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Album
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Album, is a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, audio tape, or another medium. Albums of recorded music were developed in the early 20th century, first as books of individual 78rpm records, vinyl LPs are still issued, though in the 21st century album sales have mostly focused on compact disc and MP3 formats. The audio cassette was a format used from the late 1970s through to the 1990s alongside vinyl, an album may be recorded in a recording studio, in a concert venue, at home, in the field, or a mix of places. Recording may take a few hours to years to complete, usually in several takes with different parts recorded separately. Recordings that are done in one take without overdubbing are termed live, the majority of studio recordings contain an abundance of editing, sound effects, voice adjustments, etc. With modern recording technology, musicians can be recorded in separate rooms or at times while listening to the other parts using headphones. Album covers and liner notes are used, and sometimes additional information is provided, such as analysis of the recording, historically, the term album was applied to a collection of various items housed in a book format. In musical usage the word was used for collections of pieces of printed music from the early nineteenth century. Later, collections of related 78rpm records were bundled in book-like albums, the LP record, or 33 1⁄3 rpm microgroove vinyl record, is a gramophone record format introduced by Columbia Records in 1948. It was adopted by the industry as a standard format for the album. Apart from relatively minor refinements and the important later addition of stereophonic sound capability, the term album had been carried forward from the early nineteenth century when it had been used for collections of short pieces of music. Later, collections of related 78rpm records were bundled in book-like albums, as part of a trend of shifting sales in the music industry, some commenters have declared that the early 21st century experienced the death of the album. Sometimes shorter albums are referred to as mini-albums or EPs, Albums such as Tubular Bells, Amarok, Hergest Ridge by Mike Oldfield, and Yess Close to the Edge, include fewer than four tracks. There are no rules against artists such as Pinhead Gunpowder referring to their own releases under thirty minutes as albums. These are known as box sets, material is stored on an album in sections termed tracks, normally 11 or 12 tracks. A music track is a song or instrumental recording. The term is associated with popular music where separate tracks are known as album tracks. When vinyl records were the medium for audio recordings a track could be identified visually from the grooves
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Harry Nilsson
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Harry Edward Nilsson III, usually credited as Nilsson, was an American singer-songwriter who achieved the peak of his commercial success in the early 1970s. His work is characterized by pioneering overdub experiments, returns to the Great American Songbook, born in Brooklyn, Nilsson fled to Los Angeles as a teenager and landed a job as a computer programmer at a local bank. In 1966, he debuted with Spotlight on Nilsson followed by Pandemonium Shadow Show, after a brief period of widely publicized, alcohol-fueled antics with his fellow Hollywood Vampire members in the mid 1970s, Nilsson left RCA, and his record output subsequently diminished. In response to John Lennons 1980 death by shooting, he took a hiatus from the industry to campaign for gun control. For the rest of his life, he recorded only on sporadic occasions, in 1994, Nilsson died of a heart attack while in the midst of recording new material for a since-unreleased comeback album. In 2015, Nilsson was voted No, the RIAA have certified Nilssons albums Nilsson Schmilsson and Son of Schmilsson as gold records, indicating over 500,000 units sold each. His singles to reach the US top 10 were Everybodys Talkin, Without You, Nilsson was born in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn in 1941. His paternal grandparents were Swedish circus performers and dancers, especially known for their aerial ballet and his maternal grandparents were the cornerstone of his young life. While his grandmother played piano, his grandfather Charlie supported the family in the tiny apartment on Jefferson St in Brooklyn. His father, Harry Edward Nilsson Jr. abandoned the family when Harry was three years old and he grew up with his mother Bette and his younger half-sister. His younger half-brother Drake was left with family or friends during their moves between California and New York, sometimes living with a succession of relatives and stepfathers and his uncle, a mechanic in San Bernardino, California, helped Nilsson improve his vocal and musical abilities. In addition to his half-brother and a half-sister through his mother, because of the poor financial situation of his family, Nilsson worked from an early age, including a job at the Paramount Theatre in Los Angeles. When the theatre closed in 1960, he applied for a job at a bank and he had an aptitude for computers, which were beginning to be employed by banks at the time. He performed so well the bank retained him even after uncovering his deception regarding being a school graduate. He worked on computers at night, and in the daytime pursued his songwriting and singing career. By 1958, Nilsson was intrigued by emerging forms of music, especially rhythm. He had made attempts at performing while he was working at the Paramount, forming a vocal duo with his friend Jerry Smith. The manager at a favorite hangout gave Nilsson a plastic ukulele, which he learned to play, in the 2006 documentary Who Is Harry Nilsson
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Wembley
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Wembley is an area of northwest London, England, and part of the London Borough of Brent. It is home to the Wembley Arena and Wembley Stadium, Wembley formed a separate civil parish from 1894 and was incorporated as a municipal borough in 1937. In 1965, the merged with the Municipal Borough of Willesden to create the London Borough of Brent. Wembley is derived from the Old English proper name Wemba and the Old English Lea for meadow or clearing, the name was first mentioned in the charter of 825 of Selvin. The village of Wembley grew up on the hill by the clearing with the Harrow Road south of it, much of the surrounding area remained wooded. In 1547 there were but six houses in Wembley, though small, it was one of the wealthiest parts of Harrow. At the dissolution of the monasteries in 1543, the manor of Wembley fell to Richard Andrews and Leonard Chamberlayne, who sold it to Richard Page, Esq. of Harrow on the Hill, the same year. The Page family continued as lords of the manor of Wembley for several centuries, Wembley Park thus derived its name from Reptons habit of referring to the areas he designed as parks. There was a mill on Wembley Hill by 1673, in 1837, the London and Birmingham Railway was opened from London Euston through Wembley to Hemel Hempstead, and completed to Birmingham the following year. The changing names of the local station demonstrated the importance of the Wembley name. Sudbury station opened in 1845, renamed as Sudbury and Wembley in 1882, renamed as Wembley for Sudbury in 1910, renamed as Wembley Central in 1948, at the time of the Olympic Games. To modernise the service, a new Watford DC Line was built alongside the lines and Bakerloo line trains. Electric trains to London Euston began running in 1922, since 1917, there have been six platforms at what is now Wembley Central station. In 1880, the Metropolitan Railway opened its line from Baker Street through the side of Wembley. There are now three separate services, the London to Aylesbury Line, the Metropolitan line, and the Jubilee line. Only the latter two services have platforms at Wembley Park station, in November 1905, the Great Central Railway opened a new route for fast expresses that by-passed the congested Metropolitan Railway tracks. It ran between Neasden Junction, south of Wembley, and Northolt Junction, west of London, where a new joint main line with the Great Western Railway began. After a long planning and redevelopment process dogged by a series of funding problems and construction delays, Wembley Hill station was renamed Wembley Complex in May 1978, before getting its present name of Wembley Stadium in May 1987
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Pop music
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Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid 1950s. The terms popular music and pop music are used interchangeably, although the former describes all music that is popular. Pop and rock were synonymous terms until the late 1960s, when they were used in opposition from each other. Although pop music is seen as just the singles charts, it is not the sum of all chart music. Pop music is eclectic, and often borrows elements from other such as urban, dance, rock, Latin. Identifying factors include generally short to medium-length songs written in a format, as well as the common use of repeated choruses, melodic tunes. David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop music as a body of music which is distinguishable from popular, jazz, according to Pete Seeger, pop music is professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music. Although pop music is seen as just the singles charts, it is not the sum of all chart music, the music charts contain songs from a variety of sources, including classical, jazz, rock, and novelty songs. Pop music, as a genre, is seen as existing and developing separately, pop music continuously evolves along with the terms definition. The term pop song was first recorded as being used in 1926, Hatch and Millward indicate that many events in the history of recording in the 1920s can be seen as the birth of the modern pop music industry, including in country, blues and hillbilly music. The Oxford Dictionary of Music states that while pops earlier meaning meant concerts appealing to a wide audience. Since the late 1950s, however, pop has had the meaning of non-classical mus, usually in the form of songs, performed by such artists as the Beatles. Grove Music Online also states that, in the early 1960s pop music competed terminologically with beat music, while in the USA its coverage overlapped with that of rock and roll. From about 1967, the term was used in opposition to the term rock music. Whereas rock aspired to authenticity and an expansion of the possibilities of music, pop was more commercial, ephemeral. It is not driven by any significant ambition except profit and commercial reward, and, in musical terms, it is essentially conservative. It is, provided from on high rather than being made from below, pop is not a do-it-yourself music but is professionally produced and packaged. The beat and the melodies tend to be simple, with limited harmonic accompaniment, the lyrics of modern pop songs typically focus on simple themes – often love and romantic relationships – although there are notable exceptions
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RCA Records
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RCA Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, Inc. It is one of SMEs three flagship labels, alongside Columbia Records and Epic Records. The label has released multiple genres of music, including pop, rock, hip hop, R&B, blues, jazz, the companys name is derived from the initials of the labels former parent company, the Radio Corporation of America. It is the second oldest recording company in US history, after sister label Columbia Records, RCAs Canadian unit is Sonys oldest label in Canada. It was one of only two Canadian record companies to survive the Great Depression, kelly, Enrique Iglesias, Foo Fighters, Kings of Leon, Kesha, Miley Cyrus, Giorgio Moroder, Jennifer Hudson, DAngelo, Pink, Tinashe, G-Eazy, Pitbull, Zayn and Wizkid. In 1929, the Radio Corporation of America purchased the Victor Talking Machine Company, then the worlds largest manufacturer of phonographs and phonograph records. The company then became RCA Victor but retained use of the Victor Records name on their labels until the beginning of 1946 when the labels were finally switched over to RCA Victor. With Victor, RCA acquired New World rights to the famous Nipper His Masters Voice trademark, in Shanghai, China, in 1931, RCA Victors British affiliate the Gramophone Company merged with the Columbia Graphophone Company to form EMI. This gave RCA head David Sarnoff a seat on the EMI board, in September 1931, RCA Victor introduced the first 33⅓ rpm records sold to the public, calling them Program Transcriptions. In the depths of the Great Depression, the format was a commercial failure, during the early part of the depression, RCA made a number of attempts to produce a successful cheap label to compete with the dime store labels. The first was the short-lived Timely Tunes label in 1931 sold at Montgomery Ward, in 1932, Bluebird Records was created as a sub-label of RCA Victor. It was originally an 8-inch record with a blue label. In 1933, RCA reintroduced Bluebird and Electradisk as a standard 10-inch label, another cheap label, Sunrise, was produced. The same musical couplings were issued on all three labels and Bluebird Records still survives eight decades after Electradisk and Sunrise were discontinued, RCA also produced records for Montgomery Ward label during the 1930s. Besides manufacturing records for themselves, RCA Victor operated RCA Custom which was the leading record manufacturer for independent record labels, RCA Custom also pressed record compilations for The Readers Digest Association. RCA sold its interest in EMI in 1935, but EMI continued to distribute RCA recordings in the UK, RCA also manufactured and distributed HMV classical recordings on the RCA and HMV labels in North America. During World War II, ties between RCA and its Japanese affiliate JVC were severed, the Japanese record company is today called Victor Entertainment and is still a JVC subsidiary. From 1942 to 1944, RCA Victor was seriously impacted by the American Federation of Musicians recording ban, virtually all union musicians could not make recordings during that period
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Record producer
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A record producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performers music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album. A producer has many roles during the recording process, the roles of a producer vary. The producer may perform these roles himself, or help select the engineer, the producer may also pay session musicians and engineers and ensure that the entire project is completed within the record companies budget. A record producer or music producer has a broad role in overseeing and managing the recording. Producers also often take on an entrepreneurial role, with responsibility for the budget, schedules, contracts. In the 2010s, the industry has two kinds of producers with different roles, executive producer and music producer. Executive producers oversee project finances while music producers oversee the process of recording songs or albums. In most cases the producer is also a competent arranger, composer. The producer will also liaise with the engineer who concentrates on the technical aspects of recording. Noted producer Phil Ek described his role as the person who creatively guides or directs the process of making a record, indeed, in Bollywood music, the designation actually is music director. The music producers job is to create, shape, and mold a piece of music, at the beginning of record industry, producer role was technically limited to record, in one shot, artists performing live. The role of producers changed progressively over the 1950s and 1960s due to technological developments, the development of multitrack recording caused a major change in the recording process. Before multitracking, all the elements of a song had to be performed simultaneously, all of these singers and musicians had to be assembled in a large studio and the performance had to be recorded. As well, for a song that used 20 instruments, it was no longer necessary to get all the players in the studio at the same time. Examples include the rock sound effects of the 1960s, e. g. playing back the sound of recorded instruments backwards or clanging the tape to produce unique sound effects. These new instruments were electric or electronic, and thus they used instrument amplifiers, new technologies like multitracking changed the goal of recording, A producer could blend together multiple takes and edit together different sections to create the desired sound. For example, in jazz fusion Bandleader-composer Miles Davis album Bitches Brew, producers like Phil Spector and George Martin were soon creating recordings that were, in practical terms, almost impossible to realise in live performance. Producers became creative figures in the studio, other examples of such engineers includes Joe Meek, Teo Macero, Brian Wilson, and Biddu
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Derek Taylor
