Charley, my boy
Charley, My Boy is a pop song written by Gus Kahn and Ted Fiorito and released in 1924.
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Kahn and FioRito dedicated Charley, My Boy to the vaudeville artist Charley Roy. The Russo-FioRito Orchestra performed the song at the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago. The lyrics say that Charley is considered a nice guy by everyone except Flo, who thinks he's an extraordinary lover, better than Romeo .
- And when we dance, I read in your glance
- Whole pages and ages of love and romance
- They tell me Romeo was some lover, too
- But boy, he should have taken lessons from you
The pop song was best known in the United States through the singing comedian Eddie Cantor , who recorded it for Columbia Records in 1924 . Cover versions of the song by Billy Murray ( Victor 19411), Ben Selvin ( Vocalion , with Irving Kaufman ), Bennie Krueger 's Orchestra with singer Billy Jones, the Pennsylvanians Jazz Band ( Kalliope 733) and the Puritan Novelty Orchestra with Arthur Fields followed ( Puritan 11346-A), also numerous versions of the song as a piano roll .
First recordings and later cover versions
Other musicians who covered the song from 1924 included the California Ramblers (Columbia or Pathé ), Fletcher Henderson (Regal), the studio band The Kentucky Blowers ( Gennett , with Bill Moore , Adrian Rollini , Irving Brodsky , Tommy Felline , Stan King ), Cliff Edwards ( Perfect ), The Georgia Melodians (Edison, with Vernon Dalhart ), in Copenhagen Valdemar Eiberg ( Polydor ).
The discographer Tom Lord lists a total of 26 (as of 2016) cover versions in the field of jazz , including a. from 1946 by Chuck Mackey's Michigan Boulevard Gang (with Matty Matlock , among others ), Jimmy Dorsey , Louis Prima , Eugenie Baird , Ben Pollack , Svend Asmussen , Peggy Lee , Enoch Light , The Temperance Seven and numerous Dixieland bands, such as the Originální Pražský Synkopický Orchestr. In 1949 Charley, My Boy was accepted by the Andrews Sisters . it was also the theme tune for the American radio program The Spike Jones Show .
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Notes and individual references
- ^ Charley, My Boy , National Library of Australia
- ^ A b Don Tyler: Hit Songs, 1900-1955: American Popular Music of the Pre-Rock Era . Jefferson, North Carolina & London, McFarland, 2007, p. 137
- ↑ a b Tom Lord: Jazz discography (online)
- ^ "Charley My Boy" , Stanford University
- ↑ Radio Theme List , ClassicThemes.Com