Jackie Gleason
Jackie Gleason
Genres: easy listening, Jackie Gleason, lounge, instrumental, 50s
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About Jackie Gleason
Throughout the 1950s and early-1960s, Jackie Gleason enjoyed a secondary music career, lending his name to a series of best-selling mood music albums with jazz overtones for Capitol. Gleason felt there was a ready market for romantic instrumentals. He recalled seeing Clark Gable play love scenes in movies, and the romance was, in his words, "magnified a thousand percent" by background music. Gleason reasoned, "If Gable needs music, a guy in Brooklyn must be desperate!" Gleason could not read or write music in a conventional sense; he was said to have conceived melodies in his head and described them vocally to staff help. He did likewise with the well-remembered themes of both The Jackie Gleason Show ("Melancholy Serenade") and The Honeymooners ("You're My Greatest Love"). There has been some controversy over the years as to how much credit Gleason should have received for the finished products; it has been written that beyond the possible conceptualizing of many of the songs, Gleason had no direct involvement such as conducting in the making of these recordings. However, his main musical companion, cornetist and trumpeter Bobby Hackett once said: "Jackie knows a lot more about music than people give him credit for. I have seen him conduct a sixty-piece orchestra and detect one discordant note in the brass section. He would immediately stop the music and locate the wrong note. It always amazed the professional musicians how a guy who technically did not know one note from another could do that. And he was never wrong." Born February 26, 1916 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. He died on June 24, 1987
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Jackie Gleason — Top 30 songs of 94
| Artist | Song title | Like / Dislike | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jackie Gleason | The Man I Love | ||
| Jackie Gleason | The Best Is Yet To Come | ||
| Jackie Gleason | It's A Blue World | ||
| Jackie Gleason | Just In Time | ||
| Jackie Gleason | If I Had You | ||
| Jackie Gleason | A Taste Of Honey | ||
| Jackie Gleason | Midnight Sun | ||
| Jackie Gleason | Theme From "Taras Bulba" (The Wishing Star) | ||
| Jackie Gleason | Misty | ||
| Jackie Gleason | Arrivederci Roma | ||
| Jackie Gleason | Desafinado | ||
| Jackie Gleason | A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody - 97five | ||
| Jackie Gleason | The Girl From Ipanema - 97five | ||
| Jackie Gleason | Melancholy Serenade | ||
| Jackie Gleason | It All Depends On You [Remastered] | ||
| Jackie Gleason | Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me) | ||
| Jackie Gleason | It's Christmas Time All Over T | ||
| Jackie Gleason | The Last Dance (Remastered) | ||
| Jackie Gleason | Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (1990 Digital Remaster) | ||
| Jackie Gleason | A Garden In The Rain | ||
| Jackie Gleason | Darling, Je Vous Aime Beaucoup | ||
| Jackie Gleason | I'm In The Mood For Love | ||
| Jackie Gleason | You Oughta Be In Pictures | ||
| Jackie Gleason | White Christmas | ||
| Jackie Gleason | But Not For Me | ||
| Jackie Gleason | My Funny Valentine | ||
| Jackie Gleason | Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! | ||
| Jackie Gleason | Traces | ||
| Jackie Gleason | It's Christmas Time All Over The World [1969] | ||
| Jackie Gleason | Now That You're Gone |