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Remind Me (Dorothy Fields And Jerome Kern Song)
"Remind Me" is a 1940 song composed by Jerome Kern, with lyrics written by Dorothy Fields. It was written in 1936 for the unproduced Universal film "Riviera", which was based on the Earl Derr Biggers novel "Love Insurance." Years later the novel was re-adapted for the film ''One Night in the Tropics'' (1940), and the same Kern and Fields score was used. The film was widely regarded as a flop, although it marked the movie debut of Abbott and Costello. The song was virtually thrown away in an early scene as it was introduced by Peggy Moran (who was dubbed by an unknown singer). Only one commercial recording in 1940 can be traced and that was the one by Leo Reisman and his Orchestra (Victor 27237). It was not a hit. The song was revived in the late 1940s by Mabel Mercer who used it in her nightclub act and it has subsequently been included by a number of prominent singers in their albums. The song was included in the 1986 Broadway musical revue "Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood". It was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerome Kern
Jerome David Kern (January 27, 1885 – November 11, 1945) was an American composer of musical theatre and popular music. One of the most important American theatre composers of the early 20th century, he wrote more than 700 songs, used in over 100 stage works, including such classics as " Ol' Man River", "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man", " A Fine Romance", "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", "The Song Is You", "All the Things You Are", "The Way You Look Tonight" and "Long Ago (and Far Away)". He collaborated with many of the leading librettists and lyricists of his era, including George Grossmith Jr., Guy Bolton, P. G. Wodehouse, Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein II, Dorothy Fields, Johnny Mercer, Ira Gershwin and Yip Harburg. A native New Yorker, Kern created dozens of Broadway musicals and Hollywood films in a career that lasted for more than four decades. His musical innovations, such as 4/4 dance rhythms and the employment of syncopation and jazz progressions, built on, rather than rejec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917June 15, 1996) was an American jazz singer, sometimes referred to as the "First Lady of Song", "Queen of Jazz", and "Lady Ella". She was noted for her purity of tone, impeccable diction, phrasing, timing, intonation, and a "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing. After a tumultuous adolescence, Fitzgerald found stability in musical success with the Chick Webb Orchestra, performing across the country but most often associated with the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem. Her rendition of the nursery rhyme "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" helped boost both her and Webb to national fame. After taking over the band when Webb died, Fitzgerald left it behind in 1942 to start her solo career. Her manager was Moe Gale, co-founder of the Savoy, until she turned the rest of her career over to Norman Granz, who founded Verve Records to produce new records by Fitzgerald. With Verve she recorded some of her more widely noted works, particularly he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Songs With Music By Jerome Kern
A song is a musical composition intended to be performed by the human voice. This is often done at melody, distinct and fixed pitches (melodies) using patterns of sound and silence. Songs contain various song form, 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 clas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norma Winstone
Norma Ann Winstone MBE (born 23 September 1941) is an English jazz singer and lyricist. With a career spanning more than 50 years, she is best known for her wordless improvisations. Musicians with whom she has worked include Michael Garrick, John Surman, Michael Gibbs, Mike Westbrook, as well as pianist John Taylor, who was her former husband. Biography Early years and education Born as Norma Ann Short in Bow, East London, England, she was 10 years old when her family moved to Dagenham, Essex.Odeen-Isbister, Sara (5 October 2012)"Jazz star Norma Winstone on growing up in Dagenham" '' Barking and Dagenham Post''. Encouraged by her primary school teacher, she applied for and won a scholarship to attend Saturday-school at Trinity Music College, and after passing her 11-plus exams, she went to Dagenham County High School (where Dudley Moore was then a senior pupil). Like Moore, her music teacher there was Peter Cork (1926–2012). At the age of 17 she discovered jazz, list ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Whiting Sings The Jerome Kern Songbook
''Margaret Whiting Sings the Jerome Kern Songbook'' is a 1960 studio album by Margaret Whiting, with an orchestra conducted and arranged by Russell Garcia, focusing on the songs of Jerome Kern. Originally released as a double-LP set by Verve Records in 1960, it was reissued on CD by Universal in Japan (1998, 2007) and the United States (2002). Track listing # "Why Was I Born?" ( Oscar Hammerstein II) – 3:22 # " Remind Me" (Dorothy Fields) – 2:55 # " The Song Is You" (Hammerstein) – 3:22 # "I Won't Dance" (Hammerstein, Otto Harbach, Fields, Jimmy McHugh) – 2:25 # "Don't Ever Leave Me" (Hammerstein) – 3:19 # "I'm Old Fashioned" ( Johnny Mercer) – 2:44 # "All in Fun" (Hammerstein) – 3:06 # "Why Do I Love You?" (Hammerstein) – 2:34 # "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" (Hammerstein) – 3:57 # " A Fine Romance" (Fields) – 3:39 # "Look for the Silver Lining" (Buddy DeSylva) – 2:56 # " All the Things You Are" (Hammerstein) – 3:49 # "Poor Pierrot" (Harbach) – 3:23 # ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Whiting
Margaret Eleanor Whiting (July 22, 1924 – January 10, 2011) was an American popular music and country music singer who gained popularity in the 1940s and 1950s.Mapes, Jillian.Margaret Whiting, Iconic Standards Singer, Dies at 86. ''Billboard'', January 12, 2011. Biography Youth Whiting was born in Detroit,Heckman, Don.Margaret Whiting Dies at 86; pop singer mentored by Johnny Mercer. ''Los Angeles Times'', January 13, 2011. Her family moved to Los Angeles in 1929, when she was five years old. Her father, Richard, was a composer of popular songs, including the classics "Hooray for Hollywood", "Ain't We Got Fun?", and "On the Good Ship Lollipop". Her sister, Barbara Whiting, was an actress (''Junior Miss'', ''Beware, My Lovely'') and singer. An aunt, Margaret Young, was a singer and popular recording artist in the 1920s. Whiting's singing ability was noticed at an early age and at seven she sang for singer-lyricist Johnny Mercer, with whom her father had collaborated on some ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joanie Sommers
