James Francis Durante ( də-RAN-tee, Italian: [duˈrante]; February 10, 1893 – January 29, 1980) was an American comedian, actor, singer, and pianist. His distinctive gravelly speech, Lower East Side accent, comic language-butchery, jazz-influenced songs, and prominent nose helped make him one of the United States' most familiar and popular personalities of the 1920s through the 1970s. He often referred to his nose as the schnozzola (Italianization of the American Yiddish slang word schnoz, meaning "big nose"), and the word became... [more on Wikipedia]
Top songs: #1: Umbriago - #2: September Song - #3: Make Someone Happy - #4: One of Those Songs| Date | Title | Points | Charts Peaks | Links | Comment | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 1963 | September Song | 30 | MP3 | ||||
| 1. | 09/1963 | 30 | US 51 • US AC 13 | MP3 | [Warner 5382] written by Kurt Weill & Maxwell Anderson | |||
| 2. | 1966 | One of Those Songs | 8 | MP3 | ||||
| 1. | 02/1966 | 8 | US 135 • US AC 26 | MP3 | [Warner 5686] written by Gérard Calvi & Will Holt | |||
Danny Kaye, Jimmy Durante, Jane Wyman and Groucho Marx • Jimmy Durante & Maurice Chevalier
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