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TV Favorites
''Perry Como TV Favorites'', or simply ''TV Favorites'', subtitled ''As Sung by Perry on His Chesterfield TV Show'', is an album by Perry Como released by RCA Victor in 1952. Recording The album was recorded with Mitchell Ayres and his orchestra. Release The album was released on a 10-inch LP (cat. no. LPM 3013) and in several other formats: a set of four 78-rpm phonograph records (cat. no. P 334), a set of four 45-rpm records (WP 334) and a double EP in a gatefold cover (EPB 3013). Reception ''Billboard A billboard (also called a hoarding in the UK and many other parts of the world) is a large outdoor advertising structure (a billing board), typically found in high-traffic areas such as alongside busy roads. Billboards present large advertis ...'' reviewed the album in its issue from 26 April 1952. The magazine explained that the album's title referred to the fact that it compiled "eight oldies" that Como had performed "from time to time on his television show" a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perry Como
Pierino Ronald "Perry" Como (; May 18, 1912 – May 12, 2001) was an American singer, actor, and television personality. During a career spanning more than half a century, he recorded exclusively for RCA Victor for 44 years, from 1943 until 1987. "Mr. C.", as Como was nicknamed, reportedly sold over 100 million records worldwide and pioneered a weekly musical variety television show. His weekly television shows and seasonal specials were broadcast throughout the world. Como recorded primarily vocal pop and was renowned for recordings in the intimate, easy-listening genre pioneered by multimedia star Bing Crosby. In the official RCA Records Billboard (magazine), ''Billboard'' magazine memorial, Como's life was summed up in these few words: "50 years of music and a life well lived. An example to all." Como received five Emmy Award, Emmys from 1955 to 1959, and a Christopher Award in 1956. He also shared a Peabody Award with good friend Jackie Gleason in 1956. Como received a Kenne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Revenge With Music
''Revenge with Music'' is a musical comedy with book and lyrics by Howard Dietz and music by Arthur Schwartz, that opened on Broadway in 1934. This was the first "book" musical by Dietz and Schwartz. Background and productions Dietz, inspired by a trip to Spain, wrote his libretto based on the Spanish novel '' El sombrero de tres picos'' by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón. The duo had wanted to write something other than the revues they had been doing. The musical takes place in Spain in 1800, and involves a young Spanish couple, played by Libby Holman, as Maria a young, new bride, and Georges Metaxa as Carlos, her new groom. The story is based on a Spanish folk tale about seduction. Carlos seeks revenge on Don Emilio, the Spanish governor, for his attempt at seducing newly-wed Maria on their wedding night, by seducing the governor's willing wife, Doña Isabella. Produced by Arch Selwyn and Harold B. Franklin, the Broadway production, opened on November 28, 1934, at the New Amsterdam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Connecticut Yankee (musical)
''A Connecticut Yankee'' is a musical based on the 1889 novel ''A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court'' by American writer Mark Twain. Like most adaptations of the Twain novel, it focuses on the lighter aspects of the story. The music was written by Richard Rodgers, the lyrics by Lorenz Hart, and the book by Herbert Fields. It was produced by Lew Fields and Lyle D. Andrews. It enjoyed an original run on Broadway in 1927 of 421 performances and a number of revivals. The 1931 film of the same name starring Will Rogers was not adapted from this musical, nor was the 1949 musical film ''A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court'', which starred Bing Crosby. The Rodgers and Hart ''Connecticut Yankee'', like many of the team's earlier musicals, has never been filmed for the big screen though a scene was staged for the 1948 biographical movie of the lives of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, '' Words and Music''. Productions ''A Connecticut Yankee'' opened on Broadway at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Heart Stood Still
