Harry Connick, Jr. :: Columbia Records

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The Today Show
Harry performed a duet of "Winter Wonderland" with his daughter Kate on The Today Show yesterday morning. Did you miss it? Or just want to see it again? Either way, you can watch it here. Isn't Kate so adorable?
AOL Sessions
Harry recently recorded a show at the Our Lady of Victory Church in New York for an AOL Sessions. He played 7 songs from his new album, What A Night!, and answered a bunch of questions from the fans that were there. You can watch it all here!
iTunes Discovery Download
For this week only, iTunes will be giving away "It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas" from Harry Connick Jr.'s new album What A Night! for FREE! It will only be available until Monday, so be sure to get it soon. Click here to download the song.
The Today Show with the Muppets
Don't forget to tune in to the Today Show tomorrow morning to see Harry Connick Jr. in a special interview with the Muppets! The show airs at 7 am EST on NBC. Check your local listings for times and channels.
TV Appearances
Harry will be making lots of TV appearances during the holiday season! Here is the current schedule: The Today Show, November 13 Late Show with David Letterman, November 25 The Today Show, December 3 NBC Tree Lighting at Rockefeller Center, December 3 The View, December 4 Rachael Ray, December 8 CBS The Early Show, December 23 Check your local listings for exact times and channels.
What A Night! Available November 4th
Harry's new album "What A Night!" will be available everywhere November 4th.

Tour

No tour dates are currently scheduled, please check back soon!

Bio

Over the past two decades, Harry Connick, Jr. has proven to be among the world's most successful and multi-talented artists. Connick first reached a mass audience as a pianist, singer and bandleader, securing his place in the public eye as a renaissance man and versatile entertainer. His love of music and performing dates back to his childhood in New Orleans, where he studied piano with such luminaries as James Booker and Ellis Marsalis. He first performed publicly at age five, appeared on his first jazz recording at age ten, and released his self-titled major label debut for Columbia Records at 19, only a year after his high school graduation and his move to New York City.

Connick achieved widespread success as a musician when director Rob Reiner asked him to contribute the score to his 1989 smash When Harry Met Sally, leading to Connick's first multi-platinum album (also his first big band recording.) In the '90s, the full scope of Connick's artistry emerged. His albums featured original instrumental and vocal music (Lofty's Roach Soufflé and We are in Love, respectively), explored funk (She and Star Turtle) and romantic balladry (To See You), and then pulled all of these strands together in the decade-ending big band tour de force Come by Me. Recent years have seen further triumphs, including his Grammy-winning reflection on favorite music of his youth, Songs I Heard, and his blockbuster hit albums Harry for the Holidays, a Christmas classic, a subsequent collection of ballads, Only You and the 2007 release of Oh, My NOLA, an album of New Orleans-inspired music, and the Marsalis Music companion album of instrumentals by Connick's big band, Chanson du Vieux Carre. At the same time, Connick has displayed his instrumental prowess in more intimate settings, a goal realized with his Connick on Piano series recordings for Marsalis Music which include the releases Other Hours, by Connick's quartet, and Occasion, Connick's duo encounter with Branford Marsalis.

Connick has also built a successful film career, appearing both on screen and soundtracks. After making his acting debut in Memphis Belle in 1990, he has also appeared in Little Man Tate, Copycat, Independence Day, Hope Floats, John Grisham's Mickey, and William Friedkin's Bug. His latest role in P.S., I Love You finds him cast opposite two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank. In 2009 he will co-star with another Oscar winning actress, Renee Zellweger, in Chilled in Miami. His music has also contributed to the success of such films as Godfather III, Sleepless in Seattle and The Mask.

As a television performer, Connick has starred in two holiday specials built around his best selling holiday albums When My Heart Finds Christmas (CBS) and Harry for the Holidays (NBC), and two Great Performances/PBS concert specials Swingin' Out Live and Harry Connick, Jr.: Only You In Concert for which he won a 2004 Emmy. He teamed with IDT Entertainment (producers of the The Simpsons) on The Happy Elf, a one-hour 3D animated holiday TV special which aired on NBC and was released on DVD during the 2005 holiday season. The story is based on his original children's song from the best selling Sony/Columbia Harry for the Holidays release. In addition, he starred opposite Glenn Close in the ABC TV adaptation of the musical South Pacific and played the recurring role of Dr. Leo Markus on the NBC series Will & Grace. In October of 2008 Connick will star in the Lifetime Television movie Living Proof as Dr. Dennis Slamon, the UCLA doctor who developed the life saving breast cancer drug, Herceptin 2.

Connick made his Broadway theatrical stage debut in the 2006 revival of The Pajama Game as Sid Sorokin to sold-out audiences, rave reviews, and nominations for Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Drama League awards for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical. The Pajama Game received the 2006 Tony Award for Best Musical Revival. However, Connick is no stranger to the New York theater scene. His concert production Harry Connick, Jr. and His Orchestra - Live on Broadway, directed by Joe Layton was produced in 1990 at the Lunt-Fontaine Theatre. And in 2002, he received a Tony nomination for Best Original Score for Thou Shalt Not, directed by Susan Stroman at the Plymouth Theatre. During the 2007 holiday season, the Coterie Theatre in Kansas City, MO was the first regional theatre in the US to stage The Happy Elf, a new family musical composed by Mr. Connick. In 2008, this musical will open at the First Stage Children's Theater in Milwaukee, WI.

As a New Orleans native, Harry Connick, Jr., is deeply attuned to the devastation caused by Katrina along the Gulf Coast. Connick teamed up with Branford Marsalis, and the New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity to create "Musicians' Village," a community in the Upper Ninth Ward which will consist of hundreds of single-family homes for musicians and other qualifying homeowner families as well as elder-friendly duplexes. Its centerpiece will be the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music, a performance, instruction and recording complex, dedicated to the education and development of homeowners and others who will live nearby.

All of these achievements - not to mention his album sales of over 25 million, his three Grammy awards, Emmy award, and Tony nominations - reflect a creative energy that make Harry Connick Jr. unique in the world of contemporary entertainment.

Music

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Oh, My NOLA
Release Date: January 30, 2007
Track listing for CD Longplay
(688851)

1 Working In The Coal Mine

2 Won't You Come Home, Bill Bailey?

3 Something You Got

4 Let Them Talk

5 Jambalaya (On The Bayou)

6 Careless Love

7 All These People

8 Yes We Can Can

9 Someday

10 Oh, My NOLA

11 Elijah Rock

12 Sheik Of Araby

13 Lazy Bones

14 We Make A Lot Of Love

15 Hello Dolly

16 Do Dat Thing

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Harry On Broadway, Act I
Release Date: May 09, 2006
Track listing for CD Longplay
(682883)

The Pajama Game

1 Overture

2 Racing With The Clock

3 A New Town Is A Blue Town

4 I'm Not At All In Love

5 I'll Never Be Jealous Again

6 Hey There

7 Sleep Tite

8 Her Is

9 Once A Year Day

10 Once A Year Day Playoff

11 Her Is (Reprise)

12 Small Talk

13 There Once Was A Man

14 Factory Music / Slow Down

15 Hey There (Reprise)

16 Steam Heat

17 The World Around Us

Hey There Reprise / If You Win You Lose

18 Hey There (Reprise)

18 If You Win You Lose

19 Think Of The Time I Save

20 Hernando's Hideaway

21 The Three Of Us

22 Seven-And-a-Half Cents

23 There Once Was A Man (Reprise)

24 Hernando's Jive

25 The Pajama Game

Thou Shalt Not

1 Oh, My Dear (Something's Gone Wrong)

2 Can't We Tell

3 Such Love

4 I Like Love More

5 My Little World

6 All Things

7 I Need To Be In Love

8 Oh! Ain't That Sweet

9 The Other Hours

10 Take Advantage

11 Take Her To The Mardi Gras

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Harry For The Holidays
Release Date: October 25, 2005
Track listing for DualDisc Longplay
(097690)

CD Audio

1 Frosty The Snowman

2 Blue Christmas

3 The Christmas Waltz

4 I Wonder As I Wander

5 Silver Bells

6 Mary's Little Boy Child

7 Santa Claus Is Coming To Town

8 The Happy Elf

9 I'll Be Home For Christmas

10 I Come With Love

11 Nature Boy

12 O Little Town Of Bethlehem

13 I'm Gonna Be The First One

14 This Christmas

15 Nothin' New For New Year

16 Silent Night

DVD Video

1 (It Must've Been) Ol' Santa Claus (Video - Holiday TV Special)

2 Silver Bells (Video - Holiday TV Special)

3 Blue Christmas (Video - Holiday TV Special)

4 Silent Night (Video - Holiday TV Special)

5 I Pray On Christmas (Video - Holiday TV Special)

5 The Happy Elf (Video - Holiday TV Special)

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Harry For The Holidays
Release Date: November 02, 2004
Track listing for DVD/CD Combo
(058760)

