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You Belong To Me (Remember)
''You Belong to Me'' is a 2004 compilation album of songs recorded by American singer Jo Stafford. It is one of many Stafford compilations to have been released in the early 2000s under the title ''You Belong to Me'', the name derived from the song of the same name which became one of her best known hits during the 1950s. This album was released on June 29, 2004 by Remember Records. Track listing # '' You Belong to Me'' # ''Shrimp Boats'' # '' Keep It a Secret'' # '' Jambalaya'' # '' If'' # '' Ay-Round the Corner'' # '' Tennessee Waltz'' # ''Hambone'' # '' Some Enchanted Evening'' # '' Ragtime Cowboy Joe'' # ''Whispering Hope'' # '' Hey, Good Lookin''' # '' No Other Love'' # ''Pretty Eyed Baby'' # ''Somebody'' # ''If You've Got the Money, I've Got the Time'' # ''In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening'' # ''Scarlet Ribbons (For Her Hair)'' # ''(Tonight We're) Setting the Woods on Fire'' # ''Once and for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jo Stafford
Jo Elizabeth Stafford (November 12, 1917July 16, 2008) was an American traditional pop music singer, whose career spanned five decades from the late 1930s to the early 1980s. Admired for the purity of her voice, she originally underwent classical training to become an opera singer before following a career in popular music, and by 1955 had achieved more worldwide record sales than any other female artist. Her 1952 song " You Belong to Me" topped the charts in the United States and United Kingdom, becoming the second single to top the UK Singles Chart, and the first by a female artist to do so. Born in remote oil-rich Coalinga, California, near Fresno in the San Joaquin Valley, Stafford made her first musical appearance at age 12. While still at high school, she joined her two older sisters to form a vocal trio named the Stafford Sisters, who found moderate success on radio and in film. In 1938, while the sisters were part of the cast of Twentieth Century Fox's production of ''A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Some Enchanted Evening (song)
"Some Enchanted Evening" is a show tune from the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical '' South Pacific''. It has been described as "the single biggest popular hit to come out of any Rodgers and Hammerstein show." Mast, Gerald''Can't Help Singin': The American Musical on Stage and Screen'' Overlook Press (1987), p. 206, excerpted in: Block, Geoffrey''The Richard Rodgers Reader'' p. 91, Oxford University Press (2006). Andrew Lloyd Webber describes it as the "greatest song ever written for a musical". The song is a three-verse solo for the leading male character, Emile, in which he describes first seeing a stranger, knowing that he will see her again, and dreaming of her laughter. He sings that when you find your "true love", you must "fly to her side, and make her your own, / Or all through your life you may dream all alone." In ''South Pacific'' The song appears in the first act of the musical. It is sung as a solo by the show's male lead, Emile de Becque, a middle-aged French ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
(Now And Then There's) A Fool Such As I
"(Now and Then There's) A Fool Such as I" is a popular song written by Bill Trader and was published in 1952. Recorded as a single by Hank Snow it peaked at number four on the US country charts early in 1953. Since the original Snow version, "Fool Such as I"—as the song is sometimes known—has been recorded and released as singles several times, by artists as diverse as Jo Stafford, Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, and Baillie & the Boys. Other versions Tommy Edwards The Tommy Edwards version reached number 13 on the '' Cash Box'' survey. Listed a co-best-seller with the Jo Stafford version, it lasted 11 weeks in their chart. Jo Stafford The recording by Jo Stafford was released by Columbia Records as catalog number 39930. It reached the '' Billboard'' Best Seller chart on February 28, 1953, at number twenty, its only week on the chart. Elvis Presley A recording by Elvis Presley was a platinum record. Initially released as B-side to " I Need Your Love Tonight", it reached num ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Early Autumn (song)
"Early Autumn" (1949) is a song composed by Ralph Burns and Woody Herman with lyrics by Johnny Mercer. The song grew out of the fourth segment of Burns' “Summer Sequence” concert piece and was originally recorded by the Herman band on December 27, 1947 with an outstanding eight-bar solo by saxophonist Stan Getz. Herman asked Johnny Mercer to write lyrics in 1952 and he re-recorded the song taking the vocal duties himself. Charted versions were by Woody Herman and by Jo Stafford, both in 1952. Notable recordings *Woody Herman - an instrumental version (1949). *Woody Herman - a single release in 1952 for the Mars label (catalog No. 300). *Ted Heath and His Music, vocal by Lita Roza (1952). *Jo Stafford - a single release in 1952. *Ella Fitzgerald – a single release for Decca Records (catalog No. 29810) in 1956 (recorded in 1952) *Ella Fitzgerald – new version for her album ''Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Johnny Mercer Songbook'' (1964) *Johnny Mathis – '' Wonderful, Wonderfu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
It Is No Secret (What God Can Do)
"It Is No Secret" is a Southern gospel song written and sung by Stuart Hamblen and released on the Columbia label. In January 1951, it reached No. 8 on the country disc jockey chart. It spent two weeks on the charts and was the No. 30 best selling country record of 1951. Bill Kenny version In 1951, The Ink Spots lead singer Bill Kenny recorded ''It Is No Secret'' for the Decca label. His recorded version which also featured " The Song Spinners" was the first to make the US pop charts, reaching number 18. Elvis Presley version Elvis Presley recorded his version in Radio Recorders Studio 1, Hollywood, on January 19, 1957. It was released on ''Elvis' Christmas Album'' (RCA Victor LOC 1035) in November 1957. The producer was Steve Sholes. When heard by Paul McCartney, in early 1958, he took the chorus, as done for the first time by The Jordanaires, and included them in his first recording with the, then, The Quarrymen's, "In Spite of All the Danger", a song he feels was inspire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
In The Cool, Cool, Cool Of The Evening
"In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening" is a popular song with music by Hoagy Carmichael and lyrics by Johnny Mercer. It was originally planned to feature it in a Paramount film written for Betty Hutton that never took off, which was to be called ''The Mack Sennett Girl'' (aka ''Keystone Girl''). The song was buried in Paramount's files until it was rediscovered and then used in the 1951 film ''Here Comes the Groom'' and won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. The recording by Bing Crosby and Jane Wyman with Matty Matlock's All Stars and the Four Hits and a Miss was recorded on June 20, 1951, and released by Decca Records as catalog number 27678. It first reached the '' Billboard'' Best Seller chart on September 21, 1951, and lasted six weeks on the chart, peaking at number 11. Other recordings * Dean Martin recorded the song on April 9, 1951 for Capitol Records. *Harry James released a recording on the album ''Hollywood's Best'' ( Columbia B-319 and CL-6224) (1952) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No Other Love (1950 Song)
"No Other Love" is a popular song. The words were written by Bob Russell. The music is credited to Paul Weston but is actually derived from Frédéric Chopin's '' Étude No. 3 in E,'' Op. 10, and is practically identical to that of the song "Tristesse," a 1939 hit for French singer-actor Tino Rossi. It should not be confused with " No Other Love", written and composed by Broadway team Rodgers and Hammerstein. A version recorded by Jo Stafford (Weston's wife) with Weston's orchestra backing her (released by Capitol Records as catalog number 1053), reached #8 on the ''Billboard A billboard (also called a hoarding in the UK and many other parts of the world) is a large outdoor advertising structure (a billing board), typically found in high-traffic areas such as alongside busy roads. Billboards present large advertise ...'' chart in 1950. The piano artistry of George Greeley is also credited on the recording. This version of the song was featured in the trailers and fina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hey Good Lookin' (song)
"Hey, Good Lookin'" is a 1951 song written and recorded by Hank Williams, and his version was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001. In 2003, CMT voted the Hank Williams version No. 19 on ''CMT's 100 Greatest Songs of Country Music''. Since its original 1951 recording it has been covered by a variety of artists. Background The Hank Williams song "borrowed heavily" from the 1942 song with the same title written by Cole Porter. The lyrics for the Williams version begin as a come on using double entendres related to food preparation ("How's about cookin' somethin' up with me?"). By the third and fourth verses, the singer is promising the object of his affection that they can become an exclusive couple ("How's about keepin' steady company?" and "I'm gonna throw my date book over the fence"). Williams was friendly with musician Jimmy Dickens. Having told Dickens that Dickens needed a hit record if he was going to become a star, Williams said he would write it, and penned "Hey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ragtime Cowboy Joe
Ragtime Cowboy Joe is a popular western swing song. The lyrics were written by Grant Clarke and the music was composed by Lewis F. Muir and Maurice Abrahams. It was copyrighted and published in 1912 by F.A. Mills. Artists The song has been recorded by a diverse group of artists, including Bob Roberts (1912), the Tune Wranglers (1936), Pinky Tomlin (1939), Eddy Howard (1947), Jo Stafford (1949), and the Chipmunks (1959). It was also performed by Betty Hutton in the 1945 musical film '' Incendiary Blonde''. Origin The song's lyricist and composers are Clarke, Muir and Abrahams. Clarke also wrote "Second Hand Rose". "Ragtime Cowboy Joe" was composed in Brooklyn after an appearance at the home of Abrahams by his nephew, Joe Abrahams, wearing a cowboy outfit. Maurice Abrahams was so captivated by the appearance of his nephew dressed up as a cowboy that he was inspired to write "Ragtime Cowboy Joe". It became a number-one hit song for singer Bob Roberts, also the second best-sel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tennessee Waltz
"Tennessee Waltz" is a popular country music song with lyrics by Redd Stewart and music by Pee Wee King written in 1946 and first released in January 1948. The song became a multimillion seller via a 1950 recording – as "The Tennessee Waltz" – by Patti Page. As of 1974, it was the biggest-selling song ever in Japan. All versions of the lyrics narrate a situation in which the persona has introduced his or her sweetheart to a friend who then waltzes away with her or him. The lyrics are altered for pronoun gender on the basis of the gender of the singer. The popularity of "Tennessee Waltz" also made it the fourth official song of the state of Tennessee in 1965. Early versions Pee Wee King, Redd Stewart, and their fellow Golden West Cowboys members were en route to Nashville "close to Christmas in 1946" when King and Stewart, who were riding in a truck carrying the group's equipment, heard Bill Monroe's new song " Kentucky Waltz" on the radio. Stewart had an idea to writ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Traditional Pop
Traditional pop (also known as classic pop and pre-rock and roll pop) is Western culture, Western pop music that generally pre-dates the advent of rock and roll in the mid-1950s. The most popular and enduring songs from this era of music are known as pop standards or American standards. The works of these songwriters and composers are usually considered part of the canon known as the "Great American Songbook". More generally, the term "Standard (music), standard" can be applied to any popular song that has become very widely known within mainstream culture. AllMusic defines traditional pop as "post-big band and pre-rock & roll pop music". Origins Classic pop includes the song output of the Broadway theatre, Broadway, Tin Pan Alley, and Hollywood show tune writers from approximately World War I to the 1950s, such as Irving Berlin, Frederick Loewe, Victor Herbert, Harry Warren, Harold Arlen, Jerome Kern, George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, Oscar Hammer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A-round The Corner (Beneath The Berry Tree)
"A-round the Corner (Beneath the Berry Tree)", also titled "Ay-round the Corner (Bee-hind The Bush)" or "A-round the Corner (Be-neath The Berry Tree)", is a traditional popular song adapted by Josef Marais, from the repertoire of Marais and Miranda. The title was first published in February 1952, but an earlier version was registered in August 1940. The most popular version was recorded by Jo Stafford on 10 December 1951 with accompaniment by her partner Paul Weston and the Norman Luboff Choir. It was issued on Columbia 39653 and entered the Billboard chart in March 1952, peaking at number nine, also making number 12 on the ''Cash Box'' chart. A recording by The Weavers and Gordon Jenkins on Decca charted in April and reached number 19. In the UK, the song entered the chart based on sheet music sales in April, and reached number one in May, holding the top spot for three weeks. Both the recordings by Stafford and The Weavers were available in the UK, alongside versions by Britis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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