Frankie Laine
Musician
Mam'selle...May 2, 1947 and lasted 4 weeks on the chart, peaking at #9. The Frankie Laine recording was recorded on March 28, 1947 and released by Mercury Records as catalog number 5048. Barbershop Harmony Society 2006 quartet champion Vocal Spectrum... In this article: Billboard magazine, Frank Sinatra, The Pied Pipers, Dick Haymes, Art Lund, Frankie Laine, Vocal Spectrum, The Razor's Edge, and Edmund Goulding |
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Boston Globe -- Today's paper A to Z | August 28, 2009
Berle Adams, 92; booking agent cofounded Mercury Records, helped launch N.Y. Jets
...Sisters in the 1940s. In 1945, Mr. Adams, Irving Green, and Arthur Talmadge founded Mercury Records, whose early artists included Erroll Garner, Dinah Washington, Tony Martin, Frankie Laine, and Vic Damone. In 1950, MCA president Lew...
In this article: Berle Adams, MCA, Mercury Records, Los Angeles, Irving Green, New York Titans, Universal Pictures, Woody Herman, Erroll Garner, and Elton John
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Wikipedia | February 07, 2009
Confess (song)
...for Day that made her one of the top female singers in popular music. About the same time, Mercury Records was planning to record the song as a vehicle for Frankie Laine. They were persuaded instead to give the song to a young female singer,...
In this article: Patti Page, Doris Day, Mercury Records, Big band, Trademark, Les Paul and Mary Ford, and Love Somebody
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That's My Desire (1931 song)
...peaking at #3. The recording by Frankie Laine was recorded on August 27, 1946, with Manny Klein's Orchestra, and released by Mercury Records as catalog number 5007, with the flip side "By the River Sainte Marie". It first reached the...
In this article: That's My Desire, Decca Records, Sammy Kaye, Baby It's Cold Outside, The Spiders, Chuck Carbo, A Sunday Kind of Love, and On the Sunny Side of the Street
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www.washingtonpost.com | February 06, 2007
Frankie Laine dead at 93
...prize. Laine also worked as a dance instructor, singing waiter and nightclub performer before getting his big break in the mid-1940s, when Hoagy Carmichael heard him sing one of Carmichael's own compositions, "Rocking Chair." That...
In this article: Hoagy Carmichael, Jezebel, I Believe, That's My Desire, Rawhide, Surgery, Mule Train, and That Lucky Old Sun
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Frankie Laine
...with a folk or western flavor. Laine and Miller became a formidable hit-making team whose first collaboration, "That Lucky Old Sun", became the number one song in the country three weeks after its release. It was also Laine's fifth Gold...
In this article: Frank Sinatra, Jo Stafford, Nat King Cole, Johnnie Ray, Mitch Miller, Mercury Records, Sugarbush, and Answer Me
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all about jazz | December 15, 2008
GENERAL: Frankie Laine: Jazz Spectacular
...by pianist Carl Fischer and his orchestra. Laine and Fischer would collaborate brilliantly on many of Laine's early Mercury hits, and they jointly composed the standard We'll Be Together Again. Laine was paid $50 for the record date, and...
In this article: Jazz Spectacular, Berle Adams, Mitch Miller, Buck Clayton, Mercury Records, and Hoagy Carmichael
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Mule Train
...the goods he is delivering to far-flung mail-order customers. Charting versions were recorded by Frankie Laine, Bing Crosby, Tennessee Ernie Ford, and Vaughn Monroe. The Frankie Laine recording was recorded on October 2, 1949, and...
In this article: Mule Train, Billboard, Johnny Lange, Vaughn Monroe, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Capitol Records, Dear Hearts and Gentle People, My Baby Just Cares for Me, and Woody Herman
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Frankie Laine, 93; Sang Theme of TV's 'Rawhide'
...and came under the guidance of pop music director Mitch Miller. Mr. Laine's version of "That's My Desire" sold more than 1 million copies, a figure soon topped by "Mule Train." He followed with 1 million sellers such as "That Lucky Old Sun,"...
In this article: Hoagy Carmichael, Mule Train, Mitch Miller, Rawhide, That Lucky Old Sun, Michel Legrand, Kirk Douglas, and Mel Brooks
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Frankie Laine, born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio (Chicago, March 30, 1913 – San Diego, February 6, 2007), was a successful American musician, singer and songwriter whose career spanned 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final performance of "That's My Desire" in 2005. Often billed as America's Number One Song Stylist, his other nicknames include Mr. Rhythm, Old Leather Lungs, Mr Steel Tonsils, and Old Man Jazz. His hits included "That's My Desire", "That Lucky Old Sun", "Mule Train", "Cry of the Wild Goose", "Jezebel", "High Noon", "I Believe", "Hey Joe!", "The Kid's Last Fight", "Cool Water", "Moonlight Gambler", "Love is a Golden Ring", "Rawhide", and "Lord, You Gave Me a Mountain".
He sang well-known theme songs for many movie Western soundtracks including 3:10 To Yuma, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, and Blazing Saddles, although he was not a country & western singer. He was a singer's singer who sang an eclectic variety of song styles and genres, stretching from big band crooning to pop to western-themed songs to gospel, to rock, to folk, to jazz and blues, all bent around his inimitable singing style. He did not sing the soundtrack song for High Noon, which was sung by Tex Ritter, but his own version was the one that became a hit.
- Name At Birth:
- Francesco Paolo LoVecchio
- Birth Date:
- March 30, 1913
- Birthplace:
- Chicago
- Death Date:
- February 06, 2007
- Place of Death:
- San Diego
- Years Active:
- 1937–2005
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