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James Francis Durante (/ d ə ˈ r æ n t i / də-RAN-tee, Italian:; February 10, 1893 – January 29, 1980) was an American comedian, actor, singer, and pianist.His distinctive gravelly speech, Lower East Side accent, comic language-butchery, jazz-influenced songs, and prominent nose helped make him one of the United States' most familiar and popular personalities of the 1920s through the 1970s.
Jackie Barnett Presents Jimmy Durante's Way of Life... with the Gordon Jenkins Orchestra and Chorus is a 1964 studio album by Jimmy Durante, arranged by Gordon Jenkins. It received a "Pop Special Merit" designation from Billboard upon its release, indicating "new releases of outstanding merit which deserve exposure and which could have commercial success within their respective categories of ...
She released her recording first as the B-side of her version of "Both Sides, Now", and then as the title track of her album Who Knows Where the Time Goes, both released in 1968. Hers was the first commercially released recording of the song. In 1968, Denny joined the folk-rock band Fairport Convention. She recorded the song on her second album ...
Lucy Coleman. She’s the one Jimmy Durante called Mrs. Calabash.”. The best known version of the Mrs. Calabash mystery is that Durante is referring to one of Calabash’s own native daughters ...
"As Time Goes By" is a jazz song written by Herman Hupfeld in 1931. It became famous when it featured in the 1942 film Casablanca , performed by Dooley Wilson as Sam. The song was voted No. 2 on the AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs special, commemorating the best songs in film [ 1 ] (surpassed only by " Over the Rainbow " by Judy Garland ).
The film's soundtrack contains a mixture of genres, including pop, classical, and Latin music. Melchior performs three operatic arias. Near the end of the film, Cugat's band singer Lina Romay and Cugat perform the "Chiquita Banana" song before they are interrupted by Dick (Johnny Johnston) to sing "You'd Be So Easy to Love" with Romay, who joins in with him, to the bandleader's perplexity.
The song debuted in the 1934 movie Palooka, [1] a film about the comics character Joe Palooka. By 1934, Durante's recording of the song was a major hit record, and it became Durante's theme song for the rest of his life. When he performed it on his radio and television programs, Durante would frequently interrupt it with the line "STOP da music ...
Fans are remembering Jimmy Buffett’s music after the musician’s death at age 76.. Buffett died Sept. 1, according to a statement shared on the singer’s official website and on social media ...