• Sing a Song of Basie is a 1958 album by Lambert, Hendricks & Ross. "Every Day I Have the Blues" (Memphis Slim) – 5:18 "It's Sand, Man!" (Hendricks, Lambert...
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  • recorded their first album Sing a Song of Basie (1958) for ABC-Paramount Records. The album featured versions of Count Basie standards and was successful...
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  • Sing a Song of Basie. Most vocalese lyrics are entirely syllabic, as opposed to melismatic. That may lead to the use of many words sung quickly in a given...
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  • Sing Along with Basie is an album by vocalese jazz group Lambert, Hendricks & Ross with Joe Williams and the Count Basie Orchestra recorded in 1958 and...
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  • Annie Ross (category English people of Scottish descent)
    Ross between 1957 and 1962. Their first, Sing a Song of Basie (1957), was to have been performed by a group of singers hired by Jon Hendricks and Dave...
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    Jon Hendricks (category Academic staff of the University of Paris)
    technique of overdubbing had been used, but it was an early and innovative example. The result was a best-selling album, Sing a Song of Basie. Its success...
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  • Beads The King Sisters – Imagination Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross – Sing a Song of Basie The Kingston Trio – "Tom Dooley" lyrics 2nd Annual Grammy Awards...
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    bandleader, and composer. In 1935, he formed the Count Basie Orchestra, and in 1936 took them to Chicago for a long engagement and their first recording. He led...
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  • Ray Sings, Basie Swings is an album that mixes previously unreleased Ray Charles vocal performances from 1973 with newly recorded instrumental tracks by...
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  • Sinatra–Basie: An Historic Musical First (a.k.a. Sinatra-Basie) is a 1962 studio album by Frank Sinatra, arranged by Neal Hefti. This was the first recording...
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    Count Basie Orchestra is a 16- to 18-piece big band, one of the most prominent jazz performing groups of the swing era, founded by Count Basie in 1935...
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  • Best Contemporary Jazz Album and Best Latin Jazz Album (both defunct as of 2012). A year later, the Best Latin Jazz Album category returned, disallowing...
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  • Not Men? A: We Are Devo! - Devo W.C. Handy's Memphis Blues Band Texas Flood Remastered Album by Stevie Vaughan That's The Way Of The World song by Earth...
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    Peggy Lee Sing a Song of Basie – Lambert, Hendricks & Ross Sometimes I'm Happy, Sometimes I'm Blue – Jill Corey Son nom est Dalida – Dalida Songs for Any...
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  • January 3 or 5, 1959, with the Count Basie Orchestra for Roulette. The recording was released on Basie Swings, Bennett Sings, also known as Strike Up the Band...
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    Billie Holiday discography (category Discographies of American artists)
    Ladylove, discogs.com. Accessed 29 December 2014 Lady Love, 1962. Count Basie, At the Savoy Ballroom 1937. Discogs.com. Accessed April 6, 2016. "Billie...
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  • recorded the song after Vaughn included Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, and most notably Johnny Mathis who created the best-known version of it. Mathis first...
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  • first one in 1956 with a Nelson Riddle for the "Songs For Swinging Lovers " LP and a second one with Count Basie – Sinatra–Basie: An Historic Musical First...
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    Basie, A Night at Count Basie's (Vanguard, 1955) Count Basie, Breakfast Dance and Barbecue [live] (Roulette, 1959) Count Basie, Sing Along with Basie...
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    Humes was a teenage blues singer, a vocalist with Count Basie's band, a saucy R&B diva, and a mature interpreter of the classic popular song. She was born...
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  • Count Basie Orchestra is included on his posthumous album Ray Sings, Basie Swings (2006) Eels included the song on their live album Oh What a Beautiful...
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  • "Sing for Your Supper" is an American popular song by composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Lorenz Hart. The song debuted in their 1938 Broadway musical...
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    Billie Holiday (category American people convicted of drug offenses)
    addition of Holiday to Shaw's band put it in the "top brackets". Holiday could not sing as often during Shaw's shows as she could in Basie's; the repertoire...
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    Back Home Again in Indiana (category Songs with lyrics by Ballard MacDonald)
    Interchanges ‘54 Bobby Darin and Johnny Mercer, Two of a Kind, 1961 Richard "Groove" Holmes, On Basie's Bandstand, 1966 Joe Venuti and Zoot Sims, Joe and...
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    the World. Frank Sinatra included the song on his 1964 album It Might as Well Be Swing, accompanied by Count Basie. The music for this album was arranged...
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    notable year for the song, with a Bing Crosby/Fred Astaire film taking its title along with two recorded versions by Count Basie and Benny Goodman reaching...
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    vocalist of Count Basie's Orchestra from 1935 to 1948. Rushing was known as "Mr. Five by Five" and was the subject of an eponymous 1942 popular song that...
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  • "I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues" is a popular song with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by Ted Koehler, published in 1932 for the Broadway show Earl...
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  • Mills Brothers discography (category Discographies of American artists)
    The Board of Directors with Count Basie (Dot, 1967) London Rhythm (Ace of Clubs, 1967) The Board of Directors Annual Report with Count Basie (Dot, 1968)...
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  • Ella Fitzgerald for Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook Best Jazz Performance, Group Count Basie for Basie Best Original Cast Album (Broadway...
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