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  1. "Autumn Leaves" is the English-language #lyricalAdaptation of the French song "Les Feuilles mortes" ("The Dead Leaves") composed by #JosephKosma in 1945. The original #lyrics were written by #JacquesPrévert in French, and in 1950 #JohnnyMercer wrote the English lyrics. An instrumental recording by pianist #RogerWilliams was a number one best-seller in the US Billboard charts of 1955. Since its introduction, "Autumn Leaves" has become a #jazzStandard.
    youtube.com/watch?v=pO1N5Aw04mE

  2. Roger Williams' "Autumn Leaves" hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on October 29, 1955 and spent four weeks at the top of the chart.

    #Music, #RogerWilliams, #50s, #50sMusic, #1950s, #1950sMusic

  3. #OnThisDay in 2011, #RogerWilliams [Louis Jacob Weertz], American popular music pianist ("Born Free"), died of pancreatic cancer at 87.
    #RIP 🕯️

  4. #OnThisDay in 1924, #RogerWilliams [Louis Jacob Weertz], American popular music pianist ("Born Free"), born in Omaha, Nebraska (d. 2011).
    #HappyBirthday #RIP 🕯

  5. Happy Christmukkah to those who celebrate. “The civil state is bound before God to take off that bond and yoke of soul oppression, and to proclaim free and impartial liberty to all the people of the three nations to choose and maintain what worship and ministry their souls and consciences are persuaded of;” — Roger Williams, 1652. #linotype #letterpress #typecasting #rogerwilliams #christmukkah #anththropocene Cast in 8 and 11pt Electra with cursive, wit Yuletide special character matrices