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Steppin' Out With My Baby
"Steppin' Out with My Baby" is a popular song written by Irving Berlin and introduced in the 1948 musical film ''Easter Parade''. There it was sung by Fred Astaire as part of a dance number involving Astaire on stairs and three different dance partners. Tony Bennett recordings Since "Easter Parade", the song has been recorded and performed by several artists, most notably Tony Bennett, in whose treatment it has become a jazz standard. Introduced as the title song on his 1993 Astaire-themed album '' Steppin' Out'', a stylish music video for it garnered some MTV airplay and was part of Bennett's commercial resurgence at the time. One such performance was included on his high-selling 1994 ''MTV Unplugged'' album. Later Bennett recorded it as bonus tracks duets with Michael Bublé and Delta Goodrem for his 2006 '' Duets: An American Classic'' album; performed it three times with Christina Aguilera on his NBC special ''An American Classic, Saturday Night Live'', and the 59th Primet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Astaire
Fred Astaire (born Frederick Austerlitz, May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987) was an American dancer, actor, singer, musician, choreographer, and presenter, whose career in stage, film, and television spanned 76 years. He is widely regarded as the "greatest popular-music dancer of all time". He received an Academy Honorary Award, Honorary Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, three Primetime Emmy Awards, Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Grammy Award. As a dancer, he was known for his uncanny sense of rhythm, creativity, effortless presentation, and tireless perfectionism, which was sometimes a burden to co-workers. His dancing showed elegance, grace, originality, and precision. He drew influences from many sources, including tap, classical dance, and the elevated style of Vernon and Irene Castle. His trademark style greatly influenced the American Smooth style of ballroom dance. He called his eclectic approach "outlaw style", a following of an unpredictable and instinctive muse. Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
59th Primetime Emmy Awards
The 59th Primetime Emmy Awards were held on Sunday, September 16, 2007, honoring the best in U.S. prime time television programming at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California. The ceremony was televised live on Fox at 8:00 p.m. EDT for the first time in high definition (on tape delay three hours later on the West Coast of the United States at 8:00 p.m.). It was also the most recent Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony to be held at the Shrine Auditorium, as it was then relocated to the Nokia Theatre from the following year ( PDT/3:00 UTC). The ceremony was hosted by Ryan Seacrest. The ceremonies were supposed to be produced by Nigel Lythgoe and Ken Warwick, executive producers of ''American Idol'', but because of their heavy work load with ''Idol'', Ken Ehrlich, last year's producer, resumed the producer's role for the fourth time. Ratings plunged further down to a near an all-time low as an estimate 12.87 million, 19% lower than the past year, making it the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Boop-A-Doo
''The Boop-A-Doo'' is the eighth studio album and tenth album overall by American ska- swing band the Cherry Poppin' Daddies, released on January 22, 2016 by Space Age Bachelor Pad Records. The second in a planned trilogy of cover albums intended to showcase the Daddies' swing and jazz influences following the 2014 Rat Pack tribute '' Please Return the Evening'', ''The Boop-A-Doo'' is a collection of jazz and swing standards from the 1920s and 1930s. Production and release In December 2014, while the Daddies were still touring behind the release of ''Please Return the Evening'', performing concerts showcasing both their own repertoire and the songs of the Rat Pack, singer-songwriter Steve Perry posted a blog to the band's official Facebook page discussing his future plans to explore another facet of the band's swing and jazz influences in a live setting, covering a time period of roughly 1928-1937. In what he called his own "Steve speak", Perry dubbed this musical time period as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cherry Poppin' Daddies
