tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90672888029883852192024-03-13T22:22:24.261-04:00Standard of the DayB-Solhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10717121313061173603noreply@blogger.comBlogger510125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9067288802988385219.post-40353545376641635612019-07-19T10:13:00.000-04:002019-07-19T10:15:40.882-04:00You Oughta Be in Pictures<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4wMvlfEvXZ3MnwSpPTnJKnoireS3nKf4UB7lKOsbyKLC_9LOwfV9fwd5DKO1zz-ux264lYYoU18RR9aLxC5mghScQnAoSe84tGN7elszZ4QVJGMWFNEvlf3QjLw5zH6XdOFAWS4047OpT/s1600/UMKC-138-001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1238" data-original-width="1000" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4wMvlfEvXZ3MnwSpPTnJKnoireS3nKf4UB7lKOsbyKLC_9LOwfV9fwd5DKO1zz-ux264lYYoU18RR9aLxC5mghScQnAoSe84tGN7elszZ4QVJGMWFNEvlf3QjLw5zH6XdOFAWS4047OpT/s200/UMKC-138-001.jpg" width="161" /></a><span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: "arial";"><strong>By Dana Suesse and Edward Heyman</strong></span><br />
<span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: "arial";"><strong>1934</strong></span><br />
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An iconic anthem of show business in the same vein as <a href="https://standardoftheday.blogspot.com/2018/11/hooray-for-hollywood.html" target="_blank">"Hooray for Hollywood"</a>, this song was composed by prolific musical virtuoso Dana Suesse, one of the rare woman standouts of the songbook era, and a person referred to in the press of the time as "the girl Gershwin". She and accomplished lyricist Edward Heyman purportedly wrote the song for an unproduced Columbia Pictures film, <i>New York Town</i>, but it was instead introduced on record by the legendary Rudy Vallee, who made it an instant classic and one of the songs most evocative of the 1930s.<br />
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<span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: "arial";"><strong>Lyrics:</strong></span><br />
<div class="M1CzJc PZPZlf MtKf9c kno-fb-ctx" data-lyricid="Lyricfind002-217570" jsname="rdVbIe" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin-top: 12px;">
<div jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.24; margin-bottom: 12px;">
<span jsname="YS01Ge">You oughta be in pictures, </span><br />
<span jsname="YS01Ge">You're wonderful to see, </span><br />
<span jsname="YS01Ge">You oughta be in pictures, </span><br />
<span jsname="YS01Ge">Oh what a hit you would be!</span></div>
<div jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.24; margin-bottom: 12px;">
<span jsname="YS01Ge">Your voice would thrill a nation, </span><br />
<span jsname="YS01Ge">Your face would be adored, </span><br />
<span jsname="YS01Ge">You'd make a great sensation </span><br />
<span jsname="YS01Ge">With wealth and fame your reward;</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: "arial";"></span><br />
<div class="M1CzJc PZPZlf kno-fb-ctx" jsname="wq5Syf" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">
<div class="u7wWjf" data-mh="-1" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.24; margin-bottom: 12px;">
<span jsname="YS01Ge">And if you should kiss the way you kiss, </span><br />
<span jsname="YS01Ge">When we're alone, </span><br />
<span jsname="YS01Ge">You'd make ev'ry girl and man </span><br />
<span jsname="YS01Ge">A fan worshiping at your throne.</span></div>
<div class="xpdxpnd" data-mh="64" data-mhc="1" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.24; margin-bottom: 0px; max-height: 64px; overflow: hidden; transition: max-height 0.3s ease 0s;">
<span jsname="YS01Ge">You oughta shine as brightly </span><br />
<span jsname="YS01Ge">As Jupiter and Mars; </span><br />
<span jsname="YS01Ge">You oughta be in pictures, </span><br />
<span jsname="YS01Ge">My star of stars.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: "arial";"><strong><br /></strong></span>
<strong style="color: #ff6600; font-family: arial;">Recorded By:</strong><br />
<br />
Doris Day<br />
The Boswell Sisters<br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtURQWN6Mic" target="_blank">Al Bowlly</a><br />
Connie Francis<br />
Joel Grey<br />
<br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #7f7f7f; font-family: Retina, arial; font-size: 12px;"><iframe allow="autoplay" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.dailymotion.com/embed/video/x17d5ko" width="480"></iframe></span>B-Solhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10717121313061173603noreply@blogger.com29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9067288802988385219.post-35567964162911307982019-05-19T17:24:00.000-04:002019-05-19T17:26:02.861-04:00Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjykajy3RHJ_SzdSAUj05dz_Dq7uLaXgwn3a2ZmkeyxSVmmc8clwYfffzgctm0s7vZhgkDx9BBnbqDOPrG6R6GTFyB9ZXT2eGcwSNfUjqlpLmrqC427uE0rrjl5osVW0BDgf3SxXM9mr2aQ/s1600/bb0f55c7eb74a9ebf33cf74a435e085a--carol-channing-stage-musical.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="305" data-original-width="236" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjykajy3RHJ_SzdSAUj05dz_Dq7uLaXgwn3a2ZmkeyxSVmmc8clwYfffzgctm0s7vZhgkDx9BBnbqDOPrG6R6GTFyB9ZXT2eGcwSNfUjqlpLmrqC427uE0rrjl5osVW0BDgf3SxXM9mr2aQ/s200/bb0f55c7eb74a9ebf33cf74a435e085a--carol-channing-stage-musical.jpg" width="154" /></a><span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: "arial";"><strong>By Jule Styne and Leo Robin</strong></span><br />
<span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: "arial";"><strong>1949</strong></span><br />
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Although today connected permanently with Marilyn Monroe thanks to her performance in the 1953 film version of <i>Gentleman Prefer Blondes</i>, this playful number was introduced by Carol Channing, who played the original Lorelei Lee on stage in 1949. It later became a standard among female vocalists, and was even alluded to by Madonna in the music video for her 1984 hit, "Material Girl", and performed by Nicole Kidman in the 2001 musical, <i>Moulin Rouge.</i><br />
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<span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: "arial";"><strong>Lyrics:</strong></span><br />
<div jsname="U8S5sf" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<pre class="lyric-body wselect-cnt" data-lang="en" dir="ltr" id="lyric-body-text" style="border-radius: 4px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 10px; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: auto; padding: 9.5px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="M1CzJc MtKf9c kno-fb-ctx" data-lyricid="Lyricfind002-508119" jsname="rdVbIe" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin-top: 12px; white-space: normal;">
<div jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.24; margin-bottom: 12px;">
<span jsname="YS01Ge">The French are glad to die for love,</span><br />
<span jsname="YS01Ge">T</span><span jsname="YS01Ge">hey delight in fighting duels,</span><br />
<span jsname="YS01Ge">But I prefer a man who lives and gives</span>
<span jsname="YS01Ge">Expensive jewels.</span></div>
<div jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.24; margin-bottom: 12px;">
<span jsname="YS01Ge">A kiss on the hand maybe quite continental</span><br />
<span jsname="YS01Ge">But diamonds are a girl's best friend</span><br />
<span jsname="YS01Ge">A kiss may be grand.. but it won't pay the rental on your humble flat</span><br />
<span jsname="YS01Ge">Or help you at the automat</span><br />
<span jsname="YS01Ge">
</span>
<span jsname="YS01Ge">Men grow cold as girls grow old</span><br />
<span jsname="YS01Ge">And we all lose our charms in the end</span><br />
<span jsname="YS01Ge">But square cut or pear shape these rocks don't lose there shape </span><br />
<span jsname="YS01Ge">Diamonds are a girl's best friend</span></div>
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<div class="M1CzJc kno-fb-ctx" jsname="wq5Syf" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; white-space: normal;">
<div class="u7wWjf" data-mh="-1" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.24; margin-bottom: 12px;">
<span jsname="YS01Ge">... Tiffany's!</span>
<span jsname="YS01Ge">... Cartiea!</span>
<span jsname="YS01Ge">Black, Starr, Frost Gorham</span><br />
<span jsname="YS01Ge">Talk to me Harry Winston tell me all about it!</span><br />
<span jsname="YS01Ge">There may come a time when a lass needs a lawyer</span><br />
<span jsname="YS01Ge">But diamonds are a girl's best friend</span><br />
<span jsname="YS01Ge">There may come a time when a hard boiled employer thinks you're awful nice</span><br />
<span jsname="YS01Ge">But get that ice or else no dice</span><br />
<span jsname="YS01Ge">
</span>
<span jsname="YS01Ge">He's your guy when stocks are high but beware when they start to descend</span><br />
<span jsname="YS01Ge">Because that's when those louses go back to their spouses</span><br />
<span jsname="YS01Ge">Diamonds are a girl's best friend</span></div>
<div class="xpdxpnd" data-mh="96" data-mhc="1" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.24; margin-bottom: 12px; max-height: 96px; overflow: hidden; transition: max-height 0.3s ease 0s;">
<span jsname="YS01Ge">I've heard of affairs that are strictly platonic</span><br />
<span jsname="YS01Ge">But diamonds are a girl's best friend</span><br />
<span jsname="YS01Ge">And I think affairs that you must keep the masonic are better bets</span><br />
<span jsname="YS01Ge">If little girls get big bagettes</span><br />
<span jsname="YS01Ge">Time rolls on and youth is gone and you can't straighten up when you bend</span><br />
<span jsname="YS01Ge">But stiff back or stiff knees you stand straight at.. Tiffany's...</span></div>
<div class="xpdxpnd" data-mh="16" data-mhc="1" jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.24; margin-bottom: 0px; max-height: 16px; overflow: hidden; transition: max-height 0.3s ease 0s;">
<span jsname="YS01Ge">diamonds... diamonds... I don't mean rhinestones.. but diamonds... are a girls best... best friend.</span></div>
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<strong style="color: #ff6600; font-family: arial;">Recorded By:</strong><br />
<br />
Lena Horne<br />
Jo Stafford<br />
Julie London<br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssg7rw1phEY" target="_blank">Eartha Kitt</a><br />
Ethel Merman<br />
<br />
<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="240" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bfsnebJd-BI" width="420"></iframe>B-Solhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10717121313061173603noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9067288802988385219.post-56395574894551789582019-04-10T15:01:00.000-04:002019-04-10T15:02:33.913-04:00April in Paris<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg84MrXGNa_0VtQs2lAdNxXTumuekg3i7t5PIpqh5ajzBjyL9E7nuZ8DT7sHHBi1Wq-riNKU_BLx48j8mMSO4KQCpLrt-jhUZVdft56fzADHCEbnr4eoKlMmFt42kb3rgxbxHJX9_6kA5c9/s1600/april-in-paris-alan-lakin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="711" data-original-width="900" height="157" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg84MrXGNa_0VtQs2lAdNxXTumuekg3i7t5PIpqh5ajzBjyL9E7nuZ8DT7sHHBi1Wq-riNKU_BLx48j8mMSO4KQCpLrt-jhUZVdft56fzADHCEbnr4eoKlMmFt42kb3rgxbxHJX9_6kA5c9/s200/april-in-paris-alan-lakin.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>
<span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: "arial";"><strong>By Vernon Duke and E.Y. "Yip" Harburg</strong></span><br />
<span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: "arial";"><strong>1932</strong></span><br />
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Once referred to by renowned composer and music scholar <a href="https://standardoftheday.blogspot.com/2009/07/ill-be-around.html" target="_blank">Alec Wilder</a> as the "perfect theater song," this sweeping, evocative number was written by Duke and frequent Harold Arlen collaborator Harburg for the stage production <i>Walk a Little Faster</i>, and introduced in a hit recording by Freddy Martin. Perhaps the most well-known recording would be Count Basie's jazzy rendition, typified by trumpeter Thad Jones' unforgettable solo and the Count's exhortations to his band of "one more time" and "one more once!" Basie's version was also memorably featured in the 1974 Mel Brooks comedy <i>Blazing Saddles</i>.<br />
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<span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: "arial";"><strong>Lyrics:</strong></span><br />
<div jsname="U8S5sf" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
<pre class="lyric-body wselect-cnt" data-lang="en" dir="ltr" id="lyric-body-text" style="border-radius: 4px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; cursor: alias !important; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 10px; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: auto; padding: 9.5px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">April in Paris, <a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/chestnuts" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222;">chestnuts</a> in blossom
Holiday <a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/tables" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222;">tables</a> under the trees
April in Paris, this is a feeling
No one can ever reprise
I <a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/never" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222;">never</a> knew the <a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/charm" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222;">charm</a> of spring
Never met it face to face
