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Musical prodigy Max Steiner, godson to Richard Strauss, was one of the first composers to write scores for the movies. He was nominated for close to two dozen Academy Awards and won three. In 1959 he wrote the score for "A Summer Place" and a section

Vince Martin (Marcellino) and the Terriers (Alan Arkin, Erik Darling and Bob Carey) first recorded "Cindy, Oh Cindy" (Nemeroff and D'Lugoff under the pseudonyms Barron and Long) using the Jamaican melody to "Pay Me My Money Down" in 1956. The same

Oskar Wagner was one of the first to record the traditional German folk song "Muss I Denn" and he did so around 1900 on the brown wax cylinder heard here. Elvis Presley recorded "Wooden Heart" (Weisman - Wise - Twomey - Kaempfert) for the movie 1960

Chan (Robert Lee) Romero's "Hippy, Hippy Shake" was a hit in Australia in 1959 but that was it. For a brief time he joined Buddy Holly's Crickets substituting for Glenn Harden on an American tour. Originally the Blue Genes, The Swinging Blue Jeans (Ray

In the 1970 movie "Lovers And Other Strangers" Larry Meredith sang "For All We Know" with lyrics composed by Bread members Robb Royer and Jimmy Griffin using the pseudonyms Arthur James and Robb Wilson, the melody was written by the prolific Emmy winner