Diane Renay – Watch Out Sally!(1964/11)
MGM Europe 61 104, written by Bob Crewe, Denny Randell, Sandy Linzer.
2度目の引用。
The Dovells – Betty In Bermudas(1963/08)
Pop Chart Peaks: Music Vendor 39, Billboard & Cash Box 50
バミューダの地名は多いがこちらが Bermudas と複数形。地名でなくバミューダ・パンツで歩いてる女の子を歌ってる内容だ。
Nina Simone – I Loves You, Porgy(1959/06)
vocal and piano by Nina Simone
Ballad from the groundbreaking 1935 folk opera “Porgy And Bess,” with music composed by George & Ira Gershwin and DuBose Heyward. This was Nina’s sole national top-40 charted pop single.
A fabled storybook name via the heroine of Sir Walter Scott’s novel Ivanhoe (1819), which featured a heroine called Rowena of Hargottstanstede, and also a Harry Potter name, as Rowena Ravenclaw, founder of one of the Hogwarts houses.. Rowena has some old-fashioned charm, though most modern parents seem to prefer Rowen. Pronunciation, however, is NOT like Rowen with an a at the end, but with a long e and an emphasis on the middle syllable.. She was on the popularity list until 1963,
<Rowena Meaning Of Name Rowena より一部引用>
https://nameberry.com/babyname/Rowena
Pat LaRocca – Rowena(1959)
“Don’t Do Me Wrong”のB面。
The Laurie Sisters – Dixie Danny(1955/01)
Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five – Jack, You’re Dead(1947)
2度目の引用。
Dinah Shore – Personality(1946)
orchestra conducted by Russ Case
歌詞に
Madam Pompadour(ルイ15世の公妾ポンパドゥール夫人)
Du Barry(ルイ15世の公妾デュ・バリー夫人)
Romeo, Juliet
Figaro, Figarette
Jupiter, Juno
といった名前が出てくる。
2度目の引用。
Dorothy Lamour introduced on-screen this great Johnny Burke-Jimmy Van Heusen song in the (IMHO) best of the Hope-Crosby’road’ films “Road To Utopia.” For the top-selling version by Johnny Mercer & the Pied Pipers,
Johnny Mercer and The Pied Pipers – Personality(1946)
orchestra conducted by Paul Weston
2度目の引用。
Dorothy Lamour introduced on-screen this great Johnny Burke-Jimmy Van Heusen song in the (IMHO) best of the Hope-Crosby films “Road To Utopia.” Mercer’s recording spent 15 weeks on the national best-sellers chart, reaching #1 in early March. His “My Sugar Is So Refined” is also in the 1946 collection.
Louis Jordan – Caldonia
from the movie “Swing Parade Of 1946”
Woody Herman and his Orchestra – Caldonia(1945)
vocal: Woody Herman
キャルドニアという名の女性に夢中な息子に、母親が「カネ目当ての悪い女だ」と警告する内容。
Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five – Caldonia(1945)
Caldonia aka Caldonia Boogie
Woody Herman and his Orchestra – Happiness Is A Thing Called Joe(1943)
vocal: Frances Wayne(married to Woody’s trumpeter/arranger Neal Hefti)
2度目の引用。
recorded February 26, 1945.
Movie: “Cabin In The Sky” (MGM), starring Ethel Waters, Eddie ‘Rochester’ Anderson, Lena Horne, Louis Armstrong, and Rex Ingram.
Not included in the original 1940 stage production of “Cabin In The Sky,” this song was performed in the film by Ethel Waters.
Frankie Carle and his Orchestra – Evelina(1944)
vocal: Paul Allen
A Harold Arlen-E Y Harburg song introduced on-stage by David Brooks and Joan McCracken in the hit Broadway musical “Bloomer Girl” (657 performances).
●以下、地名ソングを少々。
Peggy Lee – Where Can I Go Without You(1954/01)
orchestra conducted by Victor Young
London, Paris, Germany, Vienna, Switzerlandなどの地名・国名が出て来る。海外旅行ブームを当て込んだものか。3度目の引用。
Songwriter Peggy Lee with one of her better-known compositions, co-written with Victor Young, who conducted her first recorded version.
Doris Day – The Deadwood Stage(Whip-crack Away!)(1953/10/19)
orchestra conducted by Ray Heindorf
A soundtrack recording from the hit comedy-western “Calamity Jane,” issued on the flip side of Day’s #1 best-seller “Secret Love.”
歌詞に
We’re headin’ straight for town, loaded down with a fancy cargo
Care of Wells & Fargo, Illinois, boy
というくだりがある。
Frankie Carle and his Orchestra – Penguin At The Waldorf(1947)
ホテル名かドイツの地名か。
タラララ、タッタは不協和音?
2度目の引用。
Woody Herman and his Orchestra -(Hurry Back To)Sorrento(1941)
vocal: Woody Herman
プレスリーの歌唱がこのバージョンを踏襲していることがよく分かる。2度目の引用。
A reworking of the familiar old Neapolitan tune “Torna a Surriento” (Come Back To Sorrento).’60s music followers will recognize the melody from the 1961 Elvis hit “Surrender”
Frank Tanner and his Rhythm Kings – Texas Teaser (1936)
This was the last of seven tracks from the only documented commercial recording session credited to this territorial band.
Roger Wolfe Kahn and his Orchestra – Montana Call(1930)
vocal: Dick Robertson
Cliff Edwards and a’cowboy’ group performed this song on-screen in MGM’s “Montana Moon,” which starred Joan Crawford and Johnny Mack Brown. Also from the film was the Kahn flip side “The Moon Is Low”
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Conference in Bermuda – 1957 | Today In History | 21 Mar 18
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On March 21, 1957, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan began a four-day conference in Bermuda.