Jackie Gleason

Throughout the 1950s and early-1960s, Jackie Gleason enjoyed a secondary music career, lending his name to a series of best-selling mood music albums with jazz overtones for Capitol. Gleason felt there was a ready market for romantic instrumentals. He recalled seeing Clark Gable play love scenes in movies, and the romance was, in his words, "magnified a thousand percent" by background music. Gleason reasoned, "If Gable needs music, a guy in Brooklyn must be desperate!" Read more on Last.fm

Jackie Gleason has 13 songs that have been featured in movies like Alice, Hollywood Ending, I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With and L.A. Confidential. What is your favorite song by Jackie Gleason?

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Songs from Jackie Gleason

Limehouse Blues

Breezin' Along With The Breeze

I Remember You

Moonlight Becomes You

Too Close For Comfort (1956)

Serenade in Blue (1942)

Tenderly

But Not for Me (1930)

LOVE IS HERE TO STAY

It All Depends on You (1926)

Sid, Ol' Kid from Take Me Along

I'll Be Seeing You

If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight)