Alan Copeland


Alan Weaver Copeland is an American singer, songwriter, composer, and conductor.

Life

Copeland was born October 6, 1926, in Los Angeles, California.
Currently, he is working at Keysight in Loveland, Colorado.

Music career

Copeland was a member of The Modernaires, first from 1948 to 1956 and then from 1959 to the mid-1960s. He also worked as a songwriter in Los Angeles in the 1950s. He co-wrote the song "Make Love to Me", "Back Where I Belong", "Darling, Darling, Darling", "High Society", "Into the Shadows", "This Must Be the Place", "Too Young to Know", and "While the Vesper Bells Were Ringing". He also worked as a composer for television and did arrangement work for musicians such as Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, and Bing Crosby. He led studio ensembles that released several albums in the 1960s. In 1968, he issued the single, "Mission: Impossible:Norwegian Wood", which was a medley interpolating the and the Beatles song "Norwegian Wood". It peaked at number 120 on the Billboard Bubbling Under chart and won a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Pop Performance by a Chorus.

Discography