"I
Only Have Eyes for You" is a romantic love song by composer Harry Warren and
lyricist Al Dubin, written for the film Dames Successful recordings of the song
have been made by Ben Selvin, The Flamingos, and Art Garfunkel.
The
Flamingos are a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-inducted doo-wop group from the United
States, most popular in the mid- to late 1950s and best known for their 1959 cover
version of "I Only Have Eyes for You". Billboard magazine wrote:
"Universally hailed as one of the finest and most influential vocal groups
in pop music history, the Flamingos defined doo wop at its most elegant and
sophisticated."
The
Flamingos received the Rhythm & Blues Foundation Pioneer Award in 1996
(where Terry Johnson, Jake Carey, Zeke Carey, Tommy Hunt and Johnny Carter
performed) and were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2000, the Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001, and the Doo-Wopp Hall of Fame in 2004. The group that performed at the
Rock Hall ceremony included Terry Johnson on lead, Tommy Hunt and Johnny
Carter. In 2003, the Flamingos' recording of "I Only Have Eyes For
You", co-written by Walle (Walter) Dillard, was inducted into the Grammy
Award Hall of Fame.
My love must be a kind of blind love
I can't see anyone but you
Are the stars out tonight?
I don't know if it's cloudy or bright
I only have eyes for you, dear
The moon may be high
But I can't see a thing in the sky
I only have eyes for you
I don't know if we're in a garden
Or on a crowded avenue
You are here and so am I
Maybe millions of people go by
But they all disappear from view
And I only have eyes for you.
WHAT A LITTLE MOONLIGHT CAN
DO
NANCY WILSON
SONGWRITER: HARRY MAC
GREGOR WOODS
COUNTRY: U.S.A.
ALBUM: SOMETHING WONDERFUL
LABEL: CAPITOL
GENRE: JAZZ
YEAR: 1960
Nancy Sue
Wilson(February 20, 1937 – December 13, 2018) was an American singer whose
career spanned over five decades, from the mid-1950s until her retirement in
the early 2010s. She was especially notable for her single "(You Don't
Know) How Glad I Am" and her version of the standard "Guess Who I Saw
Today". Wilson
recorded more than 70 albums and won three Grammy Awards for her work. During
her performing career, Wilson was labeled a singer of blues, jazz, R&B, pop,
and soul; a "consummate actress"; and "the complete
entertainer". The title she preferred, however, was "song
stylist". She received many nicknames including "Sweet Nancy",
"The Baby", "Fancy Miss Nancy" and "The Girl With the
Honey-Coated Voice".
"What
a Little Moonlight Can Do" is a popular song written by Harry M. Woods in
1934. In 1934, Woods moved to London for three years where he worked for the
British film studio Gaumont British, contributing material to several films,
one of which was Road House(1934). The song was sung in the film by Violet
Lorraine and included an introductory verse, not heard in the version later
recorded by Billie Holiday in 1935.
Something
Wonderful was the second album by the American vocalist Nancy Wilson, it
was released in October 1960 by Capitol Records, and arranged by Billy May.
As with
her debut album on the label, Like in Love, she was teamed up with Billy May,
one of its star arrangers, who had come to prominence through his outstanding
work with such singers as Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra.
The album
spawned one of Wilson's all-time signature songs, "Guess Who I Saw Today".
Another highlight was "What a Little Moonlight Can Do", which was, as
critic Pete Welding wrote in his liner notes to the 1996 three-CD set Ballads,
Blues & Big Bands: The Best of Nancy Wilson, "a song so closely
associated with the sublime Billie Holiday(that) few would even have attempted
it, let alone brought it off so well, with just the right blend of
lightheartedness and sincerity."
In 2003,
the UK label EMI Gold re-issued Something Wonderful on a 2-for-1 CD, coupled
with its natural companion, Like in Love.
