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Joni James

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Joni James (born Joan Carmella Babbo, September 22, 1930 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American singer of traditional pop music. [1]

84 relations: Abbey Road Studios, Academy of Music (Philadelphia), Adolescence, Album, Almost Always, American Film Institute, Asia-Pacific, Ballet, Ballistic missile, Barbra Streisand, Be My Love, Bernard Adolph Schriever, Billboard Hot 100, Bowen High School (Chicago), Canada, Capitol Records, Carnival!, Chicago, Composer, Count Basie, Cover version, Dance, Danny Boy, Dindi, Drama, Edgewater Beach Hotel, Entertainment One Music, France, Hank Williams, Have You Heard?, Hawaiian War Chant, He Says the Same Things to Me, Hey, Good Lookin' (song), Hit record, Hollywood Walk of Fame, How Important Can It Be?, I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby, I Need You Now (1954 song), I'm Sorry for You, My Friend, Intercontinental ballistic missile, Intermediate-range ballistic missile, Is It Any Wonder? (Joni James song), Let There Be Love (1940 song), Let There Be Love (1953 Joni James album), List of islands of Greece, Little Things Mean a Lot, London, Love Letters (song), Manila, Marriage, ..., Meet Me in St. Louis, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, MGM Records, Music industry, My Baby Just Cares for Me, My Love, My Love, New York City, Once I Loved, Pearly Shells, Philadelphia, Philippines, Record chart, Red Sails in the Sunset (song), Sentimental Me, September 11 attacks, Singing, Sound recording and reproduction, South Chicago, Chicago, St. Patrick's Cathedral (Manhattan), Television advertisement, The Christmas Song, Top 40, Traditional pop music, UK Singles Chart, United States Air Force, Washington, D.C., When You Wish Upon a Star, Why Don't You Believe Me?, You Are My Love (1955 song), You Are My Sunshine, You Belong to Me (1952 song), You're My Everything (1931 song), You're Nearer, Your Cheatin' Heart. Expand index (34 more) »

Abbey Road Studios

Abbey Road Studios (formerly known as EMI Recording Studios) is a recording studio at 3 Abbey Road, St John's Wood, City of Westminster, London, England.

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Academy of Music (Philadelphia)

The Academy of Music, also known as American Academy of Music, is a concert hall and opera house located at 240 S. Broad Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Adolescence

AdolescenceMacmillan Dictionary for Students Macmillan, Pan Ltd.

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Album

An album is a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, audio tape or another medium.

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Almost Always

"Almost Always" is a popular song.

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American Film Institute

The American Film Institute (AFI) is an American film organization that educates filmmakers and honors the heritage of the motion picture arts in the United States.

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Asia-Pacific

Asia-Pacific or Asia Pacific (abbreviated as APAC, Asia-Pac, AsPac, APJ, JAPA or JAPAC) is the part of the world in or near the Western Pacific Ocean.

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Ballet

Ballet is a type of performance dance that originated during the Italian Renaissance in the 15th century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia.

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Ballistic missile

A ballistic missile follows a ballistic trajectory to deliver one or more warheads on a predetermined target.

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Barbra Streisand

Barbara Joan "Barbra" Streisand (born April 24, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker.

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Be My Love

"Be My Love" is a popular song with lyrics by Sammy Cahn and music by Nicholas Brodzsky.

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Bernard Adolph Schriever

General Bernard Adolph Schriever (September 14, 1910 – June 20, 2005), also known as Bennie Schriever, was a United States Air Force general.

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Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.

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Bowen High School (Chicago)

James H. Bowen High School (known simply as Bowen High School) is a public 4–year high school located in the South Chicago neighborhood on the south side of Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

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Capitol Records

Capitol Records, Inc. is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group through its Capitol Music Group imprint.

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Carnival!

Carnival! is a musical, originally produced by David Merrick on Broadway in 1961, with the book by Michael Stewart and music and lyrics by Bob Merrill.

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Chicago

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.

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Composer

A composer (Latin ''compōnō''; literally "one who puts together") is a musician who is an author of music in any form, including vocal music (for a singer or choir), instrumental music, electronic music, and music which combines multiple forms.

