"to boost the morale of the troops overseas; it was an immediate hit); ""St. James Infirmary"", with new words and music by White; the old English folk song ""Lass with the Delicate Air""; ""John Henry"", with new words and music by White; ""Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho"", with new words and music by White; ""The Riddle Song (I Gave My Love a Cherry)"", a traditional English folk song; ""Evil Hearted Man"", with words and music by White; ""Miss Otis Regrets"", by Cole Porter; ""The House of the Rising Sun"", with new words and music by White (subsequently recorded by"
"awesome girl who's visiting town after having moved away: ""You can tell all my pets, all my blondes and brunettes, Mister Otis regrets that he won't be around.” Truman Capote, in his article published in the November 1975 issue of ""Esquire Magazine"", relates a story Porter told him. Porter used ""Miss Otis"" as a punchline in the 1950s, opening the door to dismiss a presumptuous man from his home. Porter handed him a check as he said ""Miss Otis regrets she's unable to lunch today. Now get out."" The song was recorded by Alberta Hunter with Jack Jackson and His"
"Johnny Otis Johnny Otis (born Ioannis Alexandres Veliotes; December 28, 1921 – January 17, 2012) was an American singer, musician, composer, arranger, bandleader, talent scout, disc jockey, record producer, television show host, artist, author, journalist, minister, and impresario. He was a seminal influence on American R&B and rock and roll. He discovered numerous artists early in their careers who went on to become highly successful in their own right, including Little Esther Phillips, Etta James, Big Mama Thornton, Johnny Ace, Jackie Wilson, Little Willie John, Hank Ballard, and The Robins (who eventually changed their name to The Coasters), among many"
"Shuggie Otis Shuggie Otis (born Johnny Alexander Veliotes, Jr.; November 30, 1953) is an American singer-songwriter, recording artist, and multi-instrumentalist. Otis's composition ""Strawberry Letter 23"" (as recorded by The Brothers Johnson) topped the ""Billboard"" R&B chart and reached #5 of the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart in 1977. He also achieved commercial success with his 1974 single ""Inspiration Information"" (from the album of the same name), reaching #56 on the R&B chart. Born in Los Angeles, California, Otis is the son of rhythm and blues pioneer, musician, bandleader, and impresario Johnny Otis who was of Greek descent and his wife Phyllis"
"Show With Al Kooper With Preston Love With Guitar Slim Green With Gerald Wilson With Frank Zappa With Jimmy Vivino With Mark Lotito Shuggie Otis Shuggie Otis (born Johnny Alexander Veliotes, Jr.; November 30, 1953) is an American singer-songwriter, recording artist, and multi-instrumentalist. Otis's composition ""Strawberry Letter 23"" (as recorded by The Brothers Johnson) topped the ""Billboard"" R&B chart and reached #5 of the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart in 1977. He also achieved commercial success with his 1974 single ""Inspiration Information"" (from the album of the same name), reaching #56 on the R&B chart. Born in Los Angeles, California, Otis"
"Vivian Ellis Vivian John Herman Ellis, CBE (29 October 1903 – 19 June 1996) was an English musical comedy composer best known for the song ""Spread a Little Happiness"" and the theme ""Coronation Scot"". Ellis was born in Hampstead, London in 1903 and educated at Cheltenham College. He began a musical career as a concert pianist, but became a composer and lyricist. His grandmother, Julia Woolf, had also been a concert pianist as well as composing an opera, ""Carina"". He had great success with the foxtrot song ""Over My Shoulder"" in the early 20s. This led to further contributions of"
"Dances"", Op.58, was composed in her memory): and Margaret (1912-?). He married secondly Nell (maiden name unknown), died 12 April 1934. ""Aspiration""; ""Fountain Song""; ""I Made Thee Mine""; ""The Infinite Voice""; ""Life""; ""Sigh No More Ladies"" (also arr. violin or cello, and piano); ""April Wears a Smiling Face""; ""Tony the Turtle""; ""Cradle Song""; ""Sea Dogs""; ""Sleep Little Rose""; ""Sweet Night""; ""The Woodland Tailor""; ""A Song of Folly""; ""Thoughts"" (vocal setting of Brahms's waltz, op.39 no.15) Notes Sources Ernest Austin Ernest Austin (31 December 1874 – 24 July 1947) was an English composer, music arranger and editor. Although little-remembered today (he"
"at his home in Boston, on November 17th of 1888, after a brief attack of inflammation of the brain, at 49 years old. Professor Otis was married, June 11, 1884, to Sarah Margaret Noyes, of Boston, who survived him with two sons. Otis published a ""Grammar of Elementary German"", which passed through several editions, and edited for the use of his classes a number of German texts. Charles Pomeroy Otis Charles Pomeroy Otis (April 8,1840-November 17, 1888) was an American educator and author. Otis, son of the Rev. Israel T. Otis and Olive M. (Osgood) Otis, was born in Lebanon,"
