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 | Harmonica - Blue Skies - Irving Berlin CLICK www.ALLIAX.net Please comment on my videos. Blue Skies by Irving Berlin played on chromatic harmonica. If you play the harmonica and have videos on YouTube then join the Harmonica Group www.youtube.com "Blue Skies" is a popular song, written by Irving Berlin. Here are the lyrics: I was blue, just as blue as I could be Every day was a cloudy day for me Then good luck came a-knocking at my door Skies were gray but theyre not gray anymore Blue skies Smiling at me Nothing but blue skies Do I see Bluebirds Singing a song Nothing but bluebirds All day long Never saw the sun shining so bright Never saw things going so right Noticing the days hurrying by When youre in love, my how they fly Blue days All of them gone Nothing but blue skies From now on I should care if the wind blows east or west I should fret if the worst looks like the best I should mind if they say it cant be true I should smile, thats exactly what I do History The song was composed in 1926 as a last minute addition to the Rodgers and Hart musical, Betsy. Although the show only ran for 39 performances, "Blue Skies" was an instant success, with audiences on opening night demanding 28 encores of the piece from star, Belle Baker. During the final repetition, Baker forgot her lyrics, prompting Berlin to sing them from his seat in the front row. In 1927, the music was published and Ben Selvin's recorded version was a #1 hit. That same year, it became the first song to be featured in a talkie, when Al Jolson ... |
 | Summertime - Piano Improvisation at the moment I live in Germany and here the summer is nearly always much humid one (RAIN), I hatred this type of summer and I have tried this my version of "Summertime" what mean's for me this 2007 German much rain summer. You can also visit my other new channel: www.youtube.com There I just start to make some tutorials for Jazz musicians beginners, and more :-) Many of his compositions have been used on television and in numerous films, and many became jazz standards. The jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald recorded many of the Gershwins' songs on her 1959 Gershwin Songbook (arranged by Nelson Riddle). Countless singers and musicians have recorded Gershwin songs, including Fred Astaire, Louis Armstrong, Al Jolson, Bobby Darin, Art Tatum, Bing Crosby, Janis Joplin, John Coltrane, Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, Sam Cooke, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Madonna, Judy Garland, Julie Andrews, Barbra Streisand, Marni Nixon, Natalie Cole, Patti Austin, Nina Simone, Maureen McGovern, John Fahey, The Residents, Sublime, and Sting. About the composer: George Gershwin (September 26, 1898 July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist whose early death brought to a premature halt one of the most remarkable careers in American music. Gershwin's compositions spanned both popular and classical genres, and his most popular melodies are universally familiar. He wrote most of his vocal and theatrical works in collaboration with his elder brother, lyricist Ira Gershwin. George Gershwin ... |
 | Shrek Soundtrack 11. The Proclaimers - I'm On My Way I'm on my way from misery to happiness today I'm on my way from misery to happiness today I'm on my way to what I want from this world And years from now you'll make it to the next world And everything that you receive up yonder Is what you gave to me the day I wandered I took a right, I took a right turning yesterday I took a right, I took a right turning yesterday I took the road that brought me to your home town I took the bus to streets that I could walk down I walked the streets to find the one I'd looked for I climbed the stair that led me to your front door And now that I don't want for anthing I'd have Al Jolson sing "I'm sitting on top of the world" I'll do my best, I'll do my best to do the best I can I'll do my best, I'll do my best to do the best I can To keep my feet from jumping from the ground dear To keep my heart from jumping through my mouth dear To keep the past, the past and not the present To try and learn when you teach me a lesson And now that I don't want for anything I'd have Al Jolson sing "I'm sitting on top of the world". |
 | The Temptations - Swannee The original Emperors of Soul take on a song made famous by Al Jolson in the 1920's. Not enough 'o's in "smooth" to describe these guys. From the Smothers Brothers show |
 | Al Jolson - Brother can you spare a Dime Al Jolson sings the song that has become the anthem of the great depression. "Don't you remember, they called me Al; it was Al all the time. Why don't you remember, I'm your pal? Brother, can you spare a dime?" |