Composer
and lyricist Harry MacGregor Woods was born in North Chelmsford, Massachusetts
on November 4, 1896. His
mother, a concert singer, encouraged him to play the piano, regardless of the
deformed left hand he had been born with. His musical training would help when
he attended Harvard University and supported himself there by singing in church
choirs and giving piano recitals. After graduation, Woods settled on Cape Cod
and began life as a farmer. He began cultivating his talent for songwriting
while in the Army during World War II. After his discharge, Woods settled in
New York and began his successful career as a songwriter.
His first
songwriting success came in 1923 with the song “I’m Going South”, written with
Abner Silver, and a #2 hit song in 1924 for Al Jolson. In the same year, “Paddlin’
Madeleine Home” was published with words & music by Woods (a recording by
Cliff Edwards in 1925 would reach #3 on Billboard).
By 1926,
Woods had become an established songwriter on Tin Pan Alley and he would become
legendary with his new song “When the Red, Red, Robin Comes Bob, Bob, Bobbin’
Along”. One of the
great standards ever written, the song was an instant hit for singers like Paul
Whiteman, “Whispering” Jack Smith, Cliff Edwards and the Ipana Troubadors. Al
Jolson, however, had the most success with his recording, which reached #1 on
the billboard charts. The song was recreated in 1953 by
Doris Day and again reached considerable success on the charts.
In 1929,
Woods began contributing songs to Hollywood musicals such as The Vagabond
Lover, A Lady’s Morals, Artistic Temper, Aunt Sally, Twentieth Century, Road
House, Limelight, It’s Love Again, Merry Go Round of 1938 and She’s For Me. In
1934, he moved to London where he lived for three years and worked for the
British film studio Gaumont-British Films, contributing to the films Jack Ahoy
and Evergreen.
While
Woods primarily created both the words & music for his songs, he also
collaborated with Mort Dixon, Howard Johnson, Arthur Freed, Rube Bloom and Gus
Kahn. Alone, and with his collaborators, he wrote “I’m Looking Over a Four Leaf
Clover”, “I’m Goin’ South”, “Just a Butterfly that’s Caught in the Rain”, “Side
by Side”, “My Old Man”, “A Little Kiss Each Morning”, “Heigh-Ho, Everybody,
Heigh-Ho”, “Man From the South”, “River Stay “Way from My Door”, “When the Moon
Comes Over the Mountain”, “We Just Couldn’t Say Goodbye”, “Just and Echo in the
Valley”, “A Little Street Where Old Friends Meet”, “You Ought to See Sally on
Sunday”, “Hustlin’ and Bustlin’ for Baby”, “What a Little Moonlight Can Do”,
“Try a Little Tenderness”, “I’ll Never Say “Never Again” Again”, “Over My
Shoulder”, “Tinkle Tinkle Tinkle”, “When You’ve Got a Little Springtime in Your
Heart” and “I Nearly Let Love Go Slipping Through My Fingers”.
Around
1945, Woods retired and moved to Glendale, Arizona where he passed away in
1970.
Ooh,
ooh, ooh
What a little moonlight can do
Ooh, ooh, ooh
What a little moonlight can do to you
You're in love
Your heart's a flutter and all day long
You only shutter
Cut your poor tongue
Just won't utter the words
I love you
Ooh, ooh, ooh
What a little moonlight can do
Wait a while
Till a little moonbeam comes peepin' through
You'll get bold
You can't resist him
And all you'll say
When you have kissed him is
Ooh, ooh, ooh
What a little moonlight can do.
SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME
SARAH WAUGHAN
SONGWRITER: GERSHWIN, GEORGE IRA
COUNTRY: U.SA.
ALBUM: SARAH VAUGHAN SINGS GEORGE
IRA GERSHWIN
LABEL: EMARCY
GENRE: JAZZ
YEAR: 1958
Sarah
Vaughan Sings George Gershwin is a 1958 studio album by Sarah Vaughan, of the
music of George Gershwin.
Vaughan
would release another all-Gershwin album, Gershwin Live!, in 1982.
Sarah
Lois Vaughan(March 27, 1924 – April 3, 1990) was an American jazz singer.
