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"Tea for Two" is a 1924 song composed by Vincent Youmans, with lyrics by Irving Caesar. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It was introduced in May 1924 by Phyllis Cleveland and John Barker during the Chicago pre- Broadway run of the musical No, No, Nanette .
Its songs include the well-known "Tea for Two" and "I Want to Be Happy". After a pre-Broadway tour in 1924, the musical was revised for a production later 1924 in Chicago, where it became a hit and ran for more than a year. In 1925 No, No, Nanette opened both on Broadway and in London's West End, running for 321 and 665 performances ...
Tahiti Trot (Russian: Таити трот, romanized: Taiti trot) (or Tea for Two), [1] Op. 16, is an arrangement for symphony orchestra by Dmitri Shostakovich of the song "Tea for Two" from the musical No, No, Nanette by Vincent Youmans. It was composed in 1927 and resulted from a bet between the composer and the score's dedicatee, Nicolai Malko.
Vincent Millie Youmans (September 27, 1898 – April 5, 1946) was an American Broadway composer and producer. [1]A leading Broadway composer of his day, Youmans collaborated with virtually all the greatest lyricists on Broadway: Ira Gershwin, Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein II, Irving Caesar, Anne Caldwell, Leo Robin, Howard Dietz, Clifford Grey, Billy Rose, Edward Eliscu, Edward Heyman ...
Tea for Two may refer to: "Tea for Two" (song), a 1924 popular song by Vincent Youmans and Irving Caesar; Tea for Two (1950), a Doris Day album; Tea for Two (1950), a movie starring Doris Day; Tea for Two, Australian television series; Tahiti Trot, Op. 16, Dmitri Shostakovich's 1927 orchestration of "Tea for Two"
Pink Martini performing in 2012 The American musical group Pink Martini, based in Portland, Oregon, has recorded songs for six studio albums, one compilation album, and one video album featuring live concert footage. Formed by Thomas Lauderdale in 1994, the group that has been described as a "mini-orchestra" performs songs of many music genres in multiple languages by lead vocalist China ...
Of special note is the performance by Doris Day and Gene Nelson in the 1950 film Tea for Two. This is a frame tale based on a putative production of No, No, Nanette (written in 1925 by the prolific Caesar, Otto Harbach, and Vincent Youmans); "Tea for Two" being a number inserted into the original Nanette. "Crazy Rhythm" is presented in this ...
It is commonly agreed that the "Skippy"'s changes are based on Monk's reharmonization of "Tea for Two" (which he would later record on The Unique Thelonious Monk, [94] and on Criss-Cross, [39]) but Ethan Iverson argues that Monk composed "Skippy", then applied the changes to "Tea for Two". [4]