Les Paul (born June 9, 1915 - August 13, 2009) was best known as a skilled … Read Full Bio ↴Les Paul (born June 9, 1915 - August 13, 2009) was best known as a skilled guitarist, and as one of the most important figures in the development of modern electric instruments and recording techniques. He was a pioneer in the development of the solid-body electric guitar (the Gibson Les Paul, which he helped design, is one of the most famous and enduring models), multitrack recording, and various reverb and echo effects.
Biography
Paul, born Lester William Polsfuss (the last name simplified later by his mother to Polfus) in Waukesha, Wisconsin, first became interested in music at the age of eight, when he began playing the harmonica. After an attempt at learning to play the banjo, Paul began to play the guitar. By 13, Paul was performing semi-professionally as a country-music guitarist. At the age of 17, Paul played with Rube Tronson's Cowboys. Soon after, he dropped out of high school to join Wolverton's Radio Band in St. Louis, Missouri on KMOX.
In the 1930s, Paul worked in Chicago, Illinois in radio, where he performed jazz music. Paul's first two records were released in 1936. One album was credited to Rhubarb Red, Paul's hillbilly alter ego, and the other was in the backing band for blues artist Georgia White.
Les Paul's 'The Log', one of the first solidbody electric guitars.Paul was unsatisfied by the electric guitars that were sold in the mid 1930s and began experimenting with a few designs of his own. Famously, he created The Log which was nothing more than a length of common "4 by 4" fence post with bridge, guitar neck, and pickup attached. For appearances he attached the body of an Epiphone jazz guitar, sawn lengthwise with The Log in the middle. This solved his two main problems - feedback, as the acoustic body no longer resonated with the amplified sound, and sustain, as the energy of the strings was not dissipated in generating sound through the guitar body.
In 1938, Paul moved to New York and landed a featured spot with Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians radio show. Paul moved to Hollywood in 1943, where he formed a new trio. As a last-minute replacement for Oscar Moore, Paul played with Nat King Cole and other artists in the inaugural Jazz at the Philharmonic concert in Los Angeles on July 2, 1944. Also that year, Paul's trio appeared on Bing Crosby's radio show. Crosby went on to sponsor Paul's recording experiments. The two also recorded together several times, including a 1945 number one hit, "It's Been a Long, Long Time." In addition to backing Crosby and artists like the Andrews Sisters, Paul's trio also recorded a few albums of their own in the late 1940s.
In 1941, Paul designed and built one of the first solid-body electric guitars (though Leo Fender also independently invented his own solid-body electric guitar around the same time, and Adolph Rickenbacker had marketed a solid-body guitar in the 30s). Gibson Guitar Corporation designed a guitar incorporating Paul's suggestions in the early fifties, and presented it to him to try. He was impressed enough to sign a contract for what became the "Les Paul" model (originally only in a "gold top" version), and agreed never to be seen playing in public, or photographed with, anything other than a Gibson guitar. That persisted until 1961, when Gibson changed the design without Paul's knowledge. He said he first saw the "new" Gibson Les Paul in a music store window, and disliked it. Though contract required him to pose with the guitar, he said it was not "his" instrument, and asked Gibson to remove his name from the headstock. Gibson renamed the guitar the " SG", and it also became one of the company's best sellers. Later, Paul resumed his relationship with Gibson, and endorses the instrument even today (though his personal Gibson Les Pauls are much modified by him - Paul always uses his own self-wound pickups on his guitars). To this day, the Gibson Les Paul guitar is used all over the world, both by novice and professional guitarists.
In 1947, Capitol Records released a recording that had begun as an experiment in Paul's garage, entitled "Lover (When You're Near Me)", which featured Paul playing eight different parts on electric guitar, some of them recorded at half-speed, hence "double-fast" when played back at normal speed for the master. This was the first time that multi-tracking had been used in a recording. Amazingly, these recordings were made, not with magnetic tape, but with wax disks. Paul would record a track onto a disk, then record himself playing another part with the first. He built the multi-track recording with overlaid tracks, rather than parallel ones as he did later. There is no record of how few 'takes' were needed before he was satisfied with one layer and moved onto the next.
