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At Long Last Love (song)
"At Long Last Love" is a popular song written by Cole Porter, for his 1938 musical '' You Never Know'', in which it was introduced by Clifton Webb. Other recordings * Nancy Wilson, '' Gentle Is My Love'', 1965 *Frank Sinatra Francis Albert Sinatra (; December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer and actor. Honorific nicknames in popular music, Nicknamed the "Chairman of the Board" and "Ol' Blue Eyes", he is regarded as one of the Time 100: The Most I ..., '' A Swingin Affair!'', 1957 References {{authority control Songs written by Cole Porter Frank Sinatra songs Lena Horne songs Ella Fitzgerald songs 1938 songs Songs from Cole Porter musicals ...
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Popular Music
Popular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry. These forms and styles can be enjoyed and performed by people with little or no musical training.Popular Music. (2015). ''Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia'' As a kind of popular art, it stands in contrast to art music. Art music was historically disseminated through the performances of written music, although since the beginning of the recording industry, it is also disseminated through sound recording, recordings. Traditional music forms such as early blues songs or hymns were passed along orally, or to smaller, local audiences. The original application of the term is to music of the 1880s Tin Pan Alley period in the United States. Although popular music sometimes is known as "pop music", the two terms are not interchangeable. Popular music is a generic term for a wide variety of genres of music that appeal to the tastes of a large segment of the populati ...
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Song
A song is a musical composition performed by the human voice. The voice often carries the melody (a series of distinct and fixed pitches) using patterns of sound and silence. Songs have a structure, such as the common ABA form, and are usually made of sections that are repeated or performed with variation later. A song without instruments is said to be a cappella. Written words created specifically for music, or for which music is specifically created, are called lyrics. If a pre-existing poem is set to composed music in the classical tradition, it is called an art song. Songs that are sung on repeated pitches without distinct contours and patterns that rise and fall are called chants. Songs composed in a simple style that are learned informally by ear are often referred to as folk songs. Songs composed for the mass market, designed to be sung by professional singers who sell their recordings or live shows, are called popular songs. These songs, which have broad appe ...
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Cole Porter
Cole Albert Porter (June 9, 1891 – October 15, 1964) was an American composer and songwriter. Many of his songs became Standard (music), standards noted for their witty, urbane lyrics, and many of his scores found success on Broadway theatre, Broadway and in Hollywood films. Born to a wealthy family in Indiana, Porter defied his grandfather's wishes for him to practice law and took up music as a profession. Classically trained, he was drawn to musical theatre. After a slow start, he began to achieve success in the 1920s, and by the 1930s he was one of the major songwriters for the Broadway musical stage. Unlike many successful Broadway composers, Porter wrote the lyrics as well as the music for his songs. After a serious horseback riding accident in 1937, Porter was left disabled and in constant pain, but he continued to work. His shows of the early 1940s did not contain the lasting hits of his best work of the 1920s and 1930s, but in 1948 he made a triumphant comeback w ...
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You Never Know (musical)
''You Never Know'' is a musical theatre, musical with a book by Rowland Leigh, adapted from the original European play ''By Candlelight'', by and Karl Farkas, with music by Cole Porter and , lyrics by Cole Porter, additional lyrics by Leigh and Edwin Gilbert (writer), Edwin Gilbert, directed by Leigh, and songs by others. The show was written not long after the riding accident that left Porter semi-crippled. Background The show was first produced in Europe with a small cast, but the Shubert Brothers (who produced it for Broadway), did not want to produce it with no chorus or large stage numbers. They hired Porter and other composers to write extra material, and when it premiered on Broadway in 1938 it was no longer a chamber musical, but a typical 1930s "big musical". Synopsis Maria, maid to Mme. Baltin, impersonates her mistress while carrying out an assignation with the Baron de Romer's valet, Gaston, whom she believes to be the Baron himself. The Baron discovers the pair, b ...
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Clifton Webb
Webb Parmelee Hollenbeck (November 19, 1889 – October 13, 1966), known professionally as Clifton Webb, was an American actor, singer, and dancer. He worked extensively and was known for his stage appearances in the plays of Noël Coward, including '' Blithe Spirit'', as well as appearances on Broadway in a number of successful musical revues. As a film actor, he was nominated for three Academy Awards - Best Supporting Actor for '' Laura'' (1944) and '' The Razor's Edge'' (1946), and Best Actor in a Leading Role for '' Sitting Pretty'' (1948). Early life Webb was born Webb Parmelee Hollenbeck in Indianapolis, Indiana, the only child of Jacob Grant Hollenbeck (1867 – May 2, 1939), the ticket-clerk son of a grocer from an Indiana farming family, and his wife, the former Mabel A. Parmelee (March 24, 1869 – October 17, 1960), the daughter of David Parmelee, a railroad conductor, and his wife, Grace ( Saville). Webb's parents married in Kankakee, Illinois on Janua ...
