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The Lady's In Love With You
"The Lady's in Love with You" is a popular song which was written by Burton Lane (music) and by Frank Loesser (lyrics). The song was published in 1939 and introduced in the film " Some Like It Hot" (1939) when it was sung by Bob Hope and Shirley Ross. Ms Ross also sang it in the film with Gene Krupa and His Band. The song was sung by Tony Bennett at his final concerts, at Radio City Music Hall, in 2021. Hit recordings The song was a major hit in 1939 for the Glenn Miller orchestra, featuring a rare spoken interlude by Miller and vocal by Tex Beneke. Another to have a hit with the song in 1939 was Bob Crosby and His Orchestra. Other cover versions The song has become a standard, recorded by many artists, including: *Bob Hope and Shirley Ross, recorded for Decca (catalog No. 2568A) on June 16, 1939. *Gene Krupa and His Orchestra, recorded for Brunswick Records (catalog No. 8340) on February 26, 1939. * Benny Goodman and His Orchestra, for Victor Records (catalog No. 26211), reco ... [...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] |
Sammy Swings
''Sammy Swings'' is the fourth studio album by Sammy Davis Jr., released in 1957. Track listing # "Temptation" (Nacio Herb Brown, Arthur Freed) - 2:56 # "The Lady's in Love with You" ( Burton Lane, Frank Loesser) - 2:39 # "Comes Love" (Sam H. Stept) - 2:45 # "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" ( Duke Ellington, Bob Russell) - 3:27 # "That Old Black Magic" ( Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) - 2:37 # "Oo-Shoo-Be-Doo-Be" ( Dizzy Gillespie, Joe Carroll, Bill Graham) - 2:44 # "Begin the Beguine" ( Cole Porter) - 3:24 # " By Myself (Arthur Schwartz, Howard Dietz) - 2:57 # "The Gypsy in My Soul" (Clay Boland, Moe Jaffe) - 2:57 # "Will You Still Be Mine" (Tom Adair, Matt Dennis) - 2:57 # " Don'cha Go 'Way Mad" (Illinois Jacquet, Jimmy Mundy, Al Stillman) - 2:45 # " Perdido (Lost)" ( Juan Tizol, Ervin Drake, Hans Lengsfelder) - 2:31 Personnel *Sammy Davis Jr. - vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maxine Sullivan
Maxine Sullivan (May 13, 1911 – April 7, 1987), born Marietta Williams in Homestead, Pennsylvania, United States, was an American jazz vocalist and performer. As a vocalist, Sullivan was active for half a century, from the mid-1930s to just before her death in 1987. She is best known for her 1937 recording of a swing version of the Scottish folk song "Loch Lomond". Throughout her career, Sullivan also appeared as a performer on film as well as on stage. A precursor to better-known later vocalists such as Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan, Sullivan is considered one of the best jazz vocalists of the 1930s. Singer Peggy Lee named Sullivan as a key influence in several interviews. Career Sullivan began her music career singing in her uncle's band, The Red Hot Peppers, in her native Pennsylvania, in which she occasionally played the flugelhorn and the valve trombone, in addition to singing. In the mid 1930s, she was discovered by Gladys Mosier (then working in Ina Ray Hutton's big ... [...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] |
Tony Makes It Happen
''Tony Makes It Happen'' is an album by American singer Tony Bennett, originally released in 1967 on Columbia as CL 2653. Track listing #"On the Sunny Side of the Street" (Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields) - 2:21 #"A Beautiful Friendship" (Donald Kahn, Stanley Styne) - 2:28 #"Don't Get Around Much Anymore" (Duke Ellington, Bob Russell) - 2:02 #"What Makes It Happen" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn) - 2:54 #"The Lady's in Love with You" (Burton Lane, Frank Loesser) - 1:43 #" Can't Get Out of This Mood" (Jimmy McHugh, Frank Loesser) - 3:40 #"I Don't Know Why (I Just Do)" (Fred E. Ahlert, Roy Turk) - 3:24 #"I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills) - 2:00 #"Country Girl" (Robert Farnon) - 3:37 #"Old Devil Moon" (Burton Lane, E.Y. Harburg - 3:00 #"She's Funny That Way" (Neil Moret, Richard A. Whiting) - 3:11 Personnel *Tony Bennett – vocals *Marion Evans - conductor, arranger *Bobby Tricarico - tenor sax * Joe Newman, Joe Wilder - trumpet * Urbie Green - trombone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sassy Swings The Tivoli
''Sassy Swings the Tivoli'' is a 1963 live album by American jazz singer Sarah Vaughan and her trio, produced by Quincy Jones. The performances were recorded in the concert hall of the Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen, over four days in July 1963.Liner notes, Emarcy CD 832 788 2, released 1987 Reception The initial ''Billboard'' review from October 12, 1963 commented Vaughan was "really swinging on this album", and described it as a "must for Sassy's fans" and that there was "radiation on both sides of the footlights". Scott Yanow on Allmusic.com gave the album four and a half stars out of five and commented that the album was a "gem" that this "wonderful live session" was "one of her very best of the 1960s". Track listing ;Disc one # "I Feel Pretty" (Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim) - 2:34 # "Misty" ( Johnny Burke, Erroll Garner) - 5:56 # "What Is This Thing Called Love?" (Cole Porter) - 2:04 # "Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)" ( Jimmy Davis, Ram Ramirez, Jimmy Sherman) - 5 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Vaughan
Sarah Lois Vaughan (March 27, 1924 – April 3, 1990) was an American jazz singer. Nicknamed "Sassy" and "Jazz royalty, The Divine One", she won two Grammy Awards, including the Lifetime Achievement Award, and was nominated for a total of nine Grammy Awards. She was given an NEA Jazz Masters Award in 1989. Critic Scott Yanow wrote that she had "one of the most wondrous voices of the 20th century". Early life Vaughan was born in Newark, New Jersey, to Asbury "Jake" Vaughan, a carpenter by trade who played guitar and piano, and Ada Vaughan, a laundress who sang in the church choir, migrants from Virginia. The Vaughans lived in a house on Brunswick Street in Newark for Vaughan's entire childhood. Jake was deeply religious. The family was active in New Mount Zion Baptist Church at 186 Thomas Street. Vaughan began piano lessons at the age of seven, sang in the church choir, and played piano for rehearsals and services. She developed an early love for popular music on records and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comin' Home Baby!
''Comin' Home Baby!'' is a 1962 studio album by Mel Tormé. Track listing # " Comin' Home Baby!" (Bob Dorough, Ben Tucker) – 2:41 # "Dat Dere" (Oscar Brown, Jr., Bobby Timmons) – 2:58 # "The Lady's in Love with You" (Burton Lane, Frank Loesser) – 3:01 # " Hi-Fly" (Jon Hendricks, Randy Weston) – 3:13 # " Puttin' on the Ritz" (Irving Berlin) – 2:23 # "Walkin'" (Richard Carpenter) – 2:59 # "Moanin'" (Hendricks, Timmons) – 3:03 # " Sing You Sinners" (Sam Coslow, W. Franke Harling) – 2:27 # " Whisper Not" (Leonard Feather, Benny Golson) – 2:49 # " On Green Dolphin Street" ( Bronislaw Kaper, Ned Washington) – 2:56 # "Sidney's Soliloquy" (Jimmy Wisner) – 2:30 # "Right Now" (Herbie Mann, Carl Sigman) – 2:12 Personnel Recorded July 11 - September 13, 1962, in Los Angeles: * Mel Tormé – vocals, drums * Shorty Rogers – arranger and conductor * Claus Ogerman – arranger and conductor on "Comin' Home Baby!" and "Right Now" * Joe Burnett – trumpet * Ollie Mitchel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mel Tormé
