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Vera Lynn - A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square 1940

warholsoup100 2026-09-17 | Vera Lynn - A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square 1940

Ruth Etting - Overnight 1931 Billy Rose Songs From Sweet and Low

warholsoup100 2020-04-22 | (Columbia) Recorded 1/13/1931 New York, New York.

Billy Rose (lyricist)
Charlotte Kent (lyricist)
Louis Alter (composer)
De un día a otro (Parallel (translated) title)
Sweet and low (Work title)

Sweet and Low is a musical revue produced by Billy Rose and starring James Barton, Fanny Brice, George Jessel, and Arthur Treacher. It features sketches by David Freedman and songs by various composers and lyricists.
The 1930 Broadway production was directed by Alexander Leftwich and choreographed by Danny Dare, with additional dances staged by Busby Berkeley. Scenic design was by Jo Mielziner. It ran for a week at the Majestic Theatre in Brooklyn before opening on November 17, 1930 at Chanin's 46th Street Theatre, where it ran for 184 performances. Although it rarely sold out, Rose transferred it to the 44th Street Theatre, where it was more successful at the box office.
Overnight (Music by Louis Alter; Lyrics by Billy Rose and Charlotte Kent)

Ruth Etting (November 23, 1896 – September 24, 1978) was an American singing star and actress of the 1920s and 1930s, who had over 60 hit recordings and worked in stage, radio, and film. Known as "America's sweetheart of song", her signature tunes were "Shine On, Harvest Moon", "Ten Cents a Dance" and "Love Me or Leave Me". Her other popular recordings included "Button Up Your Overcoat", "Mean to Me", "Exactly Like You" and "Shaking the Blues Away".
Etting died in Colorado Springs in 1978, aged 80.

Lyrics:
I don't know why, but the thrill is gone
And what was can't go on
I only know that the flame is cold
Love was young, now it's old
Overnight I found you
And overnight I lost you
It was sublime, now it's time
To sigh "Goodbye"
Love is dead, long live love
The spark has fled, let's give love
A friendly cheer, quite sincere
And sigh "Goodbye"
There was a dream
An intimate dream we used to share
Then I awoke
And suddenly found a stranger there
Overnight I found you
And overnight I lost you
Now let's agree gracefully
To sigh "Goodbye"
(Instrumental Break)
Overnight I found you
And overnight I lost you
Now left to grieve
Gracefully to sigh "Goodbye"

Lee Morse - My Fate Is In Your Hands 1929 Fats Waller Will My Skies Be Blue Or Grey?

warholsoup100 2020-04-21 | (Columbia) Recording Date: November 4, 1929. Columbia using the brand-new Electrical Viva-Tonal Recording Process.

Miss Lee Morse And Her Blue Grass Boys.
Flipside to 'To Be Forgotten".
Fats Waller (composer)
Andy Razaf (lyricist)

Lena Corinne "Lee" Morse (née Taylor; November 30, 1897 – December 16, 1954) was an American jazz and blues singer-songwriter, composer, guitarist, and actress. Morse's greatest popularity was in the 1920s and early 1930s as a torch singer, although her career began around 1917 and continued until her death in 1954.
Morse was known for her strong, deep singing voice and vocal range, which often belied her petite frame. She possessed a contralto vocal range, and one of her trademarks was her unique style of yodeling. Recording over 200 songs over her career, Morse was one of the most recorded female singers of the 1920s. She was also moderately successful as an actress on the Broadway stage. Her life and career, however, were marred by alcoholism. Morse's' group the Blue Grass Boys had no relation neither to their later namesake of Bill Monroe nor bluegrass music.
Although Morse's Broadway prospects had dimmed by the 1930s, she could still be seen in a number of musical film shorts, including A Million Me's (Paramount, April 25, 1930), The Music Racket (Vitaphone, June 30, 1930), and Song Service (Paramount, October 24, 1930).
Morse was born Lena Corinne Taylor on November 30, 1897 in Cove, Oregon.
Morse died on December 16, 1954 in Rochester while visiting a neighbor. She was 57 years old. She is interred at the Riverside Cemetery.

Lyrics: (From The Internet)
Wanting you is my offence,
You have all the evidence,
Now I wait for you to sentence me!
Must I go or must I stay?
Will my skies be blue or grey?
Are my dreams to be or not to be?
There's no use pretending,
Love needs no defending,
What is the verdict?
My fate is in your hands!
You're my judge and jury,
What do you assure me?
What is the verdict?
My fate is in your hands!
If the charge is loving you,
Then I'm guilty, dear!
Tell me that you love me too
And I'll have no fear!
It is you I'm needing,
For your love I'm pleading,
What is the verdict?
My fate is in your hands!
If the charge is loving you,
Then I'm guilty, dear!
Tell me that you love me too
And I'll have no fear!
It is you I'm needing,
For your love I'm pleading,
What is the verdict?
My fate is in your hands!
My fate, honey baby, is in your hands!

Gene Austin - Nobody Cares If Im Blue 1930 Talkie Hit From Bright Lights

warholsoup100 2020-04-20 | (Victor) Recorded 4/15/1930 New York, New York. 28 West 44th St. Studio.

Grant Clarke (lyricist)
Harry Akst (composer)
Bright lights [Motion picture] (Work title)
Gene Austin (vocalist : tenor vocal)

Bright Lights is a 1930 American pre-Code musical comedy film photographed entirely in Technicolor and produced and released by First National Pictures, a subsidiary of Warner Brothers. Although filmed in December 1929, the film sat on the shelf until the autumn of 1930 when it was given a limited release. However, Warners quickly withdrew the film when the studio realized that the public had grown weary of musicals. Warners believed that this attitude would only last for a few months, but, when the public proved obstinate, they reluctantly re-released the film early in 1931 after making a few cuts to it. The film stars Dorothy Mackaill, Frank Fay, Noah Beery and Frank McHugh. It also features the screen debut of John Carradine, who appears in a small uncredited role.
Frank Fay sung the song in the movie.

Gene Austin (June 24, 1900 – January 24, 1972) was an American singer and songwriter, one of the first "crooners". His recording of "My Blue Heaven" sold over five million copies and was the largest selling record of all time. His 1920s compositions "When My Sugar Walks Down the Street" and "The Lonesome Road" became pop and jazz standards.
Austin was born as Lemeul Eugene Lucas in Gainesville, Texas.
Austin joined the U.S. Army at the age of 15 in hopes of being dispatched to Europe to fight in World War I. He was first stationed in New Orleans, where he played the piano at night in the city's notorious vice district. His familiarity with horses from helping his stepfather in his blacksmithing business also prompted the Army to assign Austin to the cavalry and send him to Mexico with General John Pershing's Pancho Villa Expedition, for which he was awarded the Mexican Service Medal. Thereafter, he served in France in World War I.
Gene Austin was an important pioneer crooner whose records in their day enjoyed record sales and the highest circulation. The Genial Texan ex-vaudevillian and would-be screen idol, Austin constitutes an underrated landmark in popular music history.
Austin retired to Palm Springs in the late 1950s and was active in civic boards there until 1970. Income from his record sales allowed him to live comfortably the rest of his life.
He died in Palm Springs of lung cancer and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.

Lyrics:
All the old gang that I once knew
Now have left me two by two
The old neighbourhood don't look so good
I'm so lonely by my only
Each and every one it seems
Meets the ideal of their dreams
I've searched everywhere for my ideal
Now I'm beginning to feel
Nobody knows, nobody cares if I'm lonesome
Nobody sighs, nobody cries if I'm blue
It seems that night after night
I sit alone and twiddle my thumbs
But still I keep right on hoping, keep the door open
But nobody comes
Ain't it a crime, kisses of mine are just wasted
Since summer time, I'm thinkin' what'll I do, boo-hoo
Like a plaything on the shelf, guess I'll have to play by myself
'Cause nobody knows, nobody cares if I'm blue
Nobody knows, nobody cares if I'm lonesome
Nobody sighs, nobody cries if I'm blue
I sit at home constantly
My company is just the four walls
But still I keep right on hopin', keep the door open
But nobody calls
Ain't it a crime, lovin' like mine is just wasted
Since summer time, I'm thinkin' what'll I do
When it comes to happiness, I must be a step-child, I guess
'Cause nobody knows, nobody cares if I'm blue

Lee Morse - Where The Wild Wild Flowers Grow 1927 Harry M. Woods Im Far Away From Everyone I Love

warholsoup100 2020-04-05 | Columbia (1011-D) Recorded in New York, March 16, 1927.
Song written by Harry M. Woods & Mort Dixon. With guitar accompaniment.

Lena Corinne "Lee" Morse (née Taylor; November 30, 1897 – December 16, 1954) was an American jazz and blues singer-songwriter, composer, guitarist, and actress. Morse's greatest popularity was in the 1920s and early 1930s as a torch singer, although her career began around 1917 and continued until her death in 1954.
Morse was known for her strong, deep singing voice and vocal range, which often belied her petite frame. She possessed a contralto vocal range, and one of her trademarks was her unique style of yodeling. Recording over 200 songs over her career, Morse was one of the most recorded female singers of the 1920s. She was also moderately successful as an actress on the Broadway stage. Her life and career, however, were marred by alcoholism. Morse's' group the Blue Grass Boys had no relation neither to their later namesake of Bill Monroe nor bluegrass music.
Although Morse's Broadway prospects had dimmed by the 1930s, she could still be seen in a number of musical film shorts, including A Million Me's (Paramount, April 25, 1930), The Music Racket (Vitaphone, June 30, 1930), and Song Service (Paramount, October 24, 1930).
Morse was born Lena Corinne Taylor on November 30, 1897 in Cove, Oregon.
Morse died on December 16, 1954 in Rochester while visiting a neighbor. She was 57 years old. She is interred at the Riverside Cemetery.

Ruth Etting - Now Im In Love 1929 All this was fated up in Heaven above

warholsoup100 2020-04-05 | Columbia (1883-D) Recorded 6/26/1929 New York, New York.
Flipside to "I want to meander in the meadow".
(Music: Ted Shapiro / Lyrics: Jack Yellen)

Ruth Etting (November 23, 1896 – September 24, 1978) was an American singing star and actress of the 1920s and 1930s, who had over 60 hit recordings and worked in stage, radio, and film. Known as "America's sweetheart of song", her signature tunes were "Shine On, Harvest Moon", "Ten Cents a Dance" and "Love Me or Leave Me". Her other popular recordings included "Button Up Your Overcoat", "Mean to Me", "Exactly Like You" and "Shaking the Blues Away".
Etting died in Colorado Springs in 1978, aged 80.

Lyrics: (From The Internet)
I'm the one who's been poking fun
At all my friends who chanced to be in love
That's all past, it's got me at last
There's no use in dodging it, or in camouflaging it
You came along, dear, now I'm in love
Life is a song, dear, 'cause I'm in love
I always dreamed of meeting someone like you
No one can tell me now that dreams don't come true
I'm glad I waited, for you can see
How well we're mated, it seems to me
All this was fated up in Heaven above
And, sweetheart, now I'm in love
(Orchestral Interlude)
I always dreamed of meeting someone like you
No one can tell me now that all my dreams won't come true
All this was fated up in Heaven above
And, sweetheart, now I'm in love
I'm in love
And my sweetheart, now I'm in love

Ruth Etting - I Want To Meander In The Meadow 1929 With My Little Dog By My Side Harry M. Woods

warholsoup100 2020-04-04 | Columbia (1883-D) Recorded 6/26/1929 New York, New York.

Charles Tobias (lyricist)
Harry Woods (composer)

Ruth Etting (November 23, 1896 – September 24, 1978) was an American singing star and actress of the 1920s and 1930s, who had over 60 hit recordings and worked in stage, radio, and film. Known as "America's sweetheart of song", her signature tunes were "Shine On, Harvest Moon", "Ten Cents a Dance" and "Love Me or Leave Me". Her other popular recordings included "Button Up Your Overcoat", "Mean to Me", "Exactly Like You" and "Shaking the Blues Away".
Etting died in Colorado Springs in 1978, aged 80.

Lyrics: (From The Internet)
I heard a bird singing this morning
In a great big empty lot
But the song he sang just made me feel, oh, so blue
What's the good of pretending
That I'm happy when I'm not
Guess I'm nothing but a dreamer that happiness forgot
I want to meander in the meadow
See the sunbeams kissing the dew
I want to meander in the meadow
With the birds and flowers I knew
How I can remember in the meadow
When my days were happy and free
Up at dawn, greet the sun
Sing a song till my day was done
I want to meet someone in the meadow
When the shadows start into fall
We used to meander in the meadow
It's the sweetest memory of all
I know if I had a million wishes
There'd be just one wish and I'd say
I want to meander in the meadow
Be a kid for only a day
Oooo-oooh, I want to meander in the meadow
With my little dog by my side
I want him to find me in the meadow
Every time I leave him and hide
Ah, I can remember in the meadow
When we found a nest full of bees
Oooh, did they sting, I declare
They stung us here and they stung us there
How happy I'd be to see an angel
In a little garden that I knew
Somehow in my dreams it seems I'm near her
I can hear her calling, "Yoo-hoo"
Some people may think it's foolish
Ah, let them think whatever they may
I want to meander in the meadow
Be a kid, a little kid, for only just one day

Cliff Edwards - Hang On To Me 1929 Ukulele Ike From Marianne

warholsoup100 2020-04-04 | Columbia (1907-D) Recorded 5/30/1929 Los Angeles, California. Viva-tonal recording. From talking picture production "Marianne".

Raymond Klages (lyricist)
Jesse Greer (composer)
Marianne (Work title)
Cliff Edwards (vocalist : tenor vocal)

Marianne is a 1929 pre-Code romantic musical drama about a French farm girl who, despite already having a French fiancé, falls in love with an American soldier during World War I. It is a remake of a silent film that was made and released earlier in 1929. Although the films feature mostly different casts, Marion Davies starred in both versions. This was Davies' first released talking movie.
Cast:
Marion Davies as Marianne
Lawrence Gray as Private Stagg
Cliff Edwards as "Soapy" Soapstone
Benny Rubin as Sam "Sammy" Samuels
George Baxter as André
Scott Kolk as Lieutenant Frane
Robert Edeson as The General
Emile Chautard as Père Joseph

Clifton Avon "Cliff" Edwards (June 14, 1895 – July 17, 1971), nicknamed "Ukulele Ike", was an American musician, singer, actor and voice actor, who enjoyed considerable popularity in the 1920s and early 1930s, specializing in jazzy renditions of pop standards and novelty tunes. He had a number-one hit with "Singin' in the Rain" in 1929. He also did voices for animated cartoons later in his career, and is best known as the voice of Jiminy Cricket in Walt Disney's Pinocchio (1940) and Fun and Fancy Free (1947), and Dandy (Jim) Crow in Walt Disney's Dumbo (1941).
He had nearly disappeared from the public eye at the time of his death on July 17, 1971, at the age of 76 from a cardiac arrest brought on by arteriosclerosis. Now penniless, Edwards was a charity patient at the Virgil Convalescent Hospital in Hollywood, California. His body was unclaimed and was donated to the University of California, Los Angeles medical school. When Walt Disney Productions, which had been quietly paying many of his medical expenses, discovered this, they offered to purchase his remains and pay for the burial. Instead, it was done by the Actors' Fund of America (which had also aided Edwards) and the Motion Picture and Television Relief Fund. Disney paid for his grave marker.

