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Robert Farnon

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Robert Joseph Farnon CM (July 24, 1917April 23, 2005) was a Canadian-born composer, conductor, musical arranger and trumpet player. [1]

74 relations: All for Mary, AllMusic, André Previn, Angela Morley, Bear Island (film), Billboard (magazine), Blogger (service), Brass band, Canadian Army, Canadians, Captain Horatio Hornblower, Channel Islands, Colditz (TV series), Composer, Conducting, Dennis Farnon, Dizzy Gillespie, DownBeat, England, Frank Sinatra, Gaels, Gene Lees, Gentlemen Marry Brunettes, Glenn Miller, Grammy Award for Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella, Guernsey, IMDb, It's a Wonderful World (1956 film), Ivor Novello Awards, J. J. Johnson, Jet (magazine), Lena Horne, Lena: A New Album, Light music, List of Canadian composers, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Montreal Gazette, Music of Canada, National Jazz Archive, Ontario, Order of Canada, Ottawa Citizen, Phonograph record, Quincy Jones, Ralph J. Gleason, Reuters, Roxbury High School (New Jersey), Royal Albert Hall, Sarah Vaughan, Secret Army (TV series), ..., Shalako (film), Sinatra Sings Great Songs from Great Britain, Snowfall: The Tony Bennett Christmas Album, Stanley Saunders, Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, Television show, Thames Television, The Age, The Canadian Press, The Disappearance, The Guardian, The Independent, The Little Hut, The Road to Hong Kong, The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw, The Truth About Spring, Tony Bennett, Tony Bennett at the Talk of the Town, Toronto, True as a Turtle, Trumpet, Vaughan with Voices, William Stevenson (Canadian writer), World War II. Expand index (24 more) »

All for Mary

All for Mary is a 1955 British comedy film brought to the screen by Paul Soskin Productions for The Rank Organisation.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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André Previn

André George Previn, KBE (born Andreas Ludwig Priwin; April 6, 1929) is a German-American pianist, conductor, and composer.

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Angela Morley

Angela Morley (born Walter "Wally" Stott, 10 March 192414 January 2009) was an English composer and conductor who, as Stott, became a familiar household name to BBC radio listeners in the 1950s.

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Bear Island (film)

Bear Island is a 1979 Anglo-Canadian thriller film loosely based on the novel Bear Island by Alistair MacLean.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (styled as billboard) is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries.

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Blogger (service)

Blogger is a blog-publishing service that allows multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries.

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Brass band

A brass band is a musical ensemble generally consisting entirely of brass instruments, most often with a percussion section.

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Canadian Army

The Canadian Army (French: Armée canadienne) is the command responsible for the operational readiness of the conventional ground forces of the Canadian Armed Forces.

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Canadians

Canadians (Canadiens / Canadiennes) are people identified with the country of Canada.

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Captain Horatio Hornblower

Captain Horatio Hornblower (a.k.a. Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. in the UK, "R.N." standing for "Royal Navy") is a 1951 British-American naval swashbuckling war film in Technicolor from Warner Bros., produced by Gerry Mitchell, directed by Raoul Walsh, that stars Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty and Terence Morgan.

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Channel Islands

The Channel Islands (Norman: Îles d'la Manche; French: Îles Anglo-Normandes or Îles de la Manche) are an archipelago in the English Channel, off the French coast of Normandy.

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Colditz (TV series)

Colditz is a British television series co-produced by the BBC and Universal Studios and screened between 1972 and 1974.

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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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Conducting

Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance, such as an orchestral or choral concert.

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Dennis Farnon

Dennis Farnon (born 13 August 1923) is a Canadian orchestra conductor and composer.

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Dizzy Gillespie

John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and singer.

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DownBeat

DownBeat (stylized DOWNBEAT) is an American magazine devoted to "jazz, blues and beyond", the last word indicating its expansion beyond the jazz realm which it covered exclusively in previous years.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer, actor, and producer who was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century.

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Gaels

The Gaels (Na Gaeil, Na Gàidheil, Ny Gaeil) are an ethnolinguistic group native to northwestern Europe.

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Gene Lees

Frederick Eugene John "Gene" Lees (February 8, 1928 – April 22, 2010) was a Canadian music critic, biographer, lyricist, and journalist.

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Gentlemen Marry Brunettes

Gentlemen Marry Brunettes is a 1955 technicolor romantic musical comedy film produced by Russ-Field productions, starring Jane Russell and Jeanne Crain, and released by United Artists.

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Glenn Miller

Alton Glenn Miller (March 1, 1904 – December 15, 1944) The website for Arlington National Cemetery refers to Glenn Miller as "missing in action since Dec.

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Grammy Award for Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella

The Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement (and its subsequent name changes) has been awarded since 1963.

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Guernsey

Guernsey is an island in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy.

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IMDb

IMDb, also known as Internet Movie Database, is an online database of information related to world films, television programs, home videos and video games, and internet streams, including cast, production crew and personnel biographies, plot summaries, trivia, and fan reviews and ratings.

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It's a Wonderful World (1956 film)

It's a Wonderful World is a 1956 British musical film directed by Val Guest and starring Terence Morgan, George Cole, Mylène Demongeot (in her first English-language film and listed in the credits as Mylène Nicole) and Kathleen Harrison.

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Ivor Novello Awards

The Ivor Novello Awards, named after the entertainer Ivor Novello, are awards for songwriting and composing.

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J. J. Johnson

James Louis "J.

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Jet (magazine)

Jet is a magazine, currently in digital format, marketed to African-American readers.

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Lena Horne

Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) was an African American singer, dancer, actress, and civil rights activist.

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Lena: A New Album

Lena: A New Album is a 1976 studio album by Lena Horne, arranged by Robert Farnon.

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Light music

Light music is a generic term applied to "light" orchestral music, which originated in the 18th and 19th centuries and continues until the present day.

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List of Canadian composers

This is a list of composers who are either native to the country of Canada, are citizens of that nation, or have spent a major portion of their careers living and working in Canada.

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is a daily morning broadsheet printed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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Montreal Gazette

The Montreal Gazette, formerly titled The Gazette, is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, after three other daily English newspapers shut down at various times during the second half of the 20th century.

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Music of Canada

The music of Canada has reflected the diverse influences that have shaped the country.

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National Jazz Archive

The National Jazz Archive is a collection of materials pertaining to jazz and blues that is kept at the Loughton Library in Essex, England.

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Ontario

Ontario is one of the 13 provinces and territories of Canada and is located in east-central Canada.

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Order of Canada

The Order of Canada (Ordre du Canada) is a Canadian national order and the second highest honour for merit in the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada.

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Ottawa Citizen

The Ottawa Citizen is an English-language daily newspaper owned by Postmedia Network in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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Phonograph record

A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English, or record) is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove.

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Quincy Jones

Quincy Delight Jones Jr. (born March 14, 1933), also known as "Q", is an American musician and record producer.

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Ralph J. Gleason

Ralph Joseph Gleason (March 1, 1917 – June 3, 1975) was an American jazz and popular music critic.

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Reuters

Reuters is an international news agency headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

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Roxbury High School (New Jersey)

Roxbury High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school in the Succasunna section of Roxbury Township in Morris County, New Jersey, United States, serving students in ninth through twelfth grades, operating as the lone secondary school of the Roxbury School District.

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Royal Albert Hall

The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall on the northern edge of South Kensington, London, which has held the Proms concerts annually each summer since 1941.

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Sarah Vaughan

Sarah Lois Vaughan (March 27, 1924 – April 3, 1990) was an American jazz singer.

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Secret Army (TV series)

Secret Army is a television drama made by the BBC and the Belgian national broadcaster BRT (now VRT) created by Gerard Glaister.

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Shalako (film)

Shalako is a British 1968 Western film directed by Edward Dmytryk and starring Sean Connery and Brigitte Bardot.

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Sinatra Sings Great Songs from Great Britain

Sinatra Sings Great Songs From Great Britain is an album by Frank Sinatra, arranged by Robert Farnon, recorded in London in June 1962 at CTS Studios by Eric Tomlinson, a renowned recording and film industry dubbing engineer, who would go on to record the soundtracks to dozens of feature films including Oliver! (1968), Fiddler on the Roof (1971), and the original Star Wars trilogy (1977; 1980; 1983).

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Snowfall: The Tony Bennett Christmas Album

Snowfall: The Tony Bennett Christmas Album is a 1968 studio album by Tony Bennett, his first Christmas album.

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Stanley Saunders

Stanley Saunders, D.M.A., (born 3 May 1927) is a Welsh educator, clarinetist, violinist, and conductor.

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Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force

Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) was the headquarters of the Commander of Allied forces in north west Europe, from late 1943 until the end of World War II.

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Television show

A television show (often simply TV show) is any content produced for broadcast via over-the-air, satellite, cable, or internet and typically viewed on a television set, excluding breaking news, advertisements, or trailers that are typically placed between shows.

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Thames Television

Thames Television was a franchise holder for a region of the British ITV television network serving London and surrounding area on weekdays from 30 July 1968 until the night of 31 December 1992.

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The Age

The Age is a daily newspaper that has been published in Melbourne, Australia, since 1854.

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The Canadian Press

The Canadian Press (CP; La Presse Canadienne) is a national news agency headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

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The Disappearance

The Disappearance is a 1977 British-Canadian thriller film directed by Stuart Cooper and starring Donald Sutherland, Francine Racette and David Hemmings.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Little Hut

The Little Hut is a 1957 British-American romantic comedy film made by MGM starring Ava Gardner, Stewart Granger and David Niven.

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The Road to Hong Kong

The Road to Hong Kong is a 1962 British comedy film directed by Norman Panama and starring Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, as well as Joan Collins, with a cameo featuring Dorothy Lamour in the setting of Hong Kong under British Rule.

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The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw

The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (also known as La Bionda e Lo Sceriffo/The Blonde and the Sheriff) is a 1958 British CinemaScope Western comedy directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Kenneth More and Jayne Mansfield.

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The Truth About Spring

The Truth about Spring (also known as The Pirates of Spring Cove) is a 1965 film released by Universal.

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Tony Bennett

Anthony Dominick Benedetto (born August 3, 1926), known professionally as Tony Bennett, is an American singer of traditional pop standards, big band, show tunes, and jazz.

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Tony Bennett at the Talk of the Town

Tony Bennett at the Talk of the Town was a British television series hosted by American pop standards and jazz singer Tony Bennett that aired during 1972.

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Toronto

Toronto is the capital city of the province of Ontario and the largest city in Canada by population, with 2,731,571 residents in 2016.

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True as a Turtle

True as a Turtle is a 1957 British comedy film directed by Wendy Toye and starring John Gregson, Cecil Parker, June Thorburn and Keith Michell.

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Trumpet

A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles.

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Vaughan with Voices

Vaughan with Voices is a 1964 studio album by Sarah Vaughan, arranged by Robert Farnon.

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William Stevenson (Canadian writer)

William Henry Stevenson (1 June 192426 November 2013) was a British-born Canadian author and journalist.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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References

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

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