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Jazz: Songwriter(s) Johnny Mercer (1909-1976), Hoagy Carmichael (1899-1981) "Skylark" is an American popular song with lyrics by ... Marion Montgomery – Skylark ...
This is an A–Z list of jazz tunes which have been covered by multiple jazz artists. It includes the more popular jazz standards, lesser-known or minor standards, and many other songs and compositions which may have entered a jazz musician's or jazz singer's repertoire or be featured in the Real Books, but may not be performed as regularly or as widely as many of the popular standards.
Carlo Jackie Paris (September 20, 1924 – June 17, 2004 [1]) was an American jazz singer and guitarist. He is best known for his recordings of "Skylark" and "'Round Midnight" from the late 1940s to the early 1950s.
"Skylark" [13] [61] [62] is a song composed by Hoagy Carmichael with lyrics by Johnny Mercer. "That Old Black Magic" is a song composed by Harold Arlen, with lyrics by Johnny Mercer. Jazz-oriented artists who recorded it include Glenn Miller, Judy Garland, Louis Prima and Keely Smith, and the Freddie Slack Orchestra featuring Margaret Whiting ...
The Complete Lyrics of Johnny Mercer was published by Knopf [48] in October 2009. The Complete Lyrics contains the texts to nearly 1,500 of his lyrics, several hundred of them appearing in print for the first time. In November 2009, a bronze statue of Mercer was unveiled in Ellis Square in Savannah, Georgia, his hometown and birthplace. It was ...
In 1961, 19-year-old Robert Allen Zimmerman dropped out of college in his native Minnesota, made a pilgrimage to New York City to meet his folk music idol Woody Guthrie, and decided to become, in ...
Hoagland Howard "Hoagy" Carmichael (November 22, 1899 – December 27, 1981) was an American musician, composer, songwriter, actor, author and lawyer.Carmichael was one of the most successful Tin Pan Alley songwriters of the 1930s and 1940s, and was among the first singer-songwriters in the age of mass media to utilize new communication technologies such as old-time radio broadcasts ...
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