I <a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/never" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222;">never</a> new my <a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/heart" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222;">heart</a> could sing
Never <a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/missed" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222;">missed</a> a warm embrace
Till <a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/April" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222;">April</a> in Paris
Whom can I run to
What have you done to my heart?</span></pre>
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<strong style="color: #ff6600; font-family: arial;">Recorded By:</strong><br />
<br />
Frank Sinatra<br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCsNg6XB3dg" target="_blank">Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong</a><br />
Billie Holiday<br />
Thelonious Monk<br />
Dinah Shore<br />
<div>
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<div>
<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="240" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZzKUVsHL7ac" width="420"></iframe></div>
B-Solhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10717121313061173603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9067288802988385219.post-14145410874987909492019-03-19T14:19:00.000-04:002019-03-19T14:19:33.745-04:00The Shadow of Your Smile<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzqfyWgeNREFDyODrtI2eQZbS5LCMAoUgj9g81f8BVBJ8Xo6_ZTARb8Krqb4N9wKIrowhWHegCgpMf4a0okiqyJ4DwebA6HTM-YBhyphenhyphen1YFVqnYb77Rf8LsnIF1L6JbDvxRqOqlDPpaJyJB9/s1600/The+Sandpiper+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="901" data-original-width="1200" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzqfyWgeNREFDyODrtI2eQZbS5LCMAoUgj9g81f8BVBJ8Xo6_ZTARb8Krqb4N9wKIrowhWHegCgpMf4a0okiqyJ4DwebA6HTM-YBhyphenhyphen1YFVqnYb77Rf8LsnIF1L6JbDvxRqOqlDPpaJyJB9/s200/The+Sandpiper+1.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: "arial";"><strong>By Johnny Mandel and Paul Francis Webster</strong></span><br />
<span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: "arial";"><strong>1965</strong></span><br />
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One of the last of the great <a href="https://standardoftheday.blogspot.com/search/label/Oscar%20winner" target="_blank">Academy Award winning</a> movie songs of the traditional "songbook" era, this instant classic by arranger/bandleader Mandel and prolific lyricist Webster also won the Grammy for Song of the Year. Introduced in the Liz Taylor/Richard Burton film <i>The Sandpiper</i> by Mandel's orchestra, it was first recorded lyrically by singer Astrud Gilberto. Following the film, there was an explosion of recordings of the song throughout the late 1960s, with many artists of the old-school, lost in the burgeoning rock and roll era, latching on to it for its melodic beauty and poignant words. The one to be most successful with it at the time was Tony Bennett. Today, it remains a popular selection among instrumental groups and jazz bands, and was even recorded in 1992 by British actor Ian McShane.<br />
<br />
<span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: "arial";"><strong>Lyrics:</strong></span><br />
<strong style="color: #ff6600; font-family: arial;"><br /></strong>
<div jsname="U8S5sf" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">One day we walked along the sand</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">One day in early spring</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">You held a piper in your hand</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">To mend its broken wing</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Now I'll remember many a day</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">And many a lonely mile</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">The echo of a piper's song</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">The shadow of a smile</span></span></div>
<div class="UH8R2" jsname="U8S5sf" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small; margin-top: 13px;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">The shadow of your smile</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">When you are gone</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Will color all my dreams</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">And light the dawn</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Look into my eyes</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">My love and see</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">All the lovely things</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">You are to me</span></span></div>
<div class="UH8R2" jsname="U8S5sf" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small; margin-top: 13px;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">Our wistful little star</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Was far too high</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">A teardrop kissed your lips</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">And so did I</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Now when I remember spring</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">All the joy that love can bring</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">I will be remembering</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">The shadow of your smile</span></span></div>
<strong style="color: #ff6600; font-family: arial;"><br /></strong>
<strong style="color: #ff6600; font-family: arial;">Recorded By:</strong><br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2OMtUy1nUs" target="_blank">Peggy Lee</a><br />
Ray Conniff<br />
Sammy Davis Jr. & Laurindo Almeida<br />
Ferrante & Teicher<br />
Barbra Streisand<br />
<br />
<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="240" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xbBYDCv5BV0" width="420"></iframe>B-Solhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10717121313061173603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9067288802988385219.post-70852561064022989232019-03-04T12:52:00.000-05:002019-03-04T12:54:20.737-05:00Like Young<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_1u27zDb6qIa1I0CKUYZhWd0wSUMEfGVb458qHiUpHwDwzoh1U72AY8ttUSQN5yJJsiNx3rWrsgvsWXYgqUgZouLK5mj_ZCIsChIsh2XepZwBsu80LS_HwempCrs-O8z_pvrw1KJD70jI/s1600/MV5BMjA5NTAyODUwNl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMzEzMTQzNw%2540%2540._V1_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="335" data-original-width="500" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_1u27zDb6qIa1I0CKUYZhWd0wSUMEfGVb458qHiUpHwDwzoh1U72AY8ttUSQN5yJJsiNx3rWrsgvsWXYgqUgZouLK5mj_ZCIsChIsh2XepZwBsu80LS_HwempCrs-O8z_pvrw1KJD70jI/s200/MV5BMjA5NTAyODUwNl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMzEzMTQzNw%2540%2540._V1_.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: "arial";"><strong>By Andre Previn and Paul Francis Webster</strong></span><br />
<span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: "arial";"><strong>1959</strong></span><br />
<strong><span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: "arial";"></span></strong><br />
Last Thursday, February 28, we lost the brilliant Andre Previn, celebrated classical and jazz composer, musician and conductor. A man of many talents, Previn even dabbled in pop music, and today we spotlight what might be his best and most memorable pop song, written with lyrics by Paul Webster, the Oscar-winning lyricist of <a href="http://standardoftheday.blogspot.com/2010/02/love-is-many-splendored-thing.html" target="_blank">"Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing"</a>, "Secret Love" and "The Shadow of Your Smile". Both the melody and lyrics were emblematic of the beat generation culture of the 1950s, with Webster's words in particular glorifying that lifestyle, complete with hipster slang. Previn himself introduced the song on record with a piano instrumental accompanied by the David Rose Orchestra that was nominated for the Best Record Grammy, losing to Bobby Darin's "Mack the Knife".<br />
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<span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: "arial";"><strong>Lyrics:</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">I'm out doin' the usual places</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">And I'm livin' it, like young</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Then I dig me this face of all faces</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">He's the craziest, like young</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">He drinks coffee at Cafe Espresso</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">He reads Kerouac, like young</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">He goes where all the angry young men go</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Recites poetry, like young</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">We start blowin' the pad around lovin'</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">And we're homin' it, like now</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">We spin records on cloud number seven</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">And he's reachin' me, like wow</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">I'm all unstrung 'cause, man</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">He's got me feelin' like young</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">If he were to brush me and go</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">I'm starting to wear my hair again</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Like a square again</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">I keep gettin' the kookiest notion</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">I think maybe it's like love</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">I've been feelin' a crazy emotion</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">I think, baby, it's like love</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">Now we're ridin' a rainbow to Cloudsville</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">And we're makin' it like young</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Love soft as April snow</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Love warm as candle glow</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Love, love is easy to go</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">I'm all unstrung 'cause, man</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">He's got me feelin' like young</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Without him I'm no good at all</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Without him I'm less than a decimal</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">I keep gettin' the kookiest notion</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">I think maybe it's like love</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">I've been feelin' a crazy emotion</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">I think, baby, it's like love</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">Now we're ridin' a rainbow to Cloudsville or Wowsville</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">We're makin' it, makin' it like, like, like young</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: "arial";"><strong>Recorded By:</strong></span><br />
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Ella Fitzgerald<br />
Martin Denny<br />
Perry Como<br />
Henry Mancini<br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVr1TMFtaII" target="_blank">Buddy Greco</a><br />
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<br />B-Solhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10717121313061173603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9067288802988385219.post-24352681606631001622019-02-25T17:42:00.001-05:002019-02-25T17:44:31.193-05:00Lullaby of Broadway<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Harry Warren and his Oscar</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: "arial";"><strong>By Harry Warren and Al Dubin</strong></span><br />
<span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: "arial";"><strong>1935</strong></span><br />
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In light of last night's Academy Awards, today we're taking a look at the second tune to ever win the Oscar for Best Original Song (the first being <a href="http://standardoftheday.blogspot.com/2009/05/continental.html" target="_blank">"The Continental"</a> in 1934). Introduced by Wini Shaw in <i>Gold Diggers of 1935</i>, "Lullaby of Broadway" was such an instant classic that later it was even used as background music in the Bette Davis film, <i>Special Agent</i>. With a peppy melody and lyrics that celebrate the wild Broadway nightlife, it's no wonder it captured the attention of Academy voters--even if Irving Berlin's "Cheek to Cheek" may have been the more deserving nominee that year...<br />
