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Written in 1925 "Angry" (Dudley Mecum - Henry Brunies - Merritt Brunies - Jules Cassard) achieved popularity through this recording by "The Whispering Pianist" Art Gillham. The song is now viewed as a barbershop standard. Kay Starr (Starks) covered

Allan Rich takes the lead while co-writer Jud Friedman plays keyboards and adds vocals at a later point. This Hollywood concert includes the duo performing "Run To You". They had been contacted to write a song for the 1993 Kevin Costner, Whitney Houston

Saxophonist Grover Washington Jr. was the first to release "In The Name Of Love" (R. MacDonald - W. Salter - B. Withers) on the wonderful album "Winelight". The LP won the Grammy for Best Jazz Fusion Performance in 1982 and includes "Just The Two Of Us"

Country musician Johnny (Lehman Monroe) Tyler wrote and sang the western swing dance number "Oakie Boogie" in 1947. Through a rather short career Johnny recorded for the Fargo, Liberty, Stanchel, Starday, Bixby, Specialty, Rural Rhythm, Ekko and RCA

Orchestra leader, multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer and arranger Bert Kaempfert (Kampfert) recorded "Lady" (Bert Kaempfert - Larry Kusik - Charles Singleton) for the 1967 album "Hold Me". The trumpet is played by Manfred Moch. Manfred also played

The Beatles song "She Came In Through The Bathroom Window" (Lennon - McCartney) is on the 1969 LP "Abbey Road" as part of a three-tune medley. Paul McCartney has said that it was inspired by fans hanging around the studios and the group's homes. One of

"Cocktails For Two" (Arthur Johnston - Sam Coslow) first appeared in the 1934 film "Murder At The Vanities" when it was sung by Rosalind Russell's father-in-law Carl Brisson (Pedersen). Co-composer Arthur Johnston also wrote the music for "Pennies From

The second single from the top ten LP "The Second Barbra Streisand Album" was "My Coloring Book" (Fred Ebb - John Kander). The song was recorded in November of 1962. The single was re-recorded for the album. Wikipedia: "At the time of his death, Ebb was

Barbra Streisand sings an early demo of "The Way We Were" (Alan Bergman - Marilyn Bergman - Marvin Hamlisch) that must have been recorded here on the sly by someone who should not have done that. Despite obvious sound problems this does show off her

Smokey Robinson wrote "When I'm Gone" and produced it for "The Queen Of Motown" the late Mary Wells as the follow up to "My Guy". After it was recorded in 1964 Mary apparently decided to leave Motown saying that she wasn't receiving her just royalties and

According to co-writer Luke Laird he and Natalie Hemby were meeting with a music executive when the exec asked about a tune they wrote called "Fine Tune" but it was mistakenly referred to as "Pontoon". This comment got the creative juices flowing and the

Otis Redding wrote and recorded "I Can't Turn You Loose" as a B side in 1965. The issue out performed the A side when it reached number eleven on the R&B chart. The track was the on the LP "History Of Otis Redding". Booker T. Jones on keyboards, Al

Multi-talented Shorty (Frederick) Long issued "Devil With The Blue Dress" (Shorty Long - William Stevenson) as his debut Motown single in 1964. The song didn't chart. Shorty played drums, harmonica, organ, piano and trumpet. Mitch Ryder (William

This surprised me, there was a 1939 film called “Some Like It Hot”! Not to be confused with the Billy Wilder classic this was later retitled "Rhythm Romance". The movie starred Bob (Leslie) Hope and Shirley Ross (Bernice Gaunt) and together they

The late Harley Allen sings "The Little Girl" in a live performance at Nashville's Bluebird Cafe. Country music and tissues often go hand in hand. It was Grammy winner Harley who was the vocalist on "I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow" on the "O Brother Where

It was Lou Pardini of the group Chicago who co-wrote "Just To See Her" (Jimmy George - Lou Pardini). This was from his album released in 1996. Smokey Robinson's 1987 LP "One Heartbeat" features "Just To See Her" . The single reached the Billboard number

The first single issued by singer, pianist Johnny Ace (Alexander) was "My Song" (D. James) in 1952. Backed by The Beale Streeters the recording topped the R&B chart. It is widely thought that the writer was actually Duke Records owner David James

Even I can dance to Don Covay (Randolph) and "Seesaw" (Steve Cropper - Don Covay). The original hit number five R&B and number forty-four on the Top One Hundred in 1965. The next year it was a track on the LP of the same name. In 1957 Don was

"Warm Ride" (Barry - Robin and Maurice Gibb) was written especially for Rare Earth even though the trio started recording the demo for the 1977 "Saturday Night Fever" sessions. This then unreleased demo is from that time and features Barry Gibb as lead

Ian (Tyson) and Sylvia (Fricker) were first to record "Hey, What About Me" (Scott McKenzie) on the album "Play One More" in 1966. The songwriter, Scott Mckenzie aka Philip Bondheim, is the same artist who hit the next year with the monster recording of

The 1975 top forty album "Frampton" introduced "Nassau/Baby, I Love Your Way" (Peter Frampton). This was his first solo effort after Peter Frampton left Steve Marriott and Humble Pie. The track is edited. A concert version was issued on the next year's

The man played harmonica, keyboards, mandolin and guitar. Songwriter Todd Cerney performed "I'll Still Be Loving You" (Todd Cerney - Pam Rose - Mary Ann Kennedy - Pat Bunch) in December of 2010 at Huntsville, Alabama's Von Braun Civic Center during Jim

Puerto Rico's Bobby (Felix) Capo emigrated to New York in the forties and joined Xavier Cugat's Orchestra. In 1955 Bobby recorded "Me Lo Dijo Adela" (Otilio Portal) translated as "Say It To Me Sweetly". In 1955 Georgia Gibbs (Frieda Lipschitz) released

Ann Peebles, her partner and later her husband Don Bryant and DJ Bernie Miller wrote "I Can't Stand The Rain" for the 1973 Ann Peebles album of the same name. Willie Mitchell produced the session. The single reached number six on the R&B chart and

A prominent member of Nashville's A Team; in 1960 Floyd Cramer wrote and played "Last Date" using his slip note style. The instrumental reached number two on the Top One Hundred and number eleven Country. "Last Date" was kept out of the top spot by Elvis

Walter Gross directs the orchestra for the Phil Brito (Colombrito) recording of "Five Minutes More" (Sammy Cahn - Jule Styne) from the 1946 Buster Crabbe film "The Sweethearts Of Sigma Chi". At the time the song was also released by Tex Beneke, Bob

Many moons ago there was a television program called "Playboy's Penthouse" and this is where Cy Coleman (Seymour Kaufman) sat a the piano and sang "Witchcraft" (Cy Coleman - Carolyn Leigh). When he was six years old Cy was a child prodigy who gave a piano

It was Louis Jordan and His Tympani Five (various line-ups) that first recorded "Ain't That Just Like A Woman (They'll Do It Everytime)" (Demetrius - Moore) in 1946 The single topped the R&B chart while peaking at number seventeen on the pop listing.