically created, are called lyrics. If a pre-existing poem is set to composed music in classical music it is an art song. Songs that are sung on repeated pitches without distinct contours and patterns that rise and fall are called chants. Songs composed in a simple style that are learned informally "by ear" are often referred to as folk songs. Songs that are composed for professional singers who sell their recordings or live shows to the mass market are called popular songs. These songs, which have broad appeal, are often composed by professional songwriters, composers, and lyricists. Art songs are composed by trained classical compose ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betty Carter
Betty Carter (born Lillie Mae Jones; May 16, 1929 – September 26, 1998) was an American jazz singer known for her improvisational technique, scatting and other complex musical abilities that demonstrated her vocal talent and imaginative interpretation of lyrics and melodies. Vocalist Carmen McRae once remarked: "There's really only one jazz singer—only one: Betty Carter." Early life Carter was born in Flint, Michigan, and grew up in Detroit, where her father, James Jones, was the musical director of a Detroit church and her mother, Bessie, was a housewife. As a child, Carter was raised to be extremely independent and to not expect nurturing from her family. Even 30 years after leaving home, Carter was still very aware of and affected by the home life she was raised in, and was quoted saying: I have been far removed from my immediate family. There's been no real contact or phone calls home every week to find out how everybody is…As far as family is concerned, it's been a lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Signature Song
A signature (; from la, signare, "to sign") is a Handwriting, handwritten (and often Stylization, stylized) depiction of someone's name, nickname, or even a simple "X" or other mark that a person writes on documents as a proof of identity and intent. The writer of a signature is a signatory or signer. Similar to a handwritten signature, a signature work describes the work as readily identifying its creator. A signature may be confused with an autograph, which is chiefly an artistic signature. This can lead to confusion when people have both an autograph and signature and as such some people in the public eye keep their signatures private whilst fully publishing their autograph. Function and types The traditional function of a signature is to permanently affix to a document a person's uniquely personal, undeniable self-identification as physical evidence of that person's personal witness and certification of the content of all, or a specified part, of the document. For examp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bossa Nova
Bossa nova () is a style of samba developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is mainly characterized by a "different beat" that altered the harmonies with the introduction of unconventional chords and an innovative syncopation of traditional samba from a single rhythmic division. The "bossa nova beat" is characteristic of a samba style and not of an autonomous genre. According to the Brazilian journalist Ruy Castro, the bossa beat – which was created by the drummer Milton Banana – was "an extreme simplification of the beat of the samba school", as if all instruments had been removed and only the tamborim had been preserved. In line with this thesis, musicians such as Baden Powell (guitarist), Baden Powell, Roberto Menescal, and Ronaldo Bôscoli also claim that this beat is related to the tamborim of the samba school. One of the major innovations of bossa nova was the way to synthesize the rhythm of samba on the classical guitar. According to mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Beauty (soundtrack)
''American Beauty: Music from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack'' is a soundtrack album featuring various artists for the 1999 American drama film American Beauty, released on October 5, 1999 by DreamWorks Records. It features two tracks from the film's original score, composed by Thomas Newman, which was released in 2000 entitled '' American Beauty: Original Motion Picture Score''. Description The soundtrack album was produced by Chris Douridas, Sam Mendes, and Michael Ostin, and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media in the year 2000, the first year to offer this award. The soundtrack features two tracks from the film's score, composed by Thomas Newman, which won several awards. Elliott Smith's cover of the Beatles song " Because" was featured over the end credits for the film. The track "Dead Already" was later featured in the 2005 film ''Madagascar'' (which was also a film from Dream ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Beauty (1999 Film)
''American Beauty'' is a 1999 American satirical black comedy-drama film written by Alan Ball and directed by Sam Mendes in his directorial debut. Kevin Spacey stars as Lester Burnham, an advertising executive who has a midlife crisis when he becomes infatuated with his teenage daughter's best friend, played by Mena Suvari. Annette Bening stars as Lester's materialistic wife, Carolyn, and Thora Birch plays their insecure daughter, Jane. Wes Bentley, Chris Cooper, and Allison Janney co-star. Academics have described the film as satirizing how beauty and personal satisfaction are perceived by the American middle class; further analysis has focused on the film's explorations of romantic and paternal love, sexuality, materialism, self-liberation, and redemption. After being filmed in California from December 1998 to February 1999, ''American Beauty'' was released in North America on September 17, 1999, receiving widespread critical and popular acclaim. It was the second-best-review ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inside Betty Carter
