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"Moonlight Serenade" is an American swing ballad composed by Glenn Miller with subsequent lyrics by Mitchell Parish. It was an immediate phenomenon when released in May 1939 as an instrumental arrangement, though it had been adopted and performed as Miller's signature tune as early as 1938, even before it had been given the name "Moonlight Serenade".
Ella Fitzgerald Sings Sweet Songs for Swingers is a 1959 album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, recorded with a studio Orchestra arranged and conducted by Frank DeVol. Ella focuses on well known jazz standards by lesser known songwriters, a useful counterbalance to her continuing songbooks project, which at this time found her in ...
"Moonlight Serenade" [10] [200] [201] was composed by Glenn Miller with lyrics by Mitchell Parish. Miller's orchestra used it as their signature tune, [202] and their recording charted at number three in 1939. [203] The song was recorded by rhythm and blues group The Rivieras in 1959. [203] Carly Simon sang it on her 2005 album Moonlight ...
Moonlight Serenade was composed by Glenn Miller with lyrics added later by Mitchell Parish. The recording reached no. 3 on Billboard and was the no. 5 record on the 1939 Billboard year-end list of the top recordings of 1939. "Over the Rainbow" [11] [182] is a ballad from the film The Wizard of Oz, composed by Harold Arlen with lyrics by Yip ...
Chick Webb Orchestra (vocal Ella Fitzgerald) "Undecided" [30] Decca 2323: February 17, 1939 () March 1939 () US Billboard 1939 #120, US #8 for 1 week, 4 total weeks 8: Ella Fitzgerald And Her Famous Orchestra "I Want the Waiter (With the Water)" [31] Decca 2628: June 29, 1939 () September 1939 ()
Between 1938 and 1944, Glenn Miller and His Orchestra released 266 singles on the monaural ten-inch shellac 78 rpm format. Their studio output comprised a variety of musical styles inside of the Swing genre, including ballads, band chants, dance instrumentals, novelty tracks, songs adapted from motion pictures, and, as the Second World War approached, patriotic music.
Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996) was an American singer, songwriter and composer, sometimes referred to as the "First Lady of Song", "Queen of Jazz", and "Lady Ella". She was noted for her purity of tone, impeccable diction , phrasing, timing, intonation , absolute pitch , and a "horn-like" improvisational ability ...
These are the Blues is a 1963 studio album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald featuring trumpeter Roy Eldridge and organist Wild Bill Davis. Sleeve artwork was painted by David Stone Martin. This is Fitzgerald's only example of recording an entire album of blues songs.