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<span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: "arial";"><strong>Lyrics:</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">Come on along and listen to</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">The lullaby of Broadway</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">The hip hooray and ballyhoo</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">The lullaby of Broadway</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">The rumble of a subway train</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">The rattle of the taxis</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">The daffodils who entertain</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">At Angelo's and Maxi's</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">When a Broadway baby says good night</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">It's early in the morning</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Manhattan babies don't sleep tight</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Until the dawn</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">Good night, baby</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Good night, the milkman's on his way</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Sleep tight, baby</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Sleep tight, let's call it a day</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">The band begins to go to town</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">And everyone goes crazy</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">You rock a bye your baby round</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">'Til everything gets hazy</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Hush a bye, I'll buy you this and that</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">You hear a daddy saying</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">And baby goes home to her flat</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">To sleep all day</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">Good night, baby</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Good night, the milkman's on his way</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Sleep tight, baby</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Sleep tight, let's call it a day</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;"><span jsname="YS01Ge">Listen to the lullaby </span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Of old Broadway!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: "arial";"><strong>Recorded By:</strong></span><br />
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Tony Bennett<br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSrqSscdOcs" target="_blank">Ella Fitzgerald</a><br />
Bette Midler<br />
The Andrew Sisters<br />
Doris Day<br />
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<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="240" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UwlvkUMsDgI" width="420"></iframe>B-Solhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10717121313061173603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9067288802988385219.post-87986383862582742722019-02-19T15:53:00.000-05:002019-02-19T15:53:43.401-05:00My Little Grass Shack in Kealakekua, Hawaii<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh61jYQt3nv1YCrBnfC22gXgrzyqViKPHPFTbuyQZKMLGX5iXZfpmZ350Ro6hH53dNwWYC1hup4_zITYkBG4YIn5QZ-TUOSyyPrDEiyt0yvGqQrpvlUjioyhw3UHqwUnmstZo9l_8fL2BlN/s1600/little+grass+shack+hana+maui.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh61jYQt3nv1YCrBnfC22gXgrzyqViKPHPFTbuyQZKMLGX5iXZfpmZ350Ro6hH53dNwWYC1hup4_zITYkBG4YIn5QZ-TUOSyyPrDEiyt0yvGqQrpvlUjioyhw3UHqwUnmstZo9l_8fL2BlN/s200/little+grass+shack+hana+maui.jpg" width="150" /></a><span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: "arial";"><strong>By Johnny Noble, Bill Cogswell and Tommy Harrison</strong></span><br />
<span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: "arial";"><strong>1933</strong></span><br />
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A classic example of the <i>hapa haole</i> song genre that combines American jazz style and Hawaiian instrumentation, this wonderful song epitomized the Hawaiian music and cultural craze that gripped America during much of the early 20th century. The original melody and lyrics were written by American transplants Cogswell and Harrison as a parody of the 1924 song, "Back in Hackensack, New Jersey", intended to be used for the Kona Independence Day celebration of 1933. Popular Hawaii-based bandleader Johnny Noble further adapted it to make it distinct from "Hackensack", and it became a runaway hit with tourists and natives alike. It was introduced on record by the Noelani Hawaiian Orchestra, but it was Ted Fio Rito's version that rocketed to the top of the Billboard charts for 14 week in early 1934. To this day, it can be heard in many movies and TV shows as an instant evocation of the beautiful 50th state.<br />
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<span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: "arial";"><strong>Lyrics:</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I want to go back to my little grass shack in Kealakekua, Hawaii</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I want to be with all the kanes and wahines that I knew long ago</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I can hear old guitars a playing, on the beach at Hoonaunau</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I can hear the Hawaiians saying "Komomai no kaua ika hale welakahao"</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">It won't be long 'til my ship will be sailing back to Kona</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">A grand old place that's always fair to see</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I'm just a little Hawaiian and a homeside Island boy</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I want to go back to my fish and poi</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I want to go back to my little grass shack in Kealakekua, Hawaii</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Where the Humuhumu, Nukunuku a puaa goes swimming by</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Where the Humuhumu, Nukunuku a puaa goes swimming by!</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: "arial";"><strong>Recorded By:</strong></span><br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ym30uPPjh8" target="_blank">Martin Denny</a><br />
Les Paul and Mary Ford<br />
Bing Crosby<br />
Leon Redbone and Ringo Starr<br />
Lisa Loeb<br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>By Pinky Tomlin</b></span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>1937</b></span><br />
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A somewhat obscure chestnut of the late 1930s, it nonetheless enjoyed a brief moment in the sun soon after being written by musician and actor Pinky Tomlin (pictured), also responsible for the similarly infectious "The Object of My Affection". Introduced by the Jimmy Dorsey orchestra, it might best be remembered today for being included in the Little Rascals short "Our Gang Follies of 1938", in which it's sung by Darla Hood. In the 1990s, it was even adapted into Norwegian by the a cappella group Bjelleklang.<br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="color: orange; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Lyrics:</b></span><br />
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">The love bug will bite you if you don't watch out</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">If he ever bites you, then you'll sing and shout</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">You'll go (da-dee-da-dee-da-dee da and whoa dee doe dee doe)</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">That's what love is all about</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">You can't eat, you can't sleep, you'll go crazy</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">You'll just la dee da dee la all day</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">If someone wants to know why you're crazy </span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">You'll answer (da da da doo with a ho ho hay-hay)</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">The love bug will bite you if you don't watch out</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">If he ever bites you, then you'll sing and shout</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">You'll go (da-dee-da-dee-da-dee da and whoa dee doe dee doe)</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">That's what love is all about</span></div>
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<b style="background-color: white; color: orange; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Recorded By:</b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: orange; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></b><span style="background-color: white;">The Mills Brothers</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">Fats Waller</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">Teddy Hill</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF2Vg5-LOCI" target="_blank">Vera Lynn</a></span><br />
<br />
<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="240" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/sf0WpuxkIcA" width="420"></iframe>B-Solhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10717121313061173603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9067288802988385219.post-70102003033686391832019-02-11T13:19:00.000-05:002019-02-11T13:20:15.637-05:00We're in the Money (The Gold Diggers' Song)<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM1FBrQArFzRDETCjhqwO4X8O_HTQRRAT9-SRLAk_1w4r7pM0FPHXNixoa-lRpsU8CgHs43i7uueLDqSzDVKsz_j1lQl7w_tOJPRgmn3z9hAhyb1HYROnJ-eNkHNhpB1d6XZERCKbR02Zx/s1600/S103123249.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="400" height="111" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjM1FBrQArFzRDETCjhqwO4X8O_HTQRRAT9-SRLAk_1w4r7pM0FPHXNixoa-lRpsU8CgHs43i7uueLDqSzDVKsz_j1lQl7w_tOJPRgmn3z9hAhyb1HYROnJ-eNkHNhpB1d6XZERCKbR02Zx/s200/S103123249.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="color: orange; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>By Harry Warren and Al Dubin</b></span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>1933</b></span><br />
<br />
What became an anthem of the Great Depression was written as a song of hope by the legendary team of <a href="https://standardoftheday.blogspot.com/search/label/Al%20Dubin" target="_blank">Warren & Dubin</a>, signaling a wished-for end to the economic catastrophe, even though that was still years away. Written for the film <i>Gold Diggers of 1933</i>, in which it was introduced by Ginger Rogers, the song had its first commercial release simultaneously, in a recording by Art Kahn and his Orchestra. With a most recognizable and catchy tune, it soon started popping up everywhere, including a 1933 Warner Bros. cartoon of the same name.<br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="color: orange; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Lyrics:</b></span><br />
<div jsname="U8S5sf" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">
<span jsname="YS01Ge"><br /></span></div>
<div jsname="U8S5sf" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">
<div jsname="U8S5sf" style="font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.24; margin-bottom: 12px;">
<span jsname="YS01Ge">We're in the money, we're in the money;</span><br />
<span jsname="YS01Ge">We've got a lot of what it takes to get along!</span><br />
<span jsname="YS01Ge">We're in the money, that sky is sunny,</span><br />
<span jsname="YS01Ge">Old Man Depression you are through, you done us wrong.</span></div>
<div jsname="U8S5sf" style="font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.24; margin-bottom: 12px;">
<span jsname="YS01Ge">We never see a headline about breadlines today.</span><br />
<span jsname="YS01Ge">And when we see the landlord we can look that guy right in the eye</span></div>
<div jsname="U8S5sf" style="font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.24; margin-bottom: 12px;">
<span jsname="YS01Ge">We're in the money, come on, my honey,</span><br />
<span jsname="YS01Ge">Let's lend it, spend it, send it rolling along!</span></div>
</div>
<div class="UH8R2" jsname="U8S5sf" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin-top: 13px;">
<span jsname="YS01Ge"><br /></span></div>
<b style="background-color: white; color: orange; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Recorded By:</b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: orange; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></b><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC3LvDLGCeE" target="_blank">Bing Crosby</a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">Dick Powell</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">Connie Francis</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">Jessica Molaskey</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">Dick Hyman Trio</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="240" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UJOjTNuuEVw" width="420"></iframe></span>B-Solhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10717121313061173603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9067288802988385219.post-33904487279393216882019-02-06T16:22:00.000-05:002019-02-06T16:22:08.037-05:00How Do You Keep the Music Playing?<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj94X7sTSIUDfGw02fsfcLJV8-oE0SIX22ue5LBYVqDL60wOxgZAkARuZuC0FP2aeUAHSX7GnO-dpIXVslV_oFs0P9wiEoWjVetyS3olpLlaEmGTPOHdgRbKGQdlgsywrWcww_eGx__6Swq/s1600/download.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="275" data-original-width="183" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj94X7sTSIUDfGw02fsfcLJV8-oE0SIX22ue5LBYVqDL60wOxgZAkARuZuC0FP2aeUAHSX7GnO-dpIXVslV_oFs0P9wiEoWjVetyS3olpLlaEmGTPOHdgRbKGQdlgsywrWcww_eGx__6Swq/s200/download.jpeg" width="133" /></a><span style="color: orange; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>By Michel Legrand, Alan Bergman and Marylin Bergman</b></span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>1982</b></span><br />
