" Also on the album were " The Kid from Red Bank " featuring a gloriously sparse piano solo that was Basie's hallmark, and other songs that quickly became Basie favorites, such as " Flight of the Foo Birds " with Eddie Lockjaw Davis ' flying tenor solo, " Fantail " with Frank Wess's soaring alto solo, and the masterpiece ensemble lines of " Teddy the Toad ".

The majority of Basie's recordings were made with his big band, see Count Basie Orchestra Discography.

The Blue Devils were the foundation for Count Basie's orchestra.

Fitzgerald features on one track on Basie's 1957 album One O ' Clock Jump, while her 1963 album Ella and Basie!

One of Basie's biggest regrets was never recording with Louis Armstrong, though they shared the same bill several times.

The following year, they made a cover of Count Basie's song " One O ' Clock Jump ".

Though not a regular member of the band, Page appeared as a vocalist, emcee and hot trumpet soloist with Count Basie's Reno Club orchestra after the Moten band finally disbanded upon that leader's sudden death in April, 1935.

Davis left the UK before Holland could contact him directly, and two weeks later Holland was given three days ' notice to fly to New York for an engagement at Count Basie's nightclub.

Right from the start, Basie's band was noted for its rhythm section.

Hammond had heard Basie's band over short-wave radio and went to Kansas City to check them out.

Compared to the reigning band of Fletcher Henderson, Basie's band lacked polish and presentation.

Basie's 14-man band began playing at the Famous Door, a mid-town nightspot with a CBS network feed and air conditioning.

Basie's new band was more of an ensemble group, with fewer solo turns, and relying less on " head " and more on written arrangements.

Basie's band was sharing Birdland with such bebop greats as Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and Miles Davis.

By the mid-1950s, Basie's band had become one of the preeminent backing big bands for some of the most prominent jazz vocalists of the time.

In 1959, Basie's band recorded a " greatest hits " double album The Count Basie Story ( Frank Foster, arranger ) and " Basie and Eckstine, Inc .": album featuring Billy Eckstine, Quincy Jones ( as arranger ) and the Count Basie Orchestra.

He was an American singer, who performed with Count Basie's band from 1961 to 1965 and sang on the 1969 Grammy Award-winning recording of the song " Little Green Apples ".

* August 1942 went to Hollywood with Basie's band to record for the film Reveille with Beverly

From 1953 he joined Count Basie's band, playing flute and tenor sax.

He reverted to alto sax in the late ' 50s, and left Basie's band in 1964.

These experiences seeing Gillespie and Basie play in Omaha foreshadowed his period in New York watching Gillespie play and develop the music of bebop on 52nd Street and his later involvement with Count Basie's band.

Although the New Testament band never became a show band in that sense, it was much more of an ensemble band than Basie's previous orchestras.

Again, by matching the individual parts of the arrangements to the unique abilities of Basie's band, Hefti was able to highlight the best of their talents, and make the most of the ensemble.

Some of her recordings instead featured members of Count Basie's band.

Although a judge declared Webb's band the official winner in 1938 over Count Basie's, and Basie himself said he was just relieved to come away from the contest without embarrassing himself, surviving musicians continued to dispute the ruling for decades to follow.

Her vocals with Basie's band included " Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea " and " Moonlight Serenade ".

The first of these was based around a loop taken from Quincy Jones ' " Soul Bossa Nova ", while the second sampled Count Basie's 1967 rendition of " Hang On Sloopy ".

Some songs address the theme of exile, love and politics, among others.

The Lesbian or Aeolic school of poetry " reached in the songs of Sappho and Alcaeus that high point of brilliancy to which it never after-wards approached " and it was assumed by later Greek critics and during the early centuries of the Christian era that the two poets were in fact lovers, a theme which became a favourite subject in art ( as in the urn pictured above ).

* Political songs: Alcaeus often composed on a political theme, covering the power struggles on Lesbos with the passion and vigour of a partisan, cursing his opponents, rejoicing in their deaths, delivering blood-curdling homilies on the consequences of political inaction and exhorting his comrades to heroic defiance, as in one of his ' ship of state ' allegories.

" Commonly, concept albums incorporate preconceived musical or lyrical ideas with all songs contributing to a single overall theme or unified story.

Many original television theme songs of the era also showed a strong disco influence, such as " Keep Your Eye On The Sparrow " ( theme from Baretta, performed by Sammy Davis, Jr. and later a hit single for Rhythm Heritage ), Theme from " S. W. A. T.

Belgian player Jean " Toots " Thielemans is a well-known master of jazz chromatic harmonica, as well as a champion whistler, who has been recorded on many notable songs in film and television, such as the theme from Sesame Street, and the score from the Academy Award winning film Midnight Cowboy.

The films are renowned for a number of features, including the musical accompaniment, with the theme songs to the films having picked up Academy Award nominations on several occasions.

Pure Frosting featured two songs that had previously been used in a movie and as a television show theme.

Through the intervening decades, there have been many different Pepsi theme songs sung on television by a variety of artists, from Joanie Summers to the Jacksons to Britney Spears.

Five different versions of Waits's song " Way Down in the Hole " have been used as the opening theme songs for the HBO television show The Wire.

The Vision of Escaflowne is the debut work of Maaya Sakamoto, who not only voiced the main character of Hitomi Kanzaki, but also performed the opening theme song " Yakusoku wa Iranai " and other songs from the series.

More recently, they composed and performed the music for the TLC series Resident Life, the theme song for the Disney Channel program Higglytown Heroes, and songs about the cartoons Dexter's Laboratory and Courage the Cowardly Dog.

The band wrote a McSweeney's theme song and forty-four songs for an album that was meant to be listened to with the journal, with each track corresponding to a particular story or piece of artwork.

Not only did the band contribute the theme, songs from all of the Giants ' previous albums were used on the show: for example, the infamous punching-the-kid-in-the-wheelchair scene from the first episode was done to the strains of " Pencil Rain " from Lincoln.

Composer Joseph LoDuca wrote the theme music and incidental music, and co-wrote the lyrics for the songs in " The Bitter Suite ".

Arguably, the wanderer, a recurring theme in Finnish folklore dating back to pre-Christian oral tradition ( as with Lemminkäinen in the Kalevala ), translated quite easily to the music of Huhta, Salomaa, and Kylander ; each of whom have songs about the trials and tribulations of the hobo.

She draws comparisons with Thetis ' role in another work of the epic Cycle concerning Troy, the lost Aethiopis, which presents a strikingly similar relationship — that of the divine Dawn, Eos, with her slain son Memnon ; she supplements the parallels with images from the repertory of archaic vase-painters, where Eros and Thetis flank the symmetrically opposed heroes with a theme that may have been derived from traditional epic songs.

In 1993, in collaboration with Rincom Children's Entertainment, Jennings recorded an album of children's songs, Cowboys, Sisters, Rascals & Dirt, which included " Shooter's Theme ", a tribute to his 14-year-old with the theme of " a friend of mine ".

Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych also explored new ways of harmonizing and arranging Ukrainian folk songs, producing masterpieces such as Dudaryk and Shchedryk, the latter of which featured a four-note ostinato theme and became a popular Christmas carol known as Carol of the Bells after it was translated by Peter J. Wilhousky.

During the French Revolution, Giuseppe Cambini published Patriotic Airs for Two Violins, in which the song is quoted literally and as a variation theme, with other patriotic songs.

There are many blues songs with the theme of partying or making love " round the clock ", with various actions specified at various hours.

For the show's final two seasons, Schoolhouse Rock mainstay Lynn Ahrens ( who composed and performed a few Captain Kangaroo songs herself ) composed a new theme, entitled " Here Comes Captain Kangaroo ".

It is another double album, with one disc based around a concept and the second containing the other songs that aren't part of the theme.

In 1996, it was reissued with the Hanna-Barbera's Pic-A-Nic Basket of Cartoon Classics CD set, which also contained three other CDs of H-B TV theme songs and background music and songs from The Flintstones.