Paul even built his own wax-cutter assembly, based on auto parts. He favored the flywheel from a Cadillac for its weight and flatness. Even in these early days, he used the wax disk setup to record parts at different speeds and with delay, resulting in his signature sound with echoes and birdsong-like guitar riffs. When he later began using magnetic tape, the major change was that he could take his recording rig on tour with him, even making episodes for his 15-minute radio show in his hotel room.
Paul was injured in a near-fatal automobile accident in January 1948 in Oklahoma, which shattered his right arm and elbow. Paul spent a year and a half recovering. Paul instructed the surgeons to set his arm at an angle that would allow him to cradle and pick the guitar.
In the early 1950s, Paul made a number of revolutionary recordings with wife, Mary Ford. These records were unique for their heavy use of overdubbing, which was technically impossible before Paul's invention of multitrack recording. Paul's multitracking system was made possible by the introduction of reel-to-reel audio tape recording, developed by Jack Mullin and the Ampex company in the late 1940s, with the backing of radio, film and recording star Bing Crosby.
Crosby gave Les Paul what was only the second of the now-famous Ampex Model 200 recorder, which was the world's first commercially-produced reel-to-reel tape recorder. Using this machine, Paul developed his tape multitrack system by adding an additional recording head and extra circuitry, allowing multiple tracks to be recorded separately and asynchronously on the same tape. Paul's invention was quickly developed by Ampex into commercially-produced two-track and three-track recorders, and these machines were the backbone of the professional recording studio, radio and TV industry in the 1950s and early 1960s.
In 1954 Paul, continued to develop this technology, by commissioning Ampex to build the first eight track tape recorder, at his expense. His idea, later known as "Sel-Sync," in which a specially-modified recording head could simultaneously record a new track and play back previously recorded ones, was the core technology for multi-track recording for the next thirty years.
During his early radio shows, Paul introduced the mythical "Les Paulverizer" device, which was supposed to multiply anything fed into it, like a guitar sound or a voice. This even became the subject of comedy, with Mary Ford multiplying herself and her vacuum cleaner with it so she could finish the housework faster (a typical joke in the pre-feminist era). Later Paul made the myth real for his stage show, using hidden equipment which over the years has become smaller and more visible. Currently he uses a small box attached to his guitar - it is not known how much of the device remains off-stage. He typically lays down one track after another on stage, in-sync, and then plays over the repeating forms he has recorded. With newer digital sound technology, such an effect is available commercially.
In the late 1960s, Paul went into semi-retirement, although he did return to the studio occasionally. He recorded an album Lester and Chester with Chet Atkins. He and Mary Ford (born Iris Colleen Summers) divorced amicably in December 1964, as she could no longer tolerate the itinerant lifestyle their act required of them.
In 1978, Les Paul and Mary Ford were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. He received a Grammy Trustees Award for his lifetime achievements in 1983. In 1988, Paul was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by Jeff Beck, who said, "I've copied more licks from Les Paul than I'd like to admit." Les Paul was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in May 2005 for his development of the solid-body electric guitar.
As of 2006, At the age of 90, Les Paul won two Grammys at the 48th Annual Grammy Awards for his album Les Paul & Friends: American Made World Played. He also performs weekly at the Iridium Jazz Club on Broadway in New York City, despite the arthritis that has stilled all but two of the fingers on his left hand.
Source: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Paul
Biography
Paul, born Lester William Polsfuss (the last name simplified later by his mother to Polfus) in Waukesha, Wisconsin, first became interested in music at the age of eight, when he began playing the harmonica. After an attempt at learning to play the banjo, Paul began to play the guitar. By 13, Paul was performing semi-professionally as a country-music guitarist. At the age of 17, Paul played with Rube Tronson's Cowboys. Soon after, he dropped out of high school to join Wolverton's Radio Band in St. Louis, Missouri on KMOX.
