Tim Gracyk | "Where Did You Get That Girl?" RARE Irving Kaufman in 1940s FULL SOUND Thesaurus Orthacoustic LYRICS @timgracyk | Uploaded September 2024 | Updated October 2024, 25 minutes ago.
Irving Kaufman sings "Where Did You Get That Girl?"
Lonesome Johnnie Warner,
Sitting in a corner of a swell cafe,
Eating his heart away because he had no girl.
At another table sat a girl named Mable with a fellow
who Johnnie knew and his brain began a-whirl.
The girl had caught his eye, and John began to cry.
Where did you get that girl? Oh, you lucky devil.
Where did you get that girl? Tell me on the level!
Have you ever kissed her? If she has a sister,
lead me, lead me, lead me to her, mister!
Gee! I wish that I had a girl! I'd love 'er--I'd love her,
oh goodness, how I'd love her. If you can find
another, I'll take her home to mother. Where?
Where! Where did you get that girl?
In 1946 and 1947, Irving Kaufman recorded numbers to be broadcast on the radio show Music Hall Varieties.
Two dozen songs were pressed for the NBC-produced Thesaurus Orthacoustic, a radio transcription label, and distributed to stations.
Identified as a baritone (after decades of being called a tenor), he is accompanied by the Music Hall Varieties Orchestra, which used original arrangements.
The songs were popular ones from 1900 to 1920. Few were actually recorded by the young Kaufman.
Titles include "For Me And My Gal," "By the Beautiful Sea," "Alexander's Ragtime Band" (recorded on July 3, 1946, and pressed on Record 1362), "Bedelia," "Under The Bamboo Tree," "My Wife's Gone To The Country," and "Oh You Beautiful Doll."
Because he was in top vocal form and the best available recording technology was used, Kaufman himself told Quentin Riggs that he would be happy if future generations judged him on these Thesaurus recordings.
Promotional literature for the radio show states, "Kaufman is well-remembered for a five year coast-to-coast network stint as 'Lazy Dan, The Minstrel Man' and his many characterizations on top network and local programs. He is a master dialectician specializing in Irish, Jewish, Scotch, Negro, Italian and Chinese."
He continued making the occasional 78 rpm recording until 1947, the last being "The Curse of an Aching Heart" coupled with "Think It Over Mary" (originally issued on the Sterling label, also issued on the Bennett label). Around this time he also recorded for Sterling some Yiddish comedy songs like "Moe the Schmo Makes Love" and "Moe the Schmo Takes a Rhumba Lesson."
As recording studios relied less on him, he worked more on radio, sometimes accompanied by his wife Belle Brooks on organ or piano.
He continued performing on radio, in Broadway stage productions (including Kurt Weill's Street Scene in 1947), and in nightclubs until a heart attack in 1949 put a stop to these professional activities.
In August 1974 he recorded in his California home eight songs for a two-album set that reissued some of his old recordings, which means Kaufman's recording career spanned six decades, from 1914 to 1974. Titled Reminisce With Irving Kaufman, the lp was only briefly available.
He died in Indio, California, a month before his 86th birthday.
Irving Kaufman sings "Where Did You Get That Girl?"
Lonesome Johnnie Warner,
Sitting in a corner of a swell cafe,
Eating his heart away because he had no girl.
At another table sat a girl named Mable with a fellow
who Johnnie knew and his brain began a-whirl.
The girl had caught his eye, and John began to cry.
Where did you get that girl? Oh, you lucky devil.
Where did you get that girl? Tell me on the level!
Have you ever kissed her? If she has a sister,
lead me, lead me, lead me to her, mister!
Gee! I wish that I had a girl! I'd love 'er--I'd love her,
oh goodness, how I'd love her. If you can find
another, I'll take her home to mother. Where?
Where! Where did you get that girl?
In 1946 and 1947, Irving Kaufman recorded numbers to be broadcast on the radio show Music Hall Varieties.
Two dozen songs were pressed for the NBC-produced Thesaurus Orthacoustic, a radio transcription label, and distributed to stations.
Identified as a baritone (after decades of being called a tenor), he is accompanied by the Music Hall Varieties Orchestra, which used original arrangements.
The songs were popular ones from 1900 to 1920. Few were actually recorded by the young Kaufman.
Titles include "For Me And My Gal," "By the Beautiful Sea," "Alexander's Ragtime Band" (recorded on July 3, 1946, and pressed on Record 1362), "Bedelia," "Under The Bamboo Tree," "My Wife's Gone To The Country," and "Oh You Beautiful Doll."
Because he was in top vocal form and the best available recording technology was used, Kaufman himself told Quentin Riggs that he would be happy if future generations judged him on these Thesaurus recordings.
Promotional literature for the radio show states, "Kaufman is well-remembered for a five year coast-to-coast network stint as 'Lazy Dan, The Minstrel Man' and his many characterizations on top network and local programs. He is a master dialectician specializing in Irish, Jewish, Scotch, Negro, Italian and Chinese."
He continued making the occasional 78 rpm recording until 1947, the last being "The Curse of an Aching Heart" coupled with "Think It Over Mary" (originally issued on the Sterling label, also issued on the Bennett label). Around this time he also recorded for Sterling some Yiddish comedy songs like "Moe the Schmo Makes Love" and "Moe the Schmo Takes a Rhumba Lesson."
As recording studios relied less on him, he worked more on radio, sometimes accompanied by his wife Belle Brooks on organ or piano.
He continued performing on radio, in Broadway stage productions (including Kurt Weill's Street Scene in 1947), and in nightclubs until a heart attack in 1949 put a stop to these professional activities.
In August 1974 he recorded in his California home eight songs for a two-album set that reissued some of his old recordings, which means Kaufman's recording career spanned six decades, from 1914 to 1974. Titled Reminisce With Irving Kaufman, the lp was only briefly available.
He died in Indio, California, a month before his 86th birthday.
