A 1953 chart song for his orchestra, Jackie Gleason's "Melancholy Serenade" was heard well into the 1960s as the theme from his "American Scene Magazine".
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A 1953 chart song for his orchestra, Jackie Gleason's "Melancholy Serenade" was heard well into the 1960s as the theme from his "… read more
A 1953 chart song for his orchestra, Jackie Gleason's "Melancholy Serenade" was heard well into the 1960s as the theme from his "American Scene Magazine".
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Throughout the 1950s and early-1960s, Jackie Gleason enjoyed a secondary music career, lending his name to a series of best-selling mood music albums with jazz overtones for Capitol. Gleason felt there was a ready market for romantic instrumentals. He recalled seeing Clark Gable play love scenes in movies, and the romance was, in his words, "magnified a thousand percent" by background music. Gleason reasoned, "If Gable needs music, a guy in Brooklyn must be desperate!" Gleason could not read or write music in a conventional sense; he was said to have conceived me… read more
Throughout the 1950s and early-1960s, Jackie Gleason enjoyed a secondary music career, lending his name to a series of best-selling mood music albums with jazz overtones for Capitol. Gleaso… read more
Throughout the 1950s and early-1960s, Jackie Gleason enjoyed a secondary music career, lending his name to a series of best-selling mood music albums with jazz overtones for Capitol. Gleason felt there was a ready market for romantic i… read more