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Sammy Davis Jr. Salutes The Stars Of The London Palladium
''Sammy Davis Jr. Salutes the Stars of the London Palladium'' is an album by Sammy Davis Jr., recorded in 1964 as a tribute to artists who have performed at the London Palladium. Davis had just performed a five-week stint at the Palladium, and the album was recorded in London. Track listing # "Introduction by Sammy Davis Jr." – 0:56 #"My Kind of Girl" ( Leslie Bricusse) – 4:07 #" Sophisticated Lady" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Mitchell Parish) – 3:57 #" Ballin' the Jack" (James Henry Burris, Chris Smith) – 2:15 #" Over the Rainbow" (Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg) – 4:10 #"(Here I Am) Brokenhearted" ( Lew Brown, Ray Henderson) – 3:46 #" Jalousie" ( Vera Bloom, Jacob Gade) – 4:09 #" Smile" (Charlie Chaplin, John Turner, Geoffrey Parsons) – 2:40 #"This Was My Love" (Jim Harbert) – 4:24 #"(Up a) Lazy River" (Sidney Arodin, Hoagy Carmichael) – 2:55 #"Give Me the Moonlight" ( Lew Brown, Albert Von Tilzer) – 2:19 #"Tenement Symphony" ( Hal Borne, Sid Kul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sammy Davis Jr
Samuel George Davis Jr. (December 8, 1925 – May 16, 1990) was an American singer, dancer, actor, comedian, film producer and television director. At age three, Davis began his career in vaudeville with his father Sammy Davis Sr. and the Will Mastin Trio, which toured nationally, and his film career began in 1933. After military service, Davis returned to the trio and became an overnight sensation following a nightclub performance at Ciro's (in West Hollywood) after the 1951 Academy Awards. With the trio, he became a recording artist. In 1954, at the age of 29, he lost his left eye in a car accident. Several years later, he converted to Judaism, finding commonalities between the oppression experienced by African-American and Jewish communities.Sammy Davis Jr. Biography Biography.com. Retrieved June 6, 2013.< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yip Harburg
Edgar Yipsel Harburg (born Isidore Hochberg; April 8, 1896 – March 5, 1981) was an American popular song lyricist and librettist who worked with many well-known composers. He wrote the lyrics to the standards "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" (with Jay Gorney), " April in Paris", and "It's Only a Paper Moon", as well as all of the songs for the film '' The Wizard of Oz'', including " Over the Rainbow". He was known for the social commentary of his lyrics, as well as his leftist leanings. He championed racial and gender equality and union politics. He also was an ardent critic of religion. Early life and career Harburg, the youngest of four surviving children (out of ten), was born Isidore Hochberg on the Lower East Side of New York City on April 8, 1896.Yip Harburg: Biography from Answers.com Retrieved January 2, 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Give Me The Moonlight
"Give Me the Moonlight, Give Me the Girl" is a popular song written by Albert Von Tilzer with lyrics by Lew Brown. It was published in 1917, and first recorded in September of that year by Samuel Ash for the Columbia Graphophone Company, as "Give Me the Moonlight: Give Me the Girl (And Leave the Rest to Me)". In 1918, it was recorded by Elsie Janis. The song was initially popularised in Britain by music hall star Fred Barnes. It was revived in 1955 by singer Frankie Vaughan. Originally released as the B-side of his single " Tweedlee-Dee", it later became Vaughan's signature song, the title of later compilations of his recordings, and the basis of his nickname "Mr. Moonlight".Roy Hudd and Philip Hindin, ''Roy Hudd's Cavalcade of Variety Acts'', Robson Books, 1998, , p. 186 Other recordings of the song were made by the Terry Shand Orchestra (1940), Jerry Vale (1959), and Sammy Davis Jr. Samuel George Davis Jr. (December 8, 1925 – May 16, 1990) was an American sin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoagy Carmichael
Hoagland Howard Carmichael (November 22, 1899 – December 27, 1981) was an American musician, composer, songwriter, actor and lawyer. Carmichael was one of the most successful Tin Pan Alley songwriters of the 1930s, and was among the first singer-songwriters in the age of mass media to utilize new communication technologies such as television, electronic microphones, and sound recordings. Carmichael composed several hundred songs, including 50 that achieved hit record status. He is best known for composing the music for " Stardust", "Georgia on My Mind" (lyrics by Stuart Gorrell), "The Nearness of You", and " Heart and Soul" (in collaboration with lyricist Frank Loesser), four of the most-recorded American songs of all time. He also collaborated with lyricist Johnny Mercer on " Lazybones" and "Skylark". Carmichael's "Ole Buttermilk Sky" was an Academy Award nominee in 1946, from ''Canyon Passage'', in which he co-starred as a musician riding a mule. " In the Cool, Cool, C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidney Arodin
