"Getting Sentimental over Tommy Dorsey Getting Sentimental over Tommy Dorsey is a 1963 album by Jo Stafford. The album was recorded in 1963 and features 11 easy listening classic songs associated with the bandleader Tommy Dorsey. Stafford is accompanied on this album by Nelson Riddle, Billy May and Benny Carter. The album was originally released by Reprise Records, then reissued on CD in 2002 on the Collectables label. Collectables then reissued it again in 2008 as part of a three CD set along with ""The Best of Jo Stafford"" and ""Jo Stafford and Friends"". The album was released by Valiant"
"his talented brother, saxophonist Jimmy Dorsey, Tommy came out of a coal town in Pennsylvania and gigging with the local Scranton Sirens, toured the country with Paul Whiteman, Red Nichols and other bands. By 1933 the brothers has a joint orchestra that included such future name leaders as Bob Crosby of Bobcat fame, drummer Ray McKinley and trombonist Glenn Miller. Two years later, after innumberable flare-ups Tommy walked off the bandstand at the Glen Island Casino to form his own band. ""I’m Getting’ Sentimental Over You"", previously recorded with his brother, and the opening track of this album, became (with"
"twelve weeks on the Billboard pop singles chart in 1940. ""In the Blue of Evening"" was number 1 on the ""Billboard"" pop singles chart in 1943. ""Written with Fred Norman"" In 1982, the 1940 Victor recording ""I'll Never Smile Again"" was the first of a trio of Tommy Dorsey recordings to be inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. His theme song, ""I'm Getting Sentimental Over You"" was inducted in 1998, along with his recording of ""Marie"" written by Irving Berlin in 1928. In 1996, the U.S. Postal Service issued a Tommy Dorsey and Jimmy Dorsey commemorative postage stamp. Tommy"
"than the notes. Bill's introduction to jazz came by way of a ""very unusual recording"" he heard one day: ""On one side of the disc was a recording of Knute Rockne, the famous football coach of Notre Dame, speaking – no, rather, yelling – at his team during halftime and they were losing, so you can imagine the energy there. However... on the flip side of this funny old recording was a trombone solo by somebody named Tommy Dorsey. It was called 'I'm Getting Sentimental Over You.' Well, you know the rest of the story. I was absolutely intrigued by"
"who died of a heart condition while on the Ozzfest tour in August 2002. Jones took the position as the band's frontman from 2003 to 2005. In that time period, he helped the band record their second full-length album ""Desensitized"" (2004), which brought hit songs such as ""Step Up"" (used for the motion picture ""The Punisher"" and the theme song for WWE WrestleMania XX), and the minor hits ""Love and War"" and ""Killin' Me"". Jones also recorded ""Rise Up"" from the WWE ThemeAddict: The Music, Vol. 6 album in 2004. In 2005, Jones left the band due to musical differences"
"songs as well. Bassman peaked in that career when he and Ned Washington wrote ""I'm Getting Sentimental Over You"" for the bandleader Tommy Dorsey. Bassman also worked in radio as an arranger for Andre Kostelanetz, and made the move to Hollywood in the mid 1930s. Among his earliest film jobs was orchestrating the Gershwin songs in the Fred Astaire movie ""A Damsel in Distress"" at RKO. He later went to work at MGM, where he composed music for the Marx Brothers vehicles ""A Day at the Races"", ""Go West"", and ""The Big Store"", as well as writing or arranging music"
"on Dunhill, followed by releases on Reena, Playboy, Bell, Columbia, RCA, Big Tree, Lionel, and Elektra labels. Joey Scarbury Joey Scarbury (born June 7, 1955) is an American singer best known for his hit song, ""Theme from ""The Greatest American Hero"" (Believe It or Not)"", in 1981. Scarbury was born in Ontario, California. Growing up in Thousand Oaks, he was continually encouraged in his ambition to sing by his mother. At the age of 14, after being spotted by songwriter Jimmy Webb's father, he was signed to a recording contract with Dunhill Records. Scarbury's first single, ""She Never Smiles Anymore,"""
"wore in the ""Don't Tell Me You Love Me"" music video. At the end of the video, Keagy hands the magic lamp to Gillis while we hear the news anchor in the background, finishing off the story. Sentimental Street ""Sentimental Street"" is a song by American hard rock band Night Ranger. It was released in 1985 as the lead single from their album, ""Seven Wishes"". It reached number eight on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and number three on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart in the U.S. The music video for ""Sentimental Street"" starts with a news anchor reporting the"
"Jim's Big Ego Jim's Big Ego is a Boston, Massachusetts-based band formed in 1995 under the leadership of singer/songwriter Jim Infantino. Among the band's songs are ""The Ballad of Barry Allen,"" about the DC superhero Barry Allen/The Flash, a character co-created by Infantino's uncle Carmine Infantino; “Asshole”, a song about the George W. Bush administration that went viral, and ""New Lang Syne"" (sometimes also called ""Thank God It's Over""), a new New Year's Eve song featured on National Public Radio's ""All Things Considered"" in 2001. In May 2017 their song ""Stress"" became the intro theme for ""The Jimquisition"", hosted by"
"Jim Sterling. Jim's Big Ego Jim's Big Ego is a Boston, Massachusetts-based band formed in 1995 under the leadership of singer/songwriter Jim Infantino. Among the band's songs are ""The Ballad of Barry Allen,"" about the DC superhero Barry Allen/The Flash, a character co-created by Infantino's uncle Carmine Infantino; “Asshole”, a song about the George W. Bush administration that went viral, and ""New Lang Syne"" (sometimes also called ""Thank God It's Over""), a new New Year's Eve song featured on National Public Radio's ""All Things Considered"" in 2001. In May 2017 their song ""Stress"" became the intro theme for ""The Jimquisition"","
"also been given the opportunity to perform it on the television program ""American Bandstand"". A 1964 version by Pat Wayne and the Beachcombers is noteworthy because of the involvement of the guitarist Jimmy Page, later of The Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin. It was re-released in 1989 as part of the compilation """". In 1992 Paul Shaffer and The World's Most Dangerous Band recorded a version of the song as the main theme for the feature film ""Beethoven"". Roll Over Beethoven ""Roll Over Beethoven"" is a 1956 hit single written by Chuck Berry, originally released on Chess Records, with ""Drifting Heart"""
"at 548 South Spring Street in Los Angeles, California, USA. I'll Be Over You ""I'll Be Over You"" is a hit single by the American rock band Toto. Released as the lead single from their 1986 album, ""Fahrenheit"", the song reached number eleven on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart in 1986. Lead vocals were sung by guitarist Steve Lukather, who co-wrote the song with hit songwriter Randy Goodrum (one of several collaborations between the two). Guest musician Michael McDonald provided the vocal counterpoint on the recording. ""I'll Be Over You"" spent two weeks at number one on the adult contemporary"
"I'll Be Over You ""I'll Be Over You"" is a hit single by the American rock band Toto. Released as the lead single from their 1986 album, ""Fahrenheit"", the song reached number eleven on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart in 1986. Lead vocals were sung by guitarist Steve Lukather, who co-wrote the song with hit songwriter Randy Goodrum (one of several collaborations between the two). Guest musician Michael McDonald provided the vocal counterpoint on the recording. ""I'll Be Over You"" spent two weeks at number one on the adult contemporary chart, Toto's second song to top this chart (following 1983's"
"Sentimental Street ""Sentimental Street"" is a song by American hard rock band Night Ranger. It was released in 1985 as the lead single from their album, ""Seven Wishes"". It reached number eight on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and number three on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart in the U.S. The music video for ""Sentimental Street"" starts with a news anchor reporting the topic of the band having recently gone missing after they took off in a plane following a photo shoot. The plane was a vintage B-25 Mitchell bomber, used as part of their new album's cover art. We"
"Sentimental Lady ""Sentimental Lady"" is a song written by Bob Welch. It was originally recorded for Fleetwood Mac's 1972 album ""Bare Trees"", but was re-recorded by Welch on his debut solo album, ""French Kiss"", in 1977. It is a romantic song, originally written for Welch's first wife. Welch recorded it again in 2003 for his album ""His Fleetwood Mac Years & Beyond"". The song was originally written by Welch at the former Gorham Hotel on 55th Street in New York City. The original 1972 version of the song as heard on Fleetwood Mac's ""Bare Trees"" album clocked in at 4"
"emotional. There the song borders on despondency. Bunny Berigan, a trumpeter with Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey, started a band in 1937 and chose ""I Can't Get Started"" as his theme song. He had been performing the song during the previous year at a club in New York City. He made a recording for Vocalion on April 13, 1936 but gradually he made subtle changes in the arrangement. After forming his band, he recorded ""I Can't Get Started"" again, this time for Victor. Jazz trumpeter Dick Sudhalter noted the changes that had been made since the Vocalion recording. ""An introduction—an"
"in Emden, Illinois on July 17, 1971. The inscription on his tombstone reads: “Forgotten quickly by many, remembered forever by a few.” Tiny Hill Harry Lawrence ""Tiny"" Hill (July 19, 1906 – December 13, 1971) was a band leader of the Big Band era. During the height of his career Hill was billed as “America’s Biggest Bandleader” because of his weight of over . His signature song was ""Angry"", which he first recorded in 1939 on Columbia Records' Vocalion label. He used sandpaper blocks and a güiro to generate a double shuffle ""beat that makes the listener itch to dance""."
