Annabelle (song)

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Annabelle is a song written by Ray Henderson (music) and Lew Brown (text) and published in 1923 by Ager, Yellen & Bornstein Inc., New York.

background

The music for Henderson's Shimmy song was based on Lew Brown's text idea Oh! Annabelle, Oh! Annabelle! You've made a wild man out of me . Representing the year 1923, the music magazine Variety Annabelle took on their list Hit Parade of a Half Century . Henderson and Brown did not have much commercial success with Annabelle ; only with the song That Old Gang of Mine (1923), composed a little later with Mort Dixon and Billy Rose , did he achieve a hit.

Cover versions

Musicians who covered the song from 1923 included Ted Lewis (Columbia A-3957), the Cameo Dance Orchestra ( Cameo 378), Brooke Johns and his Orchestra under the direction of Jack Shilkret (Victor 19 108), Kaplan's Melodists (Edison Diamond Disc 51190) and Vincent Lopez , in Berlin Arpád Varosz ( Homocord B.332, November 1923) and Eric Borchard's Atlantic Jazz Band ( Grammophon 14 802, March 1924), in Buenos Aires Eleuterio Yribarren .

The tenor Hermann Feiner sang the piece with a German text on 25 January 1925 for the Lindström label Beka. The subtitle of the German edition was Wenn my wife all night . The song was also commercially available as a piano roll for electric pianos.

In the United States, the song became popular primarily through the later recording of Lawrence Welk with The Hoosier Hot Shots from 1939. The discographer Tom Lord lists several cover versions in the field of jazz , including a. by the Fritz Trippel Trio and The Martinos (with Oscar Klein ). The song was also available as an electric piano piano roll.

Web links

  • Inclusion in the catalog of the German National Library: DNB 381699811

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Don Tyler: Hit Songs, 1900-1955: American Popular Music of the Pre-Rock Era . Jefferson, North Carolina & London, McFarland, 2007, p. 126.
  2. ↑ David a. Jason: Tin Pan Alley : An Encyclopedia of the Golden Age of American Song 2004, p. 186.
  3. ↑ label shown. at oldtmes.com ( Memento of the original from March 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , to be heard at archive.org , sheet music title with photo by Lewis ill. at worldpress.com @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.soundslikeoldtimes.com
  4. ↑ listen on YouTube
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  7. ↑ cf. AMPICO 203.891-E orchestration roll played by Vincent Lopez , available on YouTube
  8. ↑ cf. Horst JP Bergmeier and Rainer E. Lotz: Eric Borchard Story, Jazzfreund Publication (Menden, 1988), p. 10
  9. ↑ = B.5426, Matr. 33 229, cf. Chr. Zwarg , PARLOPHON Matrix Numbers — 30173 to 34999: German, p. 625
  10. ↑ z. B. EMPECO 3228 from "Michael, Preuss & Co." (ca.1927), to be heard on youtube
  11. ↑ a b Tom Lord: Jazz discography (online).
  12. ↑ cf. Orchestrion roll AMPICO 203.891-E or the German roll EMPECO 3228 from the company "Michael, Preuss & Co." (ca.1927), listen to on YouTube , or listen to the South American rollo de 88 notas marca Pampa código B 3594, industria Argentina, on YouTube