Lyrics: (From The Internet)
Oh Honey, it’s so funny
The way I feel with you
Start heeding because I’m needing
A love that should be due
Your kiss would be a revelation
So put a few into circulation
Stop stalling, begin falling
The way I fell for you
Hang on to me, hang on to me
I’d like to hang you on my family tree
Oh, we got to get together
Better start in now
You’re over there, and I’m over here
Come over closer and lend me your ear
Oh, we got to get together
Better start in now
You’ve run around and never found
Just what you been looking for
Now that you’re here
Tell me, how could I ask for more
You got the charms and I’ve got the love
Here in my arms you will fit like a glove
Oh, we got to get together
You better hang on to me
Salt hangs on to pepper
Ham hangs on to eggs
Flies hang on to flypaper
And garters hang on to legs
Hot dogs hang to mustard
An oyster hangs round in a stew
Everyone hangs on to someone
And I’m gonna hang on to you
Then you can
Hang on to me, hang on to me
I’d like to hang you on my family tree
Oh, we got to get together
Better start in now
Oh mama, you better hang on to me

Irene Bordoni - Just An Hour Of Love 1929 Rube Bloom on Piano Show of Shows

warholsoup100 2020-04-03 | Columbia (2027-D) Recorded 9/22/1929 New York, New York.

Eddie Ward (composer)
Alfred Bryan (lyricist)
Show of shows [Motion picture] (Work title)
Una hora de amor (Parallel (translated) title)
Rube Bloom (instrumentalist : piano)
Irene Bordoni (vocalist : soprano vocal)

The Show of Shows is a 1929 American pre-Code musical revue film directed by John G. Adolfi and distributed by Warner Bros. The all talking Vitaphone production cost $850,000 and was shot almost entirely in Technicolor.
The Show of Shows was Warner Bros.' fifth color film.
The film was styled in the same format as the earlier Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film The Hollywood Revue of 1929. The high budget of the film meant that although it performed well at the box office, it did not return as much profit as The Hollywood Revue of 1929.
"Just an Hour of Love" – Performed by Irene Bordoni in the movie.
The film features nearly all the stars then working under contract at Warner Bros. Virtually all the performers shown would vanish from the studio by 1931, after tastes had shifted owing to the effects of the Great Depression, which began to be felt late in 1930.
The Show of Shows features many of the performers who were popular in silent movies mixed in with hand-picked stage stars and novelty acts. The emcee of the film was Frank Fay, who performed in the style of barbed sarcasm. In an era of almost naive optimism, he stands out as a witty devil's advocate.
The Show of Shows featured most of the contemporary Warner Bros. film stars, including John Barrymore, Richard Barthelmess, Noah Beery Sr., Loretta Young, Dolores Costello, Bull Montana, Myrna Loy, Chester Conklin, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Tully Marshall, Nick Lucas, and Betty Compson.

Irène Bordoni (16 January 1885 – 19 March 1953) was a Corsican-American actress and singer.
Noted for her seductive brown eyes and coquettish personality, Irène Bordoni is probably best remembered from musical theatre as the star of the 1928 Cole Porter musical Paris.
Throughout her Broadway career, Bordoni was renowned for wearing only the most stylish of clothes, including costumes by Erté.
She died on 19 March 1953 at Jewish Memorial Hospital in Manhattan. She was interred in the Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York.

Lee Morse - There Must Be A Silver Lining (Thats Shining For Me) 1928 Walter Donaldson

warholsoup100 2020-04-02 | (Columbia) Recorded January 23rd 1928 New York.

Walter Donaldson (composer)
Dolly Morse (lyricist)
Blue Grass Boys (Musical group)
Lee Morse (vocalist : contralto)
Lee Morse (leader)

Lena Corinne "Lee" Morse (née Taylor; November 30, 1897 – December 16, 1954) was an American jazz and blues singer-songwriter, composer, guitarist, and actress. Morse's greatest popularity was in the 1920s and early 1930s as a torch singer, although her career began around 1917 and continued until her death in 1954.
Morse was known for her strong, deep singing voice and vocal range, which often belied her petite frame. She possessed a contralto vocal range, and one of her trademarks was her unique style of yodeling. Recording over 200 songs over her career, Morse was one of the most recorded female singers of the 1920s. She was also moderately successful as an actress on the Broadway stage. Her life and career, however, were marred by alcoholism. Morse's' group the Blue Grass Boys had no relation neither to their later namesake of Bill Monroe nor bluegrass music.
Although Morse's Broadway prospects had dimmed by the 1930s, she could still be seen in a number of musical film shorts, including A Million Me's (Paramount, April 25, 1930), The Music Racket (Vitaphone, June 30, 1930), and Song Service (Paramount, October 24, 1930).
Morse was born Lena Corinne Taylor on November 30, 1897 in Cove, Oregon.
Morse died on December 16, 1954 in Rochester while visiting a neighbor. She was 57 years old. She is interred at the Riverside Cemetery.

Lyrics:
The more I roam about,
The more I dream about a rainbow,
Just hoping that a rainbow
Might soon appear.
I'd walk a million miles
To find the kind o' smiles that I know
Would bring a golden rainbow
And skies so clear.
Although I try I really get nowhere,
Sometime I'm hoping that I'll get somewhere!
There must be a silver lining
That's shining for me.
There must be a way of finding
A message of sympathy.
Just a little coo from the bluebird
Would make a new bird right out of me!
There must be a silver lining
That's shining for me.
There must be a silver lining
That's always shining for me.
There must be a way of always finding
A message of sympathy.
Just a little coo from the bluebird
Would make a new bird right out of me, poor little me!
There must be a silver lining
That's always shining for me.

Irene Bordoni - Believe Me 1929 Rube Bloom on Piano Im Just So Crazy For You

warholsoup100 2020-04-02 | Columbia (2027-D) Recorded 9/22/1929 New York, New York.

Rube Bloom (instrumentalist : piano)
Irene Bordoni (vocalist : soprano vocal)
Eddie Ward (composer)
Alfred Bryan (lyricist)

Irène Bordoni (16 January 1885 – 19 March 1953) was a Corsican-American actress and singer.
Noted for her seductive brown eyes and coquettish personality, Irène Bordoni is probably best remembered from musical theatre as the star of the 1928 Cole Porter musical Paris.
Throughout her Broadway career, Bordoni was renowned for wearing only the most stylish of clothes, including costumes by Erté.
She died on 19 March 1953 at Jewish Memorial Hospital in Manhattan. She was interred in the Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York.

Rudy Vallee - Im Playing With Fire 1933 Irving Berlin Songs

warholsoup100 2020-04-02 | Columbia (2737-D) Recorded 1/3/1933 New York, New York.

Irving Berlin (composer)
Irving Berlin (lyricist)
Connecticut Yankees (Musical group)
Rudy Vallée (leader)
Rudy Vallée (vocalist : tenor vocal)
Fox trot (Title descriptor)

Hubert Prior "Rudy" Vallée (July 28, 1901 – July 3, 1986) was an American singer, actor, and radio host. He was one of the first modern pop stars of the teen idol type.
The son of Charles Alphonse Vallée and Catherine Lynch, Rudy Vallée was born Hubert Prior Vallée in Island Pond, Vermont
Vallée died of cancer at his home on July 3, 1986, while watching the televised centennial ceremonies of the restored Statue of Liberty. His wife, Eleanor, said his last words were: "I wish we could be there; you know how I love a party.

Lyrics: (From The Internet)
I've heard about you
Each word about you
That ev'ryone has spoken
And from the things I hear
I should be careful, dear
They come and find me
And then remind me
Of all the hearts you've broken
But I'm in love with you
So what am I to do?
[Chorus]
I'm playing with fire
I'm gonna get burned
I know it, but what can I do?
I know my heart must be content to go
Where it is sent, although
I may repent when I'm through
But what can I do?
I'm playing with fire
I'm gonna get burned
While merry-go-rounding with you
But I go for my ride
I'm playing with fire
I know it, but what can I do?
I know it, but what can I do?
With my eyes open wide
I'm playing with fire
I know it, but what can I do?

But I go for my ride
With my eyes open wide
I'm playing with fire
I know it, but what can I do?

Gene Austin - My Fate Is In Your Hands 1929 Fats Waller on Piano Will My Skies Be Blue Or Grey?

warholsoup100 2020-03-31 | Victor (22223) Recorded 11/25/1929 New York, New York.

Fats Waller (composer)
Andy Razaf (lyricist)
Gene Austin (vocalist : tenor vocal)
Leonard W. Joy (director)
Fats Waller (instrumentalist : piano)

Gene Austin (June 24, 1900 – January 24, 1972) was an American singer and songwriter, one of the first "crooners". His recording of "My Blue Heaven" sold over five million copies and was the largest selling record of all time. His 1920s compositions "When My Sugar Walks Down the Street" and "The Lonesome Road" became pop and jazz standards.
Austin was born as Lemeul Eugene Lucas in Gainesville, Texas.
Austin joined the U.S. Army at the age of 15 in hopes of being dispatched to Europe to fight in World War I. He was first stationed in New Orleans, where he played the piano at night in the city's notorious vice district. His familiarity with horses from helping his stepfather in his blacksmithing business also prompted the Army to assign Austin to the cavalry and send him to Mexico with General John Pershing's Pancho Villa Expedition, for which he was awarded the Mexican Service Medal. Thereafter, he served in France in World War I.
Gene Austin was an important pioneer crooner whose records in their day enjoyed record sales and the highest circulation. The Genial Texan ex-vaudevillian and would-be screen idol, Austin constitutes an underrated landmark in popular music history.
Austin retired to Palm Springs in the late 1950s and was active in civic boards there until 1970. Income from his record sales allowed him to live comfortably the rest of his life.
He died in Palm Springs of lung cancer and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.

Lyrics: (From The Internet)
Wanting you is my offence,
You have all the evidence,
Now I wait for you to sentence me!
Must I go or must I stay?
Will my skies be blue or grey?
Are my dreams to be or not to be?
There's no use pretending,
Love needs no defending,
What is the verdict?
My fate is in your hands!
You're my judge and jury,
What do you assure me?
What is the verdict?
My fate is in your hands!
If the charge is loving you,
Then I'm guilty, dear!
Tell me that you love me too
And I'll have no fear!
It is you I'm needing,
For your love I'm pleading,
What is the verdict?
My fate is in your hands!
If the charge is loving you,
Then I'm guilty, dear!
Tell me that you love me too
And I'll have no fear!
It is you I'm needing,
For your love I'm pleading,
What is the verdict?
My fate is in your hands!
My fate, honey baby, is in your hands!

Cliff Edwards - Anything You Say 1928 Ukulele Ike Walter Donaldson Songs (Cadillac Coupe)

warholsoup100 2020-03-31 | Columbia (1427-D) Recorded June 5, 1928. Flipside to "Just Like A Melody Out Of The Sky".

Clifton Avon "Cliff" Edwards (June 14, 1895 – July 17, 1971), nicknamed "Ukulele Ike", was an American musician, singer, actor and voice actor, who enjoyed considerable popularity in the 1920s and early 1930s, specializing in jazzy renditions of pop standards and novelty tunes. He had a number-one hit with "Singin' in the Rain" in 1929. He also did voices for animated cartoons later in his career, and is best known as the voice of Jiminy Cricket in Walt Disney's Pinocchio (1940) and Fun and Fancy Free (1947), and Dandy (Jim) Crow in Walt Disney's Dumbo (1941).
He had nearly disappeared from the public eye at the time of his death on July 17, 1971, at the age of 76 from a cardiac arrest brought on by arteriosclerosis. Now penniless, Edwards was a charity patient at the Virgil Convalescent Hospital in Hollywood, California. His body was unclaimed and was donated to the University of California, Los Angeles medical school. When Walt Disney Productions, which had been quietly paying many of his medical expenses, discovered this, they offered to purchase his remains and pay for the burial. Instead, it was done by the Actors' Fund of America (which had also aided Edwards) and the Motion Picture and Television Relief Fund. Disney paid for his grave marker.

Lyrics: (From The Internet)
Here we are so happy just where we are
And smiling just like we are
Like lovers all do
I could see exactly how things should be
I had to give in you see
'Cause i had to get you
It looks like you like having your own way
It looks like i like anything you say
It looks like you like a Cadillac coupé
It looks like i like anything you say
We like a lot like a lot of lovers do
A house and a lot of skies of blue
We'll raise a garden and family some day
I beg your pardon, anything you say
Hard to get you surely were hard to get
I had to plead hard and yet
I liked it and so
Wanted you nobody but you, just you
And all of my dreams came true
And i'm raring to go
It looks like you like having your own way
It looks like i like anything you say
It looks like you like a Cadillac coupé
It looks like i like anything you say
We like a lot like a lot of lovers do
A house and a lot of skies of blue
We'll raise a garden and family some day
I beg your pardon, anything you say

Sophie Tucker - Therell Be Some Changes Made 1927 Ted Shapiro on Piano

warholsoup100 2020-03-31 | (OKeh Records) Recorded 9/3/1927 Chicago, Illinois.

Billy Higgins (lyricist)
W. Benton Overstreet (composer)
Sophie Tucker (vocalist)
Ted Shapiro (instrumentalist : piano)

"There'll Be Some Changes Made" ("Changes") is a popular song by Benton Overstreet (composer) and Billy Higgins (lyricist). Published in 1921, the song has flourished in several genres, particularly jazz. The song has endured for as many years as a jazz standard. According to the online The Jazz Discography (an index of jazz-only recordings), "Changes" had been recorded 404 times as of May 2018.

Sophie Tucker (January 13, 1886 – February 9, 1966) was a Ukrainian-born American singer, comedian, actress, and radio personality. Known for her powerful delivery of comical and risqué songs, she was one of the most popular entertainers in America during the first half of the 20th century. She was widely known by the superlative nickname "The Last of the Red Hot Mamas".
Tucker died of lung cancer and kidney failure on February 9, 1966, aged 80, in New York City. She had continued working until the months before her death, playing shows at the Latin Quarter just weeks before. She is buried in Emanuel Cemetery, in Wethersfield, Connecticut, her home state.

