• Alexander Lafayette Chew Wilder (February 16, 1907 – December 24, 1980) was an American composer. Wilder was born in Rochester, New York, United States...
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  • Frank Sinatra Conducts the Music of Alec Wilder is an album of compositions by Alec Wilder, conducted by Frank Sinatra, released in 1946. This was Sinatra's...
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  • episodes of the radio show American Popular Song with Alec Wilder and Friends. Composer Alec Wilder wrote American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900–1950...
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    well-reviewed ballet based on this composition. It is also the name of a song by Alec Wilder and Loonis McGlohon. Blackberry Winter is also the name of a 2006 short...
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  • Axel Stordahl, Irving Taylor, Paul Weston Air For English Horn 1945 Alec Wilder Alice Blue Gown 1940 (radio) Joseph McCarthy, Harry Tierney All Alone...
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  • New Music of Alec Wilder is an album by American jazz guitarist Mundell Lowe and his orchestra featuring compositions by Alec Wilder recorded in 1956...
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  • and Alec Wilder) – 3:23 "Sleep Baby Sleep" (traditional) – 2:02 "Many Million Years Ago" (lyrics: William Engvick, music: Doug Petty and Alec Wilder) –...
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  • Sauter-Finegan Orchestra, whose version made the Cashbox Top 50. Composer Alec Wilder writes, "There are no two ways about it: this is a perfect theater song...
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  • (1963)—Alec Wilder Suite No. 2 for tenor saxophone and strings (1966)—Alec Wilder Concerto for tenor saxophone and chamber orchestra (1968)—Alec Wilder Chant...
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    was written in 1959 for the film by the directors' friend, composer Alec Wilder. His 1959 score was his second attempt (after the score for winds, brass...
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  • composer Christopher Dedrick, whose work received a Genie Award. Composer Alec Wilder writes that the song "attempts too dramatic a statement on too small...
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  • from 1953 to 1970. The song is part of the Great American Songbook, and Alec Wilder included it in his book American Popular Song: The Great Innovators,...
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    engagement at the Apartment, a New York club, in February 1967 she met Alec Wilder, a man with whom she would develop a great friendship and who would encourage...
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    Classic Movies special, Role Model: Gene Wilder, where Alec Baldwin interviewed Wilder about his career, Wilder said that he was basically retired from...
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    decades as a jazz standard. In his definitive American Popular Songs, Alec Wilder writes about the song's simplicity: ... It fascinates me that such a...
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    some compositions by Alec Wilder which were for strings and woodwinds, he became the conductor at Columbia Records for six of Wilder's compositions. The...
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  • with lyrics by Lorenz Hart. It has a 32-bar chorus in A–B–A–C form. Alec Wilder, in his book American Popular Song: The Great Innovators 1900–1950, calls...
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  • Way It Goes" (Wilder, Sid Robin) – 4:43 "The Wrong Blues" (Wilder, Engvick) – 4:38 "It's So Peaceful in the Country" – 4:04 "Blues for Alec" (Bob Brookmeyer)...
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  • credits much of the classic Bon Jovi lineup to Alec's connections in the local music scene: "Without Alec, there would not have been Tico [Torres], who...
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    Robin and the 7 Hoods Other albums Frank Sinatra Conducts the Music of Alec Wilder Frank Sinatra Conducts Tone Poems of Color The Man I Love Sleep Warm...
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    Robin and the 7 Hoods Other albums Frank Sinatra Conducts the Music of Alec Wilder Frank Sinatra Conducts Tone Poems of Color The Man I Love Sleep Warm...
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  • the Cats Join In is a song written by Ray Gilbert, Eddie Sauter and Alec Wilder, and first recorded by Benny Goodman. It later was a track on an LP with...
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  • have been recorded, and it has since become a pop and jazz standard. Alec Wilder terms Coots' melody as a "minor masterpiece". According to Ted Gioia...
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  • (Rudyard Kipling, Alec Wilder) – 2:29 "Evening Is a Little Boy/The Night Will Never Stay" (Eleanor Farjeon, Frances Frost, Alec Wilder) – 3:09 "The Christ...
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  • footballer Alec Waugh (1898–1981), British novelist Alec Wilder (1907–1980), American composer Alec Wilkinson (born 1952), American writer Alec Wills (1911–1941)...
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  • oft-repeated error is the claim that the songs are by Loonis McGlohan and Alec Wilder. This is derived from the fact that they wrote music for the Land of...
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    the song has been called "definitely ahead of its time" by composer Alec Wilder. Indeed, while popular in the late 1910s and early 1920s, the song enjoyed...
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  • still used to mean the complete words to a song by authorities such as Alec Wilder, Robert Gottlieb, and Stephen Sondheim. However, the singular form is...
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