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James Francis Durante (/ d ə ˈ r æ n t i / də-RAN-tee, Italian:; February 10, 1893 – January 29, 1980) was an American comedian, actor, singer, and pianist.His distinctive gravelly speech, Lower East Side accent, comic language-butchery, jazz-influenced songs, and prominent nose helped make him one of the United States' most familiar and popular personalities of the 1920s through the 1970s.
Jackie Barnett Presents Songs for Sunday is a 1967 album by Jimmy Durante, with arrangements by Ralph Carmichael. [1] [2] [3] David Bakish, in his 1995 book on Durante, described the music on the album as "truly from the heart". Durante later performed "Peace in the Valley" and "One of These Days" at the Oral Roberts summer festival in June ...
The song debuted in the 1934 movie Palooka, [1] a film about the comics character Joe Palooka.By 1934, Durante's recording of the song was a major hit record, and it became Durante's theme song for the rest of his life.
Jackie Barnett Presents One of Those Songs is a 1966 album by Jimmy Durante, with arrangements by Ernie Freeman. [1] [2] [3] The cover depicts Durante embracing CeCe, his adopted daughter with his second wife, Margie. The song "Margie" is dedicated to his wife. [4]
Jackie Barnett Presents Jimmy Durante's Way of Life... with the Gordon Jenkins Orchestra and Chorus is a 1964 studio album by Jimmy Durante, arranged by Gordon Jenkins. [3] It received a "Pop Special Merit" designation from Billboard upon its release, indicating "new releases of outstanding merit which deserve exposure and which could have commercial success within their respective categories ...
The album was reviewed by Greg Adams for Allmusic who wrote that "Mixing Durante's utterly unique voice with lush strings and a vocal chorus, September Song is a left-field masterpiece full of wistful and affecting performances. Durante was by no means a technically accomplished vocalist, but he negotiated the sessions with aplomb and created a ...
The song was covered among others by Rudy Vallee, Billie Holiday, Jimmy Durante, Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Sinatra, Natalie Cole, Harry Nilsson, Carly Simon, Vera Lynn, Bob Dylan and Bryan Ferry. It was also the title and theme song of the 1990s British romantic comedy series As Time Goes By.