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Included in Peggy Lee 1961 Capitol T-1475 LP album Olé ala Lee. [7]Dinah Shore sang it in 1955 when it briefly reached No. 20 on the U.S. Song charts. [8]Bing Crosby recorded the song in 1955 [9] for use on his radio show and it was subsequently included in the box set The Bing Crosby CBS Radio Recordings (1954-56) issued by Mosaic Records (catalog MD7-245) in 2009.
Cahn wrote the lyrics to "Love and Marriage," later used as the ironic theme song for the FOX TV show Married... with Children. The song originally debuted in a 1955 television production of Our Town, and won an Emmy Award in 1956. This was only one of many songs that Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen wrote for Frank Sinatra. They were "almost ...
Hoagland Howard "Hoagy" Carmichael (November 22, 1899 – December 27, 1981) was an American musician, composer, songwriter, actor, author and lawyer.Carmichael was one of the most successful Tin Pan Alley songwriters of the 1930s and 1940s, and was among the first singer-songwriters in the age of mass media to utilize new communication technologies such as old-time radio broadcasts ...
Simply put: Love songs have stood the test of time through so many decades. Seriously, the ’60s and ’70s were all about soul and funk, while the ’80s ushered in pop and rock.
Additionally, she co-wrote popular secular songs, as well as political and patriotic songs and at least five cantatas on biblical and patriotic themes, including The Flower Queen, the first secular cantata by an American composer. She was committed to Christian rescue missions and was known for her public speaking.
Taylor Swift once wrote a song inspired by the love story between Robert F. Kennedy and his wife, Ethel Kennedy.. Ethel (née Skakel), who died from stroke complications on Oct. 10 at the age of ...
James Van Heusen (born Edward Chester Babcock; January 26, 1913 – February 6, 1990 [1]) was an American composer.He wrote songs for films, television, and theater, and won an Emmy and four Academy Awards for Best Original Song. [2]
She became a teacher, and was widowed when her husband Bedford Russell was killed in World War II. She remarried in 1946, with one son; her 1950 marriage to Art Wilkin, Jr. was her third. Her father, a baker, had been a fiddle player. From 1955 she toured with Red Foley, and in 1956 her songs were recorded by Mitchell Torok and Wanda Jackson.