[78-L] YOU

[David Lennick]

1936, Words by Harold Adamson, lyrics by Walter Donaldson. Introduced by Tghe 
Ziegfeld Brides and Grooms in The Great Ziegfeld (per Nat Shapiro).

(In the middle of too much transferring to download a program to listen to the 
sample, but that's the song, I'm sure, based on your description.)

dl

On 10/14/2010 12:20 AM, Michael Biel wrote:
> That's a song, bub.  The title is (I think) just "You".  The lyrics are
> something like
> Youuuuuuuu, wonderful, glorious, you, only you.
> Then there are eight pairs of notes rising and lowering in pitch before
> the last line in the chorus.
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> I need to know the year of the song.  There was a song by that title in
> the 1936 film The Great Ziegfeld.  If you want to hear the one I am
> looking for (and know why), it is used as the opening theme song for an
> audition program of "Clara, Lu, and Em" which the site dates as 1930 but
> I think this is a demo for a 1945 attempt at syndication.  The
> announcing style is MUCH too modern for 1930.  It can be heard at:
> http://www.otrsite.com/ra/preview.html ; , the clip on the top right of
> page one.  Something in the back of my mind tells me that it was also
> the closing theme of Art Linkletter's House Party.
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> Mike Biel   mbiel at mbiel.com
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