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All Alone (Frank Sinatra Album)
''All Alone'' is the twenty-seventh studio album by American singer Frank Sinatra, released in October 1962. Originally, ''All Alone'' was going to be titled ''Come Waltz with Me''. Although the title and the accompanying specially written title song were dropped before the album's release, the album remained a stately collection of waltzes, arranged and conducted by Gordon Jenkins. The original title track is included as a bonus track on the 1992 compact disc release of the album. This was the first studio album from Sinatra not to make the U.S. Top Twenty since 1950. All of the tracks on the album are torch songs, hence the lonely name of the album. Five of the tracks were written by Irving Berlin. The cover is a trimmed portion of a painting that hung in Sinatra's Palm Springs home. Track listing Side 1: #" All Alone" (Irving Berlin) – 2:42 #" The Girl Next Door" (Hugh Martin, Ralph Blane) – 3:18 #"Are You Lonesome Tonight?" (Roy Turk, Lou Handman) – 3:31 #" Cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Album
An album is a collection of audio recordings (e.g., music) issued on a medium such as compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl (record), audio tape (like 8-track cartridge, 8-track or Cassette tape, cassette), or digital distribution, digital. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual 78 rpm records (78s) collected in a bound book resembling a photo album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP record, long-playing (LP) records played at rpm. The album was the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption from the mid-1960s to the early 21st century, a period known as the ''album era''. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The 8-track tape was the first tape format widely used alongside vinyl from 1965 until being phased out by 1983, being gradually supplanted by the cassette tape throughout the 1970s and early 1980s; the popul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Martin
Hugh Martin (August 11, 1914 – March 11, 2011) was an American musical theater and film composer, arranger, vocal coach, and playwright. He was best known for his score for the 1944 MGM musical '' Meet Me in St. Louis'', in which Judy Garland sang three Martin songs, " The Boy Next Door", " The Trolley Song", and " Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas". The last of these has become a Christmas season standard in the United States and around the English-speaking world. Martin became a close friend of Garland and was her accompanist at many of her concert performances in the 1950s, including her appearances at the Palace Theater. Early life Martin was born in Birmingham, Alabama, the son of Ellie Gordon (Robinson) and Hugh Martin, an architect. He attended Birmingham-Southern College, where he studied music. He was a member of the Beta Beta chapter of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. Career Martin wrote the music, and in some cases the lyrics, for five Broadway musica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Fisher (songwriter)
Mark Fisher (March 24, 1895January 2, 1948) was an American songwriter. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he died in Long Lake, Illinois. Career Many of his compositions were joint ventures with Joe Goodwin and Larry Shay (see Shay, Fisher, and Goodwin). Another collaborator was Joe Burke. Fisher's songs include "Remembering", "When You're Smiling "When You're Smiling" is a popular song written by Larry Shay, Mark Fisher and Joe Goodwin. First published in 1928, popular recordings were made by Seger Ellis (1928), Louis Armstrong (1929), and Ted Wallace & His Campus Boys (1930). The lyri ...", and " Oh, How I Miss You Tonight". As a performer he was bandleader for a number of Chicago area hotels, most notably the Marine Room at the Edgewater Beach Hotel. Personal life Married at age 19 to Lenora, he was father to five children: Mildred, William, Ann Ella, Mark Jr, and Lenora. References External links Biography of Mark Fisher on IMDb 1895 births 1948 deaths Song ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Burke (composer)
Joseph Aloysius Burke (March 18, 1884 – June 9, 1950) was an American composer and pianist. His successful songs, written with various lyricists, included "Down Honolulu Way" (1916), "Oh How I Miss You Tonight" (1924), "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" (1929), "Moon Over Miami (song), Moon Over Miami" (1935), "Getting Some Fun Out of Life" (1937) and "Rambling Rose (1948 song), Rambling Rose" (1948) and "Painting The Clouds With Sunshine" (1929) Life and career Joe Burke was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the Philadelphia Conservatory of Music and started as a pianist accompanying silent movies and an arranger in a music publishing firm. He also worked as a film actor, appearing in the 1915 silent movie ''The Senator''. "Joe Burke", ''Songwriters Hall of Fame'' . Retrieved April 10, 2017 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benny Davis
Benny Davis (August 21, 1895 - December 20, 1979) was a vaudeville performer and writer of popular songs. Biography Davis started performing in vaudeville in his teens. He began writing songs when working as an accompanist for Blossom Seeley. In 1917, he wrote "So Long Sammy" with Jack Yellen and "Good-Bye Broadway. Hello France" with C. Francis Reisner. His first success was 1920's "Margie Margie is a feminine given name, usually a short form (hypocorism) of the related names Margaret, Marjorie, or Margarita, all of which mean "pearl". Margie may refer to: People * Margie Abbott (born 1958), Australian businesswoman * Margie Ac ...", with music by Con Conrad and J. Russel Robinson. His most popular song was " Baby Face", written in 1926 with Harry Akst. For Broadway, Davis wrote the score for the 1927 edition of '' Artists and Models'' and for the 1929 show '' Sons o' Guns''. His career lasted until the mid-1930s. Davis's liberal use of false rhymes in his songs wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oh, How I Miss You Tonight
"Oh, How I Miss You Tonight" is a popular song, published in 1925, written by Benny Davis, Joe Burke, and Mark Fisher. Popular recordings of the song in 1925 were by Ben Selvin, Benson Orchestra of Chicago, Lewis James and Irving Kaufman. Other notable recordings *1941 Bing Crosby - recorded July 5, 1941 for Decca Records with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra. *1947 Perry Como - recorded on November 20, 1947 for RCA Victor with Russ Case and His Orchestra. *1960 Jeanne Black released a version of the song as a single which reached #63 on the U.S. pop chart. *1961 Jim Reeves *1961 Glenda Collins - Decca F11321 *1962 Frank Sinatra - included in his album '' All Alone''. *1962 Nat King Cole - for his album ''Dear Lonely Hearts''. *1963 Frank Fontaine ABC-Paramount 45 RPM Single *1964 Burl Ives - for the album ''My Gal Sal'' *1965 Bobby Vinton on his album, ''Bobby Vinton Sings for Lonely Nights''. *1967 Doris Day Doris Day (born Doris Mary Kappelhoff; April 3, 1922 – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
When I Lost You
"When I Lost You" is a song with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin. It was written in 1912 after his wife of five months, the former Dorothy Goetz, died of typhoid fever. In it he poured out the grief of his loss; it was the only song that he ever admitted had such a connection to his own life. The song, a ballad, was unlike any of Berlin's previous songs, which were upbeat tunes written to take advantage of the dance craze. The song is in a slow waltz tempo. It became Berlin's first hit ballad. Berlin had published 130 songs by this point, none of which previously had revealed his ability to write with moving sentiment about his own personal pain. Composition Berlin's initial attempts to resume songwriting after his wife's death were unsuccessful. After accepting an invitation to visit Europe with Dorothy's brother Ray Goetz, Berlin composed "When I Lost You". Following the trip, Berlin successfully returned to songwriting by writing about his wife's death, rather than atte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
What'll I Do?