The Cherry Poppin' Daddies are an American swing music, swing and ska band established in Eugene, Oregon, in 1989. Formed by singer-songwriter Steve Perry (Oregon musician), Steve Perry and bassist Dan Schmid, the band has experienced numerous personnel changes over the course of its 30-year history, with only Perry, Schmid and trumpeter Dana Heitman currently remaining from the original founding lineup. The Daddies' music is primarily a mix of swing music, swing and ska, contrastingly encompassing both traditional jazz-influenced variations of the genres as well as contemporary rock and punk rock, punk hybrids, characterized by a prominent horn section and Perry's acerbic and innuendo-laced lyricism often concerning dark or political subject matter. While the band's earliest releases were mostly grounded in punk and funk rock, their later studio albums have since incorporated elements from many diverse genres of popular music and Americana (music), Americana into their sound, i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bucky Pizzarelli
John Paul "Bucky" Pizzarelli (January 9, 1926 – April 1, 2020) was an American jazz guitarist. He worked for NBC as a staffman from 1964, including for Dick Cavett (1971) and ABC with Bobby Rosengarden in (1952). Musicians he collaborated with include Benny Goodman, George Barnes, Les Paul, Oscar Peterson, Stéphane Grappelli, Benny Green, and Antônio Carlos Jobim. Pizzarelli cited as influences Django Reinhardt, Freddie Green, and George Van Eps. Early life Pizzarelli was born on January 9, 1926, in Paterson, New Jersey, United States. He learned to play guitar and banjo at a young age. His uncles, Pete and Bobby Domenick, were professional musicians, and sometimes the extended family would gather at one of their homes with their guitars for jam sessions. Pizzarelli cited blind accordion player Joe Mooney as an inspiration. Mooney led a quartet that included Pizzarelli's uncle, Bobby Domenick. During high school, Pizzarelli was the guitarist for a small band tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banu Gibson
Banu Gibson is an American singer and bandleader who performs music from the 1920's, 30's, and 40's. She is executive director of The New Orleans Trad Jazz Camp. Banu has recorded for the record labels World, Stomp Off, Jazzology, and her own label Swing Out. Early life Gibson was born in Dayton, Ohio and raised in Hollywood, Florida where she started taking dance lessons at age 3. She started taking voice lessons at age 9, and was dancing professionally by her teenage years. She graduated from college in Florida with a degree in music and theater. Musical career Banu's first steady gig was 1967 in Miami working alongside Phil Napoleon at a club owned by Jackie Gleason. Working as a dancer at the club, she was exposed to the sounds of traditional jazz every night. When she moved to New York City at 21 she joined the group My Father's Mustache, and toured with them as a singer and a dancer from 1969-1972. When venues were too small for dancing, she started to focus more ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ted 2
''Ted 2'' (stylized as ''ted2'') is a 2015 American fantasy comedy film. The sequel to ''Ted (film), Ted'' (2012), the film was co-produced and directed again by Seth MacFarlane, who co-wrote the script with returning writers Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild. The film follows the talking teddy bear Ted (voiced again by MacFarlane) as he fights for his Civil and political rights, civil rights in order to be recognized as a person and not as property so he can adopt a child. In addition to MacFarlane, Mark Wahlberg, Giovanni Ribisi, and Jessica Barth also reprise their roles from the first film, with Amanda Seyfried, John Slattery, and Morgan Freeman joining the cast. Principal photography began in Massachusetts in July 2014. ''Ted 2'' was released on June 26, 2015, by Universal Pictures. Despite the film failing to achieve the critical and commercial success of its predecessor, it still became a box office success, grossing $215.9 million on a $68 million budget. In January 2024, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Wilson Orchestra
The John Wilson Orchestra was formed by the British conductor John Wilson in 1994. It performs the original arrangements of MGM musicals and the works of Rodgers and Hammerstein. The orchestra performed annually in The Proms summer festival between 2009 and 2019. Focus and configuration The John Wilson Orchestra has been acclaimed for showing how "authentic period performance" extends to screen musicals. In an interview with Rebecca Franks for the ''BBC Music Magazine'' prior to the 2010 Proms season, John Wilson explained how the specific make-up of the orchestra reflects this purpose: The orchestra’s been together a good 15 years and its make-up is very specific. It’s modelled on the old contract movie orchestras in America. And that's basically the combination of a dance-band brass, rhythm and saxophone section, so four trumpets, four trombones, five saxes who all double, and a rhythm section, who are all very specific specialists in this style. And then on top of that y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curtis Stigers