<br />
In honor of the recent passing of both composer <a href="http://standardoftheday.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-windmills-of-your-mind.html" target="_blank">Michel Legrand</a> and vocalist (and songwriter) James Ingram, I'm spotlighting the most "recent" song ever featured on Standard of the Day so far. The song, composed by Legrand with lyrics by the Bergmans, was introduced by Ingram and Patti Austin for the soundtrack of the Burt Reynolds/Goldie Hawn romantic comedy <i>Best Friends</i>. The original recording became a hit on the Adult Contemporary and R&B charts in 1983, and soon became a modern-day standard when it was snatched up by many an old-school performer thanks to its gorgeous melody and wistful lyric. Among them was Sinatra, who recorded it for his 1984 album <i>L.A. Is My Lady</i>, and Tony Bennett, who continues to use it as a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjIg5AvwTIA" target="_blank">show-stopping number</a> to this day.<br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="color: orange; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Lyrics:</b></span><br />
<div jsname="U8S5sf" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">
<span jsname="YS01Ge"><br /></span></div>
<div jsname="U8S5sf" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">
<span jsname="YS01Ge">How do you keep the music playing?</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">How do you make it last?</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">How do you keep the song from fading</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Too fast?</span></div>
<div class="UH8R2" jsname="U8S5sf" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin-top: 13px;">
<span jsname="YS01Ge">How do you lose yourself to someone</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">And never lose your way?</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">How do you not run out of new things</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">To say?</span></div>
<div class="UH8R2" jsname="U8S5sf" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin-top: 13px;">
<span jsname="YS01Ge">And since you know we're always changing</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">How can it be the same?</span></div>
<div class="UH8R2" jsname="U8S5sf" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin-top: 13px;">
<span jsname="YS01Ge">And tell me how year after year</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">You're sure your heart won't fall apart</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Each time you hear his name?</span></div>
<div class="UH8R2" jsname="U8S5sf" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin-top: 13px;">
<span jsname="YS01Ge">I know the way I feel for you is now or never</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">The more I love, the more that I'm afraid</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">That in your eyes I may not see forever, forever</span></div>
<div class="UH8R2" jsname="U8S5sf" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin-top: 13px;">
<span jsname="YS01Ge">If we can be the best of lovers</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Yet be the best of friends</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">If we can try with every day to make it better as it grows</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">With any luck than I suppose</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">The music never ends</span></div>
<div class="UH8R2" jsname="U8S5sf" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin-top: 13px;">
<span jsname="YS01Ge"><br /></span></div>
<b style="background-color: white; color: orange; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Recorded By:</b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: orange; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></b>
<span style="background-color: white;">Andy Williams</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">George Benson and Count Basie</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">Shirley Bassey</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">Johnny Mathis</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">Barbra Streisand</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="240" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RshWauqUAAo" width="420"></iframe></span>B-Solhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10717121313061173603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9067288802988385219.post-59463332014452335212019-01-29T14:32:00.000-05:002019-01-29T14:34:07.562-05:00Someone to Watch Over Me<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6ZUAZYXyJJ9anSBuLiy7ZDzhSdR-9qDkINbIvAIdxvhoM0SS86T2lAJGNpef5Vk8uekkavOj1bxJR45KuTKvj5ji11wV-2qJBkAPz-C_4a6dlk1n2rLUuMSVnyEzg2LOKDoR4Gy1PYCAp/s1600/1202-Feingold-SUB-superJumbo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1175" data-original-width="943" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6ZUAZYXyJJ9anSBuLiy7ZDzhSdR-9qDkINbIvAIdxvhoM0SS86T2lAJGNpef5Vk8uekkavOj1bxJR45KuTKvj5ji11wV-2qJBkAPz-C_4a6dlk1n2rLUuMSVnyEzg2LOKDoR4Gy1PYCAp/s320/1202-Feingold-SUB-superJumbo.jpg" width="256" /></a><span style="color: orange; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>By George and Ira Gershwin</b></span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>1926</b></span><br />
<br />
For this, the momentous 500th post here at Standard of the Day, let's fondly recall one of the absolutely unparalleled gems of the Great American Songbook, from the incomparable brothers Gershwin. George originally envisioned the melody as uptempo, but after playing around with it, he thankfully realized it would work much better as a ballad (to say the least!) <a href="https://standardoftheday.blogspot.com/search/label/Ira%20Gershwin" target="_blank">Ira's</a> lyric is an anthem of longing and fragility, traditionally associated with a female voice ever since being introduced by Gertrude Lawrence in the Broadway musical, <i>Oh, Kay!</i><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="color: orange; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Lyrics:</b></span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span>
<br />
<div class="G1VCxe kno-fb-ctx" jsname="rdVbIe" style="margin-top: 12px;">
<div jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.24; margin-bottom: 12px;">
<span jsname="YS01Ge" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">There's a saying old, says that love is blind</span><br />
<span jsname="YS01Ge" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">Still we're often told, seek and ye shall find</span><br />
<span jsname="YS01Ge" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">So I'm going to seek a certain lad I've had in mind</span></div>
<div jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.24; margin-bottom: 12px;">
<span jsname="YS01Ge" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">Looking everywhere, haven't found him yet</span><br />
<span jsname="YS01Ge" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">He's the big affair I cannot forget</span><br />
<span jsname="YS01Ge" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">Only man I ever think of with regret</span></div>
<div jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.24; margin-bottom: 12px;">
<span jsname="YS01Ge" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">I'd like to add his initial to my monogram</span><br />
<span jsname="YS01Ge" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">Tell me, where is the shepherd for this lost lamb</span></div>
<div jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.24; margin-bottom: 12px;">
<span jsname="YS01Ge" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">There's a somebody I'm longin' to see</span><br />
<span jsname="YS01Ge" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">I hope that he turns out to be</span><br />
<span jsname="YS01Ge" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">Someone who'll watch over me</span></div>
<div jsname="U8S5sf" style="line-height: 1.24; margin-bottom: 12px;">
<span jsname="YS01Ge" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">I'm a little lamb who's lost in the wood</span><br />
<span jsname="YS01Ge" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">I know I could, always be good</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">To one who'll watch over me</span></div>
</div>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Although he may not be the man</span><span style="color: orange; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></span><br />
<div class="G1VCxe kno-fb-ctx" jsname="wq5Syf">
<div class="iw7h9e" data-mh="-1" jsname="U8S5sf" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 1.24; margin-bottom: 12px;">
<span jsname="YS01Ge" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">Some girls think of as handsome</span><br />
<span jsname="YS01Ge" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">To my heart he carries the key</span></div>
<div class="xpdxpnd" data-mh="48" data-mhc="1" jsname="U8S5sf" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 1.24; margin-bottom: 12px; max-height: 48px; overflow: hidden; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;">
<span jsname="YS01Ge" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">Won't you tell him please to put on some speed</span><br />
<span jsname="YS01Ge" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">Follow my lead, oh, how I need</span><br />
<span jsname="YS01Ge" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">Someone to watch over me.</span></div>
</div>
<b style="background-color: white; color: orange; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></b>
<b style="background-color: white; color: orange; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Recorded By:</b><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E07b0SbWWFc" target="_blank">Frank Sinatra</a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">Chris Connor</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">Sarah Vaughan</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">Sammy Davis Jr.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">Ray Coniff</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="240" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3A84-s9RyNw" width="420"></iframe></span>B-Solhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10717121313061173603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9067288802988385219.post-38610234395601382502019-01-28T14:24:00.003-05:002019-01-28T14:24:48.442-05:00The Windmills of Your Mind<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9_MYvC8iyAogK_mSQa87m_iqUR2XY5QnPU1BPQ-FOSSSAdlZY91TWdG8NqgethM0Wp1d1h-aQzcI0X3unVXhG4M00Ol-_jw2ElUPNbm023jWGIMqMGc1reP4DqJD6dlXMvReOR_pQmxhH/s1600/legrandii.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="600" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9_MYvC8iyAogK_mSQa87m_iqUR2XY5QnPU1BPQ-FOSSSAdlZY91TWdG8NqgethM0Wp1d1h-aQzcI0X3unVXhG4M00Ol-_jw2ElUPNbm023jWGIMqMGc1reP4DqJD6dlXMvReOR_pQmxhH/s200/legrandii.jpg" width="160" /></a><span style="color: orange; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>By Michel Legrand, Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman</b></span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>1968</b></span><br />
<br />
In honor of the great composer Michel Legrand, who passed away last Saturday at the age of 86, I'm spotlighting the song that was perhaps rivaled only by <a href="https://standardoftheday.blogspot.com/2012/04/what-are-you-doing-rest-of-your-life.html" target="_blank">"What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?"</a> as his greatest hit. Written for the soundtrack of the Steve McQueen heist film <i>The Thomas Crown Affair </i>at the request of director Norman Jewison, it began life as a French song with lyrics by Eddy Marnay. Husband-wife lyricists Alan and Marilyn Bergman were brought in, and handpicked the haunting, circular melody from among Legrand's numerous compositions, adding lyrics meant to reflect the mental turmoil of the film's main character. Introduced in the movie by Noel Harrison, it won the Oscar for Best Original Song, and was performed by Sting for the 1999 <i>Thomas Crown Affair</i> remake.<br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="color: orange; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Lyrics:</b></span><br />
