Misplaced Pages

On a Little Street in Singapore: Difference between revisions

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Browse history interactively← Previous editNext edit →Content deleted Content addedVisualWikitext
Revision as of 20:05, 16 February 2016 editBubbatex (talk | contribs)Extended confirmed users2,862 editsNo edit summary← Previous edit Revision as of 04:55, 28 April 2016 edit undoHmains (talk | contribs)Autopatrolled, Extended confirmed users, Pending changes reviewers1,214,083 editsm top: copyedit,standard WP date handling; general fixes using AWB using AWBNext edit →
Line 1: Line 1:
{{Unreferenced|date=October 2008}} {{Unreferenced|date=October 2008}}
"'''On a Little Street in Singapore'''" is a ] song written by ] and ]. Though now obscure, it had some measure of popularity in the 1930s and 40s, marked by a number of high-profile performances. Artists to cover the song included ] with ], ] & ], ], ], and ] among others. ] covered it again in 1978. The song features a haunting, lazy ] in a minor key, with numerous diminished ]s. The overall impression is both languid and wistful. "'''On a Little Street in Singapore'''" is a ] song written by ] and ]. Though now obscure, it had some measure of popularity in the 1930s and 1940s, marked by a number of high-profile performances. Artists to cover the song included ] with ], ] & ], ], ], and ] among others. ] covered it again in 1978. The song features a haunting, lazy ] in a minor key, with numerous diminished ]s. The overall impression is both languid and wistful.


] ]
] ]
] ]



{{jazz-composition-stub}} {{jazz-composition-stub}}

Revision as of 04:55, 28 April 2016

This article does not cite any sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
Find sources: "On a Little Street in Singapore" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (October 2008) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

"On a Little Street in Singapore" is a jazz song written by Peter DeRose and Billy Hill. Though now obscure, it had some measure of popularity in the 1930s and 1940s, marked by a number of high-profile performances. Artists to cover the song included Frank Sinatra with Harry James, Dave Brubeck & Paul Desmond, Glenn Miller, Bert Kaempfert, and Jimmy Dorsey among others. Manhattan Transfer covered it again in 1978. The song features a haunting, lazy hook in a minor key, with numerous diminished chords. The overall impression is both languid and wistful.


Stub icon

This jazz standard or composition-related article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: