Singer: Nina Simone
Album: I Put a Spell on You
Songwriters: Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse
"Feeling Good" is a song originally written for the musical "The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd" and published in 1964 by Musical Comedy Productions. Then Nina Simone recorded "Feeling Good" for her album "I Put a Spell on You" in 1965.
Performers:
The Boswell Sisters
Manny Klein (tpt)
Tommy Dorsey (tbn)
Jimmy Dorsey (cl, as)
Larry Binyon (fl, ts)
Martha Boswell (p)
Dick McDonough (g)
Artie Bernstein (sb)
Stan King (d)
Tracklist:
00:00 Jingle Bells
02:54 White Christmas, I'll Be Home for Christmas, Home for The Holidays, Happy Holiday
06:47 Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairies
09:31 Here comes Santa Claus, Frosty the Snowman
12:04 Silver Bells, Oh, Christmas Tree (O Tannenbaum), We wish You a Merry Christmas
15:09 Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer
17:40 Santa Claus is comin' to Town
19:48 Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly, The Wassail Song, Good King Wenceslas
22:27 Christmas night in Harlem
24:53 The Christmas song (Merry Christmas to you), I heard the Bells on Christmas Day, Christmas in Killarney
27:48 Winter Wonderland
30:21 Sleigh Ride
33:16 Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!, Auld Lang Syne, A Hot Time in the Old Time Tonight
Singers: Cab Calloway and his Orchestra
Songwriters: Cab Calloway, Irving Mills, Clarence Gaskill
Cab Calloway and his Orchestra recorded the song 'Minnie the Moocher' in March 3, 1931, New York City, selling over a million copies. This song was used in the famous Betty Boop cartoon 'Minnie the Moocher' in 1932, produced by Fleischer Studios and released by Paramount Pictures.
Singer: Peggy Lee
Songwriters: Eddie Cooley and Otis Blackwell (John Davenport)
The first version of the song was recorded and released as a single in April, 1956. "Fever" was covered by Peggy Lee in 1958.
Performers: Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra
Vocal: Edythe Wright
Year: 1936
Thomas Francis Dorsey Jr. (1905 - 1956) was an American jazz trombonist, composer, conductor and bandleader of the big band era.
Singer: Billie Holiday
Performers: Louis Armstrong (trumpet) and His Band
Writers: Eddie DeLange and Louis Alter
The song "Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans" was first heard in the movie "New Orleans", a musical romance film released in 1947, where it was performed by Louis Armstrong and sung by Billie Holiday. In this scene we can see also Arturo de Córdova and Dorothy Patrick.