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unusual facts about Verve


Verve

Verve Energy, a corporation owned by the Government of Western Australia


Al Gamble

Gamble grew up listening to his father's record collection, which included Jimmy Smith, Ray Charles, Jack McDuff and other jazz and soul artists on the Verve and Blue Note labels.

Alone with Everybody

The songs "A Song for the Lovers", "C'mon People (We're Making It Now)" and "New York" were initially recorded with the Verve for their 1997 album Urban Hymns, but were never released.

Andrew Loog Oldham

These were rediscovered in the 1990s when the indie band The Verve used a string loop based on the orchestral arrangement of "The Last Time" in "Bitter Sweet Symphony"; in the ensuing court battle, songwriting royalties for the Verve track were awarded to ABCKO Records, the owner of the copyright for "The Last Time".

Boss Tenors

Boss Tenors (subtitled Straight Ahead from Chicago August 1961) is an album by saxophonists Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt recorded in Chicago in 1961 and originally released on the Verve label.

City of Saints and Madmen

Reception was positive, with Irish Theatre Magazine describing the piece as "athletic and enterprising... astutely adapted and directed..... an imaginatively realised piece of work," and Cork's Evening Echo saying that it possessed "a visual verve that is quite a rarity on the Irish stage." The piece was adapted and directed by Bob Kelly, an Irish graduate of L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq.

Jimmy Giuffre

Buddy DeFranco - Odalisque (Verve, 1953), reissued as The Progressive Mr. DeFranco (Norgran)

Kwinana Power Station

Verve is expanding the power station with the addition of two LMS100 gas turbines.

Lady in Autumn: The Best of the Verve Years

Lady in Autumn: The Best of The Verve Years is a compilation album by the singer Billie Holiday.

Milt Jackson and the Hip String Quartet

Milt Jackson and the Hip String Quatet is an album by vibraphonist Milt Jackson accompanied by a string quartet arranged and conducted by Tom McIntosh that was recorded in 1968 and released on the Verve label.

Mo Ostin

He was hired as president of Reprise by Frank Sinatra from Verve where he had been the Administrative Executive and Controller.

Somebody Loves Me

Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook (1959) and her Verve/Polygram release: "Jazz at the Philharmonic, the Ella Fitzgerald Sets".

Stanford Robinson

In 2007, Alan Blyth, the critic of Gramophone magazine, wrote that it remained "one of the most convincing" and that Robinson "gives the work the dramatic verve that it calls for".

The Ikettes

Janice Singleton (Hughes) left the Ikettes to lead groups on A&M (The Secrets: lead vocals on A&M recording by Diane Rutherford-Swann) and Verve (The Unit Plus), then teamed with Ikette Maxine Smith (Green) on world tours with Leo Sayer, Martha Reeves, Boz Scaggs, and Joe Cocker, among others.

The Montreal Tapes: Tribute to Joe Henderson

The Montreal Tapes: Tribute to Joe Henderson is a live album by the American jazz bassist Charlie Haden with saxophonist Joe Henderson and drummer Al Foster recorded at the Montreal International Jazz Festival in 1989 and released on the Verve label.

Truth and Soul Records

Truth & Soul has remixed "Love Is a Losing Game" by Amy Winehouse, the Gabriella Cilmi single "Sweet About Me", Dinah Washington's "Cry Me A River" for Verve Remixed 4, and Truth & Soul are credited as writers on Adele's grammy nominated album, 19.

Vic Dickenson

But if you're looking for more, listen to these recordings under the name of other jazz musicians with Vic as a sideman: Jimmy Rushing (Vanguard Rec.), Coleman Hawkins (Capitol Rec.), Pee Wee Russell (Black Lion Rec.), Benny Carter (BlueBird & Black & Blue Rec.), Lester Young (Blue Note & Verve Rec.), Count Basie (Columbia & Pablo Rec.), Sidney Bechet (BlueBird, Black & Blue & Blue Note Rec.) In 1953, he recorded 'The Vic Dickenson Showcase' for Vanguard.

Walter de Silva

In 1999 Ferdinand Piëch assigned Walter de Silva to work for the Volkswagen Group's SEAT division, with the aim of injecting verve and sportiness to SEAT's design.


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