Jimmy Durante
b. James Francis Durante, 10 February 1893, New York City, New York, USA, d. 29 January 1980, Santa Monica, California, USA. A unique entertainer: a comedian, actor and singer whose straight-legged strut, outsize nose (which brought him the nickname "Schnozzola") and a penchant for mangling the English language ("Da hours I worked were eight to unconscious") made him a much-loved character throughout the world. The son of immigrant French-Italian parents, Durante taught himself to play ragtime on a piano his father bought him when he was 12. While in his teens he played in New York clubs and gangster hangouts, and later had his own six-piece jazz band in New Orleans.
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Albums
- (2008) September Song
- (2008) Songs For Sunday
- (2008) One Of Those Songs
- (2008) Hello Young Lovers
- (1998) Jimmy' Durante's Way Of Life
- (1998) Jimmy' Durante's Way Of Life
- (1995) Club Durante
- (1995) Inka Dinka Doo
- (1993) As Time Goes By: The Best Of Jimmy Durante
- (1993) As Time Goes By: The Best Of Jimmy Durante
Top Tracks
- As Time Goes By
- Make Someone Happy
- Frosty The Snowman
- I'll Be Seeing You
- You Made Me Love You
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