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Swing Fever is a collaborative album by British singer Rod Stewart and English composer Jools Holland, released on 23 February 2024. It features Holland's Rhythm and Blues Orchestra , and contains covers of songs from the big band era.
5 "Sailing" was in 1976 used as the theme music for the BBC documentary series Sailor, about HMS Ark Royal, and when it was subsequently re-released it reached number 3 on the UK Singles Chart. In 1987, the song made a new chart appearance in the UK when re-released as a charity single after the Zeebrugge ferry disaster , reaching number 41 on ...
The singles discography of American singer-songwriter Peggy Lee contains 157 singles, 18 promotional singles and eight other charted songs. Lee's first singles were in collaboration with Benny Goodman and His Orchestra, beginning 1941's "Elmer's Tune".
Stacker surveyed Billboard's Hot 100 chart in 1975 to highlight the top 50 songs turning 50 in 2025. ... when "Saturday Night Fever" was released in theaters, the disco craze was in full swing by ...
The following is a list of albums, EPs, and mixtapes released in 2024. These albums are (1) original, i.e. excluding reissues , remasters , and compilations of previously released recordings, and (2) notable , defined as having received significant coverage from reliable sources independent of the subject.
Thomas Francis Dorsey Jr. (November 19, 1905 – November 26, 1956) [1] was an American jazz trombonist, composer, conductor and bandleader of the big band era.He was known as the "Sentimental Gentleman of Swing" because of his smooth-toned trombone playing. [2]
He also landed a job with MGM from 1949 to the mid-50s, and was involved in the music for films such as Singin' in the Rain and A Star Is Born. [ 2 ] The Zentner band began recording for Liberty Records in 1959, recording numerous successful pop/jazz albums during the 1960s and touring steadily with a large outfit. [ 2 ]
Swing Fever is a 1943 American musical comedy film directed by Tim Whelan. Kay Kyser plays an ambitious music composer, also gifted with a hypnotic "evil eye", who gets mixed up with promoting a boxer.