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Derek Taylor was an English journalist, writer and publicist. He is best known for his role as press officer to the Beatles, Taylor was known for his forward-thinking and extravagant promotional campaigns, exemplified in taglines such as The Beatles Are Coming and Brian Wilson Is a Genius. He was equally dedicated to the 1967 Summer of Love ethos, Taylor started his career as a local journalist in Liverpool aged 17 working for the Hoylake and West Kirby Advertiser followed by the Liverpool Daily Post and Echo. He then became a North England-based writer for national British newspapers that included the News Chronicle, the Sunday Dispatch and he also served as a regular columnist and theatre critic for the Daily Express from 1952. During the 1970s, Taylor worked for Warner Bros. Records, the term pocket symphony is generally attributed to Taylor for his description of the Beach Boys 1966 single Good Vibrations. A trusted confidant of the Beatles, Taylor remained particularly close to George Harrison long after the bands break-up, having returned to Apple in the early 1990s, Taylor succumbed to cancer in September 1997 while working on the Beatles Anthology book. Taylor was a national journalist working for the Daily Express when he was assigned to write a review of a Beatles concert on 30 May 1963. He had been expected by his editors to write a critical of what at that time was considered by the national press as an inconsequential teen fad. However, he was enchanted by the group and instead sang their praises, shortly afterwards, he was invited to meet the Beatles and soon became a trusted journalist in their circle. As the band gained attention in Britain, Taylors editors conceived of running a column ostensibly written by a Beatle to boost circulation. George Harrison was the Beatle eventually decided upon, in early 1964, Beatles manager Brian Epstein hired Taylor away from his newspaper job, putting him in charge of Beatles press releases, and acting as media liaison for himself and the group. He subsequently became Epsteins personal assistant for a short period, Taylor assisted Epstein in the writing of his autobiography, A Cellarful of Noise. Taylor conducted interviews with Epstein for the book and then shaped the transcriptions of the audio recordings into a narrative, Taylor served as press officer for the Beatles first concert tour of the US in the summer of 1964. After a falling out with Epstein, he resigned from his position at the end of the tour, Brian Epstein demanded that Taylor continue working for a three-month notice period, however. After this, he went to work for the Daily Mirror, in 1965, Taylor left the UK and moved with his growing family to California. There he started his own public company, providing publicity for groups such as the Byrds, the Beach Boys and Paul Revere. According to music critic Richie Unterberger, through his working in Hollywood, Taylor became, probably. Among Taylors strategies, he touted the Byrds as a new breed of American band with parallels to the Beatles and he also encouraged nascent rock journalists to perceive Beach Boys founder Brian Wilson as a musical genius
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Son of Schmilsson
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Son of Schmilsson is the eighth album by American singer Harry Nilsson. Nilsson was being pressured to produce an album similar to his 1971 breakthrough, Nilsson Schmilsson. The album was produced by Richard Perry and features contributions from former Beatles Ringo Starr. Other musicians on the recording include Nicky Hopkins, Klaus Voormann, Bobby Keys, among the albums tracks are Youre Breakin My Heart and the US hit Spaceman. Most of the sessions were filmed, at the request of Nilsson. The footage was to be used for a documentary, titled Did Somebody Drop His Mouse. But the film was never released, the album cover for Son of Schmilsson features a photo of Nilsson taken at Harrisons home, Friar Park. The album was remastered and released on CD with two tracks in 2000 and with five bonus tracks in 2006. All tracks written by Harry Nilsson except where noted,6, London, England – choir The Henry Krein Quartet with Klaus Voormann – rhythm section Henry Krein – accordion Paul Keogh – guitar Les Thatcher – guitar Album Single
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Son of Dracula (1974 film)
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Son of Dracula is a British musical comedy film, starring Harry Nilsson and Ringo Starr, produced by Starr and released in 1974 by Apple Films. It is also the title of a Harry Nilsson album released in conjunction with the movie, Son of Dracula was made during a period when Starr, in between occasional single releases and session work, was concentrating on film-making and acting. Two movies in which he had starred,200 Motels and Blindman, had released at the end of 1971, and before starting on this one, he had just finished work on his directorial debut. As well as producing Son of Dracula, Starr would appear as Merlin the Magician, Starr and he were longtime friends, and the ex-Beatle had recently played drums on Nilssons 1972 album Son of Schmilsson, which had spoofed horror movie motifs. A few months after those sessions, in August 1972, Starr decided to make a rock and roll Dracula movie, and invited Nilsson to come on board. After the killing of his father, by a mysterious assassin, baron Frankenstein is also on hand to help in any way he can. Problem is, Downe wants no part of responsibility, and instead wishes to become human and mortal − especially after meeting a girl named Amber. He approaches old family nemesis Dr Van Helsing, who agrees to enable the Counts transformation, despite the best efforts of a host of monsters, as well as one traitorous figure who is dealt with by the trusted Merlin, Van Helsing performs the operation and removes Downes fangs. He then informs the Count that he can now live out his days in the sunlight, keith Moon of The Who and John Bonham of Led Zeppelin both appear in the film, alternating as drummer in Count Downes band. Other band members include Klaus Voormann, Peter Frampton, an uncredited Leon Russell, soon after completion, Starr called in Graham Chapman, who was writing with Douglas Adams at the time and had been working on a proposed Ringo Starr TV special. Later, attempts were made to market the movie, but as Ringo Starr later said, showings over the years have been limited to midnight movies and similar outlets. No official home release has ever been made, and reviewers such as Leonard Maltin have little positive to say about the film. It is not known if Son of Dracula will ever come out officially on DVD, most party attendees ignored the film. On YouTube, a version in 11 parts is available, according to journalist Peter Palmiere, Starr said in the late 1980s that he had a copy of the video lying on top of his TV set, but he couldnt bear to look at it. The Son of Dracula album includes Nilsson songs that were showcased in the film, as well as instrumental tracks composed by Paul Buckmaster. All the song tracks except one are from the previously released Nilsson Schmilsson and Son of Schmilsson albums, the only new song, Daybreak, was recorded in London sometime in September 72, during a break in filming. Joining Nilsson and Starr on the sessions at Trident Studios were the likes of Voormann, Frampton, Keys and Price, once again, as well as George Harrison on cowbell. Jim Price, along with pianist Gary Wright and orchestral arrangers Paul Buckmaster and Del Newman, also provided new, incidental music, the US LP release of the soundtrack included a T-shirt iron-on advertising the movie, and a companion songbook included a reproduction of the movie poster
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AllMusic
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AllMusic is an online music guide service website. It was launched in 1991 by All Media Guide which later became All Media Network, AllMusic was launched in 1991 by Michael Erlewine of All Media Guide. The aim was to discographic information on every artist whos made a record since Enrico Caruso gave the industry its first big boost and its first reference book was published the following year. When first released onto the Internet, AMG predated the World Wide Web and was first available as a Gopher site, the AMG consumer web properties AllMusic. com, AllMovie. com and AllGame. com were sold by Rovi in July 2013 to All Media Network, LLC. All Media Network, LLC. was formed by the founders of SideReel. com. The following are contributors to AllMusic, as of this date, All Media Network also produced the AllMusic guide series that includes the AllMusic Guide to Rock, the All Music Guide to Jazz and the All Music Guide to the Blues. Vladimir Bogdanov is the president of the series, in August 2007, PC Magazine included AllMusic in its Top 100 Classic Websites list. All Media Network AllGame AllMovie SideReel All Music Guide to the Blues All Music Guide to Jazz Stephen Thomas Erlewine Official website
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Robert Christgau
