[78-L] Radio-influenced recordings

[David Lennick]

What...The Great One didn't come up with that melody himself? For shame!

I just listened..it's very close but not note-for note. First and second lines 
go up to the tonic, not the leading tone, and the third and fourth lines have 
the same chords but not the same notes. Toast of New York put together a 
complete Himber collection some years ago.

dl

Taylor Bowie wrote:
> Through the Courtesy of Love,  1936,  has a radio theme....the melody was 
> stolen almost note-for-note when it became Jackie Gleason's theme Melancholy 
> Serenade.
> 
> There is a brilliant Richard Himber record of it on Victor.  I know Bill 
> Challis was writing for Himber in that period,  and I wonder if it's his 
> arrangement.  It is terrific.
> 
> Taylor
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bud Black" <banjobud at cfl.rr.com>
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 10:23 AM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Radio-influenced recordings
> 
> 
>> "I Wish There Was A Wireless To Heaven" - Irving Kaufman
>> (note:  Early radio was sometimes referred to as the "wireless 
>> telephone.")
>>
>> Bud
>>
>> -------Original Message-------
>>
>> From: Julian Vein
>> Date: 12/10/2009 1:32:38 AM
>> To: 78-L Mail List
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Radio-influenced recordings
>>
>> Steven C. Barr wrote:
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>>>> Mark L. Bardenwerper, Sr. wrote:
>>>>> David Lennick wrote:
>>>>>> Tommy Dorsey recorded The Whistler's theme. Don't know if this is the
>>>>>> direction
>>>>>> we were looking for. Back in the 20s and 30s there were songs like
>> Kiss
>>>>>> Me By
>>>>>> Wireless", "Turn Your Radio On", and Flotsam & Jetsam's "Little Betty
>>>>>> Bouncer"
>>>>>> (who loved an announcer).
>>>>> Who can forget "Static Strut"?
>>>>> Sylvester Ahola with Paul Specht, 1926.
>>>> And one of my faves, Fletcher Henderson's "Radio Rhythm".
>>>>
>>> And the one that may have started the whole thing..."Mr. Radio Man!"
>>>
>>> As well, we have "Twisting the Dials" (Victor)..."Turning the Dials" 
>>> (ARC,
>>> IIRC)...
>>> and there was a similar side on (IIRC) Cameo, which MAY have been
>> Listening
>>> In On Ruby Norton?!"
>>>
>>> Steven C. Barr
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>> Alec Templeton's "Man With New Radio".
>>
>>      Julian Vein
>>