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There! I've Said It Again (album)
''There! I've Said It Again'' is the seventh studio album by American singer Bobby Vinton, released in 1964, by Epic Records. It reached #8 on the Billboard Hot 200 list of popular albums. Included inside the album cover is an overview of Vinton's career since the success of his first hit, "Roses Are Red (My Love)". Two accompanying singles were released: the title track, and "My Heart Belongs to Only You" (a Billboard top multi recorded hit, written by Frank and Dorothy Daniels of Frandoro music). With the exception of "Warm and Tender" (co-written by Vinton), the entire album consists of songs that were made popular during the 1940s and early 1950s. Track listing Personnel * Bob Morgan – producer * Stan Applebaum Stanley Seymour Applebaum (March 1, 1922 – February 23, 2019) was an American composer, arranger, musician and conductor. He arranged the orchestration on many pop hit records, most notably in the early 1960s, including The Drifters' " Sa ... – s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobby Vinton
Stanley Robert "Bobby" Vinton (born April 16, 1935) is a American former singer and occasional actor, who also hosted his own self-titled TV show in the late 1970s. As a teen idol, he became known as "The Polish Prince", as his music paid tribute to his Polish heritage. One of his most popular songs is " Blue Velvet" (a cover of the 1951 song recorded by Tony Bennett) which reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1963, No. 1 in Canada (5 weeks), and number 2 in the UK in 1990. Early life Vinton was born in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, the only child of locally popular bandleader Stan Vinton and Dorothy Studzinski Vinton. He is of Polish and Lithuanian descent. The family surname was originally Vintula, and was changed by Vinton's father. Vinton's parents encouraged their son's interest in music by giving him his daily 25-cent allowance after he had practiced the clarinet. At 16, Vinton formed his first band, which played clubs around the Pittsburgh area. With the money he ear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
If (They Made Me A King)
"If (They Made Me a King)" is a popular song with music written by Tolchard Evans and the lyrics written by Robert Hargreaves and Stanley J. Damerell. The song was written in 1934, but the most popular versions were recorded in 1950-1951. Perry Como's version, recorded November 28, 1950, was a number-one hit on the ''Billboard'' charts for eight weeks. The Como version was released under the following labels and catalog numbers: *In the United States, by RCA Victor, as catalog number 47-3997 with the flip side "Zing Zing - Zoom Zoom" *In Argentina, by ''Discos RCA Victor Argentina,'' as catalog number 68-0583 with the flip side "Zing Zing - Zoom Zoom" *In the United Kingdom, by HMV, as catalog number B-10042 with the flip side "Zing Zing - Zoom Zoom" *In Germany, by HMV, as catalog number X-7293 with the flip side being a Tony Martin/Dinah Shore recording of "A Penny a Kiss" Other charted versions in 1951 *Jo Stafford also recorded the song (with "queen" for "king" in the lyric) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Can Dream, Can't I?