Nicknamed
"Sassy" and "The Divine One", she won four Grammy Awards,
including the Lifetime Achievement Award. She was given an NEA Jazz Masters Award
in 1989. Critic Scott Yanow wrote that she had "one of the most wondrous
voices of the 20th century".
In the
summer of 1980 she received a plaque on 52nd Street outside the CBS Building
(Black Rock) commemorating the jazz clubs she had once frequented on
"Swing Street" and which had long since been replaced with office
buildings. A performance of her symphonic Gershwin program with the New Jersey
Symphony in 1980 was broadcast on PBS and won her an Emmy Award the next year
for Individual Achievement, Special Class. She was reunited in 1982 with Tilson
Thomas for a modified version of the Gershwin program, played again by the Los
Angeles Philharmonic but this time in its home hall, the Dorothy Chandler
Pavilion; the CBS recording of the concert Gershwin Live! won a Grammy for Best
Jazz Vocal Performance, Female.
After the end of her contract with Pablo in 1982, she
committed to a limited number of studio recordings. She made
a guest appearance in 1984 on Barry Manilow's 2:00 AM Paradise Cafe, an album
of pastiche compositions with established jazz musicians. In 1984, she
participated in The Planet is Alive, Let It Live a symphonic piece
composed by Tito Fontana and Sante Palumbo on Italian translations of Polish
poems by Karol Wojtyla, better known as Pope John Paul II. The recording was
made in Germany with an English translation by writer Gene Lees and was
released by Lees on his private label after the recording was rejected by the
major labels.
In 1985 Vaughan reconnected with her longstanding,
continually growing European audience during a celebratory concert at the
Chatelet Theater in Paris. Released posthumously on the
Justin Time label, In the City of Lights is a two-disc recording of the
concert, which covers the highlights of Vaughan's career while capturing a
beloved singer at the height of her powers. Thanks in part to the hard-swinging
telepathic support of pianist Frank Collett (who answers each of her challenges
then coaxes the same from her), Sarah reprises Tad Dameron's "If You Could
See Me Now" with uncommon power, her breathstream effecting a seamless
connection between chorus and bridge. For the Gershwin Medley, drummer Harold
Jones swaps his brushes for sticks to match energy and forcefulness that does
not let up until the last of many encores.
In 1986,
Vaughan sang "Happy Talk" and "Bali Ha'i" in the role of
Bloody Mary on a studio recording by Kiri Te Kanawa and José Carreras of the
score of the Broadway musical South Pacific, while sitting on the studio floor.
Vaughan's final album was Brazilian Romance, produced by Sérgio Mendes with
songs by Milton Nascimento and Dori Caymmi. It was recorded primarily in the early part of 1987 in
New York and Detroit. In 1988, she contributed vocals
to an album of Christmas carols recorded by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir with
the Utah Symphony Orchestra and sold in Hallmark Cards stores. In 1989, Quincy
Jones' álbum Back on the Block included Vaughan in a brief scatting duet with
Ella Fitzgerald. This
was her final studio recording. It was her only studio recording with
Fitzgerald in a career that had begun 46 years earlier opening for Fitzgerald
at the Apollo.
The video
Sarah Vaughan Live from Monterey was taped in 1983 or 1984 with her trio and
guest soloists. Sass and Brass was taped in 1986 in New Orleans with
guests Dizzy Gillespie and Maynard Ferguson. Sarah Vaughan: The Divine One was
part of the American Masters series on PBS. Also in 1986, on Independence Day
in a program nationally televised on PBS she performed with the National
Symphony Orchestra conducted by Mstislav Rostropovich, in a medley of songs
composed by George Gershwin.
There's
a saying old
Says that love is blind
Still we're often told
"Seek and ye shall find"
So I'm going to seek
A certain lad
I've had in mind
Looking
everywhere
Haven't found him yet
He's the big affair
I cannot forget
Only man I ever think
Of with regret
I'd
like
To add his initial
To my monogram
Tell me
Where is the shepherd
For this lost lamb?
