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The Mills Brothers ad in The Film Daily, 1932. The Mills Brothers, sometimes billed The Four Mills Brothers and originally known as Four Boys and a Guitar, [1] were an American jazz and traditional pop vocal quartet who made more than 2,000 recordings that sold more than 50 million copies and garnered at least three dozen gold records.
Meet the Mills Brothers (Decca, 1953) Four Boys and a Guitar (Decca, 1954) Louis Armstrong and the Mills Brothers (Decca, 1954) Singin' and Swingin' (Decca, 1956) Memory Lane (Decca, 1956) One Dozen Roses (Decca, 1957) The Mills Brothers in Hi-Fi: Barbershop Ballads (Decca, 1958) In a Mellow Tone (Vocalion, 1958) Mmmm...The Mills Brothers (Dot ...
"Paper Doll" was a hit song for The Mills Brothers. In the United States it held the number-one position on the Billboard singles chart for twelve weeks, [3] from November 6, 1943, to January 22, 1944. The success of the song represented something of a revival for the group after a few years of declining sales.
Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You", Lee's "Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree", Nat King Cole's "The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas To You)" (Holiday Streaming Songs #2), [350] Gene Autry's "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" (Holiday Streaming Songs #2) and 2011's "It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas" by Michael Bublé (Holiday ...
Among his many compositions were "My Beloved Is Rugged" and "11:60PM" (both recorded by Harry James), "Gene's Boogie" (recorded by Gene Krupa), and "Little Jack Frost, Get Lost" and "You're All I Want for Christmas" (both recorded by Bing Crosby). "December" was recorded by Count Basie with a Mills Brothers vocal.
Although not strictly a Christmas song, since the lyrics make no mention of the holiday, it has been recorded for many artists' Christmas albums and is a standard part of the holiday song repertoire in the U.S. Artists such as Rosemary Clooney, Doris Day, Dean Martin, Bette Midler, Frank Sinatra, Rod Stewart, Dinah Washington and Idina Menzel (in a duet with Billy Porter) are among those who ...
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A frantically paced reiteration of the full song, in "Dixieland" style, with vocal again by Carl Grayson, accompanied by shotguns and other typical Jonesian sound effects. [7] Harry Mills of the Mills Brothers reported not being bothered by the parody, since they were under the same management as Jones and were good friends. [7]