James Francis Durante was an American comedian, actor, singer, and pianist. His distinctive gravelly speech, Lower East Side accent, comic language-butchery, jazz-influenced songs, and prominent nose helped make him one of the United States' most familiar and popular personalities of the 1920s through the 1970s. He often referred to his nose as the schnozzola, and the word became his nickname.
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.
John Alfred Mandel was an American composer and arranger of popular songs, film music and jazz. The musicians he worked with include Count Basie, Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Anita O'Day, Barbra Streisand, Tony Bennett, Diane Schuur and Shirley Horn. He won five Grammy Awards, from 17 nominations; his first nomination was for his debut film score for the multi-nominated 1958 film I Want to Live!
"Smile" is a song based on the theme song used in the soundtrack for Charlie Chaplin's 1936 film Modern Times.
Jackie Leven was a Scottish songwriter and folk musician. After starting his career as a folk musician in the late 1960s, he first found success with new wave band Doll by Doll. He later recorded as a solo artist, releasing more than twenty albums under his own name or under the pseudonym Sir Vincent Lone.
"Delicado" is a popular song published in 1952 with music by Waldir Azevedo and lyrics by Jack Lawrence. The song reached the top of the Billboard charts in 1952.
"I Believe" is a popular song written by Ervin Drake, Irvin Abraham, Jack Mendelsohn and Al Stillman in 1953. The most popular version was recorded by Italian-American singer Frankie Laine, and spent eighteen weeks at No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart.
"Young at Heart" is a pop standard ballad with music by Johnny Richards and lyrics by Carolyn Leigh.
"Inka Dinka Doo" is a 1933 popular song whose words were written by Ben Ryan, and whose music was composed by James Francis "Jimmy" Durante.
Carol Celeste Parks was an American singer and composer.
Sonny King was an American lounge singer of Italian descent.
Ralph Carmichael was an American composer and arranger of both secular pop music and contemporary Christian music. He is regarded as one of the pioneers of contemporary Christian music.
The New Yorkers is a musical written by Cole Porter and Herbert Fields (book). Star Jimmy Durante also wrote the words and music for the songs in which his character was featured.
Jackie Barnett PresentsJimmy Durante's Way of Life...with the Gordon Jenkins Orchestra and Chorus is a 1964 studio album by Jimmy Durante, arranged by Gordon Jenkins. It received a "Pop Special Merit" designation from Billboard upon its release, indicating "new releases of outstanding merit which deserve exposure and which could have commercial success within their respective categories of music".
Lou Clayton was an American song-and-dance vaudeville performer, best known for his teaming with Jimmy Durante and Eddie Jackson, as Clayton, Jackson, and Durante, or "The Three Sawdust Bums".
Phillip W. Cohan was an American producer and director.
Jackie Barnett PresentsHello Young Lovers is a 1965 album by Jimmy Durante, with arrangements by Roy Bargy. Hello Young Lovers' was the last recording that Durante and Bargy would make together; Bargy had served as Durante's musical director since 1943.
Jackie Barnett PresentsOne of Those Songs is a 1966 album by Jimmy Durante, with arrangements by Ernie Freeman. The cover depicts Durante embracing CeCe, his adopted daughter with his second wife, Margie. The song "Margie" is dedicated to his wife.
September Song is a 1963 album by Jimmy Durante, with arrangements by Roy Bargy.
