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The song was first performed in 1930, but Nina Simone’s version featuring her sultry voice made it a 1950s hit. The jazz song also had a resurgence in 1987 due to a Chanel No. 5 commercial. JP ...
From the '50s and '60s is a compilation album of television theme songs released by Tee-Vee Toons in 1985 as the first volume of the Television's Greatest Hits series. It was initially released as a double LP record featuring 65 themes from television shows ranging from the mid-1950s until the late 1960s.
Dinah Shore singing "See the U.S.A. in Your Chevrolet" in a television advertisement for the 1959 Chevrolet Impala. "See The USA In Your Chevrolet" is a commercial jingle from c. 1949, with lyrics and music by Leo Corday [1] and Leon Carr [2] of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP).
Before the 20th century popular songs frequently borrowed hymn tunes and other church music and substituted secular words. John Brown's Body, the marching song of the American Civil War, was based on the tune of an earlier camp-meeting and revival hymn, and was later fitted with the words "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord", by Julia Ward Howe. [1]
ABBA Christmas — This infomercial spoof promotes a never-released album of holiday songs from "The Fleetwood Mac of cold weather" (Bowen Yang, episode host Kate McKinnon, and McKinnon's fellow SNL alums Maya Rudolph and Kristen Wiig), all set to the tunes of their well-known classics (e.g. "Gifts for Me, Gifts for You"). [7]
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"Zorro" is a song written by Norman Foster and George Bruns and performed by The Chordettes. [1] In 1958, the track reached No. 17 on the Billboard Hot 100. [2]The song was a version of the theme from the TV series Zorro.
After the show was revamped in September 1957, the top songs were reduced to five, while "extras" were increased. On the TV series, vocalists Dorothy Collins (1950–57, 1958–59), Russell Arms (1952–57), Snooky Lanson (1950–57) and Gisèle MacKenzie (1953–57) were top-billed during the show's peak years. During this time, MacKenzie had ...