(Keep Your) Sunny Side Up

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(Keep Your) Sunny Side Up is a pop song written by BG DeSylva and Lew Brown (lyrics) and Ray Henderson (music) and released in 1929.

history

The songwriting team Henderson, DeSylva and Brown wrote (Keep Your) Sunny Side Up for the musical Sunny Side Up . In 1929 it was made into a film by David Butler with Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell in the leading roles. The song they interpreted was the theme song. In the same year the song was recorded by the Earl Burtnett & His Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel Orchestra (Brunswick 4501) and Johnny Hamps Kentucky Serenaders (Victor 22124).

Sunny Side Up became one of the most famous songs of the depression years in the United States with its positive attitude . The chorus begins with the title line “Keep your sunny side up, up!” It goes on to say that we should hide our sad side. The song was covered in late 1929 by Frankie Trumbauer , Lud Gluskin , and in the following years. a. by Jimmy Jones , J. Lawrence Cook , Artie Shaw , Benny Payne , The Hi-Lo's , Billy Butterfield , Sonny Stitt , Billy May , Sun Ra, and Bill Coleman . In 2007 Bill Carrothers interpreted the song.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Don Tyler: Hit Songs, 1900–1955: American Popular Music of the Pre-Rock Era . 2007, p. 192.
  2. ↑ Tom Lord: The Jazz Discography (online)
  3. ↑ B. Carrothers (jazz.com) ( Memento from March 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive )