Shopping in a fool's paradise has never been so appealing.
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Turns out we were evidently living in a fool's paradise.
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Or was it just a fool's paradise of glazed bourbon wings?
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Name Withheld Can it be wise to have someone live in a fool's paradise?
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Though she's now readying her debut album Fool's Paradise, the 23-year-old has long built a name for herself.
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So any Democrats who hope to lead a high minded public policy seminar during the campaign live in a fool's paradise.
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And if you're not aware of that, then you are, in a sense, living in what we used to call a fool's paradise.
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Democracy before the French Revolution was generally held to be a fool's paradise—or (even worse, in the eyes of the rich) a tyranny of the poor.
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"If someone thinks martyring our leaders would stop us from our goal they're living in a fool's paradise," a Taliban leader said by telephone from an undisclosed location.
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Three albums in, and innumerable life changes along the way, Fool's Paradise marks a particular metamorphosis of the artist, inching away from the reluctant, shadowy nature of her past.
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Fool's Paradise—an album documenting thorny love, return and departure and return once more, straddling both English and Somali—is Cold Specks as Cold Specks, but also as Ladan Hussein.
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But nothing really cut it in the repertory program, which ended with one of Mr. Wheeldon's weaker efforts, "Fool's Paradise" — essentially, a constellation of sculptural couplings with shimmering confetti and fog.
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Judith Shulevitz A COUNTRY that gives every citizen enough cash to live on whether she needs it or not: It's got to be either a fool's paradise or a profligate Northern European nation.
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The week before we sat down to talk about her third and latest album, Fool's Paradise, I was lucky enough to hear her perform a select set off the forthcoming album for CBC's First Play Live.
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Campus leftists who believe they are serving the cause of goodness and truth by silencing right-wing (or even not-so-right-wing) speakers are living in a fool's paradise, because they temporarily inhabit an environment where they are in the majority.
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Fool's Paradise received the winning prize in the Vienna Modern composition competition in 1994.
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A Fool's Paradise is a 1973 album by the American band Lazarus released on the Bearsville Records label distributed by Warner Bros. Records. The album was also released by Pony Canyon Inc. in Japan on CD. All the songs on A Fool's Paradise were written by Bill Hughes with the exception of "Oklahoma Boy" written by Carl Keesee.
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Four singles from these self-titled albums entered the Billboard R&B; charts. "Fool's Paradise" was a thought-provoking song that reached 14 in the autumn of 1972.
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Fool's Paradise is a 1921 American silent romance film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. The film stars Dorothy Dalton and Conrad Nagel and was based on the short story "Laurels and the Lady" by Leonard Merrick. Prints of Fool's Paradise are preserved at the George Eastman House, the Library of Congress, and the UCLA Film and Television Archive.Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress p.
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In London and on tour she played in the revue Over the Moon (1953), and the plays The Joy of Living (1955), Star Maker (1956), The Bride and the Bachelor (1956), and Fool's Paradise (1959).
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Tebbs, Herbert F. Peterborough: A History (pp.192–194) The Oleander Press, Cambridge, 1979. See also Bromund, Ted A Complete Fool's Paradise: The Attack on the Fitzwilliam Interest in Peterborough 1852 Parliamentary History, vol.12 no.
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Viddikalude Swargam (Fool's Paradise) is a Malayalam short story collection by Vaikom Muhammad Basheer published in 1948. The book is one of the best acknowledged works of Basheer and is considered a modern classic in Malayalam.
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85 and was the precocious schoolgirl Mildred Selwyn opposite H. B. Irving in Sydney Grundy's A Fool's Paradise at the Garrick Theatre (1892).Wearing, The London Stage 1890-1899, p. 101 She was at the Comedy Theatre as Mrs.
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Monday Morning is a Christian alternative rock band from North Carolina, U.S. In 2005 they released their major label debut through Selectric Records, Fool's Paradise, and are known for their number 1 hit song "Wonder of It All (Next Year)".
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Steven S. Gaines, Fool's Paradise: Players, Poseurs, and the Culture of Excess in South Beach (Random House, 2009), , pp. 199-204. Excerpts available at Google Books.William Stadiem, Everybody Eats There (Artisan Books, 2007), , pp. 270-271. Excerpts available at Google Books.
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Fool's Paradise is a chamber opera for children in one act composed by Ofer Ben-Amots with a libretto by the composer based on the short story of the same name by Isaac Bashevis Singer. The opera premiered at the Odeon theatre in Vienna in November 1994.
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The band's first major studio album, Fool's Paradise, was released on August 30, 2005. "Wonder of It All (Next Year)" was released as a single, and reached No. 1 on R&R;'s Christian CHR chart. It was the No. 9 most played song of 2006 on that format.
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The commercial starred Peter Billingsley and Suzanne Somers in different versions of the commercial, respectively. Following Lazarus' disbandment, Hughes went on to pursue a solo career and later formed a successful songwriting partnership with Roxanne Seeman. "Ladyfriends" from A Fool's Paradise was included in the Bearsville Anthology released in 2006.
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Fool's Paradise is the first major studio album released by Christian alternative rock band Monday Morning. It was released on August 30, 2005 through Selectric Records. The album features their single "Wonder of It All (Next Year)", which was the 9th most played song on Christian contemporary hit radio in 2006.
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Morgan was married to playwright, writer and director Shelly Garrett from 1993 until 1994 Jet Magazine - June 14, 1993 A verse from Morgan's 1986 single "Fool's Paradise" was re-vamped, with modified lyrics, by Mary J. Blige as the chorus to the 1996 Jay-Z single "Can't Knock the Hustle".
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Episode titled Life Guards Can't Jump. In 1989, his demo song Fool's Paradise was heard in the 1989 horror film Freakshow. His music was also featured in Heaven Before I Die, a feature film with Omar Sharif. "Feel the Feeling Again" written by Dixon was featured on an episode of television series Degrassi High.
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Madden and Harris were an Australian folk music duo, formed in 1972 by multi- instrumentalist, Peter Harris and his former student, David Madden. They released an album, Fool's Paradise (May 1975), and a single, "Remember Me" (1974), before disbanding later in 1975. Harris issued a solo album, Ruby, via Ritz Grammaphone/Festival, also in 1975.
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He made "Fool's Paradise" his residence year-round, and commuted to Philadelphia or Boston by train.Anna Seaton-Schmidt, "Charles Grafly in His Summer Home", The American Magazine of Art, no. 10 (December 1918). Grafly's protégé, Walker Hancock, considered him "the pre-eminent instructor of sculpture in this country", and came to PAFA in 1920 specifically to study under him.
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Fool's Paradise was the band's major record label debut; it was released on August 30, 2005 through Selectric Records, which was the band's first album through the label. The album's lead single, "Wonder of It All (Next Year)" was played on Christian radio in 2006, and became the year's 9th most-played song on Christian contemporary hit radio.
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In 2019, Haunt released their second EP, (Mosaic Vision) their second studio album, (If Icarus Could Fly) and two split albums. (A Fool's Paradise / On the Streets Again and Sea of Dreams / The Crystal Temple). The following year they released a third album, Mind Freeze, and a compilation, Burst into Demos. Their fourth studio album, Flashback, is set to release in July 2020.
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128 From the Manger to the Cross (1912),McGowan 2005, p. 132 The Shaughraun (1912),McGowan 2005, p. 133 The Last of the Mafia (1915), A Fool's Paradise (1916), Audrey (1916), Pajamas (1927), Love and Learn (1928), and Broadway Howdy (1929). Among the films he directed or produced were The Yankee Girl (1915) and The Mad Maid of the Forest (1915).
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Retrieved June 20, 2007. which is a vocal interpolation of a verse from "Fool's Paradise" by Meli'sa Morgan, with slightly modified lyrics. A live version of "Can't Knock the Hustle" found on the bonus disc of Kingdom Come features Beyoncé singing the song's hook. The song's beat has been heavily sampled by UK soul singer Lemar in his song "50/50".
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Released in 1971, this first album featured the single "Warmth of Your Eyes," which became a moderate hit the following year. Their second and final album, A Fool's Paradise, followed in 1973, from which "Ladyfriends I (Sing a Song to Your Lady)" was tagged as a single. Both albums were produced by Yarrow and Phil Ramone. Over the next four years, Lazarus performed extensively throughout the United States and Canada.
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The Sylvers is the debut album by the Los Angeles, California-based R&B; group the Sylvers. The album was released on MGM Records subsidiary Pride Records, a label founded by record and film producer Michael Viner. Released in 1972, it was produced by R&B; legends Jerry Butler (of the Impressions) and Keg Johnson. This album released three singles: "Fool's Paradise", "Wish I Could Talk to You" and "I'll Never Be Ashamed".
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A Fool's Paradise, script: original cast list on p. 2, Samuel French, Ltd., 1898 Among many other roles in the mid-1880s, she played Agatha Poskett in Arthur Wing Pinero's The Magistrate (1885 at the Court Theatre) and Honour in Robert Buchanan's Sophia (1886; adapted from Fielding's Tom Jones at the Vaudeville Theatre). In 1887, she was Rose in a version of the Arabian Nights, by Von Moser, with Charles Hawtrey and W. S. Penley.
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As an actress, Dayne appeared in the 1997 sci-fi television series Nightman as Carla Day. She has had roles in independent films such as Fool's Paradise (1997), Stag (also in 1997) and Jesus the Driver (2004), as well as the Warren Beatty-produced 1994 remake of Love Affair. Dayne also had a recurring role on the Showtime series Rude Awakening. Dayne has performed alongside Marc Bonilla and Dragonchoir. She performed on Broadway in Elton John's Aida in 2001.
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Lazarus released two albums, the first eponymous Lazarus in 1971, and the second, A Fool's Paradise in 1973. In 1974, The Lettermen covered the Hughes song "Eastward", from the first Lazarus album. It was released as a single, reaching No. 16 on the Billboard US Adult Contemporary chart, and included on The Lettermen's Now And Forever album. In 1976 Lazarus won the Clio Award for "Life Savers" Best Commercial of the Year which ran nine years nationwide.
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Normally diplomatic, in a newspaper article in South Africa, Johnson was blunt with his hosts about race relations in the country: "I am certain that the average man-in-the-street avoids the problem too much for, at the moment, you're living in a fool's paradise".Haigh (2006), p. 17. Urbane, courteous and popular with opposition players and spectators, Colin Cowdrey described Johnson as "an astute leader and fine ambassador for cricket".Cowdrey (1986), p. 197.
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Love Demands is the sixth studio album by American recording artist Meli'sa Morgan, released in 2018 and issued by Goldenlane Records. The album features Morgan's interpretation on a selection of songs original recorded by Tom Jones, The Supremes, the Bee Gees, Aretha Franklin and Sam Cooke. Also included are new tracks co-written Morgan and two bonus tracks of newly recorded versions of her 1980s hit "Fool's Paradise" and "Do Me, Baby", original recorded by Prince.
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Fool's Paradise is a 2006 album recorded by The Head Cat, a collaboration between Lemmy of Motörhead, Slim Jim Phantom (of The Stray Cats), and Danny B. Harvey. It features covers of mostly classic 1950s songs. It is re-release of their first album "Lemmy, Slim Jim & Danny B" recorded in September 1999. This re-release doesn't include 3 songs from original release, it has a different cover and the track list is in a different order.
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The Head Cat was formed after recording the Elvis Presley tribute album by Swing Cats A Special Tribute to Elvis in July 1999 to which the future bandmates all contributed. After recordings were finished they stayed at the studio and Lemmy picked up an acoustic guitar and started playing some of his old favorite songs by Johnny Cash, Buddy Holly, and Eddie Cochran. The rest of the guys knew them all and joined in. The name of the band was created by combining the names Motörhead, The Stray Cats, and 13 Cats, which resulted in The Head Cat, similar to what Lemmy did in 1980 with Headgirl, a collaboration between Motörhead and Girlschool.Kilmister, Ian Fraser and Garza, Janiss, White Line Fever, Simon & Schuster, 2002 In 2006, the band released their first studio album on June 27, Fool's Paradise, which was a re-release of an earlier album titled Lemmy, Slim Jim & Danny B recorded in September 1999, even though Fool's Paradise does not include three songs from the first release and the track list is in a different order.
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AllMusic's Richie Unterberger felt, "which unveiled their mild brand of folk-rock, heavily influenced by both British folk-rock and British progressive rock." The duo appeared on ABC-TV's popular music series, GTK, in September 1974 and twice in November of that year. They also recorded their debut album, Fool's Paradise, in 1974, with session musicians Paul Baker on bass guitar; Nick Churkin, Doug Gallagher and Ross Rignol on drums. It was released in May 1975 on the Jasmine Records label.
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Shtemenko pp. 336–337 Despite the impending catastrophe facing Japan on all fronts, the Kwantung Army commander, General Yamada, and his top leadership, continued to live 'in a fool's paradise.'Coox p. 1066 Even after the obliteration of Hiroshima on 6 August, there was no sense of crisis and special war games (expected to last for five days and attended by a number of high-ranking officers) were conducted near the borders, while Yamada flew to Dairen to dedicate a shrine.
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While she pulls mostly successful pranks, the tables are turned sometimes to effect her as seen in the episodes "Fool's Paradise" and "Fool Me Twice". Luan also has other talents which include being an expert birthday clown, juggler, magician, mime artist, and ventriloquist where she owns a dummy named Mr. Coconuts. It is often shown that Luan gets jealous of her other siblings at times, an example being the episode "Funny Business" where Lincoln begins to overshadow her as a birthday clown.
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South Florida Business Journal: "Born to build - Muss, Soffer progeny develop joint project : Fontainebleau II" by Stephen Van Drake March 11, 2002We Are Many: Reflections On American Jewish History And Identity By Edward S Shapiro retrieved April 13, 2013 Fool's Paradise: Players, Poseurs, and the Culture of Excess in South Beach By Steven Gaines pages 100 -110 In 2005, Muss sold the Fontainebleau to Donald Soffer's, Turnberry AssociatesSun-Sentinel: "Turnberry Buys Fontainebleau - $150 Million Targeted For Upgrades" by Tom Stieghorst January 21, 2005 for $165 million.
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However it was more successful in Europe, notably in the United Kingdom where it reached No. 20 on the national albums chart and earned a Silver disc. The single "Magic Smile" was also a UK Top 30 hit. The CD album has been out of print in North America and Europe since the early 1990s but was rereleased in the UK by Cherry Red Records in 2011. In addition to "Magic Smile", two other tracks ("Interlude" and "Fool's Paradise") were also released as singles.
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They trick him into believing that she is an Air hostess. Chandrika makes Achuthankutty fall for the trick and he himself introduces to her as a Bank Manager and marries her. Aswathi has now thrown her life for revenge and Achuthankutty on a fool's paradise. But soon the lies begin to peel off and Achutankutty goes to extreme ends to meet his primary goal, but later he understands what life and married life should be and comes back to Aswathy after an arduous period of despicable games.
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Among his students were sculptors Eugene Castello, Nancy Coonsman, George Demetrios, Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, Walker Hancock, Charles Harley, Albert Laessle, Paul Manship, Eleanor Mary Mellon, Louis Milione, Albin Polasek, Dudley Pratt, Lawrence Tenney Stevens, and Katherine Lane Weems. In 1905, Grafly bought property in Lanesville, Gloucester, Massachusetts, and built a house and studio that he named "Fool's Paradise". Favored PAFA students were invited to visit and use his studio. Following the 1917 death of sculptor Bela Pratt, Grafly taught (additionally) at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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Joby Talbot – Works, Music Sales Classical (The Music Sales Group). Works for dance include Chroma (2006), Genus (2007), Fool's Paradise (2007), Chamber Symphony (2012), Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (2011, revived 2012 and 2013) and The Winter's Tale (2014), the latter two being full-length narrative ballet scores commissioned by The Royal Ballet and the National Ballet of Canada. Talbot premiered his first opera in January 2015 with Dallas Opera, a one-act work entitled Everest to a libretto by Gene Scheer, which follows three of the climbers involved in the 1996 Mount Everest disaster.
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The earliest recorded use of the term is 1362 in passus VI of William Langland's Piers Plowman, where it is used to mean "a small, misshapen egg", from Middle English coken + ey ("a cock's egg"). Concurrently, the mythical land of luxury Cockaigne (attested from 1305) appeared under a variety of spellings, including Cockayne, Cocknay, and Cockney, and became humorously associated with the English capital London. Cockney: a native of London. An ancient nickname implying effeminacy, used by the oldest English writers, and derived from the imaginary fool's paradise, or lubberland, Cockaygne.
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The hostile-world scenario dwells on self-beliefs about catastrophes and inflictions such as accidents, violence, natural disasters, wars, illness, breakup of close relationships, losses of beloved ones, aging, and death. For most people, the hostile-world scenario is an adaptive mechanism for scanning potentially adverse conditions in life. Yet, when under-activated, it may induce a fool's paradise with reckless behaviors and, when over-activated, it may produce a horrible sense of living in a disastrous world. The ever-active negotiations between the happiness-promoting systems and the hostile-world scenario constitute the dynamic core of the model.