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<span jsname="YS01Ge" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Round like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Never ending or beginning on an ever spinning reel</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Like a snowball down a mountain, or a carnival balloon</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Like a carousel that's turning running rings around the moon</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Like a clock whose hands are sweeping past the minutes of its face</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And the world is like an apple whirling silently in space</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Like the circles that you find in the windmills of your mind!</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Like a tunnel that you follow to a tunnel of its own</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Down a hollow to a cavern where the sun has never shone</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Like a door that keeps revolving in a half forgotten dream</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Or the ripples from a pebble someone tosses in a stream</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Like a clock whose hands are sweeping past the minutes of its face</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">And the world is like an apple whirling silently in space</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Like the circles that you find in the windmills of your mind!</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Keys that jingle in your pocket, words that jangle in your head</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Why did summer go so quickly, was it something that you said?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Lovers walking along a shore and leave their footprints in the sand</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Is the sound of distant drumming just the fingers of your hand?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Pictures hanging in a hallway and the fragment of a song</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Half remembered names and faces, but to whom do they belong?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">When you knew that it was over you were suddenly aware</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">That the autumn leaves were turning to the color of her hair!</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Never ending or beginning on an ever spinning reel</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">As the images unwind, like the circles that you find </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span jsname="YS01Ge" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">In the windmills of your mind!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Jose Feliciano</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Vic Damone</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">Jack Jones</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">Petula Clark</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>1913</b></span><br />
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Having now seen the excellent <i><a href="https://www.sonyclassics.com/stanandollie/" target="_blank">Stan and Ollie</a> </i>for the second time, I'm in a Laurel and Hardy frame of mind, which brings me to this old chestnut identified closely with the boys thanks to the unforgettable performance of it in their 1937 classic <i>Way Out West</i>. By that point, however, the tune was already an oldie, having been inspired by the 1908 novel of the same name. The favorite song of poet Gertrude Stein, it was first recorded by <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDaV-eY63aQ" target="_blank">Albert Campbell and Henry Burr</a>. Thanks to an upsurge in Laurel and Hardy popularity in Britain during the 1970s, Stan and Ollie's version rocketed all the way to the #2 position on the UK singles chart in 1975.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Programme, sans-serif;">On a mountain in Virginia stands a lonesome pine</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Programme, sans-serif;">Just below is the cabin home of a little girl of mine</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Programme, sans-serif;">Her name is June and very, very soon she'll belong to me</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Programme, sans-serif;">For I know she's waiting there for me neath that lone pine tree.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Programme, sans-serif;">In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Programme, sans-serif;">On the trail of the lonesome pine</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Programme, sans-serif;">In the pale moonshine our hearts entwine</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Programme, sans-serif;">Where you carved your name and I carved mine.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, sans-serif;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Programme, sans-serif;">Oh, June - like the mountains, I'm blue</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Programme, sans-serif;">Like the pine - I am lonesome for you</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Programme, sans-serif;">In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Programme, sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Programme, sans-serif;">On the trail of the lonesome pine.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Manuel Romain</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">Edna Brown and James F. Harrison</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">The Dinning Sisters</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">Rex Allen</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>1935</b></span><br />
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For the fifth time here at Standard of the Day, I'm spotlighting a song from Irving Berlin's <i><a href="http://standardoftheday.blogspot.com/search/label/Top%20Hat" target="_blank">Top Hat</a></i>--and if that's not a testament to the film's greatness, I don't know what is. This time it's the movie's title number, performed with gusto by Fred Astaire, as so many Berlin gems were. With its internal rhyme and clever wordplay, the lyric is one of Berlin's most memorable, and became an iconic theme for the legendary Astaire, greatest of the on-screen dancers and the man who wore the attire better than anybody.<br />
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">I just got an invitation through the mails</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">"Your presence requested this evening</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">It's formal, a top hat, a white tie and tails"</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Nothing now could take the wind out of my sails</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Because I'm invited to step out this evening</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">With top hat and white tie and tails.</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">I'm puttin' on my top hat</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Tyin' up my white tie</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Brushin' off my tails</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">I'm dudin' up my shirt front</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Puttin' in the shirt studs</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Polishin' my nails</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">I'm steppin' out, my dear</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">To breathe an atmosphere </span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">That simply reeks with class</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">And I trust that you'll excuse my dust</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">When I step on the gas</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">For I'll be there</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Puttin' down my top hat</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Mussin' up my white tie</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Dancin' in my tails!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Louis Armstrong</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">Tony Bennett</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">Ella Fitzgerald</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FglXaoJmBnk" target="_blank">Mel Torme</a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">The Boswell Sisters</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>By Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal and Pierre Norman</b></span><br />
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Iconic Frenchman Maurice Chevalier was one of the leading film heartthrobs of the Depression era, and this song was one of the reasons why. Introduced by him in the romantic comedy <i>The Big Pond</i>, in which he sung it to the beautiful Claudette Colbert, the song is an ebullient love anthem, with a Kahal lyric that extols the virtues of the beloved in the manner of a Shakespearean sonnet. Chevalier's recording was a major hit, and was famously lampooned the following year by the <a href="https://standardoftheday.blogspot.com/2010/02/alone.html" target="_blank">Marx Brothers</a> in <i>Monkey Business</i>, which features a scene in which the boys try to pass themselves off as the crooner to get through customs.<br />
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">If the nightingales could sing like you</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">They'd sing much sweeter than they do</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">For you brought a new kind of love to me</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">And if the sandman brought me dreams of you</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">I'd want to sleep my whole life through</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">You brought a new love to me</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">I know that I'm the slave, you're the queen</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Still you can understand that underneath it all</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">You're a maid and I am only a man</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">I would work and slave the whole day through</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">If I could hurry home to you</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">You brought a new kind of love to me</span></div>
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<b style="color: orange; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Recorded By:</b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZh6yD4wyfg" target="_blank">Frank Sinatra</a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">Doris Day</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">Benny Goodman</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">Peggy Lee </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">Vera Lynn</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>1928</b></span><br />
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An iconic number for the original "Boop-Boop-a-Doop" girl Helen Kane, who first performed it in the Broadway musical <i>Good Boy</i>, this infectiously cute number was the product of the legendary <a href="http://standardoftheday.blogspot.com/2008/11/nevertheless.html" target="_blank">Ruby/Kalmar</a> team (pictured) that had written for the Marx Brothers, among many others. Kane's rendition propelled her to superstardom, and was copied many times since, including by Betty Boop, the cartoon character she inspired, and by Marilyn Monroe, who memorably performed it in Billy Wilder's classic comedy <i>Some Like It Hot. </i>A young Debbie Reynolds, portraying Helen Kane in the 1950 Ruby/Kalmar biopic <i>Three Little Words</i>, also took a crack at this late Roaring '20s anthem.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #ddddee; color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "arial"; font-size: 13.4px; text-align: center;">I wanna be loved by you,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ddddee; color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "arial"; font-size: 13.4px; text-align: center;">just you and nobody else but you</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ddddee; color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "arial"; font-size: 13.4px; text-align: center;">I wanna be loved by you</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ddddee; color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "arial"; font-size: 13.4px; text-align: center;">alone--Boop Boop a Doop!