Wednesday, March 10, 2010

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Sunday, March 7, 2010

[American_Idol_Extra] SING ALONG SUNDAY: "The Way You Look Tonight" Academy Award Winner for Best Original Song, "Swing Time" 1936





SING ALONG SUNDAY

"The Way You Look Tonight" Academy Award Winner for Best Original Song, "Swing Time" 1936

The Academy Award for Best Original Song is one of the awards given annually to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is presented to the songwriters who have composed the best original song written specifically for a film. The performers of a song are not credited with the Academy Award unless they contributed either to music, lyrics or both in their own right.

The award category was introduced at the 7th Academy Awards, the ceremony honoring the best in film for 1934. Nominations are made by Academy members who are songwriters and composers, and the winners are chosen by the Academy membership as a whole.

Until the Academy Awards for 1944 (awarded in 1945) any number of songs could be nominated for the award. For the 1944 awards, 14 songs were nominated. Since then, only five are nominated each year, except for 1988, 2005 and 2008, when only three were nominated.[4]

Though this is one of the few Oscar categories where one film can receive multiple nominations, the first to do so was Fame in 1980. Only four films have featured three nominated songs: Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, Dreamgirls, and Enchanted. Dreamgirls and Enchanted lost on every nomination: An Inconvenient Truth original song "I Need to Wake Up" defeated all three of the nominated songs from Dreamgirls, while "Falling Slowly" from Once defeated all three of Enchanted's nominations. After these two consecutive defeats, a new rule was instated in June 2008 that a film could have no more than two songs nominated in the Best Original Song category in one year.[5]

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Original_Song

 

"Take it All"  from "Nine"


2009 (82nd) Nominees, Winner To Be Announced
 
Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields

The Way You Look Tonight

"The Way You Look Tonight" is a song featured in the film Swing Time, originally performed by Fred Astaire. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1936. The song was written by Jerome Kern with lyrics by Dorothy Fields. Fields later remarked, "The first time Jerry played that melody for me I went out and started to cry. The release absolutely killed me. I couldn't stop, it was so beautiful."[1]

The song was sung by John "Lucky" Garnett (played by Fred Astaire) while sitting at the piano. Penelope "Penny" Carroll (played by Ginger Rogers) was busy washing her hair in an adjacent room, and feeling anything but beautiful at the time.

Billie Holiday also recorded this song in 1936; her version can be found on several collections including The Quintessential Billie Holiday, Vol.2. This song was also popularly performed by Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Ella Fitzgerald, Michael Bublé, Joey McIntyre, Rod Stewart, Andy Williams, Ray Quinn, Kris Allen, Steve Tyrell, James Darren, Harry Connick, Jr., and as a duet between Bing Crosby and his wife Dixie Lee. The song was performed by The Lettermen and became their first hit in 1961 (Billboard #13 pop, #3 easy listening and #36 UK Singles). It has also been covered by Chad & Jeremy, Bryan Ferry and Maroon 5. The Lettermen's and Chad & Jeremy's versions were slowed-down, crooning versions, rather than the original dance tempo number as in the film the song was written for. The Lettermen's version is, in fact, an MOR (middle-of-the-road) modification of a doo-wop/R&B version of the late 1950s version by the Jaguars. Olivia Newton-John covered the song on her 1989 lullaby album, Warm and Tender.

Jazz pianist Art Tatum has an instrumental recording in the collection The Complete Pablo Solo Masterpieces. Saxophonist Johnny Griffin covered this song in the hard bop jazz style on his 1957 A Blowing Session recording. Pianist Bradley Joseph performs his arrangement of "The Way You Look Tonight" on his 2006 album, Piano Love Songs.

In the 1942 film Once Upon a Honeymoon, Cary Grant says to Ginger Rogers that he always wants to remember "you just the way you look tonight — er, today", a reference to Rogers' appearance in the film in which the song was first heard. "The Way You Look Tonight" is referenced in Harold Pinter's 1971 play Old Times, in which two characters recite some of the lines. Greater use of "The Way You Look Tonight" is made in Brian Friel's 1979 play Faith Healer, which quotes and makes repeated references to the song. The playing of the Fred Astaire original is the beginning of Teddy's monologue in act two. The song itself is featured in movies including Chinatown, Hannah and Her Sisters, Father of the Bride (1991), My Best Friend's Wedding, and the Kenneth Branagh films Peter's Friends and Love's Labour's Lost (2000). The James Darren cover forms the background music for the "Seven-year Montage" in the final episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, "What You Leave Behind". It is also sung by Allison Munn in the season finale of the WB sitcom What I Like About You. American Idol Season 8 winner Kris Allen sang the song during Rat Pack Standards week.

Source:
 
 
 
The Lyrics
 
The Way You Look Tonight

Some day, when I'm awfully low,
When the world is cold,
I will feel a glow just thinking of you...
And the way you look tonight.

Yes you're lovely, with your smile so warm
And your cheeks so soft,
There is nothing for me but to love you,
And the way you look tonight.

With each word your tenderness grows,
Tearing my fear apart...
And that laugh that wrinkles your nose,
It touches my foolish heart.