"What'll I Do" is a song written by Irving Berlin in 1923. It was introduced by singers Grace Moore and John Steel late in the run of Berlin's third ''Music Box Revue'' and was also included in the following year's edition."American Classics - Music Box Revues 1921-1924" (history), webpageAmClass-IBerlin Background "What'll I Do" is one of the few songs by Berlin that is clearly autobiographical. His fiancée, a society beauty named Ellin Mackay, had been sent to Europe by her disapproving father, a very wealthy Long Island magnate, in the hopes that MacKay would forget Berlin. (She did not and eventually they married.) The song was written during McKay's "tour" of Europe. In the lyrics, the singer longs disconsolately for his love, imagining how he can go on without her. Recordings *Nat King Cole recorded the song for his album ''Unforgettable'' (1952). *Julie London recorded her version in 1955, released in 1956 on her album, '' Lonely Girl''. *Johnny Mathis sings the son ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lew Pollack
Lew Pollack (June 16, 1895 – January 18, 1946) was an American song composer and musician active during the 1920s and the 1930s. Career Pollack was born in New York City, where he went to DeWitt Clinton High School and was active as a boy soprano in a choral group headed by Walter Damrosch. Starting out as a singer and pianist in vaudeville acts, he began writing theme music for silent films before collaborating with others on popular songs. In 1914, he wrote " That's a Plenty", a rag that became an enduring Dixieland standard. Pollack composed the music for several Broadway musicals, including '' The Whirl of New York'' and '' The Mimic World'', among others. Among his best-known songs are " Charmaine" and " Diane" with Ernö Rapée; "Miss Annabelle Lee"; " My Yiddishe Momme" with Jack Yellen, made famous by Sophie Tucker; "Two Cigarettes in the Dark"; "Alone with You" (from Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm); and "At the Codfish Ball" (featured in the Shirley Temple movie '' Capt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charmaine (song)
"Charmaine" is a popular song written by Ernö Rapée and Lew Pollack. The song was written in 1926 and published in 1927. However, Desmond Carrington on his BBC Radio 2 programme marked the song as having been written in 1913. Background The song was originally in waltz time, but later versions were in common time. "Charmaine" is one of many popular songs whose lyrics use a " bluebird of happiness" as a symbol of cheer: "I wonder, when bluebirds are mating, will you come back again?" The song was originally composed for the 1926 silent film '' What Price Glory?'' Recordings *The best-selling version, recorded by Guy Lombardo & his Orchestra, spent seven weeks at the #1 position in 1927. *A version recorded by the Harry James orchestra in 1944 featured in the movie '' Two Girls and a Sailor''. *The 1951 instrumental arrangement by Ronald Binge, performed by the Mantovani orchestra with Max Jaffa as its leader and soloist, was Mantovani's first hit in the Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lou Handman
Lou Handman (September 10, 1894 – December 9, 1956) was an American composer. Born in 1894 in New York City, in his early career he toured in vaudeville shows in Australia and New York. Handman worked closely with lyricist Roy Turk, with whom went on to make chart-topping hits such as: *"Are You Lonesome Tonight?" *"It's All the Same to Me" *"My Sweetie Went Away" - a popular song in 1923 with versions by Billy Murray & Ed Smalle, and by Dolly Kay. *"One Night of Love" *"Two Ton Tessie" *"You've Got Those Wanna Go Back Again Blues" *"I'm Gonna Charleston Back to Charleston" *"Me and the Moon" Other hits were: *"Give Me a Smile and a Kiss" *"I Can't Get the One I Want" *"What Good Would it Do?" *"Is My Baby Blue Tonight?" *"No Nothing" *"Was it Rain?" *"Don't Ever Change" *"Baby Me" *"Puddin' Head Jones" *"Blue (And Broken Hearted)" - a hit for Marion Harris in 1923. Handman died in Flushing, New York in 1956 and was inducted posthumously into the Songwriters Hall of Fame i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