Curtis Stigers (born October 18, 1965) is an American jazz singer. He achieved a number of hits in the early 1990s, most notably the international hit " I Wonder Why" (1991), which reached No. 5 in the UK and No. 9 in the US. Career Stigers was born in Hollywood, California, but grew up in Boise, Idaho. He started his music career as a teenager, playing in rock and blues bands, as well as receiving an education in clarinet and saxophone in high school in Boise. He acquired much of his motivation for pursuing jazz from jam sessions led by Gene Harris at the Idanha Hotel. His song "Swingin' Down at Tenth and Main" is a tribute to those times with Harris. After receiving his diploma, he moved to New York City, intending to become a rock musician. But he spent more time in jazz clubs singing and playing saxophone. Arista released his debut album, which achieved multi-platinum sales. His combination of rock and soul was also popular on the soundtrack to the movie ''The B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuttin' Capers (album)
''Cuttin' Capers'' is a Doris Day album issued by Columbia Records, as catalog # CL-1232 in monaural and CS-8078 in stereo, on March 9, 1959. Frank De Vol was the conductor and Hal Adams was the cover photographer. The album was combined with Day's 1961 album, '' Bright and Shiny,'' on a compact disc, issued on November 13, 2001 by Collectables Records. Track listing #"Cuttin' Capers" (Joe Lubin) - 2:42 #"Steppin' Out with My Baby" (Irving Berlin) - 2:01 #" Makin' Whoopee!" ( Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn) - 3:38 #" The Lady's in Love with You" (Burton Lane, Frank Loesser) - 2:20 #" Why Don't We Do This More Often?" (Allie Wrubel, Charles Newman) - 3:00 #" Let's Take a Walk Around the Block" (Harold Arlen, Ira Gershwin, Edgar Yipsel Harburg) - 2:40 #" I'm Sitting on Top of the World" (Ray Henderson, Sam M. Lewis, Joe Young) - 2:20 #" Get Out and Get Under the Moon" (Larry Shay, Charles Tobias, William Jerome) - 2:51 #"Fit as a Fiddle (And Ready for Love)" (Arthur Freed, Al Goodh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doris Day
Doris Day (born Doris Mary Kappelhoff; April 3, 1922 – May 13, 2019) was an American actress and singer. She began her career as a big band singer in 1937, achieving commercial success in 1945 with two No. 1 recordings, "Sentimental Journey (song), Sentimental Journey" and "My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time" with Les Brown (bandleader), Les Brown and His Band of Renown. She left Brown to embark on a solo career and recorded more than 650 songs from 1947 to 1967. Day was one of the leading Cinema of the United States, Hollywood film stars of the 1950s and 1960s. Her film career began with ''Romance on the High Seas'' (1948). She starred in films of many genres, including musicals, comedies, dramas and thrillers. She played the title role in ''Calamity Jane (film), Calamity Jane'' (1953) and starred in Alfred Hitchcock's ''The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956 film), The Man Who Knew Too Much'' (1956) with James Stewart. She co-starred with Rock Hudson in three successful com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Astaire Story
''The Astaire Story'' is a 1952 album by Fred Astaire. The album was conceived of and produced by Norman Granz, the founder of Clef Records (and later Verve Records), who was also responsible for the Jazz at the Philharmonic concerts, at which all of the musicians on the album had performed. Content and reception The album's song selection provides an overview of Astaire's singing career although Astaire also demonstrates his tap dancing on three tracks and there is one informal instrumental Jam session. Some later LP and CD re-issues add two versions of Oscar Peterson's instrumental "The Astaire Blues." Oscar Peterson spoke warmly of the sessions that produced ''The Astaire Story'' in his autobiography, noting that vocally, Astaire was naturally attuned to jazz phrasing, and that Astaire enjoyed playing the drums at home. Astaire gave each of the musicians on the album a gold identification bracelet, inscribed "With thanks, Fred A". Ray Brown lost his bracelet, Alvin Stol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
