EARL GRANT - AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW

AT THE END OF A RAINBOW

EARL GRANT

SONGWRITERS: JIMMY KRONDES &SID JACOBSON

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

 ALBUM: THE BEST OF EARL GRANT- SINGIN AND SWINGIN

LABEL: DECCA RECORDS

GENRE: JAZZ

YEAR: 1958

 

               Earl Grant (January 20, 1931 – June 10, 1970) was an American pianist, organist, and vocalist popular in the 1950s and 1960s.

             Grant was born in Idabel, Oklahoma. Though he would be known later for his keyboards and vocals, Grant also played trumpet and drums. Grant attended four music schools, eventually becoming a music teacher. He augmented his income by performing in clubs during his army service, throughout which he was stationed in Fort Bliss, Texas. Grant signed with Decca Records in 1957 and his first single "The End" reached number 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The álbum Ebb Tide (And Other Instrumental Favorites) sold over one million copies, gaining gold disc status. He recorded six more singles that made the charts, including "Swingin' Gently" (from Beyond the Reef), and six additional albums (on the Decca label) through 1968. He also recorded the album Yes Sirree! and the instrumental album Trade Winds, single-tracked on the Hammond organ and piano, featuring the love theme from the film El Cid and Chaplin's "Eternally". This album featured some realistic-sounding "tropical bird calls" produced by his electric organ. "House of Bamboo" was another big-selling single. Grant recorded 30 albums for Decca, mostly on the Brunswick label, a subsidiary of Decca.

      Several of his albums featured tenor saxophonist Plas Johnson.

           Grant also made a few appearances in films and on television, including Tender Is the Night (1962), Juke Box Rhythm (1959), It Takes a Thief (1969) and The Ed Sullivan Show (1960).

         Grant sang the title theme for the 1959 film Imitation of Life.

          He died instantly in a car accident in Lordsburg, New Mexico, at the age of 39 when the car he was driving ran off Interstate 10. He was driving from Los Angeles to an intended destination in Juarez, Mexico, for an appearance at the La Fiesta nightclub. His cousin's 17-year-old son, Roosevelt Wilson Jr., also was killed in the accident.

         On June 25, 2019, The New York Times Magazine listed Earl Grant among hundreds of artists whose material was reportedly destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire

            "The End" is a song with music by Jimmy Krondes and lyrics by Sid Jacobson. In 1958, the was released in the United States as a 1958 single by Earl Grant. Grant's single on the Decca label, featured Charles "Bud" Dant on orchestra; some pressings of the single were shown with the title "(At) The End (Of A Rainbow)".

The End

At the end of a rainbow

You'll find a pot of gold

At the end of a story

You'll find it's all been told

But our love has a treasure

Our hearts can always spend

And it has a story

Without any end

 

At the end of a river

The water stops its flow

At the end of a highway

There's no place you can go

 

But just tell me you love me

And you are only mine

And our love will go on

Till the end of time

 

At the end of a river

The water stops its flow

At the end of a highway

There's no place you can go

 

But just tell me you love me

And you are only mine

And our love will go on

Till the end of time

Till the end of time.