Yve Evans performs "Happy You Happened to Me" by Harry Allen & Gregg Oppenheimer

Words by Gregg Oppenheimer
Music by Harry Allen
As seen on Online Radio Theatre's "Burns & Allen" show:
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YVE EVANS (Vocalist, Piano) has performed all over the world, played with some of the greats of jazz, and cut eight CDs-all recorded live and in one take, the way jazz was meant to be. There's an intangible quality to her music that gives it a life of its own-life that reaches out and touches the soul of everyone who hears it. Mentored by the internationally-renowned choral conductor Jester Hairston, Yve studied Opera and Theater at the University of California, Irvine, School of Fine Arts. Her band (she calls it her "Company") is comprised of some of the industry's most accomplished musicians. Each performance shows a dedication to the tradition and understanding of Jazz and its timeless repertoire. Her goal is to share the sheer joy and freedom her music brings, or at the very least to take the audience on a musical roller coaster ride, with Yve at the helm. As a singer Yve cites as her main influences some of the finest vocalists in the world: Sarah Vaughn, Ernie Andrews, Joe Williams, Ella Fitzgerald, June Christie, Della Reese, Bobby Darin and Rosemary Clooney. As a pianist she has leaned over the shoulders of, swapped chord changes with, and stolen licks from Dorothy Donegan, Bill Evans, Erroll Garner, George Gafney, Carmen McCrae and Shirley Horn. Yve's style is best summed up by the title of one of her CDs: "3 Degrees Celsius-Not Frozen, Just Very Cool."
GREGG OPPENHEIMER (Lyricist) is the son of I Love Lucy creator-producer-head writer Jess Oppenheimer. He got his start in comedy at the tender age of four when his father introduced him to Lucille Ball on the I Love Lucy set. Kneeling down, a smiling Lucy asked Gregg, "Where did you get those big brown eyes?" Gregg's deadpan reply: "They came with the face." Lucy nearly fell over laughing. In 1996, he left a successful law career in order to complete his late father's humorous memoir, "Laughs, Luck...and Lucy: How I Came to Create the Most Popular Sitcom of All Time" (Syracuse University Press). The book's success led to Gregg's hit comedy play, "I Love Lucy: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Sitcom," which aired on public radio in 2018, and is available for digital download at LATW.org. The show begins its national tour (as "LUCY LOVES DESI: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Sitcom") in January 2022. From 2000 to 2007, Gregg produced the multi-award-winning I Love Lucy DVD Series for CBS. Starting in 2014 Gregg co-wrote and directed the annual Palm Springs benefit show ON THE AIR: An Evening of Live Radio Classics! for the award-winning Dezart Performs theatre company, directing such performers as Gary Beach, Carole Cook, Joyce Bulifant, Mariette Hartley, Hal Linden, Gavin MacLeod, Millicent Martin, Lee Meriwether, Phil Proctor, Marion Ross, and Fred Willard. Gregg is a member of ASCAP and The Dramatists Guild.
HARRY ALLEN (Composer) was inducted in 2020 into the Jazz Monsters Hall of Fame at SOKA University of America and was a top-three finalist for France's Acadamie du Jazz's Prix du Jazz Classique for his CD, “Under a Blanket of Blue”. Harry has recorded over 70 CDs as a leader and many more as a sideman. Three have won Gold Disc Awards from Japan's Swing Journal Magazine, and "Tenors Anyone?" won both the Gold Disc Award and the New Star Award. His recordings have made the top ten list for favorite new releases in Swing Journal Magazine's reader's poll and Jazz Journal International's critic's poll for 1997, and "Eu Nao Quero Dancar (I Won't Dance)," the third Gold Disc Award winner, was voted second for album of the year for 1998 by Swing Journal Magazine’s reader’s poll. The Harry Allen - Joe Cohn Quartet won the New York Nightlife Award for Outstanding Jazz Combo Performance of 2006 and was nominated for Best Jazz Combo by the Jazz Journalists Association for the same year. Harry also won the 2010 New York Nightlife Award for Best Jazz Solo. He has performed at jazz festivals and clubs worldwide, performing with Rosemary Clooney, Jay Geils, Ray Brown, Hank Jones, Frank Wess, Flip Phillips, Scott Hamilton, Harry 'Sweets' Edison, Kenny Burrell, Herb Ellis, John Pizzarelli, Bucky Pizzarelli, Gus Johnson, Jeff Hamilton, Terry Gibbs, Warren Vache, and has recorded with Tony Bennett, Johnny Mandel, Ray Brown, Tommy Flanagan, James Taylor, Sheryl Crow, Kenny Barron, Dave McKenna, Dori Caymmi, Larry Goldings, George Mraz, Jake Hanna, and Al Foster, among others. Harry is featured on many of John Pizzarelli's recordings including the soundtrack and an on-screen cameo in the feature film "The Out of Towners" starring Steve Martin & Goldie Hawn. Per jazz writer/lyricist Gene Lees: "Stan Getz was once asked his idea of the perfect tenor saxophone soloist. His answer: 'My technique, Al Cohn's ideas, and Zoot's time.' The fulfillment of that ideal may well be embodied in... Harry Allen."

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How beautiful. Thank you. Your voice brightened my day.

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Love this too. Yve is Wonderfull. I am a musician as well. Great writing.I'm a fan now just subscribed

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