Count Basie
Gender
Male
Born
Aug 21, 1904
Red Bank, New Jersey, USA
Died
Apr 26, 1984
Hollywood, California, USA
Performer
Composer
Also Known As
William Allen Basie [Birthname]
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CREDITSCome Fly Away (Mar 25, 2010 - Sep 05, 2010)Musical, Original
- Featuring songs by Benny Goodman, Jimmy Mundy, Charles Christian, Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen, Frank Eyton, John Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Bart Howard, Al Hoffman, Walter Kent, Manny Kurtz, George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler, Cole Porter, Count Basie, Jon Hendricks, John Klenner, Sam M. Lewis, Roy Alfred, Billy May, Dolores "Vicki" Silvers, Irving Berlin, Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn, Johnny Burke, Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, Paul Anka, Claude François, Jacques Revaux, Gilles Thibault, John Kander, Fred Ebb, Lew Spence, Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, Johnny Mercer, Dorothy Fields, Jerome Kern, Jule Styne, Henry Mayer, Hans Bradtke, Paul Desmond, Gene de Paul, Dean Kay, Kelly L. Gordon, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Carolyn Leigh, Cy Coleman, Josef Joe Myrow and Mack Gordon
Swing! (Dec 09, 1999 - Jan 14, 2001)Musical, Original- Featuring songs by Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Benny Goodman, James R. Mundy, Charles Christian, B. Plater, T. Bradshaw, B. Feyhe, Don George, Johnny Hodges, Harry James, Count Basie, Don Raye, Hughie Prince, Ann Hampton Callaway, Casey MacGill, Everett Bradley, Ilene Reid, Jonathan Smith, Sid Kuller, Hoagy Carmichael, Paul Francis Webster, Earl Hagen, Lynne Taylor-Corbett, Paul Kelly, Johnny Mercer, Edgar DeLange, Jerry Gray, Mack Gordon, Harry Warren, Mack David, Joan Whitney, Alex J. Kramer, Jack Murphy, Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal, Joe Garland, Lew Brown, Sam H. Stept, Charlie Tobias, Walter Bishop, Lewis Raymond, Clarence Williams, Juan Tizol, Arthur Hamilton, Harold Arlen, Bob Wills, Tommy Duncan, Seymour Simons, Gerald Marks, Dorothy Fields, Otto A. Harbach, Jimmy McHugh, Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II, Bill Elliott, Edgar Sampson, Chick Webb, Andy Razaf, Michael Heitzman, E. Johnson, Louis Prima and Leon Berry
Uptown...It's Hot! (Jan 29, 1986 - Feb 16, 1986)Musical, Original- Featuring songs by Louis Armstrong, Horace Gerlach, Duke Ellington, Frank Owens, Harry Akst, Harold Arlen, E. A. Swan, Jimmy McHugh, George Gershwin, Cab Calloway, Chick Webb, Ella Fitzgerald, Van Alexander, John Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton, Count Basie, Frankie Lymon, M. A. Brunner, Sam Cooke, Al Lewis, Vincent Rose, Larry Stock, Richard Penniman, Chuck Berry, Carole King, Gerald Goffin, Phil Spector, Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry, Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder, Prince, Marvin Gaye, Ivy Joe Hunter, William Stevenson, Brian Holland, Lamont Herbert Dozier, Eddie Holland, Norman J. Whitfield, John C. Fogarty, B. T. Express, Dorothy LaBostrie, Joe Lubin and Leon Evans
Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, and Count Basie (Sep 08, 1975 - Sep 20, 1975)Special, Original-
Starring: Count Basie
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Swingin' The Dream (Nov 29, 1939 - Dec 09, 1939)Musical, Original- Music for "Jumpin' at the Woodside" by Count Basie; Music for "Pick-a-Rib," "Rachel's Dream" and "Flying Home" by Benny Goodman; Music for "Wedding March" by Felix Mendelssohn; Music for "St. Louis Blues" by W. C. Handy; Music for "Ain't Misbehavin'" by Thomas "Fats" Waller; Music for "Ain't Misbehaving'" by Harry Brooks; Music for "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" by Jimmy Hugh; Music for "Moonglow" by Will Hudson, Eddie de Lange and Irving Mills; Music for "Hold Tight-Hold Tight" by Leonard Kent, Edward Robinson, Leonard Ware, Jerry Brandow and Willie Spotswood; Music for "My Melancholy Baby" by Ernie Burnett; Music for "Christopher Columbus" by Leon Berry; Music for "Way Down Younder in New Orleans" by Larry Clinton; Music for "Ol' Man Mose" by Louis Armstrong; Music for "Jeepers Creepers" by Harry Warren; Music for "Oh, You Crazy Moon" by James Van Heusen; Music for "The Flat Foot Floogie" by Slim Gaillard, Slam Stewart and Bud Green; Music for "Down by the Old Mill Stream" by Tell Taylor; Music for "Big John's Special" by Horace Henderson; Music for "Dinah" by Harry Akst; Music for "Rose Room" by Art Hickman; Music for "Flying Home' by Lionel Hampton; Music for "Sugarfoot Stomp" by Joseph Oliver
Come Fly Away
(Mar 25, 2010 - Sep 05, 2010)
Musical, Original
- Featuring songs by Benny Goodman, Jimmy Mundy, Charles Christian, Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen, Frank Eyton, John Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Bart Howard, Al Hoffman, Walter Kent, Manny Kurtz, George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler, Cole Porter, Count Basie, Jon Hendricks, John Klenner, Sam M. Lewis, Roy Alfred, Billy May, Dolores "Vicki" Silvers, Irving Berlin, Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn, Johnny Burke, Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, Paul Anka, Claude François, Jacques Revaux, Gilles Thibault, John Kander, Fred Ebb, Lew Spence, Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, Johnny Mercer, Dorothy Fields, Jerome Kern, Jule Styne, Henry Mayer, Hans Bradtke, Paul Desmond, Gene de Paul, Dean Kay, Kelly L. Gordon, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Carolyn Leigh, Cy Coleman, Josef Joe Myrow and Mack Gordon
Swing!
