For the 19th year in a row, Ryan Seacrest will head the festivities at Times Square as he rings in the New Year on Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Even with Ryan Seacrest. He leads a star-studded lineup of music, entertainment, comedy, and film performers who welcome in 2024 with a bang. From the West to East Coasts, South Korea, and Puerto Rico, here’s who will rock in the new year on the ABC annual special.
Who will host ‘Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest?’
Ryan Seacrest will lead the traditional countdown to midnight alongside global superstar Rita Ora. Together, they will host live from New York City’s Times Square, welcoming superstar entertainers and counting the last moments of 2023.
Seacrest began hosting the series alongside entertainment magnate Dick Clark in 2005. Seacrest hosted with Clark until Clark died in 2012.
The show has been...
Who will host ‘Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest?’
Ryan Seacrest will lead the traditional countdown to midnight alongside global superstar Rita Ora. Together, they will host live from New York City’s Times Square, welcoming superstar entertainers and counting the last moments of 2023.
Seacrest began hosting the series alongside entertainment magnate Dick Clark in 2005. Seacrest hosted with Clark until Clark died in 2012.
The show has been...
- 12/29/2023
- by Lucille Barilla
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Jimmie Allen and Elle King are going to be ringing in the new year with some of country music’s biggest stars on CBS‘ New Year’s Eve Live: Nashville’s Big Bash next month. Entertainment Tonight‘s Rachel Smith is also returning to host alongside the country singers.
Airing from downtown Nashville on Dec. 31, the five-hour broadcast will cross multiple time zones, with the traditional countdown at midnight Et, culminating with the renowned Nashville music note drop and fireworks at midnight Ct.
The special will include music performances from stars including Brooks & Dunn, Kelsea Ballerini, Little Big Town, Zac Brown Band and more. Additional performers will be announced at a later date.
CBS returned to live New Year’s Eve programming last year with Nashville’s Big Bash. Smith hosted in 2021 with Bobby Bones, and the special included performances from Dierks Bentley, Zac Brown Band, Sam Hunt, and Fisk Jubilee Singers.
Airing from downtown Nashville on Dec. 31, the five-hour broadcast will cross multiple time zones, with the traditional countdown at midnight Et, culminating with the renowned Nashville music note drop and fireworks at midnight Ct.
The special will include music performances from stars including Brooks & Dunn, Kelsea Ballerini, Little Big Town, Zac Brown Band and more. Additional performers will be announced at a later date.
CBS returned to live New Year’s Eve programming last year with Nashville’s Big Bash. Smith hosted in 2021 with Bobby Bones, and the special included performances from Dierks Bentley, Zac Brown Band, Sam Hunt, and Fisk Jubilee Singers.
- 11/16/2022
- by Katie Campione
- Deadline Film + TV
“Enjoy yourselves,” said the ancient Romans (and the great early 20th century singer Guy Lombardo), “it’s later than you think.” Those words are a frequent refrain in the latest film from director Shawn Levy and star Ryan Reynolds, a sweet and snarky action-comedy which — in keeping with the duo’s similarly high-concept “Free Guy” — is only self-aware to a certain point.
On the one hand, “The Adam Project” recognizes that its star’s wounded sarcasm is the perfect fit for an Amblin-esque adventure about a swole fighter pilot who travels back in time in order to team up with his scrawny 12-year-old self. On the other hand, this exhaustingly overstuffed Netflix spectacle is so busy trying to fuse the temporal antics of “Back to the Future” into the space-age heroism of “Star Wars” — and to do so in a way that will keep people from clicking over to “Love Is Blind...
On the one hand, “The Adam Project” recognizes that its star’s wounded sarcasm is the perfect fit for an Amblin-esque adventure about a swole fighter pilot who travels back in time in order to team up with his scrawny 12-year-old self. On the other hand, this exhaustingly overstuffed Netflix spectacle is so busy trying to fuse the temporal antics of “Back to the Future” into the space-age heroism of “Star Wars” — and to do so in a way that will keep people from clicking over to “Love Is Blind...
- 3/10/2022
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
CBS is throwing their hat into the New Year’s Eve concert special ring after two decades on the sidelines with New Year’s Eve Live: Nashville’s Big Bash headlined by some of country’s biggest stars. The special will air live from downtown Nashville Dec. 31 on CBS and available to stream live and on demand on Paramount+.
