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Subject: 1930s Songs and Music

Written By: Philip Eno on 09/15/16 at 2:35 am

Inspired by the topic of 1940s songs thread, we now have one for the 1930s.

"Georgia on My Mind" is a song by Hoagy Carmichael and Stuart Gorrell, now often associated with the version by Ray Charles, written in 1930, although it is frequently asserted that the lyrics were written not about the state of Georgia, but rather for Carmichael's sister, Georgia Carmichael.

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Subject: Re: 1930s songs

Written By: Philip Eno on 09/15/16 at 2:53 am

"Summertime" is an aria composed by George Gershwin for the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess. The lyrics are by DuBose Heyward, the author of the novel Porgy on which the opera was based, although the song is also co-credited to Ira Gershwin by ASCAP.

The song soon became a popular and much recorded jazz standard, described as "without doubt ... one of the finest songs the composer ever wrote ... Gershwin's highly evocative writing brilliantly mixes elements of jazz and the song styles of negroes in the southeast United States from the early twentieth century." Composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim has characterized Heyward's lyrics for "Summertime" and "My Man's Gone Now" as "the best lyrics in the musical theater". The song is recognized as one of the most covered songs in the history of recorded music, with more than 33,000 covers by groups and solo performers.

In this case, the video of "Summertime" is sung by Billie Holiday from 1935.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYUqbnk7tCY

Subject: Re: 1930s songs

Written By: Philip Eno on 09/15/16 at 2:54 am

"Gloomy Sunday", also known as the "Hungarian Suicide Song", is a song composed by Hungarian pianist and composer Rezső Seress and published in 1933. The original lyrics were titled Vége a világnak (The world is ending) and were about despair caused by war, ending in a quiet prayer about people's sins. Poet László Jávor wrote his own lyrics to the song, titled Szomorú vasárnap (Sad Sunday), in which the protagonist wants to commit suicide following his lover's death. The latter lyrics ended up becoming more popular while the former were essentially forgotten. The song was first recorded in Hungarian by Pál Kalmár in 1935. "Gloomy Sunday" was first recorded in English by Hal Kemp in 1936, with lyrics by Sam M. Lewis,and was recorded the same year by Paul Robeson, with lyrics by Desmond Carter. It became well-known throughout much of the English-speaking world after the release of a version by Billie Holiday in 1941. Lewis's lyrics referred to suicide, and the record label described it as the "Hungarian Suicide Song". There is a recurring urban legend which claims that many people have committed suicide while listening to this song.

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Subject: Re: 1930s songs

Written By: Philip Eno on 09/15/16 at 2:55 am

"Animal Crackers in My Soup" was a song introduced by Shirley Temple in the 1935 film Curly Top. The lyrics were written by Irving Caesar and Ted Koehler and the music by Ray Henderson, sheet music published by Sam Fox Publishing Company.

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Subject: Re: 1930s songs

Written By: Philip Eno on 09/17/16 at 4:50 am

"All or Nothing at All" is a song composed in 1939 by Arthur Altman, with lyrics by Jack Lawrence. Frank Sinatra's 1939 recording of the song became a huge hit in 1943, when it was reissued by Columbia Records during the 1942-44 musicians' strike. The record peaked in the Billboard top two.

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Subject: Re: 1930s songs

Written By: Philip Eno on 09/22/16 at 5:40 am

"Russian Lullaby" by Red Norvo and his Orchestra, recorded in 1937.

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Subject: Re: 1930s songs

Written By: Philip Eno on 12/02/16 at 8:07 am

"Over the Rainbow" (often referred to as "Somewhere Over the Rainbow") is a classic Academy Award-winning ballad, with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by E.Y. Harburg. It was written for the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz, and was sung by actress Judy Garland in her starring role as Dorothy Gale. It soon became her signature song, and one of the most enduring standards of the 20th century. About five minutes into the film, Dorothy sings the song after failing to get her aunt and uncle to listen to her relate an unpleasant incident involving her dog, Toto, and the town spinster, Miss Gulch. Dorothy's Aunt Em tells her to "find yourself a place where you won't get into any trouble." This prompts Dorothy to walk off by herself, musing to Toto, "'Some place where there isn't any trouble.' Do you suppose there is such a place, Toto? There must be. It's not a place you can get to by a boat, or a train. It's far, far away. Behind the moon, beyond the rain..." at which point she begins singing.