Lovely ... Never, ever change.
Keep that breathless charm.
Won't you please arrange it ?
'Cause I love you ... Just the way you look tonight.

Solo (Bridge section)

Mm, Mm, Mm, Mm,

Just the way you look to-night.

 
Click These Links and Sing Along:
 
The Way You Look Tonight- Sung By Fred Astaire, This is the original performance of the song from 1936. "Swing Time"
 
 
 
 
Billie Holiday-The way you look tonight - Album lady day 1933-1944
 
 
 
 
 
The Way You Look Tonight- Frank Sinatra with Photo Tribute to Judy Garland
 
 
 
 
Andy Williams - The Way You Look Tonight  1966
 
 

My best friend's wedding Sound track-The way you look tonight- Tony Bennett

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7aHm1GVa2s

The way you look tonight- Rod Stewart

 
 
 
American Idol Winner Kris Allen - The Way You Look Tonight (Studio Version)
 
 
 
 
Michael Bublé - The Way You Look Tonight
 
 
 
 

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[American_Idol_Extra] SING ALONG SUNDAY: "The Way You Look Tonight" Academy Award Winner for Best Original Song, "Swing Time" 1936




SING ALONG SUNDAY

"The Way You Look Tonight" Academy Award Winner for Best Original Song, "Swing Time" 1936

The Academy Award for Best Original Song is one of the awards given annually to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is presented to the songwriters who have composed the best original song written specifically for a film. The performers of a song are not credited with the Academy Award unless they contributed either to music, lyrics or both in their own right.

The award category was introduced at the 7th Academy Awards, the ceremony honoring the best in film for 1934. Nominations are made by Academy members who are songwriters and composers, and the winners are chosen by the Academy membership as a whole.

Until the Academy Awards for 1944 (awarded in 1945) any number of songs could be nominated for the award. For the 1944 awards, 14 songs were nominated. Since then, only five are nominated each year, except for 1988, 2005 and 2008, when only three were nominated.[4]

Though this is one of the few Oscar categories where one film can receive multiple nominations, the first to do so was Fame in 1980. Only four films have featured three nominated songs: Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, Dreamgirls, and Enchanted. Dreamgirls and Enchanted lost on every nomination: An Inconvenient Truth original song "I Need to Wake Up" defeated all three of the nominated songs from Dreamgirls, while "Falling Slowly" from Once defeated all three of Enchanted's nominations. After these two consecutive defeats, a new rule was instated in June 2008 that a film could have no more than two songs nominated in the Best Original Song category in one year.[5]

Source:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Original_Song

 

"Take it All"  from "Nine"


2009 (82nd) Nominees, Winner To Be Announced
 
Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields

The Way You Look Tonight

"The Way You Look Tonight" is a song featured in the film Swing Time, originally performed by Fred Astaire. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1936. The song was written by Jerome Kern with lyrics by Dorothy Fields. Fields later remarked, "The first time Jerry played that melody for me I went out and started to cry. The release absolutely killed me. I couldn't stop, it was so beautiful."[1]

The song was sung by John "Lucky" Garnett (played by Fred Astaire) while sitting at the piano. Penelope "Penny" Carroll (played by Ginger Rogers) was busy washing her hair in an adjacent room, and feeling anything but beautiful at the time.

Billie Holiday also recorded this song in 1936; her version can be found on several collections including The Quintessential Billie Holiday, Vol.2. This song was also popularly performed by Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Ella Fitzgerald, Michael Bublé, Joey McIntyre, Rod Stewart, Andy Williams, Ray Quinn, Kris Allen, Steve Tyrell, James Darren, Harry Connick, Jr., and as a duet between Bing Crosby and his wife Dixie Lee. The song was performed by The Lettermen and became their first hit in 1961 (Billboard #13 pop, #3 easy listening and #36 UK Singles). It has also been covered by Chad & Jeremy, Bryan Ferry and Maroon 5. The Lettermen's and Chad & Jeremy's versions were slowed-down, crooning versions, rather than the original dance tempo number as in the film the song was written for. The Lettermen's version is, in fact, an MOR (middle-of-the-road) modification of a doo-wop/R&B version of the late 1950s version by the Jaguars. Olivia Newton-John covered the song on her 1989 lullaby album, Warm and Tender.

Jazz pianist Art Tatum has an instrumental recording in the collection The Complete Pablo Solo Masterpieces. Saxophonist Johnny Griffin covered this song in the hard bop jazz style on his 1957 A Blowing Session recording. Pianist Bradley Joseph performs his arrangement of "The Way You Look Tonight" on his 2006 album, Piano Love Songs.