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Count Basie

William James "Count" Basie (August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984) was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer.

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Cover version

In popular music, a cover version, cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording by someone other than the original artist or composer of a previously recorded, commercially released song.

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Dance

Dance is a performing art form consisting of purposefully selected sequences of human movement.

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Danny Boy

"Danny Boy" is a ballad set to an ancient Irish melody.

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Dindi

"Dindi" (- which sounds like Jin-jee in English) is a song composed by Antônio Carlos Jobim, with lyrics by Aloysio de Oliveira.

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Drama

Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.

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Edgewater Beach Hotel

The Edgewater Beach Hotel was a resort hotel complex on Lake Michigan in the far-north neighborhood community of Edgewater in Chicago, Illinois, designed by Benjamin H. Marshall and Charles E. Fox.

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Entertainment One Music

Entertainment One Music is an independent record label owned by Entertainment One in the United States.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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Hank Williams

Hiram "Hank" Williams (September 17, 1923 – January 1, 1953) was an American singer-songwriter.

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Have You Heard?

"Have You Heard?" is a popular song written by Lew Douglas, Frank LaVere and LeRoy W. Rodde and published in 1952.

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Hawaiian War Chant

"Hawaiian War Chant" was an American popular song whose original melody and lyrics were written in the 1860s by Prince Leleiohoku.

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He Says the Same Things to Me

"He Says the Same Things to Me" is a song written by Gary Geld and Peter Udell.

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Hey, Good Lookin' (song)

"Hey, Good Lookin'" is a 1951 song written and recorded by Hank Williams, and his version was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001.

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Hit record

A hit record is an audio recording, usually in the form of a single or album, that sells a large number of copies or otherwise becomes broadly popular or well-known, through airplay, club play, inclusion in a film or stage play soundtrack, causing it to have "hit" (appeared on) one of the popular chart listings.

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Hollywood Walk of Fame

The Hollywood Walk of Fame comprises more than 2,600 five-pointed terrazzo and brass stars embedded in the sidewalks along 15 blocks of Hollywood Boulevard and three blocks of Vine Street in Hollywood, California.

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How Important Can It Be?

"How Important Can It Be?" is a popular song written by Bennie Benjamin and George David Weiss, and published in 1955.

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I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby

"I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby" is an American popular song and jazz standard by Jimmy McHugh (music) and Dorothy Fields (lyrics).

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I Need You Now (1954 song)

"I Need You Now" is a popular song written by Al Jacobs and Jimmie Crane.

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I'm Sorry for You, My Friend

"I'm Sorry for You, My Friend" is a song written and recorded by Hank Williams.

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Intercontinental ballistic missile

An intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) is a guided ballistic missile with a minimum range of primarily designed for nuclear weapons delivery (delivering one or more thermonuclear warheads).

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Intermediate-range ballistic missile

An intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) is a ballistic missile with a range of 3,000–5,500 km (1,864–3,418 miles), between a medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM) and an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).

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Is It Any Wonder? (Joni James song)

"Is It Any Wonder?" is a popular song, written by Robert J. Hayes, Leroy W. Rodde, and Archie Gottler.

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Let There Be Love (1940 song)

"Let There Be Love" is a popular song with music by Lionel Rand and lyrics by Ian Grant, published in 1940.

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Let There Be Love (1953 Joni James album)

Let There Be Love is Joni James debut album, recorded in 1953 and released by MGM Records at the end of the year.

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List of islands of Greece

Greece has a large number of islands, with estimates ranging from somewhere around 1,200 to 6,000, depending on the minimum size to take into account.

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Little Things Mean a Lot

"Little Things Mean a Lot" is a popular song written by Edith Lindeman (lyrics) and Carl Stutz (music), published in 1953.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Love Letters (song)

"Love Letters" is a 1945 popular song with lyrics by Edward Heyman and music by Victor Young.

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Manila

Manila (Maynilà, or), officially the City of Manila (Lungsod ng Maynilà), is the capital of the Philippines and the most densely populated city proper in the world.

