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Cotton Fields. " Cotton Fields (The Cotton Song) " (also known as In Them Old Cotton Fields Back Home) is a song written by American blues musician Huddie Ledbetter, better known as Lead Belly, who made the first recording of the song in 1940.
"Lulu's Back in Town" was popularized by Fats Waller in his recording of 8 May 1935 for Victor Records which made the US charts. Others who recorded it include Dick Powell, Mel Tormé, Mills Brothers, Wingy Manone, Chick Bullock, Bob Howard, Teddy Hill, Bert Ambrose, Ted Fiorito, Thelonious Monk, Art Tatum, Oscar Peterson, Booker T. & the M.G.'s, and Leon Redbone.
I'm Gonna Sit On The Porch And Pick On My Old Guitar; I'm Gonna Try To Be That Way; I'm Here To Get My Baby Out Of Jail (I'm Just An Old) Chunk Of Coal (But I'll Be A Diamond Someday) I'm Leavin' Now; I'm Movin' On; I'm Never Gonna Roam Again; I'm On Fire (I'm Proud) The Baby Is Mine; I'm Ragged but I'm Right "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry"
Listen to "Turn Back the Clock" on YouTube. " Turn Back the Clock " is a song by the British band Johnny Hates Jazz. It is the title track of their debut album and was the third single release from the LP. The song peaked at No. 12 in the UK top 40 in 1987. [3] It also reached number five on the US Adult Contemporary chart. [4]
Herbert Jeffrey Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer. [2] Hancock started his career with trumpeter Donald Byrd's group. He shortly thereafter joined the Miles Davis Quintet, where he helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the post-bop sound.
The song was written for Frank Sinatra to introduce in the 1947 MGM film It Happened in Brooklyn. The pianist providing the offscreen accompaniment was André Previn to an arrangement of Axel Stordahl. Later in the film, the song was reprised in full by Kathryn Grayson. The only contemporary recording by a British artist was the one by Steve ...
1936. Genre. Jazz. Composer (s) Juan Tizol, Duke Ellington. Lyricist (s) Irving Mills. " Caravan " is an American jazz standard that was composed by Juan Tizol and Duke Ellington and first performed by Ellington in 1936. Irving Mills wrote lyrics, but they are rarely sung.
The lyrics of the ballad reminisce about life near Dresser's childhood home by the Wabash River in Indiana, United States. The song remained popular for decades, and the Indiana General Assembly adopted it as the official state song on March 14, 1913. The song was the basis for a 1923 film of the same title.