[78-L] Jack Lawrence (1912-2009)

[Taylor Bowie]

A great adaptation...I love the Miller record of it...great hard-swinging 
sound on that one.

Taylor B



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kristjan Saag" <saag at telia.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 10:10 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Jack Lawrence (1912-2009)


>> Though he was mostly a lyricist, he wrote both the words and the music 
>> for
>> “Yes, My Darling Daughter,” made > famous in 1940 by Dinah Shore.
> --
> Not quite. He borrowed the music from an Ukrainian tune, "Oy ne khody,
> Hritsu", which, itself, is said to be variations of the old cossack Minka
> theme, also used by Beethoven, Hummel and Carl Maria von Weber.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYrGI0FncYc
>
> More about the song (from a youtube discussion):
>
> "This is a 17th century Ukrainian song by semi-legendary female author
> Marusya Churaj. The song advises a man (Marusya's love) named Gryts' not 
> to
> go to vechornyci, or traditional evening party for the youth. Gryts' went 
> to
> this party, and was enchanted by a girl there. The song's refrain is 
> 'lutshe
> bylo'- it would have been better not to have gone to the party, not to 
> have
> known love and not to have loved, rather than to have experienced it and 
> now
> having to let it go."
>
> Kristjan
>
>
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