Talk:Night and Day (song)

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• Does the melody truly consist of a single note?

I deleted this as it us unsourced and as such NPOV:

"and is considered one of the greatest of all popular songs"

Also, this needs to be sourced:

"Cole Porter is said to have written the song while on his honeymoon in Ravenna, Italy at the end of the 1920s. He was very impressed by the mood of the small Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, and composed the song thinking of the mausoleum's starry sky."

If it doesn't get sourced then I am going to delete it. Hdstubbs 04:19, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

• Done Hdstubbs 17:52, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

There is a difference between 'NPOV' and common conception. Night and Day is considered by most jazz musicians and singers as one of the greatest popular songs. Gareth E Kegg 04:20, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

• I guess, perhaps, I am misunderstanding the use of the words, 'popular' songs. It seems to be used as a designation as a type of song i.e. greatest jazz song, greatest rock song, as opposed to the way I was thinking about, a great song that is also popular. Is there a category of songs that are considered 'popular' and Night and Day is in that category? I agree with you that Night and Day is a great song; it is one of my personal favorites, but I don't really know what the phrase, "greatest popular song" means. I think there are many popular songs that are also great...I don't know if it is common conception that Night and Day is one of those songs. Hdstubbs 04:29, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps greatest as in one of the shining stars of the Great American Songbook Gareth E Kegg 04:51, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

• Maybe if we reworded it to say,

"and is one of the most widely recorded examples of a song from the Great American Songbook." Hdstubbs 05:11, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

I don't see how anyone can deny this is one of the most famous and popular songs in the Great American Songbook. Whenever experts get together and make lists of pop songs of the era, "Night And Day" is near the top. For instance, in Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories a Disc Jockey poll in 1953 of favorite songs listed "Night and Day" at #9. And of the 100 most-recorded songs from 1890-1954, it's the highest-ranking Cole Porter song at #10.

• Is there a place somewhere for a little factoid? "Night and day" is played by the mole in Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.224.234.96 (talk) 11:44, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

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Chicago

Under the Notable recordings in the bullet point listing the recordings by U2, Thomas Anders, Chicago, Rod Stewart, and The Temptations I edited the Chicago link. The previous link had linked to the city of Chicago and not to the band which it was supposed to link to. It now links to the band. -annonymous 2/20/2013 6:35 AM EST — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.71.217.116 (talk) 11:35, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

Night and Day #1 song of 1933

Night and Day #1 song of 1933 <<<that is not from Whitburn's book

George Olsen and his Music ; Joe Morrison The Last Round-Up Columbia 2791-D Billy Hill

Leo Reisman and His Orchestra v_Harold Arlen Stormy Weather Victor 24716 Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler

Last comment, If you see my notes on early 1930s, I collected quite a few sales numbers. Because of Stock Market crash 1929, record industry went in the toilet. Columbia Records was bankrupt 1934. RCA

Victor and ARC were only companies left. ARC had dime store labels + Brunswick, Vocalion and Okeh. Victor was owned by RCA.

The top selling record for 1933 was Night and Day 22,811 units.

Willow Weep for Me by Paul Whiteman was no. 2 with 8,000+

Still researching! Tillywilly17 (talk) 02:58, 18 March 2022 (UTC)

Edited first half of article

Removed all the Joel Whitburn fabricated chart info

replaced it with other information

Didn't have time to organize my sections, had to write content in my head

My opinion is this is definitely a high priority very important article - that is based on extensive research, not if I like a song, who cares what I like

It was hard to replace all that fake information about 10 weeks at #1, there were no charts for that to happen

I promise to spend the remainder of my life editing that crap out of wikipedia

If anybody sees a missing reference, just post here, everything is sourced

I wrote a brief history of the song when it came out, that's why Fred got a lot of words

I had to write two sentences on the nightmare the record industry was going through. or nobody would understand how the top record sold only 22,000 It's all true

If anybody has any observations or sees info missing, let me know, I have tons of research on this miserable time period Tillywilly17 (talk) 06:31, 7 January 2023 (UTC)

If anybody wants to see out article before my edit, go here, they copied it word for word

https://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-0/nightandday.htm#:~:text=Fred%20Astaire's%20recording%20of,weeks%20of%20the%20show's%20opening.

sad Tillywilly17 (talk) 06:55, 7 January 2023 (UTC)

3 Night and Day 1933-1934

https://musicbrainz.org/release/dae87e1f-91d6-4a0c-ac93-88b213b68773 US

https://musicbrainz.org/release/068a8bc1-7abd-4cea-861a-784f4e758513 UK

https://musicbrainz.org/recording/bbcccfbc-36ed-4112-b2a4-4557b8f92124 RKO Tillywilly17 (talk) 07:58, 7 January 2023 (UTC)