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Robert Thomas Christgau is an American essayist, music journalist, and self-proclaimed Dean of American Rock Critics. One of the earliest professional rock critics, he spent 37 years as the music critic and senior editor for The Village Voice. He has also covered popular music for Esquire, Creem, Newsday, Playboy, Rolling Stone, Billboard, NPR, Blender, and MSN Music, and is a visiting arts teacher at New York University. Christgau is known for his terse capsule reviews, first published in his Consumer Guide columns during his tenure at The Village Voice from 1969 to 2006 and he has written three books based on those columns, along with two collections of essays. He continued writing capsule reviews in MSN Music, Cuepoint, Christgau was born in Greenwich Village and grew up in Queens, the son of a fireman. He has said he became a rock and roll fan when disc jockey Alan Freed moved to the city in 1954. After attending a school in New York City, he left New York for four years to attend Dartmouth College. While at college his musical interests turned to jazz, but he returned to rock after moving back to New York. Christgau has said that Miles Davis 1960 album Sketches of Spain initiated in him one phase of the disillusionment with jazz that resulted in my return to rock and he was deeply influenced by New Journalism writers such as Gay Talese and Tom Wolfe. My ambitions when I went into journalism were always, to an extent, literary, Christgau initially wrote short stories, before giving up fiction in 1964 to become a sportswriter, and later, a police reporter for the Newark Star-Ledger. He became a writer after a story he wrote about the death of a woman in New Jersey was published by New York magazine. He was asked to take over the dormant music column at Esquire, after Esquire discontinued the column, Christgau moved to The Village Voice in 1969, and he also worked as a college professor. In early 1972, he accepted a job as music critic for Newsday. Christgau returned to the Village Voice in 1974 as music editor and he remained there until August 2006, when he was fired shortly after the papers acquisition by New Times Media. Two months later, Christgau became an editor at Rolling Stone. Late in 2007, Christgau was fired by Rolling Stone, although he continued to work for the magazine for three months. Starting with the March 2008 issue, he joined Blender, where he was listed as senior critic for three issues and then contributing editor, Christgau had been a regular contributor to Blender before he joined Rolling Stone. He continued to write for Blender until the magazine ceased publication in March 2009, in 1987, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in the field of Folklore and Popular Culture to study the history of popular music
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Pitchfork (website)
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Pitchfork is an American online magazine launched in 1995 by Ryan Schreiber, based in Chicago, Illinois and owned by Condé Nast. The site generally concentrates on new music, but Pitchfork journalists have also reviewed reissues, in late 1995, Ryan Schreiber, a recent high school graduate, created the magazine in Minneapolis. Influenced by local fanzines and KUOM, Schreiber, who had no writing experience. At first being Turntable, the site was updated monthly with interviews and reviews, in May 1996, the site began publishing daily and was renamed Pitchfork, alluding to Tony Montanas tattoo in Scarface. In early 1999, Schreiber relocated Pitchfork to Chicago, Illinois, by then, the site had expanded to four full-length album reviews daily, as well as sporadic interviews, features, and columns. It had also begun garnering a following for its coverage of underground music and its writing style. In October, the added a daily music news section. Pitchfork has launched a variety of subsidiary websites, Pitchfork. tv, a website displaying videos related to many independent music acts, launched in April 2008. It features bands that are found on Pitchfork. In July 2010, Pitchfork announced Altered Zones, a blog devoted to underground. On 21 May 2011, Pitchfork announced a partnership with Kill Screen, Altered Zones was closed on November 30. On December 26,2012, Pitchfork launched Nothing Major, a website that covered visual arts such as fine art, Nothing Major closed in October 2013. On October 13,2015, Condé Nast announced that it had acquired Pitchfork, following the sale, Schreiber remained as editor-in-chief. On March 13,2016, Pitchfork was redesigned, some publications have cited Pitchfork in having played a part in breaking artists such as Arcade Fire, Sufjan Stevens, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Interpol, The Go. Conversely, Pitchfork has also seen as being a negative influence on some indie artists. A dismissive 0.0 review of former Dismemberment Plan frontman Travis Morrisons Travistan album led to a sales drop. On the other hand, an endorsement from Pitchfork – which dispenses its approval one-tenth of a point at a time, up to a maximum of 10 points – is very valuable, indeed. Examples of Pitchforks impact include, Arcade Fire is among the bands most commonly cited to have benefited from a Pitchfork review
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PopMatters
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PopMatters is an international online magazine of cultural criticism that covers many aspects of popular culture. PopMatters was founded by Sarah Zupko, who had established the cultural studies academic resource site PopCultures. PopMatters launched in the fall of 1999 as a site providing original essays, reviews. Over time, the site went from a publication schedule to a five-day-a-week magazine format, expanding into regular reviews, features. In the fall of 2005, monthly readership exceeded one million, from 2006 onward, PopMatters produced several syndicated newspaper columns for McClatchy-Tribune News Service. As of 2009, there are four different pop culture related columns each week, the PopMatters Book Imprint published Joss Whedon, The Complete Companion, edited by Mary Money, with Titan Books in May 2012. PopMatters publishes content from contributors located around the globe, based in six continents and its staff includes writers from various backgrounds, ranging from academics and professional journalists to career professionals and first time writers. Many of its writers are published authorities in various fields of study, notable former contributors include David Weigel, political reporter for Slate, Steven Hyden, staff writer for Grantland and author of Whatever Happened To Alternative Nation. And Rob Horning, executive editor of The New Inquiry, karen Zarker is the senior editor
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The Rolling Stone Album Guide
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The Rolling Stone Album Guide, previously known as The Rolling Stone Record Guide, is a book that contains professional music reviews written and edited by staff members from Rolling Stone magazine. Its first edition was published in 1979 and its last in 2004, the guide can be seen at Rate Your Music, while a list of albums given a five star rating by the guide can be seen at Rocklist. net. The Rolling Stone Record Guide was the first edition of what would later become The Rolling Stone Album Guide and it was edited by Dave Marsh and John Swenson, and included contributions from 34 other music critics. It is divided into sections by musical genre and then lists artists alphabetically within their respective genres, Albums are also listed alphabetically by artist although some of the artists have their careers divided into chronological periods. Dave Marsh, in his Introduction, cites as precedents Leonard Maltins book TV Movies and he gives Phonolog and Schwanns Records & Tape Guide as raw sources of information. The first edition included black and white photographs of many of the covers of albums which received five star reviews and these titles are listed together in the Five-Star Records section, which is coincidentally five pages in length. The edition also included reviews for many artists including Lenny Bruce, Lord Buckley, Bill Cosby, The Firesign Theatre, Spike Jones. Comedy artists were listed in the catch-all section Rock, Soul, Country and Pop, which included the genres of folk, bluegrass, funk, traditional pop performers were not included, with the notable exceptions of Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole. Included too were some artists who might now be considered as world music. Big band jazz was handled selectively, with certain band leaders omitted, many other styles of jazz did appear in the Jazz section. The book was notable for the time in the provocative, in your style of many of its reviews. For example, writing about Neil Youngs song, Down by the River and his colleague, Dave Marsh, in reviewing the three albums of the jazz fusion group Chase, gave a one-word review, Flee. Good, a record of average worth, but one that might possess considerable appeal for fans of a particular style, mediocre, a record that is artistically insubstantial, though not truly wretched. Poor, a record where even technical competence is at question or it was remarkably ill-conceived, worthless, a record that need never have been created. Reserved for the most bathetic bathwater, Dave Marsh John Swenson Billy Altman Bob Blumenthal Georgia Christgau Jean-Charles Costa Chet Flippo Russell Gersten Mikal Gilmore Alan E. Like the first edition, it was edited by Dave Marsh and it included contributions from 52 music critics and featured chronological album listings under the name of each artist. In many cases, updates from the first edition consist of short, the only difference is that in addition to a rating, the second edition employs the pilcrow mark to indicate a title that was out of print at the time the guide was published. Many records had their ratings lowered as the book now offered a revisionist slant to rocks history and it included contributions from 16 music critics and featured alphabetical album listings under the name of each artist
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Great American Songbook