Lyrics:
They say don't change the old for the new
But I've found out that this will never do
When you grow old don't last long
You're here today and then tomorrow you're gone
I loved a man for many years gone by
I thought his love for me would never die
He made some changes that would never do
From now on I'm going to make some changes too
For there's a change in the weather
There's a change in the sea
So from now on there'll be in change in me
My walk will be different, my talk and my name
Nothin' about me is going to be the same
I'm goin' to change my wayof livin'
If that ain't enough
Then I'll change the way that I strut my stuff
'Cause nobody wants you when you're old and gray
There'll be some changes made today
There'll be some changes made
The say the old time things are the best
That may be very good for all the rest
But I'm goin'g let the old things be
'Cause they are certainly not suited for me
There was a time when I thought that way
That's why I'm all alone here today
Since every one these days seeks something new
From now on I'm goin' to seek some new things too
For there's a change in the fashion
Ask the femine folks
Even Jack Benny has changed jokes
I must make some changes from old to new
I must do things just the same as others do
I'm goin' to change my long, tall daddy for a little short fat
Goin' to change the number where I live at
I must have some lovin' or I'll fade away
There'll be some changes made today
There'll be some changes made today

Rudy Vallee - Outside 1929 The Moon Was Shining Bright (Diva Dime Store Label)

warholsoup100 2020-03-30 | Diva (2857-G) (Dime Store Label) Rudy Vallée And His Connecticut Yankees. Song written by Frank Flynn.

Hubert Prior "Rudy" Vallée (July 28, 1901 – July 3, 1986) was an American singer, actor, and radio host. He was one of the first modern pop stars of the teen idol type.
The son of Charles Alphonse Vallée and Catherine Lynch, Rudy Vallée was born Hubert Prior Vallée in Island Pond, Vermont
Vallée died of cancer at his home on July 3, 1986, while watching the televised centennial ceremonies of the restored Statue of Liberty. His wife, Eleanor, said his last words were: "I wish we could be there; you know how I love a party.

Lee Morse - To Be Forgotten 1929 (Para Ser Olvidado) Irving Berlin Songs

warholsoup100 2020-03-30 | Columbia (2037-D) Recording Date: November 4, 1929. Columbia using the brand-new Electrical Viva-Tonal Recording Process.
Lee Morse And Her Blue Grass Boys. Song written by Irving Berlin in 1928.

Lena Corinne "Lee" Morse (née Taylor; November 30, 1897 – December 16, 1954) was an American jazz and blues singer-songwriter, composer, guitarist, and actress. Morse's greatest popularity was in the 1920s and early 1930s as a torch singer, although her career began around 1917 and continued until her death in 1954.
Morse was known for her strong, deep singing voice and vocal range, which often belied her petite frame. She possessed a contralto vocal range, and one of her trademarks was her unique style of yodeling. Recording over 200 songs over her career, Morse was one of the most recorded female singers of the 1920s. She was also moderately successful as an actress on the Broadway stage. Her life and career, however, were marred by alcoholism. Morse's' group the Blue Grass Boys had no relation neither to their later namesake of Bill Monroe nor bluegrass music.
Although Morse's Broadway prospects had dimmed by the 1930s, she could still be seen in a number of musical film shorts, including A Million Me's (Paramount, April 25, 1930), The Music Racket (Vitaphone, June 30, 1930), and Song Service (Paramount, October 24, 1930).
Morse was born Lena Corinne Taylor on November 30, 1897 in Cove, Oregon.
Morse died on December 16, 1954 in Rochester while visiting a neighbor. She was 57 years old. She is interred at the Riverside Cemetery.

Russ Columbo - Time On My Hands (You In My Arms) 1931 The Moon Is My Light Of Love

warholsoup100 2020-03-30 | Victor (22826-B) Flipside to "Goodnight Sweetheart." Baritone with orchestra.

"Time on My Hands" is a popular song with music by Vincent Youmans and lyrics by Harold Adamson and Mack Gordon, published in 1930. Introduced in the musical Smiles by Marilyn Miller and Paul Gregory, it is sometimes also co-credited to Reginald Connelly.

Ruggiero Eugenio di Rodolfo Colombo (January 14, 1908 – September 2, 1934), known as Russ Columbo, was an American baritone, songwriter, violinist and actor. He is famous for romantic ballads such as his signature tune "You Call It Madness, But I Call It Love" and his own compositions "Prisoner of Love" and "Too Beautiful For Words."
On Sunday, September 2, 1934, Columbo was shot under peculiar circumstances by his longtime friend, photographer Lansing Brown, while Columbo was visiting him at home. Brown had a collection of firearms and the two men were examining various pieces.
BIRTH: 14 Jan 1908 Camden, Camden County, New Jersey, USA
DEATH : 2 Sep 1934 (aged 26) Hollywood, Los Angeles County, California, USA
BURIAL: Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale)

Lyrics:
When the day fades away into twilight
The moon is my light of love
In the night, I am quite a romancer
I find an answer above
To being me consolation, you're my inspiration
This is my imagination.
Time on my hands, you in my arms
Nothing but love in view, then you fall
Once and for all, I'll see my dreams come true
Moments to spare for someone you care for
Our love affair for two
With time on my hands and you in my arms
And love in my heart all for you.

Lee Morse - In The Hush Of The Night 1929 The Twinkling Little Stars Played Peek-a-Boo

warholsoup100 2020-03-29 | (Columbia) Lee Morse And Her Blue Grass Boys. Song written by Al Hoffman & Sammy Lerner. (Tango).

Lena Corinne "Lee" Morse (née Taylor; November 30, 1897 – December 16, 1954) was an American jazz and blues singer-songwriter, composer, guitarist, and actress. Morse's greatest popularity was in the 1920s and early 1930s as a torch singer, although her career began around 1917 and continued until her death in 1954.
Morse was known for her strong, deep singing voice and vocal range, which often belied her petite frame. She possessed a contralto vocal range, and one of her trademarks was her unique style of yodeling. Recording over 200 songs over her career, Morse was one of the most recorded female singers of the 1920s. She was also moderately successful as an actress on the Broadway stage. Her life and career, however, were marred by alcoholism. Morse's' group the Blue Grass Boys had no relation neither to their later namesake of Bill Monroe nor bluegrass music.
Although Morse's Broadway prospects had dimmed by the 1930s, she could still be seen in a number of musical film shorts, including A Million Me's (Paramount, April 25, 1930), The Music Racket (Vitaphone, June 30, 1930), and Song Service (Paramount, October 24, 1930).
Morse was born Lena Corinne Taylor on November 30, 1897 in Cove, Oregon.
Morse died on December 16, 1954 in Rochester while visiting a neighbor. She was 57 years old. She is interred at the Riverside Cemetery.

Lyrics: (From The Internet)
Into the splendour of midsummer's moonlight we strolled
Little we dreamed that the mysteries of love would unfold
Although I hardly knew you, although you hardly knew me
Kissed by the perfume of summery breezes one evening
We wandered along, crooning a song
Far from the throng
In the hush of the night
While the twinkling little stars played peek-a-boo
Whispering they knew our rendezvous
In the hush of the night
The moments passed ever too fast
Then we were parted
Why was it "Goodbye" just when love started
Who calls you divine, whose arms entwine
All that was mine, only mine, dear
In the hush of the night
Just when the night time was kissed by the beautiful dawn
You disappeared while I longed to be lingering on
Of all that magical bliss, all that remained was your kiss
Now I'm alone with a memory of joys I am missing
We wandered along, crooning a song
Far from the throng
In the hush of the night
While the twinkling little stars played peek-a-boo
Whispering they knew our rendezvous
In the hush of the night
The moments passed ever too fast
Then we were parted
Oh, why was it "Goodbye" just when love started
Who calls you divine, whose arms entwine
All that was mine, only mine, dear
In the hush of the night

Rudy Vallee - Pretending 1929 Classic Crooners

warholsoup100 2020-03-29 | (Victor) Recorded July 9, 1929, New York, NY. Recorded At – Liederkranz Hall, New York. Rudy Vallee And His Connecticut Yankees. Song written by Harry Porter, Matty Cohen & Mel Ball.

Hubert Prior "Rudy" Vallée (July 28, 1901 – July 3, 1986) was an American singer, actor, and radio host. He was one of the first modern pop stars of the teen idol type.
The son of Charles Alphonse Vallée and Catherine Lynch, Rudy Vallée was born Hubert Prior Vallée in Island Pond, Vermont
Vallée died of cancer at his home on July 3, 1986, while watching the televised centennial ceremonies of the restored Statue of Liberty. His wife, Eleanor, said his last words were: "I wish we could be there; you know how I love a party.

Lyrics: (From The Internet)
You're just pretending the things that I do
Mean nothing to you, pretending
Pretending with each little kiss
That fills me with bliss, pretending
Don't wanta hurt me by saying "Goodbye"
Who are you fooling by living a lie
You're just pretending and playing a part
That's breaking my heart, pretending
(Musical Interlude)
Don't wanta hurt me by saying "Goodbye"
Who are you fooling by living a lie
You're just pretending and playing a part
That's breaking my heart, pretending

Al Bowlly - Bathing In The Sunshine 1931 Roy Fox Monte Carlo, or Spain or sunny Italy

warholsoup100 2020-03-28 | (Decca UK) Roy Fox And His Band with Vocals by Al Bowlly.
Written by (Joe Gilbert, Horatio Nicholls). Flipside to "The Lindy Hop."

Albert Allick Bowlly (7 January 1898 – 17 April 1941) was a Mozambican-born South African/British vocalist and jazz guitarist who was popular during the 1930s in England. He recorded more than 1,000 songs.
On 16 April 1941, Bowlly and Messene had given a performance at the Rex Cinema in Oxford Street, High Wycombe. Both were offered an overnight stay in town, but Bowlly took the last train home to his flat at 32 Duke Street, Duke's Court, St James, London. He was killed by a Luftwaffe parachute mine that detonated outside his flat at ten past three in the morning. His body appeared unmarked. Although the explosion had not disfigured him, it had blown his bedroom door off its hinges, and the impact against his head was fatal. He was buried with other bombing victims in a mass grave at Hanwell Cemetery, Uxbridge Road, Hanwell, where his name is given as Albert Alex Bowlly.

Roy Fox (October 25, 1901 – March 20, 1982) was an American-born British dance bandleader whose period of greatest popularity were in England during the British dance band era. His autobiography, Hollywood, Mayfair, and All That Jazz (1975) is still in print.
Roy Fox was born in Denver, Colorado, United States.
He and his musician sister Vera were raised in Hollywood, California, in a Salvation Army family. Roy began playing cornet when he was 11 years old, and by age 13 was performing in the Los Angeles Examiner's newsboys' band. Soon after he played bugle for a studio owned by Cecil B. DeMille.
His first major association came at the age of 16, when he joined Abe Lyman's orchestra at the Sunset Inn in Santa Monica, where he played alongside Miff Mole, Gussie Mueller, Henry Halstead, and Gus Arnheim. He developed a soft style of playing there which earned him the nickname, "The Whispering Cornetist"

In later life, Fox moved to Australia, where he led the Jay Whidden Orchestra, and visited the U.S. for a few tours with small groups. He led a band in England in 1946-47, with appearances at the Isle of Man and London's Potomac Club. He went into semi-retirement after 1952, when he opened his own booking agency. He died in London in 1982, aged 80. His descendants include American LGBT organizer/activist, Toni Armstrong Jr.

Lyrics: (From The Internet)
Bathing in the sunshine
That’s the latest style
Bathing in the sunshine
The sunshine of my baby’s smile
Just to get the sunshine
People travel miles
But I get the sunshine,
The sunshine in my baby’s smiles
Can’t afford to go to
Monte Carlo, or Spain
Nice or sunny Italy
So I just remain
In a little love nest
Happy all the while
Bathing in the sunshine
The sunshine of my baby’s smile

Al Bowlly - Nobodys Sweetheart 1931 Roy Fox & His Band (Gus Kahn)

warholsoup100 2020-03-28 | (Decca UK) Made in England. Recorded At – Monseigneur Restaurant, London. Vocals [Uncredited] – Al Bowlly. Flipside to "Guilty."

From the Broadway Review "The Passing Show" (1923)
(Music: Billy Meyers & Elmer Schoebel / Lyrics: Ernie Erdman & Gus Kahn)

"Nobody's Sweetheart", also known as "Nobody's Sweetheart Now" and "You're Nobody's Sweetheart Now", is a popular song, written in 1924, with music by Billy Meyers and Elmer Schoebel, and lyrics by Gus Kahn and Ernie Erdman. The song is a jazz and pop standard.
The song was introduced by Ted Lewis in the Broadway revue The Passing Show of 1923.
The song has been covered by most big bands and singers of the time.

Albert Allick Bowlly (7 January 1898 – 17 April 1941) was a Mozambican-born South African/British vocalist and jazz guitarist who was popular during the 1930s in England. He recorded more than 1,000 songs.
On 16 April 1941, Bowlly and Messene had given a performance at the Rex Cinema in Oxford Street, High Wycombe. Both were offered an overnight stay in town, but Bowlly took the last train home to his flat at 32 Duke Street, Duke's Court, St James, London. He was killed by a Luftwaffe parachute mine that detonated outside his flat at ten past three in the morning. His body appeared unmarked. Although the explosion had not disfigured him, it had blown his bedroom door off its hinges, and the impact against his head was fatal. He was buried with other bombing victims in a mass grave at Hanwell Cemetery, Uxbridge Road, Hanwell, where his name is given as Albert Alex Bowlly.

Roy Fox (October 25, 1901 – March 20, 1982) was an American-born British dance bandleader whose period of greatest popularity were in England during the British dance band era. His autobiography, Hollywood, Mayfair, and All That Jazz (1975) is still in print.
Roy Fox was born in Denver, Colorado, United States.
He and his musician sister Vera were raised in Hollywood, California, in a Salvation Army family. Roy began playing cornet when he was 11 years old, and by age 13 was performing in the Los Angeles Examiner's newsboys' band. Soon after he played bugle for a studio owned by Cecil B. DeMille.
His first major association came at the age of 16, when he joined Abe Lyman's orchestra at the Sunset Inn in Santa Monica, where he played alongside Miff Mole, Gussie Mueller, Henry Halstead, and Gus Arnheim. He developed a soft style of playing there which earned him the nickname, "The Whispering Cornetist"

In later life, Fox moved to Australia, where he led the Jay Whidden Orchestra, and visited the U.S. for a few tours with small groups. He led a band in England in 1946-47, with appearances at the Isle of Man and London's Potomac Club. He went into semi-retirement after 1952, when he opened his own booking agency. He died in London in 1982, aged 80. His descendants include American LGBT organizer/activist, Toni Armstrong Jr.

