[78-L] YOU

simmonssomer simmonssomer at comcast.net
Thu Oct 14 08:56:17 PDT 2010


If only Edythe could sing.

Al Simmons

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "GENE JOSLIN" <electrodeon at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 10:53 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] YOU


> YOU is one of the greatest songs from a great era.  It was recorded on 
> Victor by
> Tommy Dorsey with an arrangement still fresh and exciting 74 years later. 
> Jimmy
> Dorsey recorded it for Decca with his usual splendid results.
>
> Gene
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Don Chichester <dnjchi78 at live.com>
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Sent: Thu, October 14, 2010 9:11:39 AM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] YOU
>
>
> This is one of those tunes that pops into my brain from time to time, and 
> sticks
> there all day.  I have taken to changing the name "You" to "Me".  It's 
> very
> satisfying!
>
> Don
>
>> From: mbiel at mbiel.com
>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>> Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 21:20:20 -0700
>> Subject: [78-L] YOU
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Mike Biel mbiel at mbiel.com
>>
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