Claude Thornhill
About the artist
Claude Thornhill (Terre Haute, Indiana, August 10, 1908 – July 1, 1965, Caldwell, New Jersey) was an American pianist, arranger, composer, and bandleader. He composed the jazz and pop standards "Snowfall" and "I Wish I Had You", the last recorded by Billie Holliday. As a youth, he was recognized as an extraordinary talent and formed a traveling duo with Danny Polo, a musical prodigy on the clarinet and trumpet from nearby Clinton, Indiana. As a student at Garfield High School in Terre Haute, he played with several theater bands.
Top songs
- Snowfall
- Arab Dance
- Autumn Nocturn
- Embraceable You
- A Sunday Kind Of Love
- Snowfall #1
- There's A Small Hotel
- Anthropology
- Buster's Last Stand
- Donna Lee
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- Polka Dots and Moonbeams
- Robbins' Nest
- Early Autumn
- Autumn Nocturne
- Snowfall 2
- Yardbird Suite
- Robbin's Nest
- Where or When
- Habanera
- La Paloma
- Portrait of a Guinea Farm
- You Were Meant for Me
- Sorta Kinda
- I Found You In The Rain
- As Long As I'm Dreaming
- Poor Little Rich Girl
- Cabin In the Sky
- Hungarian Dance No. 5
- Sleepy Serenade
- When the Lilacs Bloom Again
- Love Tales
- Lullaby Of The Rain
- I Get the Blues When It Rains
- Alt Wien
- Sometimes I'm Happy
- I've Got a One Track Mind
- Night and Day
- Bad Humour Man
- I Knew You When
- The Doll Dance
- O Sole Mio
- Pop Goes The Weasel
- Snowfall Theme
- I'm Thrilled
- Under the Willow Tree
- The Legend of Old California
- Lovers in Glass Houses
- Where Has My Little Dog Gone
- I May Be Wrong
- Love of My Life
- Stack O'barley
- Sweet and Lovely
- Just About This Time Last Night
- Lover Man
- Do I Worry
- Adios
- All I Need Is You
- Humoresque
- Traumerei
- Stack Of Barley
- 'Deed I Do
- Let's Call It a Day
- I Don't Know Why
- That Old Feeling
- Godchild
- Happy Stranger
- Snowfall #2
- Betsy: Blue Skies
- Moonlight Becomes You
- Over Night
- Mandy Is Two
- Jeru
- Stealin' Apples
- Sing a Love Song
- Jim
- Loch Lomond
- Paradise
- Embraceable You (Remastered 1998)
- Funiculi, Funicula
- Robbins Nest
- The Song Is You
- Don't Call It Love
- Hungarian Dance Number Five
- Elevation
- A Sunday Kind Of Love - With Fran Warren
- Someone To Watch Over Me
- Sunday Drivin'
- Warsaw Concerto
- Sunday Driving
- I Remember Mama
- Funiculi-Funicula
- At Sundown
- The Happy Stranger
- The Things I Love
- La Cinquantaine
- Isn't It Wonderful
- To Each His Own
- Love For Love
- Be Careful It's My Heart
- Something To Remember You By
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