Thanks for the Memory, of Faults That You Forgave

Les Brown, musician
and Band Leader
(14 Mar 1912 - 4 Jan 2001)
Les Brown and His Band (1976)

- Thanks for the Memory
(Rainger & Robin)

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Margaret Whiting's Birthday Anniversary

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22 July 2015
A Birthday Anniversary
Margaret Whiting
Big Band and Swing Music Vocalist
(22 July 1924 - 10 January 2011)

Margaret Whiting, vocal
(2002)
- Where or When
(Rodgers & Hart) 2'54"

~*~

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22 July 2015
A Birthday Anniversary
Margaret Whiting
Big Band and Swing Music Vocalist
(22 July 1924 - 10 January 2011)

Margaret Whiting, vocal
(2000)
- I Only Have Eyes for You
(Warren & Dubin) 3'41"


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Once Again Your Face Comes Back to Me

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21 June 2015
A Birthday Anniversary
Mack Gordon
Polish-American Oscar Winning Lyricist
(21 June 1904 - 1 March 1959)

Ray Eberle & Pat Friday, duet
(1942)
- Serenade in Blue
(Gordon & Warren) 4'54"

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21 June 2015
A Birthday Anniversary
Mack Gordon
Polish-American Oscar Winning Lyricist
(21 June 1904 - 1 March 1959)

Ray Eberle, vocalist
(1941)
- At Last
(Gordon & Warren) 3'08"

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One Day in May, In Apple Blossom Time

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The Andrew Sisters (1941)
- I'll Be with You in Apple Blossom Time

Mon coeur vous dédie sa mélodie

Two birthdays on today, 1 March:

Frederic Chopin
(1 March 1810 - 17 October 1849)

Margot Lefebvre (1962)
"Mon coeur vous dédie sa mélodie"
(after Chopin - Etude Op. 10, Number 3)
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and

Glenn Miller
(1 March 1904 - 15 December 1944)

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Glenn Miller and His Orchestra (1940)
- Danny Boy (Weatherley)
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The Day You Promised to Come Back

Glenn Miller and His Orchestra
with Ray Eberle, vocal (1940)
When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano (René)

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When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano (1940)

Composer: Leon René
Glenn Miller and His Orchestra
Ray Eberle, vocal

When the swallows come back to Capistrano
That's the day you promised to come back to me
When you whispered, "Farewell" in Capistrano
T'was the day the swallows flew out to the sea

All the mission bells will ring
The chapel choir will sing
The happiness you'll bring
Will live in my memory

When the swallows come back to Capistrano
That's the day I pray that you'll come back to me

Giving Offenbach a Break

Today is Jacques Offenbach's birthday (20 June 1819 - 5 October 1880), so I will get off his back. Instead, I have uploaded a memory insurance selection on this first day of summer for 2012.

So, as it were, "I stand, and I wait for the touch of your hand in the June night..."

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Beegie Adair, piano (2006)
- Moonlight Serenade (Miller)

So Rare

Jimmy Dorsey, Big Band leader
(29 February 1904 - 12 June 1957)
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Jimmy Dorsey (alto sax) 1957 -
with the Artie Malvin Singers
- So Rare (Herst)
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Jimmy Dorsey, sax
with the Artie Malvin Singers (1957)
- So Rare (Herst)

Music to Rug By

Q: Where do you go to buy a Persian rug?
A: In a Persian market.

A lame trivial, yet the "In a Persian Market" music is great!