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Subject: Re: 1930s songs

Written By: Philip Eno on 12/02/16 at 8:08 am

"Strange Fruit" originated as a poem written by American writer, teacher and songwriter Abel Meeropol under his pseudonym Lewis Allan, as a protest against lynchings. In the poem, Meeropol expressed his horror at lynchings, inspired by Lawrence Beitler's photograph of the 1930 lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith in Marion, Indiana. He published the poem under the title "Bitter Fruit" in 1937 in The New York Teacher, a union magazine. Though Meeropol had asked others (notably Earl Robinson) to set his poems to music, he set "Strange Fruit" to music himself. His protest song gained a certain success in and around New York. Meeropol, his wife, and black vocalist Laura Duncan performed it at Madison Square Garden. Reports say that Robert Gordon, who was directing Billie Holiday's show at Cafe Society, heard the song at Madison Square Garden and introduced it to her. Holiday first performed the song at Cafe Society in 1939. She said that singing it made her fearful of retaliation but, because its imagery reminded her of her father, she continued to sing the piece, making it a regular part of her live performances.

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Subject: Re: 1930s songs

Written By: AL-B Mk. III on 12/04/16 at 3:30 am

Harry Roy & His Orchestra - My Girl's Pussy (1931)  :o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIfcKy-VcXo

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Subject: Re: 1930s songs

Written By: Howard on 12/04/16 at 2:36 pm


Harry Roy & His Orchestra - My Girl's Pussy (1931)  :o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIfcKy-VcXo

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Subject: Re: 1930s songs

Written By: 2001 on 12/04/16 at 7:06 pm

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Subject: Re: 1930s songs

Written By: AL-B Mk. III on 12/04/16 at 10:54 pm

The Ink Spots - If I Didn't Care (1939)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC_VzbtRGr0

(This was Fred Sanford's favorite song, and he often sang it on Sanford and Son.)

Subject: Re: 1930s songs

Written By: Philip Eno on 03/14/17 at 3:07 am

Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)” is a 1936 song written and composed by Louis Prima, who first recorded it with the New Orleans Gang and released it in March 1936 as a 78, Brunswick 7628, with "It's Been So Long" as the B side. It is strongly identified with the Big Band and Swing eras. Though it has lyrics, which Prima wrote, it was performed as an instrumental by Fletcher Henderson and, most famously, by Benny Goodman in 1937.

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Subject: Re: 1930s songs

Written By: Philip Eno on 03/18/17 at 1:13 am

"Our Love" is 1939 song that was recorded by Frank Sinatra and was his first recording. Some sources have said that this song was recorded a day before Sinatra married his first wife Nancy or a month later in March.The song is based on music from Tchaikovsky's "Romeo & Juliet Overture".

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Subject: Re: 1930s songs

Written By: Philip Eno on 03/19/17 at 6:00 am

"We'll Meet Again" is a 1939 British song made famous by singer Vera Lynn with music and lyrics composed and written by Ross Parker and Hughie Charles. The song is one of the most famous songs of the Second World War era, and resonated with soldiers going off to fight and their families and sweethearts. The assertion that "we'll meet again" is optimistic, as many soldiers did not survive to see their loved ones again.

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Subject: Re: 1930s songs

Written By: Philip Eno on 03/19/17 at 6:39 am

"A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" is a romantic British popular song written in 1939 with lyrics by Eric Maschwitz and music by Manning Sherwin.

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Subject: Re: 1930s songs

Written By: Philip Eno on 03/20/17 at 12:42 am


"We'll Meet Again" is a 1939 British song made famous by singer Vera Lynn with music and lyrics composed and written by Ross Parker and Hughie Charles. The song is one of the most famous songs of the Second World War era, and resonated with soldiers going off to fight and their families and sweethearts. The assertion that "we'll meet again" is optimistic, as many soldiers did not survive to see their loved ones again.

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Special birthday greetings to Dame Vera Lynn, for she is 100 today!

Subject: Re: 1930s songs

Written By: Philip Eno on 05/02/17 at 2:11 am

"A Tisket A Tasket" is a nursery rhyme first recorded in America in the late nineteenth century. It was used as the basis for a very successful and highly regarded 1938 recording by Ella Fitzgerald. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 13188. The song was a major hit of the "pre-chart" era, reaching number one in Billboard's sheet music and Record Buying Guide (jukebox) charts, also number 1 on "Your Hit Parade".


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Subject: Re: 1930s songs

Written By: AL-B Mk. III on 05/02/17 at 2:24 am

Not actually a 1930's song, but a great parody of one from 1980.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Nc1gTbe2KI

(You'll probably be singing the chorus all day tomorrow.  ;D)

Subject: Re: 1930s songs

Written By: Philip Eno on 01/18/18 at 2:27 am

Good Morning is a song by Nacio Herb Brown (music) and Arthur Freed (lyrics) written for the 1939 film Babes in Arms and performed by Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney. Its best known performance was in the 1952 hit musical film Singin' in the Rain, where it was sung by Debbie Reynolds, Gene Kelly and Donald O'Connor. In 2004 the version in Singin' in the Rain finished at #72 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of the top tunes in American cinema.

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Subject: Re: 1930s songs

Written By: Philip Eno on 01/18/18 at 9:44 am

"Tico-Tico no fubá" ("sparrow in the cornmeal", or, literally, "rufous-collared sparrow in the cornmeal") is a Brazilian choro song written by Zequinha de Abreu in 1917. Its original title was "Tico-Tico no farelo" ("sparrow in the bran"), but since Brazilian guitarist Américo Jacomino "Canhoto" (1889–1928) had a work with the same title, Abreu's work was given its present name in 1931, and sometime afterward Aloysio de Oliveira wrote the original Portuguese lyrics. Outside Brazil, the song reached its peak popularity in the 1940s, with successful recordings by Ethel Smith, The Andrews Sisters (with English-language lyrics by Ervin Drake), Carmen Miranda and others.

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Subject: Re: 1930s songs

Written By: Philip Eno on 05/21/18 at 12:44 pm

"I Only Have Eyes for You" is a romantic love song by composer Harry Warren and lyricist Al Dubin, written for the film Dames (1934) where it was introduced by Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler. The song is a jazz standard, and has been covered by numerous musicians. Successful recordings of the song have been made by Ben Selvin (in 1934), The Flamingos (in 1959), The Lettermen (in 1966) and Art Garfunkel (in 1975), among others.

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Subject: Re: 1930s songs and music

Written By: Philip Eno on 06/11/18 at 12:15 pm


Harry Roy & His Orchestra - My Girl's Pussy (1931)  :o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIfcKy-VcXo

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Subject: Re: 1930s songs and music

Written By: Philip Eno on 06/11/18 at 12:17 pm

"Moonlight Serenade" is an American swing ballad composed by Glenn Miller with subsequent lyrics by Mitchell Parish. It was an immediate phenomenon when released in May 1939 as an instrumental arrangement, though it had been adopted and performed as Miller's signature tune as early as 1938, even before it had been given the name "Moonlight Serenade." In 1991, Miller's recording of "Moonlight Serenade" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. The song, recorded on April 4, 1939, on RCA Bluebird, was a Top Ten hit on the U.S. pop charts in 1939, reaching number three on the Billboard charts, where it stayed for fifteen weeks. It was the number 5 top pop hit of 1939 in the Billboard year-end tally. Glenn Miller had five records in the top 20 songs of 1939 on Billboard′s list.

