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Sugar 'n' Spice (Peggy Lee Album)
''Sugar 'n' Spice'' is a 1962 album by Peggy Lee. The orchestra was conducted by Benny Carter. Track listing #"Ain't That Love" (Ray Charles) – 1:59 #"The Best is Yet to Come" (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh) – 3:19 #"I Believe in You" from the Broadway Production ''How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying'' (Frank Loesser) – 2:45 #"Embrasse-Moi" (Peggy Lee, D'Aime Barelli) – 3:23 #"See See Rider" (Ma Rainey) – 2:34 #"Teach Me Tonight" (Sammy Cahn, Gene De Paul) – 2:22 #"When the Sun Comes Out" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 2:46 #"Tell All the World About You" (Ray Charles) – 2:30 #"I Don't Wanna Leave You Now" (Lee, Richard Hazard, Jeanne Taylor) – 2:21 #" The Sweetest Sounds" from the Broadway Production ''No Strongs'' (Richard Rodgers) – 1:50 #"I've Got the World on a String" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 2:20 #"Big Bad Bill (Is Sweet William Now)" (Milton Ager, Jack Yellen) – 2:37 ''bonus tracks added to re-issue:'' #" I'll Be Around" (Alec Wilder) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peggy Lee
Norma Deloris Egstrom (May 26, 1920 – January 21, 2002), known professionally as Peggy Lee, was an American jazz and popular music singer, songwriter, composer, and actress, over a career spanning seven decades. From her beginning as a vocalist on local radio to singing with Benny Goodman's big band, Lee created a sophisticated persona, writing music for films, acting, and recording conceptual record albums combining poetry and music. Called the "Queen of American pop music," Lee recorded over 1,100 masters and composed over 270 songs. Early life Lee was born Norma Deloris Egstrom in Jamestown, North Dakota, United States, on May 26, 1920, the seventh of the eight children of Selma Emele (née Anderson) Egstrom and Marvin Olaf Egstrom, a station agent for the Midland Continental Railroad. Her family were Lutherans. Her father was Swedish-American and her mother was Norwegian-American. After her mother died when Lee was four, her father married Minnie Schaumberg Wiese. Lee an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teach Me Tonight
Teach Me Tonight is a popular song that has become a jazz standard. The music was written by Gene De Paul, the lyrics by Sammy Cahn. The song was published in 1953. Early recordings Five versions charted in 1954 and 1955: *Janet Brace was apparently first, making the Billboard chart on October 23, 1954, and eventually reaching No. 23First recording from 1953*Jo Stafford — No. 15 in 1954 *Dinah Washington — a No. 4 R&B/Hip-Hop Songs hit in 1954, inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999 *Helen Grayco — No. 29 in 1954 *The DeCastro Sisters ("It's Love" / "Teach Me Tonight", Abbott Record Co. 3001) — No. 2 in 1955. In addition, a 1959, re-recording entitled, "Teach Me Tonight Cha Cha" went to No. 76 on the Hot 100. Other recordings *In 1982, Al Jarreau included his version on " Breakin' Away" In the US, this version went to No. 70 on the Hot 100 and No. 51 on the Hot Soul Singles chart. In addition, it went to No.19 on the Adult Contemporary chart. *A cover of the re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I'll Be Around (1942 Song)
"I'll Be Around" is a popular song written by Alec Wilder and published in 1942. It was first recorded by Cab Calloway and his Orchestra in 1942 and the first hit version was by The Mills Brothers in 1943 when it reached No. 17 in the Billboard pop charts. The song has become a well-known standard, recorded by many artists. Background Wilder said, in an interview with Jay Nordlinger, that the song came to him in a taxi cab in Baltimore. Just the title. "I spotted he titleas I was crumpling up the envelope some days later. Since I was near a piano, I wrote a tune, using the title as the first phrase of the melody. I remember it only took about 20 minutes. The lyric took much longer to write." Recorded versions *Mildred Bailey (1942) *Tony Bennett *Brook Benton (1960) *Eve Boswell (1951) *Ruby Braff * Les Brown and his Band of Renown (1959) * Cab Calloway and his orchestra (1942) * Diahann Carroll *Don Cherry (1956) * Rosemary Clooney (1951) *Randy Crawford (1995) *Vic Damon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Yellen
Jack Selig Yellen (Jacek Jeleń; July 6, 1892 – April 17, 1991) was an American lyricist and screenwriter. He is best remembered for writing the lyrics to the songs "Happy Days Are Here Again", which was used by Franklin Roosevelt as the theme song for his successful 1932 presidential campaign, and "Ain't She Sweet", a Tin Pan Alley standard. Early life and education Born to a Jewish family in Poland, Yellen emigrated with his family to the United States when he was five years old. The oldest of seven children, he was raised in Buffalo, New York and began writing songs in high school. He graduated with honors from the University of Michigan in 1913 where he was a member of the Pi Lambda Phi fraternity. After graduating he became a reporter for the ''Buffalo Courier'', continuing to write songs on the side. Career Yellen's first collaborator on a song was George L. Cobb, with whom he wrote a number of Dixie songs including " Alabama Jubilee", " Are You From Dixie?", and "All Abo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milton Ager
Milton Ager (October 6, 1893 – May 6, 1979) was an American composer, regarded as one of the top songwriters of the 1920s and 1930s. His most lasting compositions include "Ain't She Sweet?” and “Happy Days Are Here Again”. Biography Ager was born to Jewish couple Fannie Nathan and Simon Ager, who worked as a livestock dealer. in Chicago, Illinois, the sixth of nine children. He taught himself to play the piano, and attended McKinley High School, but left after only three years and embarked on a career in music. Jack Burton, "The Honor Roll of Popular Songwriters: Milton Ager", ''Billboard'', November 18, 1950, p.37 Retrieved 8 January 2021 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Bad Bill (Is Sweet William Now)
"Big Bad Bill (Is Sweet William Now)" is a song with music by Milton Ager and lyrics by Jack Yellen, written in 1924. The song became a vocal hit for Margaret Young accompanied by Rube Bloom, and an instrumental hit for the Don Clark Orchestra. The song has also been recorded by Ernest Hare (1924), Billy Murray (1924), Clementine Smith (1924), Emmett Miller (1929), Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra (1940), Peggy Lee (1962), Merle Haggard (1973), Ry Cooder (1978), Leon Redbone (1978), Van Halen (1982) and others and has been a popular song in barbershop quartet and chorus competitions. The lyrics describe a man "in the town of Louisville..." who was once a fearsome and rough character known for getting into fights, who, after getting married, becomes a peaceable person who devotes his time to domestic activities such as washing dishes and mopping the floor. He was "Stronger than Samson I declare, Til the brown skinned woman, Bobbed his hair." Recordings * Billy Murray (192 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I've Got The World On A String
"I've Got The World on a String" is a 1932 popular jazz song composed by Harold Arlen, with lyrics written by Ted Koehler. It was written for the twenty-first edition of the Cotton Club series which opened on October 23, 1932, the first of the Cotton Club Parades. Recordings *The song was recorded and popularized by Cab Calloway who had a #18 hit in 1932. *Bing Crosby recorded the song on January 26, 1933, with the Dorsey Brothers and their Orchestra. *The song was one of the first recorded by Frank Sinatra when he transferred to Capitol Records in 1953. His recording on April 30, 1953, with an orchestra conducted by Nelson Riddle reached #14 on ''Billboard'''s most played list. Other notable recordings *Bing Crosby – (1933) *Louis Armstrong – (1933) *Lee Wiley – "Manhattan Lights" circa 1940 * Ralph Young, with Jack Pleis and His Orchestra (1950) *Perry Como – So Smooth (1955) *Frank Sinatra – ''This is Sinatra!'' (1956) *Louis Prima – ''The Call of the Wildest'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Rodgers
Richard Charles Rodgers (June 28, 1902 – December 30, 1979) was an American Musical composition, composer who worked primarily in musical theater. With 43 Broadway musicals and over 900 songs to his credit, Rodgers was one of the most well-known American composers of the 20th century, and his compositions had a significant influence on popular music. Rodgers is known for his songwriting partnerships, first with lyricist Lorenz Hart and then with Oscar Hammerstein II. With Hart he wrote musicals throughout the 1920s and 1930s, including ''Pal Joey (musical), Pal Joey'', ''A Connecticut Yankee (musical), A Connecticut Yankee'', ''On Your Toes'' and ''Babes in Arms.'' With Hammerstein he wrote musicals through the 1940s and 1950s, such as ''Oklahoma!'', ''Flower Drum Song'', ''Carousel (musical), Carousel'', ''South Pacific (musical), South Pacific'', ''The King and I'', and ''The Sound of Music''. His collaborations with Hammerstein, in particular, are celebrated for brin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sweetest Sounds (song)