Albert William Ketèlbey
English composer, conductor, and pianist
(9 August 1875 - 26 November 1959)
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Larry Clinton and His Orchestra (1939)
- In a Persian Market (Ketèlbey)

What Romantic Fools We Mortals Be

Helen Forrest
Big Band vocalist
(12 April, 1918 – 11 July, 1999)
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Benny Goodman Orchestra with
Helen Forrest (1941)
- Perfida (Dominquez)







Perfidia
Composer: Alberto Dominguez, 1939

Orchestra: Benny Goodman, 1941
Vocals: Helen Forrest, 1941

To you
My heart cries out perfidia
For I found you the love of my life
In somebody else’s arm

Your eyes
Are echoing perfidia
Forgetful of our promise of love
You're sharing another’s charm

With a sad lament my dreams have faded like a broken melody
While the gods of love look down and laugh at what romantic fools we mortals be

And now
I know my love was not for you
And so I take it back with a sigh
Perfidious one
Goodbye

Apple Blossom Time (Very Soon)

Harry James
Renown trumpeter and Big Band leader
(15 March, 1916 – 5 July, 1983)
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Harry James and Helen Forrest (v)
in a 1942 radio broadcast
Apple Blossom Time
(Tilzer and Fleeson, 1920)

The Renown Bizet Has His Day

Les Brown, Sr.
Big Band Leader and Composer
(14 March, 1912 - 4 January, 2001)

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Les Brown and His Band of Renown (1959)
- Bizet Has His Day
(after Bizet; Arr. Homer; 1944)
A trivia question: Which Bizet composition inspired this Big Band arrangement?

A Sentimental Journey

Ben Homer
Big Band arranger, composer, and conductor
27 June, 1917 -
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Doris Day and The Les Brown Orchestra (1949)
Sentimetnal Journey (Homer)

Anton's Melody Waltz

Anton Rubenstein
Russian pianist, late Romantic period composer, and conductor
(28 November, 1829 - 20 November, 1894)
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Glen Gray and The Casa Loma Orchestra - Melody in F
(adapted from Rubenstein's
Melodie in F, Op. 3, No. 11)

Maria Elena

Tony Pastor
Sax, Vocal, and Orchestra Leader
(26 October, 1907 - 31 October, 1969)
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Tony Pastor Orchestra with Dorsey Anderson, vocal
Maria Elena (Russell and Barcelata)

Maria Elena (1932)
Music: Lorenzo Barcelata
Words: Sidney Keith Russell

Tony Pastor and His Orchestra (1941)
Vocal: Dorsey Anderson

Maria Elena, you're the answer to a prayer
Maria Elena, can't you see how much I care
To me your voice is like the echo of a sigh
And when you're near, my heart can't speak above a sigh

Maria Elena, say that we will never part
Maria Elena, take me to your heart
A love like mine is great enough for two
To share this love is really all I ask of you

(Interlude)

Maria Elena, say that we will never part
Maria Elena, take me to your heart
A love like mine is great enough for two
To share this love is really all I ask of you

Bésame Mucho

Bob Eberly (Robert Eberle)
(Older brother of Ray Eberle)
Big Band Vocalist
(24 July, 1916 - 17 December, 1981)
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Bob Eberly and Kitty Kallen (1944)
Bésame Mucho

Bésame Mucho (Kiss Me Much)
Music & Spanish Lyrics by: Consuelo Velasquez, 1941
English Lyrics by: Sunny Skylar

Bob Eberly & Kitty Kallen Duet
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra
1944


Bob Eberly:
Bésame, bésame mucho
Each time I cling to your kiss, I hear music divine
Bésame mucho
Hold me my darling and say that you'll always be mine

This joy is something new
My arms enfolding you
Never knew this thrill before
Whoever thought I'd be
Holding you close to me
Whispering "It's you I adore"

Dearest one
If you should leave me
Each little dream would take wings, and my life would be through
Bésame mucho
Love me forever and make all my dreams come true

[Bridge]

Kitty Kallen:
Bésame, bésame mucho
Each time I cling to your kiss, I hear music divine
Bésame mucho
Hold me my darling and say that you'll always be mine

This joy is something new
My arms enfolding you
Never knew this thrill before
Whoever thought I'd be
Holding you close to me
Whispering "It's you I adore"

My dearest one
If you should leave me
Each little dream would take wings, and my life would be through
Bésame mucho
Love me forever and say that you'll always be mine