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Marriage

Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a socially or ritually recognised union between spouses that establishes rights and obligations between those spouses, as well as between them and any resulting biological or adopted children and affinity (in-laws and other family through marriage).

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Meet Me in St. Louis

Meet Me in St.

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (initialized as MGM or hyphenated as M-G-M, also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or simply Metro, and for a former interval known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, or MGM/UA) is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of feature films and television programs.

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MGM Records

MGM Records was a record label started by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film studio in 1946 for the purpose of releasing soundtrack albums of their musical films.

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Music industry

The music industry consists of the companies and individuals that earn money by creating new songs and pieces and selling live concerts and shows, audio and video recordings, compositions and sheet music, and the organizations and associations that aid and represent music creators.

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My Baby Just Cares for Me

"My Baby Just Cares for Me" is a jazz standard written by Walter Donaldson with lyrics by Gus Kahn.

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My Love, My Love

"My Love, My Love" is a popular song.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Once I Loved

"Once I Loved" ("O Amor em Paz") is a bossa nova jazz standard composed in 1960 by Antônio Carlos Jobim, with lyrics by Vinícius de Moraes.

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Pearly Shells

Pearly Shells (Pupu A ʻO ʻEwa) is an old Hawaiian song.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.

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Philippines

The Philippines (Pilipinas or Filipinas), officially the Republic of the Philippines (Republika ng Pilipinas), is a unitary sovereign and archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.

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Record chart

A record chart, also called a music chart, is a ranking of recorded music according to certain criteria during a given period of time.

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Red Sails in the Sunset (song)

"Red Sails in the Sunset" is a popular song.

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Sentimental Me

"Sentimental Me" is a popular song.

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September 11 attacks

The September 11, 2001 attacks (also referred to as 9/11) were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001.

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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Sound recording and reproduction

Sound recording and reproduction is an electrical, mechanical, electronic, or digital inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects.

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South Chicago, Chicago

South Chicago, formerly known as Ainsworth, is one of the 77 well-defined community areas of Chicago, Illinois.

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St. Patrick's Cathedral (Manhattan)

The Cathedral of St.

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Television advertisement

A television advertisement (also called a television commercial, commercial or ad in American English, and known in British English as a TV advert or simply an advert) is a span of television programming produced and paid for by an organization.

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The Christmas Song

"The Christmas Song" (commonly subtitled "Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire" or, as it was originally subtitled, "Merry Christmas to You") is a classic Christmas song written in 1945 by Bob Wells and Mel Tormé.

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Top 40

In the music industry, the top 40 is the current, 40 most-popular songs in a particular genre.

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Traditional pop music

Traditional pop (also classic pop or pop standards) is music that was recorded or performed after the Big Band era and before the advent of rock music.

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UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently entitled Official Singles Chart) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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United States Air Force

The United States Air Force (USAF) is the aerial and space warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.

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When You Wish Upon a Star

"When You Wish Upon a Star" is a song written by Leigh Harline and Ned Washington for Walt Disney's 1940 adaptation of Pinocchio.

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Why Don't You Believe Me?

"Why Don't You Believe Me?" is a popular song written by Lew Douglas, King Laney, and Roy Rodde and published in 1952.

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You Are My Love (1955 song)

"You Are My Love" is a popular song.

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You Are My Sunshine

"You Are My Sunshine" is a popular song written by Jimmie Davis and Charles Mitchell and first recorded in 1939.

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You Belong to Me (1952 song)

"You Belong to Me" is a romantic popular music ballad from the 1950s.

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You're My Everything (1931 song)

"You're My Everything"' is a 1931 song with music by Harry Warren and lyrics by Mort Dixon and Joe Young.

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You're Nearer

"You're Nearer" is an American popular song by composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Lorenz Hart (Rodgers and Hart) from the 1940 film version of the Broadway musical Too Many Girls.

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Your Cheatin' Heart

"Your Cheatin' Heart" is a song written and recorded by country music singer-songwriter Hank Williams in 1952, regarded as one of country's most important standards.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joni_James

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