"Mercy Otis Warren Mercy Otis Warren (September 14, [September 25, New Style] 1728 – October 19, 1814) was a political writer and propagandist of the American Revolution. During the years before the American Revolution, Warren published poems and plays that attacked royal authority in Massachusetts and urged colonists to resist British infringements on colonial rights and liberties. She was married to James Warren, who was likewise heavily active in the independence movement. During the debate over the United States Constitution in 1788, she issued a pamphlet, ""Observations on the new Constitution, and on the Federal and State Conventions"" written under"
"Shirley Ellis Shirley Marie O'Garra (stage name: Shirley Ellis; married name: Shirley Elliston; 19 January 1929 [though her Social Security card shows 20 Jan 1927] – 5 October 2005) was an American soul music singer and songwriter of West Indian origin. She is best known for her novelty hits ""The Nitty Gritty"" (1963) (US no. 8), ""The Name Game"" (1964) (US no. 3) and ""The Clapping Song"" (1965) (US no. 8 and UK no. 6). ""The Clapping Song"" sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. By 1954 she had written two songs which were recorded by"
"Otis Blackwell Otis Blackwell (February 16, 1931 – May 6, 2002) was an African-American songwriter, singer, and pianist, whose work significantly influenced rock and roll. His compositions include ""Fever"", recorded by Little Willie John; ""Great Balls of Fire"" and ""Breathless"", recorded by Jerry Lee Lewis; ""Don't Be Cruel"", ""All Shook Up"" and ""Return to Sender"" (with Winfield Scott), recorded by Elvis Presley; and ""Handy Man"", recorded by Jimmy Jones. He is not to be confused with the songwriter and record producer Robert ""Bumps"" Blackwell. Blackwell was born in Brooklyn, New York. He learned to play the piano as a child"
"Odia Coates Odia Coates (November 13, 1941 – May 19, 1991) was an American singer, best known for her high-profile hits with Canadian singer-songwriter Paul Anka. The daughter of an evangelical minister, Odia Coates was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi. As a young child her family moved to Watts, California, where her father served as pastor in the Beautiful Gates Church Of God In Christ, where she sang in the church choir. She eventually became a member of the Northern California State Youth Choir, co-founded by Edwin Hawkins. Coates is best remembered for her duet with Paul Anka, ""(You're) Having My"
"Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie, or a Special for her work on Bessie. Rachel Portman Rachel Mary Berkeley Portman, OBE (born 11 December 1960) is an English composer who is best known for scoring films. Portman was born on 11 December 1960 in Haslemere in Surrey, England, the daughter of Sheila Margaret Penelope (née Mowat) Portman and Berkeley Charles Berkeley Portman. She was educated at Charterhouse School and became interested in music from a young age, beginning composing at the age of 14. After finishing school, Portman studied Music at Worcester College, Oxford. It was here that her"
"Clyde Otis Clyde Otis (September 11, 1924 – January 8, 2008), born in Prentiss, Mississippi, United States, was an American songwriter and record producer, best known for his collaboration with singer Brook Benton, and for being one of the first African-American A&R executives at a major label. According to the music licensing organization Broadcast Music Inc., Otis is credited as the writer or co-writer of almost 800 songs. After serving in the Marines during World War II, Otis moved to New York City and inspired by fellow Marine Bobby Troup, best known for ""Route 66"", began writing songs. Otis' first"
"Otis Redding Otis Ray Redding Jr. (September 9, 1941 – December 10, 1967) was an American singer, songwriter, record producer, arranger, and talent scout. He is considered one of the greatest singers in the history of American popular music and a seminal artist in soul music and rhythm and blues. Redding's style of singing gained inspiration from the gospel music that preceded the genre. His singing style influenced many other soul artists of the 1960s. During his lifetime, his recordings were produced by Stax Records, based in Memphis, Tennessee. Redding was born in Dawson, Georgia, and at the age of"
"Dorothy LaBostrie Dorothy LaBostrie (18 or 28 May 1928 – 4 November 2007), later Dorothy LaBostrie Black, was an American songwriter, best known for co-writing Little Richard's 1955 hit ""Tutti Frutti"". She was born in Rayland, Kentucky; some sources incorrectly claim a birth year of 1938 rather than 1928. Her parents were Amos and Orelia C. LaBostrie. She was raised in Mobile, Alabama, and in 1951 moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, to seek out her father's Creole relatives. She started working as a cook and waitress, wrote poems, and began frequenting the jazz and blues clubs on Rampart Street. In"