Sidney Arnandan or Arnondrin or Arnondin, better known as Sidney Arodin (March 29, 1901, Westwego, Louisiana - February 6, 1948, New Orleans) was an American jazz clarinetist and songwriter, best known for co-writing the pop standard " Lazy River" with Hoagy Carmichael. Arodin began playing clarinet at age 15 and played at local New Orleans gatherings and on riverboats. He made his way to New York City and played with Johnny Stein's New Orleans Jazz Band from 1922. He played with Jimmy Durante in the middle of the decade, then returned to Louisiana to play with Wingy Manone and Sharkey Bonano. In the 1930s he worked with Louis Prima and with a reconstituted version of the New Orleans Rhythm Kings which also featured Manone. After 1941, Arodin's poor health prevented him from playing frequently live, but before this time he recorded with Johnnie Miller, Albert Brunies, Monk Hazel, and the Jones-Collins Astoria Hot Eight. The oft-repeated claim that many of his performances are m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
(Up A) Lazy River
"(Up A) Lazy River" is a popular tune and song by Hoagy Carmichael and Sidney Arodin, published in 1930. The melody is by Arodin, arranged and with words modified by Carmichael. It is considered a jazz standard and pop standard, and has been recorded by many artists as listed below. Recorded versions *Acker Bilk *Adam Faith (1963) *Art Mooney and his orchestra (vocal: Cathy Ryan and The Clover Leafs) ( 1952) *Benny Goodman and his orchestra (vocal: Helen Forrest) (1941) *Betty Johnson ( 1950) *Bing Crosby & Louis Armstrong for their 1960 album ''Bing & Satchmo''. *Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys (1947) *Bobby Darin (1961) #14 hit on the Hot 100 *Brenda Lee ( 1962) * Casa Loma Orchestra (1938) *Chet Atkins *Cliff Richard on his album Bold As Brass *Chris Barber *Sidney Bechet * Mina *Crystal Gayle (1999) * Dick Todd *Eddy Howard *Gene Vincent (1956) *Georgie Fame and Annie Ross (1981) *Glenn Miller and his orchestra * Hank Thompson (1972) * Harry Connick Jr. (1988) *Harry J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Parsons (lyricist)
Geoffrey Parsons (born Geoffrey Claremont Parsons, 7 January 1910, died 22 December 1987, Eastbourne) was an English lyricist. He worked at the Peter Maurice Music Company run by James Phillips, who wrote under the pen name John Turner. The company specialized in adapting songs originally in foreign languages into the English language. Phillips would usually assign a song to Parsons and when the latter was finished, suggest some changes. The credits for the English lyrics would then be given as "John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons." Songs *"Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart" (with Turner) *" Eternally", with John Turner; music by Charles Chaplin (Theme from '' Limelight'') *"If You Love Me (Really Love Me)" ("Hymne à l'amour," original lyrics by Édith Piaf) *"The Little Shoemaker" based on the French song "Le petit cordonnier", with Turner and Nathan Korb. *"Mama" (with Turner) *" Oh! My Pa-Pa" based on the German song "O Mein Papa" by Paul Burkhard, under the pseudonym "John Sexton" ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Turner (lyricist)
James John Turner Phillips (born 7 July 1902) was an English lyricist who used the pen name John Turner. Biography He ran the Peter Maurice Music Company, whose most important lyricist was Geoffrey Parsons. The company specialized in adapting songs originally in foreign languages into the English language. He would usually assign a song to Parsons and when the latter was finished, suggest some changes. The credits for the English lyrics would then be given as "John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons". The words of "Smile" to the music of Charlie Chaplin, was written at the Peter Maurice Music Company office on Denmark Street, London in 1954. Lyrics credited to Turner and Parsons *"Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart" *"Mama" *" Oh! My Pa-Pa" based on the German song "O Mein Papa" by Paul Burkhard *"Smile" Lyrics credited to Turner, Parsons, and another collaborator *"The Little Shoemaker," based on the French song "Le petit cordonnier", with Nathan Korb Nathan or Natan may refer to: P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlie Chaplin
