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Kaye's debut album, Columbia Presents Danny Kaye, had been released in 1942 by Columbia Records with songs performed to the accompaniment of Maurice Abravanel and Johnny Green. The album was reissued as a Columbia LP in 1949 and is described by the critic Bruce Eder as "a bit tamer than some of the stuff that Kaye hit with later in the '40s and ...
Golden Records featured children's recordings by Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, Danny Kaye, Kay Lande, Alfred Hitchcock, Johnny Cash, Captain Kangaroo, Art Carney, and many more. [ citation needed ] Golden Records also issued educational records, such as A Golden Treasury of Poetry , a collection of classic poems read by Alexander Scourby ...
"Thumbelina" is a show tune from the 1952 film Hans Christian Andersen written by American songwriter Frank Loesser and performed by Danny Kaye. [2] It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 25th Academy Awards. [3]
Inchworm has been performed in skits on Jim Henson's Sesame Street and The Muppet Show; the song was done twice by Charles Aznavour, once in a regular sketch, and then again with Danny Kaye and the Muppets when he was on the show. The song was performed on the American children's television show Curiosity Shop (ABC).
A studio cast recording of the film's songs was released by Decca, with Danny Kaye and Jane Wyman, as well as a backup chorus singing the songs. The album also included two Sylvia Fine originals made specifically for the album, "Uncle Pockets" and "There's a Hole at the Bottom of the Sea", and Danny Kaye's narration of two Tubby the Tuba ...
The Clinger sisters singing with Danny Kaye The Clinger sisters The Clinger Sisters in 1963. Melody Clinger, the oldest of nine children, showed an early talent for music when she harmonized with songs on the radio. [2] Her mother started singing duets with her in the mid-1950s, [3] and she sang with her sisters in church. [2]
Danny Kaye reads "The Match Girl" on Side B of Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales (Golden Records, 1962), later re-issued on CD as part of Danny Kaye Re-tells Grimm's & Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales (Golden Records, 2008) The record "Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol" published by Peter Pan Records features a reading on the B side.
In 1976, this was the first of two TV musical adaptations of a children's classic starring Danny Kaye and costarring a female as a young boy. On December 12, 1976, NBC telecast Peter Pan with Kaye as Captain Hook and Mia Farrow in the title role. Ron Field was choreographer.