William Ballard Doggett was an American pianist and organist. He began his career playing swing music before transitioning into rhythm and blues. Best known for his instrumental compositions "Honky Tonk" and "Hippy Dippy",Doggett was a pioneer of rock and roll. He worked with the Ink Spots,Johnny Otis,Wynonie Harris,Ella Fitzgerald,and Louis Jordan.
Percy Faith was a Canadian–American bandleader,orchestrator,composer and conductor,known for his lush arrangements of instrumental ballads 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. Although 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.
Kay Starr was an American singer who enjoyed considerable success in the late 1940s and 1950s. She was of Iroquois and Irish heritage. Starr performed multiple genres,such as pop,jazz,and country,but her roots were in jazz.
Gordon Hill Jenkins was an American arranger,composer,and pianist who was influential in popular music in the 1940s and 1950s. Jenkins worked with The Andrews Sisters,Johnny Cash,The Weavers,Frank Sinatra,Louis Armstrong,Judy Garland,Nat King Cole,Billie Holiday,Harry Nilsson,Peggy Lee and Ella Fitzgerald.
Young Man with a Horn is an album that was released by Columbia Records in 1950. It features trumpeter Harry James and singer Doris Day performing songs initially recorded for the soundtrack of the film of the same name.
"Makin' Whoopee" is a jazz/blues song,first popularized by Eddie Cantor in the 1928 musical Whoopee!. Gus Kahn wrote the lyrics and Walter Donaldson composed the music for the song as well as for the entire musical.
Connie Curtis Crayton,known as Pee Wee Crayton,was an American R&B and blues guitarist and singer.
"I Can't Give You Anything but Love,Baby" is an American popular song and jazz standard by Jimmy McHugh (music) and Dorothy Fields (lyrics). The song was introduced by Adelaide Hall at Les Ambassadeurs Club in New York in January 1928 in Lew Leslie's Blackbird Revue,which opened on Broadway later that year as the highly successful Blackbirds of 1928,wherein it was performed by Adelaide Hall,Aida Ward,and Willard McLean.
I Left My Heart in San Francisco is an album by American singer Tony Bennett,released in 1962 on Columbia Records. The album debuted on the Billboard Top LPs chart in the issue dated October 13,of that year,and remained on the album chart for 149 weeks,peaking at No. 5 and has been certified platinum by the RIAA. Originally available as Columbia rekey CL 1869 (mono) and CS 8669 (stereo),it is one of the best-selling albums of Bennett's career.
Tony Bennett at Carnegie Hall is a 1962 live album by Tony Bennett. The June 9th concert was directed by Arthur Penn and Gene Saks. Carnegie Hall had not featured a pop performer until April 23,1961 when Judy Garland recorded her legendary concert.
Tony is a 1957 album by singer Tony Bennett. It reached number 14 on the Billboard album chart in 1957,first appearing February 23 that year,and remaining on the chart for nine weeks.
The Essential Tony Bennett is a two-CD compilation album by Tony Bennett,released in 2002. The collection is part of a series of Essential sets released by Columbia Records and was created in collaboration with RPM Records and Legacy Recordings.
Burl Ives Sings Little White Duck and Other Children's Favorites is a 12-inch LP album of folk songs for children recorded by Burl Ives for Columbia Records between 1949 and 1951. The label,in 1950,crafted a "shared" 10-inch children's LP. On side one,Hollywood actor Victor Jory narrated Tubby the Tuba,while side two featured Burl Ives performing seven tunes under the title Animal Fair:Songs for Children. The catalog number was JL 8103. One year earlier,Animal Fair:Songs for Children had been presented separately on a two-disc 78-rpm set,using as a catalog number MJV 59. In 1956,another Ives endeavor for children appeared,containing "The Little White Duck" and six other ditties. Part of Columbia's brief (1955–56) House Party Series of 10-inch LPs,the album was called Children's Favorites,affixed with the catalog number CL 2570. Next,a new collection,expanded to 12 inches,combining these 14 Ives selections and 2 additional ones and entitled Burl Ives Sings Songs for All Ages,was issued by Columbia in 1957,bearing CL 980 as the catalog number. Two years later,this album was shortened by two tracks,christened with its final title,Burl Ives Sings Little White Duck and Other Children's Favorites,and reassigned to Columbia's budget label,Harmony Records,which employed HL 9507 as the catalog number. Being the customary practice in the vinyl marketplace of the 60s,this monaural platter wound up electronically enhanced for stereo,circa 1963,and given the modified catalog number HS 14507. Columbia,in 1974,reissued the LP,again in simulated stereo,with the catalog number C 33183. At the same time,the label also transferred the album to cassette tape,affixing the catalog number CT 33183. On November 22,1988,Columbia released the album in CD format,which upgraded the sound quality to digital stereo. Distribution of the disc then was taken over by Sony Wonder on October 3,1995. The 1974 LP cover,later retained for the CD,was designed by Ed Lee and Eloise Smith,with illustrations by Reynolds Ruffin. All the album tracks are now available via MP3 downloading.
Harvest Of Hits is an original jazz compilation by Nat King Cole released by Capitol Records in 1950. Both a 10 –inch (33-1/3rpm) LP version containing 8 tracks,and a 6-track boxed set of three 7 –inch (45rpm) discs was released. The album features Oscar Moore on guitar,Johnny Miller on bass and Lee Young on drums.
The Cool Voice of Rita Reys is the debut album by Dutch jazz singer Rita Reys which features sessions recorded with bands led by drummers Art Blakey and her husband Wessel Ilcken. The sessions are divided over each side of the original LP which was released on the Dutch Philips and US Columbia labels.
Jack K. Pleis was an American jazz pianist,arranger,conductor,composer and producer. He recorded on London and Decca Records in the 1950s,and Columbia Records in the 1960s. During the course of his career,Pleis worked with many artists,including Louis Armstrong,Harry Belafonte,Bing Crosby,Sammy Davis Jr.,Benny Goodman,Earl Grant,Brenda Lee,and Joe Williams. Between 1950 and 1976,more than 150 songs were arranged by Pleis. His surname is pronounced "Pleece".
Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. B.B. King is a box set compilation album by B. B. King. It traces King's career from his first singles for Bullet Records in 1949 to material on his last recorded album in 2008. Crowdfunded by Pledge Music in 2012,it was available in a full ten-disc box exclusive through Amazon.com,and a four-disc "highlights" box available everywhere else. People who pledged money also got a digital copy of the out-of-print 1975 album Lucille Talks Back. Both versions of the box are physically out of print;the four disc edition is bundled along with Lucille Talks Back digitally,although this version removes King's first single.
This is a list of Bing Crosby songs he recorded twice or more during his career,excluding all of the 1954 re-recordings for Bing:A Musical Autobiography.
This article presents the discography of the jazz singer,songwriter,and composer Peggy Lee,covering her recording career from 1941 up to 1993.
The discography of American singer Kay Starr contains 18 studio albums,18 compilation albums,one live album,87 singles,12 other charting songs and one additional album appearance. Starr's first singles were released in collaboration with the Ben Pollack Orchestra. She signed to Capitol Records as a solo artist and had her first chart record in 1948 with "You Were Only Foolin' ". It reached number 16 on the American Billboard pop music chart. It was followed the same year by her first top ten pop single "So Tired". In 1950,"Bonaparte's Retreat" reached the top five of the Billboard pop chart. Starr reached the top five again with "Hoop-Dee-Doo" and "I'll Never Be Free".