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The Great American Songbook, also known as American Standards, is the canon of the most important and influential American popular songs and jazz standards from the early 20th century. They have been recorded and performed by a number and wide range of singers, instrumental bands. The Songbook comprises standards by George Gershwin, Cole Porter, and Irving Berlin, and also Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer, Richard Rodgers, there is no consensus on which songs are in the Great American Songbook. Several music publishing companies, including Hal Leonard, J. W. Pepper & Son, Alfred Music lists the Songbook as its own genre. Music critics have attempted to develop a canon, a composer, Wilder emphasized analysis of composers and their creative efforts in this work. Wilder devotes whole chapters to only six composers, Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, Cole Porter, vincent Youmans and Arthur Schwartz share a chapter, Burton Lane, Hugh Martin and Vernon Duke are covered together in another. Whiting, Ray Noble, John Green, Rube Bloom and Jimmy Van Heusen, Wilder concludes with a catch-all 67-page chapter entitled Outstanding Individual Songs,1920 to 1950, which includes additional individual songs which he considers memorable. From some perspectives, the Songbook era ended with the advent of rock and roll, Radio personality and Songbook devotee Jonathan Schwartz has described this genre as Americas classical music. What makes these songs classic is their lasting value, the following writers and songs are often included in the Great American Songbook, Harold Arlen Irving Berlin Nacio Herb Brown with lyricist Arthur Freed Hoagy Carmichael Cy Coleman J. Many of the songs in the Great American Songbook are in thirty-two-bar form, many were composed for musicals, and some originally included an introductory sectional verse. The sectional verse is an introduction that typically has a free musical structure, speech-like rhythms. The song itself is usually a 32-bar AABA or ABAC form, and the lyrics refer to more universal and timeless situations and themes – typically, for instance. This universality made it easier for songs to be added to or subtracted from a show, a few of the songs which were written with an introductory sectional verse are nearly always performed in full with the introduction. However, the verse, if it exists, is often dropped in performances of Great American Songbook songs outside their original stage or movie context. Whether or not the verse is sung often depends on what the song is. For example, Frank Sinatra never recorded Fly Me to the Moon with the sectional verse. Since the 1930s, many singers have recorded or performed large parts of the Great American Songbook, ella Fitzgeralds popular and influential Songbook series on Verve in the 1950s and 1960s collated 252 songs from the Songbook. These eight collections paid tribute to Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, Duke Ellington, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin, Harold Arlen, Jerome Kern, since the late 20th century, there has been a revival of the Songbook by contemporary singers
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Frank Sinatra
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Francis Albert Sinatra was an American singer, actor, and producer who was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century. He is one of the music artists of all time. Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, to Italian immigrants, Sinatra began his career in the swing era with bandleaders Harry James. Sinatra found success as a solo artist after he signed with Columbia Records in 1943 and he released his debut album, The Voice of Frank Sinatra, in 1946. Sinatras professional career had stalled by the early 1950s, and he turned to Las Vegas and his career was reborn in 1953 with the success of From Here to Eternity, with his performance subsequently winning an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor. Sinatra released several critically lauded albums, including In the Wee Small Hours, Come Fly with Me, Only the Lonely and Nice n Easy. Sinatra left Capitol in 1960 to start his own label, Reprise Records. It was followed by 1968s collaboration with Duke Ellington, using his Las Vegas shows as a home base, he toured both within the United States and internationally until a short time before his death in 1998. Sinatra forged a successful career as a film actor. After winning an Academy Award for From Here to Eternity, he starred in The Man with the Golden Arm and he appeared in various musicals such as On the Town, Guys and Dolls, High Society, and Pal Joey, winning another Golden Globe for the latter. Toward the end of his career, he associated with playing detectives. Sinatra would later receive the Golden Globe Cecil B, on television, The Frank Sinatra Show began on ABC in 1950, and he continued to make appearances on television throughout the 1950s and 1960s. While Sinatra never formally learned how to read music, he had a natural, intuitive understanding of it, a perfectionist, renowned for his impeccable dress sense and cleanliness, he always insisted on recording live with his band. His bright blue eyes earned him the popular nickname Ol Blue Eyes, Sinatra led a colorful personal life, and was often involved in turbulent affairs with women, such as with his second wife Ava Gardner. He went on to marry Mia Farrow in 1966 and Barbara Marx in 1976, Sinatra had several violent confrontations, usually with journalists he felt had crossed him, or work bosses with whom he had disagreements. He was honored at the Kennedy Center Honors in 1983, was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Ronald Reagan in 1985, Sinatra was also the recipient of eleven Grammy Awards, including the Grammy Trustees Award, Grammy Legend Award and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. After his death, American music critic Robert Christgau called him the greatest singer of the 20th century, Francis Albert Sinatra was born on December 12,1915, in an upstairs tenement at 415 Monroe Street in Hoboken, New Jersey. He was the child of Italian immigrants Antonino Martino Marty Sinatra
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Shakespeare
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William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the worlds pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called Englands national poet, and the Bard of Avon and his extant works, including collaborations, consist of approximately 38 plays,154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright, Shakespeare was born and brought up in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children, Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Sometime between 1585 and 1592, he began a career in London as an actor, writer. He appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613, at age 49, Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were primarily comedies and histories, which are regarded as some of the best work ever produced in these genres. He then wrote mainly tragedies until about 1608, including Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, in his last phase, he wrote tragicomedies, also known as romances, and collaborated with other playwrights. Many of his plays were published in editions of varying quality and it was prefaced with a poem by Ben Jonson, in which Shakespeare is hailed, presciently, as not of an age, but for all time. In the 20th and 21st centuries, his works have been adapted and rediscovered by new movements in scholarship. His plays remain highly popular and are studied, performed. William Shakespeare was the son of John Shakespeare, an alderman and a successful glover originally from Snitterfield, and Mary Arden and he was born in Stratford-upon-Avon and baptised there on 26 April 1564. His actual date of birth unknown, but is traditionally observed on 23 April. This date, which can be traced back to an 18th-century scholars mistake, has proved appealing to biographers because Shakespeare died on 23 April 1616 and he was the third child of eight and the eldest surviving son. At the age of 18, Shakespeare married 26-year-old Anne Hathaway, the consistory court of the Diocese of Worcester issued a marriage licence on 27 November 1582. The next day, two of Hathaways neighbours posted bonds guaranteeing that no lawful claims impeded the marriage, twins, son Hamnet and daughter Judith, followed almost two years later and were baptised 2 February 1585. Hamnet died of unknown causes at the age of 11 and was buried 11 August 1596, after the birth of the twins, Shakespeare left few historical traces until he is mentioned as part of the London theatre scene in 1592. The exception is the appearance of his name in the bill of a law case before the Queens Bench court at Westminster dated Michaelmas Term 1588 and 9 October 1589
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Henry V (play)