(Dec 09, 1999 - Jan 14, 2001)
Musical, Original
- Featuring songs by Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Benny Goodman, James R. Mundy, Charles Christian, B. Plater, T. Bradshaw, B. Feyhe, Don George, Johnny Hodges, Harry James, Count Basie, Don Raye, Hughie Prince, Ann Hampton Callaway, Casey MacGill, Everett Bradley, Ilene Reid, Jonathan Smith, Sid Kuller, Hoagy Carmichael, Paul Francis Webster, Earl Hagen, Lynne Taylor-Corbett, Paul Kelly, Johnny Mercer, Edgar DeLange, Jerry Gray, Mack Gordon, Harry Warren, Mack David, Joan Whitney, Alex J. Kramer, Jack Murphy, Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal, Joe Garland, Lew Brown, Sam H. Stept, Charlie Tobias, Walter Bishop, Lewis Raymond, Clarence Williams, Juan Tizol, Arthur Hamilton, Harold Arlen, Bob Wills, Tommy Duncan, Seymour Simons, Gerald Marks, Dorothy Fields, Otto A. Harbach, Jimmy McHugh, Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II, Bill Elliott, Edgar Sampson, Chick Webb, Andy Razaf, Michael Heitzman, E. Johnson, Louis Prima and Leon Berry
Uptown...It's Hot!
(Jan 29, 1986 - Feb 16, 1986)
Musical, Original
- Featuring songs by Louis Armstrong, Horace Gerlach, Duke Ellington, Frank Owens, Harry Akst, Harold Arlen, E. A. Swan, Jimmy McHugh, George Gershwin, Cab Calloway, Chick Webb, Ella Fitzgerald, Van Alexander, John Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton, Count Basie, Frankie Lymon, M. A. Brunner, Sam Cooke, Al Lewis, Vincent Rose, Larry Stock, Richard Penniman, Chuck Berry, Carole King, Gerald Goffin, Phil Spector, Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry, Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder, Prince, Marvin Gaye, Ivy Joe Hunter, William Stevenson, Brian Holland, Lamont Herbert Dozier, Eddie Holland, Norman J. Whitfield, John C. Fogarty, B. T. Express, Dorothy LaBostrie, Joe Lubin and Leon Evans
Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, and Count Basie
(Sep 08, 1975 - Sep 20, 1975)
Special, Original
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Starring: Count Basie
- Original
Swingin' The Dream
(Nov 29, 1939 - Dec 09, 1939)
Musical, Original
- Music for "Jumpin' at the Woodside" by Count Basie; Music for "Pick-a-Rib," "Rachel's Dream" and "Flying Home" by Benny Goodman; Music for "Wedding March" by Felix Mendelssohn; Music for "St. Louis Blues" by W. C. Handy; Music for "Ain't Misbehavin'" by Thomas "Fats" Waller; Music for "Ain't Misbehaving'" by Harry Brooks; Music for "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" by Jimmy Hugh; Music for "Moonglow" by Will Hudson, Eddie de Lange and Irving Mills; Music for "Hold Tight-Hold Tight" by Leonard Kent, Edward Robinson, Leonard Ware, Jerry Brandow and Willie Spotswood; Music for "My Melancholy Baby" by Ernie Burnett; Music for "Christopher Columbus" by Leon Berry; Music for "Way Down Younder in New Orleans" by Larry Clinton; Music for "Ol' Man Mose" by Louis Armstrong; Music for "Jeepers Creepers" by Harry Warren; Music for "Oh, You Crazy Moon" by James Van Heusen; Music for "The Flat Foot Floogie" by Slim Gaillard, Slam Stewart and Bud Green; Music for "Down by the Old Mill Stream" by Tell Taylor; Music for "Big John's Special" by Horace Henderson; Music for "Dinah" by Harry Akst; Music for "Rose Room" by Art Hickman; Music for "Flying Home' by Lionel Hampton; Music for "Sugarfoot Stomp" by Joseph Oliver