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Writer George T. Simon, while working on a compilation of music for The Big Band Songbook, contacted composer Will Hudson regarding "Moonglow", and Hudson explained how the tune came about. "It happened very simply. Back in the early '30s, I had a band at the Graystone Ballroom in Detroit, and I needed a theme song. So I wrote 'Moonglow'."
The Moonglows, "I Knew from the Start", 1956 The Moonglows, "Over and Over Again", 1956. The Moonglows were an American R&B group in the 1950s. Their song "Sincerely" went to number 1 on the Billboard R&B chart and number 20 on the Billboard Juke Box chart.
Anything Goes is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter.The original book was a collaborative effort by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse, revised considerably by the team of Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. [1]
Fuqua co-wrote one of the most famous disco instrumentals, "K-Jee", recorded originally by The Nite-liters, from which New Birth was an offshoot band, and then Philadelphia session musicians MFSB for the movie Saturday Night Fever. Fuqua resided in Las Vegas, Nevada, until his death from a heart attack in a hospital in Detroit on July 6, 2010. [8]
Neal Hefti, New York, c. December 1946 Clockwise from left: Eddie Sauter, Edwin Finckel, George Handy, Johnny Richards, Neal Hefti, and Ralph Burns at the Museum of Modern Art, New York ca. 1947. After playing with Horace Heidt in Los Angeles for a few months in 1944, Hefti met up with Woody Herman who was out in California making a band picture.
The 1933 piece, "Moonglow", was written by Will Hudson, Irving Mills and Eddie DeLange.The 1955 piece, "Theme from Picnic", was written by George Duning.(Steve Allen set lyrics to the tune, and is credited on vocal versions of the song as a co-author, but not on the hit instrumental versions by Stoloff and others.)
"Sincerely" is a popular song written by Harvey Fuqua and Alan Freed and first released by The Moonglows in 1954. [3]The Moonglows recorded the song during their first session for Chess Records, which took place in October, 1954 at Universal Recording Corporation in Chicago. [1]
Eddie Condon's was the name of three successive jazz venues in New York run by jazz banjoist, guitarist, and bandleader Eddie Condon from 1945 until the mid-1980s. [1] In 1975, Red Balaban took over the management of the club. [2] Ed Polcer was also a part-owner at the time of the club's closing. [1]