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Henry V is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1599. It tells the story of King Henry V of England, focusing on events immediately before, in the First Quarto text, it was entitled The Cronicle History of Henry the fift, which became The Life of Henry the Fifth in the First Folio text. The play is the part of a tetralogy, preceded by Richard II, Henry IV, Part 1. In Henry V, the prince has become a mature man. Elizabethan stages did not use scenery, acknowledging the difficulty of conveying great battles and shifts of location on a bare stage, the Chorus calls for a Muse of fire so that the actor playing King Henry can ssume the port of Mars. He asks, Can this cockpit hold / The vasty fields of France, and encourages the audience to use their imaginary forces to overcome the stages limitations, Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts. The early scenes deal with the embarkation of Henrys fleet for France, when the Chorus reappears, he describes the countrys dedication to the war effort – They sell the pasture now to buy the horse. The chorus tells the audience, Well not offend one stomach with our play, at the siege of Harfleur, Henry utters one of Shakespeares best-known speeches, beginning Once more unto the breach, dear friends. He agonizes about the burden of being king, noting that a king is only a man. Before the battle, Henry rallies his troops with the famous St Crispins Day Speech, referring to we few, we happy few, following the victory at Agincourt, Henry attempts to woo the French princess, Catherine of Valois. This is difficult because neither speaks the language well. As with all of Shakespeares serious plays, also a number of comic characters appear whose activities contrast with. In this case, they are mostly common soldiers in Henrys army, and they include Pistol, Nym, and Bardolph from the Henry IV plays. The army also includes a Scot, an Irishman, and an Englishman, and Fluellen, the play also deals briefly with the death of Falstaff, Henrys estranged friend from the Henry IV plays, whom Henry had rejected at the end of Henry IV, Part 2. An earlier play, the Famous Victories of Henry V is also believed to have been a model for the work. On the basis of an apparent allusion to Essexs mission to quell Tyrones Rebellion, Q1 of Henry V is a bad quarto, a shortened version of the play that might be an infringing copy or reported text. A second quarto, a reprint of Q1, was published in 1602 by Pavier, another reprint was issued as Q3 in 1619, the superior text first was printed in the First Folio in 1623. Readers and audiences have interpreted the play’s attitude to warfare in several different ways, on the one hand, it seems to celebrate Henrys invasion of France and valorises military might
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Bob Cole (composer)
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Robert Allen Bob Cole was an African American composer, actor, playwright, and stage producer and director. In collaboration with Billy Johnson, he wrote and produced A Trip to Coontown, the popular song La Hoola Boola was also a result of their collaboration. Cole later partnered with brothers J. Rosamond Johnson, pianist and singer, and James Weldon Johnson, pianist, guitarist and lawyer and their vaudeville act featured classical piano pieces and their musicals featured sophisticated lyrics without the usual stereotypes such as hot-mamas and watermelons. Success enabled Cole and Rosamond to tour America and Europe with their act, the trios most popular songs were Louisiana Lize and Under the Bamboo Tree. Their more successful musicals were The Shoo-Fly Regiment and The Red Moon, Cole committed suicide by drowning himself in a creek in the Catskills in 1911 after a nervous breakdown and period of clinical depression that worsened in 1910. Cole was the pre‑eminent leader in the world of musical theater. As a composer, and even a performer, Cole influenced the development of musical theater. This reveals the difficulty in tracking early African American icons that, even though quite discretely, however, through the use of Thomas L. Riis’ article, an understanding of Bob Cole’s early life is revealed. The composer originated from Athens, Georgia, where his father and mother settled after the freedom of blacks through the Emancipation Proclamation, the town was significantly more progressive and advanced rapidly in all parts of the community, maybe on par in development with that of white communities. For example, there were a number of preachers in the black community – Athens bore thirteen churches. Robert Cole’s political role may have influenced his son’s own beliefs in the age of social and political distraught, during his involvement in politics, from 1867 to 1873, Robert Cole became a part of the black Athenians and assisted the Georgia State Legislature. In the end, Bob Cole’s father, with his side in the background, became a carpenter, supporting his family. Bob Cole, born on July 1,1868, was the first-born of his family and his family was driven in musicality, where both his parents were square dancers and all the children of the household were educated in certain musical instruments. However, after an amount of time, Bob was reunited with his family after they moved to Atlanta. Situated at Atlanta, Bob was able to attend school and possibly high school, however. Still focused on the world and following his musical inclinations, Cole moved to Florida. He later moved to Chicago where he was able to become basically a comedian of a sort – he told jokes, sung, and played the guitar in various clubs throughout the city. His interest towards vaudeville plays and the black musical genre was originated from his work with his fellow peer, Lew Henry
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J. Rosamond Johnson
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John Rosamond Johnson, most often referred to as J. Rosamond Johnson, was an American composer and singer during the Harlem Renaissance. Johnson is most notable as the composer of the hymn Lift Every Voice and his brother, the poet James Weldon Johnson, wrote the lyrics of the famous piece. It was first performed live by 500 Black American students from the segregated Stanton School, Jacksonville, FL, the song was published by Joseph W. Stern & Co. He was born on August 11,1873 and he was the son of Helen Louise Dillet, a native of Nassau, Bahamas, and James Johnson. Johns maternal great-grandmother, Hester Argo, had escaped from Saint-Domingue during the upheaval in 1802. Although originally headed to Cuba, their boat was intercepted by privateers and they were brought to Nassau, Stephen Dillet was the first man of color to win election to the Bahamian legislature in 1833. Johnson was trained at the New England Conservatory and then studied in London and his career began as an interesting public school teacher in his hometown of Jacksonville, Florida. Travelling to New York, he began his business career along with his brother. As a songwriting team, they wrote works such as The Evolution of Ragtime, among the earliest works by the group, this was a suite of six songs of Negro music. They produced two successful Broadway operettas with casts of actors, Shoo-Fly Regiment of 1906 and The Red Moon of 1908. Rosamund, alongside his brother and Cole, evoked a political presence in their inclusion of other races in their musicals, in The Red Moon, Cole and Johnson broke racial lines as they included a love scene between Rosamund’s Green and Mitchell’s Minnehaha. This spotlight on Native Americans was so well received that Rosamund was inducted as a ‘sub-chief’ into the Iroquois tribe of Montreal’s Caugnawago Reservation. Cole and the Johnson brothers also created and produced several musicals, Sleeping Beauty and the Beast in 1901, In Newport in 1904. Johnson would also collaborate to create Hello Paris with J. Leubrie Hill in 1911, Johnson was active in various musical roles during his career. He toured Vaudeville and, after Coles 1911 death, began a tour with Charles Hart. In London, he wrote music for a review from 1912 to 1913 serving a long residency. With his own ensembles, The Harlem Rounders and The Inimitable Five, he toured as well, the London production of Lew Leslies Blackbirds of 1936 engaged Johnson as musical director. During the 1930s, Johnson also sang the role of Frazier in the production of Gershwins Porgy and Bess
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E. Ray Goetz
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Edward Ray Goetz was an American composer, songwriter, author and producer. He was a member of ASCAP in 1914, and was a director until 1917. Goetz appeared in the films Somebody Loves Me, The Greatest Show On Earth and he wrote the songs Toddling The Todalo and For Me And My Gal. He co-wrote the 50 Million Frenchmen musical play with Herbert Fields, on 24 October 1918, Goetz was married to actress Irène Bordoni. In 1912, his sister Dorothy Goetz married songwriter Irving Berlin and she died six months later of typhoid fever contracted during their honeymoon in Havana, Cuba. A song Berlin wrote to express his grief was When I Lost You and his popular-song compositions included Wholl Buy My Violets
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Isham Jones
