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Mathis Magic
''Mathis Magic'' is an album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was released on September 17, 1979, by Columbia Records and contained an equal balance of new material and songs associated with other artists. Although this album did not make any appearances on ''Billboard'' magazine's Top LPs & Tapes chart, it did reach number 59 during a four-week run on the UK album chart. On December 31 of that year the British Phonographic Industry awarded the album with Silver certification for sales of 60,000 units in the UK. On January 27, 2015, Funkytowngrooves gave ''Mathis Magic'' its first pressing on compact disc as one of two albums on one CD, the other album being Mathis's Columbia release from March 1978, '' You Light Up My Life''. Reception ''People'' magazine's review praises the album's disco arrangements of " Night and Day", "That Old Black Magic", and "To the Ends of the Earth": "While other singers have embarrassed themselves redoing such hallowed material, Mathis mak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Mathis
John Royce Mathis (born September 30, 1935) is an American singer of popular music. Starting his career with singles of standard music, he became highly popular as an album artist, with several dozen of his albums achieving gold or platinum status and 73 making the ''Billboard'' charts. Mathis has received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and has been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame for three recordings. Although frequently described as a romantic singer, his discography includes traditional pop, Brazilian and Spanish music, soul, rhythm and blues, show tunes, Tin Pan Alley, soft rock, blues, country music, and even a few disco songs for his album '' Mathis Magic'' in 1979. Mathis has also recorded six albums of Christmas music. In a 1968 interview, Mathis cited Lena Horne, Nat King Cole, and Bing Crosby among his musical influences. Early life and education Mathis was born in Gilmer, Texas, on September 30, 1935, the fourth of seven children of Clem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerard Kenny
Gerard W. Kenny (born July 8, 1947, New York City, United States) is an American singer-songwriter, based in London, England. In 1981, he received the Ivor Novello Award for Best Television Theme Music for his song "I Could Be So Good for You", the theme tune of the ITV series '' Minder''. Career Kenny formed his first band whilst in high school and between then and the early 1970s, he toured the club circuit. In 1968, he landed his first recording contract with Warner Bros. Records, and from that point until 1977 issued a number of singles that failed to break the charts. He also recorded for Buddah and Laurie; one of the singles on the latter titled "Happiest Man" is now collectable, selling for up to £200. Kenny relocated to London in 1977 and it was not until the following year that he scored his first hit single with " New York, New York (So Good They Named It Twice)" (an ode to his hometown), which spent two months on the UK Singles Chart, with its parent album ''Made It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Columbia Original Album Collection
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Peters
Ben James Peters (born Greenville, Mississippi, June 20, 1933; died Nashville, Tennessee, May 25, 2005) was an American country music songwriter who wrote many #1 songs. Charley Pride recorded 68 of his songs and 6 of them went to #1 on the American country charts. Peters was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1980. Peters was briefly a recording artist himself; his only charting hit was his own composition "San Francisco is a Lonely Town", which hit #46 on the country charts in 1969. Number One Compositions in America *" Turn the World Around" (1967) was a #1 Billboard chart country hit for Eddy Arnold & top 5 Billboard chart AC single. *" That's A No, No" was a 1969 #1 Cashbox chart country hit for Lynn Anderson. *" Kiss an Angel Good Mornin'" was a 1971 #1 Billboard chart country hit for Charley Pride; it also went to #21 on the American pop charts. It won Ben Peters the 1973 Grammy Award for Best Country Song. *"It's Gonna Take a Little Bit Longer" was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noel Sherman
Noel Sherman (30 June 1930 Brooklyn – 4 June 1972 New York) was an American lyricist and nightclub producer. Among the standards that Sherman composed, often with his brother Joe Sherman, are "Ramblin' Rose", " Graduation Day", " Eso Beso" ("That Kiss!") (no), "To the Ends of the Earth", and " Juke Box Baby". Career Sherman, born to Julius Sherman, a dentist, and Mary Rothman () graduated from New York University where he was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. His brother, Joe, was his chief collaborator. Bibliography Selected copyrights Original copyrights * ''Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series, Music,'' Library of Congress, Copyright Office Vol. 10; Part 5A, No. 1, January–June1956 (1957). " Graduation Day". © Sheldon Music Inc.23 April 1956; EP99021. p. 244. Vol. 10; Part 5A, No. 1, January–June1956 (1957). " Juke-Box Baby". © Winneton Music Corp.5 March 1956; EP98281. p. 244. Vol. 10; Part 5A, No. 2, July–December 1956 (1957). "To t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Sherman (songwriter)
Joseph Daniel Sherman (September 25, 1926 – March 17, 2017) was an American songwriter, conductor, arranger, publisher and producer. Career Sherman was born in Brooklyn, New York, United States. Joe Sherman's chief collaborators included his brother, Noel, as well as George David Weiss, Sid Wayne, Langston Hughes, and Abby Mann. With his brother as lyricist, he composed " To the Ends of the Earth and "Eso Beso" for Paul Anka and " Juke Box Baby" for Perry Como. The brothers joint composition, "Ramblin' Rose", was a hit for Nat King Cole among others. His brother, Noel, died in 1972. Joe Sherman died on March 17, 2017. References Bibliography * "Among the standards that Sherman composed are "Ramblin' Rose," " Graduation Day," "Eso Beso" and " To the Ends of the Earth". * "Joe had already built an outstanding reputation as a songwriter, having written such hits as "Ramblin' Rose" and " That Sunday, That Summer" for Nat "King" Cole, "Eso Beso" for Paul Anka Paul Albe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
To The Ends Of The Earth (Nat King Cole Song)
"To the Ends of the Earth" is a 1956 Nat King Cole song, written by Noel Sherman and Joe Sherman. It was released as a single in 1956 and reached number 25 on the pop charts. The song was reissued on the album '' This Is Nat King Cole'' (1957), and again on '' The Nat King Cole Story'' (1961). Versions The song was covered by Marvin Gaye on his album A Tribute to the Great Nat "King" Cole (1965), Tony Middleton (1966), and Engelbert Humperdinck on his 1967 album The Last Waltz and by Johnny Mathis on ''Mathis Magic'' (1979), again with Cole's daughter Natalie Cole on Mathis' Unforgettable – A Musical Tribute to Nat King Cole (1983), and others including Cole's younger brother Freddy Cole Lionel Frederick Cole (October 15, 1931 – June 27, 2020) was an American jazz singer and pianist whose recording career spanned almost 70 years. He was the brother of musicians Nat King Cole, Eddie Cole, and Ike Cole, father of Lionel Cole, an ....John Swenson The Rolling Stone jazz & ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoff Morrow
Geoffrey Stanton "Geoff" Morrow (born 16 May 1942, in London, England) is a British songwriter and businessman. His compositions have been recorded by Butterscotch (of which he was a member), Sandie Shaw, the Carpenters, Elvis Presley, Johnny Mathis, Jessie J, Barry Manilow and many other musicians. Biography Many of his early compositions were co-written by David Martin and/or Chris Arnold, with whom he also recorded, both as the songwriting and production trio Arnold, Martin and Morrow and under the soft rock band name of Butterscotch. Fellow songwriter and producer Phil Wainman played the drums for Butterscotch. Morrow and Arnold's first big songwriting success was " In Thoughts of You", which was taken to the top ten of the UK Singles Chart by Billy Fury in 1965. All three songwriters composed "Annabella", which was originally recorded in the UK by Dave Dee without chart success, but which reached the US charts via a cover version by Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds in 1971 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephanie Lawrence
Stephanie Lawrence (16 December 1949 – 4 November 2000) was a British musical theatre actress. Background Stephanie Lawrence was born in 1949 in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England. She was the daughter of a Welsh singer, to whom she credited her voice, and a classically trained dancer. She moved to Hayling Island at the age of four. From an early age she was close friends with another famous Islander, Peter Chilvers, who, in 1958, invented the windsurfer. Career Theatre Having trained at the Arts Educational School, Tring, Hertfordshire (now Tring Park School for the Performing Arts), she made her debut in ''The Nutcracker'' at the Royal Festival Hall in London in 1962. She became a member of the corps de ballet at the Royal Festival Ballet at the age of 12 with the intention of becoming a ballerina, however, her plans were disrupted when she was forced to miss a year after contracting pneumonia aged 15. Her West End debut came in April 1971, playing the par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Mercer
John Herndon Mercer (November 18, 1909 – June 25, 1976) was an American lyricist, songwriter, and singer, as well as a record label executive who co-founded Capitol Records with music industry businessmen Buddy DeSylva and Glenn E. Wallichs. He is best known as a Tin Pan Alley lyricist, but he also composed music, and was a popular singer who recorded his own songs as well as songs written by others from the mid-1930s through the mid-1950s. Mercer's songs were among the most successful hits of the time, including "Moon River", " Days of Wine and Roses", " Autumn Leaves", and " Hooray for Hollywood". He wrote the lyrics to more than 1,500 songs, including compositions for movies and Broadway shows. He received nineteen Oscar nominations, and won four Best Original Song Oscars. Early life Mercer was born in Savannah, Georgia, where one of his first jobs, aged 10, was sweeping floors at the original 1919 location of Leopold's Ice Cream. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Arlen
Harold Arlen (born Hyman Arluck; February 15, 1905 – April 23, 1986) was an American composer of popular music, who composed over 500 songs, a number of which have become known worldwide. In addition to composing the songs for the 1939 film ''The Wizard of Oz'' (lyrics by Yip Harburg), including " Over the Rainbow", Arlen is a highly regarded contributor to the Great American Songbook. "Over the Rainbow" was voted the 20th century's No. 1 song by the RIAA and the NEA. Life and career Arlen was born in Buffalo, New York, the child of a Jewish cantor. His twin brother died the next day. He learned to play the piano as a youth, and formed a band as a young man. He achieved some local success as a pianist and singer before moving to New York City in his early twenties, where he worked as an accompanist in vaudeville and changed his name to Harold Arlen. Between 1926 and about 1934, Arlen appeared occasionally as a band vocalist on records by The Buffalodians, Red Nichols, Joe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
She Believes In Me
"She Believes in Me" is a song recorded by American country music singer Kenny Rogers. It was released in April 1979 as the second single from his 1978 album '' The Gambler''. The song was written by American singer-songwriter Steve Gibb (not to be confused with Steve Gibb, son of Barry Gibb) who first released his version as a 7" single in 1978. A version by T. G. Sheppard appears on his 1978 album ''Daylight'', released a month before Rogers' album. Content The song is the tale of a struggling songwriter/performer who has a beloved who supports him, although he sometimes wonders why. Kenny Rogers version "She Believes in Me" became one of his biggest crossover hits in the late spring of 1979, reaching number one on the ''Billboard'' Country Singles chart. "She Believes in Me" also peaked at number five on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 pop singles chart, and number one on the ''Billboard'' Adult Contemporary chart. It was also a minor pop hit in the UK, reaching number 42. ''R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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