Ernest Loring "Red" Nichols (May 8, 1905–June 28, 1965) a United States jaz… Read Full Bio ↴Ernest Loring "Red" Nichols (May 8, 1905–June 28, 1965) a United States jazz cornet player, became one of the busiest phonograph session musicians of his era, making hundreds of recording sessions of jazz and hot dance band music. In the 1920s alone he appeared on over 4,000 recordings, working with almost every important musician of his time. Though his style of playing was influenced by Bix Beiderbecke, Nichols, an excellent sight reader, was a considered a better, more polished musician.
Born in Utah, Nichols studied music under his father, a college music professor, and mastered a variety of instruments. After working in a number of pit orchestras, he joined a Midwestern band called The Syncopating Seven.
In 1923 Nichols moved to New York and soon teamed up with trombonist Miff Mole. Nichols most famously recorded under the name Red Nichols and His Five Pennies, but the same group of musicians also recorded under many different pseudonyms, including the Louisiana Rhythm Kings, the Charleston Seven, the Arkansas Travelers, Miff Mole and His Molers, the Hottentots, and the Red Heads. These sessions at first featured trombonist Miff Mole with Jimmy Dorsey on alto and clarinet, and later in the decade featured a virtual who's who of great white jazz musicians including Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Jack Teagarden, Pee Wee Russell, Joe Venuti, Eddie Lang, Adrian Rollini and Gene Krupa.
Nichols survived the Depression by working in Broadway shows, even leading the pit orchestra for two of George Gershwin's shows; "Girl Crazy" and "Strike Up the Band". In 1934 Red fronted a band for a radio show sponsored by Kellogg's Cereal and led many studio orchestras, including one for the Bob Hope Show.
Around 1940 Nichols took advantage of the swing craze and tried updating his sound. The orchestra soon floundered and Nichols sold the band in 1942.
Nichols briefly found work as a member of the Casa Loma Orchestra before retiring to Hollywood, where he led several small groups throughout the rest of the 1940s and into the 1950s. The highly-fictionalized 1959 film, The Five Pennies, starring Danny Kaye, prompted Nichols to put together a new Five Pennies. Nichols died suddenly from a heart attack while on tour in Las Vegas in 1965.
Born in Utah, Nichols studied music under his father, a college music professor, and mastered a variety of instruments. After working in a number of pit orchestras, he joined a Midwestern band called The Syncopating Seven.
In 1923 Nichols moved to New York and soon teamed up with trombonist Miff Mole. Nichols most famously recorded under the name Red Nichols and His Five Pennies, but the same group of musicians also recorded under many different pseudonyms, including the Louisiana Rhythm Kings, the Charleston Seven, the Arkansas Travelers, Miff Mole and His Molers, the Hottentots, and the Red Heads. These sessions at first featured trombonist Miff Mole with Jimmy Dorsey on alto and clarinet, and later in the decade featured a virtual who's who of great white jazz musicians including Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Jack Teagarden, Pee Wee Russell, Joe Venuti, Eddie Lang, Adrian Rollini and Gene Krupa.
Nichols survived the Depression by working in Broadway shows, even leading the pit orchestra for two of George Gershwin's shows; "Girl Crazy" and "Strike Up the Band". In 1934 Red fronted a band for a radio show sponsored by Kellogg's Cereal and led many studio orchestras, including one for the Bob Hope Show.
Around 1940 Nichols took advantage of the swing craze and tried updating his sound. The orchestra soon floundered and Nichols sold the band in 1942.
Nichols briefly found work as a member of the Casa Loma Orchestra before retiring to Hollywood, where he led several small groups throughout the rest of the 1940s and into the 1950s. The highly-fictionalized 1959 film, The Five Pennies, starring Danny Kaye, prompted Nichols to put together a new Five Pennies. Nichols died suddenly from a heart attack while on tour in Las Vegas in 1965.
