~ Paper Doll
Views: 5363 |  |  |  |  | In 1915, Johnny Black wrote Paper Doll. It was made famous by the Mills Brothers in 1943 and also by Frank Sinatra. In my lunch time I recorded it myself. The song is slightly distorted (the price you have to pay for a $2 piezo!), but somehow it fits to t ...More he rocky parts of the song! |
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~ "Paper Doll" (Cover)
Views: 2369 |  |  |  |  | My take on a 1943 recording by the Mills Brothers. I went through a period of listening to a lot of big-band stuff, and developed a genuine appreciation for music from that era. I tried to emulate the way Norman Brown, the Mills Brothers' talented guitari ...More st, played this piece. Recorded on a Boss BR-600 using a guitar, a bass, and three vocal parts. All parts were played and sung by yours truly. It's in the key of F. Feel free to sing along. |
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~ Delta Rhythm Boys--Paper Doll
Views: 3889 |  |  |  |  | From The Movie Hi good Lookin 1944 The Delta Rhythm Boys sing "Paper Doll," the Johnny S. Black composition that became one of the biggest hits of the decade -- when done by the Mills Brothers, whose influence the Delta Rhythm Boys never quite got out fro ...More m under. The rhythm boys have a gig in a busy restaurant, sweet tenor lead, & nearly acapella but for Rene DeKnight's slowly percussive piano beat. Lee Gaines' bass lead supplants Carl Jones' tenor halfway through, concluding with full harmony. |
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~ Bill Forbes - Believe in me
Views: 8839 |  |  |  |  | Bill Forbes - Believe in me -- Bill Forbes was born on 17th of December 1938 in Colombo Sri Lanka he was educated at St Peters College Bambalapitiya in his younger days music and singing was his favourite and he took part college concerts and stage plays. ...More At the age of 12 he and Tony Peterson was in the finial of the amateur hour talent contest and sung The Mills Brothers popular song Paper Doll and won. He took part in college talent contest later he went on to win other national contest he performed in many of Donovan Andree musical shows at the Stadium and the nigh Clubs in Colombo In 1955 at the age of 17 he went to Britain doing menial clerical work by day and singing at night clubs at night During 1958 Bill lived out his dreams of being a famous singer by appearing regularly at the Bread Basket coffee bar in the Tottenham court road .It was while he was performing one night in September 1958 that two talent scouts representing Jack Good approached him and asked if he wanted to audition for the Oh Boy show. The series had just blasted onto the nations television screen a few weeks earlier and Bill was already a big fan of the show. He was one of 30 who were invited to perform before Jack Good, recalls Bill. I turned up for the audition which was held at the actual venue for the live show itself the Empire Theatre in Hackney and I was absolutely petrified, Jack Good personally picked just two to appear in his Oh Boy! series Emile Ford (What do you want to make those ... |
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~ Mills Brothers--Swing For Sale
Views: 4034 |  |  |  |  | Starting in 1925 in Ohio the Mills Brothers became a local sensation by recreating instruments with the voices, while usually limiting the accompaniment to a guitar. They were among the first performers to rely on a studio device (the microphone) for the ...More sound of their music. They relocated to New York in 1930, where they continued to "impersonate" jazz music. Their interpretations of Nick LaRocca's Tiger Rag (1931), Goodbye Blues (1932), Dinah (1932), with Bing Crosby, Elmer Schoebel's Bugle Call Rag (1932), Hoagy Carmichael's Lazy Bones (1934), Paper Doll (1943), that remained perhaps their signature song, Doris Fisher's You Always Hurt the One You Love (1944) and The Glow Worm (1952) were mellow sentimental ballads that redefined black music for the broader audience. They popularized the "barbershop harmonies", a sweet and romantic mutation of the jubilee quartets which would become the reference standard for all future vocal groups. |
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~ The Best Love Songs of the 40s
