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Engelbert Humperdinck (album)
''Engelbert Humperdinck'' is an album released in 1969 by Engelbert Humperdinck. It spent many weeks on the ''Billboard'' Top LPs chart in 1970. It contained the hits " I'm a Better Man" and "Winter World of Love". Chart performance After seven weeks on the ''Billboard'' albums chart, the album peaked at No. 5 on February 14, 1970. ''Billboard'' Track listing References External links *Discogs
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Engelbert Humperdinck (singer)
Arnold George Dorsey (born 2 May 1936), known professionally as Engelbert Humperdinck, is a British pop singer described by AllMusic as "one of the finest middle-of-the-road balladeers around". He achieved international prominence in 1967 with his recording of "Release Me (Eddie Miller song), Release Me". Humperdinck started as a performer in the late 1950s under the name "Gerry Dorsey", but he adopted the name of German composer Engelbert Humperdinck (composer), Engelbert Humperdinck as a stage name and found success after he partnered with manager Gordon Mills in 1965. His recordings of the ballads "Release Me" and "The Last Waltz (song), The Last Waltz" topped the UK Singles Chart in 1967, selling more than a million copies each. Humperdinck scored further major hits in rapid succession, including "There Goes My Everything (song), There Goes My Everything" (1967), "Am I That Easy to Forget" (1968), and "Quando m'innamoro, A Man Without Love" (1968). He attained a large followi ... [...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. Young was posthumously awarded the Academy Award for Best Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture for '' Around the World in 80 Days'' at the 29th Academy Awards in 1957. 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, 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), a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giancarlo Bigazzi
Giancarlo Bigazzi (5 September 1940 – 19 January 2012) was an Italian music producer and composer. He was a former member of comedy music group Squallor. Life and career Born in Florence, he was one of the best known Italian songwriters and lyricists of the 1970s and 1980s. He wrote some of the most successful Italian pop records, many of which became international hits, such as “Gloria”, “Self Control”, “No Me Ames”, “Tu”, “Take the Heat off Me”, and “Ti amo”. He was also a film score composer; among his soundtracks are ‘’Forever Mary’’, ‘’ Boys on the Outside’’ and the Academy Award-winning ‘’Mediterraneo’’. He began his career at a very young age, writing major hits for Riccardo Del Turco (“Luglio”), Caterina Caselli (“Il carnevale”), Mario Tessuto (“Lisa dagli occhi blu”), and Renato dei Profeti (“Lady Barbara”). Throughout the 1970s, Bigazzi established himself as a prolific lyricist and composer, of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Mills
Gordon William Mills (15 May 1935 – 29 July 1986) was a successful London-based music industry manager and songwriter. He was born in Madras, British India and grew up in Trealaw in the Rhondda Valley, South Wales. During the 1960s and 1970s, he managed the careers of three highly successful musical artists - Tom Jones, Engelbert Humperdinck and Gilbert O'Sullivan. Mills was also a songwriter, penning hits for Cliff Richard, Johnny Kidd & the Pirates, Freddie and the Dreamers, The Applejacks, Paul Jones, Peter and Gordon and Tom Jones, most notably co-writing Jones's signature song "It's Not Unusual" with Les Reed. Biography Mills's parents met and married in British India when his father was serving in the British Army. They returned to Britain shortly after Gordon's birth. An only child, Mills was taught to play the harmonica by his mother, Lorna. At age 15, Mills joined a group playing in pubs and clubs in the South Wales Valleys. At age 17, he was called up for Nati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bert Kaempfert
Bert Kaempfert (born ; 16 October 1923 – 21 June 1980) was a German orchestra leader, multi-instrumentalist, music producer, arranger, and composer. He made easy listening and jazz-oriented records and wrote the music for a number of well-known songs, including " Strangers in the Night", " Danke Schoen", " Moon Over Naples" and " A Swingin' Safari".Derek Taylor. ''The Golden Age of Light Music'' (2024), pp. 80-83 Early life and career Kaempfert was born in Hamburg, Germany, where he received his lifelong nickname, Fips, and studied at the Hamburg School of Music. A multi-instrumentalist who played accordion, piano, clarinet, and other instruments, he was hired by Hans Busch to play with his orchestra, before serving as a bandsman in the German Navy during World War II. He later formed his own big band and toured with them, following that by working as an arranger and producer, making hit records with Freddy Quinn and Ivo Robić. Kaempfert met his future wife, Hannelore, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mogol (lyricist)
Giulio Rapetti (born 17 August 1936), best known as Mogol (), is an Italian music lyricist. He is best known for his collaborations with Lucio Battisti, Gianni Bella, Marcella Bella, Adriano Celentano and Mango (singer), Mango. Career Mogol was born in Milan. His father, Mariano Rapetti, was an important director of the Casa Ricordi, Ricordi record label, and had been in his own time a successful lyricist of the 1950s. Young Giulio, who was likewise employed by Ricordi as a public relations expert, began his own career as a lyricist against his father's wishes. He began using the pseudonym Mogol because it was the one that got approved by the SIAE (the Italian Society of Authors and Publishers) after none of the 30 he had proposed earlier were accepted. Mogol recalls: "They asked me to give them a list of [possible] pseudonyms, I sent them thirty. They didn't approve a single one, so I invented a hundred and twenty, and among them was Mogol. It was chosen, I never understood why ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Rado
James Alexander Radomski (January 23, 1932 – June 21, 2022), known professionally as James Rado, was an American actor, playwright, director, and composer, best known as the co-author, along with Gerome Ragni, of the 1967 musical ''Hair''. He and Ragni won for Best Musical Theater Album at the 11th Annual Grammy Awards and were nominated for the 1969 Tony Award for Best Musical. Early life Rado was born to Alexander and Blanche (Bukowski) Radomski on January 23, 1932, in Los Angeles and was raised in Irondequoit, New York, and Washington, D.C.Hair the Musical , The Show , Creatives: James Rado hairthemusical.co.uk. Retrieved August 8, 2010 In college, Rado majored in Speech and Drama and began writing songs. He co-authored two musical shows at the University of Marylan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerome Ragni
Gerome Ragni (born Jerome Bernard Ragni; September 11, 1935 – July 10, 1991) was an American actor, singer, and songwriter, best known as one of the stars and co-writers of the 1967 musical ''Hair''. On June 18, 2009, he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Early life Born Jerome Bernard Ragni in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he was one of ten Italian-American siblings. He attended suburban Scott Township High School, where he appeared in various school productions. He attended Georgetown University and The Catholic University of America. At Catholic University, he discovered an interest in theater, and began studying acting with Philip Burton. Ragni made his acting debut in Washington, D.C. in 1954, playing Father Corr in '' Shadow and Substance''. He continued to act whenever he could find work. In 1963, he appeared in the New York production of ''War'' at the Village South Theatre, for which he won the Barter Theatre Award for Outstanding Actor. Career In 1954, Ragni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galt MacDermot
Arthur Terence Galt MacDermot (December 18, 1928 – December 17, 2018) was a Canadian-American composer, pianist and writer of musical theater. He won a Grammy Award for the song "African Waltz" in 1960. His most successful musicals were ''Hair (musical), Hair'' (1967; its cast album also won a Grammy) and ''Two Gentlemen of Verona (musical), Two Gentlemen of Verona'' (1971). MacDermot also composed film soundtracks, jazz and funk albums, and classical music. His music has been sampled in numerous hip-hop songs and albums. He is best known for his work on ''Hair'', which produced three List of number-one singles of 1969 (Canada), number-one singles in 1969: "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In", "Good Morning Starshine", and the title song, "Hair (Hair song), Hair". Biography MacDermot was born in Montreal, the son of Canadian diplomat Terence MacDermot and Elizabeth Savage. He was educated at Upper Canada College and Bishop's University (Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada). He received a bache ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Trenet
Louis Charles Augustin Georges Trenet (; 18 May 1913 – 19 February 2001) was a renowned French singer-songwriter who composed both the music and the lyrics for nearly 1,000 songs over a career that lasted more than 60 years. These songs include "''Boum!''" (1938), "''La Mer (song), La Mer''" (1946) and "''Nationale 7''" (1955). Trenet is also noted for his work with musicians Michel Emer and Léo Chauliac, with whom he recorded "''Y'a d'la joie''" (1938) for the first and "''La Romance de Paris''" (1941) and "''Douce France''" (1947) for the latter. He was awarded an Molière Award, Honorary Molière Award in 2000. Early life Trenet was born in Avenue Charles Trenet, Narbonne, Occitania (administrative region), Occitanie, France, the son of Françoise Louise Constance (Caussat) and Lucien Etienne Paul Trenet. When he was age 7, his parents divorced, and he was sent to boarding school in Béziers, but he returned home just a few months later, suffering from typhoid fever. It w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Webb
Jimmy Layne Webb (born August 15, 1946) is an American songwriter, composer, and singer. He achieved success at an early age, winning the Grammy Award for Song of the Year at the age of 21. During his career, he established himself as one of America's most successful and honored songwriter/composers. Webb has written numerous platinum-selling songs, including " Up, Up and Away", " By the Time I Get to Phoenix", " MacArthur Park", " Wichita Lineman", " Worst That Could Happen", " Galveston", and " All I Know". He had successful collaborations with Glen Campbell, Michael Feinstein, Linda Ronstadt, the 5th Dimension, the Supremes, Art Garfunkel, Richard Harris, and Carly Simon. Webb was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1986 and the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1990. He received the National Academy of Songwriters Lifetime Achievement Award in 1993, the Songwriters Hall of Fame Johnny Mercer Award in 2003, the ASCAP "Voice of Music" Award in 2006 and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Didn't We (Richard Harris Song)
"Didn't We" is a song recorded by Irish singer and actor Richard Harris for his debut studio album, ''A Tramp Shining'' (1968). It was written and produced by Jimmy Webb and originally served as the A-side and B-side, B-side to Harris' 1968 single "MacArthur Park (song), MacArthur Park". "Didn't We" was then distributed as the record's single by Dunhill Records, also in 1968. A traditional pop song, Harris sings about his life in the past. Commercially, it charted at lower positions of both the United States and Canada, and in the higher ranks of their Adult Contemporary (chart), Adult Contemporary component charts. Harris featured "Didn't We" on several of his greatest hits albums, including ''The Richard Harris Collection: His Greatest Performances'' from 1973. That same year, the song was reissued as a Promotional recording#Promo single, promotional single paired alongside his 1971 single "My Boy". American vocalist Barbra Streisand recorded a version of "Didn't We" in 1972 fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
