“Hello, Beautiful”, a 1931 song by Maurice Chevalier, also featured in several Betty Boop films (Bimbo Express, 1931; Stopping the Show, 1932; Betty Boop’s Rise to Fame, 1934).
Hello, beautiful!
How’d you get so beautiful?
How’d you get that sunshine in your smile?Oh, hello, beautiful!
Listen to me, beautiful!
Fifty million Frenchmen can’t be wrong!
“I’m So Glad” was written and originally recorded as one of 18 recordings by Skip James in 1931. These recordings would influence many early Delta blues artists – including the great Robert Johnson. However, for the next 30 years James would virtually disappear. He didn’t record and drifted in and out of music until his rediscovery in 1964. Eric Clapton and Cream recorded “I’m So Glad” for their 1966 debut album and provided James with the only windfall of his career. Deep Purple also covered the song in 1968 their first album. Skip James died of cancer in 1969 at the age of 67. [Source]
Blind Willie McTell (born William Samuel McTier May 5, 1898 – August 19, 1959), was an influential Piedmont and ragtime blues singer and guitarist. He played with a fluid, syncopated fingerstyle guitar technique, common among many exponents of Piedmont blues, although, unlike his contemporaries, he used exclusively a twelve-string guitar. As well as this, McTell was an adept slide guitarist, unusual among many ragtime bluesmen. His vocal style, a smooth and often laid-back tenor, differed greatly from many of the harsher and more expressive voice types employed by Delta bluesmen such as Charlie Patton. McTell embodied a variety of musical styles, including blues, ragtime, religious music, and hokum.
Feel like a broke down engine, ain’t got no drivin’ wheel
Feel like a broke down engine, ain’t got no drivin’ wheel
You all been down and lonesome, you know just how a poor man feels
Been shooting craps and gambling, mama, and I done got broke
Been shooting craps and gambling, mama, and I done got broke
I done pawned my pistol, baby, my best clothes been sold
Lordy, Lord, Lordy, Lord, Lordy, Lord, Lordy, Lord,
Lordy, Lord
I went down in my praying ground, fell on my bended knees
I went down in my praying ground, fell on my bended knees
I ain’t crying for no religion, Lord, give me back my good girl please
If you give me back my baby, I won’t worry you no more
Give me back my baby, I won’t worry you no more
Don’t have to put her in my house, Lordy, just lead her to my door
Lordy, Lord, Lordy, Lord, Lordy, Lord, Lordy, Lord,
Lordy, Lord
Can’t you hear me, baby, rappin’ on your door?
Can’t you hear me, baby, rappin’ on your door?
Now you hear me tappin’, tappin’ across your floor
Feel like a broke down engine, ain’t got no drive at all
Feel like a broke down engine, ain’t got no drive at all
What make me love my woman, she can really do the
Georgia crawl
Feel like a broke down engine, ain’t got no whistle or bell
Feel like a broke down engine, ain’t got no whistle or bell
If you’re a real hot mama, come take away daddy’s weeping spell
“In the Mood” is a big band era #1 hit recorded by American bandleader Glenn Miller. Joe Garland and Andy Razaf arranged “In the Mood” in 1937-1939 using a previously existing main theme (see below) composed by Glenn Miller before the start of the 1930s. Miller’s “In the Mood” did not top the charts until 1940 and one year later was featured in the movie Sun Valley Serenade.
“Moonlight Serenade” is an American popular song with original music by Glenn Miller and subsequent lyrics by Mitchell Parish. When Miller recorded “Sunrise Serenade” in 1939, he placed this song on the back. The song, recorded on April 4, 1939 on RCA Bluebird, was a Top Ten hit on the U.S. pop charts in 1939, reaching number three on the Billboard charts, where it stayed for fifteen weeks. It was the no.5 top pop hit of 1939 on Billboard in the year end Billboard tally of the top records of 1939. Glenn Miller had 5 records in the top 20 songs of 1939 on Billboard’s list. In the UK, “Moonlight Serenade” was released as the A side of a 78 on His Master’s Voice with “American Patrol” as the B side.
UPDATE!
Sighting of Glenn Miller’s doomed plane by amateur spotter shatters theory that aircraft was downed by falling WWII bomb’
[78rpm update - Dedicated to Janette Dillerstone]
UPDATE 2:
School celebrates teacher’s 99th birthday
[Re-dedicated to Agnes 'Granny' Zhelesnik in New Jersey]
