Hollywood On 52nd Street
You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To is a popular song that became a jazz standard. Written by Cole Porter it premiered in the 1943 film Something To Shout About, nominated for two Oscars and introduced by Janet Blair and Don Ameche.
The Story: The movie takes place behind the scenes of a fictional vaudeville play and centers on a recently divorced woman. She decides to use her alimony settlement to produce her own show. Unfortunately her chief backer insists on starring in it but she is saved when a talented man puts everything at risk to replace the talentless chief backer.
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Hollywood On 52nd Street
I’ll Never Stop Loving You, composed by Nicholas Brodzsky and Sammy Cahn wrote the lyrics for the 1955 film Love Me or Leave Me. The film is a biographical romantic musical drama that retells the life story of Ruth Etting, a singer who rose from dancer to movie star.
Doris Day stars as Etting, James Cagney as gangster Martin “Moe the Gimp” Snyder, her first husband and manager, and Cameron Mitchell as pianist/ arranger Myrl Alderman, her second husband.
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Hollywood On 52nd Street
Moon River is another jazz standard originally composed for Breakfast At Tiffany’s by Henry Mancini for music with lyrics written by Johnny Mercer. Blake Edwards directed this 1961 American romantic comedy that starred Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard with support from Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen, Martin Balsam and Mickey Rooney. The film is loosely based on Truman Capote’s novella of the same name.
Hepburn’s portrayal of Holly Golightly as the naïve, eccentric café society girl is generally considered to be the actress’ most memorable and identifiable role. However, Hepburn regarded it as one of her most challenging roles, since she was an introvert required to play an extrovert.
The song received an academy Award for Best Original Song for its first performance by Hepburn, won Mancini the 1962 Grammy Award for Record of the Year and Mercer a Grammy Award for Song of the Year.
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A Second Chance comes from a 1962 film Two For The Seesaw adapted from the Broadway play written by William Gibson. Robert Wise directed and Robert Mitchum and Shirley MacLaine played the lead roles. Andre Previn composed the music with lyrics by Dory Langdon.
The Story: Nebraska attorney Jerry Ryan (Mitchum) recently separated from his wife gets away from it all by moving into a shabby New York apartment. While struggling with the divorce, he meets struggling dancer Gittel Mosca (MacLaine) at a party. They instantly get along, begin to fall in love but the relationship is rocky and hampered by their differences in background and temperament. Gittel has a fling and Jerry can’t separate himself from his ex though the divorce is final. He decides to move back to Nebraska.
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A Little Night Music brings up the curtain of the Shubert Theatre on February 2, 1973. Stephen Sondheim composed the music that spawned the jazz classic Send In The Clowns. Glynis Johns, Len Cariou, Victoria Mallory, Laurence Guittard, Hermione Gingold and Mark Lambert. Though it only ran for 600 performances it went on to get a movie made in 1978, directed by Harold Prince and starring Elizabeth Taylor, Lesley-Anne Down and Diana Rigg.
The Story: Based on the Ingmar Bergman comedy about sexual liaisons at a country mansion. Frederick falls in love with his former mistress Desiree’ and would dissolve his marriage to his child bride. Count Carl, Desiree’s lover, attempts to cool the romance. However at a dinner party given by Desiree’s mother, Frederick’s son, Henrik, runs off with his young mother-in-law, the Count returns to his wife and Frederick and Desiree’ are free to pursue their romance.
Jazz History: It’s the 1970s and jazz is in an evolutionary mode as the old guard makes way for a new sound. The jazz world has witnessed the release of fusion albums from Weather Report, Chick Corea and Return To Forever and the Mahavishnu Orchestra. Herbie Hancock records the classic jazz/funk album Head Hunters that includes “Chameleon” and “Watermelon Man” as does drummer Billy Cobham with his recording “Spectrum” with Tony Bolin, Jan Hammer, Lee Sklar, Joe Farrell, Jimmy Owens, John Tropea, Ron Carter and Ray Barretto. In 1973 swing and bop saxophonist Ben Webster passes away on September 20th as does stride piano pioneer Willie “The Lion” Smith on October 8th. Fortunately for the many young men who haven’t been called upon, the United States is almost completely out of Vietnam.
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