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The Mills Brothers ad in The Film Daily, 1932. The Mills Brothers, sometimes billed The Four Mills Brothers and originally known as Four Boys and a Guitar, [1] were an American jazz and traditional pop vocal quartet who made more than 2,000 recordings that sold more than 50 million copies and garnered at least three dozen gold records.
"Yellow Bird" has also been recorded by Keely Smith, Roger Whitaker, Davy Graham, Roger Williams, Johnny Tillotson, The Brothers Four, Gary Crosby, Lawrence Welk, The Paragons and Paul Clayton. The song continues to be popularly associated with calypso and the Caribbean, and is often performed by steelpan bands—but some versions, such as ...
Yellow Bird (Dot, 1961) Great Hawaiian Hits (Dot, 1961) Sing Beer Barrel Polka and Other Golden Hits (Dot, 1962) The End of the World (Dot, 1963) Say Si Si (Dot, 1964) Gems by the Mills Brothers (Dot, 1964) Sing for You (Hamilton, 1964) The Mills Brothers Today! (Dot, 1965) The Mills Brothers in Tivoli (Dot, 1966) These Are the Mills Brothers ...
"Cab Driver" is a song written by Carson Parks and performed by The Mills Brothers featuring Sy Oliver and His Orchestra. It reached #3 on the Easy Listening chart, #21 on the Cashbox chart, and #23 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1968. [1] It was featured on their 1968 album Fortuosity. [2]
The Board of Directors is an LP album by The Mills Brothers with Count Basie and Orchestra. [1] [2] It was released in 1968, was recorded at the A & R Recording Studios in New York City on November 20–21, 1967 with the arrangements and conducting by Dick Hyman, and sound engineering was by Phil Ramone.
The recording by The Mills Brothers was released by Decca Records as catalog number 18599. It first reached the Billboard Best Seller chart on June 22, 1944, and lasted 20 weeks on the chart, peaking at number one. The Mills Brothers version also reached number five on the Harlem Hit Parade. [6]
The Brothers Four is the debut studio album by The Brothers Four. ... "Yellow Bird" (Alan and Marilyn Bergman, Norman Luboff) "Angelique-O" (Lord Burgess, ...
The Mills Brothers' version of the song was featured on an episode of the TV show The Others entitled "Till Then" (April 29, 2000, Season 1 – Episode 10).; The Mills Brothers' recording of the song can be heard in Millennium episode "Matryoshka", which starred Lance Henriksen and first aired on 19 February 1999.