Lyrics: (From The Internet)
You're nobody's sweetheart now
They don't baby you, somehow
Fancy hose, silken gown
You'd be out of place in your own home town
When you walk down the avenue
I just can't believe that it's you
Painted lips, painted eyes
Wearing a bird of paradise
It all seems wrong somehow
That you're nobody's sweetheart now
You were everybody's sweetheart
Not so long ago
And in your hometown, each boy around
Longed to be your beau
But things are different today
I'm mighty sorry to say
You're nobody's sweetheart now
They don't baby you, somehow
Fancy hose, silken gown
You'd be out of place in your own home town
When you walk down the avenue
I just can't believe that it's you
Painted lips, painted eyes
Wearing a bird of paradise
It all seems wrong somehow
That you're nobody's sweetheart now

Ruth Etting - Tomorrow Who Cares? (A Womans Choice) 1934 From Gift Of Gab Gus Arnheim

warholsoup100 2020-03-27 | (Columbia 2954-D) Recorded 08-29 1934 With Gus Arnheim & His Orchestra.

From the film "Gift Of Gab" (1934)
(Charles Tobias & Murray Mencher)

Gift of Gab is a 1934 black-and-white film released by Universal Pictures. Edmund Lowe stars as a man with the "Gift of Gab"—he can sell anyone anything. The film costars Ruth Etting, Ethel Waters, Victor Moore, and Gloria Stuart, and features Boris Karloff and Béla Lugosi. The film's sets were designed by the art director David Garber.
Ruth Etting sings "Talking to Myself" and "Tomorrow, Who Cares?" Originally the Three Stooges were signed to appear in the film, but they had just signed with Columbia Pictures for Woman Haters, the first of their short subjects, so three look-alike actors replaced them in Gift of Gab.
Gene Austin is the radio artist in the film.

Ruth Etting (November 23, 1896 – September 24, 1978) was an American singing star and actress of the 1920s and 1930s, who had over 60 hit recordings and worked in stage, radio, and film. Known as "America's sweetheart of song", her signature tunes were "Shine On, Harvest Moon", "Ten Cents a Dance" and "Love Me or Leave Me". Her other popular recordings included "Button Up Your Overcoat", "Mean to Me", "Exactly Like You" and "Shaking the Blues Away".
Etting died in Colorado Springs in 1978, aged 80.

Lyrics: (From The Internet)
My life is my own to do as I please
I'm at no one's beck and call
My heart is my own, I'm as free as the breeze
This world owes me nothing at all
I have had my share of joy and sorrow
I'm one girl who has no alibi
I go on my way just living for today
Tomorrow, who cares
What I have, I spend and then I borrow
That's the way i am, don't ask me why
For I always say if I get by today
Tomorrow, who cares
The game of love to me is funny
Some make it go, while others fail
With some it starts and ends with money
But my heart is one thing that isn't for sale
I don't ask for sympathy or sorrow
And until I've said my last goodbye
Here's the toast I give, my friends, today I live
Tomorrow, who cares
The game of love to me is funny
Some make it go, while others fail
With some it starts and ends with money
But my heart is one thing that isn't for sale
I don't ask for sympathy or sorrow
And until I've said my last goodbye
Here's the toast I give, my friends, today I live
Tomorrow, who cares

Ruth Etting - Talkin To Myself 1934 From Gift Of Gab Gus Arnheim

warholsoup100 2020-03-27 | (Columbia 2954-D) Recorded 08-29 1934 With Gus Arnheim & His Orchestra.

From the film "Gift Of Gab" (1934)
(Music: Con Conrad / Lyrics: Herb Magidson)

Gift of Gab is a 1934 black-and-white film released by Universal Pictures. Edmund Lowe stars as a man with the "Gift of Gab"—he can sell anyone anything. The film costars Ruth Etting, Ethel Waters, Victor Moore, and Gloria Stuart, and features Boris Karloff and Béla Lugosi. The film's sets were designed by the art director David Garber.
Ruth Etting sings "Talking to Myself" and "Tomorrow, Who Cares?" Originally the Three Stooges were signed to appear in the film, but they had just signed with Columbia Pictures for Woman Haters, the first of their short subjects, so three look-alike actors replaced them in Gift of Gab.
Gene Austin is the radio artist in the film.

Ruth Etting (November 23, 1896 – September 24, 1978) was an American singing star and actress of the 1920s and 1930s, who had over 60 hit recordings and worked in stage, radio, and film. Known as "America's sweetheart of song", her signature tunes were "Shine On, Harvest Moon", "Ten Cents a Dance" and "Love Me or Leave Me". Her other popular recordings included "Button Up Your Overcoat", "Mean to Me", "Exactly Like You" and "Shaking the Blues Away".
Etting died in Colorado Springs in 1978, aged 80.

Lyrics: (From The Internet)
I haven't heard a word from you
Snce the day we parted
Since the day you said, "We're through"
I haven't done a single thing
Since the day we parted
I only breathe and make believe
Talkin' to myself
Talkin' to myself
Ev'ry night I tell you how much I adore you
But I'm talkin' to myself
You're so far away
I've so much to say
Ev'ry night I keep repeating, "Dear, I love you"
But I'm talkin' to myself
I tell each little daisy
All about the things we planned
Say, my friends all think that I'm crazy
Ah, but they don't understand
Mmm-mmm, talkin' to myself
Mmm-mmm-mmm, talkin' to myself
Ev'ry night I tell you how much I adore you
But I'm talkin' to myself

Cliff Edwards - Reaching For Someone 1929 (And Not Finding Anyone There) Walter Donaldson

warholsoup100 2020-03-26 | (Columbia) Recorded 6/9/1929 Los Angeles, California.

Walter Donaldson (composer)
Edgar Leslie (lyricist)
anyone there (Primary title)
Cliff Edwards (vocalist : tenor vocal)

Clifton Avon "Cliff" Edwards (June 14, 1895 – July 17, 1971), nicknamed "Ukulele Ike", was an American musician, singer, actor and voice actor, who enjoyed considerable popularity in the 1920s and early 1930s, specializing in jazzy renditions of pop standards and novelty tunes. He had a number-one hit with "Singin' in the Rain" in 1929. He also did voices for animated cartoons later in his career, and is best known as the voice of Jiminy Cricket in Walt Disney's Pinocchio (1940) and Fun and Fancy Free (1947), and Dandy (Jim) Crow in Walt Disney's Dumbo (1941).
He had nearly disappeared from the public eye at the time of his death on July 17, 1971, at the age of 76 from a cardiac arrest brought on by arteriosclerosis. Now penniless, Edwards was a charity patient at the Virgil Convalescent Hospital in Hollywood, California. His body was unclaimed and was donated to the University of California, Los Angeles medical school. When Walt Disney Productions, which had been quietly paying many of his medical expenses, discovered this, they offered to purchase his remains and pay for the burial. Instead, it was done by the Actors' Fund of America (which had also aided Edwards) and the Motion Picture and Television Relief Fund. Disney paid for his grave marker.

Lyrics: (From The Internet)
I'm just a bubble of trouble and care
Very fond of petting, but I'm getting nowhere
Reaching for someone and not finding anyone there
No sweet romancer to answer my prayer
Always building castles that nobody will share
Reaching for someone and not finding anyone there
Is there a June honeymoon
Is there a June lover's croon
Is there a day coming soon
When I'll find someone somewhere
(Musical Break)
Who wouldn't worry and who wouldn't swear
Heaven is a Hades when you're up in the air
Reaching for someone and not finding anyone there

Russ Columbo - Lets Pretend Theres A Moon 1934 Jimmie Grier (From Wake Up and Dream)

warholsoup100 2020-03-24 | (Columbia) Russ Columbo With Jimmie Grier & His Orchestra.
"Forgotten Crooners"

Song Written by Russ Columbo / Grace Hamilton / Jack Stern.
First recording and first release by Russ Columbo with Jimmie Grier and His Orchestra (August 31, 1934)

Wake Up and Dream is a 1934 American musical film directed by Kurt Neumann, written by John Meehan Jr., and starring Russ Columbo, Roger Pryor, June Knight, Catherine Doucet, Henry Armetta and Andy Devine. It was released on October 1, 1934, by Universal Pictures.

Ruggiero Eugenio di Rodolfo Colombo (January 14, 1908 – September 2, 1934), known as Russ Columbo, was an American baritone, songwriter, violinist and actor. He is famous for romantic ballads such as his signature tune "You Call It Madness, But I Call It Love" and his own compositions "Prisoner of Love" and "Too Beautiful For Words."
On Sunday, September 2, 1934, Columbo was shot under peculiar circumstances by his longtime friend, photographer Lansing Brown, while Columbo was visiting him at home. Brown had a collection of firearms and the two men were examining various pieces.
BIRTH: 14 Jan 1908 Camden, Camden County, New Jersey, USA
DEATH : 2 Sep 1934 (aged 26) Hollywood, Los Angeles County, California, USA
BURIAL: Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale)

Lyrics: (From the internet)
Here you are, here am I,
No moon in view, no star on high,
But it's a lovely night to spoon,
Let's pretend that there's a moon!
Nights like this were made for love,
Regardless of the moon above;
The time and place are opportune,
Let's pretend that there's a moon!
Poets like to tell about the spell of moonlight bliss,
And they weave it into every rhyme;
We don't need no moon above to tell us when to kiss,
Why should we be wastin' time?
Here are we, here is love,
Who cares if there is moon above?
Let's make believe that this is the month of June,
Oh baby, let's pretend that there's a moon!
Yes! Ah-ha! Hah!
Who is you growlin' at woman?
Oh you know, now now now baby, yes I know!
Scrap the dark, but you've gotta pretend there's a moon!
Yes yes yes!
Yes yes!

Russ Columbo - When Youre In Love 1934 Jimmie Grier (From Wake Up and Dream)

warholsoup100 2020-03-24 | (Columbia) Russ Columbo With Jimmie Grier & His Orchestra.
"Forgotten Crooners"

Song written by Russ Columbo, Grossman & Stern.

Wake Up and Dream is a 1934 American musical film directed by Kurt Neumann, written by John Meehan Jr., and starring Russ Columbo, Roger Pryor, June Knight, Catherine Doucet, Henry Armetta and Andy Devine. It was released on October 1, 1934, by Universal Pictures.

Ruggiero Eugenio di Rodolfo Colombo (January 14, 1908 – September 2, 1934), known as Russ Columbo, was an American baritone, songwriter, violinist and actor. He is famous for romantic ballads such as his signature tune "You Call It Madness, But I Call It Love" and his own compositions "Prisoner of Love" and "Too Beautiful For Words."
On Sunday, September 2, 1934, Columbo was shot under peculiar circumstances by his longtime friend, photographer Lansing Brown, while Columbo was visiting him at home. Brown had a collection of firearms and the two men were examining various pieces.
BIRTH: 14 Jan 1908 Camden, Camden County, New Jersey, USA
DEATH : 2 Sep 1934 (aged 26) Hollywood, Los Angeles County, California, USA
BURIAL: Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale)

Frank Munn - Let The End Of The World Come Tomorrow 1926 Forgotten Crooners

warholsoup100 2020-03-23 | (Brunswick) Recorded 07-01-1926. (Music: Ernest R. Ball / Lyrics: Paul Cunningham) Very Rare Songs. It should be a "Fallout video game" song.

Not a great deal is known about Frank Munn.
He was a popular radio singer in the 1920s until the 1940s and recorded on Brunswick, Columbia and Victor with several bands, sometimes using the name Paul Oliver.
He was known as "The Golden Voice of Radio."
Frank Munn was born to a working class family in 1894. Growing up in New York, young Frank was blessed with a fine voice and sang at live concerts and on local radio. By the early 1920's he also began making phonograph records to assist his income as a laborer. In 1928 Munn was offered a lucrative spot on 'The Palmolive Hour' a network radio show sponsored by the popular soap-maker - making radio his exclusive career. He soon became the star of two other network shows; 'The American Album of Familiar Music' and 'Waltz Time' both of which entertained the public throughout the Great Depression and World War II, making him one of the favorite tenors on radio until his retirement in 1945.
BIRTH 27 Feb 1894 Bronx, Bronx County, New York, USA
DEATH 1 Oct 1953 (aged 59) Queens, Queens County, New York, USA.
BURIAL Woodlawn Cemetery Bronx, Bronx County, New York, USA

Lyrics:
Today for the first time you told me
What I've been longing to hear
Today for the first time you kissed me
At last I know You're sincere
I know not, nor care what tomorrow may bring
Today love is king and that's everything
Let me be by your side, let me see you satisfied
Then what do I care for tomorrow
Let me steal a kiss from you, let me feel you love me too
Then what do I care for tomorrow
Let me crowd our lifetime in just this one day
A lifetime of love, then I'll gladly say
Let the end of the world come tomorrow
As long as you love me today
Let me be by your side, let me see you satisfied
Then what do I care for tomorrow
Let me steal a kiss from you
Let me feel you love me too
Then what do we care for tomorrow
Let me crowd our lifetime in just this one day
A lifetime of love, then I'll gladly say
Let the end of the world come tomorrow
As long as you love me today

Al Bowlly - Paris In The Spring 1935 Ray Noble Paris Love Song (The moon is there to aid love)

warholsoup100 2020-03-23 | (Victor) Recorded 5/10/1935 Camden, New Jersey. Church Bldg. Studio 2.

Harry Revel (songwriter)
Mack Gordon (songwriter)
Ray Noble Orchestra (Musical group)
Al Bowlly (vocalist : tenor vocal)
Ray Noble (director)
Eli E. Oberstein (session supervisor)
Paris in spring [Motion picture] (Work title)
Fox trot (Title descriptor)
Paris in spring (Primary title) (Paris Love Song)

Paris in the Spring is a popular song composed in 1935, with lyrics by Mack Gordon and music by Harry Revel. It was first introduced by Mary Ellis in the film Paris in Spring. A version was also recorded by Ray Noble and His Orchestra (also in 1935). In 1960, Jo Stafford and her husband Paul Weston recorded a version for their comedy album Jonathan and Darlene Edwards in Paris in which they put their own unique interpretation on the song.
This song title is often used in an informal psychological test. "Paris in the the Spring" is written with an extra "the". A subject is asked to read the text, and will often jump to conclusions and fail to notice the extra "the", especially when there is a line break between the two thes.
Notable recordings: Ray Noble (1935).
Paris in Spring (also released as Paris Love Song) is a 1935 black and white musical comedy film directed by Lewis Milestone for Paramount Pictures.
Plot:
Afraid of marriage, Simone (Mary Ellis) breaks off her long term engagement with her fiancé Paul de Lille (Tullio Carminati). Paul heads to the top of The Eiffel Tower with thoughts of suicide. In another part of Paris and also afraid of marriage, Mignon (Ida Lupino) breaks it off from her young lover (James Blakely). Despairing, Mignon also climbs to the top of The Eiffel Tower intending to leap to her death. There she meets Paul and the two compare stories. After discussion, Paul dissuades her from leaping and the two conspire to make their respective partners jealous by pretending to have an affair with each other.