"Up"", which includes three of his compositions: the title track, ""GCF"", and the instrumental ""Theme"". He also shares co-author credit on ""Descendents"", ""Pervert"", and ""Rockstar"". Stevenson prepared a tour to support the album, but Lombardo declined due to his personal and professional commitments, thus quitting the band: In 1985, when Bill came to me and said he had lined up a U.S. tour, I had just bought a house, I had been working at the post office for three years and I was engaged to a woman who I never did marry. Not doing that [tour] was the biggest mistake"
"Sentimentally Yours Sentimentally Yours is the third studio album by American country music singer Patsy Cline, released August 7, 1962. The album was the final studio album Cline would release before her death in a plane crash less than a year later. (Her last album was recorded in 1963 and released posthumously.) ""Sentimentally Yours"" featured two of Cline's major hits singles that year. The first single, ""She's Got You"" was released early in 1962 and became a #1 hit on the Billboard Country Chart and crossed over into the Pop chart to #14, becoming another major crossover hit for Cline."
"Theme from The Greatest American Hero (Believe It or Not) ""Theme from ""The Greatest American Hero"" (Believe It or Not)"" is a song composed by Mike Post with lyrics by Stephen Geyer, and sung by American singer Joey Scarbury. It serves as the theme song for the 1980s television series ""The Greatest American Hero"". The track was later included on Scarbury's 1981 debut album ""America's Greatest Hero"". The theme song became a popular hit during the run of ""The Greatest American Hero"". ""Believe It or Not"" debuted in the Top 40 of the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 on June 13, 1981,"
"Joey Scarbury Joey Scarbury (born June 7, 1955) is an American singer best known for his hit song, ""Theme from ""The Greatest American Hero"" (Believe It or Not)"", in 1981. Scarbury was born in Ontario, California. Growing up in Thousand Oaks, he was continually encouraged in his ambition to sing by his mother. At the age of 14, after being spotted by songwriter Jimmy Webb's father, he was signed to a recording contract with Dunhill Records. Scarbury's first single, ""She Never Smiles Anymore,"" flopped, and he was soon without a record label. He stayed around the music business throughout the"
"soundtrack to ""Fly, Robin, Fly"" by the Silver Convention; the main title theme was usually ""Horizontal Hold"" by Jan Stoeckart. From roughly, 1977-1979, CBS used the disco-style version of John Williams' main theme from ""Star Wars"". Starting in 1980, CBS frequently used the beginning guitar riff of Heart's ""Crazy on You"" when they went to commercial. In 1981, CBS changed the game opening music and kept it through the 1985 season. The 1981-1985 ""NFL on CBS"" theme was a peppy, fanfare-styled theme. The patriotic-like opening graphic showed the Stars and Stripes morphing into the words ""National Football League."" For their"
"Harder They Come"" and ""Sitting in Limbo,"" the Sensational Nightingales' ""My Sisters and Brothers,"" Hank Ballard's ""Tore Up Over You,"" Bob McDill and Allen Reynolds' ""Catfish John,"" John Lennon's ""Dear Prudence,"" Jesse Stone's ""Don't Let Go,"" Allen Toussaint's ""I'll Take a Melody"" and ""Get Out of My Life, Woman,"" Little Milton's ""That's What Love Will Make You Do,"" Chuck Berry's ""Let It Rock"" and ""You Never Can Tell,"" Bruce Cockburn's ""Waiting for a Miracle,"" Irving Berlin's ""Russian Lullaby,"" Smokey Robinson's ""The Way You Do the Things You Do"" and ""I Second That Emotion,"" Peter Tosh's ""Stop That Train,"" Bob Marley's"
"""Let's Get Started"", ""Time"", ""Captured"", ""Celebrate"" (with Larry Davis and Harold Hudson), ""Saturday Night"" and ""Keep On Taking Me Higher"" (with Harold Hudson).[1]established The Commodores as an act that fans would put the album on and just let it play the entire album McClary's musical influence then moved outside of just The Commodores. From the ""Endless Love"" soundtrack, he co-wrote (with Lionel Richie) ""Dreaming of You"" which was performed by Richie and Diana Ross as well as Kenny Rogers' ""Without You In My Life"". Another was the track ""Steam Room"" off of ""Jayne Kennedy's"" ""Complete Exercise Program"". McClary co-wrote and"
"Tiny Hill Harry Lawrence ""Tiny"" Hill (July 19, 1906 – December 13, 1971) was a band leader of the Big Band era. During the height of his career Hill was billed as “America’s Biggest Bandleader” because of his weight of over . His signature song was ""Angry"", which he first recorded in 1939 on Columbia Records' Vocalion label. He used sandpaper blocks and a güiro to generate a double shuffle ""beat that makes the listener itch to dance"". Hill was born in Sullivan Township (Moultrie County), Illinois. His parents were William Fred Hill (1880-1915) and Osa Crowdson Ault (1890-1982). His"
