Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Flamingo" (1940) is a popular song and jazz standard written by Ted Grouya with lyrics by Edmund Anderson and first recorded by singer Herb Jeffries and the Duke Ellington Orchestra on December 28, 1940, for Victor Records (catalog No. 27326B). [1]
Pages in category "1940 songs" ... Flamingo (song) Fools Rush In (Where Angels Fear to Tread) Frenesi; G. Give a Little Whistle; Go West Young Man (Groucho Marx song) H.
Ted Grouya (31 July 1910 – 14 April 2000) born Teodor Gruia in Bucharest, Romania, was a Romanian-American composer who studied composition with Nadia Boulanger.He wrote the jazz standard "Flamingo" (1940), first recorded by Herb Jeffries and Duke Ellington.
Throughout most of the 1940s the magazine published the following three charts: Best Selling Singles – ranked the biggest selling singles in retail stores, as reported by merchants surveyed throughout the country. Most Played Juke Box Records (debuted January 1944) – ranked the most played songs in jukeboxes across the United States.
"Flamingo" (song), a 1940 song written by Ted Grouya and Edmund Anderson ... "Flamingo", a 1973 song from the album A Wizard, a True Star by Todd Rundgren
The following songs appeared in The Billboard's 'Best Selling Retail Records' chart during 1940. Each week fifteen points were awarded to the number one record, then nine points for number two, eight points for number three, and so on.
But it was a 1940s song, and later, a movie, both titled "Rosie the Riveter," that immortalized the mothers, daughters, sisters, wives, and girlfriends, who kept the home fires burning and went to ...
The swing era lasted until the mid-1940s, and produced popular tunes such as Duke Ellington's "Cotton Tail" (1940) and Billy Strayhorn's "Take the 'A' Train" (1941). When the big bands struggled to keep going during World War II , a shift was happening in jazz in favor of smaller groups.