There's
a somebody
I'm longin' to see
I hope that he turns
Out to be
Someone to watch over me
I'm a
little lamb
Who's lost in the wood
I know I could
Always be good
To one
Who'll watch over me
Although
he may
Not be the man some
Girls think
Of as handsome
To my heart
He carries the key
Won't
you tell him please
To put on some speed
Follow my lead
Oh, how I need
Someone to watch over me
Won't
you tell him please
To put on some speed
Follow my lead
Oh, how I need
Someone to watch over me
Someone to watch over me.
I'LL BE SEEING YOU
BILLIE HOLLIDAY
SONGWRITERS: FAIN SAMMY & IRVING KAHAL
COUNTRY: U.S.A.
ALBUM: I1LL BE SEEING YOU
LABEL: BLUEBIRD/RCA VICTOR
GENRE: JAZZ
YEAR: 1938
"I'll
Be Seeing You" is a popular song about nostalgia, with music by Sammy Fain
and lyrics by Irving Kahal. Published in 1938, it was inserted into the Broadway
musical Right This Way, which closed after fifteen performances. The title of
the 1944 film I'll Be Seeing You was taken from this song at the suggestion of
the film's producer, Dore Schary. The song is included in the film's soundtrack. The
earliest recording of the song was by Dick Todd in 1940 on the Bluebird label.
The
resemblance between the main tune's first four lines and a passage within the
theme of the last movement of Gustav Mahler's Third Symphony(1896) was pointed
out by Deryck Cooke in 1970. Mahler may have derived this passage from the
overture to Daniel Auber's comic opera (Marco Spada (1852).
Billie
Holiday's 1944 recording of the song was the final transmission sent by NASA to
the Opportunity rover on Mars when its mission ended on 13 February 2019
I'll Be
Seeing You is a 1944 American drama film made by Selznick International
Pictures, Dore Schary Productions, and Vanguard Pictures, and distributed by United
Artists. It stars Joseph Cotten, Ginger Rogers, and Shirley Temple, with Spring
Byington, Tom Tully, and John Derek. George Cukor was the original director,
but was replaced by William Dieterle. It was produced by Dore Schary, with David
O. Selznick as executive producer. The screenplay was by Marion Parsonnet,
based on a radio play by Charles Martin.
The
soundtrack includes the song "I'll Be Seeing You", which had become a
hit that year, although it dated back to 1938. The film's title was taken from
the song, at the suggestion of Schary.
Eleanora
Fagan(April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959), professionally known as Billie
Holiday, was an American jazz singer with a career spanning nearly thirty
years. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and music partner Lester
Young, Holiday had a seminal influence on jazz music and pop singing. Her vocal
style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of
manipulating phrasing and tempo. She was known for her vocal delivery and
improvisational skills.
After a
turbulent childhood, Holiday began singing in nightclubs in Harlem, where she
was heard by the producer John Hammond, who commended her voice. She signed a recording
contract with Brunswick in 1935. Collaborations with Teddy Wilson yielded the
hit "What a Little Moonlight Can Do", which became a jazz standard.
Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, Holiday had mainstream success on labels such
as Columbia and Decca. By
the late 1940s, however, she was beset with legal troubles and drug abuse. After
a short prison sentence, she performed at a sold-out concert at Carnegie Hall,
but her reputation deteriorated because of her drug and alcohol problems.
She was a successful concert performer throughout the
1950s with two further sold-out shows at Carnegie Hall. Due to personal
struggles and an altered voice, her final recordings were met with mixed
reaction, but were mild commercial successes. Her final
album, Lady in Satin, was released in 1958. Holiday died of cirrhosis on July
17, 1959.
She won
four Grammy Awards, all of them posthumously, for Best Historical Album. She
was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1973. Lady Sings the Blues, a film
about her life, starring Diana Ross, was released in 1972. She is the primary
character in the play (later made into a film) Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and
Grill; the role was originated by Reenie Upchurch in 1986, and was played by Audra
McDonald on Broadway and in the film. In 2017 Holiday was inducted into the National
Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame.
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