"Dickens — """"By The Sweat Of My Brow"""" Jack Rhodes Andrew Jackson 'Jack' Rhodes (January 12, 1907 - October 9, 1968) was an American country music producer and songwriter, with songwriting credits on over 100 released records. Several of his songs became hit records, including ""A Satisfied Mind"", ""Silver Threads and Golden Needles"", ""Conscience I'm Guilty"", ""The Waltz of the Angels"", ""Beautiful Lies"", and ""Till the Last Leaf Shall Fall"". Inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972 (posthumously), he is most recently celebrated as one of the founding fathers of Rockabilly, imparting a country/rock infusion. He was"
"Miles Goodman Elliott Miles Goodman (August 27, 1948 – August 16, 1996) was an American composer for television and film. He is best remembered for his frequent collaboration with film director Frank Oz, for whom Goodman scored such films as ""Dirty Rotten Scoundrels"" (1988), ""What About Bob?"" (1991) and ""Housesitter"" (1992). For his score to Oz's ""Little Shop of Horrors"" (1986), Goodman was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score. Goodman was born in August 27, 1948 in Los Angeles. He graduated from Antioch University in Yellow Springs, Ohio, with a degree in English. In 1969, he"
"Dorothy Squires Dorothy Squires (born Edna May Squires, 25 March 1915 – 14 April 1998) was a Welsh singer. Among her recordings were versions of ""A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening"", ""I'm in the Mood for Love"", ""Anytime"", ""If You Love Me (Really Love Me)"" and ""And So to Sleep Again"". She was also known as a vexatious litigant, filing numerous frivolous lawsuits that led to her bankruptcy. Born in her parents' carnival caravan in Pontyberem (about 12 miles from Llanelli), Carmarthenshire, Wales, to a steelworker, Archibald James Squires, and his wife, Emily, she wanted a piano as a"
"Otis Leavill Otis Leavill (February 8, 1937 – July 17, 2002) was an American R&B singer, songwriter and record company executive. Otis Leavill Cobb was born in Dewey Rose, Elbert County, Georgia, and moved with his family to the West Side of Chicago at the age of two. His father was pastor of the First Church of Deliverance on South Wabash Avenue, and he started singing in the family's gospel group, the Cobb Quartet. In his teens, he took part in amateur boxing with his friend Major Lance, graduated from Crane High School, and attended college. With Lance and Barbara"
"Otis Williams Otis Williams (born Otis Miles Jr.; October 30, 1941) is an American baritone singer. Nicknamed ""Big Daddy"", he is occasionally also a songwriter and a record producer. Williams is best known as the founder and last surviving original member of the Motown vocal group The Temptations, a group in which he continues to perform; he also owns the rights to the Temptations name. Williams was born Otis Miles, Jr. in Texarkana, Texas to Otis Miles and Hazel Louise Williams, an unmarried couple who separated shortly after their son's birth. While he was still a toddler, his mother married"
"1970. In his latter years he suffered from Parkinson's Disease and nearly lost his voice. Peter Tevis Peter Tevis (born February 10, 1937, in Santa Barbara, California, USA, died September 13, 2006 in Mercer Island, Washington) was an American folk singer best remembered for his work on the soundtracks of composer Ennio Morricone. Tevis met Morricone while living in Italy in the 1960s, and suggested working together. A 1962 recording of the song ""Pastures of Plenty"" by Woody Guthrie became a small hit single (RCA PM45-3115). Morricone later reworked it into the title theme of the famous Spaghetti Western movie"
"Otis René Otis René (b. Otis J. René, Jr., October 2, 1898, in New Orleans; d. April 5, 1970, in Los Angeles) was an American songwriter and record label owner. As a songwriter, he is notable as the co-author of ""When It's Sleepy Time Down South"", which became a signature song for Louis Armstrong. Otis René is best known as the co-author of the 1931 song ""When It's Sleepy Time Down South"", co-written with his brother Leon René, and Clarence Muse. Other songs co-written by Otis René include ""Someone's Rocking My Dreamboat"", included by Murray Head on his 1975 album"
"OK Records label. He died in Chicago of a heart attack in 2002, aged 65. He was survived by his wife, Minnie and a son, Derick. Otis Leavill Otis Leavill (February 8, 1937 – July 17, 2002) was an American R&B singer, songwriter and record company executive. Otis Leavill Cobb was born in Dewey Rose, Elbert County, Georgia, and moved with his family to the West Side of Chicago at the age of two. His father was pastor of the First Church of Deliverance on South Wabash Avenue, and he started singing in the family's gospel group, the Cobb Quartet."
"O. V. Wright Overton Vertis ""O. V."" Wright (October 9, 1939 – November 16, 1980) was an American singer who is generally regarded as a blues artist by African American fans in the Deep South; he is also regarded as one of Southern soul's most authoritative and individual artists. His best known songs include ""That's How Strong My Love Is"" (1964), ""You're Gonna Make Me Cry"" (1965), ""Nucleus of Soul"" (1968), ""A Nickel and a Nail"" (1971), ""I Can't Take It"" (1971) and ""Ace of Spades"" (1971). Born in Lenow, Tennessee, Wright, as a youngster, began singing in the church."