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ddddee; color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "arial"; font-size: 13.4px; text-align: center;">I wanna be kissed by you</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ddddee; color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "arial"; font-size: 13.4px; text-align: center;">just you, nobody else but you</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ddddee; color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "arial"; font-size: 13.4px; text-align: center;">I wanna be loved by you</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ddddee; color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "arial"; font-size: 13.4px; text-align: center;">I couldn't aspire</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ddddee; color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "arial"; font-size: 13.4px; text-align: center;">To anything higher</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ddddee; color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "arial"; font-size: 13.4px; text-align: center;">Then to fill a desire</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ddddee; color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "arial"; font-size: 13.4px; text-align: center;">to make you my own</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ddddee; color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "arial"; font-size: 13.4px; text-align: center;">I wanna be loved by you,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ddddee; color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "arial"; font-size: 13.4px; text-align: center;">just you and nobody else but you</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ddddee; color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "arial"; font-size: 13.4px; text-align: center;">I wanna be loved by you</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ddddee; color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "arial"; font-size: 13.4px; text-align: center;">I couldn't aspire</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ddddee; color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "arial"; font-size: 13.4px; text-align: center;">To anything higher</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ddddee; color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "arial"; font-size: 13.4px; text-align: center;">Then to fill a desire</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ddddee; color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "arial"; font-size: 13.4px; text-align: center;">to make you my own</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ddddee; color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "arial"; font-size: 13.4px; text-align: center;">tada tada ta tada</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ddddee; color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "arial"; font-size: 13.4px; text-align: center;">I wanna be loved by you</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ddddee; color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "arial"; font-size: 13.4px; text-align: center;">just you, nobody else but you</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ddddee; color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "arial"; font-size: 13.4px; text-align: center;">I wanna be loved by you</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ddddee; color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "arial"; font-size: 13.4px; text-align: center;">Alone</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ddddee; color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "arial"; font-size: 13.4px; text-align: center;">Boop Boop a Doop!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Annette Hanshaw</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF-r3VJhMm4" target="_blank">Sinead O'Connor</a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">Frank Sinatra</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">Barry Manilow</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">Tina Louise</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>1923</b></span><br />
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On January 1, for the first time in 20 years, a motherlode of intellectual property entered the public domain--books, songs, movies, etc. from 1923 are now available to use for free. Among them is this charming <a href="https://standardoftheday.blogspot.com/search/label/novelty%20song" target="_blank">novelty song</a> that was number one on the charts for five weeks in its original recording by Billy West. Interestingly, the melody has been identified by some as a combination of Handel's Hallelujah chorus, "My Bonnie", and a few other tunes. The lyric supposedly was written by Cohn as a tribute to a Greek fruit seller he knew who began every statement with, "Yes!" Despite not really being recorded much in the past 50 years, the song remains a part of popular culture, and has been referenced in <i>The Simpsons, The Muppet Show, The English Patient</i> and Mel Brooks' <i>Dracula: Dead and Loving It</i> ("Yes! We have Nosferatu. We have Nosferatu today!")<br />
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">There's a fruit store on our street</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">It's run by a Greek.</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">And he keeps good things to eat</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">But you should hear him speak!</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">When you ask him anything, he never answers "no".</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">He just "yes"es you to death, and as he takes your dough</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">He tells you</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">"Yes, we have no bananas</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">We have-a no bananas today.</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">We've string beans, and onions</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Cabbageses, and scallions,</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">And all sorts of fruit and say</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">We have an old fashioned to-mah-to</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">A Long Island po-tah-to</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">But yes, we have no bananas.</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">We have no bananas today."</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">Business got so good for him that he wrote home today,</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">"Send me Pete and Nick and Jim; I need help right away."</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">When he got them in the store, there was fun, you bet.</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Someone asked for "sparrow grass" and then the whole quartet</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">All answered</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">"Yes, we have no bananas</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">We have-a no bananas today.</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Just try those coconuts</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Those walnuts and doughnuts</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">There ain't many nuts like they.</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">We'll sell you two kinds of red herring,</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Dark brown, and ball-bearing.</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">But yes, we have no bananas</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">We have no bananas today."</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">Yes, we are very sorry to inform you</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">That we are entirely out of the fruit in question</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">The afore-mentioned vegetable</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Bearing the cognomen "Banana".</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">We might induce you to accept a substitute less desirable,</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">But that is not the policy at this internationally famous green </span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">grocery.</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">I should say not. No no no no no no no.</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">But may we suggest that you sample our five o'clock tea</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Which we feel certain will tempt your pallet?</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">However we regret that after a diligent search </span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Of the premises</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">By our entire staff</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">We can positively affirm without fear of contradiction</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">That our raspberries are delicious; really delicious</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Very delicious</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">But we have no bananas today.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Eddie Cantor</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Benny Goodman</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">Spike Jones</span><br />
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B-Solhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10717121313061173603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9067288802988385219.post-24842318060477922212019-01-03T23:42:00.000-05:002019-01-03T23:42:43.270-05:00Killing Me Softly With His Song<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>By Charles Fox and Norman Gimbel</b></span><br />
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With the death late last month of <a href="https://standardoftheday.blogspot.com/search/label/Norman%20Gimbel" target="_blank">Norman Gimbel</a>, prominent lyricist of the 1950s-1970s, let's take a look at one of his most successful and controversial creations. The generation of "Killing Me Softly", one of the '70s most hypnotic and poignant ballads, is fraught with conflict: Singer-songwriter Lori Lieberman recorded the original version, claiming to have based it on a poem she wrote after being moved by a concert performance by Don McLean, which she then brought to Fox and Gimbel to turn into a song. Fox and Gimbel would later claim to have written the song with little input from Lieberman, and that McLean had nothing to do with it. This heated debate continued right up to Gimbel's death, with McLean recently reporting that he received a cease and desist letter from the lyricist regarding McLean's claims that the song was inspired by him. McLean maintains his version of the story to this day. Meanwhile, the most successful version would be recorded in 1973 by Roberta Flack, who took it all the way to number one for over a month.<br />
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">I heard he sang a good song, I heard he had a style</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">And so I came to see him, to listen for a while</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">And there he was, this young boy, a stranger to my eyes</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">Strumming my pain with his fingers</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Singing my life with his words</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Killing me softly with his song</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Killing me softly with his song</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Telling my whole life with his words</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Killing me softly with his song</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">I felt all flushed with fever, embarrassed by the crowd</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">I felt he'd found my letters and read each one out loud</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">I prayed that he would finish, but he just kept right on</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Johnny Mathis</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Perry+Como/_/Killing+Me+Softly+With+Her+Song" target="_blank">Perry Como</a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">The Fugees</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">Anne Murray</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">Shirley Bassey</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>1950</b></span><br />
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If you'll indulge me with a belated Christmas standard, I'd like to place the (not-too-hot) spotlight on "Frosty the Snowman", mainly due to my two-year-old son's current obsession with both the song and the 1969 Rankin-Bass animated special narrated by Jimmy Durante<i>. </i>Introduced by the great singing cowboy <a href="http://standardoftheday.blogspot.com/2009/08/south-of-border.html" target="_blank">Gene Autry</a>, Frosty was a follow-up to Autry's mega-hit of the previous Christmas, "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer". In addition to the song, which has become a modern Christmas classic, the snowman's popularity has endured due to a series of animated cartoons based on him, most notably the aforementioned 1969 chestnut, as well as a beloved Little Golden Book edition of the story, also published in 1950. The lyrics supposedly takes place in Armonk, New York, a town which has an annual parade in Frosty's honor to this day.<br />
