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Elmer Bernstein. 14. also charted by Elmer Bernstein US# 16, Dick Jacobs US#22, The McGuire Sisters (as “Delilah Jones", lyrics by Sylvia Fine) US#37 #24UK, Billy May UK #9, Jet Harris 1962 #12UK. May 15. Picnic. “ Theme from Picnic ”. The McGuire Sisters. music by George Duning, lyrics by Steve Allen.
t. e. AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs is a list of the top 100 songs in American cinema of the 20th century. The list was unveiled by the American Film Institute on June 22, 2004, in a CBS television special hosted by John Travolta, who appeared in two films honored by the list, Saturday Night Fever and Grease. The list was created by a panel of ...
Broadway Melody of 1940 is a 1940 MGM film musical starring Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell and George Murphy (Astaire's first male dancing partner on film [1]). It was directed by Norman Taurog and features music by Cole Porter, including "Begin the Beguine". The film was the fourth and final entry in MGM's "Broadway Melody" series of films, and ...
Pop. Bing Crosby was the best selling pop artist of the 1940s. Ragtime, a genre that first became popular in the 1890s, was popular through about the 1940s. After its best-known exponent, Scott Joplin, died in 1917, the genre faded. As the 1920s unfolded, jazz rapidly took over as the dominant form of popular music in the United States.
Number ones. Bing Crosby had the highest number of hits at the top of the Billboard number-one singles chart during the 1940s (9 songs). In addition, Crosby remained the longest at the top of the Billboard number-one singles chart during the 1940s (55 weeks). Jimmy Dorsey remained at the top of the Billboard number-one singles chart for 32 weeks.
Alvin and the Chipmunks. Atlantis SquarePantis (animated television film) August Rush. Barbie as the Island Princess (animated direct-to-video) Christmas Is Here Again (animated direct-to-video) Cinderella III: A Twist in Time (animated direct-to-video) Colma: The Musical. Crazy. Enchanted.
s All-Time 100 Movies. All-TIME 100 Movies is a list compiled by TIME magazine of the 100 "greatest" films that were released between March 3, 1923—when the first issue of TIME was published—and early 2005, when the list was compiled. [1] Compiled by critics Richard Schickel and Richard Corliss, the list generated significant attention ...
Rock & Roll began to dominate popular music starting in the mid-1950s with origins in a variety of genres including blues, rhythm & blues, country, and pop. Major rock artists of the 1950s include Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ritchie Valens, Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent, Carl Perkins, Bill Haley, and ...