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The fifth track on the 1983 CD "What's New", by Linda Ronstadt and the Nelson Riddle Orchestra.
The recordings were made and the CD released in 1983.
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"Someone to Watch Over Me" is a 1926 song composed by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, assisted by Howard Dietz who wrote the title.
It was written for the musical Oh, Kay! (1926), with the part originally sung on Broadway by English actress Gertrude Lawrence while holding a rag doll in a sentimental solo scene.
The musical ran for more than 200 performances in New York and then saw equivalent acclaim in London in 1927, all with the song as its centrepiece. Lawrence released the song as a medium-tempo single which rose to number 2 on the charts in 1927.
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Linda Maria Ronstadt (born July 15, 1946) is an American singer who has performed and recorded in diverse genres including country, rock, pop, light opera, the Great American Songbook, and Latin music.
Establishing her professional career in the mid-1960s at the forefront of California's emerging folk rock and country rock movements, Ronstadt joined forces with Bobby Kimmel and Kenny Edwards and became the lead singer of a folk-rock trio, the Stone Poneys.
Later, as a solo artist, she released Hand Sown ... Home Grown in 1969, which has been described as the first alternative country record by a female recording artist.
Much, much more about Linda may be found here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Ronstadt
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Nelson Smock Riddle Jr. (June 1, 1921 – October 6, 1985) was an American arranger, composer, bandleader and orchestrator whose career stretched from the late 1940s to the mid-1980s. He worked with many vocalists at Capitol Records, including Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, Judy Garland, Dean Martin, Peggy Lee, Johnny Mathis, Rosemary Clooney and Keely Smith. He scored and arranged music for many films and television shows, earning an Academy Award and three Grammy Awards. He found commercial and critical success with a new generation in the 1980s, in a trio of Platinum albums with Linda Ronstadt.
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This track was recorded directly to computer from the CD and processed using Audacity software.
The video was created in Movie Maker, where the images and the music track were assembled into the final product.
Creating just one video such as this from a single track on a CD takes around fifteen minutes from start to finish, therefore an eighteen-track CD takes more than three hours to process.
The fifth track on the 1983 CD "What's New", by Linda Ronstadt and the Nelson Riddle Orchestra.
The recordings were made and the CD released in 1983.
____________________________________
"Someone to Watch Over Me" is a 1926 song composed by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, assisted by Howard Dietz who wrote the title.
It was written for the musical Oh, Kay! (1926), with the part originally sung on Broadway by English actress Gertrude Lawrence while holding a rag doll in a sentimental solo scene.
The musical ran for more than 200 performances in New York and then saw equivalent acclaim in London in 1927, all with the song as its centrepiece. Lawrence released the song as a medium-tempo single which rose to number 2 on the charts in 1927.
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Linda Maria Ronstadt (born July 15, 1946) is an American singer who has performed and recorded in diverse genres including country, rock, pop, light opera, the Great American Songbook, and Latin music.
Establishing her professional career in the mid-1960s at the forefront of California's emerging folk rock and country rock movements, Ronstadt joined forces with Bobby Kimmel and Kenny Edwards and became the lead singer of a folk-rock trio, the Stone Poneys.
Later, as a solo artist, she released Hand Sown ... Home Grown in 1969, which has been described as the first alternative country record by a female recording artist.
Much, much more about Linda may be found here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Ronstadt
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Nelson Smock Riddle Jr. (June 1, 1921 – October 6, 1985) was an American arranger, composer, bandleader and orchestrator whose career stretched from the late 1940s to the mid-1980s. He worked with many vocalists at Capitol Records, including Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, Judy Garland, Dean Martin, Peggy Lee, Johnny Mathis, Rosemary Clooney and Keely Smith. He scored and arranged music for many films and television shows, earning an Academy Award and three Grammy Awards. He found commercial and critical success with a new generation in the 1980s, in a trio of Platinum albums with Linda Ronstadt.
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This track was recorded directly to computer from the CD and processed using Audacity software.
The video was created in Movie Maker, where the images and the music track were assembled into the final product.
Creating just one video such as this from a single track on a CD takes around fifteen minutes from start to finish, therefore an eighteen-track CD takes more than three hours to process.
