Performer: Miles Davis Album: Dear Old Stockholm Year: 1952
The lyrics were written by Anders Fryxell in 1822 and then expanded by Fredrik August Dahlgren for his 1846. The original Swedish title may be translated as "Oh Värmland, You Lovely". Miles Davis performed "Dear Old Stockholm" in 1952 for Blue Note.
Singer: Nat King Cole
Composer: Charlie Chaplin
Lyricists: John Turner, Geoffrey Parsons
This song is based on an instrumental theme used in the soundtrack for Charlie Chaplin's film Modern Times in 1936. Nat King Cole recorded the first version with lyrics in 1954.
Tracklist:
00:00 'Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow' - Frank Sinatra
02:34 'Christmas in New Orleans' - Louis Armstrong
05:25 'Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree' - Brenda Lee
07:29 'I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm' - Billie Holiday
10:24 'Santa Claus is Coming to Town' - Frank Sinatra
12:57 'Santa Claus Got Stuck (In My Chimney) - Ella Fitzgerald
16:02 'Jingle Bell Rock' - Bobby Helms
18:11 'Christmas in Killarney' - Dennis Day
20:21 'Winter Wonderland' - Perry Como
22:52 '(This Year's) Santa Baby' - Eartha Kitt, Henri Rene & His Orchestra
26:07 'Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas' - Ella Fitzgerald
29:02 'Little Jack Frost Get Lost' - Bing Crosby & Peggy Lee
30:50 'Jingle Bells' - Dean Martin
33:08 'OI' Saint Nicolas' - Doris Day
35:29 'Winter Weather' - Peggy Lee, Art Lund with Benny Goodman and His Orchestra
38:29 'Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer' - Ella Fitzgerald & The Frank Devol Orchestra
41:20 'Deck The Hall' - Nat King Cole
42:29 'A Marshmallow World' - Bing Crosby
45:06 'Frosty the Snowman' - Guy Lombardo & His Royal Canadians (Kenny Gardner and the Lombardo Trio)
47:38 'Ring Dem Bells' - Duke Ellington & His Orchestra
49:58 'Merry Christmas Baby' - Etta James
56:04 'The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas To You) - Nat King Cole
Song: Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!
Singer: Lasse Dahlquist
Year: 1946
Country: Sweden :flag_sweden:
Genre: Schlager
The song depicts a British Navy visit to Gothenburg, and is a standard sing-along son in Sweden. The author, Lars Erik ("Lasse") Dahlquist, was born in 1910 in Örgryte and died in 1979 on Brännö, a Gothenburg archipelago.
Singer: Thomas Wright Waller, known as "Fats" Waller.
Songwriters: Andy Razaf, Fats Waller, Harry Brooks
The song was recorded in New York City, July 9, 1929. This is a part of the Broadway musical comedy "Hot Chocolates", also referred to as "Connie's Hot Chocolates", from the same year.
Performer: Julie London
Album: Julie Is Her Name
Songwriter: Alan Rankin Jones
The popular jazz song "Easy Street" was written by Alan Rankin Jones in 1940. It was first recorded by Jimmy Lunceford and his Orchestra.
Singer: Ella Fitzgerald
Performers: Tommy Flanagan (piano), Keter Betts (bass) and Gus Johnson (drum).
Composed: Kurt Weill
lyricist: Bertolt Brecht
The song "Mack the Knife" (German: "Die Moritat von Mackie Messer") was composed in 1928, and published the 31th August of the same year, for the music drama "The Threepenny Opera" (German: Die Dreigroschenoper).
At the Copenhagen concert in 1965 we can see Ella Fitzgerald singing 'Mack the Knife' accompanied by Tommy Flanagan (piano), Keter Betts (bass) and Gus Johnson (drum). Ella Fitzgerald also received a Grammy for her performance of the song in 1961.