All by Myself (Irving Berlin song)

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All by Myself is a pop song that Irving Berlin wrote and published in 1921.

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Irving Berlin wrote All by Myself for a musical revue; the pop song was Berlin's most successful ballad in the early 1920s. A total of 161,650 piano rolls were sold in the United States .

First recordings and later cover versions

The best known early cover versions in America include the recordings of Ted Lewis (Columbia) and Frank Crumit . Other musicians who covered the song from 1921 onwards included the Green Brothers Jazz Band, Brown and Terry's Jazzola Boys ( OKeh ), Dorothy Dodd ( Federal ), Ernest Hare ( Brunswick 2108), Bennie Krueger (Brunswick) and Aileen Stanley ( Victor 18774), in England Hal Hickman ( HMV ).

The discographer Tom Lord lists a total of 137 (as of 2015) cover versions in the field of jazz , u. a. by Bob Crosby 's Bob Cats (1940), Bing Crosby , the Casa Loma Orchestra , Frances Wayne , Cab Calloway , Gene Krupa , Red Nichols , Herb Jeffries , Frank Froeba , Jackie Gleason , Connee Boswell , Ella Fitzgerald ( Sings The Irving Berlin Song Book , Verve 1958), Kay Starr , Dave Brubeck , Don Barbour , Ruth Olay , Memphis Slim , Chris Barber , Bobby Darin , Sue Raney and the Ralph Sutton Quartet with Ruby Braff .

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ Michael Lasser: America's Songs II: Songs from the 1890s to the Post-War Years . 2014, p. 75
  2. ^ Philip Furia: The Poets of Tin Pan Alley : A History of Americas Great Lyricists . 1992
  3. ^ Don Tyler: Hit Songs, 1900-1955: American Popular Music . 2007, page 115
  4. ^ Philip Furia, Laurie J. Patterson: The American Song Book: The Tin Pan Alley Era. 2015, page 222
  5. ↑ Lyrics (Songbook): Complete Lyrics for Over 1000 Songs from Broadway to Rock , Hal Leonard Corp.
  6. ↑ a b Tom Lord: Jazz discography (online)