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Isham Edgar Jones was an American bandleader, saxophonist, bassist and songwriter. Jones was born in Coalton, Ohio, to a musical and mining family, and grew up in Saginaw, Michigan, in 1911 one of Joness earliest compositions On the Alamo was published by Tell Taylor Inc. In 1915 Jones moved to Chicago, Illinois and he performed at the Green Mill Gardens, then began playing at Fred Manns Rainbo Gardens. Chicago remained his home until 1932, when he settled in New York City and he also toured England with his orchestra in 1925. In 1917, he composed the tune Were In The Army Now when United States entered the World War I, the same tune has been popular well again during the World War II and its played even by US Army Band. The Isham Jones band made a series of gramophone records for Brunswick throughout the 1920s. His first 26 sides, made at Rainbo Gardens, were credited to Isham Jones Rainbo Orchestra, by the end of 1920, the name was simply Isham Jones Orchestra. He led one of the most popular bands in the 1920s and 1930s. His first successful recording, Wabash Blues written by Dave Ringle and Fred Meinken, was recorded in 1921 by Isham Jones and this million-seller stayed for twelve weeks in the U. S. charts, six at No.1. It was awarded a gold disc by the RIAA, noted musicians who played in Joness band included Louis Panico, Benny Goodman, Woody Herman, Walt Yoder, and Roy Bargy. Reed virtuoso Al Gallodoro appeared briefly with Jones in 1933, taking part in a record date October 3, Jones was reportedly a strict taskmaster and was known for being rather cold and distant. From the start, his Brunswick records were popular, there was a gap from October 1927 to June 1929 where Jones did not record due to disbanding and reorganization. From 1929 to 1932, his Brunswick recordings became more sophisticated with offbeat arrangements by Gordon Jenkins and others, Jones was his own arranger early on. During this period, Jones started featuring violinist Eddie Stone as one of his regular vocalists, Stone had an unusual, almost humorous tone to his voice. His other vocalists included Frank Sylvano, Billy Scott, and Arthur Jarrett, in 1932, he added Joe Martin, another of the bands violinists, as a frequent vocalist. In April that year, young Bing Crosby recorded two sessions with Joness group which included Sweet Georgia Brown, Crosby at this point in his career was still singing in a jazz idiom, transitioning to his better known crooner style. In August 1932, Jones signed with Victor, and these records are considered among the best arranged and performed commercial dance records of the Depression era. Victors recording technique was suited to Jones band, in October 1932, he teamed up with the Three X Sisters in New York who had just departed from CBS radio
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Gus Kahn
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Gustav Gerson Kahn was an American lyricist. Kahn was born in Koblenz, Germany, in 1886, the family emigrated to the United States and moved to Chicago in 1890. After graduating from school, he worked as a clerk in a mail order business before launching one of the most successful. Kahn married Grace LeBoy in 1916 and they had two children, Donald and Irene, in his early days, Kahn wrote special material for vaudeville. Later, he began writing lyrics for composer and bandleader Isham Jones, throughout the 1920s, Kahn continued to contribute to Broadway scores such as Holka Polka, Kittys Kisses, Artists and Models, Whoopee. and Show Girl. He went on to several movies, mainly for MGM. He had a friendship with Walter Donaldson. Their first collaboration was the song My Buddy in 1922 and they went on to compose over one hundred songs together. Kahn died in Beverly Hills, California, on October 8,1941 and he was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. He was survived by his son, songwriter and musician Donald Kahn, Gus Kahns most famous songs include, My Buddy with music by Walter Donaldson, It Had To Be You with music by Isham Jones, and Makin Whoopee with music by Walter Donaldson. Kahn was also the lyricist for the Ted Healy/Three Stooges short film Beer and Pretzels, Kahn has been incorrectly associated with the song Side by Side which has words and music by Harry Woods. Kahns papers are housed at the Great American Songbook Foundation, a collection guide for his papers can be found here. Everybody Rag with Me Memories Pretty Baby So Long, Mother What Are You Going to Do to Help the Boys and your Eyes Have Told Me So Aint We Got Fun. American Songwriters, An H. W. Wilson Biographical Dictionary, ISBN 0-8242-0744-0 OCLC14357785 Furia, Philip. ISBN 0-7876-6009-4 OCLC50004668 Kahn, Gus, ill See You in My Dreams. OCLC650149287 Kahn, Gus, Bronislaw Kaper, and Walter Jurmann, new York, Robbins Music Corp,1937. American Popular Song Lyricists, Oral Histories, 1920s–1960s
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Irving Berlin
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Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history. His music forms a part of the Great American Songbook. Born in Imperial Russia, Berlin arrived in the United States at the age of five. He published his first song, Marie from Sunny Italy, in 1907, receiving 33 cents for the publishing rights and he also was an owner of the Music Box Theatre on Broadway. Alexanders Ragtime Band sparked a dance craze in places as far away as Berlins native Russia. In doing so, said Walter Cronkite, at Berlins 100th birthday tribute, he helped write the story of country, capturing the best of who we are. He wrote hundreds of songs, many becoming major hits, which him a legend before he turned thirty. During his 60-year career he wrote an estimated 1,500 songs, including the scores for 19 Broadway shows and 18 Hollywood films, with his songs nominated eight times for Academy Awards. Many songs became popular themes and anthems, including Easter Parade, White Christmas, Happy Holiday, This Is the Army, Mr. Jones, and Theres No Business Like Show Business. His Broadway musical and 1942 film, This is the Army, Celine Dion recorded it as a tribute, making it no.1 on the charts after the September 11 attacks in 2001. In 2015, pianist and composer Hershey Felder began touring nationwide as a show, portraying Berlin. Composer George Gershwin called him the greatest songwriter that has ever lived, Berlin was born on May 11,1888, in Tolochin, Russian Empire. He was one of eight children of Moses and Lena Lipkin Beilin and his father, a cantor in a synagogue, uprooted the family to America, as did many other Jewish families in the late 19th century. In 1893 they settled in New York City, as of the 1900 census, the name Beilin had changed to Baline. By daylight the house was in ashes, as an adult, Berlin said he was unaware of being raised in abject poverty since he knew no other life. Tsar Alexander III of Russia and then Tsar Nicholas II, his son, had revived with utmost brutality the anti-Jewish pogroms, which created the spontaneous mass exodus to America. When they reached Ellis Island, Israel was put in a pen with his brother and his Yiddish-speaking family eventually settled on Cherry Street, a windowless cold-water basement flat in the Theater District of the Lower East Side. His father, unable to find work as a cantor in New York, took a job at a kosher meat market and gave Hebrew lessons on the side
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You Made Me Love You (I Didn't Want to Do It)
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You Made Me Love You is a popular song. The music was written by James V. Monaco, the lyrics by Joseph McCarthy, the song was published in 1913. It was introduced in the Broadway revue The Honeymoon Express and used in the 1973 revival of the musical Irene, one of the earliest recordings of the song was by Al Jolson. Jolson recorded the song on June 4,1913 and it was released on Columbia A-1374. He performed it on the soundtrack of the 1946 film The Jolson Story, the record was released on Decca 23613. Roger Edens wrote additional lyrics to the song for Judy Garland, the new lyrics cast Garland in the role of a teenage fan of Clark Gable. Garland sang the song to Gable at a party thrown for him by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. MGM executives were so charmed by her rendition that she and the song were added to the film Broadway Melody of 1938, Garland recorded the Gable version on September 24,1937. It was released on Decca 1463, MGM released the song as a b-side in 1939, opposite Garlands recording of Over the Rainbow for The Wizard of Oz. Harry James performed an instrumental version of the song as a trumpet solo. It topped the charts in 1941, the Four Freshmen included it on their 19554 Freshmen and 5 Trombones album. Screamin Jay Hawkins recorded the song for a single in 1957 You Made Me Love You / Darling and it later appeared on his 1957 debut album At Home with Screamin Jay Hawkins. Country Music singer Patsy Cline recorded the song for her 1962 album Sentimentally Yours, Aretha Franklin recorded the song for her album The Electrifying Aretha Franklin. Harry Nilsson sings the song on his 1973 covers album A Little Touch of Schmilsson in the Night, british comedian Bernard Manning performed the song on side one of his 1975 album My Kind of Music. Canadian Brass recorded a version of the song for their CD High Society. Rufus Wainwright sings the song on his 2007 album, Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall, barry Manilow covered the song on his 2010 collection, The Greatest Love Songs of All Time. Gloria Estefan covered the song on her 2013 album, The Standards, Taylor Walling of the band The Wallings Jr. covered the song on the soundtrack for the 2014 romantic drama The Song. The melody was featured prominently in the score for the 1943 Edward Dmytryk movie Tender Comrade starring Ginger Rogers, doris Day performed the song in the 1955 Ruth Etting biographical film Love Me or Leave Me
