Toronto radio station CKFM-FM's Gene Lees and Friends. Lees released a second album in 1998, Gene Lees Sings Gene Lees and recorded Leaves on the Water...
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released with catalogue number A-32 (mono) and AS-32 (stereo). Critic Gene Lees stated that the quartet had never played the tunes before. "They arrived...
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Corcovado (song) (category Songs with lyrics by Gene Lees)
by Antônio Carlos Jobim in 1960. English lyrics were later written by Gene Lees. The Portuguese title refers to the Corcovado mountain in Rio de Janeiro...
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lyrics by Vinícius de Moraes. English-language lyrics were added later by Gene Lees. According to Jobim's sister, Helena, he composed "Estrada Branca" in...
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Sparrow – Edith Piaf", chapter in Singers & The Song (pp. 23–43), by Gene Lees, Oxford University Press, 1987, insightful critique of Piaf's biography...
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is the only time that Evans recorded it with the lyrics by his friend Gene Lees; previously, he had recorded the Swedish version with Monica Zetterlund...
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Frank Eyton, Johnny Green Bonita 1969 Antonio Carlos Jobim, Ray Gilbert, Gene Lees Bop Goes My Heart 1948 Walter Bishop Sr., Jule Styne Born Free 1967 John...
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'King' Cole dies of cancer at 89". Yahoo! News. Retrieved July 12, 2012. Gene Lees, Nat Hentoff (2004). You Can't Steal a Gift: Dizzy, Clark, Milt, and Nat...
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"Dindi," "Gentle Rain" and Jobim's "Double Rainbow" (English lyrics by Gene Lees) elevate this to 3½ stars. The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings awarded...
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Pals series in 2010. Did They Mention the Music?, Henry Mancini with Gene Lees, Published by Contemporary Books, Inc., 1989, page 141. "Henry Mancini...
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