"The Sweetest Sounds" is a popular song, with words and music written by Richard Rodgers for the 1962 musical ''No Strings''. The song opens and closes the show for characters Barbara Woodruff and David Jordan, performed by Diahann Carroll and Richard Kiley in the original Broadway theatre production and subsequent cast recording. Composition The melodic theme appears to have been inspired by an orchestral figure in the final movement of Johannes Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2 (Brahms) (measures 64–80). In television and film *Judy Garland featured the song on The Judy Garland Show episode that aired November 10, 1963 in a medley performed with Count Basie and his orchestra. *Barbra Streisand featured the song in the 1973 broadcast '' Barbra Streisand...And Other Musical Instruments''. *The song is featured in the 1997 adaptation of Rodgers and Hammerstein's ''Cinderella'', performed as a duet by Brandy and Paolo Montalbán. Recordings In addition to the respective cast a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Hazard
Richard Hazard (March 2, 1921 – December 20, 2000) was an American television composer, orchestrator, conductor and songwriter. He was born in Trenton, New Jersey, and died in Los Angeles, California, of cancer. He was married to Jeanne Taylor from 1950 until his death, and had two children. Credits Hazard was sometimes credited as Dick Hazard or Richard P. Hazard. Composer *'' Between Two Brothers'' (1982) *'' All Night Long'' (1981) *'' With This Ring'' (1978) *''Nickelodeon'' (1976) *''Law and Order'' (1976) *'' The Underground Man'' (1974) *''Some Call It Loving'' (1973) *''Mannix'' (1967–1972) *'' Mission: Impossible'' (1969–1972) *''The Partners'' (1971) *''Company of Killers'' (1970) *''Calypso Joe'' (1957) *''Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla'' (1952) *''Radar Secret Service'' (1950) Awards and nominations Daytime Emmy awards: *Won, 1991, Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition for a Drama Series for: "The Guiding Light" (shared with Jam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ted Koehler
Ted L. Koehler (July 14, 1894 – January 17, 1973) was an American lyricist. He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972. Life and career Koehler was born in 1894 in Washington, D.C. He started out as a photo-engraver, but was attracted to the music business, where he started out as a theater pianist for silent films. He moved on to write for vaudeville and Broadway theatre, and he also produced nightclub shows. His most successful collaboration was with the composer Harold Arlen, with whom he wrote many famous songs from the 1920s through the 1940s. In 1929 the duo composed their first well-known song, " Get Happy", and went on to create "Let's Fall in Love", " Stormy Weather", " Sing My Heart" and other hit songs. Throughout the early and mid-1930s they wrote for the Cotton Club, a popular Harlem night club, for big band jazz legend Duke Ellington and other top performers, as well as for Broadway musicals and Hollywood films. Koehler also worked with ot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Arlen
Harold Arlen (born Hyman Arluck; February 15, 1905 – April 23, 1986) was an American composer of popular music, who composed over 500 songs, a number of which have become known worldwide. In addition to composing the songs for the 1939 film '' The Wizard of Oz'' (lyrics by Yip Harburg), including " Over the Rainbow", Arlen is a highly regarded contributor to the Great American Songbook. "Over the Rainbow" was voted the 20th century's No. 1 song by the RIAA and the NEA. Life and career Arlen was born in Buffalo, New York, the child of a Jewish cantor. His twin brother died the next day. He learned to play the piano as a youth, and formed a band as a young man. He achieved some local success as a pianist and singer before moving to New York City in his early twenties, where he worked as an accompanist in vaudeville and changed his name to Harold Arlen. Between 1926 and about 1934, Arlen appeared occasionally as a band vocalist on records by The Buffalodians, Red Nichols, Joe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
