Fine And Mellow -1957, Billie Holiday With Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Ben Webster, Gerry Mulligan, Vic Dickenson, Roy Eldridge.Luxury cast.thanks:bluerob.
This newsreel excerpt briefly describes the international monetary conference of 1944 (before WW2 ended), held at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. The conference founded the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. The fixed exchange rate system created at the conference came under increasing strain in the 1960s and was ended unilaterally by President Nixon in 1971.
"KSU - 1944" by Jerzy Jernas.
Pierwszy teledysk legendy polskiego punck-rocka zrealizowany w 1989 r. Klip by? wówczas emitowany w progmie Wojciech Manna i Jana Chojnackiego "Non-Stop Kolor" w 2 TVP.
This is a documentary I made about D-Day for my 8th grade school project. If you guys liked it i made another one on the civil war of sierra leone so check it out.
A film about the steel mill town of Youngstown,Ohio and its workers in 1944.To license footage from this subject, go to: http://www.travelfilmarchive.com
The Warner Bros. annual blooper reel for 1944.
Featuring Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart, George Brent, Eddie Cantor, Jack Carson, Gary Cooper, Jerome Cowan, Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Ruth Donnelly, Errol Flynn, John Garfield, Edmund Goulding, Dennis Morgan, Rosalind Russell, Barbara Stanwyck, etc.
LONG AGO AND FAR AWAY
Music by Jerome Kern,
Lyrics by Ira Gershwin.
This song is from the 1944 Technicolor film musical Cover Girl. The song was published in 1944.
NOTE: Wikipedia lists almost 80 recorded version of this song!
Charting versions were recorded almost simultaneously by Dick Haymes and Helen Forrest, Bing Crosby, Jo Stafford, and Perry Como.
The Dick Haymes-Helen Forrest recording was released by Decca Records as catalog number 23317. The record first reached the Billboard magazine charts on April 27, 1944 and lasted 11 weeks on the chart, peaking at #2.
The Bing Crosby recording was released by Decca Records as catalog number 18608. The record first reached the Billboard magazine charts on June 29, 1944 and lasted four weeks on the chart, peaking at #5. The flip side, "Amor," also charted, making this a two-sided hit.
The JO STAFFORD recording was released by Capitol Records as catalog number 153. The record first reached the Billboard magazine charts on May 4, 1944 and lasted 12 weeks on the chart, peaking at #6.
The Perry Como recording was released by RCA Victor Records as catalog number 20-1569. The record first reached the Billboard magazine charts on May 11, 1944 and lasted three weeks on the chart, peaking at #8.
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--LYRICS--
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
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
The Lady/China Boy - Condon 1944
In 1944 Eddie Condon and his All Stars began their scheduled radio broadcasts on the Blue Network. Every Saturday afternoon they did half hour shows at 1.30 pm from the Town Hall in New York. The shows were transcribed by the Armed Forces Radio Service and broadcast around the world. This show won the first price in the GI popularity poll. The shows continued until around 1947. I believe some 45-50 shows were recorded and are now available on CD's through the Jazzology label. http://www.jazzology.com/item_detail.php?id=JCD-1001/1002%20
(D) gets you started.
Many different musicians were featued weekly.
In this clip from show 7 we hear Eddie and the band with Bobby Hackett cnt, Pee Wee Russell clt,(one of the most popular musicians among the serviceman), Ernie Caceres bar.sax, Bennie Morton tbn, Gene Schroeder piano, Sid Weiss bass and the incredible Gene Krupa on drums. I left in some announcements by Eddie and the band play "The Lady is in Love with You" and "China Boy". The drive that Gene Krupa is able to create is just astounding. I think he re-established himself again as my favourite drummer.
Swing Dancing from the Movie Ghost Catchers (1944). Kirby Grant and his Orchestra with Ella Mae Morse and the Mel-Tones. Dancers - Johnny Archer, Venna Archer, Bob Ashely, Dean Collins, Gil Fernandez, Lenny Smith, Betty Stoy, Irene Thomas, Mike Tremini. Brought to you by the San Francisco Jitterbugs, www.jitterbugs.info
Adam Aston (Adolf Loewensohn) was one of three or four most popular pre-war "crooners" in Poland. His performances of the Polish as well as international hits, called in Poland with the German word, the "schlagers" - remained on Odeon, Columbia or Syrena-Electro records as masterpieces of the singing art - dramatic, strong, and sung with his stunning Jewish cantor-like tenor/baritone entirely free from any sentimental manner of the era.
When in September 1939 Nazi troops invaded Poland and WWII broke out, that king of Polish "Tin Pan Alley business" managed to flee to Eastern part of Poland - in the meanwhile taken by Soviet army, who, according to Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact, attacked Poland from the east as the Hitler's loyaliest ally.
In those gloomy days Aston followed the way of millions of Polish citizens living there: hundreds of thousands were killed, hundreds of thousands - deported by the Soviets into deep Russia. Yet, he managed to survive again through this Polish Apocalypse and, as soon as the Nazis attacked Russia in June 1942, he joined the Polish army being formed by General W?adys?aw Anders -- according to the quickly made pact Sikorski-Stalin -- from those of Polish officers and soldiers, who survived the Stalinist labor camps or were not massacred in Katyn -- the place of the XXth Century Polish Apocalypse in Russia.
In 1943, together with the Anders' army, Aston left Soviet Union and marched to Iran, to Palestine, Tobruk & Italy, together with the Western allies. He was not needed by his colleagues, who remembered him from the records, as the shooting soldier - they wanted him to sing! So he did - in the army's Revue Theatre formed by Henryk Wars - his pre-war friend from Warsaw cabarets and from the recordings they were making together for "Syrena Electro"!
This is how this absolutely unique, wonderful recording was born. It says about "The Red Poppies On The Mountain Of Cassino" where a 1000- year Cistercian monastery stands and where in May 1944 one of the bloodiest battles for the freedo
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