[78-L] Lenny

[Ray Kilcoyne]

And also these from around the Big Band Era.....
MARTHA - von Flotow
IN AN 18TH CENTURY DRAWING ROOM - Mozart
LET'S DANCE - Weber
FLIGHT OF THE BUMBLE BEE - Rimsky-Korsakov
DAYBREAK - Grofe'
SONG OF INDIA - Rimsky-Korsakov
RayK
>
From: David Weiner 
Dozens and dozens more - too lazy to look up what they were adapted from,
but here are titles:
MY REVERIE - Debussy
THE LAMP IS LOW - Ravel
MY FANTASY (1940)/TWILIGHT (1950)/STRANGER IN PARADISE (1953)- all adapted
from the same Borodin melody
BAUBLES, BANGLES & BEADS - Borodin
AND THIS IS MY BELOVED - Borodin
STORY OF A STARRY NIGHT - Tchaikovsky
FULL MOON AND EMPTY ARMS - Rachmaninoff
TILL THE END OF TIME - Chopin
IF YOU ARE BUT A DREAM - Rubenstein
STRANDE MUSIC = Grieg
HOT DIGGETY - Chabrier
I'M ALWAYS CHASING RAINBOWS - Chopin

And on and on.....

Dave Weiner

On 7/9/13 4:15 PM, "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:

>Also HERE COMES THE NIGHT..like The Things I Love, adapted from
>Tchaikovsky's 
>"Melodie". The ASCAP ban was partly responsible for the adaptations from
>the 
>classics, but they'd existed well before that.
>
>dl
>
>On 7/9/2013 4:11 PM, Ray Kilcoyne wrote:
>> Here's a short list I compiled years ago.  I know nothing about
>>classical music.  Corrections appreciated.
>>
>> ON THE ISLE OF MAY - Connee Boswell - from Tchaikovsky's String Quartet
>>in D Major Andante Cantabile Movement
>> MOON LOVE - Glenn Miller and Ray Eberle - Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony,
>>2nd Movement
>> OUR LOVE - Jimmy Dorsey&  Bob Eberly - from Tchaikovsky's Romeo&
>>Juliette
>> THE THINGS I LOVE - Jimmy Dorsey&  Bob Eberly or Jan Savitt or Gene
>>Krupa - from Tchaikovsky's Melody Opus 42 #3
>> TONIGHT WE LOVE - Freddy Martin&  Clyde Rogers - from Tchaikovsky's
>>Piano Concerto in B Flat
>> RayK