The last time CBS had a Nye special was to mark the new millennium on Dec. 31, 1999. Prior to that, CBS aired annually a New Year’s Eve special featuring Guy Lombardo and the Royal Canadian Band live from the Waldorf Astoria in NYC from December 31, 1956 until December 31, 1976. (It was on CBS radio for decades before that.) Over the past 22 years, CBS has largely run repeats/pre-recorded specials on New Year’s Eve as counter-programming to the live programming on ABC,...
The last time CBS had a Nye special was to mark the new millennium on Dec. 31, 1999. Prior to that, CBS aired annually a New Year’s Eve special featuring Guy Lombardo and the Royal Canadian Band live from the Waldorf Astoria in NYC from December 31, 1956 until December 31, 1976. (It was on CBS radio for decades before that.) Over the past 22 years, CBS has largely run repeats/pre-recorded specials on New Year’s Eve as counter-programming to the live programming on ABC,...
- 9/9/2021
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Tony Sokol Feb 18, 2020
The 2020 Tribeca Film Festival will open with Jimmy Carter Rock & Roll President. Willie Nelson and Nile Rodgers will hit the Beacon.
The 19th Tribeca Film Festival will open with the premiere of the rockumentary-style presidential portrait Jimmy Carter Rock & Roll President on April 15. The documentary catalogues how popular music helped replant a Georgia peanut farmer in the White House.
Sure, we remember Barack Obama breaking into an Al Green jam during his presidential press conferences, but there was a time the only kinds of music you associated with the White House were The Marine Marching Band, John Philip Sousa and Guy Lombardo. Abraham Lincoln went to the opera thirty times while he was president. President Nixon's barrelhouse piano intermittently backed up Pearl Bailey. But when Canadian rock band The Guess Who played the White House on July 17, 1970, they had to drop "American Woman," their newest and biggest single from the set list.
The 2020 Tribeca Film Festival will open with Jimmy Carter Rock & Roll President. Willie Nelson and Nile Rodgers will hit the Beacon.
The 19th Tribeca Film Festival will open with the premiere of the rockumentary-style presidential portrait Jimmy Carter Rock & Roll President on April 15. The documentary catalogues how popular music helped replant a Georgia peanut farmer in the White House.
Sure, we remember Barack Obama breaking into an Al Green jam during his presidential press conferences, but there was a time the only kinds of music you associated with the White House were The Marine Marching Band, John Philip Sousa and Guy Lombardo. Abraham Lincoln went to the opera thirty times while he was president. President Nixon's barrelhouse piano intermittently backed up Pearl Bailey. But when Canadian rock band The Guess Who played the White House on July 17, 1970, they had to drop "American Woman," their newest and biggest single from the set list.
- 2/18/2020
- Den of Geek
This article marks Part 1 of the Gold Derby series analyzing 84 years of Best Original Song at the Oscars. Join us as we look back at the timeless tunes recognized in this category, the results of each race and the overall rankings of the Academy Awards winners.
The 1934 Oscar nominees in Best Original Song were:
“Carioca” from “Flying Down to Rio”
“The Continental” from “The Gay Divorcee”
“Love in Bloom” from “She Loves Me Not”
Won: “The Continental” from “The Gay Divorcee”
Should’ve won: “Love in Bloom” from “She Loves Me Not”
The inaugural Best Original Song showdown included a mere three nominees – a far cry from the 10 nominations that would crowd this category a few years later, in 1938. Nominated were tracks from two Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers vehicles and then one, “Love in Bloom,” from an early Bing Crosby picture. None of the three songs are terribly memorable.
The 1934 Oscar nominees in Best Original Song were:
“Carioca” from “Flying Down to Rio”
“The Continental” from “The Gay Divorcee”
“Love in Bloom” from “She Loves Me Not”
Won: “The Continental” from “The Gay Divorcee”
Should’ve won: “Love in Bloom” from “She Loves Me Not”
The inaugural Best Original Song showdown included a mere three nominees – a far cry from the 10 nominations that would crowd this category a few years later, in 1938. Nominated were tracks from two Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers vehicles and then one, “Love in Bloom,” from an early Bing Crosby picture. None of the three songs are terribly memorable.
