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"My Funny Valentine" is a show tune from the 1937 Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart coming of age musical Babes in Arms in which it was introduced by teenaged star Mitzi Green. The song became a popular jazz standard , appearing on over 1300 albums performed by over 600 artists.
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My Funny Valentine: Miles Davis in Concert is a live album by the jazz trumpter and composer Miles Davis. It was recorded at a concert at the Philharmonic Hall of Lincoln Center , New York City , on February 12, 1964 and released through Columbia Records the following year.
The album opens with a cover of a favorite jazz vehicle, "My Funny Valentine" by Richard Rodgers, which as Keith Shadwick notes is "normally performed by jazz musicians as a moody ballad" but here is "the single up-tempo romp on the album"; it was also actually "the last-recorded piece on the date."
[14] [15] Other topics include songs about the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Christmas music referencing the Vietnam War, and Vietnam War songs referencing the Civil rights movement in the US (1950s-60s), the Silent majority, and the Domino theory. The project is a respected academic resource and a significant source of reference in popular culture.
Walking on a Thin Line (song) War (The Temptations song) The War Is Over (Phil Ochs song) War Pigs; We Gotta Get Out of This Place; What the World Needs Now Is Love; What's Going On (song) Where Are You Now, My Son? Where Do We Go from Here? (Chicago song) The Windows of the World (song)
The protest music that came out of the Vietnam War era was stimulated by the unfairness of the draft, the loss of American lives in Vietnam, and the unsupported expansion of war. The Vietnam War era (1955–1975) was a time of great controversy for the American public. Desperate to stop the spread of communism in South-East Asia, the United ...
The Vietnam War: 1936: Johnny Johnson: Kurt Weill: World War I: 1959: The Sound Of Music: Rodgers & Hammerstein: World War II: 1989: Miss Saigon: Claude-Michel Schönberg: The Vietnam War: 2016: Mula Sa Buwan: Myke Salomon: World War II: 1963: Oh, What a Lovely War! Joan Littlewood: World War I