In the 1930s, Paul worked in Chicago, Illinois in radio, where he performed jazz music. Paul's first two records were released in 1936. One album was credited to Rhubarb Red, Paul's hillbilly alter ego, and the other was in the backing band for blues artist Georgia White.
Les Paul's 'The Log', one of the first solidbody electric guitars.Paul was unsatisfied by the electric guitars that were sold in the mid 1930s and began experimenting with a few designs of his own. Famously, he created The Log which was nothing more than a length of common "4 by 4" fence post with bridge, guitar neck, and pickup attached. For appearances he attached the body of an Epiphone jazz guitar, sawn lengthwise with The Log in the middle. This solved his two main problems - feedback, as the acoustic body no longer resonated with the amplified sound, and sustain, as the energy of the strings was not dissipated in generating sound through the guitar body.
In 1938, Paul moved to New York and landed a featured spot with Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians radio show. Paul moved to Hollywood in 1943, where he formed a new trio. As a last-minute replacement for Oscar Moore, Paul played with Nat King Cole and other artists in the inaugural Jazz at the Philharmonic concert in Los Angeles on July 2, 1944. Also that year, Paul's trio appeared on Bing Crosby's radio show. Crosby went on to sponsor Paul's recording experiments. The two also recorded together several times, including a 1945 number one hit, "It's Been a Long, Long Time." In addition to backing Crosby and artists like the Andrews Sisters, Paul's trio also recorded a few albums of their own in the late 1940s.
In 1941, Paul designed and built one of the first solid-body electric guitars (though Leo Fender also independently invented his own solid-body electric guitar around the same time, and Adolph Rickenbacker had marketed a solid-body guitar in the 30s). Gibson Guitar Corporation designed a guitar incorporating Paul's suggestions in the early fifties, and presented it to him to try. He was impressed enough to sign a contract for what became the "Les Paul" model (originally only in a "gold top" version), and agreed never to be seen playing in public, or photographed with, anything other than a Gibson guitar. That persisted until 1961, when Gibson changed the design without Paul's knowledge. He said he first saw the "new" Gibson Les Paul in a music store window, and disliked it. Though contract required him to pose with the guitar, he said it was not "his" instrument, and asked Gibson to remove his name from the headstock. Gibson renamed the guitar the " SG", and it also became one of the company's best sellers. Later, Paul resumed his relationship with Gibson, and endorses the instrument even today (though his personal Gibson Les Pauls are much modified by him - Paul always uses his own self-wound pickups on his guitars). To this day, the Gibson Les Paul guitar is used all over the world, both by novice and professional guitarists.
In 1947, Capitol Records released a recording that had begun as an experiment in Paul's garage, entitled "Lover (When You're Near Me)", which featured Paul playing eight different parts on electric guitar, some of them recorded at half-speed, hence "double-fast" when played back at normal speed for the master. This was the first time that multi-tracking had been used in a recording. Amazingly, these recordings were made, not with magnetic tape, but with wax disks. Paul would record a track onto a disk, then record himself playing another part with the first. He built the multi-track recording with overlaid tracks, rather than parallel ones as he did later. There is no record of how few 'takes' were needed before he was satisfied with one layer and moved onto the next.
Paul even built his own wax-cutter assembly, based on auto parts. He favored the flywheel from a Cadillac for its weight and flatness. Even in these early days, he used the wax disk setup to record parts at different speeds and with delay, resulting in his signature sound with echoes and birdsong-like guitar riffs. When he later began using magnetic tape, the major change was that he could take his recording rig on tour with him, even making episodes for his 15-minute radio show in his hotel room.
Paul was injured in a near-fatal automobile accident in January 1948 in Oklahoma, which shattered his right arm and elbow. Paul spent a year and a half recovering. Paul instructed the surgeons to set his arm at an angle that would allow him to cradle and pick the guitar.