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Sylvia Fine
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Sylvia Fine was an American lyricist, composer, and producer, and the wife of the comedian Danny Kaye. She and her husband grew up within blocks of each other in Brooklyn. Sylvia Fine was born in Brooklyn, New York, the youngest of three children of a Jewish dentist, and raised in East New York. She attended Thomas Jefferson High School and studied music at Brooklyn College and she was working as an audition pianist when she met Danny Kaye, both were working on a short-lived Broadway show. Fine also wrote the lyrics and music for it, though the pair had never met before, they discovered something in common. Kaye had once worked for Fines father, watching his office while the dentist went to lunch, dr. Fine also had to fire his future son-in-law for doing woodworking with his dental drills. After a whirlwind romance, they were married on 3 January 1940, Kaye proposed on the telephone while working in Florida, Fine was in New York. She made the trip to Fort Lauderdale where they were married and she took a direct role in managing her husbands career and wrote many of his songs for him, both in film and recordings. Those for the film The Court Jester were co-written with Sammy Cahn, Fine was also an associate producer of some of the films. Fine received a Peabody Award in 1980, and during her career she was nominated for two Oscars and two Emmys. She began working in production with her husbands 1960s television shows. The New York Times reported, In the 1970s, embarked on a career as a television producer and teacher. She began teaching musical comedy at the University of Southern California in 1971, in 1979, she produced and narrated the course as a 90-minute PBS program, Musical Comedy Tonight, which won a Peabody Award. In 1975 she was producer for a television special, Danny Kaye. She also produced and edited Assignment Children, a UNICEF film that starred her husband, in the last three years of her life, she had been writing an autobiography, Fine and Danny, about her life with Kaye for Knopf Books. Fine and Kaye had a daughter, Dena, born on 17 December 1946, Sylvia Fine Kaye died of emphysema at the age of 78 in her Manhattan apartment in 1991. She is buried with her husband at Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, in 1992, her daughter, Dena Kaye, was quoted in a newspaper article, recalling Fines advice to her and the influence it had in her life. Both Fine and Kaye were determined not to influence their daughters choices as she grew up, in a 1954 interview, Kaye stated that, Whatever she wants to be she will be without interference from her mother nor from me
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I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now
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I Wonder Whos Kissing Her Now is a popular song. The music was written by Joseph E. Howard, the lyrics by Will M. Hough, the song was published in 1909. It was first introduced in the 1909 musical The Prince Of Tonight, the song is now considered a pop standard, recorded by many artists. The same title was used in a 1947 movie I Wonder Whos Kissing Her Now starring June Haver and Mark Stevens about songwriter Joseph E. Howard
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Joseph E. Howard
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Joseph Edgar Howard, known as Joe Howard was a Broadway composer, lyricist, and librettist. A famed member of Tin Pan Alley along with wife and composer Ida Emerson as part of the team of Howard and Emerson. Ma Baby and Broadway musicals like I Wonder Whos Kissing Her Now, Joseph Howard was born on February 12,1878 in New York City. He toured in a stock production of Little Eva, then performed in vaudeville as a boy soprano at the age of 11. He was married to singer actress Mabel Barrison, who died in 1912, at 17, he met a young singer named Ida Emerson who would become his second wife. They played the Midwestern vaudeville circuit, drawing notice enough in Chicago to obtain an engagement in New York at Tony Pastors Music Hall on 14th Street and their fortunes improved in 1899 when they wrote the song Hello. They found themselves space at the famed Tin Pan Alley where they continued to write songs for vaudeville and they penned another hit, Goodbye, My Lady Love, in 1904. They moved back to Chicago, where Howard performed and composed his tunes, Howard produced a string of pop jazz hits, including Whats the Use of Dreaming. I Dont Like Your Family, and A Boys Best Friend Is His Mother, the tunes that he is most often associated with in modern times are Hello. Ma Baby and I Wonder Whos Kissing Her Now, Howard performed in nightclubs, theaters, radio and television throughout his career. His writing slacked off between 1915 and 1939, then picked up again and he made recordings for the Decca and Vocalion labels in the late 1940s. In 1947, a picture was produced based on Howards biography called I Wonder Whos Kissing Her Now, starring Mark Stevens. The film generated controversy when a former employee sued, proved his authorship of the composition. Howard hosted the live television series The Gay Nineties Revue. In the late 1950s, he published an autobiography entitled Gay Nineties Troubadour, Howard died on stage in Chicago while singing Let Me Call You Sweetheart during a curtain call on May 19,1961. Orlob won his suit, which sought no compensation but asked to have Howards name removed as the primary composer, Joe Howard was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame by the ASCAP Hall of Fame Committee in 1970. Collaborating with songwriters such as wife Ida Emerson, Frank R. Adams, Will Hough and Harold Orlob, Howard produced such hits as, Howard, Joseph E. Gay Nineties Troubador, Autobiography of Joe Howard, American Composer of I Wonder Whos Kissing Her Now. Miami Beach, FL, Joe Howard Music House,1956
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Bert Kalmar
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Bert Kalmar was a Jewish American lyricist, who was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970. Kalmar, a native of New York City, left school at an early age and he appeared on stage as a magician, comedian and dancer before switching to songwriting after a knee injury ended his performing career. By this time he had earned enough to start a publishing company, Kalmar and Puck. Together, they wrote the score for the Marx Brothers stage production of Animal Crackers. Their songs were featured in the Marx Brothers films Horse Feathers. Kalmars partnership with Ruby was portrayed in the 1950 MGM musical Three Little Words, starring Fred Astaire, Kalmar did, however, occasionally work with Oscar Hammerstein II, Ted Snyder and other songwriters. Bert Kalmar was married to Jessie Brown, with whom he had two children and he died in Los Angeles, California and was interred at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale, California. 1923, Kalmar and Rubys first big hit, I Wanna Be Loved by You 1928, a hit for Helen Kane, known as the Boop-boop-a-doop girl, and sung by Marilyn Monroe in the film Some Like It Hot. I Love You So Much 1928 Three Little Words 1930, their biggest hit, nevertheless 1931, a hit for both Bing Crosby and Rudy Vallee, later done by The Mills Brothers and Frank Sinatra. Im Against It, I Always Get My Man and Everyone Says I Love You from Horsefeathers 1932, Hail, Hail Fredonia from Duck Soup,1933. What A Perfect Combination 1932, lyrics by Kalmar and Irving Caesar, music by Ruby and Harry Akst, a Kiss to Build a Dream On 1935, their last hit
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Harry Ruby
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Harry Ruby was a Jewish American composer and screenwriter, who was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970. Ruby was born in New York City, Ruby died in Woodland Hills, California and was interred at the Chapel of the Pines in Los Angeles. A good friend of Groucho Marx, Ruby appeared several times on his television program, in his 1972 concert at Carnegie Hall, Marx gave the following introduction before performing a song of Rubys, I have a friend in Hollywood. I think I do, Im not so sure and his name is Harry Ruby and he wrote a lot of songs that Ive sung over the years. 16 men in that orchestra, nine of them are illegitimate children, nine and a half including the director. The tie that you got Didnt cost such a lot And well give you the same tie next year. You tell us it was nice of us to bother But it really was a pleasure to fuss For they say, and you are the one for us. Songs My Mother Never Sang Random House B002B9VFCA The Four Marx Brothers in Monkey Business and Duck Soup Simon & Schuster 978-0671212735 S. J
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