"My Heart Stood Still" is a 1927 popular song composed by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics by Lorenz Hart. It was written for the Charles Cochran revue ''One Dam' Thing after Another'', which opened at the London Pavilion on May 19, 1927. The show starred Jessie Matthews, Douglas Byng, Lance Lister, and Richard Dolman, running for 237 performances. Background In March 1927, Rodgers and Hart had traveled to Paris from London to meet with the arranger Robert Russell Bennett, to try to persuade him to orchestrate the songs for their upcoming London revue, ''One Dam' Thing After Another''. On their way back to Paris from a sightseeing expedition to Versailles, a truck nearly demolished the cab the two songwriters, along with their two female companions, were riding in. One of the young women cried out in apparent fright, “Oh! My heart stood still!” Hart instantly urged Rodgers to make a note of her exclamation as a potential song title. Rodgers jotted it down in his address book a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Engvick
William Engvick (July 1, 1914 – September 4, 2012) was an American lyricist, many of whose compositions appear in films. Engvick graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1937. He is best known for his collaborations with composer Alec Wilder; they produced songs for the Broadway (theatre), Broadway musical ''Once Over Lightly'' (1942), and for the musical television specials ''Miss Chicken Little'' (1953), ''Pinocchio (1957 TV-musical), Pinocchio'' (1957) and ''Hansel and Gretel'' (1958), Engvick was also responsible for a number of English language, English-language lyrics to songs originally composed in French language, French. Among his lyrics in this category were "The Song from Moulin Rouge" and "I'll Remember Today." Selected songs *While We're Young (Don Cherry song) 1951 References External links William Engvick collection of Alec Wilder scores, 1930-1991Music Division, The New York Public Library.William Engvick obituary and Miss Chicken Little ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morty Palitz
Morty or Mortie is a masculine given name which may refer to: People * Morty Buckles (born 1971 or 1972), African-American former race car driver * Mortimer Morty Corb (1917–1996), American jazz double-bassist * Mortimer Mortie Dutra (1899–1988), American golfer * Morty Gunty (1929–1984), American actor and comedian * Morty Black, stage name of bassist Morten Skaget (born 1960) Fictional characters * Morty Fieldmouse, nephew of Disney character Mickey Mouse * Morty Flickman, on ''Desperate Housewives'', portrayed by Bob Newhart * Morty Fine, father of the main character on the sitcom TV series ''The Nanny'' (1993-1999) * Morty Manta, the English anime name of Manta Oyamada, a ''Shaman King'' character * the title character of the American comic strip ''Morty Meekle'' (1956-1966) * Morty Seinfeld, father of Jerry Seinfeld in the series ''Seinfeld'' * Morty Smith, one of the title characters on the American animated series ''Rick and Morty'' ** Alternative versions of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alec Wilder
Alexander Lafayette Chew Wilder (February 16, 1907 – December 24, 1980) was an American composer and author. Biography Wilder was born in Rochester, New York, United States, to a prominent family; the Wilder Building downtown (at the "Four Corners") bears the family's name and his maternal grandfather, and namesake, was prominent banker Alexander Lafayette Chew. As a young boy, he traveled to New York City with his mother and stayed at the Algonquin Hotel. It would later be his home for the last 40 or so years of his life. He attended several prep schools, unhappily, as a teenager. Around this time, he hired a lawyer and essentially "divorced" himself from his family, gaining for himself some portion of the family fortune. He was largely self-taught as a composer; he studied privately with the composers Herman Inch and Edward Royce, who taught at the Eastman School of Music in the 1920s, but never registered for classes and never received his degree. While there, he edite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
While We're Young (1943 Song)
"While We're Young" is a 1943 song with music composed by Alec Wilder and Morty Palitz, to lyrics by Bill Engvick, which was popularized by Don Cherry, Tony Bennett and other artists. Wilder quoted his Algonquin neighbour, James Thurber, as saying that Engvick's lyrics to "While We're Young" was "the finest piece of English writing he knew". The lyric Thurber refers to begins: Other recordings *Peggy Lee on ''Rendezvous with Peggy Lee'' (1949) *Tony Bennett, B-side to Hank Williams' "Cold, Cold Heart" (1951), and also from debut album '' Because of You'' (1952) *Single by Don Cherry (1951)Billboard 1951 August 25 *Perry Como with Mitchell Ayres and His Orchestra (1952) and re-recorded for the album '' For the Young at Heart'' (1960) *Judy Garland on ''Miss Show Business (1955)'' *Percy Faith and His Orchestra with Mitch Miller – ''It's So Peaceful in the Country'' 3×7″ EP set (1956) *Rosemary Clooney – ''Sings Songs for the Young at Heart'' EP (1956) *Johnny Mathis on his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sally Sweetland
