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The film's theme song, "The Whippoorwill", was sung by Keely Smith in her role as a nightclub singer, and a different studio rendition by her was released as a 45 rpm single on Capitol Records. Mitchum wrote the music with lyrics by Don Raye. [2]
Dorothy Jacqueline Keely (March 9, 1928 [1] [note 1] [2] – December 16, 2017), professionally known as Keely Smith, was an American jazz and popular music singer, who performed and recorded extensively in the 1950s with then-husband Louis Prima, and throughout the 1960s as a solo artist. [3] Smith married Prima in 1953.
In the 1958 movie Thunder Road, Keely Smith sings "The Whippoorwill," a song written by Robert Mitchum and Don Raye. [ 23 ] Elton John and Bernie Taupin 's 1975 song " Philadelphia Freedom " features a flute mimicking the call of the eastern whip-poor-will and includes the lyrics "I like living easy without family ties, till the whippoorwill of ...
That Old Black Magic is a 1965 album by Keely Smith, with arrangements by Ernie Freeman. [2] Reception
Myers praised Smith's accompanists writing that "The group frames her sensitivity, and Smith's voice is so breathy and cozy, she seems snuggled on someone's shoulder while singing" and concluded that "This is a flawless album and a perfect way to get to know a Las Vegas singer who should have been as widely known as any of the great jazz ...
He initially gained popularity in his home city of New Orleans and later in New York. By 1954, Prima had joined a Louisiana band led by Sam Butera. With Prima's stage partner and wife Keely Smith, he, Butera and the Witnesses secured a gig at the Sahara Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. They soon became the most popular act in that city. [4]
I Wish You Love, original title of, and featured song in, 1972 TV special An Evening with Marlene Dietrich; I Wish You Love (Gloria Gaynor album), 2003; I Wish You Love, a 1964 album and two singles by Gloria Lynne; I Wish You Love, a 2002 album by Janis Siegel; I Wish You Love (Keely Smith album), 1957, and its title song
Peggy Lee - for the album Songs from Pete Kelly's Blues (1955) Dean Martin - included in his album The Dean Martin TV Show (1966) [12] Carmen McRae - Fine and Mellow: Live at Birdland West (1986) Oscar Peterson - With Respect to Nat (1966) Keely Smith - Swingin' Pretty (1959) Jo Stafford - Jo + Jazz (1960)