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In 1970, rock musician Ringo Starr surprised the public by releasing an album of Songbook songs from the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, Sentimental Journey.Reviews were mostly poor or even disdainful, [25] but the album reached number 22 on the US Billboard 200 [26] and number 7 in the UK Albums Chart, [27] with sales of 500,000.
This is an alphabetical list of Jerome Kern songs. Jerome Kern (January 27, 1885 – November 11, 1945) was an American composer of popular music and, according to a joint resolution passed by Congress, "the father of American musical theater". [1]
Robert Russell Bennett (June 15, 1894 – August 18, 1981) was an American composer and arranger, best known for his orchestration of many well-known Broadway and Hollywood musicals by other composers such as Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, and Richard Rodgers.
Kern set it, the only time he set a pre-written lyric, and his only hit song not written as part of a musical. [1] Originally a hit for Tony Martin and later for Noël Coward, the song was used in the film Lady Be Good (1941) and won Kern another Oscar for best song. Kern's second and last symphonic work was his 'Mark Twain Suite (1942). [3]
William Jerome and Jean Schwartz 1909 Sheet music cover for a Jerome & Schwartz 1904 tune. William Jerome Flannery, September 30, 1865 – June 25, 1932) [1] was an American songwriter, born in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, of Irish immigrant parents, Mary Donnellan and Patrick Flannery.
The song reached number 14 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in 1982. [1] It was a bigger Adult Contemporary hit, reaching number five in the U.S. and number six in Canada. [2] [3] "One Hundred Ways" received the 1982 Grammy Award for Best R&B Vocal Performance. [4]
I Love Jerome Kern is an album by pianist Kenny Drew recorded in 1957 and released on the Riverside label. [2] The album was rereleased on CD by Lone Hill Jazz coupled with Drew's Pal Joey (Riverside, 1957) as The Complete Jerome Kern / Rodgers & Hart Songbooks in 2008.
Jeremy Russell (31 August 1944 – 8 March 2005), also known as "Jerry Russell", was a co-founder, with Eric Albronda, of US rock band Blue Cheer. Russell and Albronda were music aficionados who organized the band and provided initial financing. After Blue Cheer, Jeremy worked for several music studios in London during the 1970s. Upon returning ...