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Canadian Sunset

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Released
  
July 1956

Label
  
RCA Victor 6537

Genre
  
Pop

Writer(s)
  
Eddie Heywood, Norman Gimbel

"Land of Dreams" (1954)
  
"Canadian Sunset" (1956)

"Canadian Sunset" is a popular song with music by jazz pianist Eddie Heywood and lyrics by Norman Gimbel. An instrumental version by Heywood and Hugo Winterhalter reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and #7 on the R&B chart in 1956. A version sung by Andy Williams was also popular that year, reaching #7 on the Billboard chart. The Sounds Orchestral, conducted by Johnny Pearson, hit the Easy Listening chart reaching #14 and the Billboard Top Hot 100 in 1965 reaching #76.

Emergence as a jazz standard

The tune has been covered by a number of jazz performers beginning in the 1960s.

  • Wes Montgomery (guitar) recorded the piece with small combo. The recording features his signature octave melodic technique.
  • Danny Gatton (guitar) playing with Buddy Emmons (pedal steel) produced a funky version of the tune that fit appropriately with the "Redneck Jazz" sound they developed (jazz played on instruments normally relegated to country music)
  • George Shearing (piano) recorded the piece with his quintet along with an orchestral arrangement of his writing.
  • Kenny Barron (piano) Trio
  • Floyd Cramer (piano)
  • Gene Ammons (tenor saxophone) on the 1960 album Boss Tenor
  • Earl Bostic (alto saxophone)
  • Earl Grant (organ)
  • Cedar Walton made it funky in the 1976 album Beyond Mobius
  • Sam Cooke did a version on his You Send Me album
  • Dean Martin recorded a version on his 1959 album A Winter Romance
  • Beegie Adair (piano) recorded the piece with her trio "Moments to Remember" 2009
  • Carey T. Smith recorded a version on his 2009 album Birdy

    • References

    Canadian Sunset Wikipedia
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