East or Orient, is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from West. As in other languages, the word is formed from the fact that east is direction where the sun rises: east comes from Middle East est, from Old English ēast, which itself comes from the Proto-Germanic *aus-to- or *austra- “east, toward the sunrise”, from Proto-Indo-European *aus- “to shine,” or “dawn”, cognate with Old High German *ōstar “to the east”, Latin aurora ‘dawn’, and Greek ἠώς ēōs ‘dawn, east’. Eostre, a Germanic goddess of dawn, might have been a personification of both dawn and the cardinal points.
“East St Louis Toodle-Oo” (also “Toodle-O“) is a composition written by Duke Ellington and Bubber Miley and recorded several times by Ellington for various labels from 1926–1930 under various titles. This song was the first charting single for Duke Ellington in 1927 and was one of the main examples of his early “jungle music”. “East St. Louis Toodle-Oo” features a growling plunger-muted trumpet part played by co-composer Bubber Miley, one of the first jazz trumpeters to utilize the style.
This composition was covered by Steely Dan on their 1974 album Pretzel Logic. For their cover of the song, Walter Becker played the melody through a talk box to imitate Miley’s trumpet style, while Jeff ‘Skunk’ Baxter used a pedal steel guitar for the trombone part.
Jean Ritchie sang Old Virginny in 1952 on her Elektra album Singing the Traditional Songs of her Traditional Kentucky Mountain Family. Edward Tatnall Canby wrote in the sleeve notes: This highly interesting song is transitional between the older English-derived music and the purely American ‘blues’ style, unheard-of in Europe. The remarkable major-minor harmonization, suggested by the tune, is Miss Ritchie’s own. The song comes from her father, Balls W. Ritchie.
“East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)” is a song written by Brooks Bowman, an undergraduate member of Princeton University’s Class of 1936, for the 1934 production of the Princeton Triangle Club’s production of Stags at Bay. It was published in 1934 by Santly Bros. and soon became a hallmark of the Princeton Tigertones, one of Princeton University’s all-male a cappella groups. The standard is also sung by the Princeton Nassoons, Princeton University’s oldest a cappella group.
East of the Sun, West of the Moon is the last track on the frist side of the eponymously named fourth studio album by Norwegian band A-ha. It was released in October 1990. Named after a Norwegian fairy tale, the album was something of a departure from the band’s earlier radio-friendly sound to a darker, moodier tone. It peaked at number one in the band’s native Norway and reached top 20 in various European countries and Japan. It was co-produced by Ian Stanley, formerly of the band Tears for Fears.
Enter From the East is a track taken from Spirit the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Jewel, released in 1998 by Atlantic Records. Singles include “Hands”, “Down So Long”. Spirit debuted at number 3 on the Billboard 200 with 368,000 copies sold in its first week. It eventually sold 3.7 million units in the U.S.
Enter The East is a compostion taken from the soundtrack of the Videogame Metin2, which is a MMORPG originally developed by Ymir Entertainment (now owned by Webzen Games) and originally released in Korea in 2004. It has since been published in many European countries countries and in the United States by Gameforge. Other versions exist in various Asian languages.
