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"The Great Pretender" is a popular song recorded by the Platters, with Tony Williams on lead vocals, and released as a single in November 1955. The words and music were written by Buck Ram , [ 1 ] the Platters' manager and producer who was a successful songwriter before moving into producing and management.
Prior to his TV career, Dinner was a singer-songwriter and recording artist for Fantasy Records, where he released two albums, The Great Pretender (1974) and Tom Thumb the Dreamer (1976), along with four singles. [further explanation needed] [citation needed]
Heinrich Schenker (19 June 1868 – 14 January 1935) was an Austrian music theorist whose writings have had a profound influence on subsequent musical analysis. [1] His approach, now termed Schenkerian analysis, was most fully explained in a three-volume series, Neue musikalische Theorien und Phantasien (New Musical Theories and Phantasies), which included Harmony (1906), Counterpoint (1910 ...
Freberg used a beatnik musician theme in his 1956 parody of "The Great Pretender", the hit by The Platters—who, like Ray (see above) and Belafonte and Welk (see both below), were not pleased. [ citation needed ] At that time, when it was still hoped that musical standards might be preserved, it was quite permissible to ridicule the ludicrous ...
The Great Pretender, a 2014 novel by Craig McDonald; the fourth installment in the Hector Lassiter series The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness , a 2019 book by Susannah Cahalan
This book deals with correct performance conventions and procedures relevant to different periods and styles (for example Gregorian intonation, divisions upon parts, French baroque over-dotting, etc.). It covers these various topics in a chronological order, also giving descriptions of period instruments and their uses.
In The Great Pretender, a 2019 book on Rosenhan, author Susannah Cahalan questions the veracity and validity of the Rosenhan experiment. Examining documents left by Rosenhan after his death, Cahalan finds apparent distortion in the Science article: inconsistent data, misleading descriptions, and inaccurate or fabricated quotations from ...
[3] [4] The documentary coincided with the release of the new Barcelona Special Edition album with Mercury and Caballé's original album re-recorded with a full 80-piece orchestra (a feature on the making of this album is included on both formats) and a new book, also entitled The Great Pretender, with matching artwork.