DVD

1 Santa Claus Is Coming To Town (Video - Holiday TV Special)

2 Whoopi Goldberg Sketch Part I (Video - Holiday TV Special)

3 Baby, It's Cold Outside (Video - Holiday TV Special)

4 (It Must've Been) Ol' Santa Claus (Video - Holiday TV Special)

5 Silver Bells (Video - Holiday TV Special)

6 Nathan Lane Sketch Part I (Video - Holiday TV Special)

7 The Happy Elf (Video - Holiday TV Special)

8 Nathan Lane Sketch Part II (Video - Holiday TV Special)

9 Auld Lang Syne (Video - Holiday TV Special)

10 Blue Christmas (Video - Holiday TV Special)

11 Whoopi Goldberg Sketch Part II (Video - Holiday TV Special)

12 Silent Night (Video - Holiday TV Special)

13 I'm Gonna Be The First One (Video - Holiday TV Special)

14 Whoopi Goldberg Sketch Part III (Video - Holiday TV Special)

15 Frosty The Snowman (Video - Holiday TV Special)

16 TV Show Credits (Video - Holiday TV Special)

17 I Pray On Christmas (Video - Holiday TV Special)

1 Frosty The Snowman

2 Blue Christmas

3 The Christmas Waltz

4 I Wonder As I Wander

5 Silver Bells

6 Mary's Little Boy Child

7 Santa Claus Is Coming To Town

8 The Happy Elf

9 I'll Be Home For Christmas

10 I Come With Love

11 Nature Boy

12 O Little Town Of Bethlehem

13 I'm Gonna Be The First One

14 This Christmas

15 Nothin' New For New Year

16 Silent Night

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Harry For The Holidays
Release Date: November 02, 2004
Track listing for DVD/CD Combo
(058759)

1 Frosty The Snowman

2 Blue Christmas

3 The Christmas Waltz

4 I Wonder As I Wander

5 Silver Bells

6 Mary's Little Boy Child

7 Santa Claus Is Coming To Town

8 The Happy Elf

9 I'll Be Home For Christmas

10 I Come With Love

11 Nature Boy

12 O Little Town Of Bethlehem

13 I'm Gonna Be The First One

14 This Christmas

15 Nothin' New For New Year

16 Silent Night

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Only You In Concert
Release Date: November 02, 2004
Track listing for DVD Video Longplay
(058756)

DVD VIDEO

1 Save The Last Dance For Me (Video Version from concert in Québec City, Canada)

2 For Once In My Life (Video Version from concert in Québec City, Canada)

3 Good Night My Love (Pleasant Dreams) (Video Version from concert in Québec City, Canada)

4 It Might As Well Be Spring (Video Version from concert in Québec City, Canada)

5 We Are In Love (Video Version from concert in Québec City, Canada)

6 The Very Thought Of You (Video Version from concert in Québec City, Canada)

7 You Don't Know Me (Video Version from concert in Québec City, Canada)

8 Bourbon Street Parade (Video Version from concert in Québec City, Canada)

9 There Is Always One More Time (Video Version from concert in Québec City, Canada)

10 Sweet Georgia Brown (Video Version from concert in Québec City, Canada)

11 I Still Get Jealous (Video Version from concert in Québec City, Canada)

12 The Other Hours (Video Version from concert in Québec City, Canada)

13 My Blue Heaven (Video Version from concert in Québec City, Canada)

14 Only You (And You Alone) (Video Version from concert in Québec City, Canada)

15 I'm Walkin' (Video Version from concert in Québec City, Canada)

16 Come By Me (Video Version from concert in Québec City, Canada)

BONUS CD

1 Save The Last Dance For Me (Live in Québec City, Canada)

2 For Once In My Life (Live in Québec City, Canada)

3 It Might As Well Be Spring (Live in Québec City, Canada)

4 The Very Thought Of You (Live in Québec City, Canada)

5 You Don't Know Me (Live in Québec City, Canada)

6 Bourbon Street Parade (Live in Québec City, Canada)

7 There Is Always One More Time (Live in Québec City, Canada)

8 Sweet Georgia Brown (Live in Québec City, Canada)

9 I Still Get Jealous (Live in Québec City, Canada)

10 The Other Hours (Live in Québec City, Canada)

11 My Blue Heaven (Live in Québec City, Canada)

12 Only You (And You Alone) (Live in Québec City, Canada)

13 I'm Walkin' (Live in Québec City, Canada)

14 Come By Me (Live in Québec City, Canada)

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Only You In Concert
Release Date: November 02, 2004
Track listing for DVD Video Longplay
(058757)