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=== Composer Don Wolf === |
=== Composer Don Wolf === |
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'''Donald Wolf''', also known as '''Donald E. Wolf''' and '''Don Wolf''' is an jazz and pop lyricist and composer credited on over 300 recordings,<ref>{{cite web |title=Don Wolf |url=https://www.discogs.com/artist/713805 |website=Discogs |language=en}}</ref> |
'''Donald Wolf''', also known as '''Donald E. Wolf''' and '''Don Wolf''' is an jazz and pop lyricist and composer credited on over 300 recordings,<ref>{{cite web |title=Don Wolf |url=https://www.discogs.com/artist/713805 |website=Discogs |language=en}}</ref> |
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including a number of top 100 charting songs, mainly in the US though with some success in the UK, including |
including a number of top 100 charting songs, mainly in the US though with some success in the UK, including ''Love Is All We Need'', which peaked at #15 on the [[Billboard Hot 100]] in 1958 for [[Tommy Edwards]],<ref name="Billboard1958-12-20"/> |
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''Love Is All We Need'', which peaked at #15 on the [[Billboard Hot 100]] in 1958 for [[Tommy Edwards]],<ref name="Billboard1958-12-20"/> |
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''[[Azure-Te (Paris Blues)|Azure-Te]]'' which reached number 30 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in September 1952 when sung by [[Frank Sinatra]],<ref name="Lonergan"/> |
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and ''Exclusively Yours'' sung in 1961 by [[Mark Wynter]] that reached #32 in the UK charts.<ref name="Guiness"/> |
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⚫ | An ex-GI,<ref>{{cite web |title=Daily News from New York, New York on January 14, 1947 · 504 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/444839586/ |website=Newspapers.com |language=en |quote=Dick has chosen -Get A Pin-Up Girl", written by ex-G.I. Don Wolf, as his theme song on his daily program at 9:45 A.M. over WNEW. Monday thru Friday.}}</ref> |
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==== Biography ==== |
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⚫ | moving on to supervise the pop music department at Merrymount Music Press in the 1950's,<ref>{{cite book |title=Billboard |date=31 October 1953 |publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc. |page=16 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZgoEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA16 |language=en}}</ref> a music publisher in New York<ref>{{cite book |last1=Friskin |first1=James |last2=Freundlich |first2=Irwin |title=Music for the Piano: A Handbook of Concert and Teaching Material from 1580 to 1952 |date=January 1973 |publisher=Courier Corporation |isbn=978-0-486-22918-8 |page=424 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Music_for_the_Piano/xK5kDQAAQBAJ?gbpv=1&pg=PA424 |language=en}}</ref> whose catalog was acquired initially by Mercury Music Corporation, and eventually by [[Theodore Presser Company|Theodore Presser]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Presser |url=https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000022310 |website=Grove Music Online |year=2001 |access-date=9 May 2021 |language=en |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.22310|isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 |last1=Marrocco |first1=W. Thomas |last2=Jacobs |first2=Mark |last3=Smith |first3=Warren Storey }}</ref> He married Nancy Cook, an executive at [[Macy's]], on February 14, 1960.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Cash Box, Music |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/60s/1960/CB-1960-02-13.pdf |website=World Radio History |page=24 |date=13 February 1960}}</ref> |
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⚫ | * ''Love Is All We Need'', a song written jointly with [[Ben Raleigh]] which in 1958 peaked at #15 on the [[Billboard Hot 100]] when sung by [[Tommy Edwards]],<ref name="Billboard1958-12-20">{{cite magazine |title=The Hot 100 Chart week of December 22, 1958 |url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/1958-12-20 |magazine=Billboard}}</ref> also sung by [[Vic Dana]] reaching #53 in 1964,<ref>{{cite web |title=Don Wolf - Top Songs as Writer |url=https://www.comicsvf.com/zmusic/songs.php?page=artist&artist=Don+Wolf&tab=songaswriterchartstab&sort=pointsup&filter=all |website=www.comicsvf.com |access-date=27 June 2021}}</ref>, [[Mel Carter]] in 1966 reaching #58,<ref>{{cite magazine |title=The Hot 100 Chart |url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/1966-02-12 |magazine=Billboard}}</ref> Jimmy Breedlove of [[The Cues]] and others,<ref>{{cite web |title=Cover versions of Love Is All We Need by Jimmy Breedlove |url=https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/409715 |website=SecondHandSongs}}</ref> |
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==== Works ==== |
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⚫ | * ''Love Is All We Need'', a song written jointly with [[Ben Raleigh |
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* ''[[Azure-Te (Paris Blues)]]'', a song written for a [[Wild Bill Davis]] tune, first recorded in April 1952 by the [[Tympany Five]], subsequently a minor hit for Frank Sinatra which reached #30 on the [[Billboard Hot 100]] chart in September of the same year,<ref name="Lonergan">{{cite book |last1=Lonergan |first1=David F. |title=Hit Records, 1950-1975 |date=2005 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-5129-0 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Hit_Records_1950_1975/NP6OdDrutyAC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Azure-Te%22&pg=PA11 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Azure-te (Paris blues) |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/azure-te-paris-blues/oclc/747242499 |website=[[WorldCat]] |publisher=Columbia |language=English |date=1952|oclc=747242499 }}</ref> also sung by [[Nat King Cole]] among others,<ref>{{cite web |title=Cover versions of Azure-Té (Paris Blues) written by Don Wolf |url=https://secondhandsongs.com/work/178289/versions |website=SecondHandSongs}}</ref> including [[Karrin Allyson]] who named [[Azure-Té|her third album]] after the song, and was also featured in the musical "[[Five Guys Named Moe]]". |
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* ''Exclusively Yours'', a song recorded by English singer [[Mark Wynter]] that reached #32 in the UK charts in June 1961,<ref name="Guiness">{{cite book |title=British Hit Singles & Albums |date=2005 |publisher=Guinness |isbn=978-1-904994-00-8 |page=s-56 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/British_Hit_Singles_Albums/eSI5AQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Exclusively+Yours |language=en}}</ref> following [[Carl Dobkins Jr.]] who reached #75 in the US in May 1960.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=The Hot 100 Chart |url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/Hot-100/1960-05-30 |magazine=Billboard}}</ref> |
* ''Exclusively Yours'', a song recorded by English singer [[Mark Wynter]] that reached #32 in the UK charts in June 1961,<ref name="Guiness">{{cite book |title=British Hit Singles & Albums |date=2005 |publisher=Guinness |isbn=978-1-904994-00-8 |page=s-56 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/British_Hit_Singles_Albums/eSI5AQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=Exclusively+Yours |language=en}}</ref> following [[Carl Dobkins Jr.]] who reached #75 in the US in May 1960.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=The Hot 100 Chart |url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/Hot-100/1960-05-30 |magazine=Billboard}}</ref> |
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* The [[jazz standard]] "[[Corner Pocket|Until I Met You (Corner Pocket)]]" sung by [[Sarah Vaughan]] with [[Count Basie]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Until I Met You |url=https://www.rockol.com/uk/lyrics-38257335/sarah-vaughan-until-i-met-you |website=Rockol}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Jazz Standards Songs and Instrumentals (Until I Met You (Corner Pocket)) |url=https://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-5/untilimetyou.htm |website=www.jazzstandards.com |access-date=9 May 2021}}</ref> [[Tony Bennett]] (1963-02-18), [[Marvin Gaye]] and [[Mary Wells]] (1964 Motown), [[Diane Schuur]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Diane Schuur (Ft. Count Basie Orchestra) – Until I Met You (Live) |url=https://genius.com/Diane-schuur-until-i-met-you-live-lyrics |access-date=9 May 2021 |language=en}}</ref> The [[Four Tops]],<ref>{{cite web |title=The Four Tops – Until I Met You |url=https://genius.com/The-four-tops-until-i-met-you-lyrics |website=Genius |access-date=9 May 2021 |language=en}}</ref> [[The Manhattan Transfer]] (who won the 1982 [[Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Duo or Group]] singing the song), [[Joe Williams (jazz singer)|Joe Williams]]. (NB this is not the Judy Rodman song from 1986) |
* The [[jazz standard]] "[[Corner Pocket|Until I Met You (Corner Pocket)]]" sung by [[Sarah Vaughan]] with [[Count Basie]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Until I Met You |url=https://www.rockol.com/uk/lyrics-38257335/sarah-vaughan-until-i-met-you |website=Rockol}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Jazz Standards Songs and Instrumentals (Until I Met You (Corner Pocket)) |url=https://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-5/untilimetyou.htm |website=www.jazzstandards.com |access-date=9 May 2021}}</ref> [[Tony Bennett]] (1963-02-18), [[Marvin Gaye]] and [[Mary Wells]] (1964 Motown), [[Diane Schuur]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Diane Schuur (Ft. Count Basie Orchestra) – Until I Met You (Live) |url=https://genius.com/Diane-schuur-until-i-met-you-live-lyrics |access-date=9 May 2021 |language=en}}</ref> The [[Four Tops]],<ref>{{cite web |title=The Four Tops – Until I Met You |url=https://genius.com/The-four-tops-until-i-met-you-lyrics |website=Genius |access-date=9 May 2021 |language=en}}</ref> [[The Manhattan Transfer]] (who won the 1982 [[Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Duo or Group]] singing the song), [[Joe Williams (jazz singer)|Joe Williams]]. (NB this is not the Judy Rodman song from 1986) |
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* ''[[Bobby Darin discography|Gyp The Cat]]'' with [[Bobby Darin]],<ref name="WQXR">{{cite web |title=Don Wolf playlist |url=https://www.wqxr.org/music/musicians/don-wolf/ |website=WQXR |access-date=9 May 2021 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Gyp The Cat (Remastered) |url=https://www.jiosaavn.com/lyrics/gyp-the-cat-remastered-lyricJioSaavns/KQcKfQNSWXk |website=JioSaavn |access-date=9 May 2021}}</ref> |
* ''[[Bobby Darin discography|Gyp The Cat]]'' with [[Bobby Darin]],<ref name="WQXR">{{cite web |title=Don Wolf playlist |url=https://www.wqxr.org/music/musicians/don-wolf/ |website=WQXR |access-date=9 May 2021 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Gyp The Cat (Remastered) |url=https://www.jiosaavn.com/lyrics/gyp-the-cat-remastered-lyricJioSaavns/KQcKfQNSWXk |website=JioSaavn |access-date=9 May 2021}}</ref> |
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⚫ | A few of his songs have appeared in film, such as ''Now He Tells Me'', performed by the [[King Cole Trio]] in the 1948 film [[Killer Diller (1948 film)|Killer Diller]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Killer Diller - Pop Culture Cross |url=https://www.popisms.com/Movie/52924/Killer-Diller-1948?rnid=52927 |website=POPisms |access-date=9 May 2021}}</ref>, ''Sleep Walk'', set to the Santo & Johnny instrumental [[Sleep Walk]] used in the 2013 film [[The Conjuring]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Sleep Walk - Song recorded by Betsy Brye |url=https://www.sheetmusicwarehouse.co.uk/20th-century-songs-s/sleep-walk-song-recorded-by-betsy-brye/ |website=The Sheet Music Warehouse |access-date=28 June 2021 |language=en}}</ref>. Also the title songs of 1964 film [[Fate Is the Hunter (film)|Fate Is the Hunter]], in collaboration with [[Jerry Goldsmith]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=Office |first1=Library of Congress Copyright |title=Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series |date=1967 |page=1398 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Catalog_of_Copyright_Entries/LzIhAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22don+wolf%22&pg=PA1398 |language=en}}</ref> and the 1965 film [[John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!]] sung by [[Shirley MacLaine]].<ref>{{cite web |title=The John Williams Collection |url=http://www.jw-collection.de/songs/goldfarb.htm |website=www.jw-collection.de |access-date=28 June 2021}}</ref> |
