Angel Child
Angel Child is a pop song written by Benny Davis , George E. Price and Abner Silver and published in 1922 by M. Whitmark & Sons, New York.
background
The songwriting team Davis, Price and Silver wrote the foxtrot Angel Child for the music revue Spice of 1922 , from which the song Way Down Yonder in New Orleans by Henry Creamer and Turner Layton came. the vaudeville singer and co-author Georgie Price (1901-1964) presented the song in the revue. The simply structured song consisted of two verses and a chorus; The basis of the first stanza is the line You're just as sweet as an angel . Angel Child was best known in the United States in 1922 through the recordings of Al Jolson (# 1 in May 1922) and Ben Selvin (# 7).
First recordings and later cover versions
Other musicians who covered the song from 1922 included the Benson Orchestra of Chicago (Victor), the Broadway Dance Orchestra (Edison 50907-L) and in Paris Mitchell's Jazz Kings ( Pathé ).
In Germany, the orchestras of Marek Weber and Efim Schachmeister played the title on the gramophone record.
The discographer Tom Lord lists a total of eleven (as of 2016) cover versions in the field of jazz , u. a. by Glenn Miller (1940, with Ray Eberle , vocals, and Bill Finegan , arrangement), Fred Böhler (1943), Cecil Payne (1949), Louis Armstrong (1957), in later years also by Sammy Rimington / Barry Martyn and Ernie Carson .
The song is not to be confused with the blue title of the same name, which u. a. interpreted by Henry Hayes 'Four Kings (1946), Lightnin' Hopkins and Memphis Slim (1948).
Notes and individual references
- ↑ a b c d Don Tyler: Hit Songs, 1900-1955: American Popular Music of the Pre-Rock Era . Jefferson, North Carolina & London, McFarland, 2007, p. 126
- ↑ Members were Crickett Smith (tp), Frank Withers (tb), James Shaw (as), Joe Meyers (p), Walter Kildaire (bj), Dan Parrish (tu, kb) and Louis A. Mitchell (dr).
- ↑ a b c Tom Lord: Jazz discography (online)
- ↑ on Parlophone P. 1428 - Matr. Z 6113
- ↑ on Reneyphone F 40530 - Matr. 2002 at