- 7/9/2018
- by Andrew Carden
- Gold Derby
Who better to reveal the woman behind Lady Gaga -- removed from the meat dresses and crustacean headdresses and other trappings of her pop star persona -- than a filmmaker who once tried to shine a light on Banksy, the most elusive artist in recent history? In Gaga: Five Foot Two, now streaming on Netflix, documentarian Chris Moukarbel (Banksy Does New York) pulls back the curtain on the Haus of Gaga for a cinema vérité look at the life of Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta. Et spoke with Moukarbel, and in addition to discussing how he gained Gaga's trust, what still scares the singer and the postponement of her world tour due to complications of fibromyalgia, he explained how following Lady Gaga was a much different experience than chasing the shadow of Banksy.
"This was about feeling like you're in the present moment with her," Moukarbel said. “Not only do I avoid using much archival footage or going...
"This was about feeling like you're in the present moment with her," Moukarbel said. “Not only do I avoid using much archival footage or going...
- 9/25/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Despite artful direction and meticulous curation by Gaga herself, the documentary never quite shakes the feel of a longform advert for the singer’s new phase – one that’s preaching to the converted
It’s been a transformative year in the life of Stefani Germanotta, a cycle purportedly captured in the new documentary Gaga: Five Foot Two, which is streaming on Netflix starting Friday. The vérité-style feature tracks the artist during the recording, release and promotion of her fifth studio cut, Joanne, culminating with her triumphant performance at the Super Bowl half-time show. The title, a nod to both the performer’s diminutive stature and the Guy Lombardo number, showcases the sincerity and humor and artistry that’s engendered a connection with her legion of Little Monsters over the years, but not even as formidable a talent as Gaga can overcome the inherent pitfalls of the authorized popstar documentary.
Artfully...
It’s been a transformative year in the life of Stefani Germanotta, a cycle purportedly captured in the new documentary Gaga: Five Foot Two, which is streaming on Netflix starting Friday. The vérité-style feature tracks the artist during the recording, release and promotion of her fifth studio cut, Joanne, culminating with her triumphant performance at the Super Bowl half-time show. The title, a nod to both the performer’s diminutive stature and the Guy Lombardo number, showcases the sincerity and humor and artistry that’s engendered a connection with her legion of Little Monsters over the years, but not even as formidable a talent as Gaga can overcome the inherent pitfalls of the authorized popstar documentary.
Artfully...
- 9/22/2017
- by Bryan Armen Graham
- The Guardian - Film News
There's a good chance those reading this article can't remember a Dec. 31 without Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve. Even if you don't watch the annual, year-end special at home, it's hard to escape. It's on in bars. It's on at parties. And sometimes people will actually turn on the TV just to watch the Times Square countdown. It's that well-integrated into the holiday. Dick Clark hosted the show from 1975 to 2004. After suffering a stroke in late 2004, Clark returned to the special in 2006, and appeared in every subsequent New Year's Eve celebration until his death in April 2012. Now hosted by Ryan Seacrest,...
- 12/30/2015
- by Drew Mackie, @drewgmackie
- PEOPLE.com
There's a good chance those reading this article can't remember a Dec. 31 without Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve. Even if you don't watch the annual, year-end special at home, it's hard to escape. It's on in bars. It's on at parties. And sometimes people will actually turn on the TV just to watch the Times Square countdown. It's that well-integrated into the holiday. Dick Clark hosted the show from 1975 to 2004. After suffering a stroke in late 2004, Clark returned to the special in 2006, and appeared in every subsequent New Year's Eve celebration until his death in April 2012. Now hosted by Ryan Seacrest,...
- 12/30/2015
- by Drew Mackie, @drewgmackie
- PEOPLE.com
Everyone knows Woody Allen. At least, everyone thinks they know Woody Allen. His plumage is easily identifiable: horn-rimmed glasses, baggy suit, wispy hair, kvetching demeanor, ironic sense of humor, acute fear of death. As is his habitat: New York City, though recently he has flown as far afield as London, Barcelona, and Paris. His likes are well known: Bergman, Dostoevsky, New Orleans jazz. So too his dislikes: spiders, cars, nature, Wagner records, the entire city of Los Angeles. Whether or not these traits represent the true Allen, who’s to say? It is impossible to tell, with Allen, where cinema ends and life begins, an obfuscation he readily encourages. In the late nineteen-seventies, disillusioned with the comedic success he’d found making such films as Sleeper (1973), Love and Death (1975), and Annie Hall (1977), he turned for darker territory with Stardust Memories (1980), a film in which, none too surprisingly, he plays a...
- 1/24/2015
- by Graham Daseler
- The Moving Arts Journal
Los Angeles — Patty Andrews, the last surviving member of the singing Andrews Sisters trio whose hits such as the rollicking "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B" and the poignant "I Can Dream, Can't I?" captured the home-front spirit of World War II, died Wednesday. She was 94.
Andrews died of natural causes at her home in the Los Angeles suburb of Northridge, said family spokesman Alan Eichler in a statement.
Patty was the Andrews in the middle, the lead singer and chief clown, whose raucous jitterbugging delighted American servicemen abroad and audiences at home.
She could also deliver sentimental ballads like "I'll Be with You in Apple Blossom Time" with a sincerity that caused hardened GIs far from home to weep.
"When I was a kid, I only had two records and one of them was the Andrews Sisters. They were remarkable. Their sound, so pure," said Bette Midler, who...
Andrews died of natural causes at her home in the Los Angeles suburb of Northridge, said family spokesman Alan Eichler in a statement.
Patty was the Andrews in the middle, the lead singer and chief clown, whose raucous jitterbugging delighted American servicemen abroad and audiences at home.
She could also deliver sentimental ballads like "I'll Be with You in Apple Blossom Time" with a sincerity that caused hardened GIs far from home to weep.
"When I was a kid, I only had two records and one of them was the Andrews Sisters. They were remarkable. Their sound, so pure," said Bette Midler, who...
- 1/31/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Patty Andrews, last surviving member of the Andrews sisters, has died. She was 94 and died today at her home in Northridge, CA. The phenomenally popular singing trio that entertained U.S. troops during World War II even announced the war’s end in 1945 to 5,000 G.I.’s while they were performing at a show in Italy. Laverne (top), Patty (center), and Maxene (bottom) also appeared in movies and on TV. A signature song “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy From Company B” was featured in the 1941 Abbott & Costello film Buck Privates. They appeared in more than a dozen features, including another Abbott & Costello film In the Navy, and the 1947 Bob Hope-Bing Crosby-Dorothy Lamour vehicle Road to Rio. With Crosby they also performed the hit “Don’t Fence Me In” and several other tunes. They also sang with the big bands of Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Jimmy Dorsey, Bob Crosby,...
- 1/31/2013
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
Los Angeles — Hal David, the stylish, heartfelt lyricist who teamed with Burt Bacharach on dozens of timeless songs for movies, television and a variety of recording artists in the 1960s and beyond, has died. He was 91.
David died of complications from a stroke Saturday morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, according to his wife Eunice David.
He had suffered a major stroke in March and was stricken again on Tuesday, she said.
"Even at the end, Hal always had a song in his head," Eunice David said. "He was always writing notes, or asking me to take a note down, so he wouldn't forget a lyric."
Bacharach and David were among the most successful teams in modern history, with top 40 hits including "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head," "(They Long to Be) Close to You" and "That's What Friends Are For." Although most associated with Dionne Warwick, their...
David died of complications from a stroke Saturday morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, according to his wife Eunice David.
He had suffered a major stroke in March and was stricken again on Tuesday, she said.
"Even at the end, Hal always had a song in his head," Eunice David said. "He was always writing notes, or asking me to take a note down, so he wouldn't forget a lyric."
Bacharach and David were among the most successful teams in modern history, with top 40 hits including "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head," "(They Long to Be) Close to You" and "That's What Friends Are For." Although most associated with Dionne Warwick, their...
- 9/2/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Los Angeles – Dick Clark, the versatile television personality who built his beginnings as host of the long-running “American Bandstand” into a virtual media empire, has died of a heart attack this morning. He was 82 years old. His youthful looks and association with Bandstand got him the nickname, “America’s Oldest Teenager.”
Born Richard Wagstaff Clark in Mount Vernon, New York, he began his broadcasting career right after high school at Wrun-am in Rome, New York, which was owned by his uncle. He began by announcing weather reports and station breaks, and also worked at a country station while attending Syracuse University. After graduation, he did some bit TV and radio jobs in New York, before moving to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for a on-air opportunity.
Hit Maker: Dick Clark in 1959 for ‘American Bandstand’
Photo credit: Dick Clark Productions
It was in Philadelphia that Dick Clark found his calling. While working as a...
Born Richard Wagstaff Clark in Mount Vernon, New York, he began his broadcasting career right after high school at Wrun-am in Rome, New York, which was owned by his uncle. He began by announcing weather reports and station breaks, and also worked at a country station while attending Syracuse University. After graduation, he did some bit TV and radio jobs in New York, before moving to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for a on-air opportunity.
Hit Maker: Dick Clark in 1959 for ‘American Bandstand’
Photo credit: Dick Clark Productions
It was in Philadelphia that Dick Clark found his calling. While working as a...
- 4/18/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
The man described as the ageless teenager is no more. Dick Clark has passed away at age 82 after suffering a massive heart attack. Clark had been in poor health for years, suffering from the aftermath of a stroke as well as diabetes. Clark helped turn rock 'n roll from a fad into a global phenomenon, primarily by showcasing recording stars on his hit series American Bandstand. Over the decades, he became an icon of the international entertainment industry, though most of his achievements were done in the boardroom, not in front of TV cameras. He created and produced hit game shows and even pioneered the concept of turning New Years Eve entertainment into an event that appealed to young people worldwide. Prior to Clark, the New Years Eve programming consisted of Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadian orchestra performing at the Waldorf Astoria. Despite turning the hosting of the annual...
- 4/18/2012
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Repeat after me: There is no shame in staying home on New Year’s Eve. There is no shame in staying home on New Year’s Eve. If you are hanging at home as 2011 rolls over into 2012, here’s a list of artists you can see on various New Year’s Eve specials as the ball drops. By the way, did you know that Dick Clark started “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” in 1972 so that the crazy kids would have something to watch on TV besides bandleader Guy Lombardo’s Dec. 31 specials? If none of these appeal, there’s always “The Walking Dead” marathon...
- 12/30/2011
- Hitfix
New York -- Forty years ago, Dick Clark's New Year's Eve special was created to give young people an alternative to a seasonal institution, bandleader Guy Lombardo.
Now Clark's annual show is the institution.
"New Year's Rockin' Eve," with Clark and Ryan Seacrest, pays tribute to its own history during a sprawling, nearly six-hour program Saturday night. The celebration takes up all of prime time on ABC, breaks for a half-hour of local news, then comes back on the air for two and a quarter hours that includes the ball dropping in New York City's Times Square to mark the beginning of 2012.
"I'm looking forward to it being 2:15 (a.m. on Sunday)," said Larry Klein, who has been producing the show since 1977.
Clark's special shows no sign of slippage, after collecting its biggest audience in five years last year. The 18.8 million people who were watching ABC during the...
Now Clark's annual show is the institution.
"New Year's Rockin' Eve," with Clark and Ryan Seacrest, pays tribute to its own history during a sprawling, nearly six-hour program Saturday night. The celebration takes up all of prime time on ABC, breaks for a half-hour of local news, then comes back on the air for two and a quarter hours that includes the ball dropping in New York City's Times Square to mark the beginning of 2012.
"I'm looking forward to it being 2:15 (a.m. on Sunday)," said Larry Klein, who has been producing the show since 1977.
Clark's special shows no sign of slippage, after collecting its biggest audience in five years last year. The 18.8 million people who were watching ABC during the...
- 12/29/2011
- by AP
- Huffington Post
New York -- Forty years ago, Dick Clark's New Year's Eve special was created to give young people an alternative to a seasonal institution, bandleader Guy Lombardo.
Now Clark's annual show is the institution.
"New Year's Rockin' Eve," with Clark and Ryan Seacrest, pays tribute to its own history during a sprawling, nearly six-hour program Saturday night. The celebration takes up all of prime time on ABC, breaks for a half-hour of local news, then comes back on the air for two and a quarter hours that includes the ball dropping in New York City's Times Square to mark the beginning of 2012.
"I'm looking forward to it being 2:15 (a.m. on Sunday)," said Larry Klein, who has been producing the show since 1977.
Clark's special shows no sign of slippage, after collecting its biggest audience in five years last year. The 18.8 million people who were watching ABC during the...
Now Clark's annual show is the institution.
"New Year's Rockin' Eve," with Clark and Ryan Seacrest, pays tribute to its own history during a sprawling, nearly six-hour program Saturday night. The celebration takes up all of prime time on ABC, breaks for a half-hour of local news, then comes back on the air for two and a quarter hours that includes the ball dropping in New York City's Times Square to mark the beginning of 2012.
"I'm looking forward to it being 2:15 (a.m. on Sunday)," said Larry Klein, who has been producing the show since 1977.
Clark's special shows no sign of slippage, after collecting its biggest audience in five years last year. The 18.8 million people who were watching ABC during the...
- 12/29/2011
- by AP
- Aol TV.
Hollywood publicist Gene Shefrin, who worked for stars including Tony Bennett, Johnny Mathis and Perry Como, has died at the age of 90.
Shefrin passed away in his sleep on 6 April in Encinitas, California after a long battle with Parkinson's disease.
Throughout his showbusiness career, which spanned more than 40 years, Shefrin represented stars including Guy Lombardo, Dick Clark and Don Rickles, while he also organised the Beatles' first New York appearance at Carnegie Hall in 1964.
He also helped launch the writing career of moviemaker Woody Allen in the 1950s by hiring him as a school student to write witty comments to be sent to gossip columnists and attributed to Shefrin's clients. Allen remembered his former mentor more than 40 years later by handing Shefrin a small part in his 1994 film Bullets Over Broadway.
Shefrin is survived by his wife, Sophie, and son, Paul.
Shefrin passed away in his sleep on 6 April in Encinitas, California after a long battle with Parkinson's disease.
Throughout his showbusiness career, which spanned more than 40 years, Shefrin represented stars including Guy Lombardo, Dick Clark and Don Rickles, while he also organised the Beatles' first New York appearance at Carnegie Hall in 1964.
He also helped launch the writing career of moviemaker Woody Allen in the 1950s by hiring him as a school student to write witty comments to be sent to gossip columnists and attributed to Shefrin's clients. Allen remembered his former mentor more than 40 years later by handing Shefrin a small part in his 1994 film Bullets Over Broadway.
Shefrin is survived by his wife, Sophie, and son, Paul.
- 4/12/2011
- WENN
Nobody likes Congress these days, but don't let ill feelings for your elected representatives get in the way of digging the Library of Congress, whose purpose is "to further the progress of knowledge and creativity for the benefit of the American people." A great part of that is preserving our recorded audio heritage for all time. This is why Universal is donating 200,000 master recordings, which THR reports is the largest ever donation of recorded sound to this very fine cultural institution.
The donation consists primarily of "metal and lacquer discs and master mono tapes" from the 1920s through the late 1940s -- original masters from the likes of Billie Holiday, Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald.
"A surprisingly high percentage of America's recording heritage since the early part of the 20th century has been lost due to neglect and deterioration," Librarian of Congress James H. Billington lamented. "The donation...
The donation consists primarily of "metal and lacquer discs and master mono tapes" from the 1920s through the late 1940s -- original masters from the likes of Billie Holiday, Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald.
"A surprisingly high percentage of America's recording heritage since the early part of the 20th century has been lost due to neglect and deterioration," Librarian of Congress James H. Billington lamented. "The donation...
- 1/10/2011
- by Brandon Kim
- ifc.com
If you're like us, you're going to go to a New Year's Eve party tonight, and as soon as the calendar turns over, somebody will inevitably start slurring the tune "Auld Lang Syne" because they thought they heard it in a movie or something (perhaps "200 Cigarettes" was on TV earlier in the day). But people very rarely nail down the correct melody, nor do they know all of the words. And what does "Auld Lang Syne" even mean?
Glad you asked! It began as a poem written by Scotland's Robert Burns (pictured!) in 1788 (with a few of the lyrics cribbed from a James Watson ballad from 1711 called "Old Long Syne"). The tune is a traditional Scottish folk song, and it quickly gained popularity in the U.K. as a song sung at the end of the year as well as at funerals. As Brits emigrated to other parts of the globe,...
Glad you asked! It began as a poem written by Scotland's Robert Burns (pictured!) in 1788 (with a few of the lyrics cribbed from a James Watson ballad from 1711 called "Old Long Syne"). The tune is a traditional Scottish folk song, and it quickly gained popularity in the U.K. as a song sung at the end of the year as well as at funerals. As Brits emigrated to other parts of the globe,...
- 12/31/2009
- by Kyle Anderson
- MTV Newsroom
"Winter Wonderland" has topped a new list of the most performed holiday songs of the decade. The 1934 tune written by Felix Bernard and Richard B. Smith was an instant hit for bandleader Guy Lombardo And His Royal Canadians and it has since been recorded by the Andrews Sisters, Doris Day, Perry Como, The Eurythmics and Jewel Kilcher.
And it seems the tune - the oldest on the top 25 countdown - is an annual favourite for radio programmers at this time of year - it's the most played track, according to the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. Also making the top 10: Sleigh Ride, White Christmas and Jingle Bell Rock.
Here's Ascap's most played holiday tunes of the past 10 years:
Winter Wonderland - written by Felix Bernard, Richard B. Smith
The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) - written by Mel Torme, Robert Wells
Sleigh Ride - written by Leroy Anderson,...
And it seems the tune - the oldest on the top 25 countdown - is an annual favourite for radio programmers at this time of year - it's the most played track, according to the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. Also making the top 10: Sleigh Ride, White Christmas and Jingle Bell Rock.
Here's Ascap's most played holiday tunes of the past 10 years:
Winter Wonderland - written by Felix Bernard, Richard B. Smith
The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) - written by Mel Torme, Robert Wells
Sleigh Ride - written by Leroy Anderson,...
- 12/26/2009
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
Holland enjoys herself on fourth album
Jolie Holland writes songs packed like retablos with autobiographical details and Dia de los Muertos figures, but it’s her voice that animates them. She slurs her words and blurs her phrasing, chewing her consonants and creating a distinctively drunken drawl. Holland’s fourth—and perhaps best—album (featuring contributions from collaborator M. Ward and guitarist Marc Ribot) foregoes the smoky speakeasy atmosphere of 2006’s Springtime Can Kill You for a more contemporary roots sound, which provides a more evocative backdrop for her signature vocals. Despite singing such despairing lyrics, she sounds more commanding and confident than ever on “Mexico City” and “Your Big Hands.” The bleak murder ballad “Love Henry” and “Fox In Its Hole” revisit her old noir-jazz vibe, but sound more connected to the here-and-now instead of some vague there-and-then. Holland half sings/ half laughs the closing cover of Guy Lombardo hit “Enjoy Yourself,...
Jolie Holland writes songs packed like retablos with autobiographical details and Dia de los Muertos figures, but it’s her voice that animates them. She slurs her words and blurs her phrasing, chewing her consonants and creating a distinctively drunken drawl. Holland’s fourth—and perhaps best—album (featuring contributions from collaborator M. Ward and guitarist Marc Ribot) foregoes the smoky speakeasy atmosphere of 2006’s Springtime Can Kill You for a more contemporary roots sound, which provides a more evocative backdrop for her signature vocals. Despite singing such despairing lyrics, she sounds more commanding and confident than ever on “Mexico City” and “Your Big Hands.” The bleak murder ballad “Love Henry” and “Fox In Its Hole” revisit her old noir-jazz vibe, but sound more connected to the here-and-now instead of some vague there-and-then. Holland half sings/ half laughs the closing cover of Guy Lombardo hit “Enjoy Yourself,...
- 10/10/2008
- Pastemagazine.com
Actor Stephen Martines was playing golf on one of the two courses at Los Angeles' Griffith Park-rough day!-when he spoke to The Post about his role as Ricardo Ramos, a Los Angeles Times reporter who has a knack of showing up at crime scenes at the wrong time on TNT's "The Closer." Ramos is the bane of Deputy Chief Brenda Johnson's life, but the best role Martines, 33, has found in his young career. Daytime viewers will remember him as the sinister Nikolas Cassadine on "General Hospital" (he used his stage name,...
- 8/3/2008
- NYPost.com
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