Albert Allick Bowlly (7 January 1898 – 17 April 1941) was a Mozambican-born South African/British vocalist and jazz guitarist who was popular during the 1930s in England. He recorded more than 1,000 songs.
On 16 April 1941, Bowlly and Messene had given a performance at the Rex Cinema in Oxford Street, High Wycombe. Both were offered an overnight stay in town, but Bowlly took the last train home to his flat at 32 Duke Street, Duke's Court, St James, London. He was killed by a Luftwaffe parachute mine that detonated outside his flat at ten past three in the morning. His body appeared unmarked. Although the explosion had not disfigured him, it had blown his bedroom door off its hinges, and the impact against his head was fatal. He was buried with other bombing victims in a mass grave at Hanwell Cemetery, Uxbridge Road, Hanwell, where his name is given as Albert Alex Bowlly.
Raymond Stanley Noble (17 December 1903 – 2 April 1978) was an English bandleader, composer, arranger, radio comedian, and actor. Noble wrote both lyrics and music for many popular songs during the British dance band era, known as the "Golden Age of British music".

Lyrics:
Paris in the spring, mm...mm...
Love is in the air, mm...mm...
Life's a love affair
And ev'ry pair of arms a rendezvous for two
Paris in the spring, mm...mm...
Hearts begin to dance, mm...mm...
And in ev'ry glance you'll find
An invitation to romance
You must fall
You simply can't evade love
The moon is there to aid love
Find someone you can call you own
You're to blame if you're alone mm...
It's grand, it's new, mm...
It's me, it's you
Ev'ry beating heart becomes a part of
Paris in the spring

Irving Aaronson Commanders - All By Yourself In The Moonlight 1929 (Muy Solita Por la Noche)

warholsoup100 2020-03-22 | (Victor) Recorded 1/16/1929. Phil Saxe & trio on vocals. Song written by Jay Wallis.

Irving A. Aaronson (February 7, 1895 – March 10, 1963) was an American jazz pianist and big band leader. "Let's Misbehave" fame.
Aaronson was born in New York.
By age 11 he played accompaniment in silent movie theaters (called nickelodeons).
He learned piano from Alfred Sendry at the David Mannes School for music.
His band signed with the Victor label where the band name was changed to Irving Aaronson and his Commanders.
Aaronson's band included at various times musicians such as Phil Saxe, Joe Gillespie, and others who would become band leaders themselves: Artie Shaw, Gene Krupa and Tony Pastor. Western movie actor Fuzzy Knight was a drummer with Aaronson's band in the late 1920s.
When Aaronson was 45 years old, his musician career had faded, but Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios hired him as a musical supervisor. Less notable appearance on television include his voicing of Mr. Nobody in the MGM's animation Betty Boop for President.
Aaronson died in Hollywood of a heart attack in 1963, at 68 years old. He was interred at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery.

Main lyrics:
Now, boys were made for girls, and girls were made for boys
Made to share each others cares and joys
And life without a mate, is like an empty plate
And what did Adam say before he met his fate

There ain't no sense sitting on the fence
All by yourself in the moonlight
There ain't no thrill by the watermill
All by yourself in the moonlight
There ain't no fun sitting beneath the trees
Giving yourself a hug, giving yourself a squeeze.
Love's a farce, sittin' on the grass
All by yourself in the moonlight

Now, she's must have their he's, and he's must have their she's
Otherwise there'd be no family trees
Why even in the zoos, they keep them there in two's
Otherwise there'd be no kangaroo's

There ain't no sense sitting on the fence
All by yourself in the moonlight
There ain't no thrill by the watermill
All by yourself in the moonlight
There ain't no fun sitting beneath the trees
Giving yourself a hug, giving yourself a squeeze
It's insane, swinging down the lane
All by yourself in the moonlight

Now it get's your goat, riding in a boat
All by yourself in the moonlight
And it's all a fake, swimming in the lake
All by yourself in the moonlight

No it don't make sense, sitting upon the sands
Whispering to yourself, ain't the scenery grand
Ther ain't no whim, when you go to swim
All by yourself in the moonlight

(Instrumental Break)

Now, you can't tell lies, to the butterflies
All by yourself in the moonlight
And you'll agree, that you're poor company
All by yourself in the moonlight

When you're alone, it doesn't bring to light
Kissing yourself hello, kissing yourself goodnight
And there ain't no kick, gosh it makes you ill
All by yourself in the moonlight

There ain't no sense sitting on the fence
All by yourself in the moonlight
There ain't no thrill by the watermill
All by yourself in the moonlight
There ain't no fun sitting beneath the trees
Giving yourself a hug, giving yourself a squeeze
Love's a farce, sittin' on the grass
Rahhh
I beg your pardon gentlemen
ranton
All by yourself in the moonlight
Goodnight

Lee Morse - Moonlight On The River 1932 Bud Green Songs

warholsoup100 2020-03-21 | Columbia (2705-D) Song written by Bud Green. Flipside to "Something In The Night". (Rare Lee Morse Songs)

Lena Corinne "Lee" Morse (née Taylor; November 30, 1897 – December 16, 1954) was an American jazz and blues singer-songwriter, composer, guitarist, and actress. Morse's greatest popularity was in the 1920s and early 1930s as a torch singer, although her career began around 1917 and continued until her death in 1954.
Morse was known for her strong, deep singing voice and vocal range, which often belied her petite frame. She possessed a contralto vocal range, and one of her trademarks was her unique style of yodeling. Recording over 200 songs over her career, Morse was one of the most recorded female singers of the 1920s. She was also moderately successful as an actress on the Broadway stage. Her life and career, however, were marred by alcoholism. Morse's' group the Blue Grass Boys had no relation neither to their later namesake of Bill Monroe nor bluegrass music.
Although Morse's Broadway prospects had dimmed by the 1930s, she could still be seen in a number of musical film shorts, including A Million Me's (Paramount, April 25, 1930), The Music Racket (Vitaphone, June 30, 1930), and Song Service (Paramount, October 24, 1930).
Morse was born Lena Corinne Taylor on November 30, 1897 in Cove, Oregon.
Morse died on December 16, 1954 in Rochester while visiting a neighbor. She was 57 years old. She is interred at the Riverside Cemetery.

Bud Green (born Moses David Green: 19 November 1897 – 2 January 1981) was an American songwriter.
In his early career, he wrote material for vaudevilles. He was a staff writer for music publishers and wrote Broadway stage scores as well as songs for other musicals.
By 1928, he had written "Alabamy Bound" and "That's My Weakness Now", which became a huge hit for Ukulele Ike and Helen Kane. (Both of these songs are on my channel as well.)
He also wrote:
"Do Something"
"Good Little, Bad Little You"
"Oh Boy, What a Girl"
"Dream Sweetheart"
At 21, Bud Green married a girl from the Ziegfeld Follies, Nan Hinken, they were together until her death in the early 1960s. After selling his company, Green moved his family to Yonkers, New York, where he lived the rest of his life commuting to NYC every day.
Green died in Yonkers, New York, in 1981.

Lyrics:
I still remember a ling'ring kiss
A night divine
I sill remember a moment's bliss
And you all mine
Though only mem'ries remain
I live them over again
Moonlight on the river
Starlight in the sky
You and I in heaven
Then a parting sigh
Though our dreams are over
Dreams that were to be
Moonlight on the river
Brings you back to me
Lah-dah-dah-lah-dah-dah-dah-dah
Lah-dah-dah-dah-dah
Lah-dah-dah-lah-dah-dah-dah-dah
Lah-dah-dah-lah-dah-dah
Though our dreams are over
Dreams that were to be
Moonlight on the river
Brings you back to me

Rudy Vallee - Old New England Moon 1930 The Crooner From Vermont (Luna Yanqui)

warholsoup100 2020-03-20 | Victor (22445-A) Recorded on June 3, 1930 in New York, NY (24th St. studio).

The Crooner from Island Pond, Vermont.. Lake town in the northern kingdom. (Source: RoryVanucchi)
Song written by Dave Vance & George P. Howard.
Rudy Vallee and His Connecticut Yankees. Directed By & Saxophone by Rudy Vallee. Vocals – Rudy Vallée.
"Old New England Moon" (Luna Yanqui)

Description of sheet music:
The cover of the sheet music of "Old New England Moon" features an image of Westbrook native Rudy Vallée (1901-1986), along with a printed message from Vallée, "To mem'ries of boyhood days/That ended all too soon./The home that I call Heaven,/And an old New England Moon."
It was the highest selling song in August 1930.

Hubert Prior "Rudy" Vallée (July 28, 1901 – July 3, 1986) was an American singer, actor, and radio host. He was one of the first modern pop stars of the teen idol type.
The son of Charles Alphonse Vallée and Catherine Lynch, Rudy Vallée was born Hubert Prior Vallée in Island Pond, Vermont
Vallée died of cancer at his home on July 3, 1986, while watching the televised centennial ceremonies of the restored Statue of Liberty. His wife, Eleanor, said his last words were: "I wish we could be there; you know how I love a party.

Rudy Vallee - Same Old Moon (Same Old Sky) 1932 The Crooner From Vermont

warholsoup100 2020-03-20 | (Columbia) Recorded 8/11/1932 New York, New York.
The Crooner from Island Pond, Vermont.. Lake town in the northern kingdom. (Source: RoryVanucchi)

Billy Baskette (composer)
Ed Rose (lyricist)
Connecticut Yankees (Musical group)
Rudy Vallée (leader)
Rudy Vallée (vocalist : tenor vocal)
Bajo la misma luna (Parallel (translated) title)
Fox trot (Title descriptor)

Hubert Prior "Rudy" Vallée (July 28, 1901 – July 3, 1986) was an American singer, actor, and radio host. He was one of the first modern pop stars of the teen idol type.
The son of Charles Alphonse Vallée and Catherine Lynch, Rudy Vallée was born Hubert Prior Vallée in Island Pond, Vermont
Vallée died of cancer at his home on July 3, 1986, while watching the televised centennial ceremonies of the restored Statue of Liberty. His wife, Eleanor, said his last words were: "I wish we could be there; you know how I love a party.

Lyrics: (From the internet)
Sweetheart ???? ????, it is just a year
Since I called you "Dear" so tenderly
Kisses brought delight as I held you tight
'Twas a night like tonight, you'll remember
Same old moon, the same old sky
Same old stars that shine on high
Same old dreams that made you sigh
Love is calling, I'm falling
Same old trees, the same old lane
Same old breeze, the same old rain
Same old vows made over and over again
Beneath the same old moon
Same sweet June, the same tender sky
Same bright stars that shine on high
Same old dreams that made us sigh
Love is calling, I'm falling
Same old stream, along with you
Same old songs come floating through
Same old things that lovers do
Beneath the same old Moon
I'm falling
Same old things that lovers do
Beneath the same old Moon
Beneath the same old Moon

Al Bowlly - Lady Of Spain 1931 Roy Fox Orchestra Version

warholsoup100 2020-03-20 | (Decca UK) Roy Fox Orchestra (The whispering cornetist) Al Bowlly on vocals.

"Lady of Spain" is a popular song composed in 1931 by Tolchard Evans with lyrics by "Erell Reaves", a pseudonym of Stanley J. Damerell and Robert Hargreaves.
The earliest recordings of this song are sung by Al Bowlly, recorded in 1931 (the year the song was written). He made recordings with Ray Noble's and Roy Fox's orchestras.

Albert Allick Bowlly (7 January 1898 – 17 April 1941) was a Mozambican-born South African/British vocalist and jazz guitarist who was popular during the 1930s in England. He recorded more than 1,000 songs.
On 16 April 1941, Bowlly and Messene had given a performance at the Rex Cinema in Oxford Street, High Wycombe. Both were offered an overnight stay in town, but Bowlly took the last train home to his flat at 32 Duke Street, Duke's Court, St James, London. He was killed by a Luftwaffe parachute mine that detonated outside his flat at ten past three in the morning. His body appeared unmarked. Although the explosion had not disfigured him, it had blown his bedroom door off its hinges, and the impact against his head was fatal. He was buried with other bombing victims in a mass grave at Hanwell Cemetery, Uxbridge Road, Hanwell, where his name is given as Albert Alex Bowlly.

Roy Fox (October 25, 1901 – March 20, 1982) was an American-born British dance bandleader whose period of greatest popularity were in England during the British dance band era. His autobiography, Hollywood, Mayfair, and All That Jazz (1975) is still in print.
Roy Fox was born in Denver, Colorado, United States.
He and his musician sister Vera were raised in Hollywood, California, in a Salvation Army family. Roy began playing cornet when he was 11 years old, and by age 13 was performing in the Los Angeles Examiner's newsboys' band. Soon after he played bugle for a studio owned by Cecil B. DeMille.
His first major association came at the age of 16, when he joined Abe Lyman's orchestra at the Sunset Inn in Santa Monica, where he played alongside Miff Mole, Gussie Mueller, Henry Halstead, and Gus Arnheim. He developed a soft style of playing there which earned him the nickname, "The Whispering Cornetist"

In later life, Fox moved to Australia, where he led the Jay Whidden Orchestra, and visited the U.S. for a few tours with small groups. He led a band in England in 1946-47, with appearances at the Isle of Man and London's Potomac Club. He went into semi-retirement after 1952, when he opened his own booking agency. He died in London in 1982, aged 80. His descendants include American LGBT organizer/activist, Toni Armstrong Jr.