Joanie Sommers (born Joan Drost, February 24, 1941) is an American singer and actress with a career concentrating on jazz, standards and popular material and show-business credits. Once billed as "The Voice of the Sixties", and associated with top-notch arrangers, songwriters and producers, Sommers' popular reputation became closely tied to her biggest, yet most uncharacteristic, hit song, "Johnny Get Angry". Career Born in Buffalo, New York, United States, Sommers began singing in church to deal with "a difficult childhood". In 1951, aged 10, she appeared on a Buffalo television program singing Hank Williams' " Your Cheating Heart", winning an amateur talent contest. Throughout her youth, she lived with her father and 2 brothers in North Tonawanda, New York and attended school there until age 14. In 1955, her family relocated to Venice, California, where she won honors as a vocalist with her high school band at Venice High, and did so again at Santa Monica City College. Her b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeri Southern
Jeri Southern (born Genevieve Lillian Hering, August 5, 1926 – August 4, 1991) was an American jazz singer and pianist. Early years Born Genevieve Lillian Hering in Royal, Nebraska, United States, Southern was the granddaughter of a German pig farmer who came to the United States in 1879. He built a flour mill in Royal, Nebraska. Her father ran the mill but lost it after the stock market crash of 1929. He then began operating an elevator of the Royal Farmers Union. Her secondary education came at Notre Dame Academy in Omaha, Nebraska, with vocal lessons added to her other classes. She began playing piano at age three and at age six began studying classical piano. She studied piano and voice at Duchesne Academy of the Sacred Heart (Nebraska), where she became interested in jazz. Career After beginning her career at the Blackstone Hotel in Omaha, she joined a United States Navy recruiting tour during World War II. In the late 1940s, she worked in clubs in Chicago where she onc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gifted & Black
''Gifted & Black'' is an unofficial studio album from jazz singer, pianist, and songwriter Nina Simone. It was originally released in 1970 by Canyon Records. However, it is thought to be a demo tape made by Simone in the spring of 1957 some months before the recording of '' Little Girl Blue'', her first official album, in December of the same year. For the release in 1970, the original recording had strings added. Overview ''Gifted & Black'' was probably released in July 1970, given the date of a contemporary review by ''Rolling Stone'' magazine, that of 6 August 1970. The reviewer points to what they see as problems with the release; the reviewer writes: It's not that this album, ... is misrepresentative of what Nina is currently up to, and does a disservice to an exceptional artist's career. It's not that the strings, which are dubbed over her piano trio are in poor, nay, bad taste. It's not that it sounds as though the recording mikes were placed down the hall from the studio, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nina Simone
Eunice Kathleen Waymon (February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003), known professionally as Nina Simone (), was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, and civil rights activist. Her music spanned styles including classical, folk, gospel, blues, jazz, R&B, and pop. The sixth of eight children born from a poor family in Tryon, North Carolina, Simone initially aspired to be a concert pianist. With the help of a few supporters in her hometown, she enrolled in the Juilliard School of Music in New York City. She then applied for a scholarship to study at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where, despite a well received audition, she was denied admission,Liz Garbus, 2015 documentary film, ''What Happened, Miss Simone?'' which she attributed to racism. In 2003, just days before her death, the Institute awarded her an honorary degree. To make a living, Simone started playing piano at a nightclub in Atlantic City. She changed her name to "Nina Simone" to disguise herself ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophisticated Lady (Julie London Album)
''Sophisticated Lady'' is an LP album by Julie London, released by Liberty Records under catalog number LRP-3203 as a monophonic recording and catalog number LST-7203 in stereo in 1962. Track listing # "Sophisticated Lady" - (Duke Ellington, Mitchell Parish, Irving Mills) - 2:37 # "Blame It On My Youth" - (Oscar Levant, Edward Heyman) - 2:35 # " Make It Another Old-Fashioned, Please" - (Cole Porter) - 2:32 # "You're Blasé" - (Ord Hamilton, Bruce Siever) - 3:13 # "Bewitched" - (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) - 2:55 # " Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most" - (Tommy Wolf, Fran Landesman) - 3:50 # " Remind Me" - (Jerome Kern, Dorothy Fields) - 3:14 # "When She Makes Music" - (Jack Segal, Marvin Fisher) - 2:43 # " When the World Was Young" - (M. Philippe-Gérard, Johnny Mercer) - 4:43 # "If I Should Lose You" - (Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin) - 2:50 # "Where Am I to Go?" - (Bobby Troup, Matt Dennis) - 2:55 # "Absent Minded Me" - (Jule Styne, Bob Merrill Henry Robert Merrill Levan (Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julie London
Julie London (née Peck; September 26, 1926 – October 18, 2000) was an American singer and actress whose career spanned more than 40 years. A torch singer noted for her sultry, languid contralto vocals, London recorded over thirty albums of pop and jazz standards between 1955 and 1969. Her recording of " Cry Me a River", a track she introduced on her debut album, was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001. In addition to her musical notice, London was nominated for a Golden Globe Award in 1974 for her portrayal of nurse Dixie McCall in the television series ''Emergency!''. Born in Santa Rosa, California, to vaudevillian parents, London was discovered while working as an elevator operator in downtown Los Angeles, and she began her career as an actress. London's 35-year acting career began in film in 1944, and included roles as the female lead in numerous westerns, co-starring with Rock Hudson in '' The Fat Man'' (1951), with Robert Taylor and John Cassavetes in '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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