"I Can Dream, Can't I?," is a popular song written by Sammy Fain with lyrics by Irving Kahal that was published in 1937. It was included in a flop musical, '' Right This Way''. Tommy Dorsey released a hit recording of it the same year, but it was in the postwar years that the song gained its greatest success. Harry James recorded a version in December 1937 for Brunswick. The best-known version was recorded by the Andrews Sisters and Gordon Jenkins Chorus and Orchestra on July 15, 1949 (Jenkins was also arranger), and released by Decca Records as catalog number 24705. It first reached the ''Billboard'' charts on September 16, 1949, peaking at number one for five weeks on all three of the magazine's main pop charts at the time (Best Sellers in Stores, Most Played by Jockeys, and Most Played in Jukeboxes)., charting well into 1950 for 25 weeks. Jenkins would top himself a few months later when he recorded " Goodnight Irene with The Weavers, the top record of 1950, selling two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Evans
Raymond Bernard Evans (February 4, 1915 – February 15, 2007) was an American songwriter. He was a partner in a composing and song-writing duo with Jay Livingston, known for the songs they composed for films. Evans wrote the lyrics and Livingston wrote the music.Ray Evans papers, 1921-2012 Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania. Biography Evans was born to a ish family in , to Philip and Frances Lipsitz Evans. He was valedictorian of ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jay Livingston
Jay Livingston (born Jacob Harold Levison, March 28, 1915 – October 17, 2001) was an American composer best known as half of a song-writing duo with Ray Evans that specialized in songs composed for films. Livingston wrote music and Evans the lyrics. Early life and career Livingston was born in McDonald, Pennsylvania to Jewish parents. He had an older sister, Vera, and a younger brother, Alan W. Livingston, who became an executive with Capitol Records, and later with NBC television. Livingston studied piano with Harry Archer in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he organized a dance band and met Evans, a fellow student in the band. Their professional collaboration began in 1937. Livingston and Evans won the Academy Award for Best Original Song three times, in 1948 for the song "Buttons and Bows", written for the movie '' The Paleface''; in 1950 for the song "Mona Lisa", written for the movie '' Captain Carey, U.S.A.''; and in 1956 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
To Each His Own (Jay Livingston And Ray Evans Song)
"To Each His Own" is a popular song with music written by Jay Livingston and lyrics by Ray Evans. It is the title song of the movie of the same name and was published in 1946 by Paramount Music. They were assigned to write this song after film composer Victor Young turned it down. Original 1946 recordings In 1946, three different versions hit number one on the ''Billboard'' charts in the United States. Two other versions reached number three and number four. *On the ''Billboard'' "Most Played" chart for August 24, 1946, and again on September 7, September 14 and October 5, all five versions appeared simultaneously in the Top Ten. While many popular songs of the pre-rock period had multiple hit versions — for example, ''Dinah'' had nine Top-Ten covers over the years, and fifteen versions of "St. Louis Blues" charted between 1916 and 1953 — according to its co-composer Ray Evans, "To Each His Own" is the only song to take up half the slots on the Top Ten at the same time. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry Morey
Lawrence L. Morey (March 26, 1905 – May 8, 1971) was an American lyricist and screenwriter. He co-wrote some of the most successful songs in Disney films of the 1930s and 1940s, including "Heigh-Ho", "Some Day My Prince Will Come", and "Whistle While You Work", and was also responsible for adapting Felix Salten's book ''Bambi, A Life in the Woods'' into the 1942 Disney film ''Bambi''. Career He was born in Los Angeles, California. Larry was born with a skeletal limb abnormality. His left arm was not fully formed and caused his mother to reject him at birth, saying "he would never amount to anything." She abandoned him to the care of his father, George T. Morey, a traveling musical ventriloquist. When he was only six years old, his father left him in a boarding house in Los Angeles and went on the road performing throughout California. Larry attended UCLA, then went to work for Warner Brothers and Paramount, for whom he wrote the lyrics to "The World Owes Me a Living", compose ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eliot Daniel
