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50+ Music · @50years

37 followers · 5622 posts · Server musicworld.social

YouTube - Mel Torme - When Sunny Gets Blue/June Christy - How High The Moon

"Blue Moon" is a #popularSong written by #RichardRodgers and #LorenzHart in 1934 that has become a #standard #ballad. Early recordings included those by #ConneeBoswell and by #AlBowlly in 1935. The song was a hit twice in 1949, with successful recordings in the U.S. by #BillyEckstine and #MelTormé. In 1961, "Blue Moon" became an international number-one hit for the #doowop group #theMarcels, on the Billboard 100 chart and in the #UKSinglesChart.
https://youtu.be/NgxXyZT8vJY

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50+ Music · @50years

11 followers · 1011 posts · Server musicworld.social

"Blue Moon" is a #popularSong written by #RichardRodgers and #LorenzHart in #1934 that has become a #standard #ballad. Early recordings included those by #ConneeBoswell and by #AlBowlly in 1935. The song was a hit twice in 1949, with successful recordings in the U.S. by #BillyEckstine and #MelTormé. In 1961, "Blue Moon" became an international number-one hit for the #doowop group #theMarcels, on the Billboard 100 chart and in the #UKSinglesChart.
https://youtu.be/xvFmvk6SAbM

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Pascal Savelon 🎷 · @PSavelon

34 followers · 92 posts · Server jazztodon.com

Open media

#DemandezLeProgramme #jazz :
Birdland Stars of '57 - Masonic Temple - Detroit : #BillyEckstine , #CountBasie and his Orchestra featuring #JoeWilliams , #SarahVaughan , #BudPowell Trio, Phineas Newborn jr. Quartet, #ChetBaker , #LesterYoung , #ZootSims , Jimmy Jones, #RoyHaynes , Richard Davis, #TerryGibbs Quartet featuring Terry Pollard, Seldon Powell, Rolf Kühn

#demandezleprogramme #jazz #billyeckstine #countbasie #joewilliams #sarahvaughan #budpowell #chetbaker #lesteryoung #zootsims #royhaynes #terrygibbs

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They Call Me Dr. Breaux · @doctorjaymarie

650 followers · 1696 posts · Server mastodon.world

#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #Jazz #BillyEckstine

OMG, that baritone. DJs at segregated radio stations refused to play his music after a photo of him being mobbed by white teen girls was published in Life magazine.

Tenderly - Billy Eckstine
https://youtu.be/qk3WYfy2qI4

#blackmastodon #BlackFedi #jazz #billyeckstine

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