In the 1942 film Once Upon a Honeymoon, Cary Grant says to Ginger Rogers that he always wants to remember "you just the way you look tonight — er, today", a reference to Rogers' appearance in the film in which the song was first heard. "The Way You Look Tonight" is referenced in Harold Pinter's 1971 play Old Times, in which two characters recite some of the lines. Greater use of "The Way You Look Tonight" is made in Brian Friel's 1979 play Faith Healer, which quotes and makes repeated references to the song. The playing of the Fred Astaire original is the beginning of Teddy's monologue in act two. The song itself is featured in movies including Chinatown, Hannah and Her Sisters, Father of the Bride (1991), My Best Friend's Wedding, and the Kenneth Branagh films Peter's Friends and Love's Labour's Lost (2000). The James Darren cover forms the background music for the "Seven-year Montage" in the final episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, "What You Leave Behind". It is also sung by Allison Munn in the season finale of the WB sitcom What I Like About You. American Idol Season 8 winner Kris Allen sang the song during Rat Pack Standards week.

Source:
 
 
 
The Lyrics
 
The Way You Look Tonight

Some day, when I'm awfully low,
When the world is cold,
I will feel a glow just thinking of you...
And the way you look tonight.

Yes you're lovely, with your smile so warm
And your cheeks so soft,
There is nothing for me but to love you,
And the way you look tonight.

With each word your tenderness grows,
Tearing my fear apart...
And that laugh that wrinkles your nose,
It touches my foolish heart.

Lovely ... Never, ever change.
Keep that breathless charm.
Won't you please arrange it ?
'Cause I love you ... Just the way you look tonight.

Solo (Bridge section)

Mm, Mm, Mm, Mm,

Just the way you look to-night.

 
Click These Links and Sing Along:
 
The Way You Look Tonight- Sung By Fred Astaire, This is the original performance of the song from 1936. "Swing Time"
 
 
 
 
Billie Holiday-The way you look tonight - Album lady day 1933-1944
 
 
 
 
 
The Way You Look Tonight- Frank Sinatra with Photo Tribute to Judy Garland
 
 
 
 
Andy Williams - The Way You Look Tonight  1966
 
 

My best friend's wedding Sound track-The way you look tonight- Tony Bennett

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7aHm1GVa2s

The way you look tonight- Rod Stewart

 
 
 
American Idol Winner Kris Allen - The Way You Look Tonight (Studio Version)
 
 
 
 
Michael Bublé - The Way You Look Tonight
 
 
 
 

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Monday, March 1, 2010

[Fox_American_Idol] American Idol Season 9 Voters Guide

 

American Idol Season 9 Voters Guide

http://www.longislandpress.com/2010/02/2..5/american-idol-season-9-voters-guide/
My comment to the editor....

Regarding the top 24 lowdown on American Idol via your website, if my response is taken down, well here ya go, read it for yourself.
Attention: As much as my original, copyright and ASCAP protected song, "Leonda (I'm Coming Home)" August 29, 2001 is still and will always be the complete movement of September 11, 2001 & the hanging of Saddam Hussein, so says I, Siobhan Magnus will be the #1 American Idol Champion this season, #9! Take your best shot, ladies before gentlemen, my vocal chords are like my fists tied behind my back, one leg tied to it's backside and I'm standing here, telling you now, I'll still whip ya into a frenzy with my own song and ya know what? By God, there is someone vastly superior to me, not only as a musician but as a human being, a person and you already know the name, Siobhan Magnus, game over! Alex Lambert, #2 to you.

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Re: [Fox_American_Idol] Re: New poll for Fox_American_Idol

 

I'm with you. I thought he was one of the best ones.

--- On Thu, 2/25/10, Perki88 <DeeGee88@aol.com> wrote:

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Subject: [Fox_American_Idol] Re: New poll for Fox_American_Idol
To: Fox_American_Idol@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, February 25, 2010, 6:30 PM

 
I just got the poll now so I didn't get to vote, but I can't believe that they sent Joe home. So many lousy boys this year and he was darn good.

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[American_Idol_Extra] Watch: Clay Aiken, Meredith Baxter, Staff Sgt. Eric Alva, Joe Solmonese speak at Human Rights Campaign Carolinas Dinner




Watch: Clay Aiken, Meredith Baxter, Staff Sgt. Eric Alva, Joe Solmonese speak at Human Rights Campaign Carolinas Dinner

Clayaiken

Durham, North Carolina-native Pam Spaulding has a full report on the HRC Carolinas Gala held last night in Raleigh, NC. Clay Aiken and Meredith Baxter were the celebrity guests on hand. Also there was Staff Sgt. Eric Alva, the first marine wounded in Iraq.

And despite signals from the White House and elsewhere that suggest otherwise, HRC President Joe Solmonese promised 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' would be repealed this year.

Their speeches, AFTER THE JUMP...

Visit Pam's House Blend for her thorough coverage of the evening.

Writes Pam: "The celebratory mood here was kind of interesting, since the one thing that could be focused on (other than reaching fundraising goals) is that hate crimes legislation was passed at the federal level. Alas there is so much more to be done. Joni Madison, COO of McKinney Advertising in Durham was one of the effusive HRC Carolinas co-chairs, along with Robert Dogans and Maddy Goss. Oy they speak too quickly. Did you know that the Carolinas gala is the second-largest fundraiser for HRC nationwide. When I see the room filled with so many people who clearly feel committed to LGBT equality at this gala, it is the kind of support that state and local organizations need to see as well. Equality NC, btw, had a fantastic turnout at its annual gala as well. Our LGBTs do turn out for this kind of event."

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