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Credited as Johnny Williams Songs written by André and Dory Previn Nominated—Academy Award for Best Scoring of Music — Adaptation or Treatment: A Guide for the Married Man: Gene Kelly: Credited as Johnny Williams Composed title song (written by Leslie Bricusse, performed by The Turtles) Fitzwilly: Delbert Mann: The Mirisch Corporation ...
It had its last appearance there over 10 years later, in the July 20, 1968, issue, which marked its 490th non-consecutive week there, [5] a record for the most weeks on the magazine's list of the most popular pop albums in the US that it held for 15 years until Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon reached 491 weeks there in the issue dated ...
The first song to became "popular" through a national advertising campaign was "My Grandfather's Clock" in 1876. [3] Mass production of piano in the late-19th century helped boost sheet music sales. [3] Toward the end of the century, during the Tin Pan Alley era, sheet music was sold by dozens and even hundreds of publishing companies.
A list of musical groups and artists who were active in the 1960s and associated with music in the decade This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Johnny Mercer From the Disney film, Robin Hood: 1942 Skylark (song) Hoagy Carmichael Glenn Miller & His Orchestra with vocals by Ray Eberle; No. 7 on the charts in 1942. 1949 Moon Dreams Chummy MacGregor, Johnny Mercer, On the seminal Miles Davis album, Birth of the Cool: 1975 I'm Shadowing You Blossom Dearie? I Thought About You Jimmy Van ...
A few years later, having heard Sarah Vaughan's version of the song, he chose "Misty" as one of the possible songs for his 1959 album Heavenly and informed Erroll Garner that he would record the song. However, at the recording session for the album, it was scheduled that Johnny Mathis should record a show tune rather than "Misty".
Late in the 1940s, he played with Johnny Bothwell and Teddy Kotick, and at the end of the decade he relocated from Vermont to New York City. [1] After playing a gig with Charlie Parker at the end of 1950, he served in the military during the Korean War (1951–53), playing low brass in Army bands. [1]
This is an A–Z list of jazz tunes which have been covered by multiple jazz artists. It includes the more popular jazz standards, lesser-known or minor standards, and many other songs and compositions which may have entered a jazz musician's or jazz singer's repertoire or be featured in the Real Books, but may not be performed as regularly or as widely as many of the popular standards.