''Inside Betty Carter'' is a 1964 Betty Carter album. It contains the first recording of Carter's signature song, " Open the Door". Originally released on the United Artists label with eight tracks, it was reissued by Capitol Records in 1993 with seven previously unreleased tracks from a 1965 recording session that included Kenny Burrell on guitar. Carter said in 1979 that ''Inside Betty Carter'' was one of her two favorite albums out of the eleven she had recorded to date.Bauer, William R. ''Open the Door: The Life and Music of Betty Carter'' (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2002), 98. Reception Scott Yanow, writing for AllMusic, gave ''Inside Betty Carter'' two and a half stars out of five. Yanow commented that "These recordings can be considered the final ones of Betty Carter's early period for, by the time she next appeared on record...the singer was much more adventurous in her improvisations...Highly recommended to Betty Carter fans and to those listeners ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Now It's My Turn (album)
''Now It's My Turn'' is a 1976 album by American jazz singer Betty Carter. Track listing #"Music Maestro, Please"/"Swing Brother Swing" – 4:29 #"I Was Telling Him About You" – 5:04 #"Wagon Wheels" – 7:17 #"New Blues (You Purr)" (Betty Carter) – 5:25 #"Most Gentlemen Don't Like Love" (Cole Porter) – 3:03 #"Making Dreams Come True" – 2:55 #" Open the Door" (Carter) – 4:36 #" Just Friends"/"Star Eyes" ( John Klenner, Sam M. Lewis)/(Gene de Paul, Don Raye) – 4:35 #"No More Words" – 7:04 Personnel Recorded March 9–10, June 21–22, 1976 at Sound Ideas Studio * Betty Carter – singing, vocals * John Hicks – piano * Walter Booker – bass * Eddie Moore – drums Production * Fred Bailin – producer * Joe Ferla – recording engineer An audio engineer (also known as a sound engineer or recording engineer) helps to produce a recording or a live performance, balancing and adjusting sound sources using equalization, dynamics processing and audio effe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Audience With Betty Carter
''The Audience with Betty Carter'' is a 1980 live double album by the American jazz singer Betty Carter. Signatures The album's first track, "Sounds (Movin' On)", is 25 minutes in length and features an epic scat solo. The use of the Academy Award-nominated classic "The Trolley Song", is a nod to the city of San Francisco, where the album was recorded. The second half of the album features several songs written by Carter. The penultimate track is a fresh take on Rodgers and Hammerstein's " My Favorite Things from '' The Sound of Music'', far different from the version by John Coltrane on his 1960 album of the same name. The set ends with the plaintive " Open the Door," Carter's signature tune. ''The Audience With Betty Carter'' was first released on Carter's own Bet-Car Records and later reissued on Verve. Reception '' The Penguin Guide to Jazz'' awarded the album four out of four stars, including a special crown for a "recording of merit", an honor bestowed on fewer than 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whatever Happened To Love?
''Whatever Happened to Love?'' is a 1982 live album by the American jazz singer Betty Carter. It is her only live album to include a string section on some tracks. "Abre la Puerta" is a wordless version of Carter's signature tune " Open the Door". Carter was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female at the 26th Annual Grammy Awards for her performance on this album. Track listing #" What a Little Moonlight Can Do" ( Harry M. Woods) – 10:10 #" Cocktails for Two" ( Sam Coslow, Arthur Johnston) – 6:20 #"Social Call" ( Gigi Gryce) - 2:23 #" Goodbye" ( Gordon Jenkins) – 7:29 #"With No Words" (Betty Carter) – 4:31 #"New Blues (you Purrrrrrr)" (Carter) – 6:20 #"I Cry Alone" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) – 4:30 #" Abre la Puerta" (Carter) – 7:05 #" Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" (Porter) – 5:48 Personnel * Betty Carter – vocals * Khalid Moss – piano * Curtis Lundy – double bass * Lewis Nash – drums A drum kit (also called ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Droppin' Things
''Droppin' Things'' is a 1990 live album by the American jazz singer Betty Carter. At the 32nd Grammy Awards, Carter's performance on this album was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Female. ''Droppin' Things'' peaked at 3 on the ''Billboard'' Top Jazz Albums chart. Reception In his review for AllMusic, Scott Yanow wrote that ''Droppin' Things'' "solidified her arter'scredentials as one of jazz's top singers", and described the music as "consistently stimulating". Track listing For the 1990 Verve CD Issue, 843991-2. #"30 Years" (Betty Carter) – 3:58 #"Stardust"/" Memories of You" ( Hoagy Carmichael, Mitchell Parish)/( Eubie Blake, Andy Razaf) – 12:37 #"What's the Use of Wond'rin'?" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) – 5:22 #" Open the Door '90" (Carter) – 5:20 #"Droppin' Things" (Carter) – 6:34 #"I Love Music" (Emile Boyd, Hal Smith) – 7:40 #"Why Him?" (Burton Lane, Alan Jay Lerner) – 7:50 #"Dull Day (In Chicago)" (Carter) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