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr. (16 April 188925 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film. He became a worldwide icon through his screen persona, the Tramp, and is considered one of the film industry's most important figures. His career spanned more than 75 years, from childhood in the Victorian era until a year before his death in 1977, and encompassed both adulation and controversy. Chaplin's childhood in London was one of poverty and hardship. His father was absent and his mother struggled financially — he was sent to a workhouse twice before age nine. When he was 14, his mother was committed to a mental asylum. Chaplin began performing at an early age, touring music halls and later working as a stage actor and comedian. At 19, he was signed to the Fred Karno company, which took him to the United States. He was scouted for the film industry and began appearing in 1914 for Keystone Studios. He soon de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smile (Charlie Chaplin Song)
"Smile" is a song based on the theme song used in the soundtrack for Charlie Chaplin's 1936 film ''Modern Times''. Background Chaplin, who composed the song, was inspired by Puccini's ''Tosca''. John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons added the lyrics and title in 1954. In the lyrics, based on lines and themes from the film, the singer is telling the listener to cheer up and that there is always a bright tomorrow, just as long as they smile. "Smile" has become a popular standard since its original use in Chaplin's film and has been recorded by numerous artists. Cover versions Nat King Cole version Nat King Cole recorded the first version with lyrics. It charted in 1954, reaching number 10 on the ''Billboard'' charts and number 2 on the UK Singles Chart. This version was also used at the beginning of the 1975 movie ''Smile''. Sammy Davis Jr. recorded a cover version of the Cole original, as part of his tribute album ''The Nat King Cole Songbook'' in 1965. Charts Michael Jacks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob Gade
Jacob Thune Hansen Gade (29 November 1879 – 20 February 1963) was a Danish violinist and composer, mostly of orchestral popular music. He is remembered today for a single tune, ''Jalousie'' (also known as ''Jalousie "Tango Tzigane" '' and ''Tango Jalousie''). Early life Jacob Thune Hansen Gade was born in Vejle, Denmark on 29 November 1879 and died on 20 February 1963. He belonged to a family of musicians. His grandfather and his father used to go around the nearby villages to play at all kinds of parties. And it was natural that, from an early age, he also began to play and was another member of the musical group. He was nine when he made his debut as trumpeter. He might have been an attraction because only a year later he was invited to Copenhagen to become a soloist in the orchestra of the Tivoli Garden, a famous amusement park. It was only at age 12 when he began to study violin, firstly with his father and later with teachers of greater knowledge. Soon he evidenced his a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patience Strong
Winifred Emma May (4 June 1907 – 28 August 1990) was a poet from the United Kingdom, best known for her work under the pen name Patience Strong. Her poems were usually short, simple and imbued with sentimentality, the beauty of nature and inner strength. She was also a successful lyricist, composing English words for the tango Jalousie 'Tango Tzigane', "Jealousy" and "The Dream of Olwen", and an author of several books dealing with Christianity and practical psychology. Early life Born in Catford, London, she was the second daughter of Alfred and Nell May. Her older sister was called Connie and her younger brother was always referred to as 'Boy'. In her early life Winifred attended Sunday School and was a frequent user of the local library. She and Connie enjoyed reading and poetry, and at night they would spend many hours reciting poems to each other. The family spent many happy holidays at Brighton and, later in her life, Winifred moved to the country and was inspired by the n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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