I'll See You In My Dreams
Red Nichols Lyrics
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Amy & Adams I'm lost in my mind, caught up in a haze My…
Anita O'Day I'll see you in my dreams And I'll hold you in…
Bert Kaempfert And His Orchestra Tho' the days are long, Twilight sings a song, Of…
Billy Vaughn I'll see you in my dreams And I'll hold you in…
Boyd Raeburn & His Orchestra Tho' the days are long, Twilight sings a song, Of…
Brown Joe I'll see you in my dreams And then I'll hold you…
Bruce Springsteen The road is long and seeming without end The days go…
Bunny Berigan and His Orchestra Tho' the days are long, Twilight sings a song, Of…
Cam'ron feat. J.R. Writer You know I just never thought we'd be like this After everyt…
Charlie Major I won′t see you in the morning light I'll be sleeping…
Claude Thornhill & His Orchestra Tho' the days are long, Twilight sings a song, Of…
Cliff Richard Lonely days are long, Twilight sings this song Of the happin…
Cootie Williams and His Orchestra Tho' the days are long, Twilight sings a song, Of…
Dave Van Ronk I'll see you again tonight I'll hold you again tonight I'll…
Diana Krall I'll see you in my dreams Hold you in my dreams Someone…
Dick Haymes I'll see you again tonight I'll hold you again tonight I'll…
Doris Day Tho' the days are long, Twilight sings a song, Of…
Doris Day Norman Luboff The Norman Luboff Choir Tho' the days are long, Twilight sings a song, Of…
Doris Day Paul Weston and His Orchestra Tho' the days are long, Twilight sings a song, Of…
Ella Fitzgerald I'll see you in my dreams And then I'll hold you…
Ella Fitzgerald & Her V Disc Boys I'll see you in my dreams And then I'll hold you…
Ella Fitzgerald and Her V-disc Boys I'll see you in my dreams And then I'll hold you…
Erskine Hawkins And His Orchestra Tho' the days are long, Twilight sings a song, Of…
Fletcher Henderson I'll see you in my dreams And then I'll hold you…
Frank Bessinger Tho' the days are long, Twilight sings a song, Of…
Frankie Masters & His Orchestra Tho' the days are long, Twilight sings a song, Of…
Giant Gone, the voice that used to fill the room is…
Gus Arnheim and His Orchestra Tho' the days are long, Twilight sings a song, Of…
Ingrid Michaelson 1, 2, 3, 4 Though the days are long Twilight sings a…
Isham Jones Tho' the days are long, Twilight sings a song, Of…
Jeanette MacDonald I'll see you in my dreams And I'll hold you in…
Jerry Lee Lewis I'll see you in my dreams, Hold you in my dreams, Someone…
Jimmy Durante I'll see you in my dreams Hold you in my dreams Someone…
Joe Brown I'll see you in my dreams And then I'll hold you…
Johnnie Ray I'll see you in my dreams And I'll hold you in…
Johnny Mercer Tho' the days are long, Twilight sings a song, Of…
Julie London I'll see you in my dreams And then I'll hold you…
Ken Thorne and his Orchestra Tho' the days are long, Twilight sings a song, Of…
Lana Lane Gone, the voice that used to fill the room is…
Louis Armstrong I'll see you in my dreams And then I'll hold you…
Malcolm Lockyer And His Orchestra Tho' the days are long, Twilight sings a song, Of…
Mario Lanza I'll see you in my dreams And I'll hold you in…
Matt Berninger *instrumental* lonely days along twilight sings a song of th…
Max Jaffa and His Orchestra Tho' the days are long, Twilight sings a song, Of…
Moonspell I'll see you in my dreams, Hold you in my…
Moose I′ll see you in my dreams, Hold you in my dreams. Someone…
Mr. Swing I'll see you in my dreams Hold you in my dreams Someone…
Norman Luboff Tho' the days are long, Twilight sings a song, Of…
Pat Boone I'll see you in my dreams And I'll hold you in…
Paul Weston Tho' the days are long, Twilight sings a song, Of…
Ray Conniff I'll see you in my dreams Hold you in my dreams Someone…
Ray Miller And His Orchestra Tho' the days are long, Twilight sings a song, Of…
Sammy Kaye I'll see you in my dreams And I'll hold you in…
Sarah Vaughan Tho' the days are long, Twilight sings a song, Of…
Sera Selin Life sometimes sucks When you love someone too much I called…
Si Zentner & his Orchestra Tho' the days are long, Twilight sings a song, Of…
Stateline Sometimes you′ve got to chance that wave you see Otherwise y…
Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye I'll see you in my dreams Hold you in my dreams Someone…
The Lettermen I'll see you in my dreams And I'll hold you in…
The Ne'er-Do-Well I'll hold you in my heart till I can hold…
The Pied Pipers Tho' the days are long, Twilight sings a song, Of…
The Platters I'll see you in my dreams And I'll hold you in…
The Ramblers o.l.v. Theo Uden Masman Let's take this from the top Sit down and tell me…
The Ray Conniff Singers I'll see you in my dreams Hold you in my dreams Someone…
The Ray Miller Orchestra Tho' the days are long, Twilight sings a song, Of…
The Times Intro: Not so far from here There's a lively atmosphere…
The Van-Dells I'll see you again tonight I'll hold you again tonight I'll…
Thomas Dutronc Lonely days are long Twilight sings a song All the…
Tommy Dorsey (Verse 1) I'll see you in my dreams, dear, Just the way…
Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra Tho' the days are long, Twilight sings a song, Of…
Tommy Emmanuel & Jim Nichols Gone, the voice that used to fill the room is…
Vaughn Monroe I'll see you in my dreams And then I'll hold you…
We have lyrics for these tracks by Red Nichols:
After You Get What You Want You Don't Want It After you get what you want you don't want it. If…
After You've Gone Now won't you listen honey, while I say, How could…
After You'we Gone Now won't you listen honey, while I say, How could…
Battle Hymn of the Republic Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of…
Buggle Call Rag You're bound to fall for the bugle call; You're gonna brag…
Bugie Call Rag You're bound to fall for the bugle call; You're gonna brag…
Corrine Corrina Corrine Corrina, where you been so long? Corrine Corrina, wh…
Corrine Corrine Corrine Corrina, where you been so long? Corrine Corrina, w…
Dinah Carolina Gave me Dinah; I'm the proudest one Beneath the…
Embraceable You Dozens of girls would storm up; I had to lock my…
Farewell Blues Sadness just makes me sigh, I've come to say goodbye, Alth…
Five Foot Two Eyes Of Blue Five foot two, eyes of blue But oh, what those five…
Five pennies You dress me up, I'm your puppet You buy me…
Get Happy Pack up your troubles and just get happy Ya better…
Honey After You've Gone Now won't you listen honey, while I say, How could…
Hot Lips There's a boy that's in our band And how he blows…
How Come You Do Me Like You Do How come you do me like you do do do? How…
I I'm a very ordinary man Trying to work out life's happy…
I Can Gee, but it's tough to be broke, kid. It's not a…
I Can't Believe That You're Yesterday you came my way, And when you smiled at me, In…
I Can't Give You Anything But Love Gee, but it's tough to be broke, kid. It's not a…
I Got Rhythm I got rhythm; I got music; I got my man;…
I May Be Wrong I may be wrong but I think you're wonderful I may…
I May Be Wrong But I Think You I may be wrong but I think you're wonderful I may…
I Want to Be Happy I'm a very ordinary man Trying to work out life's happy…
I've Got a Crush on You I've got you under my skin. I've got you deep in…
It Had To Be You It had to be you, it had to be you. I…
It's Only a Paper Moon Say, it's only a paper moon Sailing over a cardboard sea But…
Ja-Da You've heard all about your raggy melody Everything from op…
Lullaby In Ragtime Won't you play the music so the cradle can rock To…
Margie Gee, but it's tough to be broke, kid. It's not a…
Nobody You're nobody, nobody's sweetheart now, There's no place fo…
Our Love I don't know what to say to you Tears are on…
Peg O My Heart Peg o'my heart I love you, don't let us part I love…
Peg O' My Heart Peg o'my heart I love you, don't let us part I love…
Peg Of My Heart Peg o'my heart I love you, don't let us part I love…
Riverboat Shuffle All you cotton toters, Mississippi floaters, Gather all ab…
Sheik Of Araby "I'm the Sheik of Araby, Your love belongs to me. At…
Stars Fell On Alabama Moonlight and magnolia, starlight in your hair All the world…
Strike Up the Band Let the drums roll out. Let the trumpet call. While the…
Sugar Walks Down The Street When my sugar walks down the street All the little birdies…
The Darktown Strutter You're bound to fall for the bugle call; You're gonna brag…
The Five Pennies You dress me up, I'm your puppet You buy me…
The Sheik Of Araby "I'm the Sheik of Araby, Your love belongs to me. At…
Tiger Rag Where's that tiger! Where's that tiger! Where's that tiger!…
Washboard Blues II Five foot two, eyes of blue But oh, what those five…
When My Sugar Walks Down the Street When my sugar walks down the street All the little birdies…
Whispering Don't worry I'm not looking at you Gorgeous and dressed in…
Who Who's Sorry Now? Who's Sorry Now? Who's heart is aching for …
Who's Sorry Now? Who's Sorry Now? Who's Sorry Now? Who's heart is aching fo…
Who? Who's Sorry Now? Who's Sorry Now? Who's heart is aching for …
You How come you do me like you do do do? How…
You Said It It had to be you, it had to be you. I…
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Steven Smith
What a reflective, haunting interpretation (until it becomes deliciously hot). I love Scrappy’e melancholy vocal. Thank you for sharing this.
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THIS MARVELOUS SONG IS THE EPITOME OF THE MUSIC THAT PLAYED AT ONE OF THE MOST GRACEFUL ERAS OF HUMAN HISTORY , OF CIGARETTE SMOKE , AND PEOPLE GLIDING TOGETHER ACROSS A DANCE FLOOR !
Martin Bryan
Fabulous! Why would anyone give this a thumbs down?
Peter Taylor
Scrappy, well done, beautiful voice. Arrangement typical of the time. Depression or not, I wish I'd been around then, somehow.
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THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SONG
Howard Carmichael
A wonderful song from the golden era of popular music.
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you've given SO MUCH tonight , but have to ask - could you put " DIANE " on , and the theme music to " SEVENTH HEAVEN " , and REALLY PLEASE " MY WONDERFUL ONE " ?!
Main Account
Super excellent
Trombonology Erstwhile
The ponderous concert arrangement form, popular in this period and seemingly intended to appeal to all tastes in the course of four to five seemingly interminable minutes, is not my favorite musical fashion of this era. Still, I'll express gratitude for Jimmy Dorsey's brief appearance near record's end.
Trombonology Erstwhile
@Peter Taylor I love this this period in pop music, know it extremely well, and am a big fan of Scrappy's vocals, but I just don't care for the overly dramatic concert arrangement style. To each his/her own.