Views: 14744 |  |  |  |  | Full Songlist- 1940- I'll Never Smile Again (Frank Sinatra and the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra) A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square (Vera Lynn) Frenesi (Artie Shaw) Only Forever (Bing Crosby) 1941- I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire (The Ink Spots) Amapol ...More a (Jimmy Dorsey) Maria Elena (Jimmy Dorsey) 1942- Blues in the Night (Woody Herman) Night and Day (Frank Sinatra) 1943- You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To (Dinah Shore) Paper Doll (The Mills Brothers) I'm Making Believe (Ella Fitzgerald and the Ink Spots) 1944- Besame Mucho (Andy Russell) You Always Hurt The One You Love (The Mills Brothers) 1945- Sentimental Journey (Doris Day and the Les Brown Orchestra) It's Been a Long Long Time (Harry James and Helen Forrest) Lover Man (Billie Holiday) Til The End of Time (Perry Como) 1946- Prisoner of Love (Perry Como) I Love You For Sentimental Reasons (Nat King Cole) La Vie en Rose (Edith Piaf) The Anniversary Song (Al Jolson) 1947- Peg O' My Heart (Jerry Murad's Harmonicats) Near You (Francis Craig) Heartaches (Ted Weems Orchestra) 1948- Now Is The Hour (Bing Crosby) Nature Boy (Nat King Cole) 1949- Some Enchanted Evening (Perry Como) Again (Doris Day) You're Breaking My Heart (Vic Damone) |
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~ Harmonica - Paper Doll - Mills Brothers
Views: 6028 |  |  |  |  | ( visit www.12freemusic.com for more... ) Please comment on my videos. Paper Doll by The Mills Brothers played on chromatic harmonica. If you play the harmonica and have videos on YouTube then join the Harmonica Group www.youtube.com "Paper Doll" was a hi ...More t song for the Mills Brothers. In the United States it would be the number one hit from November 6, 1943 to January 22, 1944. The success of the song represented something of a revival after a few years of declining sales. It has been named as one of the Songs of the Century. The song appeared in the films The Execution of Private Slovik and The Majestic and in the British television miniseries The Singing Detective. The song was written in 1915 by Johnny S. Black, whose greatest success would come with his song Dardanella, which sold 5000000 copies in a recording by bandleader Ben Selvin in 1920, and a further 2000000 copies of sheet music. Black died in 1936, six years before his second greatest success, Paper Doll, swept the country. |
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~ Mills Brothers--How 'm I Doin',Hey-Hey
Views: 10187 |  |  |  |  | An astonishing vocal group that grew into one of the longest-lasting oldies acts in American popular music, the Mills Brothers quickly moved from novelty wonders to pop successes and continued amazing audiences for decades. Originally billed as "Four Boys ...More and a Guitar," the group's early records came complete with a note assuring listeners that the only musical instrument they were hearing was a guitar. The caution was understandable, since the Mills Brothers were so proficient at recreating trumpets, trombones, and saxophones with only their voices that early singles like "Tiger Rag" and "St. Louis Blues" sounded closer to a hot Dixieland combo than a vocal group. And even after the novelty wore off, the group's intricate harmonies continued charming audiences for decades. The four brothers were all born in Piqua, Ohio -- John, Jr. in 1910, Herbert in 1912, Harry in 1913, and Donald in 1915. Their father owned a barber shop and founded a barbershop quartet as well, called the Four Kings of Harmony. His sons obviously learned their close harmonies first-hand, and began performing around the area. At one show, Harry Mills forgot his kazoo -- the group's usual accompaniment -- and ended up trying to emulate the instrument by cupping his hand over his mouth. The brothers were surprised to hear the sound of a trumpet proceeding from Harry's mouth, so they began to work the novelty into their act, with John taking tuba, Donald trombone, and Herbert a second trumpet. The act ... |
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~ Louis Armstrong, Mills Bros - Carry me back to old Virginny
Views: 12460 |  |  |  |  | The Mills Brothers were a major African-American jazz and pop vocal quartet of the 20th century producing more than 2000 recordings that sold more than 50 million copies and garnered at least three dozen gold records. The Mills Brothers were inducted into ...More The Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 1998. Mills Brothers, Louis Armstrong - Carry me back to old virginny (1937) |
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