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"Blueberry Hill" is a popular American song published in 1940 and first recorded and released by Sammy Kaye in 1940 on RCA Victor. It is best remembered for its 1950s rock and roll version by Fats Domino. Glenn Miller peaked at no. 2 on the Billboard pop singles chart in 1940 with his recording on RCA Bluebird Records featuring Ray Eberle on ...
The Singing Hill is a 1941 American western film directed by Lew Landers and starring Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, and Virginia Dale. [1] Based on a story by Jesse Lasky Jr. and Richard Murphy, the film is about a singing cowboy and foreman of a ranch that may be sold to an unscrupulous banker by the young madcap heiress who is unaware that the sale will result in the local ranchers losing ...
He was the first to record and release the standard "Blueberry Hill" in 1940. During World War II, he co-wrote and recorded the anthemic "Remember Pearl Harbor" (U.S. No. 3). He was the first to record and release the no. 1 song "Daddy" in 1941. [2] His signature tune was "Harbor Lights", a number-one hit in 1950.
Eberle went on to find success with Miller, [4] deeming the songs for Orchestra Wives, such as the jazz standard "At Last", to be among his favorites, as they were songs he could "sink my teeth into, and make a story out of". [5] He appeared in the Twentieth Century Fox movies Sun Valley Serenade (1941) and Orchestra Wives (1942).
Glenn Miller and His Orchestra was an American swing dance band that was formed by Glenn Miller in 1938. Arranged around a clarinet and tenor saxophone playing melody, and three other saxophones playing harmony, the band became the most popular and commercially successful dance orchestra of the swing era and one of the greatest singles charting acts of the 20th century.
Lewis's career received a boost in 1956 when "Blueberry Hill", a song he had co-written in the 1940s with Larry Stock, became a big hit for Fats Domino.Two years later Lewis and Sylvester Bradford, a blind African-American songwriter, wrote "Tears on My Pillow", which was a hit for Little Anthony and the Imperials.
Captured here in Austin, Texas, in 2022, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss perform on their Raising the Roof Tour. Plant revisits he early years with Led Zeppelin in a new doc, "Becoming Led Zeppelin."
A signature song is the one song (or, in some cases, ... 1941 A jazz standard ... "Blueberry Hill" [87] [88] Fats Domino: 1956