Songwriters Hall of Fame
[2023-08-05 04:54:22]
Duke Ellington was one of the most important creativity of the 20th century music scene. His classical music, pop music, and of course the influence on jazz are not underestimated.
Born in Edward Kennedy Ellington, Washington, DC on April 29, 1899, he became a middle-class black family. His father is a wealthy family manager who is said to work in the White House. Initially, Ellington had the ambition to become a painter, but since he was in his teens he has been interested in music and he studied "Carolina Shout" by James P. Johnson from the piano performances. Soon, he became a member of the small jazz band in Washington.
In 1923, he moved to New York and became the leader of his band in early 1924. In 1927, the band of Ellington was hired to participate regularly in the cotton club, and stayed there for five years. Cotton club performances are broadcast almost every night, and by 1930 Ellington and his band became famous. Even at this point, Ellington became regarded as an important serious composer.
In 1931, he was invited to visit the White House and visited Europe for the first time in 1933 with great success. Over the next few years, Ellington has continued to develop music, and the quality of his band has continued to improve and peaked that he believed mostly from 1939 to the early 1940s.
After the end of the Second World War, the big band became obsolete, like the rest of the band, Ellington's band suffered economic losses. Nevertheless, Ellington continued to put together the band, and in the coming years the band will be a royal subsidy for composers.
Ellington was mainly a music composer, most of his songs were originally written as musical instruments, which were later attached to the text. However, many of them are still very good as songs. One of his most famous songs is "sophisticated women" (1933, lyric poetry by Mitchell Parish), "sentimental mood" (1935, Manichurtz 's lyric poem, here we do not have meaningless common in art Giving). Credits, as well as many other songs, publisher Owen Mills), "The Overture of Kiss" (1938, Owen Gordon's lyrics), "Let me sing a song out of my heart" (1941, Paul Francis Webster 's lyrics in 1941), "I will not go any more" (1942, Bob Russell' s lyrics), "I did a bad job (and that Ain) Russell), "I do not know you" (1944, Bob Russell's lyrics) and "Satin Doll" (1958, Billy Stray Horn, with Johnny Mercer's lyrics)
In 1980, the Songwriter 's Hall of Fame established the annual Johnny Mercer Award as the highest honor as a songwriter with a history of outstanding creative work. Mercer 's stamp was awarded honor from the US Postal Service in 1996, and his portrait was placed on a stamp. Mercer 's star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame of Weinstreet in 1628 is one block from the records of the Parliament House in Vine Street in 1750. Mercer was admired in the book "Midnight of Good and Evil Garden" published by John Brent in 1994. In 1997, Clint Eastwood's film based on Bent's novel emphasized Hoggy Carmichael / Johnny Mercer's song "Skylark" and k.d sang. Lang. Soundtrack is a tribute album by Johnny Mercer featuring 14 Mercer songs by various jazz and pop recording artists.
In 1987, Orbison was brought to the second phase into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by Bruce Springsteen, a long-time admirer. In the same year, he entered the Hall of Fame of Nashville composer, and after two years I played in the songwriter's Hall of Fame. Rolling Stones was ranked 37th Orbison in the list of "the best artists of all time" and ranked 13th in the list of 100 great singers in history. In 2002, Billboard ranked Orbison in 74th among top 600 recording artists. In 2014 Orbison went into the American Pop Music Hall of Fame.
In addition to entering the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in 1987 and the Nashville composer's Hall of Fame in 2005, Jerry's recognition in modern times is very rare until he was awarded the Hall of Fame inducted in 2016 did. In 2017, the famous country music h