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Alone At Last With Tony Bennett
''Alone at Last with Tony Bennett'' is the third album by American jazz singer Tony Bennett. It was released in 1955 as a 10" vinyl on Columbia (CL 2507) as part of "House Party Series". The orchestral players and technical staff are mentioned on the original packaging. Track listing #" Sing You Sinners" (W. Franke Harling, Sam Coslow) – 2:12 #"Somewhere Along the Way" ( Kurt Adams, Sammy Gallop) – 2:59 #"Since My Love Has Gone" (Giuseppe Verdi, Herbert Wasserman) – 2:59 #" Stranger in Paradise" ( Robert Wright, George Forrest) – 3:07 #"Here in My Heart" (Pat Genaro, Lou Levinson, Bill Borrelli) – 2:53 #"Please Driver (Once Around the Park Again)" (Chilton Price) – 3:04 ''Recorded on July 20, 1950 (#1), May 31, 1951 (#3), October 17, 1951 (#2), April 30, 1952 (#5), October 13, 1953 (#4), December 4, 1953 (#6).'' Personnel *Tony Bennett – vocals *Various orchestral players conducted by Percy Faith Percy Faith (April 7, 1908 – February 9, 1976) was a Canadian- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Bennett
Anthony Dominick Benedetto (born August 3, 1926), known professionally as Tony Bennett, is an American retired singer of traditional pop standards, big band, show tunes, and jazz. Bennett is also a painter, having created works under his birth name that are on permanent public display in several institutions. He is the founder of the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in Astoria, Queens, New York. Bennett began singing at an early age. He fought in the final stages of World War II as a U.S. Army infantryman in the European Theater. Afterward, he developed his singing technique, signed with Columbia Records and had his first number-one popular song with " Because of You" in 1951. Several tracks such as " Rags to Riches" followed in early 1953. He then refined his approach to encompass jazz singing. He reached an artistic peak in the late 1950s with albums such as '' The Beat of My Heart'' and '' Basie Swings, Bennett Sings''. In 1962, Bennett recorded his signature song, " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sammy Gallop
Sammy Gallop (March 16, 1915 – February 24, 1971) was an American lyricist, known for his big band and swing songs of the 1940s and 1950s. Biography Gallop was born in Duluth, Minnesota. He originally worked as a surveyor and draftsman. On February 24, 1971, Gallop committed suicide in Encino, California. Some records mentioned his name as Gallup. Works * "Caribbean Clipper" (music by Jerry Gray) * " Count Every Star" (music by Bruno Coquatrix) * "The Clock in the Tower" (music by Guy Wood) * "Elmer's Tune" (music by Elmer Albrecht and Dick Jurgens) * "Forgive My Heart" (music by Chester Conn) * " Half As Lovely Twice As True" (music by Lew Spence) * " Holiday for Strings" (music by David Rose) * "Maybe You'll Be There" (music by Rube Bloom) * " My Lady Loves to Dance" (music by Milton DeLugg) * " No Good Man" (music by Dan Fisher and Irene Higginbotham) * " The Sentimental Touch" (music by Albert Van Dam) * "Shoo Fly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy" (music by Guy Wood) * " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1955 Albums
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Percy Faith
Percy Faith (April 7, 1908 – February 9, 1976) was a Canadian-American bandleader, orchestrator, composer and conductor, known for his lush arrangements of pop and Christmas standards. He is often credited with popularizing the "easy listening" or "mood music" format. He became a staple of American popular music in the 1950s and continued well into the 1960s. Though his professional orchestra-leading career began at the height of the Swing Era, he refined and rethought orchestration techniques, including use of large string sections, to soften and fill out the brass-dominated popular music of the 1940s. Biography Faith was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was the oldest of eight children. His parents, Abraham Faith and Minnie, née Rottenberg, were Jewish. He played violin and piano as a child, and played in theatres and at Massey Hall. After his hands were badly burned in a fire, he turned to conducting, and his live orchestras used the new medium of radio br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chilton Price
Chilton Price (December 25, 1913 – January 14, 2010) was an American songwriter, primarily known for country music songs, which became pop music hits. She was born Chilton Searcy near Fern Creek, Kentucky, the daughter of Chesley Hunter Searcy, a lawyer, and Lillian Searcy, a pianist. At the age of 5, she was taught a couple of piano chords by her father, who was an amateur musician who played by ear. She studied music appreciation at the University of Louisville. During the 1930s and 1940s, she played violin for the Louisville Orchestra. She got a job as a music librarian at the Louisville radio station WAVE, where country music artists Pee Wee King and Redd Stewart were regular performers. She showed them some songs she had written, and they convinced her to publish them; since she had little experience in the commercial music world, she gave them partial credit, and so the songs "Slow Poke" and " You Belong to Me" were published with credits given as King/Stewart/Price. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Here In My Heart
"Here in My Heart" is a popular song written by Pat Genaro, Lou Levinson, and Bill Borrelli, first published in 1952. A recording of the song by Italian-American singer Al Martino made history as the first number one hit on the UK Singles Chart, on November 14, 1952. "Here in My Heart" also reached the number one spot in America. Background Martino's recording, made on April 17, 1952, was first issued on the small BBS label (based in Martino's native Philadelphia) in America, and on Capitol in the UK. It was produced by Voyle Gilmore, with orchestra under the direction of Monty Kelly. Al Martino version "Here in My Heart" remained in the top position for nine weeks in the United Kingdom, setting a record for the longest consecutive run at number one, a record which, over 50 years on, has only been beaten by eight other tracks - Bryan Adams's "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" (16 weeks), the Wet Wet Wet version of The Troggs' "Love Is All Around" (15 weeks), Drake's "One Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Forrest (author)