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Two of his songs have subsequently been used in film: |
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* ''Now He Tells Me'', composed with Alan Brandt, performed by the [[King Cole Trio]] in the 1948 film [[Killer Diller (1948 film)|Killer Diller]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Killer Diller - Pop Culture Cross |url=https://www.popisms.com/Movie/52924/Killer-Diller-1948?rnid=52927 |website=POPisms |access-date=9 May 2021}}</ref> |
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* ''Sleep Walk'', sung by Betsy Brye in 1959, with Wolf's lyrics set to the Santo & Johnny instrumental [[Sleep Walk]], was used in the 2013 film [[The Conjuring]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Sleep Walk - Song recorded by Betsy Brye |url=https://www.sheetmusicwarehouse.co.uk/20th-century-songs-s/sleep-walk-song-recorded-by-betsy-brye/ |website=The Sheet Music Warehouse |access-date=28 June 2021 |language=en}}</ref> |
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== Reception == |
== Reception == |
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"Azure-Te" | |
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Composition by Frank Sinatra | |
Released | June 23, 1952 |
Recorded | 3 June 1952 |
Genre | blues |
Length | 2.36 |
Label | Columbia |
Composer(s) | Wild Bill Davis |
Lyricist(s) | Donald E. Wolf |
Azure-Te (Paris Blues) is a blues ballad written in 1952 by lyricist Donald E. Wolf for a Wild Bill Davis tune that reached number 30 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in September 1952 when covered by Frank Sinatra.[1]
The first release was by Louis Jordan's band, subsequent covers having been made by Nat King Cole with George Shearing, John Pizzarelli and others, and the Davis instrumental was also covered both in the 1950's and recently.[2]
Composition and recording
Music publisher Gale and Gayles had song-writer Donald E. Wolf write lyrics for the Wild Bill Davis instrumental composition Azure 'Te, released 29 February 1952, when they took on the tune from Crestwood Music.[3]
The Frank Sinatra recording was made for Columbia on 3 June 1952 in Hollywood, in the same session as "The Birth of the Blues", "Bim Bam Baby", and two other songs. It was conducted by Axel Stordahl.
The personnel included:[4]
- Frank Sinatra — vocals
- Bill_Miller - piano
- Allan Reuss — guitar
- Jack Ryan — bass
- Alvin Stoller — drums
- Zeke Zarchy - trumpet
- Les Robinson, Babe Russin, Ted Nash, Chuck Gentry — tenor saxophones
The song was released on 23 July 1952 with "Bim Bam Baby" on the reverse.[5]
Composer Don Wolf
Donald Wolf, also known as Donald E. Wolf and Don Wolf is an jazz and pop lyricist and composer credited on over 300 recordings,[6] including a number of top 100 charting songs, mainly in the US though with some success in the UK, including Love Is All We Need, which peaked at #15 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1958 for Tommy Edwards,[7]
An ex-GI,[8] Wolf started working as an administrative assistant at WMCA in 1949,[9] moving on to supervise the pop music department at Merrymount Music Press in the 1950's,[10] a music publisher in New York[11] whose catalog was acquired initially by Mercury Music Corporation, and eventually by Theodore Presser.[12] He married Nancy Cook, an executive at Macy's, on February 14, 1960.[13]
Wolf's other lyrics include:
- Love Is All We Need, a song written jointly with Ben Raleigh which in 1958 peaked at #15 on the Billboard Hot 100 when sung by Tommy Edwards,[7] also sung by Vic Dana reaching #53 in 1964,[14], Mel Carter in 1966 reaching #58,[15] Jimmy Breedlove of The Cues and others,[16]
- Exclusively Yours, a song recorded by English singer Mark Wynter that reached #32 in the UK charts in June 1961,[17] following Carl Dobkins Jr. who reached #75 in the US in May 1960.[18]
- The jazz standard "Until I Met You (Corner Pocket)" sung by Sarah Vaughan with Count Basie,[19][20] Tony Bennett (1963-02-18), Marvin Gaye and Mary Wells (1964 Motown), Diane Schuur,[21] The Four Tops,[22] The Manhattan Transfer (who won the 1982 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Duo or Group singing the song), Joe Williams. (NB this is not the Judy Rodman song from 1986)
- Let's be lovers, recorded in April, 1958 by The Playmates, charted at #87 in the US,[23]
- Majesty of Love, a duet recorded by Marvin Rainwater and Connie Francis, peaked at #93 and sold over a million copies in 1957,[24]
- Gyp The Cat with Bobby Darin,[25][26]
A few of his songs have appeared in film, such as Now He Tells Me, performed by the King Cole Trio in the 1948 film Killer Diller,[27], Sleep Walk, set to the Santo & Johnny instrumental Sleep Walk used in the 2013 film The Conjuring.[28]. Also the title songs of 1964 film Fate Is the Hunter, in collaboration with Jerry Goldsmith,[29] and the 1965 film John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! sung by Shirley MacLaine.[30]
Reception
Billboard described the song as a "bluesy ballad", and found Stordahl's arrangement to be "outstanding" - however their verdict on Sinatra's vocals was that he was "not up to his best".[31] Despite this, the song reached #30 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on 27 September of 1952.[1][32] Others have described the recording as "lovely",[33] and "riveting".[34] According to producer Mitch Miller, Columbia Records hoped for a profitable release to make up for a sizeable advance payment to Sinatra (for a tax bill), but despite the quality of Azure Te and his other songs, they did not sell well at the time.[35]
To evoke a Parisian feeling the arrangement uses a taxi horn rendering of a motif from Gershwin's American in Paris, and contrasts that with loud brass to invoke American swing, according to author Will Friedwald. Of Sinatra's ability to sing blues, he says Sinatra "does better with "Paris Blues"... than he does with "The Birth of the Blues".[35]
Name
The name Azure 'Te was first used on the original instrumental tune released by the Bill Davis Trio in March 1952.[36] The subtitle Paris Blues first appeared a month after Bill Davis's instrumental on the B-side of the Tympany Five single Junco Partner, spelled Azure-Té (Paris Blues), which was the first recording of the tune to have Donald Wolf's lyrics. Frank Sinatra's subsequent cover of the song omitted the accent.
"Azure-Té" is not French and its meaning was unknown according to jazz critic Dave Gelly, who proposed that it be a mis-spelling of the French 'agité', meaning nervous, restless, agitated..[37]
Other versions
Wild Bill Davis is also heard on at least two other versions of the tune, including the Duke Ellington 70th Birthday Concert and the 1961 small group date Blue Hodge led by Ellington saxophonist Johnny Hodges.
The Tympany Five recording of April 1952, with Wolf's lyrics, was described as a "slow and sophisticated song", and the "best tune of the batch" in John Chilton's 1994 biography of band founder Louis Jordan.[38]
Several other artists have recorded the tune, including Nat King Cole accompanied by George Shearing, having a "haunted beauty" for one reviewer,[39] Kenny Burrell's unpretentious version based on a blues swing,[40] and Karrin Allyson who named her third album after her version of the song.[41] Other covers have been instrumentals, as was the original Bill Davis Trio release.[2]
It was also featured in Five Guys Named Moe, a long-running Olivier Award-winning musical.[42]
References
- ^ a b Lonergan, David F. (2005). Hit Records, 1950-1975. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-5129-0.
- ^ a b "Cover versions of Azure-Té (Paris Blues) written by Don Wolf". SecondHandSongs.
- ^ Billboard (10 May 1952 ed.). Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 1952-05-10. p. 22.
- ^ Put Your Dreams Away: A Frank Sinatra Discography. Greenwood Publishing Group. 2000. p. 203. ISBN 978-0-313-31055-3.
- ^ "Tracks on Azure - Te - Frank Sinatra - Orch. under the direction of Axel Stordahl (July 23, 1952)". SecondHandSongs.
- ^ "Don Wolf". Discogs.
- ^ a b "The Hot 100 Chart week of December 22, 1958". Billboard.
- ^ "Daily News from New York, New York on January 14, 1947 · 504". Newspapers.com.
Dick has chosen -Get A Pin-Up Girl", written by ex-G.I. Don Wolf, as his theme song on his daily program at 9:45 A.M. over WNEW. Monday thru Friday.
- ^ The Billboard (PDF). 11 June 1949. p. 40.
- ^ Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 31 October 1953. p. 16.
- ^ Friskin, James; Freundlich, Irwin (January 1973). Music for the Piano: A Handbook of Concert and Teaching Material from 1580 to 1952. Courier Corporation. p. 424. ISBN 978-0-486-22918-8.