"Sensitivity (song) ""Sensitivity"" is the title of a number-one single by American singer Ralph Tresvant. It was the first single from the self-titled debut album of the New Edition frontman since the split of the group. The hit song spent one week at number one on the US R&B chart. It became his biggest hit, peaking at number four on the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and number eighteen on the UK Singles Chart. In 2005, British electronic duo Lemon Jelly sampled ""Sensitivity"" in their track ""90 – A Man Like Me"". In October 2004, ""Sensitivity"" appeared in the popular video"
"Lay had left the band due to illness to be replaced by the more jazz-oriented Billy Davenport. The social complexion of the band changed as well; ruled by Butterfield in the beginning, it evolved into more of a democracy both in terms of financial reward and input into repertoire. One result was the inclusion of two all-instrumental extended jams at the instigation of Bloomfield following the group's successful appearance at The Fillmore in San Francisco during March alongside Jefferson Airplane. Both reflected his love of jazz, as ""Work Song"" had become a hard bop standard, and the title track ""East-West"""
"his current group. The group then renewed their request to Gerald Alston (born November 8, 1951, North Carolina), who accepted and took over the lead spot. Original lead singer George Smith died of a brain tumor on December 16, 1970, 12 days before his 31st birthday. The Manhattans continued recording throughout the 1970s with Alston singing lead vocals. They struck chart gold in 1973 with the Bivins-written song ""There's No me Without You"". Then their biggest song to date was ""Kiss and Say Goodbye,"" written by Blue Lovett and arranged/co-produced with the group by the Philadelphia-based record producer Bobby Martin,"
"Bloomfield's original ""American music"" concept appeared to have narrowed considerably. In terms of the band's original material, Miles Davis praised the Bloomfield–Goldberg composition, ""Over-Lovin' You"", in a ""Down Beat"" Blindfold Test in 1968. By June 1968, only months after the release of the album, Bloomfield quit the group, based on exhaustion brought on by continuing insomnia that was ineffectively medicated through heroin. In the weeks prior to his departure, there had been much public speculation as to whether Bloomfield was leaving the group or whether the group was leaving him. Miles, rather than Bloomfield, had become the ""de facto"" leader"
"serves as the band's permanent drummer. Following Weinberg's exit, O'Brien sought to revamp the show's title theme song. In an interview with ""New York Magazine"", O'Brien expressed his desire to create a new introduction from the previous ""Late Night"" and ""Tonight"" compositions, which were used for O'Brien's entire 17-year relationship with NBC, and ultimately unveil a new signature sound for the show. The new theme song was co-written by bandleader Jimmy Vivino, and O'Brien himself. Despite no obvious copyright issues to continue using the previous theme, which was written by Howard Shore and John Lurie, O'Brien stated of the transition"
"included on the ""American Graffiti"" soundtrack that fueled an oldies revival already underway in the early to mid-1970s: ""Smoke Gets in Your Eyes"", ""The Great Pretender"", and ""Only You (and You Alone)"". The group's line-up has changed many times. The line-up in 1953 included lead vocalist Cornell Gunter, Herb Reed, Alex Hodge, Joe Jefferson, and David Lynch. Soon, Gunter was replaced by tenor Tony Williams. The band's second manager Ram decided to build the group around Williams's distinctive and versatile voice and his ability to bring life to Ram's songs. Within a year, Hodge and Jefferson were also out and"
"due to its hit title track, ""Nightshift"". Written by Walter Orange, Dennis Lambert and Franne Golde, ""Nightshift"" was the band's biggest post-Lionel Richie hit, reaching #3 on The Billboard Hot 100, and #1 on ""Billboard's"" chart for top R&B/hip-hop singles. Paying tribute to the late soul singers Marvin Gaye and Jackie Wilson, who both died in 1984, ""Nightshift"" also earned the group its only Grammy. Though not as successful as the ""Nightshift"" single, two other tracks from the album were released. Regarded as an out-of-the-ordinary track for the Commodores, ""Animal Instinct"", with Orange on lead vocals, was released almost six"
"much argument between Waters and Gilmour. Ezrin claimed that the song initially started life as ""Roger's record, about Roger, for Roger"", although he thought that it needed further work. Waters changed the key of the verse of the song and added more lyrics for the chorus with Gilmour adding some extra bars for the line ""I have become Comfortably Numb"", but his ""stripped-down and harder"" recording was not to Gilmour's liking. Gilmour preferred Ezrin's ""grander Technicolor, orchestral version"", although Ezrin preferred Waters's version. Following a full-scale argument in a North Hollywood restaurant, the two compromised; the song's body eventually included"