Fly Me To The Moon
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Browse piano sheets by Bart Howard on Zen Virtual Piano. Bart Howard was a songwriter and pianist, born Howard Joseph Gustafson in Burlington, Iowa. Both of Howard's parents played piano, and Howard studied piano in youth. Howard toured with the Siamese twins Daisy and Violet Hilton after leaving home at 16. Hoping to write songs for Hollywood, he relocated to Los Angeles three years later. Piano lessons and a touring job at 16 may suggest that Howard's life with the keyboard began early. Instead, Howard accompanied the female impersonator Rae Bourbon. New York came in 1937, where he accompanied the impersonator and comedian Elizabeth Talbot-Martin. At New York's Blue Angel nightclub, Howard spent the 1950s as pianist and master of ceremonies, and he presented acts including Mathis and Eartha Kitt. Accompanying impersonators, beside a nightclub post, may point to a career spent close to live performers. Howard idolized the songwriter Cole Porter, who once advised Howard to learn to sing his own songs. Felicia Sanders introduced Fly Me to the Moon, originally titled In Other Words, in 1954. Peggy Lee performed it on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1960, and it soared thanks to Frank Sinatra. Howard told the New York Times in 1988 that one publisher wanted the lyric changed to take me to the moon, adding that he did not know where he would be had he done that. A 1954 introduction by Sanders, beside Lee's 1960 performance on television, may hint at a song that reached audiences through several voices. Howard also wrote The Man in the Looking Glass for Sinatra, included on the album September of My Years. The Songwriters Hall of Fame inducted Howard in 1999, two years after the cabaret singer K.T. Sullivan released In Other Words, an album of his songs. Sanders's 1954 introduction of the song and Sullivan's album of Howard's songs both show other singers taking up Howard's work. If Cole Porter's advice to learn to sing his own songs is set beside a song written for Sinatra, then Howard's circle may have included both songwriters and singers.
Browse piano sheets by Bart Howard on Zen Virtual Piano.
Bart Howard was a songwriter and pianist, born Howard Joseph Gustafson in Burlington, Iowa. Both of Howard's parents played piano, and Howard studied piano in youth. Howard toured with the Siamese twins Daisy and Violet Hilton after leaving home at 16. Hoping to write songs for Hollywood, he relocated to Los Angeles three years later. Piano lessons and a touring job at 16 may suggest that Howard's life with the keyboard began early.
Instead, Howard accompanied the female impersonator Rae Bourbon. New York came in 1937, where he accompanied the impersonator and comedian Elizabeth Talbot-Martin. At New York's Blue Angel nightclub, Howard spent the 1950s as pianist and master of ceremonies, and he presented acts including Mathis and Eartha Kitt. Accompanying impersonators, beside a nightclub post, may point to a career spent close to live performers. Howard idolized the songwriter Cole Porter, who once advised Howard to learn to sing his own songs.
Felicia Sanders introduced Fly Me to the Moon, originally titled In Other Words, in 1954. Peggy Lee performed it on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1960, and it soared thanks to Frank Sinatra. Howard told the New York Times in 1988 that one publisher wanted the lyric changed to take me to the moon, adding that he did not know where he would be had he done that. A 1954 introduction by Sanders, beside Lee's 1960 performance on television, may hint at a song that reached audiences through several voices.
Howard also wrote The Man in the Looking Glass for Sinatra, included on the album September of My Years. The Songwriters Hall of Fame inducted Howard in 1999, two years after the cabaret singer K.T. Sullivan released In Other Words, an album of his songs. Sanders's 1954 introduction of the song and Sullivan's album of Howard's songs both show other singers taking up Howard's work. If Cole Porter's advice to learn to sing his own songs is set beside a song written for Sinatra, then Howard's circle may have included both songwriters and singers.
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Bart Howard was a songwriter and pianist, born Howard Joseph Gustafson in Burlington, Iowa.
Bart Howard wrote Fly Me to the Moon, originally titled In Other Words, which Felicia Sanders introduced in 1954.
Throughout the 1950s Bart Howard worked there as master of ceremonies and pianist, introducing performers such as Mathis and Eartha Kitt.
Bart Howard was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1999.