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Debut album dedicated to Frank Owens.
“Diga Me” ©2016. “LIVE”
music & lyrics-Frank Owens
piano-Frank Owens, vocal-Aubrey Barnes
“I Fall in Love Too Easily” ©1944.
music-Jule Styne, lyrics-Sammy Cahn,
piano-Frank Owens, vocals-Aubrey Barnes
“Too Young” ©1951.
music-Sid Lippman, lyrics-Sylvia Dee
piano-Frank Owens, vocals-Aubrey Barnes
“The Christmas Song” © 1945.
music & lyrics-Mel Torme’ & Robert Wells,
piano-Frank Owens, vocal-Aubrey Barnes
“Strange Fruit” ©1939.
music & lyrics-Abel Meeropol; Billie Holiday, possibly,
piano-Frank Owens, vocals-Aubrey Barnes
“Cry Me a River” ©1953. “LIVE”
music & lyrics-Arthur Hamilton Stern, pka Arthur Hamilton
piano-Frank Owens, vocal-Aubrey Barnes
“Willow Weep for Me” ©1932.
music & lyrics- Ann Ronell
piano-Frank Owens, vocal-Aubrey Barnes
“Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child”
A Classic and Timeless Negro Spiritual
This song, like all the other Negro Spirituals, was conceived by and sung by enslaved African/African American men and women, bemoaning their experiences and existence, in their new world. William E. Barton transcribed the music that he heard the enslaved African Americans singing, on plantations, in 1899, then he formally published the music. To date, there is no record that the enslaved African/African American men and women were financially compensated for their original music and lyrics. He heard this song, “Motherless Child,” and several other “Spirituals,” on plantations, in the south, during the 1860s. This song was sung probably before, the 1860s, and certainly during the dreadful experience, and reign of terror, the enslavement period, of Africans, in their new world, the United States of America, was for them. He, Barton, simply penned the melody and lyrics, of the song, from what he heard the enslaved men and women singing, while working and in their experience, of harsh and demanding, everyday life, on the plantation…
piano-Frank Owens, vocals-Aubrey Barnes
“O Come, O Come Emmanuel” ©1861.
An 8th century budding Latin hymn sung by monks, while a more fully developed version, of this hymn, continued to unfold, in Latin, as early as the 12th century. The hymn is a Latin worship hymnal for the coming of and the birth of the Christ, in Christianity. This hymn was discovered by John Mason Neal, in the mid- 19th century. Neal formally translated the song, from its 12th century Latin hymnal status, in 1861.
piano-Frank Owens, vocal-Aubrey Barnes
“Misty” ©1954. “LIVE”
music: Errol Garner, lyrics-Johnny Burke
piano-Frank Owens, vocal-Aubrey Barnes
“Honeysuckle Rose” ©1929. “LIVE”
music- Thomas “Fats” Waller, lyrics- Andy Razaf,
piano-Frank Owens, vocal-Aubrey Barnes
“Embraceable You” ©1928.
music-Ira Gershwin, lyrics-George Gershwin,
piano-Frank Owens, vocals-Aubrey Barnes
“But Beautiful” ©1947. “LIVE”
music-James Van Heusen, lyrics-Johnny Burke,
piano-Frank Owens, vocal-Aubrey Barnes
“Where Do You Start” ©1988.
music-Johnny Mandel, lyrics-Alan & Marilyn Bergman,
piano-Frank Owens, vocal-Aubrey Barnes
“Stormy Weather” ©1933. “LIVE”
music: Harold Arlen, lyrics-Ted Kohler,
piano-Frank Owens, vocal-Aubrey Barnes
“The Very Thought of You” © 1934.
music & lyrics- Ray Noble,
piano & orchestral arrangement-Frank Owens,
vocal & orchestral arrangement-Aubrey Barnes
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