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King left Charterhouse in 1962 to attend Davies's, a London crammer, for his A levels. With his wages from a job stacking shelves in a supermarket, he made a demo of himself the following year singing "It Doesn't Matter Anymore" and "Fool's Paradise" Eden Kane song with the Ted Taylor Trio, a professional group in Rickmansworth. Wearing a pinstripe suit and trainers, he approached John Schroeder of Oriole Records and told him he could make a hit record. "I have been studying the music industry for the last three years and it is one big joke," Schroeder reported him as saying.
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Marjoe, the biography of evangelist Marjoe Gortner; Me, Alice, the autobiography of rock star Alice Cooper; Discotheque, a novel; The Club, a novel (with Robert Jon Cohen); Another Runner in the Night, a novel; The Love You Make: An Insider’s Story of the Beatles (with Peter Brown); Heroes and Villains: The True Story of the Beach Boys.; Simply Halston: The Untold Story; Obsession: The Lives and Times of Calvin Klein (with Sharon Churcher) Philistines at the Hedgerow: Passion and Property in the Hamptons. The Sky’s the Limit: Passion and Property in Manhattan. Fool's Paradise: Players, Poseurs and the Culture of Excess in South Beach.
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In The Spell of the Yukon (1916) she has the leading female part in a feature starring Edmund Breese, which is adapted from a poem by Robert W. Service. Service is known as the Kipling of the North.Christine Mayo, Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette, Wednesday Morning, June 7, 1916, pg. 15. Mayo performs the role of Hattie Fenshaw in Who's Your Neighbor? (1917).Week's News And Views Of The Stage And Pictures, Los Angeles Times, December 2, 1917, pg. III1. still from A Fool's Paradise (1916) International spy, Dr. Karl Graves, was arrested in Lima, Ohio, where he traveled after watching Mayo perform at the Empire Theater in New York City.
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" The album's musical style has been compared to U2, specifically on the track "Wonder of It All (Next Year)". Christian Music Today editor Russ Breimeier concluded his review with, "there are some impressive flashes of rock intensity and melodic hooks on Fool's Paradise that are compromised by other more formulaic and predictable tracks." Cross Rhythms magazine was more negative towards it: "Unfortunately Monday Morning follow in the footsteps of bands like Radialangel and Stereo Motion in creating an album which fizzes loudly but never really explodes into anything memorable. Everything is in place as you'd expect ... none of the songs sound like anything you haven't heard already a hundred times.
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"Alice in Wonderland, Royal Ballet, review", The Daily Telegraph, 17 March 2013 A suite from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, along with the score from the duo's first collaboration Fool's Paradise, was recorded in London in November 2012 by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under Christopher Austin and released in January 2013. In May 2013, Wheeldon choreographed sections of an orchestral version of Talbot's 2009 work Tide Harmonic for Pacific Northwest Ballet, under the same title. In London in April 2014, the pair premiered a second full-length narrative work for The Royal Ballet and National Ballet of Canada, an adaptation of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. Talbot commented that he spent two years thinking about 'nothing else.
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Meet the Magoons is a six-part comedy television series in the United Kingdom aired on Channel 4 in 2005, directed by and starring Hardeep Singh Kohli. The main characters are a Punjabi family who live in Glasgow, and own an Indian restaurant called "The Spice". It received mixed reviews. A. A. Gill hoped it "might well evolve into something classic" and Nancy Banks-Smith of The Guardian called it "modern to the point of surreal".The light’s on, but nobody’s home, A. A. Gill, The Sunday Times, 21 August 2005, retrieved 14 April 2010A fool's paradise, Last night's TV, Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 10 September 2005, retrieved 14 April 2010 A second series was not commissioned.
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Peter Milne (born 1960) is an Australian photographer and visual artist, born and living in Melbourne. He is known for his early work documenting the 1970s Melbourne punk scene and the first decade of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. The 2018 monograph Fool's Paradise : The Early Years of the Melbourne Comedy Festival consists largely of candid images of comedians taken in bars and backstage. In 2020 he published a book of works made in his late teens and early 20s, Juvenalia, with photographs of Rowland S. Howard, Nick Cave and Mick Harvey, their bands The Birthday Party and The Boys Next Door as well as their friends, including Gina Riley, Polly Borland and Anita Lane.