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Subject: Re: 1930s songs and music

Written By: Philip Eno on 06/13/18 at 11:20 am

"Anything Goes" is a song written by Cole Porter for his musical Anything Goes (1934). Many of the lyrics feature humorous references to various figures of scandal and gossip in Depression-era high society.

Anything Goes performance on the 2011 Tony Awards
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Subject: Re: 1930s songs and music

Written By: Philip Eno on 10/03/18 at 11:56 pm

"Minnie the Moocher" is a jazz song first recorded in 1931 by Cab Calloway and His Orchestra, selling over a million copies. Composed by Cab Calloway and Irving Mills, "Minnie the Moocher" is most famous for its nonsensical ad libbed ("scat") lyrics (for example, "Hi De Hi De Hi De Ho"). In performances, Calloway would have the audience and the band members participate by repeating each scat phrase in a form of call and response, until making it too fast and complicated for the audience to replicate it. "Minnie the Moocher" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999. Calloway appeared in the 1980 film The Blues Brothers and sang a newly-recorded version "Minnie The Moocher", in the original style of big band.

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Subject: Re: 1930s songs and music

Written By: fusefan on 10/20/18 at 9:54 pm

Memphis Jug Band - Cocaine Habit Blues

http://youtube.com/watch?v=WWt8KK_Cvfo

Ray Noble and Al Bowlly - Midnight The Stars And You

http://youtube.com/watch?v=uUqSykxJkA0

Clyde McCoy - Sugar Blues

http://youtube.com/watch?v=lfgKMixKOKw

Subject: Re: 1930s songs and music

Written By: Philip Eno on 11/22/18 at 7:49 am

The Concierto de Aranjuez is a guitar concerto by the Spanish composer Joaquín Rodrigo. Written in 1939, it is by far Rodrigo's best-known work, and its success established his reputation as one of the most significant Spanish composers of the 20th century.

The second movement, Adagio, play here by British guitarist John Williams.
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Subject: Re: 1930s songs and music

Written By: Philip Eno on 02/24/19 at 8:05 am

"I Like Bananas Because They Have No Bones", from 1935 by Hoosier Hot Shots.

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Subject: Re: 1930s songs and music

Written By: Philip Eno on 05/14/19 at 2:41 pm

"Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?", also sung as "Buddy, Can You Spare a Dime?", is one of the best-known American songs of the Great Depression. Written in 1930 by lyricist E. Y. "Yip" Harburg and composer Jay Gorney, "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" was part of the 1932 musical revue Americana; the melody is based on a Russian-Jewish lullaby Gorney's mother had sung to him as a child. It was considered by Republicans to be anti-capitalist propaganda, and almost dropped from the show; attempts were made to ban it from the radio.

Here sung by Al Jolson...

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Subject: Re: 1930s songs and music

Written By: Philip Eno on 07/03/19 at 6:40 am

Adagio for Strings is a work by Samuel Barber, arguably his best known, arranged for string orchestra from the second movement of his String Quartet, Op. 11. Barber finished the arrangement in 1936, the same year that he wrote the quartet. It was performed for the first time on November 5, 1938, by Arturo Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra in a radio broadcast from NBC Studio 8H. Toscanini also played the piece on his South American tour with the NBC Symphony in 1940. Its reception was generally positive, with Alexander J. Morin writing that Adagio for Strings is "full of pathos and cathartic passion" and that it "rarely leaves a dry eye." The music is the setting for Barber's 1967 choral arrangement of Agnus Dei. Adagio for Strings has been featured in many TV shows and movies.

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Subject: Re: 1930s songs and music

Written By: Philip Eno on 07/03/19 at 8:01 am

"Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" is a show tune written by American composer Jerome Kern and lyricist Otto Harbach for the 1933 musical Roberta. The song was sung in the Broadway show by Tamara Drasin. Its first recorded performance was by Gertrude Niesen, who recorded the song with orchestral direction from Ray Sinatra, Frank Sinatra's second cousin, on October 13, 1933. Paul Whiteman had the first hit recording of the song on the record charts in 1934. The song was reprised by Irene Dunne, who performed it in the 1935 film adaptation of the musical co-starring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, and Randolph Scott. The song was also included in the 1952 remake of Roberta, Lovely to Look At, in which it was performed by Kathryn Grayson, and was a number 1 chart hit in 1958 for The Platters.

