Category: Movies

“The Way You Look To-night” is a song from the film Swing Time that was performed by Fred Astaire and composed by Jerome Kern with lyrics written by Dorothy Fields. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1936. Fields remarked, “The first time Jerry played that melody for me I went out […]

Faeland: Folk-inspired acoustic song medicine to soothe mind and spirit. Faeland’s music has been described as “soul balm”, “ethereal” and “worldly yet otherworldly”. Their debut album All My Swim attracted widespread acclaim – it was championed by BBC 6 Music and BBC Introducing amongst others. At its core are singer-songwriter Rebecca Nelson and guitarist / […]

Girls Aloud are a British pop girl group that was created through the ITV talent show Popstars: The Rivals in 2002. The line up consisted of members Cheryl Tweedy, Nadine Coyle, Sarah Harding, Nicola Roberts and Kimberley Walsh. The concept of the programme, hosted by Big Brother presenter Davina McCall, was to produce a boyband […]

The Hungarian Dances by Johannes Brahms, are a set of 21 lively dance tunes based mostly on Hungarian themes, completed in 1879. They vary from about a minute to five minutes in length. They are among Brahms’s most popular works and were the most profitable for him. Each dance has been arranged for a wide […]

“Night Train” is a twelve-bar blues instrumental standard first recorded by Jimmy Forrest in 1951. “Night Train” has a long and complicated history. The piece’s opening rff was first recorded in 1940 by a small group led by Duke Ellington sideman Johnny Hodges, under the title “That’s the Blues, Old Man”. Ellington used the same […]

Sophie Ellis-Bextor is an English singer and songwriter. She first came to prominence in the late 1990s as the lead singer of the indie rock band Theaudience. The band released four singles, including the UK Top 40 hits “I Know Enough (I Don’t Get Enough)” and “A Pessimist is Never Disappointed”, and one self-titled album […]

Laurie Johnson, who died in January 2024, was an English composer and bandleader who wrote scores for dozens of film and television series. He studied at the Royal College of Music, where his tutors included Herbery Howells and Ralph Vaughan Williams. He spent four years in the Coldstream Guards (playing French horn) before moving to […]

Susanne Aartun Sundfør is a Norwegian singer-songwriter and record producer. Born and raised in Haugesund. In 2006, she joined Norwegian band Madrugada on tour, performing their song “Lift Me”, a duet the band originally recorded in the studio with singer Ane Brun. In November 2006 she released her debut single “Walls”, which would climb to […]

Tavares (also known as The Tavares Brothers) is an American R&B, funk and soul music group composed of five Cape Verdean-American brothers. They started performing in 1959 as Chubby and the Turnpikes when the youngest brother was nine years old. Future Aerosmoth drummer Joey Kramer appeared as the drummer with the group in a later […]

“Boum!” (similar to “boom” in English) is a popular 1938 song by the French singer/songwriter Charles Trenet which won him the Grand Prix Du Disque. It was one of several songs that Trenet wrote for the film La Route enchantée, for which he also wrote the screenplay and played the leading role. The film was […]