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">Frosty the Snowman</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Was a jolly happy soul</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">With a corncob pipe and a button nose</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">And his eyes made out of coal</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">Frosty the Snowman</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Made the children laugh and play</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">And were they surprised when</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Before their eyes</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">He came to life that day</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">There must have been some magic</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">In that old silk hat they found</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">For when they placed it on his head</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">He began to dance around</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">Frosty the Snowman</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Was alive as he could be</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">And the children say</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">He could laugh and play</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Just the same as you and me</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">Frosty the Snowman</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Knew the sun was hot that day</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">So he said let's run</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">And we'll have fun</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Now before I melt away</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">So down to the village</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">With a broomstick in his hand</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Running here and there all around the square</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Saying catch me if you can</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">He led them down the streets of town</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Right to the traffic cop</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">And he only paused a moment when</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">He heard him holler stop</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">Frosty the Snowman</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Had to hurry on his way</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">But he waved goodbye</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Saying don't you cry</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">I'll be back again some day</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">Thumpety thump thump</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Thumpety thump thump</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Look at Frosty go</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Thumpety thump thump</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Thumpety thump thump</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Over the hills of snow</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Nat King Cole</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">Perry Como</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">Guy Lombardo</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Jimmy+Durante/_/Frosty+the+Snowman" target="_blank">Jimmy Durante</a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">The Ronettes</span><br />
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The world of popular standards has lost one of the last major vocalists to come along at the tail end of the "golden age" of American vocal pop, the mid 20th century. Nancy Wilson, who often referred to herself as a "song stylist", straddled many different genres over the course of her nearly 60-year career, including R&B (she won her first Grammy in 1965 for Best R&B Recording, with "How Glad I Am"), jazz (her last two Grammys came in 2005 and 2007 for Best Jazz Vocal Album), and even more contemporary forms of pop, funk and soul during the 1970s, '80s and '90s. Coming along just as American popular music was undergoing a drastic sea change in the 1960s, Wilson was something of a throwback to the singers who inspired her as a child, including Nat "King" Cole, Ella Fitzgerald and Billy Eckstine.<br />
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Born February 20, 1937 in Chillicothe, Ohio, she was already steeped in the Great American Songbook by the time she was a teenager, and won a talent competition at the age of 15 that led to semi-regular television appearances and club tours before she had even graduated high school. Some advice from jazz legend Cannonball Adderley (with whom she would later collaborate on a titanic 1962 album), led to her relocating to New York City, then a hub of the recording world. By the age of 22, she had released her first album for Dot Records, entitled <i>Like in Love. </i>Soon, she would be signed to Capitol Records and releasing multiple albums per year throughout the 1960s, including<i> The Swingin's Mutual</i> (1961) with George Shearing; <i>The Nancy Wilson Show </i>(1965), a collection of recordings from her Emmy-winning variety show; and the timeless <i><a href="https://standardoftheday.blogspot.com/2009/05/but-beautiful.html" target="_blank">But Beautiful</a></i> (1969).<br />
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With a voice that seemed a blend of Dinah Washington and <a href="https://standardoftheday.blogspot.com/2010/05/lena-horne-1917-2010.html" target="_blank">Lena Horne</a>, Wilson was a bit of an anomaly at a time when rock n' roll and Motown sounds were taking over the airwaves. She scored four top 10 albums during the 1960s, and had a huge single hit with "Tell Me the Truth", which led to an acclaimed engagement at the Coconut Grove. Nevertheless, after the 1960s, she struggled to keep the hits coming amidst the changing musical landscape. She tried her hand at some more contemporary genres, sometimes to the frustration of her older fans, including the 1978 album, <i>Life, Love and Harmony</i>. She remained a fixture in small clubs all over the world, and by the 1980s was recording her albums in Japan, where live in-studio recording--the preferred method for Wilson and many other jazz artists--had not yet been totally supplanted by the more compartmentalized and over-produced methods prevalent in the States during the rock era.<br />
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A fixture at jazz festivals throughout the 1990s and even into the 21st century, she was also the host of NPR's music series <i>Jazz Profiles. S</i>he continued recording for smaller prestige jazz labels like MCG Jazz, releasing her final album, <i>Turned to Blue</i>, in 2006. Just five years later, she performed live for the last time, at Ohio University, not far from the place of her birth. She was hospitalized for lung complications in 2008, and had been battling a long illness when she passed away on Thursday, December 13, 2018 at the age of 81 at her home in Pioneertown, California. She leaves behind three children and five grandchildren. Her husband, the Reverend Wiley Burton, died in 2008 of renal cancer.<br />
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The inheritor of a proud tradition of interpreters of popular song which thrived throughout most of the 20th century, Nancy Wilson was an unforgettable performer and a link to a time when melody, lyrics and phrasing still mattered in mainstream American pop. She kept the torch burning well past the time that her kind of music had vanished from the charts. Her loss will be keenly felt, but we still have the music to remember her by.<br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>1950</b></span><br />
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With all the recent hullabaloo over the Frank Loesser song "Baby, It's Cold Outside" (<a href="http://standardoftheday.blogspot.com/2010/06/baby-its-cold-outside.html" target="_blank">whose entry you can find here</a>), I thought today I'd spotlight a different Loesser tune, this time from his masterpiece musical, <i>Guys and Dolls</i>. Introduced by the irrepressible Stubby Kaye in the original run of the stage show as well as the 1955 movie, it's a spirited and catchy number that epitomizes the spirit of that classic show. As recently as 1993, this song also charted when recorded in a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy8eqDEjidE" target="_blank">slowed-down version</a> by ex-Eagle Don Henley, for the soundtrack of the Steve Martin film<i> Leap of Faith.</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I dreamed last night I got on the boat to heaven<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />And by some chance I had brought my dice along<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />And there I stood, and I hollered, "Someone fade me"<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />But the passengers they knew right from wrong<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />For the people all said<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />"Sit down, sit down you're rockin' the boat"<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The people all said<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />"Sit down, sit down you're rockin' the boat<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />And the devil will drag you under<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />By the sharp lapel of your checkered coat<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Sit down, sit down, sit down, sit down<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Sit down you're rocking the boat"<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />I sailed away on that little boat to heaven<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />And by some chance found a bottle in my fist<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />And there I stood nicely passin' 'round the whiskey<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />But the passengers were bound to resist<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />For the people all said<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />"Beware you're on a heavenly trip"<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The people all said<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />"Beware, beware you'll scuttle the ship<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />And the devil will drag you under<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />By the fancy tie 'round your wicked throat<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Sit down, sit down, sit down, sit down<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Sit down you're rockin' the boat"<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span avoid-selection="" class="u-noselect" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: none;"></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />And as I laughed at those passengers to heaven<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />A great big wave came and washed me overboard<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />And as I sank, and I hollered, "Someone save me"<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />That's the moment I woke up, thank the Lord<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />And I said to myself<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />"Sit down, sit down you're rocking the boat"<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Said to myself<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />"Sit down, sit down you're rocking the boat<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />For the devil will drag you under<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />With a soul so heavy you'd never float<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Sit down, sit down, sit down, sit down<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Sit down you're rockin' the boat"<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white;">Sammy Davis Jr.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">Louis Armstrong</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">Don Henley</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">The Four Lads</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">Rebecca Kilgore & Dave Frishberg</span><br />
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B-Solhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10717121313061173603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9067288802988385219.post-2409757755449698752018-12-06T15:43:00.000-05:002018-12-06T15:44:12.968-05:00Out of Nowhere<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj4Z8MT5q3AmT2DxRRIF5S9xNzOhg1Aoj8vLWww5l4UXhGeyEIYL-G3_mbJUD1RhjUPMKFJBbV7JDqQ3fAQfpSpjvUcYHwgRb6br0VZc2nm7mDIs7dFnNXjCGjvhyphenhyphenOPs3hNtuVtqKODlRM/s1600/220px-EDWARD_HEYMAN.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="297" data-original-width="220" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj4Z8MT5q3AmT2DxRRIF5S9xNzOhg1Aoj8vLWww5l4UXhGeyEIYL-G3_mbJUD1RhjUPMKFJBbV7JDqQ3fAQfpSpjvUcYHwgRb6br0VZc2nm7mDIs7dFnNXjCGjvhyphenhyphenOPs3hNtuVtqKODlRM/s200/220px-EDWARD_HEYMAN.jpg" width="148" /></a><span style="color: orange; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>By Johnny Green and Edward Heyman (pictured)</b></span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>1931</b></span><br />
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From the same team responsible for "Body and Soul" and <a href="https://standardoftheday.blogspot.com/2008/12/i-cover-waterfront.html" target="_blank">"I Cover the Waterfront"</a> came this song, which turned out to be Bing Crosby's first solo #1 hit when he recorded it for Brunswick Records in March 1931. It would continue to be closely associated with Bing, although it eventually became a widely recorded jazz standard. Interestingly, the harmonic progression of this tune can be found in several other compositions, including Gigi Gryce's "Sans Souci" and Alexander Courage's classic theme to the original <i>Star Trek </i>TV series. It is also a favorite of Woody Allen's, popping up in three of his films: 1993's <i>Manhattan Murder Mystery </i>(Coleman Hawkins version), 1997's <i>Deconstructing Harry</i> (Django Reinhardt version) and 1999's <i>Sweet and Lowdown </i>(Dick Hyman version).<br />
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">You came to me from out of nowhere </span><br />
<span jsname="YS01Ge">you took my heart and found it free</span><br />
<span jsname="YS01Ge">Wonderful dreams, wonderful schemes from nowhere</span><br />
