[78-L] YOU

[David Lennick]

On 10/14/2010 9:56 AM, Michael Biel wrote:
> 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

Even if the music had been from earlier, wouldn't a 1930 audition disc have 
opened with "The National Broadcasting Company presents.." instead of "NBC 
presents.."?

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