[78-L] YOU

[Michael Biel]

Michael Biel wrote:
>>> That's a song, bub. The title is (I think) just "You". 
>>> I need to know the year of the song. 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. There
>>> was a song by that title in the 1936 film The Great Ziegfeld.

On 10/14/2010 12:48 AM, Michael Shoshani wrote:
>> You mean this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-0XSc6R6Kc 
>> (Tommy Dorsey with Edythe Wright in 1936)
From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> 1936, Words by Harold Adamson, lyrics by Walter Donaldson. Introduced by
> The Ziegfeld Brides and Grooms in The Great Ziegfeld (per Nat Shapiro).dl

That's it.  Thanks for the confirmation.  This definitely means that the
Clara Lu and Em recording cannot be 1930.  Because it supposedly is an
audition recording and states in the opening that "NBC presents . . ." I
have a feeling that it was a pressing.  One more example of the Old Time
Radio people ignoring the matrix numbers on pressings of syndicated
programs and the like which could provide general or even exact dating. 
They would rather put "undated" or guess at a date.  

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com