- ^ Marrocco, W. Thomas; Jacobs, Mark; Smith, Warren Storey (2001). "Presser". Grove Music Online. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.22310. ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0. Retrieved 9 May 2021.
- ^ "The Cash Box, Music" (PDF). World Radio History. 13 February 1960. p. 24.
- ^ "Don Wolf - Top Songs as Writer". www.comicsvf.com. Retrieved 27 June 2021.
- ^ "The Hot 100 Chart". Billboard.
- ^ "Cover versions of Love Is All We Need by Jimmy Breedlove". SecondHandSongs.
- ^ British Hit Singles & Albums. Guinness. 2005. p. s-56. ISBN 978-1-904994-00-8.
- ^ "The Hot 100 Chart". Billboard.
- ^ "Until I Met You". Rockol.
- ^ "Jazz Standards Songs and Instrumentals (Until I Met You (Corner Pocket))". www.jazzstandards.com. Retrieved 9 May 2021.
- ^ "Diane Schuur (Ft. Count Basie Orchestra) – Until I Met You (Live)". Retrieved 9 May 2021.
- ^ "The Four Tops – Until I Met You". Genius. Retrieved 9 May 2021.
- ^ "The Playmates". Music Finder. 2014-09-11.
- ^ Murrells, Joseph (1978). The Book of Golden Discs (2nd ed.). London: Barrie and Jenkins Ltd. p. 95. ISBN 0-214-20512-6.
- ^ "Don Wolf playlist". WQXR. Retrieved 9 May 2021.
- ^ "Gyp The Cat (Remastered)". JioSaavn. Retrieved 9 May 2021.
- ^ "Killer Diller - Pop Culture Cross". POPisms. Retrieved 9 May 2021.
- ^ "Sleep Walk - Song recorded by Betsy Brye". The Sheet Music Warehouse. Retrieved 28 June 2021.
- ^ Office, Library of Congress Copyright (1967). Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series. p. 1398.
- ^ "The John Williams Collection". www.jw-collection.de. Retrieved 28 June 2021.
- ^ "Billboard". Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 9 August 1952. p. 34.
- ^ Azure-te (Paris blues). Columbia. 1952. OCLC 747242499.
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ignored (help) - ^ Ingham, Chris (2005). The Rough Guide to Frank Sinatra. Rough Guides. p. 157. ISBN 978-1-84353-414-3.
- ^ Giddins, Gary (2000-05-18). Visions of Jazz: The First Century. Oxford University Press. p. 225. ISBN 978-0-19-971520-6.
- ^ a b Friedwald, Will (1995). Sinatra! the Song is You: A Singer's Art. Simon and Schuster. pp. 179, 197. ISBN 978-0-684-19368-7.
- ^ "Tracks on Azure 'Te - Bill Davis Trio (March 1952)". SecondHandSongs.
- ^ Gelly, Dave (2001). "Woody Herman – Presenting Woody Herman & And The Band That Plays The Blues 1939 & The Third Herd". Flyright Records. p. 2 (sleeve notes).
- ^ Chilton, John (1994). Let the Good Times Roll: The Story of Louis Jordan and His Music. University of Michigan Press. p. 173. ISBN 978-0-472-10529-8.
- ^ Jazz Times. Jazztimes. 2001. p. 114.
[someone else's] bland reworking of Azure [Te] leaves one pining for the haunted beauty of Nat Cole's '61 teaming with George Shearing
- ^ Coda Magazine. J. Norris. 1979. p. 206.
... on Azure Te, we find bedrock blues swing, and again, a performance completely devoid of pretension.
- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2002). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD. Penguin Books. p. 34. ISBN 978-0-14-051521-3.
- ^ Foster, Pamela E. (1998). My Country: The African Diaspora's Country Music Heritage. My Country. p. 151. ISBN 978-0-9662680-1-0.
External links
- MusicBrainz
- AllMusic results for "Azure-Te" (52 records) and "Azure Te" (37 records)
- blog review on Standard of the Day
- "... delectable ..." per Jazz Journal International, p47, 1993
- Hall, Fred (1989). Dialogues in Swing: Intimate Conversations with the Stars of the Big Band Era. Pathfinder Publishing, Inc. p. 94. ISBN 978-0-934793-19-3.