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The Golden Hits of Billy Eckstine is a 1963 studio album by the American singer Billy Eckstine. It was arranged by Billy Byers , conducted by Bobby Tucker , and produced by Quincy Jones . [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
1953: Billy Eckstine Sings Tenderly (MGM) 1953: Earl Hines – Billy Eckstine: A Treasury Of Immortal Performances – recorded 1940–1942; 1953: The Great Mr. B: Billy Eckstine and His All-Star Band (DeLuxe/King) – recorded 1944; 1954: I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart: Billy Eckstine Sings 8 Great Duke Ellington Songs (MGM)
Billy's Best! is a 1958 studio album by American jazz and blues singer Billy Eckstine. [4] The album was released by Mercury Records, his first for the label.. Arranged and conducted by Henry Mancini and Pete Rugolo, the lush, romantic arrangements feature strings and woodwinds, along with big band arrangements with swinging brass.
Billy Eckstine's first greatest-hits compilation, Billy's Best! (1958) with Bobby Tucker Orchestra, arranged by Henry Mancini and Pete Rugolo. In 1958, Morton Downey Jr. sang the song [19] on national television, on a set that resembled a dark street with one street light. It was covered by No Wave artist James White on his 1983 album Flaming ...
Everything I Have Is Yours is a 1991 compilation album of songs by Billy Eckstine, subtitled "The Best of the M-G-M Years". It was released by Verve Records as a double LP . [ 1 ]
Sarah Vaughan & Billy Eckstine at Monterey Jazz Festival 1981. Sarah Vaughan and Billy Eckstine Sing the Best of Irving Berlin is a 1957 studio album featuring Billy Eckstine and Sarah Vaughan, and the songs of Irving Berlin. [1] Although Vaughan had made many recordings with Eckstine, this was their only complete album together.
The best-known recordings of the song were by Billy Eckstine in 1961 and Andy Williams in 1963, but several other recording artists have also recorded the song, including Bill Evans, Dick and Dee Dee, Shirley Bassey, Frank Sinatra, Julie London, Perry Como, Wes Montgomery (1963: Boss Guitar), McCoy Tyner, Jaco Pastorius and Lenny Breau.
Perhaps the best-known version of the song was recorded by Billy Eckstine. This recording was released by MGM Records (catalog number 10903). It first reached the Billboard Best Seller chart on February 23, 1951, and lasted for 19 weeks on the chart, peaking at No. 8. [2] It was awarded the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1999. [3]