Breezin 'Along with the Breeze

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Breezin 'Along with the Breeze is a pop song written by Haven Gillespie (music), Seymour Sinons and Richard A. Whiting (lyrics) and released in 1926.

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In the lyrics, a singer confesses that he has been a drifter since childhood because no one loved him or cared for him. In the meantime he is also not missed by anyone; nobody is surprised who he is. He is therefore like a bird that flies wherever it suits him, whether by train or by ship. The chorus begins with the title phrase: I'm just breezin 'along with the breeze . The first lines of the song are:

I have been a rover since I was a child
No one to love or care for me
Knocked around all over, kinda grew up wild
My home's wherever I may be
Ain't no someone yearnin ', wonderin' where I be
I'm gone, but no one's missin 'me
Ain't no light a-burnin 'ev'ry night for me
I'm like a bird that's flyin 'free
I'm just breezin 'along with the breeze
Trailin 'the rails, roamin' the seas
Like the birdies that sing in the trees
Pleasin 'to live, livin' to please
The sky is the only roof I have over my head
And when I'm weary, Mother Nature makes me a bed
I'm just goin 'along as I please
Breezin 'along with the breeze

The song belonged to Honey [1929] and That Lucky Old Sun (1949) to Haven Gillespie's three number one hits in the United States.

First recordings and later cover versions

With the song successfully represented in the US charts in 1926 was Johnny Marvin , who recorded the song on June 29, 1926 (Columbia 699-D) and reached the US charts on October 9, 1926; Breezin 'Along with the Breeze was also Fred Waring's signature tune on his radio program, which aired in the 1930s. In 1938 the western swing band The Hoosier Hot Shots had great success with the song. The musicians who covered the song from 1926 onwards included The Revelers (Victor 20140), Evelyn Preer (Banner), the California Ramblers ( Pathé ), The Arkansas / Arkansaw Travelers (a studio formation around San Lanin , including Miff Mole and Arthur Schutt , Okeh ), Abe Lyman (Brunswick), the Adrian Schubert Missouri Jazz Band (with singer Irving Kaufman ) and the Seattle Harmony Kings (Victor).

The discographer Tom Lord lists a total of 59 (as of 2016) cover versions in the field of jazz , including a. by Claude Thornhill , Matty Matlock , Kai Winding , Johnny Guarnieri , Kenny Ball , Paul Weston , Eddie Heywood , Jackie Gleason , Sue Raney / Page Cavanaugh , Kay Starr , Si Zentner , Charlie Shavers , Mel Tormé , Earl Hines , Yank Lawson , Alex Welsh and Susannah McCorkle . Use was Breezin 'Along with the Breeze , which is popular with Dixieland bands in the music films Shine on You Harvest Moon (1944, directed by David Butler ), The Jazz Singer (1953, directed by Michael Curtiz ) and hey Helen Morgan Story (1953) , also in The Long, Long Trailer (1954, directed by Vincente Minnelli , with Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz ), The Violent Road (1958, directed by Howard W. Koch ) and Alice (1990). The song was also covered by Josephine Baker , The Smoothies (1939), The Merry Macs (1940), Nat King Cole , Perry Como , Margaret Whiting (1951) and Eddie Fisher (1961; Viking VS-67).

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Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ a b c Don Tyler: Hit Songs, 1900–1955: American Popular Music of the Pre-Rock Era . Jefferson, North Carolina & London, McFarland, 2007, p. 144
  2. ↑ Paul A. Tenkotte, James C. Claypool The Encyclopedia of Northern Kentucky . 2015, p. 402.
  3. ↑ a b Tom Lord: Jaz discography (online)
  4. ^ Robert Rawlins The Real Dixieland Book Songbook: B-Flat Instruments . Hal Leonard Corp., 2014
  5. ↑ Arlene "Babs" Johnson, Charlie Ryan, and Little Ryan