This Time the Dream's On Me

Alison Krauss
bluegrass-country singer
(23 July, 1971)
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Alison Krauss
This Time the Dream's On Me
(Arlen & Mercer)
This Time The Dream's On Me
Music: Harold Arlen
Words: Johnny Mercer
Introduced in the film: Blues in the Night (1941)

Vocal: Alison Krauss
    with The Charlie Haden Quartet West
Film: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)

Somewhere, someday we'll be close together
Wait and see

Oh, by the way, this time the dream's on me
You'll take my hand, and you'll look at me adoringly

But as things stand, this time the dream's on me
It would be fun to be certain that I'm the one

To know that I at least supply the shoulder you cry upon
To see you through, till you're everything you want to be
It can't be true but, this time the dream's on me

[Sax interlude]

It would be fun to be certain that I'm the one
To know that I at least supply the shoulder you cry upon
To see you through, till you're everything you want to be
It can't be true but, this time the dream's on me

Long Ago and Far Away

Ira Gershwin, American lyricst
(6 December, 1896 - 17 August, 1983)

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Helen Forrest & Dick Haymes, 1944
Long Ago and Far Away (Kern & Gershwin)

Long Ago and Far Away

Film: Cover Girl (1944)
Music: Jerome Kern
Words: Ira Gershwin

Vocals: Helen Forrest & Dick Haymes (1944)

Forrest:
Long ago and far away
I dreamed a dream one day
And now that dream is here beside me

Long the skies were overcast
But now the clouds have passed
You're here at last

Chills run up and down my spine
Aladdin's lamp is mine
The dream I dreamed was not denied me

Just one look and then I knew
That all I longed for
Long ago was you

Haymes:
Long ago and far away
I dreamed a dream one day
And now that dream is here beside me

Long the skies were overcast
But now the clouds have passed
You're here at last

Chills run up and down my spine
Aladdin's lamp is mine
The dream I dreamed was not denied me

Just one look and then I knew
That all I longed for
Long ago was you

Forrest:
Just one look and then I knew

Forrest & Haymes:
That all I longed for
Long ago was you

Big Band Larry Clinton's Birthday

Larry Clinton, His Orchestra, and Bea Wain
Larry Clinton, Big Band Leader and Musician
(17 August 1909 - 2 May, 1985)

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Larry Clinton and His Orchestra with Bea Wain (1941)
Because of You (Hammerstein & Wilkinson)

Because of You
Words: Arthur Hammerstein
Music: Dudley Wilkinson
1940

Larry Clinton and His Orchestra
Bea Wain, Vocal (1941)

Because of you there's a song in my heart
Because of you my romance had its start
Because of you the sun will shine

The moon and start will say you're mine
Forever and never to part
I only live for your love and your kiss
It's paradise to be near you like this

Because of you my life is now worthwhile
And I can smile
Because of you

Bob Eberly's Birthday

Bob Eberly (Robert Eberle)
(Older brother of Ray Eberle)
Big Band Vocalist
(24 July, 1916 - 17 December, 1981)

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Green Eyes
Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra
Vocals: Bob Eberly & Helen O'Connell
  with the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra
Recorded on: May 17, 1941

Bob Eberly:
Well, Green Eyes with their soft lights
Your eyes that promise sweet nights
Bring to my soul a longing, a thirst for love divine
In dreams I seem to hold you, to find you and enfold you
Our lips meet and our hearts, too, with a thrill so sublime

Those cool and limpid Green Eyes
A pool wherein my love lies
So deep that in my searching for happiness - I fear
That they will ever hold me
All through my life they'll taunt me
But will they ever want me
Green Eyes, make my dreams come true

[Bridge]

Helen O'Connell:
Soft lights, and eyes that promise sweet nights
Bring to my soul a longing, a thirst for love divine
In dreams I seem to hold you, to find you and enfold you
Our lips meet and our hearts, too, with a thrill so sublime

Those cool and limpid Green Eyes
A pool wherein my love lies
So deep that in my searching for happiness - I fear
That they will ever haunt me
All through my life they'll taunt me
But will they ever want me
Green Eyes, I love you