In the early 1950s, Paul made a number of revolutionary recordings with wife, Mary Ford. These records were unique for their heavy use of overdubbing, which was technically impossible before Paul's invention of multitrack recording. Paul's multitracking system was made possible by the introduction of reel-to-reel audio tape recording, developed by Jack Mullin and the Ampex company in the late 1940s, with the backing of radio, film and recording star Bing Crosby.
Crosby gave Les Paul what was only the second of the now-famous Ampex Model 200 recorder, which was the world's first commercially-produced reel-to-reel tape recorder. Using this machine, Paul developed his tape multitrack system by adding an additional recording head and extra circuitry, allowing multiple tracks to be recorded separately and asynchronously on the same tape. Paul's invention was quickly developed by Ampex into commercially-produced two-track and three-track recorders, and these machines were the backbone of the professional recording studio, radio and TV industry in the 1950s and early 1960s.
In 1954 Paul, continued to develop this technology, by commissioning Ampex to build the first eight track tape recorder, at his expense. His idea, later known as "Sel-Sync," in which a specially-modified recording head could simultaneously record a new track and play back previously recorded ones, was the core technology for multi-track recording for the next thirty years.
During his early radio shows, Paul introduced the mythical "Les Paulverizer" device, which was supposed to multiply anything fed into it, like a guitar sound or a voice. This even became the subject of comedy, with Mary Ford multiplying herself and her vacuum cleaner with it so she could finish the housework faster (a typical joke in the pre-feminist era). Later Paul made the myth real for his stage show, using hidden equipment which over the years has become smaller and more visible. Currently he uses a small box attached to his guitar - it is not known how much of the device remains off-stage. He typically lays down one track after another on stage, in-sync, and then plays over the repeating forms he has recorded. With newer digital sound technology, such an effect is available commercially.
In the late 1960s, Paul went into semi-retirement, although he did return to the studio occasionally. He recorded an album Lester and Chester with Chet Atkins. He and Mary Ford (born Iris Colleen Summers) divorced amicably in December 1964, as she could no longer tolerate the itinerant lifestyle their act required of them.
In 1978, Les Paul and Mary Ford were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. He received a Grammy Trustees Award for his lifetime achievements in 1983. In 1988, Paul was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by Jeff Beck, who said, "I've copied more licks from Les Paul than I'd like to admit." Les Paul was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in May 2005 for his development of the solid-body electric guitar.
As of 2006, At the age of 90, Les Paul won two Grammys at the 48th Annual Grammy Awards for his album Les Paul & Friends: American Made World Played. He also performs weekly at the Iridium Jazz Club on Broadway in New York City, despite the arthritis that has stilled all but two of the fingers on his left hand.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Paul
Sentimental Journey
Les Paul Lyrics
We have lyrics for 'Sentimental Journey' by these artists:
Acker Bilk I'm gonna take a Sentimental Journey, Gonna set my heart…
Al Nevins and His Orchestra Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease …
Barry Manilow Gonna take a sentimental journey, gonna set my heart at eas…
Bert Kaempfert And His Orchestra Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease …
BILK MR. ACKER I'm gonna take a Sentimental Journey, Gonna set my heart…
Billy Vaughn Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease …
Billy Vaughn & his Orchestra Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease…
Billy Vaughn and His Orchestra Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease …
Brown Green Homer Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease…
Carl Stevens and His Orchestra Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease…
Carroll Gibbons And His Orchestra Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease …
Conway Twitty Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease…
Dinah Shore Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease …
Eddie Heywood and His Orchestra Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease…
Eddy Heywood & His Orchestra Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease …
Ella Fitzgerald Eddie Heywood Orchestra Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease…
Ella Fitzgerald Teddy Wilson & Tommy Dorsey Oh, the shark, babe, has such teeth, dear And it shows…
Emmy Rossum Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease …
Enoch Light and the Light Brigade Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease…
Ernie Fields & His Orchestra Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease …
Eydie Gorme and Steve Lawrence Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease…
Ferlin Husky I'm gonna take a sentimental journey I'm gonna set my…
Frank Chacksfield & His Orchestra Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease …
Frank Sinatra Writer(s): Brown/Homer/Green Gonna take a sentimental jour…
Frank Sinatra & Doris Day Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease …
Green/ Brown/ Homer Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease…
Hal McIntyre Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease …
Hal McIntyre & His Orchestra Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease…
Hal Mcintyre And His Orchestra Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease …
Hank Snow Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease…
Harpers Bizarre Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my mind at ease G…
Harry James & Doris Day Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease …
Kay Starr Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease…
Keely Smith Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease …
Kenyon Hopkins and His Orchestra Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease…
Leo Addeo & His Orchestra Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease …
Leo Addeo And His Orchestra Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease…
Les & Larry Elgart Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease …
Les and Larry Elgart Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease…
Les Brown Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease …
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Les Brown and His Orchestra Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease …
Les Brown v/Doris Day Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease…
Les Brown w/Doris Day Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease …
Les Brown/Ames Brothers Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease…
LIVING ROOM - Ella Fitzgerald Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease …
London Julie Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease…
Lou Rawls Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease …
Louis Prima & Keely Smith feat. Sam Butera & The Witnesses Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease…
Louis Prima / Keely Smith / Sam Butera Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease …
Louis Prima and Keely Smith with Sam Butera and The Witnesses Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease…
Louis Prima Keely Smith & Sam Butera & The Witnesses Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease …
McKay Nellie Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease…
Michael Maxwell & His Orchestra/Steve Band Wingfield Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease …
Michael Maxwell and His Orchestra and The Steve Wingfield Band Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease…
Mina Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease …
Mr. Acker Bilk I'm gonna take a Sentimental Journey, Gonna set my heart…
Muggsy Spanier & His Orchestra Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease …
Olstead Renee I'm gonna take a Sentimental Journey, Gonna set my heart at…
PEGGY LEE & BENNY GOODMAN & TOMMY DORSEY ORCHESTRA Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease …
Pere Ubu Window My size Outside Monoxide Inside Paradise Curtain No b…
Ray Anthony & His Orchestra Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease …
Renee Olstead I'm gonna take a Sentimental Journey, Gonna set my heart at…
Reneй Olstead I'm gonna take a Sentimental Journey, Gonna set my heart at…
Ringo Starr Gonna take a sentimental journey, Gonna set my heart at ease…
Rita Coolidge Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease …
Rosemary Clooney Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease…
russ morgan and his orchestra Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease …
Ruth Brown Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease…
Ruth Brown & The Delta Rhythm Boys Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease …
Sammy Kaye Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease…
Sammy Kaye & His Orchestra Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease …
Sarah Harmer Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at…
Sarah Harmer Jason Euringer Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at…
Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her (jesus christ Never mind I don't care ? Come with a doub…
Starr Ringo Gonna take a sentimental journey, Gonna set my heart at eas…
Steve & Eydie Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease…
Steve Lawrence Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease …
Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease…
Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease …
Steve Lawrence / Eydie Gorme Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease…
Steve Lawrence Eydie Gorme Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease …
The Ames Brothers Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease…
The Ames Brothers Les Brown Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease …
The Chordettes Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease…
The Delphin jr. orchestra Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease …
The Four Lads Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease…
The Lennon Sisters Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease …
Tommy Dorsey Oh, the shark, babe, has such teeth, dear And it shows…
Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease …
Werner Müller and His Orchestra Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease…
Willie Nelson Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at…
Xavier Cugat & His Orchestra Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease …
YUKI Osorenaide kanjiyou Muda na mono wa sutete ikou Terenagara y…
潘迪华 Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna to set my heart at…
Ella Fitzgerald Gonna take a sentimental journey Gonna set my heart at ease…
We have lyrics for these tracks by Les Paul:
A Cottage for Sale Our little dream castle with every dream gone, Is lonely and…
Ain't Misbehavin' No one to talk with All by myself No one to walk…
Amukiriki Amurkriki, amukiriki, amukiriki The Lord willing I'll be wit…
And I I'm in the mood for love Simply because you're near me. Funn…
Baby Everybody look at me, Happy girlie, you will see, I've…
Begin The Beguine When they begin the beguine It brings back the sound of…
Bewitched She's a fool and don't I know it But a fool…
Blue Hawaii Night and you and Blue Hawaii The night is heavenly…
Blue Skies Blue skies smiling at me Nothing but blue skies do I…
Body and Soul My heart is sad and lonely For you I sigh, for…
Bouquet of Roses I'm sending you a big bouquet of roses One for every…
Brazil Brazil, where hearts were entertaining June, We stood bene…
Bugle Call Rag You're bound to fall for the bugle call; You're gonna brag…
By the Light of the Silvery Moon Place park, scene dark, silvery moon is shining through the…
Bye Bye Blues I got a big surprise when I saw you smile I…
Caravan Night and stars above that shine so bright The myst'ry…
Cottage for Sale Our little dream castle with every dream gone, Is lonely an…
Deed I Do Do I want you? Oh my do I Honey, indeed…
Deep In The Blues You stole my heart Like a thief in the night I heard…
Don How many arms have held you And hated to let you…
East of the Sun East of the sun and west of the moon We'll build…
Embraceable You Embrace me, my sweet embraceable you! Embrace me, you irrepl…
End of the world Covid-19 - The End of The World? A poison fog's covering…
Falling In Love With Love Falling in love with love is falling for make-believe Fallin…
Fine And Dandy Please forgive this platitude But I like your attitude You…
Fire The green valleys lakes and harbours On this is the land…
Fly Like An Eagle Time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin' Into the future…
Flyin' Too High You leave me alone, you don't even phone You're carefree as…
Golden Earrings There's a story the gypsies know is true That when your…
Goofus I was born on a farm out in Ioway A flaming…
Honeysuckle Rose Honey, honey, Oh, honey, listen to my plea: Every honeybe…
How Deep Is The Ocean How much do I love you? I'll tell you no lie How…
How High Is The Moon Somewhere there's music How faint the tune Somewhere there's…
Hummingbird Hummingbird, hummingbird should be your name Too restless to…
I I'm in the mood for love Simply because you're near me. Funn…
I Can I've flown around the world in a plane I've settled…
I Can't Believe That You're in Love With Me Yesterday you came my way, And when you smiled at me, In…
I Can't Get Started I've flown around the world in a plane I've settled…
I Can't Give You Anything But Love Gee, but it's tough to be broke, kid. It's not a…
I Don How many arms have held you And hated to let you…
I Found a New Baby Everybody look at me, Happy girlie, you will see, I've…
I Love You I'm in the mood for love Simply because you're near me. Funn…
I Love You More Than You If I ever leave you You can say I told you…
I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know If I ever leave you You can say I told you…
I Never Knew I Knew You Once I knew you once I knew you once,…
I Never New Everybody look at me, Happy girlie, you will see, I've…
I really Don How many arms have held you And hated to let you…
I Really Don't Want to Know How many arms have held you And hated to let you…
I Surrender Dear Pride, sad, splendid liar, Sworn enemy of love Kept my…
I Wanna Know You If I ever leave you You can say I told you…
I' m A Fool To Care I'm a fool to care When you treat me this way I…