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Cooke and his musicians—pianist Ray Johnson, organist Billy Preston (who was only 16 at the time of recording), lead guitarist Barney Kessell, alternating drummers Hal Blaine and Ed Hall, bassist Cliff Hils and Clif White, and René Hall on rhythm guitar—cut Night Beat in three days during late-night recording sessions at RCA Victor Studios in Hollywood in February 1963. "I Lost Everything", "Get Yourself Another Fool" and "Trouble Blues" were laid down on February 22, with the group returning, sans Kessell, the following day to record "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen", "Mean Old World", "Little Red Rooster" and "Laughin' and Clownin'". The last recording session for Night Beat took place on February 25, when the same group, sans Hall and Kessell, reunited to commit "Lost and Lookin'", "Please Don't Drive Me Away", "You Gotta Move", "Fool's Paradise" and "Shake Rattle and Roll" to tape.
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On Saturday 4 July 1885, a "frank warning" was issued in the Pall Mall Gazette: "All those who are squeamish, and all those who are prudish, and all those who would prefer to live in a fool's paradise of imaginary innocence and purity, selfishly oblivious to the horrible realities which torment those whose lives are passed in the London inferno, will do well not to read the Pall Mall Gazette of Monday and the three following days".W.T. Stead, Notice to our Readers: A Frank Warning, The Pall Mall Gazette, 4 July 1885. The public's appetite whetted sufficiently in anticipation, on Monday 6 July, Stead published the first instalments of The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon. The first instalment taking up six whole pages, Stead attacked vice with eye-catching subheadings: "The Violation of Virgins", "The Confessions of a Brothel-Keeper", "How Girls Were Bought and Ruined".
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Steven Gaines (born 1946) is an American author, journalist, and radio show host. His 13 books include Philistines at the Hedgerow: Passion and Property in the Hamptons; The Sky’s the Limit: Passion and Property in Manhattan; The Love You Make: An Insider's Story of The Beatles; Heroes and Villains: The True Story of the Beach Boys; Marjoe, the biography of evangelist Marjoe Gortner; and "Fool's Paradise: Players, Poseurs and the Culture of Excess in South Beach"; and "One of These Things First," a memoir. Gaines was a contributing editor at New York Magazine and his journalism has appeared in Vanity Fair, the New York Observer, the New York Times, Los Angeles, Worth, and Connoisseur. From 2003 to 2010 Gaines hosted a weekly, live roundtable radio interview show from the Hamptons called "Sunday Brunch Live from the American Hotel in Sag Harbor," that aired from Memorial Weekend to Labor Day on a local National Public Radio affiliate.
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Subsequent to Chroma, Talbot became increasingly involved in projects for dance, adapting his 2002 score for Evgenii Bauer's silent film The Dying Swan to score Fool's Paradise, a short 2007 work devised by choreographer Christopher Wheeldon for his company Morphoses and later integrated into the repertoire of The Royal Ballet, where Wheeldon is currently Artistic Associate. When Wheeldon was appointed to choreograph The Royal Ballet's first new, full-length narrative ballet commissioned in almost 20 years, he approached Talbot to write the score.Toronyi-Lalic, Igor "Joby Talbot heads down the rabbit hole for the Royal Ballet's Alice", The Times, 28 February 2011 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, commissioned jointly by the Royal and the National Ballet of Canada, premiered at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden on 28 February 2011, and at the Four Seasons Performing Arts Centre, Toronto, on 4 June 2011. The production has had its third consecutive run with The Royal Ballet in March 2013 and has thus far been successfully toured to Los Angeles and Washington D.C. by the National Ballet of Canada.
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Herb Hendler (June 17, 1918 – October 16, 2007) was an American record producer and lyricist. He was director of A&R; and sole producer at RCA Victor Records in the 1940s. He produced Perry Como's first hit records and signed Glenn Miller to his final contract. He wrote the lyrics for Rosemary Clooney's first hit, "The Kid's a Dreamer (The Kid from Fool's Paradise)," later a hit for Tony Bennett; also Johnnie Ray's “Coffee and Cigarettes,” Nat King Cole's "The Magic Tree" and "Hot Toddy," a hit for Ralph Flanagan, Ted Heath and Julie London, recorded by some eighty other artists. He created and managed the Ralph Flanagan Orchestra, which was greatly popular in the early 1950s and had many chart hits,Clarke, Donald, ed. (1989). The Penguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music (London and New York: Viking),Jewell, Derek (1977). Duke: A Portrait of Duke Ellington (London: Elm Tree Books)Larkin, Colin (1992). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music (Enfield, Middlesex: Guinness Publishing)Simon, George T. (1981). The Big Bands (New York: Schirmer Books)Walker, Leo (1989).
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