Melvin Howard Tormé (September 13, 1925 – June 5, 1999), nicknamed "The Velvet Fog", was an American musician, singer, composer, arranger, drummer, actor, and author. He composed the music for "The Christmas Song" ("Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire") and co-wrote the lyrics with Bob Wells. Early life Melvin Howard Tormé was born in Chicago, Illinois, to William David Torme, a Jewish immigrant from Poland, and Betty Torme (née Sopkin), a New York City native. He graduated from Hyde Park High School. A child prodigy, he first performed professionally at age four with the Coon-Sanders Orchestra, singing "You're Driving Me Crazy" at Chicago's Blackhawk restaurant. He played drums in the drum-and-bugle corps at Shakespeare Elementary School. From 1933 to 1941, he acted in the radio programs ''The Romance of Helen Trent'' and ''Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy''. He wrote his first song at 13. Three years later his first published song, "Lament to Love", became a hit for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alma Cogan
Alma Angela Cohen Cogan (19 May 1932 – 26 October 1966) was an English singer of traditional pop in the 1950s and early 1960s. Dubbed the "Girl with the Giggle in Her Voice", she was the highest paid British female entertainer of her era. Childhood and early musical career Cogan was born on 19 May 1932 in Whitechapel, London. She was of Russian-Romanian Jewish descent. Her father's family, the Kogins, arrived in Britain from Russia, while her mother's family were refugees from Romania. Cogan's parents, Mark and Fay Cogan, had another daughter, the actress Sandra Caron, who went on to play "Mumsey" in ''The Crystal Maze'', and one son, Ivor Cogan. Mark's work as a haberdasher entailed frequent moves. One of Cogan's early homes was over his shop in Worthing, Sussex. Although Jewish, she attended St Joseph's Convent School in Reading. Her father was a singer, but it was Cogan's mother who had showbusiness aspirations for both her daughters (she had named Cogan after silent sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobby Cole (musician)
Bobby Cole (September 8, 1932 – December 19, 1996) was an American musician, known for his jazz singing and piano playing. He was also a jazz composer and arranger. He worked as a musical arranger for ''The Judy Garland Show'' hosted by Judy Garland, succeeding Mel Tormé. He conducted the orchestra for her 1967 "Palace" concerts and album and was the conductor and musical director on her last tour. Biography and Career Bobby Cole was born Robert Kane Sarnicole in New York City and grew up in Astoria, Queens. After service in the US Army, he returned to New York to begin his career. Bobby worked originally with a group called the Bobby Cole Band, composed of members of those musicians he knew from Astoria. The guitarist Peter Buchakian was an early member of his band. He also worked for years with jazz drummer Tony Lupo. Bobby usually worked as part of a trio; providing lead vocals and piano while working with a bassist and a drummer as well. The Bobby Cole Trio premiered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuttin' Capers (album)
''Cuttin' Capers'' is a Doris Day album issued by Columbia Records, as catalog # CL-1232 in monaural and CS-8078 in stereo, on March 9, 1959. Frank De Vol was the conductor and Hal Adams was the cover photographer. The album was combined with Day's 1961 album, '' Bright and Shiny,'' on a compact disc, issued on November 13, 2001 by Collectables Records. Track listing #"Cuttin' Capers" (Joe Lubin) - 2:42 #"Steppin' Out with My Baby" (Irving Berlin) - 2:01 #"Makin' Whoopee!" (Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn) - 3:38 #"The Lady's in Love with You" (Burton Lane, Frank Loesser) - 2:20 #" Why Don't We Do this More Often?" (Allie Wrubel, Charles Newman) - 3:00 #"Let's Take a Walk Around the Block" (Harold Arlen, Ira Gershwin, Edgar Yipsel Harburg) - 2:40 #" I'm Sitting on Top of the World" (Ray Henderson, Sam M. Lewis, Joe Young) - 2:20 #" Get Out and Get Under the Moon" (Larry Shay, Charles Tobias, William Jerome) - 2:51 #" Fit as a Fiddle (And Ready for Love)" (Arthur Freed, Al Goodhart, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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