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On A Little Street In Singapore (ver. 1) by Peter Derose - Piano Sheets and Free Sheet Music

  
About the Song
"On a Little Street in Singapore" is a jazz song written by Peter De Rose and Billy Hill. Though now obscure, it had some measure of popularity in the 1930s and 40s, marked by a number of high-profile performances. Artists to cover the song included Frank Sinatra, Dave Brubeck & Paul Desmond, Glenn Miller, Bert Kaempfert, and Jimmy Dorsey among others. Manhattan Transfer covered it again in 1978. The song features a haunting, lazy hook in a minor key, with numerous diminished chords. The overall impression is both languid and wistful. Peter DeRose (or De Rose) (March 10, 1900 – April 23, 1953) was an American Hall of Fame composer of jazz and pop music during the Tin Pan Alley era. The music of Peter DeRose has been recorded by many other artists including John Coltrane, Spike Jones, Art Tatum, Les McCann, and Peggy Lee. In addition to Wagon Wheels, Peter DeRose wrote songs for the.    Download this sheet!
About the Artist
Peter DeRose (or De Rose) (March 10, 1900 – April 23, 1953) was an American Hall of Fame composer of jazz and pop music during the Tin Pan Alley era. The music of Peter DeRose has been recorded by many other artists including John Coltrane, Spike Jones, Art Tatum, Les McCann, and Peggy Lee. In addition to Wagon Wheels, Peter DeRose wrote songs for the Broadway musicals Yes Yes Yvette and Earl Carroll's Vanities of 1928. The most famous of his songs, "Deep Purple", was written in 1934 as a piano composition with lyrics added a few years later by Mitchell Parish. It was a top hit for Larry Clinton & His Orchestra in 1939 and recorded by Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, Sarah Vaughan. In 1957, it was a No. 20 hit record for Billy Ward & The Dominoes then a No. 1 hit on the 1963 Billboard charts for Nino Tempo & April Stevens. It would become popular again in 1976 with another duet by Donny and Marie Osmond. The epitaph letter from May to Peter In 1932 Peter DeRose wrote religious sheet music with radio star Phillips H. Lord for one of Lord's "Seth Parker" religious music books. DeRose also composed music for the 1941 Ice Capades show and in the late.
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