Lyrics:
Lady of Spain I adore you
Right from the night I first saw you
My heart has been yearning for you
What else could any heart do
Lady of Spain I'm appealing
Why should my lips be concealing
All that my eyes are revealing
Lady of Spain, I love you
Night in Madrid, blue and tender
Spanish moon makes silver splendour
Music throbbing plaintive sobbing notes of a guitar
While ardent Caballero serenades

Al Jolson - April Showers (From The Broadway Musical Bombo )

warholsoup100 2020-03-19 | (Columbia) (Buddy DeSylva / Louis Silvers)

"April Showers" is a popular song with music written by Louis
Silvers and lyrics by B. G. De Sylva. First published in 1921, it is
one of many popular songs whose lyrics use a "Bluebird of
happiness" as a symbol of cheer. ("So keep on looking for a
bluebird, and waiting for his song.")
The song was introduced in the 1921 Broadway musical Bombo,
where it was performed by Al Jolson. It became a well-known
Jolson trademark: the first of his several recordings of the song was on Columbia Records in October 1921. It has also been recorded by many other artists.
Al Jolson (Broadway Production) - 1921
Al Jolson (Performed by in 1926's A Plantation Act)
Al Jolson (The Jazz Singer 1927)
Al Jolson (feat. in the film "The Singing Kid") - 1936
Al Jolson (Re-recorded for the film "The Jolson Story") - 1946

Al Jolson (born Asa Yoelson; 9 June [O.S. 28 May] 1886 – October 23, 1950) was an Russian-American singer, comedian, and actor. He was dubbed "The World's Greatest Entertainer" at the peak of his career. His performing style was brash and extroverted, and he popularized many songs that benefited from his "shamelessly sentimental, melodramatic approach." In the 1920s, Jolson was America's most famous and highest-paid entertainer.

Although best remembered today as the star of the first talking picture, The Jazz Singer (1927), he starred in a series of successful musical films during the 1930s. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, he was the first star to entertain troops overseas during World War II. After a period of inactivity, his stardom returned with The Jolson Story (1946), for which Larry Parks played Jolson, with the singer dubbing for Parks. The formula was repeated in a sequel, Jolson Sings Again (1949). In 1950, he again became the first star to entertain GIs on active service in the Korean War, performing 42 shows in 16 days. He died weeks after returning to the U.S., partly owing to the physical exertion of performing. Defense Secretary George Marshall posthumously awarded him the Medal for Merit.

Jolson has been dubbed "the king of blackface" performers, a theatrical convention since the mid-19th century.
However, Jolson's signature style, loud and passionate, was soon eclipsed by the cooler and more intimate style of the crooners, singers such as Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra, who dominated the pop charts in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. While Jolson could and did croon, his basic style was formed in the era when a singer needed to project to the back of a theater with his own physical power; later singers who developed in the microphone era were freed from this constraint.

The dust and dirt of the Korean front, from which he had returned a few weeks earlier, had settled in his remaining lung and he was close to exhaustion. While playing cards in his suite at the St. Francis Hotel at 335 Powell Street in San Francisco, Jolson died of a massive heart attack on October 23, 1950. His last words were said to be "Oh... oh, I'm going." His age was given as 64.
He was interred in the Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California. Jolson's widow purchased a plot at Hillside and commissioned his mausoleum to be designed by well-known black architect Paul Williams. The six-pillar marble structure is topped by a dome, next to a three-quarter-size bronze statue of Jolson, eternally resting on one knee, arms outstretched, apparently ready to break into another verse of "Mammy".

Lyrics:
Life is not a highway strewn with flowers
Still it holds a goodly share of bliss
When the sun gives way to April showers
Here is the point you should never miss
Though April showers may come your way
They bring the flowers that bloom in May
So if it's raining, have no regrets
Because it isn't raining rain, you know
(It's raining violets)
And where you see clouds upon the hills
You soon will see crowds of daffodils
So keep on looking for a blue bird
And list'ning for his song
Whenever April showers come along
And where you see clouds upon the hills
You soon will see crowds of daffodils
So keep on looking for a blue bird
And list'ning for his song
Whenever April showers come along

Gracie Fields - Laughing Irish Eyes 1936 From The Film Laughing Irish Eyes

warholsoup100 2020-03-18 | (Rex) Song written by Sam H. Stept & Sidney D Mitchell.
Song originally in the film "Laughing Irish Eyes".

Laughing Irish Eyes is a 1936 American comedy film directed by Joseph Santley and written by Olive Cooper, Ben Ryan and Stanley Rauh. The film stars Phil Regan, Walter C. Kelly, Evalyn Knapp, Ray Walker, Mary Gordon and Warren Hymer. The film was released on March 4, 1936, by Republic Pictures.

Dame Gracie Fields, DBE (born Grace Stansfield; 9 January 1898 – 27 September 1979) was an English actress, singer and comedienne and star of both cinema and music hall. She spent the later part of her life on the isle of Capri, Italy. Fields was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for Services to Entertainment in 1938, and in 1979, seven months before her death, she was invested as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II.
Fields was born Grace Stansfield, over a fish and chip shop owned by her grandmother, Sarah Bamford, in Molesworth Street, Rochdale, Lancashire.
Fields came to major public notice in Mr Tower of London, which appeared in London's West End. Her career accelerated from this point with legitimate dramatic performances and the beginning of a recording career.
Fields' health declined in July 1979, when she contracted pneumonia after performing an open-air concert on the Royal Yacht which was docked in Capri's harbour. After a spell in hospital, she seemed to be recovering, but died on 27 September 1979. The press reported she died holding her husband's hand, but in reality he was at their Anacapri home at the time, while Gracie was home with the housekeeper, Irena. She is buried in Capri's Protestant Cemetery, in a white marble tomb. Her coffin was carried by staff from her restaurant. Her husband Boris died on 3 July 1983.

Lyrics:
There's a little devil dancin'
In your laughin' Irish eyes,
And the little devil dancin'
Right into me heart.
There's a little bit of mischief
In your laughin' Irish eyes,
And it's tellin' Mister Cupid
To sharpen up his dart.
Oh, I swear on me honour
I'm a lad who's a gonner
And to prove what eyes can do,
You can put in the papers
That the boy friend, bejabers,
Really wants to marry you!
But before we start romancin',
Darlin', won't you put me wise
To the little devil dancin'
In your laughin' Irish eyes.
Oh, I swear on me honour
I'm a lad who's a gonner
And to prove what eyes can do,
You can put in the papers
That the boy friend, bejabers,
Really wants to marry you!
But before we start romancin',
Darlin', won't you put me wise
To the little devil dancin'
In your laughin' Irish eyes.

Ruth Etting - Riptide 1934 From The Movie Riptide Gus Kahn & Walter Donaldson Songs

warholsoup100 2020-03-17 | (Brunswick UK) Recorded 05-10 1934. Flipside to "Easy Come Easy Go." Written by Gus Kahn & Walter Donaldson. Song from the movie "Riptide."

Riptide is a 1934 American pre-Code romantic drama film starring Norma Shearer, Robert Montgomery and Herbert Marshall, written and directed by Edmund Goulding, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
The film was released a few months before the Production Code was enforced. This film had a noteworthy appearance by Mrs. Patrick Campbell, a famous stage actress known for her friendship and correspondence with playwright George Bernard Shaw and her creation of Eliza Doolittle in Shaw's play Pygmalion.

Rip tide is a strong tidal flow of water within estuaries and other enclosed tidal areas.

Ruth Etting (November 23, 1896 – September 24, 1978) was an American singing star and actress of the 1920s and 1930s, who had over 60 hit recordings and worked in stage, radio, and film. Known as "America's sweetheart of song", her signature tunes were "Shine On, Harvest Moon", "Ten Cents a Dance" and "Love Me or Leave Me". Her other popular recordings included "Button Up Your Overcoat", "Mean to Me", "Exactly Like You" and "Shaking the Blues Away".
Etting died in Colorado Springs in 1978, aged 80.

Lyrics:
Live was as calm as a summer sea
When silver moonlight beams
And then a new love beckoned me
Wrecking the ship of my dreams
Riptide caught in a riptide, torn between two loves
The old and the new
Riptide lost in a riptide
Where will it take me what shall I do?
My heart is tossed on a sea of emotion
One love offers romance
The other devotion
A new love is calling
The old love is pleading
I'm caught in a riptide what shall I do?
Riptide caught in a riptide, torn between two loves
The old and the new
Riptide lost in a riptide
Where will it take me what shall I do?
My heart is tossed on a sea of emotion
One love offers romance
The other devotion
A new love is calling
The old love is pleading
I'm caught in a riptide what shall I do?

Ruth Etting - Easy Come Easy Go 1934 From The Movie No Contest!

warholsoup100 2020-03-17 | (Brunswick UK) Recorded 05-10 1934. With Orchestral Accompaniment. Music written by Johnny Green. Lyrics written by Edward Heyman. This song is the flipside to Riptide.

"Easy Come Easy Go" (1934) From The Movie "No Contest!".
Ruth Etting is the star attraction on the Albertson Travel Agency radio show. When her producers learn that her recordings are on another program at the same time, they devise a contest, based on the words in a song she sings, in which the winner gets Etting's services at a banquet.
This song was also covered by Al Bowlly. His version is on my channel as well.

Ruth Etting (November 23, 1896 – September 24, 1978) was an American singing star and actress of the 1920s and 1930s, who had over 60 hit recordings and worked in stage, radio, and film. Known as "America's sweetheart of song", her signature tunes were "Shine On, Harvest Moon", "Ten Cents a Dance" and "Love Me or Leave Me". Her other popular recordings included "Button Up Your Overcoat", "Mean to Me", "Exactly Like You" and "Shaking the Blues Away".
Etting died in Colorado Springs in 1978, aged 80.

Lyrics:
Easy come, easy go
That's the way, if love must have its day
Then as it came, let it go
No remorse, no regret
We should part exactly as we met
Just easy come, easy go
Love has fooled us
It has cooled us
Once, it ruled us
But now, we're free
We'll be happy
In remembering
That we found love
Easily
Easy come, easy go
That's the way, if love must have it's day
Then as it came, oh, let it go
No remorse, no regret
We should part exactly as we met
Just easy come, easy go
We never dreamt of romantic dangers
But now that it ends, let's be friends and not two strangers
Easy come, easy go
Here we are, so, darling, au revoir
It's easy come, easy go

Al Bowlly - Stay On The Right Side Of The Road 1933 Ray Noble (Abbey Road Studios 2) Old Man Satan

warholsoup100 2020-03-17 | (Victor Gramophone) Recorded 3/16/1933 London, England. Abbey Road Studios. Studio 2.
This song is a take off on 'Sing You Sinners." (Rare Al Bowlly Songs.)

Rube Bloom (composer)
Ted Koehler (lyricist)
Fox trot (Title descriptor)
Ray Noble Orchestra (Musical group)
Ray Noble (director)
Al Bowlly (vocalist : tenor vocal)

Albert Allick Bowlly (7 January 1898 – 17 April 1941) was a Mozambican-born South African/British vocalist and jazz guitarist who was popular during the 1930s in England. He recorded more than 1,000 songs.
On 16 April 1941, Bowlly and Messene had given a performance at the Rex Cinema in Oxford Street, High Wycombe. Both were offered an overnight stay in town, but Bowlly took the last train home to his flat at 32 Duke Street, Duke's Court, St James, London. He was killed by a Luftwaffe parachute mine that detonated outside his flat at ten past three in the morning. His body appeared unmarked. Although the explosion had not disfigured him, it had blown his bedroom door off its hinges, and the impact against his head was fatal. He was buried with other bombing victims in a mass grave at Hanwell Cemetery, Uxbridge Road, Hanwell, where his name is given as Albert Alex Bowlly.
Raymond Stanley Noble (17 December 1903 – 2 April 1978) was an English bandleader, composer, arranger, radio comedian, and actor. Noble wrote both lyrics and music for many popular songs during the British dance band era, known as the "Golden Age of British music".

Lyrics:
come on, you sinners
hallelujah
come on, you sinners
hallelujah
come on, you sinners, come be safe
hallelujah
stay on the right side, sister
stay on the right side, sister
stay on the right side of the road
now look out for old man satan
he's on the wrong side waiting
keep on the bright side of the road
once you let that devil take your hand
you'll never get way up to heaven
or up to hallelujah land
I see a great day dawning
you better heed my warning
stay on the right side of the road

Sam Lanin - Whistling In The Dark 1931 Durium Hit Of The Week Fallout 4

warholsoup100 2020-03-16 | (Durium Hit Of The Week) Flexi-disc, 10", 78 RPM, Single Sided, Card Backed. Released: 14 May 1931. Sam Lanin's Dance Ensemble - Vocals [Uncredited] – Paul Small.

Fox trot (Title descriptor)
Allen Boretz (lyricist)
Dana Suesse (composer)
Whistling In The Dark (Silbando En La Obscuridad)
Fallout 4 (Golden Oldies Radio)

Samuel Charles Lanin (September 4, 1891 – May 5, 1977) was an American jazz bandleader.
Lanin's brothers, Howard and Lester, were also bandleaders, and all of them had sustained, successful careers in music.
Lanin was one of ten children born to Benjamin and Mary Lanin, Russian Jews who had emigrated to Philadelphia in the decade of the 1900s. Sam played clarinet and violin while young, and in 1912 he was offered a spot playing in Victor Herbert's orchestra, where he played through World War I.
After the war he moved to New York City and began playing at the Roseland Ballroom in late 1918. There he established the Roseland Orchestra; this ensemble recorded for the Columbia Gramophone Company in the early 1920s.
Sam recorded with a plethora of ensemble arrangements, under names such as Lanin's Jazz Band, Lanin's Arcadians, Lanin's Famous Players, Lanin's Southern Serenaders, Lanin's Red Heads, Sam Lanin's Dance Ensemble, and Lanin's Arkansaw Travelers. He did not always give himself top billing in his ensemble's names, and was a session leader for an enormous number of sweet jazz recording sessions of the 1920s.
Among the ensembles he directed were Ladd's Black Aces, The Broadway Bell-Hops, The Westerners, The Pillsbury Orchestra and Bailey's Lucky Seven. He had a rotating cast of noted musicians playing with him, including regular appearances from Phil Napoleon, Miff Mole, Jules Levy, Jr., and Red Nichols, as well as Jimmy Dorsey, Tommy Dorsey, Mannie Klein, Jimmy McPartland, Bix Beiderbecke, Eddie Lang, Bunny Berigan, Nick Lucas and Frankie Trumbauer. Like Ben Selvin, Lanin was one of the most prolific recording bandleaders. Between 1920 and 1931, he directed over 400 sessions for nearly every label.
Lanin did little actual playing on these records(Even though he did sing in most of his recordings); his main contributions were clean, well-orchestrated arrangements and session directions. In addition to his recordings, he also played regularly on radio after 1923, and the Roseland Orchestra played on New York radio weekly every Monday from 1923 to 1925. He entered into a sponsorship with Bristol-Myers for their toothpaste, Ipana; as a result, his ensemble was renamed The Ipana Troubadors. In 1928 and 1929, Lanin used the up-and-coming Bing Crosby as band vocalist on a couple of his OKeh records.
The 1929 stock market crash hit Sam Lanin hard, unlike his brother Lester; in 1931, he lost his contract with Bristol-Myers, his radio show and the name Ipana Troubadors. By the middle of the 1930s, Sam was spending much of his time cutting transcription discs. While his fame had waned, he was still well off from the money he saved in the 1920s and retired from the music business by the end of the 1930s. He was essentially forgotten at the same time Lester went on to stardom. He died in 1977, having never returned to music.

