Burt Bacharach
Burt Freeman Bacharach (born May 12, 1928) is an American composer, songwriter, record producer, pianist, and singer who has composed hundreds of pop songs from the late 1950s through the 1980s, many in collaboration with lyricist Hal David.
A six-time Grammy Award winner and three-time Academy Award winner, Bacharach's songs have been recorded by more than 1,000 different artists.
, he had written 73 US and 52 UK Top 40 hits.
He is considered one of the most important composers of 20th-century popular music.
His music is characterized by unusual chord progressions, influenced by his background in jazz harmony, and uncommon selections of instruments for small orchestras.
Most of Bacharach's and David's hits were written specifically for and performed by Dionne Warwick, but earlier associations (from 1957 to 1963) saw the composing duo work with Marty Robbins, Perry Como, Gene McDaniels, and Jerry Butler.
Following the initial success of these collaborations, Bacharach went on to write hits for Gene Pitney, Cilla Black, Dusty Springfield, Jackie DeShannon, Bobbie Gentry, Tom Jones, Herb Alpert, B. J. Thomas, the Carpenters, among numerous other artists.
He arranged, conducted, and produced much of his recorded output.
Songs that he co-wrote which have topped the "Billboard" Hot 100 include "This Guy's in Love with You" (1968), "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" (1969), "(They Long to Be) Close to You" (1970), "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)" (1981), and
"That's What Friends Are For" (1986).
A significant figure in easy listening
, Bacharach is described by writer William Farina as "a composer whose venerable name can be linked with just about every other prominent musical artist of his era.
" In later years, his songs were newly appropriated for the soundtracks of major feature films, by which time "tributes, compilations, and revivals were to be found everywhere".
He has been noted for his influence on later musical movements such as chamber pop and Shibuya-kei.
In 2015, "Rolling Stone" ranked Bacharach and David at number 32 for their list of the 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time.
In 2012, the duo received the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, the first time the honor has been given to a songwriting team.
Alexander Courage
Alexander Mair" Sandy" Courage Jr.( December 10, 1919
May 15, 2008) was an American orchestrator, arranger, and composer of music, primarily for television and film.
He is best known as the composer of the theme music for the original" Star Trek" series.
Alonso Mudarra
Alonso Mudarra( c. 1510 – April 1, 1580) was a Spanish composer of the Renaissance, and also played the vihuela, a guitar- shaped string instrument.
He was an innovative composer of instrumental music as well as songs, and was the composer of the earliest surviving music for the guitar.
Little Red River
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My Little Red Book
"My Little Red Book" is a song composed by Burt Bacharach with lyrics by Hal David.
In the wake of the British Invasion, Bacharach, a former bandleader for Marlene Dietrich, began working hands-on with beat groups of the era such as Manfred Mann.
Manfred Mann recorded the song for the 1965 film
"What's New Pussycat?", filmed between October 1964 and June 1965; the entire catalogue of music for the film was written by Bacharach and David.
In 1966, the song became a rock standard when remade by the Los Angeles based group Love, where it reached No. 52 in the US national charts.
Walter Robinson (composer)
Walter Robinson is an African American composer of the late 20th century.
He is most notable for his 1977 song" Harriet Tubman", which has been recorded by folk musicians such as Holly Near, John McCutcheon, and others.
He is also the composer of several operas.
In a Little Red Barn (On a Farm Down in Indiana)
" In a Little Red Barn( on a Farm down in Indiana)" was a popular song written by Joe Young, Jean Schwartz, and Milton Ager in 1934.
It used the same harmonic structure as the 1917" Back Home Again in Indiana"( also called just" Indiana").
Both" In a Little Red Barn" and" Indiana" borrowed many of the same words and phrases used in the 1913" On the Banks of the Wabash".
" In a Little Red Barn" was widely popular on the radio in the 1930s and was used in many films from the 1930s to the 1950s.
The" Little Red Barn" was also the theme song for the morning radio show on WOWO in Fort Wayne, Indiana, hosted by Bob Sievers.
" Nancy Lee and the Hilltoppers" performed the song; Nancy Lee was the wife of Sam DeVincent, music librarian for WOWO.
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The song is familiar to younger audiences primarily though its inclusion in the 1953 animated short" Robot Rabbit", in which it is sung by Elmer Fudd and Bugs Bunny.
Little Red Rooster
" Little Red Rooster"( or" The Red Rooster" as it was first titled) is a blues standard credited to arranger and songwriter Willie Dixon.
The song was first recorded in 1961 by American blues musician Howlin' Wolf in the Chicago blues style.
His vocal and slide guitar playing are key elements of the song.
It is rooted in the Delta blues tradition and the theme is derived from folklore.
Musical antecedents to" Little Red Rooster" appear in earlier songs by blues artists Charlie Patton and Memphis Minnie.
A variety of musicians have interpreted and recorded" Little Red Rooster".
Some add new words and instrumentation to mimic the sounds of animals mentioned in the lyrics.
American soul music singer Sam Cooke adapted the song using a more uptempo approach and it became a successful single on both the US rhythm and blues and pop record charts in 1963.
Concurrently, Dixon and Howlin' Wolf toured the UK with the American Folk Blues Festival and helped popularize Chicago blues with local rock musicians overseas.
The Rolling Stones were among the first British rock groups to record modern electric blues songs.
In 1964, they recorded" Little Red Rooster" with original member Brian Jones, a key player in the recording.
Their rendition, which remains closer to the original arrangement than Cooke's, became a number one record in the UK and continues to be the only blues song to reach the top of the British chart.
The Stones frequently performed it on television and in concert and released several live recordings of the song.
" Little Red Rooster" continues to be performed and recorded, making it one of Willie Dixon's best- known compositions.
Red Book
Red Book, Redbooks, Little Red Book or Big Red Book may refer to:
Little Red
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Question: Which country the composer of song My Little Red Book is from?
Answer: American