[78-L] Dream a Little Dream

[Taylor Bowie]

I have a great version on Romeo as by the "Majestic Dance Orchestra."  I 
think it's a Bob Haring,  but for sure it has a fine Smith Ballew vocal and 
a super TD trombone solo.


Taylor





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From: "simmonssomer" <simmonssomer at comcast.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 6:04 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Glee


> And there's the Dorsey Brothers on Melotone with Scrappy in 1931.
>
> Al S.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ray Kilcoyne" <kil at roadrunner.com>
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> Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 6:03 AM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Glee
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>
>>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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