Sally Sweetland (née Mueller; September 23, 1911 – February 8, 2015) was an American soprano singer and teacher. She was active in the film and recording industry during the 1940s and 50s, before moving into teaching. Career Sweetland was born Sally Mueller in Los Angeles in 1911. In the 1940s, she provided voice dubbing for singing voices in movies, notably for Joan Leslie in several films including ''Yankee Doodle Dandy'' (1942) and ''Rhapsody in Blue'' (1945), as well as for Brenda Marshall, Martha Vickers and Joan Fontaine in other films of that era. She was featured as a solo artist on television programs such as ''The Perry Como Show'' and ''The Ed Sullivan Show''. She was the female soloist on ''Gaslight Gayeties'' on NBC Red in the mid-1940sSies, Luther F. (2014). ''Encyclopedia of American Radio, 1920–1960, 2nd Edition, Volume 1''. McFarland & Company, Inc.; . p. 250. and on ''Top of the Evening'', which debuted in 1944. In March 1952, Sweetland featured o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Gershwin
George Gershwin (; born Jacob Gershwine; September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned jazz, popular music, popular and classical music. Among his best-known works are the songs "Swanee (song), Swanee" (1919) and "Fascinating Rhythm" (1924), the orchestral compositions ''Rhapsody in Blue'' (1924) and ''An American in Paris'' (1928), the jazz standards "Embraceable You" (1928) and "I Got Rhythm" (1930) and the opera ''Porgy and Bess'' (1935), which included the hit "Summertime (George Gershwin song), Summertime". His ''Of Thee I Sing'' (1931) was the first musical theater, musical to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Gershwin studied piano under Charles Hambitzer and composition with Rubin Goldmark, Henry Cowell, and Joseph Brody. He began his career as a song plugger but soon started composing Broadway theater works with his brother Ira Gershwin and with Buddy DeSylva. He moved to Paris, intending to study with Nadia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ira Gershwin
Ira Gershwin (born Israel Gershovitz; December 6, 1896 – August 17, 1983) was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs in the English language of the 20th century. With George, he wrote more than a dozen Broadway shows, featuring songs such as " I Got Rhythm", " Embraceable You", " The Man I Love", and " Someone to Watch Over Me". He was also responsible, along with DuBose Heyward, for the libretto to George's opera ''Porgy and Bess''. The success the Gershwin brothers had with their collaborative works has often overshadowed the creative role that Ira played. His mastery of songwriting continued after George's early death in 1937. Ira wrote additional hit songs with composers Jerome Kern, Kurt Weill, Harry Warren and Harold Arlen. His critically acclaimed 1959 book ''Lyrics on Several Occasions'', an amalgam of autobiography and annotated anthology, is widely considered an importa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porgy And Bess
''Porgy and Bess'' ( ) is an English-language opera by American composer George Gershwin, with a libretto written by author DuBose Heyward and lyricist Ira Gershwin. It was adapted from Dorothy Heyward and DuBose Heyward's play ''Porgy (play), Porgy'', itself an adaptation of DuBose Heyward's 1925 novel ''Porgy (novel), Porgy''. ''Porgy and Bess'' was first performed in Boston on September 30, 1935, before it moved to Broadway theatre, Broadway in New York City. It featured a cast of classically trained African-American singers—a daring artistic choice at the time. A 1976 #1976 Houston Grand Opera production, Houston Grand Opera production gained it a renewed popularity, and it is now one of the best known and most frequently performed operas. The libretto of ''Porgy and Bess'' tells the story of Porgy, a disabled black street beggar living in the slums of Charleston, South Carolina, Charleston. It deals with his attempts to rescue Bess from the clutches of Crown, her violent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
