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Roy Hemming
The Melody Lingers on: The Great Songwriters and Their Movie Musicals
Newmarket Press
(Includes a 10 page section on Van Heusen)
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Johnny Burke and Jimmy Van Heusen
Aren't You Glad You're You
Burke & Van Heusen Inc,
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Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Charles Coburn, Judith Barrett
On the Road With Bob Hope and Bing Crosby Collection (Road to Singapore/Road to Zanzibar/Road to Morocco/Road to Utopia)
Universal Studios
DVD Includes "Moonlight Becomes You"
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Bing Crosby
Going My Way/Holiday Inn (1944)
DVD Includes "Swingin' on a Star"
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Frank Sinatra, Edward G. Robinson, Eleanor Parker, Carolyn Jones, Thelma Ritter, Keenan Wynn
A Hole in the Head
MGM (Video & DVD)
DVD Includes "High Hopes"
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William Holden, Martha Scott, Fay Bainter, Beulah Bondi, Thomas Mitchell
Our Town
Focusfilm
DVD
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Jackie Gleason, Glynis Johns, Charles Ruggles
Papa's Delicate Condition
Paramount
VHS Includes "Call Me Irresponsible"
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Rosemary Clooney w, Duke Ellington Orchestra
Sings the Music of Jimmy Van Heusen
Concord Records
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Rebecca Kilgore
The Music of Jimmy Van Heusen
Jump Records
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Joe Farrell, George Cables, John Dentz, and Tony Dumas Art Pepper
Darn That Dream
Real Time
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Johnny Hartman
And I Thought About You
1997 Blue Note Records 57456
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Ruth Brown
Here's That Rainy Day
Garland Records
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Oscar Peterson
Romance: The Vocal Stylings of Oscar Peterson
Phantom
Includes "Polka Dots..."
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Joe Locke, Kenny Barron
But Beautiful
Steeplechase
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Frank Sinatra
Come Fly with Me
Capitol
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Frank Sinatra
September of My Years
Warner Bros / Wea
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Etta James
All the Way
RCA Victor
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Jimmy Scott
All the Way
Sire / London/Rhino
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Jimmy Van Heusen, Julie Harris, Sammy Cahn
Skyscraper (1965 Original Broadway Cast)
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Jimmy Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn, Norman Wisdon, George Rose, Louise Troy
Walking Happy (1966 Original Broadway Cast)
Angel Records
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Jimmy Van Heusen
Edward Chester Babcock
Composer, Pianist, Vocalist, Music Publisher
(1913 - 1990)
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Jimmy Van Heusen was a favorite composer of both Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra, who recorded more than 70 of his songs. As a teenager he adopted the more sophisticated name of the shirt manufacturer when he began singing and playing piano on a Syracuse radio station. In college he wrote a song with Jerry Arlen (Harold’s brother) which was recorded by Cab Calloway. He wrote “Oh! You Crazy Moon” (1938) and “Deep in a Dream” (1939) with lyricist Eddie De Lange and came up with two hits from a failed Broadway show in 1939: “Darn That Dream” with De Lange and “I Thought About You” with Johnny Mercer.
The following year he formed a fruitful partnership with lyricist Johnny Burke. Writing for Hollywood movies, they produced a string of hits for Bing Crosby--“Moonlight Becomes You” (1942), “Sunday, Monday, or Always” (1943), the Academy-Award winning “Swinging on a Star” (1944) and “Personality” (1946). Three films in 1944 produced “Suddenly It’s Spring,” “It Could Happen to You,” and “Like Someone in Love.” Two more of their hits to be picked up by jazz musicians are “Polka Dots and Moonbeams” (1940) and “But Beautiful” (1947). “Here’s That Rainy Day” (1953), introduced by Dolores Gray in Carnival in Flanders, was popularized by nightclub singers and recorded by a host of jazz artists.
In 1954 Sinatra hired Van Heusen to collaborate on a television adaptation of Our Town with lyricist Sammy Cahn which resulted in the Emmy-Award winning “Love and Marriage.” Cahn and Van Heusen wrote a variety of hit tunes from the swinging “The Tender Trap” (1955), “Come Fly with Me” (1958) and “My Kind of Town” (1964) to the contemplative “The Second Time Around” (1960) and the dark ballads “Only the Lonely” (1958) and “September of My Years” (1965). Their partnership also produced three Academy-Award winners: “All the Way” (1957), “High Hopes” (1959), and “Call Me Irresponsible” (1962).
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