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. Though 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.
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.
You're My Thrill is the debut album by Doris Day,issued on August 1,1949 by Columbia Records as catalog number CL-6071,as a 10" LP. At the same time,Columbia issued it as an album set of 78 rpm records as C-189.
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.
Tony is a 1957 Columbia US album (CL938) and Philips UK album re-titled "Tony Bennett Showcase",by singer Tony Bennett It reached number 14 on the Billboard album chart in 1957.
Wizard of the Vibes is a Blue Note Records compilation of performances by jazz vibraphonist Milt Jackson. The sessions were the work of The Thelonious Monk Quintet and The Modern Jazz Quartet plus Lou Donaldson. The album has been recompiled and expanded three additional times,with various tracks from these sessions added and deleted.
Billie Holiday Sings (MGC-118) is a 10-inch LP album made by jazz singer Billie Holiday,released in the United States by Clef Records in 1952. It was her first album for the label,and her first album of original material,following several compilations of previously released 78rpm sides for Columbia,Commodore,and Decca.
Young Man with a Horn is the second 10-inch LP studio album by jazz musician Miles Davis. It was released through Blue Note Records in March 1953. The recording was made at the WOR studios in New York in May 1952.
The discography of Billie Holiday,an American jazz singer,consists of 12 studio albums,three live albums,24 compilations,six box sets,and 38 singles.
Alone at Last with Tony Bennett is the second album by American jazz singer Tony Bennett. It was released in 1955 as a 10" vinyl on Columbia as part of "House Party Series". The orchestral players and technical staff are mentioned on the original packaging.
"On the First Warm Day". is an American pop standard with music and lyrics by Bart Howard. It was originally recorded by Rosemary Clooney for Columbia Records on April 18,1952. Other performers with renditions of the tune over the succeeding decades include Mabel Mercer (1952),Alma Cogan (1953),Portia Nelson (1956),Chris Connor (1958),Eydie Gormé(1958),Betty Johnson (1995),KT Sullivan (1997) and Joyce Breach (2003).
"Take My Love" is a 1950 pop song co-written and recorded by Frank Sinatra. The song was released as a Columbia Records A side single.
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".
"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:
We must fulfill This golden time When hearts awake So shyly,Softly.
Songs were made to sing While we're young. Ev'ry day is spring While we're young...
This article presents the discography of the jazz singer,songwriter,and composer Peggy Lee,covering her recording career from 1941 up to 1993.
Bing Crosby's Treasury –The Songs I Love is an LP set recorded in 1965 and issued by a mail-order firm,The Longines Symphonette Society,an educational service of the Longines-Wittnauer Watch Company.