Sam Lanin - Ho-Hum! (Eh, Eh!) 1931 Durium Hit Of The Week Dick Robertson Vocals

warholsoup100 2020-03-16 | (Durium Hit Of The Week) Flexi-disc, Single Sided, Card Backed. Sam Lanin's Dance Ensemble. Vocals [Uncredited] – Dick Robertson. Song written by Dana Suesse & Edward Heyman.

'Ho-Hum" became a favorite catchphrase in american pop culture from this song.
It was Dana Suesse & Edward Heyman's first big hit together as songwriters.
Annette Hanshaw was famous for singing this song. I have her version on my channel as well.

Samuel Charles Lanin (September 4, 1891 – May 5, 1977) was an American jazz bandleader.
Lanin's brothers, Howard and Lester, were also bandleaders, and all of them had sustained, successful careers in music.
Lanin was one of ten children born to Benjamin and Mary Lanin, Russian Jews who had emigrated to Philadelphia in the decade of the 1900s. Sam played clarinet and violin while young, and in 1912 he was offered a spot playing in Victor Herbert's orchestra, where he played through World War I.
After the war he moved to New York City and began playing at the Roseland Ballroom in late 1918. There he established the Roseland Orchestra; this ensemble recorded for the Columbia Gramophone Company in the early 1920s.
Sam recorded with a plethora of ensemble arrangements, under names such as Lanin's Jazz Band, Lanin's Arcadians, Lanin's Famous Players, Lanin's Southern Serenaders, Lanin's Red Heads, Sam Lanin's Dance Ensemble, and Lanin's Arkansaw Travelers. He did not always give himself top billing in his ensemble's names, and was a session leader for an enormous number of sweet jazz recording sessions of the 1920s.
Among the ensembles he directed were Ladd's Black Aces, The Broadway Bell-Hops, The Westerners, The Pillsbury Orchestra and Bailey's Lucky Seven. He had a rotating cast of noted musicians playing with him, including regular appearances from Phil Napoleon, Miff Mole, Jules Levy, Jr., and Red Nichols, as well as Jimmy Dorsey, Tommy Dorsey, Mannie Klein, Jimmy McPartland, Bix Beiderbecke, Eddie Lang, Bunny Berigan, Nick Lucas and Frankie Trumbauer. Like Ben Selvin, Lanin was one of the most prolific recording bandleaders. Between 1920 and 1931, he directed over 400 sessions for nearly every label.
Lanin did little actual playing on these records(Even though he did sing in most of his recordings); his main contributions were clean, well-orchestrated arrangements and session directions. In addition to his recordings, he also played regularly on radio after 1923, and the Roseland Orchestra played on New York radio weekly every Monday from 1923 to 1925. He entered into a sponsorship with Bristol-Myers for their toothpaste, Ipana; as a result, his ensemble was renamed The Ipana Troubadors. In 1928 and 1929, Lanin used the up-and-coming Bing Crosby as band vocalist on a couple of his OKeh records.
The 1929 stock market crash hit Sam Lanin hard, unlike his brother Lester; in 1931, he lost his contract with Bristol-Myers, his radio show and the name Ipana Troubadors. By the middle of the 1930s, Sam was spending much of his time cutting transcription discs. While his fame had waned, he was still well off from the money he saved in the 1920s and retired from the music business by the end of the 1930s. He was essentially forgotten at the same time Lester went on to stardom. He died in 1977, having never returned to music.

Lyrics:
Good-bye to winter
I'll see you next year
Hello to Springtime
Gee, I am glad your here
Listen you fliver
Get yourself outside
Come on my sweetheart
Take me for a ride!
Ho hum, spring is here now
Ho hum, skies are very clear now
Ho hum, love is near now for you and me
Ho hum, April showers
Ho hum, lots of pretty flowers
Ho hum, happy hours
For you and me
All the world is sweet once again
Heaven is at my feet once again
Ho hum, lazy weather
Ho hum, Feeling like a feather
Ho hum, We're together
And so, Ho Hum!
Seranding, Ocean Wading, Orange-ading
Ho hum!
Street musicians, great ambitions
Good conditions
Ho Hum!
Chocolate bars, milk from dairies
Motorcars drawing huckleberries
Twinkling stars, John's and Mary's
Strolling…

Henry Busse - Hot Lips 1934 (When He Plays Jazz Hes Got Hot Lips)

warholsoup100 2020-03-16 | (Victor) Recorded 6/4/1934 Chicago, Illinois.

Henry Busse (composer)
Henry Lange (composer)
Fox trot (Title descriptor)
Henry Busse Orchestra (Musical group)
Henry Busse (leader)

"Hot Lips" ("When He Plays Jazz He's Got - Hot Lips") or "He's Got Hot Lips When He Plays Jazz" is a popular song written by jazz trumpeter Henry Busse, Henry Lange, and Lou Davis. The song was a number one hit for Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra. Henry Busse was a founding member of the Paul Whiteman Orchestra, joining in 1918.

Henry Busse Sr. (May 19, 1894 – April 23, 1955) was a German-born jazz trumpeter. A 1948 review in Billboard magazine said that Busse had "a keen sense of musical commercialism".
Born May 19, 1894, in Magdeburg, Germany.
Busse was the subject of discrimination because of his German accent, which caused concern among those living in post-World War I America.
While with the Paul Whiteman Orchestra, Henry Busse played alongside brothers Tommy Dorsey and Jimmy Dorsey (who later left to start their own separate bands). He played with Ray Bolger at the Chez Paree, a night club owned by notorious gangster Al Capone; Busse ran the house band there and worked for Capone.
In 1928, after mastering the English language, Busse Sr. began Henry Busse and the Shuffle Rhythm Band, which enjoyed great success in the 1930s and '40s.
Busse hit his peak in 1930-45, playing dance music before the war, and swing during the war. His music was often berated by Down Beat magazine, which called his a "sweet" or "Mickey Mouse" band.
His personal life wound up in gossip columns when he partied one night with a woman at the Hotsy Totsy Club and woke up married. He sought an annulment and during the 18 months to unwind the legal tangle, he toured Europe and staved off arrest for non-payment of alimony.
Busse's opening theme was "Hot Lips". His closing theme was "When Day Is Done"
Henry Busse and his Orchestra continued to record and perform up until his death in 1955. Busse died at an undertaker's convention at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee, while he was playing with the Shuffle Rhythm Band.

Cliff Edwards - Come Up And See Me Sometime (Will You Toots?) 1933 From Take A Chance

warholsoup100 2020-03-15 | (Harmony) October 13, 1933 New York, New York.

“Come Up and See Me Sometime” was written by Arthur Swanstrom and Louis Alter for Paramount’s 1933 musical comedy Take a Chance, based on the stage play of the same name. The movie apparently inherited little from the play other than a couple of songs, but it augmented what it did borrow with other, more memorable songs, including the perennial “It’s Only a Paper Moon.” “Come Up and See Me Sometime” is introduced by actress Lillian Roth, who sings it while performing a burlesque act. The title of the song presumably derives from a suggestive catchphrase of Mae West’s, which originally took the form “Why don’t you come up sometime and see me?” (in She Done Him Wrong [1933]), but which soon became the rhythmically preferable “Come up and see me sometime” (as it occurs in I’m No Angel [1933]).

Clifton Avon "Cliff" Edwards (June 14, 1895 – July 17, 1971), nicknamed "Ukulele Ike", was an American musician, singer, actor and voice actor, who enjoyed considerable popularity in the 1920s and early 1930s, specializing in jazzy renditions of pop standards and novelty tunes. He had a number-one hit with "Singin' in the Rain" in 1929. He also did voices for animated cartoons later in his career, and is best known as the voice of Jiminy Cricket in Walt Disney's Pinocchio (1940) and Fun and Fancy Free (1947), and Dandy (Jim) Crow in Walt Disney's Dumbo (1941).
He had nearly disappeared from the public eye at the time of his death on July 17, 1971, at the age of 76 from a cardiac arrest brought on by arteriosclerosis. Now penniless, Edwards was a charity patient at the Virgil Convalescent Hospital in Hollywood, California. His body was unclaimed and was donated to the University of California, Los Angeles medical school. When Walt Disney Productions, which had been quietly paying many of his medical expenses, discovered this, they offered to purchase his remains and pay for the burial. Instead, it was done by the Actors' Fund of America (which had also aided Edwards) and the Motion Picture and Television Relief Fund. Disney paid for his grave marker.

Lyrics:
I believe that everyone in life should have a mission
Making people happy is the height of my ambition
When I get them happy, well, they stay in that condition
I have a system all my own
I've got a lot, a lot of what I've got
And what I've got's all mine
And I assure you, I can cure you if you're feeling blue
Come up and see me sometime
I've got a flat where you can hang your hat
And I've got a brand new line
And maybe you would like me to explain it all to you
Come up and see me sometime
Come up tonight
I think the paper said the Moon will be bright
They should have had it in the columns and all, letters that tall
That you'd be falling for me
'Cause I am free and you appeal to me
But how could it be a crime
If you don't get my number, well my number's in the book
Come up and see me sometime
Spoken:
Aw, come up and see me sometime, will you, huh?
Aw, aw, you can come up and see me sometime, too
Aw, and bring your music with you
Come up tonight
I think the paper said the moon would be bright
They should have had it in the columns and all, with letters that tall
Huh-huh, that you'd be falling for me
'Cause I am free and you appeal to me
Tell me, how could it be a crime
If you don't get my number, well my number's in the book
Come up and see me sometime, hmmm, if you can take it
Come up and see me sometime
Will you, toots? Hmmm

Rudy Vallee - Two Little Blue Little Eyes 1931 The Crooner From Vermont

warholsoup100 2020-03-14 | (Victor) Recorded 04-15-1931 New York (N.Y.) (Fox Trot) Song written by Rudy Vallee, Paul Webster, John Loeb. Rudy Vallee & his Connecticut Yankees. Vocal refrain by Rudy Vallée.
The Crooner from Island Pond, Vermont.. Lake town in the northern kingdom. (Source: RoryVanucchi)

Hubert Prior "Rudy" Vallée (July 28, 1901 – July 3, 1986) was an American singer, actor, and radio host. He was one of the first modern pop stars of the teen idol type.
The son of Charles Alphonse Vallée and Catherine Lynch, Rudy Vallée was born Hubert Prior Vallée in Island Pond, Vermont
Vallée died of cancer at his home on July 3, 1986, while watching the televised centennial ceremonies of the restored Statue of Liberty. His wife, Eleanor, said his last words were: "I wish we could be there; you know how I love a party.

Lyrics:
Two little, blue little eyes
Be careful stranger
Two little blue little eyes
They signal danger
What sight they ignite
Just like two little blue little sticks of dynamite
My little shy little heart
Keeps on entreating
My little shy little heart
Almost stops beating
When they stare, man beware
She tells little white lies with
Two little blue little eyes.

Lee Morse - Shadows On The Wall 1928 Bob Downey on Piano We Sat By The Fireside

warholsoup100 2020-03-14 | Columbia (1497-D) Recording Date: June 6, 1928. Recording Location: New York, New York. Columbia using the brand-new Electrical Viva-Tonal Recording Process. Song written by Lee Morse. Lee Morse And Her Blue Grass Boys.

Lena Corinne "Lee" Morse (née Taylor; November 30, 1897 – December 16, 1954) was an American jazz and blues singer-songwriter, composer, guitarist, and actress. Morse's greatest popularity was in the 1920s and early 1930s as a torch singer, although her career began around 1917 and continued until her death in 1954.
Morse was known for her strong, deep singing voice and vocal range, which often belied her petite frame. She possessed a contralto vocal range, and one of her trademarks was her unique style of yodeling. Recording over 200 songs over her career, Morse was one of the most recorded female singers of the 1920s. She was also moderately successful as an actress on the Broadway stage. Her life and career, however, were marred by alcoholism. Morse's' group the Blue Grass Boys had no relation neither to their later namesake of Bill Monroe nor bluegrass music.
Although Morse's Broadway prospects had dimmed by the 1930s, she could still be seen in a number of musical film shorts, including A Million Me's (Paramount, April 25, 1930), The Music Racket (Vitaphone, June 30, 1930), and Song Service (Paramount, October 24, 1930).
Morse was born Lena Corinne Taylor on November 30, 1897 in Cove, Oregon.
Morse died on December 16, 1954 in Rochester while visiting a neighbor. She was 57 years old. She is interred at the Riverside Cemetery.

Lyrics:
In those dear old love days, each wintery night
We sat by the fireside, just like tonight
Now I know your heart longs
For the lights and gay throngs
Even though my heart grieves
I'll have memories
Oh, the shadows on the wall only help me to recall
Our life together, all kinds of weather
Like the passing of the years
All its fleeting smiles and tears
And though we've grown so far apart
I've always kept you in my heart
Just those old days recall
But leave the shadows on the wall
Oh, the shadows on the wall only help me to recall
Our life together, all kinds of weather
Like the passing of the years
All its fleeting smiles and tears
And though we've grown so far apart
Oh, I've always kept you in my heart
Just those old days recall
But leave the shadows on the wall

Ruth Etting - Wherever You Go Whatever You Do (You Know I love You) 1927 Rube Bloom on Piano

warholsoup100 2020-03-14 | Columbia (979-D) Recorded 2/28/1927 New York, New York. Flipside to (What Do We Do On A) Dew-Dew-Dewey Day.

Joe Goodwin (lyricist)
Bernie Grossman (lyricist)
Larry Shay (composer)
Ruth Etting (vocalist)
Rube Bloom (instrumentalist : piano)

Ruth Etting (November 23, 1896 – September 24, 1978) was an American singing star and actress of the 1920s and 1930s, who had over 60 hit recordings and worked in stage, radio, and film. Known as "America's sweetheart of song", her signature tunes were "Shine On, Harvest Moon", "Ten Cents a Dance" and "Love Me or Leave Me". Her other popular recordings included "Button Up Your Overcoat", "Mean to Me", "Exactly Like You" and "Shaking the Blues Away".
Etting died in Colorado Springs in 1978, aged 80.

Reuben Bloom (April 24, 1902 – March 30, 1976) was a multi-talented Jewish-American songwriter, pianist, arranger, band leader, recording artist, vocalist, and author.
Bloom was born and died in New York City.
During his career, he worked with many well-known performers, including Bix Beiderbecke, Joe Venuti, Ruth Etting, Stan Kenton, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey. He collaborated with a wide number of lyricists, including Johnny Mercer, Ted Koehler, and Mitchell Parish.
Rube Bloom is buried in Beth David Cemetery at Elmont, New York.

Johnny Hamp - Black Bottom 1926 From George Whites Scandals

warholsoup100 2020-03-13 | (Victor) Recorded 6/28/1926 New York, New York.
Ray Henderson (composer)
Kentucky Serenaders (Musical group)
Johnny Hamp (director)

The black bottom is a dance which became popular in the 1920s—the Roaring Twenties, also known as the Jazz Age, and the era of the flapper. It was danced solo or by couples.
Originating among African Americans in the rural South, the black bottom eventually was adopted by mainstream American culture and became a national craze in the 1920s.
The dance was most famously performed by Ann Pennington, a star of the Ziegfeld Follies, who performed it in a Broadway revue staged by Ziegfeld's rival George White in 1926.

Johnny Hamp's Kentucky Serenaders was a US jazz and dance band, active from the late 1910s through the 1920s. The group was known simply as The Serenaders until Johnny Hamp became the band leader. Johnny Hamp was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and should not be confused with British television producer Johnnie Hamp. According to some sources, he became the leader by chance when the band was performing at the Hershey Ballroom in Hershey, Pennsylvania. The band leader at the time had an argument with the players and walked out. Hamp, who never played a musical instrument in spite of being a jazz fan and had no experience as a conductor (in addition, he only sang whenever the chorus was performed by a vocal ensemble or the whole band), volunteered to lead them for the rest of the evening and they accepted. After the performance, the band asked him to stay on as leader. The "Kentucky" in the name appears to be related to the band's use of "My Old Kentucky Home" as a theme song, rather than any connection to the U.S. state of Kentucky.

Billy Murray - Im Looking Over A Four Leaf Clover 1927 Jean Goldkette & Bix Beiderbecke

warholsoup100 2020-03-12 | (Victor) Recorded 1/28/1927 New York, New York.

Fox trot (Title descriptor)
Mort Dixon (lyricist)
Harry Woods (composer)
Jean Goldkette Orchestra (Musical group)
Bix Beiderbecke (instrumentalist : cornet)
Tommy Dorsey (instrumentalist : trombone)
Fuzzy Farrar (instrumentalist : trumpet)
Jean Goldkette (leader)
Eddie Lang (instrumentalist : guitar)
Don Murray (instrumentalist : saxophone)
Howdy Quicksell (instrumentalist : banjo)
Bill Rank (instrumentalist : trombone)
Stanley "Doc" Ryker (instrumentalist : saxophone)
Joe Venuti (instrumentalist : violin)
Billy Murray (vocalist : tenor vocal)
Ray Lodwig (instrumentalist : trumpet)
Spiegle Willcox (instrumentalist : trombone)
Frank Trumbauer (instrumentalist : C-melody saxophone)
Irving Riskin (instrumentalist : piano)
Steve Brown (instrumentalist : string bass)
Chauncey Morehouse (instrumentalist : drums)
LeRoy Shield (director)

"I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover" is a song from 1927, which was written by Mort Dixon with music by Harry M. Woods. Original hit recordings were made in 1927 by Nick Lucas (#2), Ben Bernie (#3), and Jean Goldkette (#10).
Penned in 1927 by Mort Dixon (lyrics) and Harr M. Woods (music), the song became a hit that same year with the release of recordings by Nick Lucas, Ben Bernie, and Jean Goldkette.

William Thomas "Billy" Murray (May 25, 1877 – August 17, 1954) was one of the most popular singers in the United States in the early 20th century. While he received star billing in vaudeville, he was best known for his prolific work in the recording studio, making records for almost every record label of the era.
Billy Murray was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Variety estimated he made between 6,000 to 10,000 recordings in 45 years under a range of different pseudonyms, selling up to 300 million records, a record at the time.
Murray made his last recordings for Beacon Records on February 11, 1943 with Jewish dialect comedian Monroe Silver. He retired the next year to Freeport, Long Island, New York because of heart problems.
He died at nearby Jones Beach of a heart attack in 1954 at the age of 77. Murray had married three times; the first two marriages ended in divorce. He was survived by his third wife, Madeleine, and is buried in the Cemetery of the Holy Rood in Westbury, New York.

John Jean Goldkette (March 18, 1893 – March 24, 1962) was a jazz pianist and bandleader.
Goldkette was reportedly born on March 18, 1893 in Valenciennes, France. But there is evidence that he was born in Patras, Greece..
He led many jazz and dance bands, of which the most popular was his Victor Recording Orchestra of 1924–1929.
The band defeated Fletcher Henderson in a battle of the bands contest.
He moved to California in 1961 and the following year died in Santa Barbara, California, of a heart attack at the age of 69. He took a taxi to the hospital by himself and died that same day. He is buried in the Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.

Leon Bismark "Bix" Beiderbecke (March 10, 1903 – August 6, 1931) was an American jazz cornetist, pianist, and composer.
Beiderbecke was one of the most influential jazz soloists of the 1920s, a cornet player noted for an inventive lyrical approach and purity of tone. His solos on seminal recordings such as "Singin' the Blues" and "I'm Coming, Virginia" (both 1927) demonstrate a gift for extended improvisation that heralded the jazz ballad style, in which jazz solos are an integral part of the composition.
A native of Davenport, Iowa.
Beiderbecke died in his apartment, No. 1G, 43-30 46th Street, in Sunnyside, Queens, New York on August 6, 1931
The official cause of death, as indicated on the death certificate, was lobar pneumonia. Unofficially, edema of the brain coupled with the effects of long-term alcoholism have been cited as contributory factors. Beiderbecke's mother and brother took the train to New York and arranged for his body to be taken home to Davenport. He was buried there on August 11, 1931 in the family plot at Oakdale Cemetery.

Lyrics:
I'm looking over a four-leaf clover
I overlooked before
One leaf is sunshine, the second is rain
Third is the roses that grow in the lane
No need explaining, the one remaining
Is somebody I adore
I'm looking over a four-leaf clover
I overlooked before
I'm looking over a four-leaf clover
I overlooked before
One leaf is sunshine, the second is rain
Third is the roses that grow in the lane
No need explaining, the one remaining
Is somebody I adore
I'm looking over a four-leaf clover
I overlooked before
I'm looking over a four-leaf clover
I overlooked before
One leaf is sunshine, the second is rain
Third is the roses that grow in the lane
No need explaining, the one remaining
Is somebody I adore
I'm looking over a four-leaf clover
I overlooked before
I overlooked before
I overlooked before

Johnny Marvin - Funny Face 1927 George Gershwin Youre Not Gloria Swanson

warholsoup100 2020-03-11 | (Victor) Recorded 12/8/1927 New York, New York.
Ira Gershwin (lyricist)
George Gershwin (composer)
Arden-Ohman Orchestra (Musical group)
Johnny Marvin (vocalist : tenor vocal)
Frank Black (director)
Victor Arden (instrumentalist : piano)
Phil Ohman (instrumentalist : piano)
Fox trot (Title descriptor)
Funny face (Work title)

"Funny Face" is a 1927 song composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin.
It was the title song of Funny Face, where it was introduced by Fred Astaire, and his sister, Adele.
Another version was done by Arden-Ohman Orchestra with Johnny Marvin, vocal - Victor 21114; Matrix BVE-41151 (rec. Dec 8, 1927).
It was also sung by Whispering Jack Smith. I have that version on my channel as well.

John Senator Marvin (July 11, 1897 – December 10, 1944) was an early American recording artist and musician, starting in 1924 and covering a twenty-year period for many record labels.
Born in Butler, Oklahoma Territory in 1897, Marvin ran away from home at age 16. He served in the US Navy during World War I. After returning home, he went on the road as a vaudeville performer.
Marvin worked with Gene Autry in Hollywood. He is credited with providing songs for soundtracks on over 50 movies and television shows. During World War II, he joined the USO to entertain the troops. Although he contracted dengue fever, his Christian Science beliefs prevented him from receiving treatment, and he returned home where he died on December 10, 1944.

Full Lyrics:
Frankie, dear, your birthday gift reveals to me
That at heart you're really not so bad.
If I add, your funny face appeals to me.
Please don't' think I've suddenly gone mad.
You have all the qualities of Peter Pan;
I'd go far before I'd find a sweeter pan
And yet
I love your funny face,
Your sunny, funny face;
For you're a cutie
With more than beauty
You've got a lot
Of personality N.T.
A thousand laughs I've found
In having you around.
Though you're not Gloria Swanson,
For worlds I'd not replace
Your sunny, funny face.
Needn't tell me that I'm not so pretty, dear,
When my looking glass and I agree,
In the contest at Atlantic City, dear,
Miss America I'd never be,
Truth to tell, though, you're not such a bad lot yourself;
As a Paul Swan, you are not so hot yourself.
And yet.
I love your funny face,
Your sunny, funny face;
You can't repair it,
So I declare it
Is quite all right
Jimmy:
Like Ronald Colman?
So's your old man!
Yet it's very clear,
I'm glad when you are near.
Though you're no Handsome Harry
For worlds I'd not replace
Your sunny funny face.
I love that funny face,
That sunny, funny face;
Thought it upsets one, in time, it gets one -
That's true, for you
Have personality for two.
Those eyes! Those nose! Those cheek!
Won't make a movie sheikh,
But though you're not patootie,
For worlds I'd not replace
Your sunny, funny face.
I love your funny face,
Your sunny, funny face;
You never bother
About your father.
Have you no shame?
You're just a mutt and nothing but!
Yet when you wag your tail,
You'll never be for sale.
Though you're no Rin Tin Tin, dear,
For worlds I'd not replace
Your sunny, funny face.

Cliff Edwards - Good Little Bad Little You 1928 Ukulele Ike The Naughty 1920s

warholsoup100 2020-03-10 | (Columbia) Recorded in New York, 9-21-1928. written by Stept and Green. Red Hot & Risque Songs Of The Jazz Age.

Clifton Avon "Cliff" Edwards (June 14, 1895 – July 17, 1971), nicknamed "Ukulele Ike", was an American musician, singer, actor and voice actor, who enjoyed considerable popularity in the 1920s and early 1930s, specializing in jazzy renditions of pop standards and novelty tunes. He had a number-one hit with "Singin' in the Rain" in 1929. He also did voices for animated cartoons later in his career, and is best known as the voice of Jiminy Cricket in Walt Disney's Pinocchio (1940) and Fun and Fancy Free (1947), and Dandy (Jim) Crow in Walt Disney's Dumbo (1941).
He had nearly disappeared from the public eye at the time of his death on July 17, 1971, at the age of 76 from a cardiac arrest brought on by arteriosclerosis. Now penniless, Edwards was a charity patient at the Virgil Convalescent Hospital in Hollywood, California. His body was unclaimed and was donated to the University of California, Los Angeles medical school. When Walt Disney Productions, which had been quietly paying many of his medical expenses, discovered this, they offered to purchase his remains and pay for the burial. Instead, it was done by the Actors' Fund of America (which had also aided Edwards) and the Motion Picture and Television Relief Fund. Disney paid for his grave marker.

Lyrics:
You're the naughtiest baby
Still you're sweet as can be
First you treat me nice
Then you're cold as ice
You're a puzzle to me!
Good little bad little you
What makes you tease like you do?
I look into your angel eyes
They're little devils in disguise!
One little, two little lips I crave
They lead me on, then they say, "Behave!"
And who, who knows it, too?
Good little bad little you!
Good little bad little you!
[Effin']
You're good, you're bad
Wish I knew
What makes you tease like you do!
I look right straight into your angel eyes
I see they're little devils in disguise!
Got one, got two lips I crave
Still they just say, "Please behave!"
And who's that smarty, certain party knows it, too?
Good little bad little you!
Good little bad little you!

Paul Whiteman - A Shady Tree 1928 Austin Skin Young Speaker Version (Bix Beiderbecke)

warholsoup100 2020-03-09 | (Victor) Recorded 2/8/1928 New York, New York. Liederkranz Hall.
A shady tree (Primary title) (Un Arbol Umbroso) (Waltz Ballad)
Walter Donaldson (composer)
Walter Donaldson (lyricist)
Paul Whiteman Concert Orchestra (Musical group)
Roy Bargy (instrumentalist : piano)
Bix Beiderbecke (instrumentalist : cornet)
Henry Busse (instrumentalist : trumpet)
Rupert ("Rube") Crozier (instrumentalist : alto saxophone)
Rupert ("Rube") Crozier (instrumentalist : bassoon)
Rupert ("Rube") Crozier (instrumentalist : flute)
Boyce Cullen (instrumentalist : trombone)
Kurt Dieterle (instrumentalist : violin)
Jack Fulton (vocalist)
Wilbur Hall (instrumentalist : trombone)
Chester Hazlett (instrumentalist : alto saxophone)
Matty Malneck (instrumentalist : violin)
Charles Margulis (instrumentalist : trumpet)
Bob Mayhew (instrumentalist : cornet)
Jack Mayhew (instrumentalist : alto saxophone)
Jack Mayhew (instrumentalist : clarinet)
Nye Mayhew (instrumentalist : alto saxophone)
Nye Mayhew (instrumentalist : baritone saxophone)
Harold McDonald (instrumentalist : drums)
Hal McLean (instrumentalist : alto saxophone)
Hal McLean (instrumentalist : clarinet)
Harry Perrella (instrumentalist : piano)
Mario Perry (instrumentalist : violin)
Mike Pingitore (instrumentalist : banjo)
Bill Rank (instrumentalist : trombone)
Al Rinker (vocalist : tenor vocal)
Mischa Russell (instrumentalist : violin)
Tom Satterfield (instrumentalist : piano)
Charles Strickfaden (instrumentalist : baritone saxophone)
Charles Strickfaden (instrumentalist : clarinet)
Mike Trafficante (instrumentalist : tuba)
Frank Trumbauer (instrumentalist : C-melody saxophone)
Austin "Skin" Young (speaker)
Eddie Pinder (instrumentalist : trumpet)
Paul Whiteman (director)

Paul Samuel Whiteman (March 28, 1890 – December 29, 1967) was an American bandleader, composer, orchestral director, and violist.
As the leader of one of the most popular dance bands in the United States during the 1920s and early 1930s, Paul Whiteman produced recordings that were immensely successful, and press notices often referred to him as the "King of Jazz".
He died of a heart attack on December 29, 1967 in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, aged 77.

Lyrics:
A shady tree to shelter me
And take my cares away
A shady tree to welcome me
Just like the flowers in May
A story book
A babbling brook
A field of new mown hay
A shady tree just helping me
To spend a perfect day