Eliot Daniel (January 7, 1908 – December 6, 1997) was an American songwriter and lyricist who worked primarily in motion pictures. His most well-known composition is the theme from the television sitcom ''I Love Lucy''. Daniel was born in Boston on January 7, 1908. His first known song was "What Would People Say", released by Decca Records in 1938. He subsequently became a fixture among Hollywood songwriters, with songs recorded by artists such as Guy Lombardo, Dinah Shore, Gene Autry, Bing Crosby, Burl Ives, Sarah Vaughan, and Marilyn Monroe. He earned Oscar nominations for writing "Lavender Blue" for the 1949 film ''So Dear to My Heart'' and for the lyrics to "Never" for 1951's '' Golden Girl''. Collaborating with Johnny Lange in 1947, he wrote the classic Western song "Blue Shadows on the Trail". Surprisingly, Daniel's most famous composition was outside the mainstream of his movie work: the ''I Love Lucy'' theme song. He composed it on the condition that his name would not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lavender Blue
"Lavender's Blue" (also called "Lavender Blue") is an English folk song and nursery rhyme from the 17th century. Its Roud Folk Song Index number is 3483. It has been recorded in various forms and some pop versions have been hits in the U.S. and U.K. charts. Lyrics There are as many as thirty verses to the song, and many variations of each verse. A typical version, described by James Halliwell in 1849, is: :Lavender's blue, dilly dilly, lavender's green, :When I am king, dilly dilly, you shall be queen: :Who told you so, dilly dilly, who told you so? :'Twas mine own heart, dilly dilly, that told me so. :Call up your men, dilly dilly, set them to work, :Some with a rake, dilly dilly, some with a fork; :Some to make hay, dilly dilly, some to thresh corn, :Whilst you and I, dilly dilly, keep ourselves warm. :If you should die, dilly dilly, as it may hap, :You shall be buried, dilly dilly, under the tap; :Who told you so, dilly dilly, pray tell me why? :That you might drink, dilly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Vaughn
Richard Smith "Billy" Vaughn (April 12, 1919 – September 26, 1991) was an American singer, multi-instrumentalist, orchestra leader, and A&R man for Dot Records. Biography Vaughn was born in Glasgow, Kentucky, United States, where his father, Alvis Radford Vaughn, was a barber who loved music and inspired Billy to teach himself to play the mandolin at the age of three, while suffering from measles. He went on to learn a number of other instruments. In 1941, Vaughn joined the United States National Guard for what had been planned as a one-year assignment, but when World War II broke out, he was in for the duration as a valued musician and composer at Camp Shelby, Mississippi. Major General Daniel I. Sultan decided that Vaughn was too valuable to the base's Thirty-Eighth Division big band, and kept him at Camp Shelby for the duration of the war. He decided to make music a career when he was discharged from the army at the end of the war, and on the GI Bill, attended Western Kent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trying (song)
"Trying" is a song written by Billy Vaughn and performed by The Hilltoppers. It reached number 5 on the ''Cashbox'' chart and number 7 on the U.S. ''Billboard'' pop chart in 1952. The single ranked number 29 on ''Billboard's'' year-end top 30 singles of 1952. Other charting versions * Ella Fitzgerald, number 22 on the U.S. pop chart in 1952. *The Hilltoppers, number 30 on the UK Singles Chart in 1956. *Vaughn, instrumental version, number 77 on the U.S. pop chart in 1958. Other versions * Grady Martin and His Slew Foot Five, single in 1952. * Todd Rhodes Orchestra, single in 1952. * Timi Yuro, 1961 album ''Hurt!!!!!!!'' * LaVern Baker, 1963 album ''See See Rider''. * The Four Lads, 1963 album ''Oh, Happy Day''. * Bobby Vinton, 1964 album '' There! I've Said It Again''. *Bob Gutman featuring The Ink Spots and Whistling Joe, single in 1968. * Rosco Gordon, 1998 compilation album ''Bootin' (The Best of RPM Years)''. *Texas Tornados Texas Tornados is a Tejano supergroup, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Young
Albert Victor Young (August 8, 1899– November 10, 1956)"Victor Young, Composer, Dies of Heart Attack", ''Oakland Tribune'', November 12, 1956. was an American composer, arranger, violinist and conductor. Biography Young is commonly said to have been born in Chicago on August 8, 1900, but according to Census data and his birth certificate, his birth year is 1899. His grave marker shows his birth year as 1901. He was born into a very musical Jewish family, his father being a tenor with Joseph Sheehan's touring opera company. After his mother died, his father abandoned the family. The young Victor, who had begun playing violin at the age of six, and was sent to Poland when he was ten to stay with his grandfather and study at Warsaw Imperial Conservatory (his teacher was Polish composer Roman Statkowski), achieving the Diploma of Merit. He studied the piano with Isidor Philipp of the Paris Conservatory. While still a teenager he embarked on a career as a concert violinist with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