"Oops (Oh My) ""Oops (Oh My)"" is a song by American singer Tweet from her debut studio album, ""Southern Hummingbird"" (2002). It features vocals from American rapper Missy ""Misdemeanor"" Elliott, who co-wrote the song with Tweet, while production was handled by Timbaland. The song was released on January 11, 2002, as the album's lead single. ""Oops (Oh My)"" was a commercial success in the United States, peaking at number seven on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and topping ""Billboard""s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. Additionally, it reached number five on the UK Singles Chart. English electropop band Ladytron covered the song on their"
"Wintter Watts Wintter Haynes Watts (Cincinnati, Ohio, March 14, 1884 – Brooklyn, New York, November 1, 1962) was an American composer of art songs. Watts was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and his early studies were in painting, architecture, voice, and organ. He later studied at The Academy of Musical Art in New York City and in Florence, Italy. He won the Morris Loeb Prize in 1919 for his symphony ""Young Blood"" and the Prix de Rome in 1923. He returned to Italy a few years later and stayed until 1931, when he returned to the United States. After 1931 he"
"Otis Leon McCoy Otis Leon McCoy (February 17, 1897 - 1995) was an American singer-songwriter and music teacher. He was the president of Tennessee Music and Printing, the publishing company of the Church of God, and he wrote hundreds of Southern gospel hymns. McCoy was born on February 17, 1897. His grandfather was Thomas Jackson Denson and his great-uncle was Seaborn McDaniel Denson. McCoy learned to play the Sacred Harp from his grandfather, and he was educated at the James D. Vaughan School of Music in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. McCoy was a singer-songwriter of Southern gospel. From 1923 to the 1930s,"
"deposited in the Library of Congress. Herbie Nichols Herbert Horatio Nichols (3 January 1919 – 12 April 1963) was an American jazz pianist and composer who wrote the jazz standard ""Lady Sings the Blues"". Obscure during his lifetime, he is now highly regarded by many musicians and critics. He was born in San Juan Hill, Manhattan in New York City, to parents from St. Kitts and Trinidad, and grew up in Harlem. During much of his life he took work as a Dixieland musician while working on the more adventurous kind of jazz he preferred. He is best known today"
"Stephen Foster Stephen Collins Foster (July 4, 1826January 13, 1864), known as ""the father of American music"", was an American songwriter known primarily for his parlor and minstrel music. Foster wrote over 200 songs; among his best-known are ""Oh! Susanna"", ""Hard Times Come Again No More"", ""Camptown Races"", ""Old Folks at Home"" (""Swanee River""), ""My Old Kentucky Home"", ""Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair"", ""Old Black Joe"", and ""Beautiful Dreamer"". Many of his compositions remain popular more than 150 years after he wrote them. His compositions are thought to be autobiographical. He has been identified as ""the most famous songwriter"
"dramas, poems, and essays throughout wartime and post-Revolution with a commentating and critical voice. 16. Zagarri, Rosemarie. 2015. ""A Woman's Dilemma: Mercy Otis Warren and the American Revolution"". https://newbooksinpolitics.com/political/a-womans-dilemma-mercy-otis-warren-and-the-american-revolution/ Mercy Otis Warren Mercy Otis Warren (September 14, [September 25, New Style] 1728 – October 19, 1814) was a political writer and propagandist of the American Revolution. During the years before the American Revolution, Warren published poems and plays that attacked royal authority in Massachusetts and urged colonists to resist British infringements on colonial rights and liberties. She was married to James Warren, who was likewise heavily active in the independence"
"He served again as its president from 1934 to 1945, 1947 to 1952, and 1958 to 1961. McCoy died in 1995. He was inducted into the Southern Gospel Museum and Hall of Fame in 2003. Otis Leon McCoy Otis Leon McCoy (February 17, 1897 - 1995) was an American singer-songwriter and music teacher. He was the president of Tennessee Music and Printing, the publishing company of the Church of God, and he wrote hundreds of Southern gospel hymns. McCoy was born on February 17, 1897. His grandfather was Thomas Jackson Denson and his great-uncle was Seaborn McDaniel Denson. McCoy learned"
"me in is fine with me as long as they accept what I do."" — Little Milton Little Milton James Milton Campbell Jr. (September 7, 1934 – August 4, 2005), better known as Little Milton, was an American blues singer and guitarist, best known for his hit records ""Grits Ain't Groceries,"" ""Walking the Back Streets and Crying,"" and ""We're Gonna Make It."" Milton was born James Milton Campbell Jr., in the Mississippi Delta town of Inverness and raised in Greenville by a farmer and local blues musician. By age twelve he was a street musician, chiefly influenced by T-Bone Walker"