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Subject: Re: 1930s songs and music

Written By: fusefan on 09/23/19 at 11:03 am

Georgia White - Hot Nuts (Get em From The Peanut Man)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ETFtOirbfCQ

Cliff Jackson & His Crazy Kats - The Terror

http://youtube.com/watch?v=czJk8IixNZo

Blind Boy Fuller - If You Don’t Give Me What I Want

http://youtube.com/watch?v=vqp9yoAP97Y

Subject: Re: 1930s songs and music

Written By: Philip Eno on 04/22/20 at 7:23 am

"Miss Otis Regrets" is a song composed by Cole Porter in 1934, and first performed by Douglas Byng in Hi Diddle Diddle, a revue that opened on October 3, 1934, at London's Savoy Theatre. With the song dealing with a dark matter it has been covered by many an artist over the years.

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Subject: Re: 1930s songs and music

Written By: Philip Eno on 05/29/20 at 6:54 am

"Thanks for the Memory" (1938) is a popular song, with music composed by Ralph Rainger and lyrics by Leo Robin. It was introduced in the 1938 film The Big Broadcast of 1938 by Shep Fields and His Orchestra with vocals by Bob Hope and Shirley Ross. Dorothy Lamour's solo recording of the song was also popular, and has led to many mistakenly believing over the years that it was she, and Hope, who sang the tune in the film (in which Lamour also appeared).

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Subject: Re: 1930s Songs and Music

Written By: Philip Eno on 07/01/20 at 5:25 am

"The Continental" is a dance to a song written by Con Conrad with lyrics by Herb Magidson, and was introduced by Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire in the 1934 film, The Gay Divorcee. "The Continental" was the first song to win the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Major record hits at the time of introduction included Jolly Coburn and Leo Reisman.

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Subject: Re: 1930s Songs and Music

Written By: Philip Eno on 07/08/20 at 5:52 am

"God Bless the Child" is a song written by Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog Jr. in 1939. It was first recorded on May 9, 1941 and released by the Okeh Records in 1942. Holiday's version of the song was honored with the Grammy Hall of Fame Award in 1976. It was also included in the list of Songs of the Century, by the Recording Industry Association of America and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Subject: Re: 1930s Songs and Music

Written By: Philip Eno on 07/26/20 at 1:22 pm

"Por una Cabeza" is a tango song written in 1935 with music by Carlos Gardel and lyrics by Alfredo Le Pera. It is featured in a famous tango scene in Martin Brest's film Scent of a Woman (1992), in the opening scene of Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List (1993) and in James Cameron's True Lies (1994).

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Subject: Re: 1930s Songs and Music

Written By: Philip Eno on 05/12/21 at 7:16 am

"Jeepers Creepers" is a popular song and jazz standard. The music was written by Harry Warren and the lyrics by Johnny Mercer for the 1938 movie Going Places. It was premiered by Louis Armstrong and has been covered by many other musicians. The song was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1938 but lost to "Thanks for the Memory".

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Subject: Re: 1930s Songs and Music

Written By: Philip Eno on 06/03/21 at 7:52 am

"Amy, Wonderful Amy" is a 1930 popular song, written by Joseph G. Gilbert and composed by Lawrence Wright (some sources credit him under his pseudonym Horatio Nicholls) about British aviator Amy Johnson (1903-1941, she flew in the Second World War as a part of the Air Transport Auxiliary and disappeared during a ferry flight). It was recorded by Jack Hylton and his orchestra on 2 June 1930, with J. Pat O'Malley providing vocals, and released on HMV B-5836. The banjo and ukelele arrangement was provided by Alvin Keech. While at least ten songs were written about her at the time, "Amy Wonderful Amy" is the most famous.

There seems to be no video on YouTube for this song.

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