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Music for Lovers Only (or Jackie Gleason Presents Music for Lovers Only) is a studio album of easy-listening music by Jackie Gleason, wherein he conducted an orchestra performing standards. It was released by Capitol Records on October 27, 1952, [ 1 ] as a 10-inch LP with eight songs.
Herbert John Gleason (February 26, 1916 – June 24, 1987), known as Jackie Gleason, was an American actor, comedian, writer, and composer also known as "The Great One". [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He developed a style and characters from growing up in Brooklyn , New York, and was known for his brash visual and verbal comedy, exemplified by his city bus ...
The Jackie Gleason Show ("Melancholy Serenade") – Jackie Gleason; Jackpot, 1974–75 version ("Jet Set") – Mike Vickers (later used for This Week in Baseball) JAG – Bruce Broughton; Jake and the Fatman – Dick DeBenedictis; Jake and the Never Land Pirates – Captain Bogg and Salty; James at 15 ("James") – Lee Montgomery
Jackie Gleason used "Shangri-La" on his 1950s-60s TV variety show as theme music for his popular millionaire character Reginald van Gleason III. The song was also used as the opening and closing theme of Radio City Playhouse , a radio anthology series that aired in the late 1940s.
His profile increased after he was hired by Jackie Gleason as a cornet soloist for seven of Gleason's mood music albums. [3] Beginning in 1952, he appeared on Gleason's first Capitol Records album, Music for Lovers Only. The record — as well as all of Gleason's next 10 albums — went gold. He appeared on six more of Gleason's albums.
Papa's Delicate Condition is a 1963 American comedy film starring Jackie Gleason and Glynis Johns. It was an adaptation of the Corinne Griffith memoir of the same name, about her father and growing up in Texarkana, Texas. [1] Jimmy Van Heusen (music) and Sammy Cahn (lyrics) won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Call Me Irresponsible".
And Awaaay We Go! is an album by television personality, Jackie Gleason.It was released in May 1954 on Capitol Records (catalog no. H-511). [1] [2] Unlike his prior albums of mood music, the album presented a mix of mood music and comedy routines featuring characters made popular in Gleason's television appearances, including The Poor Soul, Reggie Van Gleason III, Joe the Bartender, Loudmouth ...
Gleason conducted the orchestra. [1] [2] Music to Remember Her debuted on the Billboard magazine pop album chart on March 5, 1955, peaked at No. 5, and remained on the chart for 16 weeks. [3] AllMusic gave the album a rating of four-and-a-half stars. Reviewer Lindsay Planer found some of the tracks to be "actually quite sensitive." [2]