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Nancy Wilson (jazz Singer)
Nancy Sue Wilson (February 20, 1937 – December 13, 2018) was an American singer whose career spanned over five decades, from the mid-1950s until her retirement in the early 2010s. She was especially notable for her single "(You Don't Know) How Glad I Am" and her version of the standard "Guess Who I Saw Today". Wilson recorded more than 70 albums and won three Grammy Awards for her work. During her performing career, Wilson was labeled a singer of blues, jazz, Rhythm and Blues, R&B, pop music, pop, and soul music, soul; a "consummate actress"; and "the complete entertainer". The title she preferred, however, was "song stylist". She received many nicknames including "Sweet Nancy", "The Baby", "Fancy Miss Nancy" and "The Girl With the Honey-Coated Voice". Early life Nancy Wilson was born on February 20, 1937, in Chillicothe, Ohio, to Olden Wilson, an iron foundry worker, and Lillian Ryan. Wilson attended Burnside Heights Elementary School and developed her singing skills by pa ...
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Gentle Is My Love
''Gentle Is My Love'' is a 1965 studio album by Nancy Wilson. It spent 24 weeks on the ''Billboard'' Top 200, peaking at No. 17, and reached No. 7 on the Hot R&B LPs chart. The album contains a mixture of standards from the Great American Songbook and more recent popular material. In his AllMusic review, William Ruhlmann says that ''Gentle Is My Love'' is "a collection of romantic ballads that Wilson addresses with her characteristic emotionalism and precision. The arrangements are full of lush string parts, and the tempos are taken deliberately." Ruhlmann notes that Wilson covered several songs that were usually associated with men and performed as "soaring, heroic anthems," whereas she turns them into "more intimate, reflective ballads." A 1970 re-issue of the album was entitled ''Who Can I Turn To''. Track listing Side 1 # "Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)" (Anthony Newley, Leslie Bricusse - 2:40 # "There Will Never Be Another You" (Harry Warren, Mack Gordo ...
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Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert Sinatra (; December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer and actor. Honorific nicknames in popular music, Nicknamed the "Chairman of the Board" and "Ol' Blue Eyes", he is regarded as one of the Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century, most popular entertainers of the 20th century. Sinatra is among the List of best-selling music artists, world's best-selling music artists, with an estimated 150 million record sales globally. Born to Italian Americans, Italian immigrants in Hoboken, New Jersey, Sinatra began his musical career in the swing era and was influenced by the easy-listening vocal style of Bing Crosby. He joined the Harry James band as the vocalist in 1939 before finding success as a solo artist after signing with Columbia Records in 1943, becoming the idol of the "Bobby-soxer, bobby soxers". In 1946, Sinatra released his debut album, ''The Voice of Frank Sinatra''. He then signed with Capitol Records and released several albums wi ...
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A Swingin' Affair!
''A Swingin' Affair!'' is the twelfth studio album by Frank Sinatra. It is sometimes mentioned as the sequel to ''Songs for Swingin' Lovers''. "The Lady Is a Tramp" was bumped from the original album and replaced with "No One Ever Tells You", which had been recorded months earlier. Later, "The Lady is a Tramp" appeared on the soundtrack for '' Pal Joey''. It was restored to the album for the compact disc release. Track listing #" Night and Day" (Cole Porter)  – 3:58 #"I Wish I Were in Love Again" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart)  – 2:27 #" I Got Plenty o' Nuttin'" (DuBose Heyward, George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin)  – 3:09 #" I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan" (Arthur Schwartz, Howard Dietz)  – 2:23 #" Nice Work If You Can Get It" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin)  – 2:20 #" Stars Fell on Alabama" ( Frank Perkins, Mitchell Parish)  – 2:37 #"No One Ever Tells You" (Hub Atwood, Carroll Coates)  – 3:23 #"I Won't Dance" (Jerome Kern, Jimmy Mc ...
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Songs Written By Cole Porter
A partially complete list of songs by Cole Porter. *Songs written at Yale University: :“Antoinette Birby” :“Bingo Eli Yale” :“Bull Dog” *''Cora'' (1911 college musical) *''And the Villain Still Pursued Her'' (1912 college musical) :"We are the Chorus of the Show" :"Strolling" :"The Lovely Heroine" :"I'm the Villain" :"Twilight" :"Llewellyn" :"That Zip Cornwall Cooch" :"Charity" :"Queens of Terpsichore" :"Leaders of Society" :"Submarine" :"Barcelona Maid" :"Silver Moon" :"Dear Doctor" :"Anytime" :"Come to Bohemia" :"Dancing" :"Fare Thee Well" *''The Pot of Gold'' (1912 college musical) :"At the Rainbow" :"Bellboys" :"Longing for Dear Old Broadway" :"When I Used to Lead the Ballet" :"My Houseboat on the Thames" :"She Was a Fair Young Mermaid" :"What's This Awful Hullabaloo" :"What a Charming Afternoon" :"Since We've Met" :"Exercise" :"We are So Aesthetic" :"Scandal" :"I Wonder Where My Girl Is Now" :"My Salvation Army Queen" :"It's Awfully Hard When Mother's Not Along ...
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Frank Sinatra Songs
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Lena Horne Songs
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