Here is the beginning of Encyclopedia.com’s profile of the multi-talented Paul Robeson, one of the most important figures — musical and otherwise — of the...
Category - Movie Music
Both the music and the text of Peter and the Wolf, which was an effort to teach children about orchestras and instill a love of music, were written by Sergei...
Above, of course, is Judy Garland and Fred Astaire singing Irving Berlin’s Easter Parade, from the 1948 movie of the same name. Below, the Philadelphia...
Burl Ives, who had one of the great voices of the twentieth century, was identified with old ballads and other forms of Americana. He was a folk singer, but...
Dennis Potter was an English screenwriter/playwright known for mixing fantasy and reality. His best known works — Pennies from Heaven (above) and The...
This Day in Music History notes that the sound track of the great spaghetti western The Good, The Bad and the Ugly was number one on the U.K. charts on this...
As the bio below suggests, Eumir Deodato is by far best recognized for his version of Richard Strauss’ Also Sprach Zarathustra in 2001: A Space Odyssey...
The actress was born on Oct. 1, 1935, according to This Day in Music.
The Sidney Poitier film To Sir, With Love featured the singer Lulu. During the climatic scene in the film — right before she sang the title song...
One of the greatest movies of all time is The Third Man, which is based on a novella by Graham Greene. On one level, it is a story of espionage and...
