Suicide Is Painless Vocal Version - Musik

John Alfred Mandel Born November 23 1925 Is A Grammy And Oscar-Winning American Composer And Arranger Of Popular Songs Film Music And Jazz. Among The Musicians He Has Worked With Are Count Basie Frank Sinatra Peggy Lee Anita O'Day Barbra Streisand Tony Bennett Diane Schuur And Shirley Horn. Biography
Early Life
Mandel Was Born In New York City To Alfred A Garment Manufacturer And Hannah An Opera Singer Who Discovered Her Son Had Perfect Pitch At The Age Of Five. Mandel Was Subsequently Given Piano Lessons But Switched To The Trumpet And Later The Trombone. Music Career
He Studied At The Manhattan School Of Music And The Juilliard School. In 1943 He Played The Trumpet With Joe Venuti In 1944 With Billy Rogers And Trombone In The Bands Of Boyd Raeburn Jimmy Dorsey Buddy Rich Georgie Auld And Chubby Jackson. In 1949 He Accompanied The Singer June Christy In The Orchestra Of Bob Cooper. From 1951 Till 1953 He Played And Arranged Music In Elliot Lawrence's Orchestra And In 1953 With Count Basie. Later He Resided In Los Angeles Where He Played The Bass Trumpet For Zoot Sims. A 1944 Band Graduate Of New York Military Academy In Cornwall-On-Hudson New York He Wrote Jazz Compositions Including "Not Really The Blues" For Woody Herman In 1949 "Hershey Bar" 1950 And "Pot Luck" 1953 For Stan Getz "Straight Life" 1953 And "Low Life" 1956 For Count Basie As Well As "Tommyhawk" 1954 For Chet Baker. Mandel Has Composed Conducted And Arranged The Music For Numerous Movie Sound Tracks. His Earliest Credited Contribution Was To I Want To Live! In 1958 Which Was Nominated For A Grammy. Mandel's Most Famous Compositions Include "Suicide Is Painless" Theme From The Movie And TV Series M*A*S*H "Close Enough For Love" "Emily" And "A Time For Love" Nominated For An Academy Award . He Has Written Numerous Film Scores Including The Score Of The Sandpiper. The Love Theme For That Film "The Shadow Of Your Smile" Which He Co-Wrote With Paul Francis Webster Won The 1965 Academy Award For Best Original Song And The Grammy Award For Song Of The Year In 1966. He Performed An Interpretation Of Erik Satie's "Gnossiennes #4 And #5" On The Piano For The 1979 Film Being There. He Won The Grammy Award For Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal S In 1981 For Quincy Jones's Album Velas And Again In 1991 For Natalie Cole And Nat King Cole's "Unforgettable" And One Year Later Once More For Shirley Horn's Album Here's To Life. In 2004 Mandel Arranged Tony Bennett's Album The Art Of Romance. Bennett And Mandel Had Collaborated Before On Bennett's The Movie Song Album 1966 For Which Mandel Arranged And Conducted His Songs "Emily" And "The Shadow Of Your Smile" And Was Also The Album's Musical Director. Personal Life
Mandel Married Lois Lee In 1959 And Martha Blanner In 1972 And Has A Daughter Marissa Born In 1976. Mandel Is Also The Cousin Of The Late Fellow Film Composer Miles Goodman. Honors
Mandel Received An Honorary Doctorate Of Music From Berklee College Of Music In 1993. Mandel Is A Recipient Of The 2011 NEA Jazz Masters Award. Mandel's Most Recent Project Is A CD Called Johnny Mandel A Man And His Music Featuring The DIVA Jazz Orchestra And Vocalist Ann Hampton Callaway Recorded Live At Jazz At Lincoln Center's Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola In May 2010 Released By Arbors Records In March 2011. Selected Compositions
"A Christmas Love Song" Lyrics By Alan Bergman & Marilyn Bergman "Close Enough For Love" Lyrics By Paul Williams "Emily" Lyrics By Johnny Mercer "The Shadow Of Your Smile" Lyrics By Paul Francis Webster "Suicide Is Painless" Lyrics By Mike Altman "Summer Wishes Winter Dreams" Lyrics By Alan Bergman & Marilyn Bergman "A Time For Love" Lyrics By Paul Francis Webster "Where Do You Start?" Lyrics By Alan Bergman & Marilyn Bergman "You Are There" Lyrics By Dave Frishberg Selected Arrangements
1956 Hoagy Sings Carmichael - Hoagy Carmichael
1960 Ring-A-Ding-Ding! - Frank Sinatra
1966 "Emily" "The Shadow Of Your Smile" From The Movie Song Album - Tony Bennett
1981 "Velas" From The Dude - Quincy Jones
1992 Here's To Life - Shirley Horn
1992 The Christmas Album - Manhattan Transfer
1995 Pearls - David Sanborn
1999 When I Look In Your Eyes - Diana Krall
2001 You're My Thrill - Shirley Horn
2004 The Art Of Romance - Tony Bennett
2009 Love Is The Answer - Barbra Streisand
Selected Filmography Johnny Mandel Composed And/or Arranged Music For The Following Motion Pictures Or Television Programs 1958 I Want To Live!
1960 The 3rd Voice
1961 The Lawbreakers
1963 Drums Of Africa
1964 The Americanization Of Emily
1965 The Sandpiper
1965 Mister Roberts TV Series 1 Episode 1966 Harper
1966 The Russians Are Coming The Russians Are Coming
1966 Bob Hope Presents The Chrysler Theatre TV Series 2 Episodes 1967 Point Blank
1968 Pretty Poison
1969 Heaven With A Gun
1969 That Cold Day In The Park
1969 Some Kind Of A Nut
1970 M*A*S*H
1970 The Man Who Had Power Over Women
1972 M*A*S*H TV Series 12 Episodes 1972 Journey Through Rosebud
1972 Molly And Lawless John
1973 The Last Detail
1973 Summer Wishes Winter Dreams
1974 W
1975 Escape To Witch Mountain
1976 Freaky Friday
1976 The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea
1979 Agatha
1979 Being There
1979 The Baltimore Bullet
1980 Too Close For Comfort TV Series 2 Episodes 1980 Caddyshack
1982 Deathtrap
1982 Lookin' To Get Out
1982 The Verdict
1986 Amazing Stories TV Series 1 Episode 1989 Brenda Starr Selected Discography
1953 Dance Session With Count Basie Clef 1966 Quietly There Bill Perkins Quintet Riverside 1958 A Sure Thing David Allen Sings Jerome Kern Pacific Jazz 1983 The Shadow Of Your Smile...Pinky Winters Sings Johnny Mandel...With Lou Levy Cellar Door 1984 Zoot Sims Plays Johnny Mandel Quietly There Fantasy 1993 A Time For Love...The Music Of Johnny Mandel Bill Watrous GNP Crescendo 1994 Fred Hersh Plays Johnny Mandel I Never Told You So Varèse Sarabande 2011 Johnny Mandel A Man And His Music With The DIVA Jazz Orchestra And Ann Hampton Callaway Arbors 2014 Quietly There Harry Allen/Jan Lundgren Quartet Stunt read less