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"Wonderful Copenhagen" is a song and single written by Frank Loesser performed by Danny Kaye with Gordon Jenkins and his orchestra and released in 1953. It was taken from the 1952 film, Hans Christian Andersen and is considered to be the best known song in the film.
A Song Is Born was the number one film in the country from the time of its release until November 1948, while Hawks's other (and in his opinion, best) film, Red River, was second. [5] However, A Song Is Born never broke even, only earning about $2.2 million (equivalent to $27.9 million in 2023 [7]), while Red River went on to gross $4.1 million ...
"Tschaikowsky (and Other Russians)" is a patter song with lyrics by Ira Gershwin and music by Kurt Weill, first performed by American comedian Danny Kaye in the 1941 Broadway musical Lady in the Dark.
The Danny Kaye routine is sung from the perspective of a famous Russian actor who learns and applies Stanislavski's secret to method acting: "Suffer.") [4] Lehrer sings the song from the point of view of an eminent Russian mathematician who learns from Lobachevsky that plagiarism is the secret of success in mathematics ("only be sure always to ...
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Kaye's debut album, Columbia Presents Danny Kaye, had been released in 1942 by Columbia Records with songs performed to the accompaniment of Maurice Abravanel and Johnny Green. The album was reissued as a Columbia LP in 1949 and is described by the critic Bruce Eder as "a bit tamer than some of the stuff that Kaye hit with later in the '40s and ...
Danny was also voted number 34 in the Heat Magazine's Hot 100 for 2007. He was voted by First National Bank 's national survey as one of South Africa's few role models, as well as South Africa's most trustworthy 100 public personalities by Reader's Digest , where he took 1st place, which saw the pot of R100 000 donated to Compassionate Friends ...
The song is based on the titular character of Danish fairy tale Thumbelina, who is the size of a thumb. In the song, a morose Thumbelina is encouraged to sing and dance ( "Thumbelina dance, Thumbelina sing" ) despite being a "tiny little thing", and when her "heart is full of love" she becomes "nine feet tall".