George Forrest (born George Forrest Chichester Jr., July 31, 1915 – October 10, 1999) was an American writer of music and lyrics for musical theatre best known for the show '' Kismet'', adapted from the works of Alexander Borodin. He was also known professionally at times as Chet Forrest. Biography Throughout his career Forrest worked exclusively with the composer-lyricist Robert Wright. The two men had an affinity for adapting classical music themes and adding lyrics to these themes for the Broadway musical stage and films. Wright said that the music was usually a 50-50 "collaboration" between Wright and Forrest and the composer. While both men were credited equally as composer-lyricists, it was Mr. Forrest who worked with the music. '' ''Kismet'''' was one of several works Forrest created with Wright commissioned by impresario Edwin Lester for the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera (LACLO). '' Song of Norway'', ''Gypsy Lady'', '' Magdalena'', and their adaptation of '' Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Wright (musical Writer)
Robert Craig Wright (September 25, 1914 – July 27, 2005) was an American composer-lyricist for Hollywood and the musical theatre, best known for the Broadway musical and musical film '' Kismet'', for which he and his professional and romantic partner George Forrest adapted themes by Alexander Borodin and added lyrics. ''Kismet'' was one of several Wright and Forrest creations that was commissioned by impresario Edwin Lester for the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera. ''Song of Norway'', ''Gypsy Lady'', '' Magdalena'', and their adaptation of '' The Great Waltz'' were also commissioned by Lester for the LACLO. The LACLO passed most of these productions to Broadway. Wright was born in Daytona Beach, Florida, United States. Wright and Forrest had an affinity for adapting classical music themes and adding lyrics to these themes for Hollywood and the Broadway musical stage. Wright said that the music was usually a 50-50 "collaboration" between Wright and Forrest and the composer. Whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stranger In Paradise (song)
"Stranger in Paradise" is a popular song from the musical '' Kismet'' (1953), credited to Robert Wright and George Forrest. Like almost all the music in that show, the melody was taken from music composed by Alexander Borodin (1833–1887), in this case, the "Gliding Dance of the Maidens", from the '' Polovtsian Dances'' in the opera '' Prince Igor'' (1890). The song in the musical is a lovers' duet and describes the transcendent feelings that love brings to their surroundings. Later versions were mostly edited to be sung by male solo artists. Meaning In Act 1 of the musical ''Kismet'', the beautiful Marsinah is viewing the garden of a house her father wishes to buy. The young Caliph, who is dressed in disguise, has already been struck by her beauty from afar and enters the garden pretending to be a gardener, so that he might speak to her. She begins to sing about how the garden has been strangely transformed before her eyes. He takes over the song and sings about how he, too ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (; 9 or 10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian composer best known for his operas. He was born near Busseto to a provincial family of moderate means, receiving a musical education with the help of a local patron. Verdi came to dominate the Italian opera scene after the era of Gioachino Rossini, Gaetano Donizetti, and Vincenzo Bellini, whose works significantly influenced him. In his early operas, Verdi demonstrated a sympathy with the Risorgimento movement which sought the unification of Italy. He also participated briefly as an elected politician. The chorus "Va, pensiero" from his early opera ''Nabucco'' (1842), and similar choruses in later operas, were much in the spirit of the unification movement, and the composer himself became esteemed as a representative of these ideals. An intensely private person, Verdi did not seek to ingratiate himself with popular movements. As he became professionally successful, he was able to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Van Heusen
James Van Heusen (born Edward Chester Babcock; January 26, 1913 – February 6, 1990) was an American composer. He wrote songs for films, television and theater, and won an Emmy and four Academy Awards for Best Original Song. Life and career Born in Syracuse, New York, Van Heusen began writing music while at high school. He renamed himself at age 16, after the shirt makers Phillips-Van Heusen, to use as his on-air name during local shows. His close friends called him "Chet".Coppula, C. (2014). ''Jimmy Van Heusen: Swinging on a Star''. Nashville: Twin Creek Books. Jimmy was raised Methodist. Studying at Cazenovia Seminary and Syracuse University, he became friends with Jerry Arlen, the younger brother of Harold Arlen. With the elder Arlen's help, Van Heusen wrote songs for the Cotton Club revue, including "Harlem Hospitality". He then became a staff pianist for some of the Tin Pan Alley publishers, and wrote "It's the Dreamer in Me" (1938) with lyrics by Jimmy Dorsey. C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CBS 30th Street Studio
CBS 30th Street Studio, also known as Columbia 30th Street Studio, and nicknamed "The Church", was an American recording studio operated by Columbia Records from 1948 to 1981 located at 207 East 30th Street, between Second and Third Avenues in Manhattan, New York City. Actually containing two Columbia sound rooms — “Studio C” and “Studio D” — the facility was considered by some in the music industry to offer the best-sounding recording venue of its time, while others considered it to have been the greatest recording studio in history. Numerous recordings were made there in all genres, including Ray Conniff's '''S Wonderful'' (1956), Miles Davis' ''Kind of Blue'' (1959) and ''In A Silent Way'' (1969), Leonard Bernstein's ''West Side Story'' (Original Broadway Cast recording, 1957), Percy Faith's ''Theme from A Summer Place'' (1959), Chicago's ''Chicago Transit Authority'' (1969), ''Chicago'' (1970), and '' Chicago III'' (1971), Pink Floyd's ''The Wall'' (1979), as well ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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