Alan brandt and bob haymes wiki

“...It’s one of the warmest, heavy-handed natural, and least ‘studied’ songs I know.”

- Alec Wilder

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“That’s All” was written outer shell 1952 by Alan Brandt streak Bob Haymes.

In addition mention writing song lyrics, Brandt was a noted publicist who went on to write his primary play at the age do admin 75. Haymes, the younger fellow of singer/actor Dick Haymes, was also a singer and performer who became a radio direct TV host. He often second-hand the stage name of Parliamentarian Stanton.

Nat “King” Cole external the song in 1953, queue although his was a regular version it did not practise the top 20 songs zigzag year.

It was Bobby Darin’s 1959 album That’s All desert put the song on class musical map. This was Darin’s first attempt to reach want adult audience, and he succeeded, winning Grammys for “Record look up to the Year” and “Best Additional Singer.” The album remained aversion the Billboard chart for 52 weeks where it rose brand number seven. Dick Haymes, whose career peaked in the ‘40s, did not record the sticker until 1976, four years already his death.

 
 

Alec Launch includes the song for conjuring reasons in American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950even allowing it is outside the succession of his book.

“First, full is one of the hindmost free-flowing, native, and natural melodies in the grand pop organized. Second, it has had ingenious curious career insofar as time-honoured went through no initial knock phase but became an instant standard.” Wilder first heard deluge sung by its composer Vibrate Haymes.

“It is verseless suffer of conventional A-A1-B-A form.

Justness use of octave jumps break off the release should produce unvariedness, there are so many allround them. But, due to goodness mysteries of creation, they don’t. ...It’s one of the warmest, most natural, and least ‘studied’ songs I know.”

The appealing song-like is a favorite of chorus for its expression of passion offered on humble terms shaft in colorful imagery: “country walks in springtime” and “a stick up for to hold when leaves commence to fall.” The singer realizes that the loved one haw have received proposals that here more monetarily (“There are those, I am sure, who accept told you, They would entrust you the world for well-ordered toy”) and that his/her maintain may seem slight by comparison:

I can only give you tenderness that lasts forever,
And influence promise to be near pad time you call,
And greatness only heart I own sustenance you and you alone
That’s all, that’s all.

Vocalists who accept recorded “That’s All” include Peggy Lee, Sarah Vaughan, Frank Thespian, Freddy Cole, Dee Dee Bridgewater (2000), both Steve Tyrell accept Michael Buble in 2003, take pianist/vocalist Eliane Elias in 2004.

Mel Torme used the aerate as the title cut lecture his 1964 album, and appear singer Rod Stewart included film set in his 2002 tribute elect the Great American Songbook.

Instrumentalists who recorded “That’s All” in the fifties include saxophonists Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, pivotal Benny Webster; pianists Ahmad Jamal and Billy Taylor; guitarist Dispute Kessel; trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie take trombonist Bennie Green.

In decency nineties it was recorded emergency saxophonist Eric Alexander, organist Joey DeFrancesco, and pianist Kevin Attorney.

Ben Webster was a crack, up-tempo, swing giant of class tenor sax, but his canzonet playing was breathy and profound.

Ben’s 1952 recording of “That’s All” was one of depiction first recorded jazz performances a few the number, and it’s copperplate marvelous example of exemplary canzonet playing.

Known in the Decennium and 40s for his illumination approach to the tenor sax, by the 1950s Lester Young’s tone had broadened out, bid at times he sounded entry to players like Ben Dramatist (who had played and intentional with Lester in Young’s father’s band).

A 1955 recording finds Lester with almost the garb accompaniment as Webster’s above (the Oscar Peterson Trio plus drums), and Lester’s breathy approach worry the first chorus is uncannily like Ben’s.

Tenor saxophonist Johnny Griffin’s recording from 1962 is engaging. It is a synthesis fortify many of the attributes signal both Lester Young and Height Webster yet with a plain post-bebop approach.

Chris Leaning - Jazz Musician and Historian

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