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"And the Angels Sing" (Johnny Mercer, Ziggy Elman) - 3:04 "Green Eyes" — Featuring The Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra with Rosemary Clooney (Eddie Rivera, Eddie Woods, Nilo Menendez) - 3:19 (with Rosemary Clooney) "I Should Care" (Sammy Cahn, Axel Stordahl, Paul Weston) - 3:02
Ziggy Elman and His Orchestra Musical artist Harry Aaron Finkelman (May 26, 1914 – June 26, 1968), [ 1 ] known professionally as Ziggy Elman , was an American jazz trumpeter associated with Benny Goodman , though he also led his own group, Ziggy Elman and His Orchestra.
Paul Weston (né Wetstein; March 12, 1912 – September 20, 1996) was an American pianist, arranger, composer, and conductor who worked in music and television from the 1930s to the 1970s, pioneering mood music [broken anchor] and becoming known as "the Father of Mood Music".
According to Paul, the final recording featured 12 guitar parts and 12 vocal parts. [ 6 ] The record was released on March 26 by Capitol Records as catalog number 1451, with the flip side "Walkin' and Whistlin' Blues", [ 7 ] and spent 25 weeks (beginning on March 23, 1951) on the Billboard chart, [ 5 ] 9 weeks at #1.
The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert by Benny Goodman, Columbia Records catalogue item SL-160, is a two-disc LP of swing and jazz music recorded at Carnegie Hall in New York City on January 16, 1938.
Although best known as an arranger, Stordahl also composed a number of songs of which "Day by Day" with music by Axel Stordahl and Paul Weston and lyrics by Sammy Cahn, is the best known. [ 1 ] In 1961, Sinatra returned to collaborate with an ailing Stordahl for his final Capitol concept album, Point of No Return .
In 1939, Mercer wrote the lyrics to a melody by Ziggy Elman, a trumpet player with Benny Goodman. The song was "And the Angels Sing" and, although recorded by Crosby and Count Basie, it was the Goodman version with vocal by Martha Tilton and klezmer style trumpet solo by Elman that became a major hit. Years later, the title was inscribed on ...
Track Song Title Length 1. Weary Blues Composed by George Cates, Bud Green, Artie Matthews: 3:17 2. Royal Garden Blues Composed by Clarence and Spencer Williams