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"Somebody Loves Me" is a popular song, with music written by George Gershwin, and lyrics by Ballard MacDonald and Buddy DeSylva. The song was published in 1924 and featured in George White's Scandals of 1924.
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"Mean to Me" is a popular song with music by Fred E. Ahlert and lyrics by Roy Turk, published in 1929. Hit versions that year were by Ruth Etting and by Helen Morgan. Ben Bernie and the Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra also recorded what might be the first male version in February 1929 with vocals by Scrappy Albert.
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"Paradise" is a 1931 song with music by Nacio Herb Brown and lyrics by Gordon Clifford. It was first sung by Pola Negri in RKO Pictures' 1932 film A Woman Commands, and has since been heard in many other films, including a memorable performance by Gloria Grahame, in the 1949 Nicholas Ray film A Woman's Secret.
Unforgettable – A Musical Tribute to Nat King Cole is a soundtrack album released in the UK in 1983 by the CBS Records division of Columbia in conjunction with the broadcast of American pop singer Johnny Mathis's BBC television concert special of the same name that featured Cole's daughter Natalie. The front of the original album jacket credits the concert performers as "Johnny Mathis and Natalie Cole", whereas the CD booklet reads, "Johnny Mathis with special guest Natalie Cole".
Azure-Te is a blues ballad written in 1952 by lyricist Donald E. Wolf for a Wild Bill Davis tune that reached number 30 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in September 1952 when covered by Frank Sinatra.
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- ↑ "Jazz Standards Songs and Instrumentals (Sweet Lorraine): Music and Lyrics Analysis". jazzstandards.com. Retrieved 30 December 2018.
- ↑ Whitburn, Joel (1986). Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954 . Wisconsin, USA: Record Research Inc. p. 458. ISBN 0-89820-083-0.
- ↑ Yanow, Scott (2000). Swing. San Francisco: Miller Freeman. p. 203. ISBN 978-0879306007.
- ↑ https://jazzdiscography.com/Artists/Sinatra/columbia1.php
- ↑ "Record: "Sweet Lorraine." Vocal by Frank Sinatra. With the Metronome All Stars. Columbia Records. 78 RPM. No.37293 [CO37177]. - Record, Phonograph | Hoboken Historical Museum".
- ↑ "Radio Swiss Jazz - Music database - Title".
- ↑ https://jazzdiscography.com/Artists/Sinatra/reprise.php
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