[78-L] Glee

[simmonssomer]

And there's the Dorsey Brothers on Melotone with Scrappy in 1931.

Al S.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ray Kilcoyne" <kil at roadrunner.com>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 6:03 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Glee


>I have 9 versions of DREAM A LITTLE DREAM including 3 from 1931.  Besides
> the Ozzie Nelson there's Wayne King with Ernie Burchill and Jimmy Dorsey
> with Scrappy Lambert.  Kate Smith was the first to popularize the song,
> probably on her radio show.  But I haven't been able to find a recording 
> by
> her, not even from a broadcast.  Maybe someone knows if such a recording
> exists.
> RayK
>>
> From: <fnarf at comcast.net
>>
>>I dunno if any 78-Lers watch the TV show "Glee", or would like it if they
>>did. They do a lot of song and dance numbers in it (it's about a high
>>school show choir), and while most of the songs are from more recent times
>>they do an occasional 78-era number as well.
>>
>> Tonight's episode ended with a rather sweet version of "Dream a Little
>> Dream of Me" sung by the Artie, the wheelchair-bound boy who wants to
>> dance (yes, really; the show manages to be sappy, snarky, and ridiculous
>> all at the same time).
>>
>> I have seven versions of this song in my iTunes, and I'm sure there are a
>> hundred more. I thought it sounded like a Hoagy Carmichael number but 
>> it's
>> by Fabian Andre and Wilbur Schwandt with lyrics by Gus Kahn. Ozzie Nelson
>> had the first hit with it in 1931, but the one that comes to my mind is
>> Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald, though both Dean Martin and Doris 
>> Day
>> had nice versions. Ella Mae Morse had a crack at it in 1957; did that 
>> ever
>> come out on a Capitol 78, or was that too late? The last appearance on 
>> the
>> US charts was probably the Mamas and Papas. Just a few years ago the
>> French actress Arielle Dombasle did an album of standards featuring a
>> shaky but charming version with some lovely sweet-band horns.
>
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