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Les Brown (politician) Leslie Calvin Brown (born February 17, 1945) is an American politician and motivational speaker. He was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives from 1977 to 1981. [ 1]
Les Brown Jr. In 2001, Les Brown Jr. (1940–2023), became the full-time leader of the Band of Renown. It performed throughout the world and had a regular big band show in Branson, Missouri. Brown Jr. also hosted a national radio show on the Music of Your Life network. Brown Jr. was a television actor in the 1960s ( Gunsmoke, General Hospital ...
Gladys Knight. Gladys Maria Knight (born May 28, 1944), known as the "Empress of Soul", [ 1][ 2] is an American singer. A ten-time Grammy Award -winner, [ 3] Knight recorded hits through the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s with her family group Gladys Knight & the Pips, which included her brother Merald "Bubba" Knight and cousins William Guest and ...
Les Brown and His Band of Renown had been performing the song, but were unable to record it because of the 1942–44 musicians' strike.When the strike ended, the band, with Doris Day as vocalist, recorded the song for Columbia Records on November 20, 1944, and they had a hit record with the song, Doris Day's first number one hit, in 1945. [1]
Les Brown Ben Homer: Bud Green: November 20, 1944 (with Les Brown's Band of Renown) 5,000,000+ sales, #1 on charts September 11, 1964 from the album Doris Day's Sentimental Journey Grammy Hall of Fame 1998 "Serenade in Blue" Harry Warren: Mack Gordon: September 15, 1964 from the album Doris Day's Sentimental Journey "Seven and a Half Cents ...
Les Brown's instrumental version, arranged by Skip Martin and recorded in 1946 as Columbia #38324, became a million-seller and Billboard top ten song in 1949. [9] Brown said that he got a call from Columbia Records after he performed the song telling him to record it, only to respond that he had recorded it three years earlier. [10]
The biggest hit version of the song was recorded by the Les Brown Orchestra with a vocal by Doris Day. [2] The Les Brown/Doris Day version was recorded on March 2, 1945 and released by Columbia Records as catalog number 36779. [3] The record first reached the Billboard charts on March 15, 1945, and lasted 12 weeks on the chart, peaking at #1. [4]
Les Brown (journalist) Lester Louis Brown (20 December 1928 - 4 November 2013) was an American "pioneer in television journalism". [1] He was also a publisher and book author, with topics reporting on the business of television. [2] He founded a magazine called Channels of Communications in 1981.