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Frenesi
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Wikipedia article
"'Frenes'" is a musical piece originally composed by Alberto Domnguez Borrs for the marimba, and adapted as a jazz standard by Leonard Whitcup and others.
Background
The word 'frenes' is Spanish for "frenzy".
Artie Shaw recording
(right) with Artie Shaw in 1941
A hit version recorded by Artie Shaw and His Orchestra (with an arrangement by William Grant Still) reached number one on the 'Billboard' pop chart on December 21, 1940, staying for 13 weeks, and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1982.
Cover versions
Other performers who have recorded the song include:
*Les Brown
*Dave Brubeck
*Betty Carter
*June Christy
*Natalie Cole
*Ray Charles
*Bing Crosby
*Tommy Dorsey
*The Four Freshmen
*Eydie Gorme
*Woody Herman
*Earl Hines
*Harry James
*Ben E. King
*Steve Lawrence
*Billy May
*Glenn Miller
*Anita O'Day
*Perez Prado
*Cliff Richard
*Linda Ronstadt
*Jack Emblow,
*Pat Suzuki
*Frank Sinatra
*Three X Sisters vocals with the Watson Orchestra
*Caterina Valente
*The Ritchie Family
*Jesus Chino Miranda.
*Movie score by Vedha a song from Midern Theatres movie *Vallavan Oruvan
In popular culture
*World War II flying ace Major (later Brigadier General) Thomas L. Hayes named his P-51 'Frenesi' after the song.Robert F. Dorr, 'Air Combat: An Oral History of Fighter Pilots', 2007. He said it was a tribute to his wife Louise, for the song they listened to; he believed the song's name translated as "Love Me Tenderly".
*The Artie Shaw recording was used in the soundtrack of the 1980 film 'Raging Bull'.
*Thomas Pynchon's 1990 novel 'Vineland' features a character named Frenesi Gates, "her name celebrating the record by Artie Shaw that was all over the jukeboxes and airwaves in the last days of the war".
See also
*List of 1930s jazz standards
*List of number-one singles of 1940 (U.S.)
*List of number-one singles of 1941 (U.S.)
References
Category:1940 songs
Category:1940 singles
Category:1940s jazz standards
Category:Number-one singles in the United States
Category:Grammy Hall of Fame Award recipients
Category:Jazz compositions
Category:Songs written by Alberto Domnguez
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