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 | Good Times - Chic (1979) "Good Times" is a 1979 song composed by Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers. It was first recorded by their band Chic, for their 1979 album "Risqué". The lyrics are largely based on Milton Ager's "Happy Days Are Here Again". It also contains lines based on lyrics featured in "About A Quarter To Nine" made famous by Al Jolson. Nile Rodgers has stated that these depression-era lyrics were used as a hidden way to comment on the then-current economic depression in the United States. In August of that year, it became the band's second number one single on both the Billboard Hot 100 and soul singles chart. Along with the tracks, "My Forbidden Lover", and "My Feet Keep Dancing", "Good Times" reached number three on the disco charts. The song has become one of the most sampled tunes in music history, most notably in the song "Rapper's Delight" by The Sugarhill Gang. Other artists who have sampled "Good Times" or used its bassline for inspiration include Queen, Daft Punk, The Beastie Boys, Joe Budden, Vaughan Mason, Kool & The Gang, Mick Jagger, Busta Rhymes, Digital Underground, Change, Will Smith, Indeep, Public Enemy, INXS, Grandmaster Flash, Blondie, Kurtis Blow, Fugees, Justin Timberlake, De La Soul, LL Cool J, and many others. The song is ranked #224 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Chic (pronounced 'sheek', sometimes fully capitalized as CHIC) is an American disco and R&B band that was formed in 1976 by guitarist Nile Rodgers and bassist Bernard ... |
 | The Best Love Songs of the 40s Full Songlist- 1940- I'll Never Smile Again (Frank Sinatra and the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra) A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square (Vera Lynn) Frenesi (Artie Shaw) Only Forever (Bing Crosby) 1941- I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire (The Ink Spots) Amapola (Jimmy Dorsey) Maria Elena (Jimmy Dorsey) 1942- Blues in the Night (Woody Herman) Night and Day (Frank Sinatra) 1943- You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To (Dinah Shore) Paper Doll (The Mills Brothers) I'm Making Believe (Ella Fitzgerald and the Ink Spots) 1944- Besame Mucho (Andy Russell) You Always Hurt The One You Love (The Mills Brothers) 1945- Sentimental Journey (Doris Day and the Les Brown Orchestra) It's Been a Long Long Time (Harry James and Helen Forrest) Lover Man (Billie Holiday) Til The End of Time (Perry Como) 1946- Prisoner of Love (Perry Como) I Love You For Sentimental Reasons (Nat King Cole) La Vie en Rose (Edith Piaf) The Anniversary Song (Al Jolson) 1947- Peg O' My Heart (Jerry Murad's Harmonicats) Near You (Francis Craig) Heartaches (Ted Weems Orchestra) 1948- Now Is The Hour (Bing Crosby) Nature Boy (Nat King Cole) 1949- Some Enchanted Evening (Perry Como) Again (Doris Day) You're Breaking My Heart (Vic Damone) |
 | Al Jolson----"About A Quarter To Nine" From The 1935 Movie "Go Into Your Dance" |
 | Alexander's Ragtime Band - Dixieland Crackerjacks Dixieland Crackerjacks www.dixielandcrackerjacks.nl http Recorded live on the Island of Schiermonnikoog. Dixieland Crackerjacks playing Irving Berlin's : Alexander's Ragtime Band "Alexander's Ragtime Band" is the name of a song by Irving Berlin. It was his first major hit, in 1911. There is some evidence, although inconclusive, that Irving Berlin borrowed the melody from a draft composition submitted by Scott Joplin that had been submitted to a publisher.[1] "Alexander's Ragtime Band" is not itself an example of the ragtime musical idiom; apart from some mild syncopation, it has almost none of ragtime's characteristic features. Nonetheless, the lyrics clearly refer to the arrival of African-American musicians on the popular scene with their then-new idea of playing standard songs in a more exciting up-tempo style. The first lines establish the African-American context: Oh ma honey . . . ain't you goin' to the leaderman, the ragged meter man References to "jazzing up" popular music include: They can play a bugle call like you never heard before So natural that you want to go to war That's just the bestest band what am, honey lamb and: If you care to hear the Swanee River played in ragtime The new style included new ways of playing traditional instruments as well: There's a fiddle with notes that screeches Like a chicken And the clarinet is a colored pet This song was played on the decks of the Titanic by the ship's band, as the ship sank beneath the waters on April 15 ... |