<span jsname="YS01Ge">Made every hour sweet as a flower to me</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">And if you should go back to your nowhere </span><br />
<span jsname="YS01Ge">Leaving me with a memory</span><br />
<span jsname="YS01Ge">I'll always wait for your return out of nowhere</span><br />
<span jsname="YS01Ge">Hoping you'll bring your love to me</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">When I least expected, kindly faith directed</span><br />
<span jsname="YS01Ge">You to make each dream of mine come true</span><br />
<span jsname="YS01Ge">And if it's clear or raining, there is no explaining</span><br />
<span jsname="YS01Ge">Things just happened and so did you</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">You came to me from out of nowhere</span><br />
<span jsname="YS01Ge">You took my heart and you found it free</span><br />
<span jsname="YS01Ge">Wonderful dreams, wonderful schemes from nowhere</span><br />
<span jsname="YS01Ge">Made every hour sweet as a flower to me</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Lena Horne</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">Ella Fitzgerald</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">Vic Damone</span><br />
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B-Solhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10717121313061173603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9067288802988385219.post-27707413905189874522018-12-02T15:54:00.000-05:002018-12-02T15:54:44.698-05:00Jeepers Creepers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>By Harry Warren and Johnny Mercer</b></span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>1938</b></span><br />
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One of the catchiest songs of the World War II generation, and a song that remains in the mainstream consciousness to this day, "Jeepers Creepers" was written for the movie, <i>Going Places</i>, in which <a href="https://standardoftheday.blogspot.com/2012/01/keepin-out-of-mischief-now.html" target="_blank">Louis Armstrong</a> is the trainer of a horse named Jeepers Creepers (an old slang euphemism for Jesus Christ), who can only get the horse under control by playing the song for him. It was nominated for the Oscar for Best Song, losing to "Thanks for the Memory". Since then it has been revisited countless times, in Warner Bros. cartoons, and in later films (including <i>Yankee Doodle Dandy</i>, in which a bunch of teens sing it, much to the chagrin of James Cagney's old-fashioned James M. Cohan). It even had an unlikely renaissance in the 2001 horror film of the same name, in which the song heralds the appearance of the murderous creature known as "The Creeper". With its bouncy Warren tune and irresistible Mercer lyrics, it's not tough to see why it has endured so long.<br />
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">Oh, jeepers creepers, where'd ya get those peepers?</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Jeepers creepers, where'd ya get those eyes?</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Oh, gosh all, git up, how'd they get so lit up?</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Gosh all, git up, how'd they get that size?</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">Oh, golly gee, when you turn those heaters on</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Woe is me, got to put my cheaters on</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">Jeepers creepers, where'd ya get those peepers?</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Oh, those weepers, how they hypnotize!</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Oh, where'd ya get those eyes?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white;">Johnny Mercer</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Frank+Sinatra/_/Jeepers+Creepers" target="_blank">Frank Sinatra</a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">Al Caiola</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">Dave Brubeck</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">Tony Bennett</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>1934</b></span><br />
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With today being the birthday of the legendary songwriter <a href="http://standardoftheday.blogspot.com/search/label/Arthur%20Schwartz" target="_blank">Arthur Schwartz</a> (father of longtime radio legend Jonathan Schwartz), it seems only right to spotlight a classic Schwartz song. This is one of the most famous collaborations Schwartz made with his regular lyricist partner, Howard Dietz. Although today it's considered one of Schwartz' great triumphs, the song came from a show that was mostly unremarkable: <i>Revenge with Music</i>, in which it was introduced by Georges Metaxa and Libby Holman. But there was certainly something special about the haunting tune, which was later brought back in the 1953 movie musical <i>The Band Wagon</i>, which featured a cavalcade of Schwartz/Dietz songs.<br />
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">You and the night and the music</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Fill me with flaming desire</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Setting my being completely on fire</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">You and the night and the music</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Thrill me but will we be one</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">After the night and the music are done?</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">Until the pale light of dawning and daylight </span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Our hearts will be throbbing guitars</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Morning may come without warning</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">And take away the stars</span></div>
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<span jsname="YS01Ge">If we must live for the moment</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Love till the moment is through</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">After the night and the music die</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">Will I have you?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Recorded By:</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white;">Mel Torme</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aURH_bJORcI" target="_blank">Frank Sinatra</a></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">Julie London</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">Jackie Gleason Orchestra</span><br />
Vic DamoneB-Solhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10717121313061173603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9067288802988385219.post-30381214638442381662018-11-19T23:39:00.000-05:002018-11-19T23:39:06.050-05:00Hooray for Hollywood<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>By Richard A. Whiting and Johnny Mercer</b></span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>1937</b></span><br />
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The unofficial theme song of the entire film industry, much of the song's enduring popularity can be attributed to Mercer's clever lyric lampooning the notion of celebrity. Since being introduced by Johnnie Davis and Frances Langford (with the Benny Goodman Orchestra) in the musical comedy <i>Hollywood Hotel, </i>it has gone on to become the regular soundtrack for the Academy Awards and other movie award shows. It was also notably the closing theme of Jack Benny's enormously popular radio show.<br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Lyrics:</b></span><br />
<pre class="lyric-body wselect-cnt" data-lang="en" dir="ltr" id="lyric-body-text" style="background-color: white; border-radius: 4px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; cursor: alias !important; line-height: 26px; margin-bottom: 10px; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: auto; padding: 9.5px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Hooray for Hollywood
That <a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/screwy" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; text-decoration-line: none;">screwy</a> ballyhooey Hollywood
Where any <a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/office" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; text-decoration-line: none;">office</a> boy or <a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/young" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; text-decoration-line: none;">young</a> mechanic can be a panic
With just a good <a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/looking" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; text-decoration-line: none;">looking</a> pan
And any <a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/barmaid" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; text-decoration-line: none;">barmaid</a> can be a star maid
If she <a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/dances" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; text-decoration-line: none;">dances</a> with or <a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/without" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; text-decoration-line: none;">without</a> a fan
Hooray for Hollywood,
Where you're <a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/terrific" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; text-decoration-line: none;">terrific</a> if you're even good
Where <a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/anyone" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; text-decoration-line: none;">anyone</a> at all from <a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/Shirley" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; text-decoration-line: none;">Shirley</a> Temple to <a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/Aimee" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; text-decoration-line: none;">Aimee</a> Semple
Is <a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/equally" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; text-decoration-line: none;">equally</a> understood
Go out and try your luck, you <a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/might" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; text-decoration-line: none;">might</a> be <a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/Donald" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; text-decoration-line: none;">Donald</a> Duck
Hooray for Hollywood
Hooray for Hollywood
That <a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/phoney" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; text-decoration-line: none;">phoney</a> super-Coney Hollywood
They come from <a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/Chillicothes" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; text-decoration-line: none;">Chillicothes</a> and <a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/Paducas" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; text-decoration-line: none;">Paducas</a> with <a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/their" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; text-decoration-line: none;">their</a> bazookas
To get <a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/their" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; text-decoration-line: none;">their</a> names up in lights
All <a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/armed" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; text-decoration-line: none;">armed</a> with <a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/photos" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; text-decoration-line: none;">photos</a> from <a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/local" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; text-decoration-line: none;">local</a> rotos
With <a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/their" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; text-decoration-line: none;">their</a> hair in <a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/ribbon" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; text-decoration-line: none;">ribbon</a> and legs in tights
Hooray for Hollywood
You may be <a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/homely" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; text-decoration-line: none;">homely</a> in your neighbourhood
But if you <a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/think" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; text-decoration-line: none;">think</a> that you can be an actor, see Mr. Factor
He'll make a <a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/monkey" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; text-decoration-line: none;">monkey</a> look good
Within a half an hour you'll look like <a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/Tyrone" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; text-decoration-line: none;">Tyrone</a> Power
Hooray for Hollywood!</span></pre>
<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: orange; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Recorded By:</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white;">Doris Day</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">Anita O'Day</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">Rosemary Clooney</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;">Nancy Sinatra</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYCfuJUHYLg" target="_blank">Don Swan</a></span><br />
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