Jimmy Durante
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 his nickname.
Genre: adult-standards
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Top Tracks
- Singin' in the Rain ("That's Entertainment" Medley) - 2006 Remaster
- Make Someone Happy
- Inka Dinka Doo
- You're Nobody till Somebody Loves You
- A Real Live Piano Player
- Frosty The Snowman
- The Boys With The Proboscis
- Frosty The Snowman
- Frosty The Snowman
- Young At Heart
- I'll See You in My Dreams
- September Song (From the 1938 Musical Play "Knickerboker Holiday")
- I'll Be Seeing You
- The Glory of Love
- Try a Little Tenderness
- Hello, Young Lovers (From the 1951 Broadway Production of "The King and I")
- Young at Heart
- Make Someone Happy
- Hi Lili, Hi Lo (From the MGM Film "Lili")
- Smile (From United Artists Film "Modern Times")
Albums (40)
- Essential Classics, Vol. 37: Jimmy Durante (2023)
- Inka Dinka Doo (2023)
- The Blue Bird of Happiness (2023)
- Start Each Day with a Song (2023)
- Young at Heart (2021)
- Classic Christmas Hits (2020)
- Let's Spend an Evening with Jimmy Durante (2020)
- Patron Of The Arts (2020)
- Looking Back (2020)
- Make Someone Happy (2019)
- Patron Saint of the Arts (2019)
- Joker: Smile and Other Hits (2019)
- Selections From A Voice On Air (1935-1955) (2015)
- Kings of Comedy Presents Spike Jones and Jimmy Durante (2015)
- Some Sunny Day - The Songbook, The Energy And The Blend (2012)
- Jimmy Durante At The Piano / Club Durant (2011)
- The Jimmy Durante Show - Old Time Radio Show (1970)
- Jimmy Durante (2009)
- A Holly Jolly Kids' Christmas [International Version (FUN)] (2009)
- A Holly Jolly Kids Christmas (2007)
- That's Entertainment (The Ultimate Soundtrack Anthology of MGM Musicals) (2006)
- Jimmy Durante & Eddie Cantor Sings (2000)
- As Time Goes By: The Best Of Jimmy Durante (1993)
- Bing-His Legendary Years 1931-1957 (1993)
- Thanks For The Memories (1992)
- City Slickers (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (1991)
- Frosty the Snowman (From the Rankin/Bass Television Special) (1969)
- Tv Show Jimmy Durante (1968)
- Songs For Sunday (1970)
- One Of Those Songs (1970)
- Jimmy' Durante's Way Of Life (1970)
- Hello Young Lovers (1970)
- September Song (1970)
- At The Piano (In Person) (1959)
- Club Durant (1957)
- In Person (1952)
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1970)
- Frosty The Snowman (1950)
- The One And Only (1946)
- You Made Me Love You (1970)
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