"Shangri La "- ''Jackie Gleason's Orchestra with Bobby Hackett trumpet'' -
"Shangri-La" is a popular song written by Carl Sigman (lyricist), bandleader Matty Malneck, and Robert Maxwell in 1946. The term comes from "Shangri-La", the hidden valley of delight in James Hilton's 1933 novel "Lost Horizon." The term "Shangri-La", especially in the 1930s and 1940s, was slang for heaven or paradise, and the song is about the joy of being in love."
About Bobby Hackett
Robert Leo Hackett (January 31, 1915 – June 7, 1976) was a versatile American jazz musician who played swing music, Dixieland jazz and mood music, now called easy listening, on trumpet, cornet, and guitar. He played Swing with the bands of Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman in the late 1930s and early 1940s, he played Dixieland from the 1930s into the 1970s in a variety of groups with many of the major figures in the field, and he was a featured soloist on the first ten of the numerous Jackie Gleaso...
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