[78-L] Lenny

[David Lennick]

Also HERE COMES THE NIGHT..like The Things I Love, adapted from Tchaikovsky's 
"Melodie". The ASCAP ban was partly responsible for the adaptations from the 
classics, but they'd existed well before that.

dl

On 7/9/2013 4:11 PM, Ray Kilcoyne wrote:
> Here's a short list I compiled years ago.  I know nothing about classical music.  Corrections appreciated.
>
> ON THE ISLE OF MAY - Connee Boswell - from Tchaikovsky's String Quartet in D Major Andante Cantabile Movement
> MOON LOVE - Glenn Miller and Ray Eberle - Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony, 2nd Movement
> OUR LOVE - Jimmy Dorsey&  Bob Eberly - from Tchaikovsky's Romeo&  Juliette
> THE THINGS I LOVE - Jimmy Dorsey&  Bob Eberly or Jan Savitt or Gene Krupa - from Tchaikovsky's Melody Opus 42 #3
> TONIGHT WE LOVE - Freddy Martin&  Clyde Rogers - from Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto in B Flat
> RayK
>>
>>
> From: Dan Van Landingham
> Your discussion on borrowed-stolen music themes reminds me of a 1941
> Bluebird Jan Savitt 78 I have on a 33 called "The Things I Love" with a
> vocal by Allan DeWitt.I first heard it in the late '70s and didn't give it
> much thought until I heard the melody in a string quartet piece years
> later.I believe it was by Tschaikovsky.I've heard several Tschaikovsky
> themes show up in so called "pop music" recordings of the '40s.I have bad
> version of Tschaikovsky's "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fair" by Larry Clinton
> done under the title of "Bounce of the Candy Fairy".I can't remember the
> title of the other side,but it was a good tune and if it weren't for that,I
> would have broken the record just out of respect for Tschaik-
> kovsky.Les Brown's "Everybody's Making Money But Tschaikowsky" was another
> matter:I saw that one by Spike Jones and his City Slickers in a junk store
> but never bought it.I can't remember if it was on Victor or Bluebird.There
> was a nice,dancable version of his "Pathetique" symphony I had on OKeh,but I
> don't remember if it was Les Brown or from other band like Frankie
> Masters.It was a nice record.I once tried to write a set of lyrics to
> it:they went something like,"Forever,I will give my love to you...."That was
> some 30+ years ago for a woman I was madly in lust over.She was HOT.
>
>
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