I'm a Fool to Care I'm a fool to care when you treat me this…
I'M Confessin I'm confessin' that I love you, Tell me, do you love…
I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles I'm dreaming dreams, I'm scheming schemes I'm building castl…
I'm in the Mood for Love I'm in the mood for love Simply because you're near me. Funn…
I'm Movin' On That big eight-wheeler rollin' down the track Means your tru…
I'm Sittin' On Top Of The World I'm sitting on top of the world Just rolling along, Just…
I'm Still In Love With You Yesterday you came my way, And when you smiled at me, In…
I've Found a New Baby Everybody look at me, Happy girlie, you will see, I've…
If I Had You I could show the world how to smile I could be…
If I Love Again I often wonder why he came to me Brought such a…
Im Confessin I'm confessin' that I love you, Tell me, do you love…
In the Good Old Summertime There's a time each year That we always hold dear Good old…
In The Mood I'm in the mood for love Simply because you're near me. Funn…
Indeed I Do Do I want you? Oh my do I Honey, indeed…
It Say, it's only a paper moon Sailing over a cardboard sea But…
It Had to Be You It had to be you, it had to be you. I…
It's A Pity To Say Goodnight What a shame the night is ending, cross my heart…
It's Been A Long Long Time Kiss me once, then kiss me twice Then kiss me once…
It's Been a Long, Long Time Kiss me once, then kiss me twice, then kiss me…
It's Only a Paper Moon Say, it's only a paper moon Sailing over a cardboard sea But…
It's the Talk of the Town We were more than lovers, We were more than sweethearts, It'…
Jingle Bells Dashing through the snow On a one-horse open sleigh, Over th…
Josephine There never was a gal I could love, like I…
Just One More Chance Just one more chance To prove it's you alone I care…
Just One of those Things It was just one of those things Just one of those…
Lady of Spain Lady of Spain I adore you Right from the night…
Lazy River (Sid Arodin & Hoagy Carmichae) Up a lazy river by the…
Let Let's fall in love Why shouldn't we fall in love? Our hearts…
Let's Fall In Love Let's fall in love Why shouldn't we fall in love? Our hear…
Limehouse Blues And those weird China blues Never go away Sad, mad blues …
Lonesome Road Look down, look down that lonesome road Before you travel on…
Love Sneakin Rainy night I'm all alone Sitting here waiting for your…
Lover (Sigmund Romberg / Frank Mandel / Laurence Schwab / Oscar…
Lover - Instrumental;1990 Digital Remaster You went away I let you We broke the ties that bind I…
Mockin When the sun in the mornin' peeps over the hill And…
Mockin Bird Hill Tra-la-la, tweedlee dee dee it gives me a thrill To wake…
Mockin' Bird Hill When the sun in the mornin' peeps over the hill And…
Mockingbird Hill When the sun in the mornin' peeps over the hill And…
Moonglow It must have been moonglow, way up in the blue It…
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Clayton W. Munsey
Great work Nicki!
"Sentimental Journey" is a popular song, published in 1944. The music was written by Les Brown and Ben Homer, and the lyrics were written by Bud Green.
History
Les Brown and His Band of Renown had been performing the song, but were unable to record it because of the 1942–44 musicians' strike. When the strike ended, the band, with Doris Day as vocalist, had a hit record with the song, Day's first #1 hit, in 1945. The song's release coincided with the end of WWII in Europe and became the unofficial homecoming theme for many veterans. The recording was released by Columbia Records as catalog number 36769, with the flip side "Twilight Time". The record first reached the Billboard charts on March 29, 1945 and lasted 23 weeks on the chart, peaking at #1. The song actually reached the charts after the later-recorded "My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time".
About this same time, the Merry Macs had a recording following Brown and Day which featured a bouncy arrangement where the group modulates (or augments) the verse eight times in the last half of the song. A vocal feat for any group attempting to record a song in one take without the benefit of tape editing in that era of modern recording.
The song later became something of a standard with jazz artists and was recorded by, among others, Buck Clayton with Woody Herman and by Ben Sidran. Frank Sinatra recorded his version of the song in 1961. Rosemary Clooney issued an album Sentimental Journey (2001) which included the song. Harry James recorded a version in 1965 on his album New Versions Of Down Beat Favorites (MGM E-4265).
Lyrics
The song describes someone about to take a train to a place they have a great emotional attachment for. It describes their mounting anticipation and they wonder why they ever roamed away.
Its memorable opening verse is:
Gonna take a sentimental journey
Gonna set my heart at ease
Gonna make a sentimental journey
To renew old memories.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentimental_Journey_(song)