Cheerful Little Earful

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Cheerful Little Earful is a pop song written by Harry Warren (music), Ira Gershwin and Billy Rose (lyrics) and released in 1930. The lively number is a typical title of the Jazz Age .

background

Warren wrote the song Cheerful Little Earful (song form ABAB ') with Ira Gershwin for the musical Sweet and Low , Fanny Brice , the wife of producer Billy Rose, starred in the revue in which she introduced the song with George Jessel . Hannah Williams sang the song with Jerry Norris in the Broadway production of Sweet and Low , which premiered on November 17, 1930 at the 46th Street Theater. Parts of the lyrics relate to the Great Depression :

Stocks can go down, bus'ness slow down,
But the milk and honey flow down
With a cheerful little earful.

First recordings and later cover versions

The musicians who covered the song from 1928 included Ben Selvins Knickerbockers with Ruth Etting (Columbia 2356), Tom Gerun (Brunswick, with Frank Sylvano , vocals), the studio band All Star Californians (Majestic) Sam Lanin , Chester Gaylord , Seger Ellis (Columbia), Chick Bullock (Perfect) and the Fred Rich Orchestra (aka Chester Leighton's Sophomores ; Clarion 5125) in London Sid Phillips .

The discographer Tom Lord lists a total of 42 (as of 2015) cover versions in the field of jazz , u. a. by Red Nichols , Jerry Fielding , Terry Gibbs , Jackie Cain , Gene Harris , Barney Kessel , Johnny Guarnieri , Ella Fitzgerald ( Sings The George And Ira Gershwin Song Books , 1959), Dick Hyman , Benny Goodman , George Barnes, and Maxine Sullivan . Using found Cheerful Little Earful in several musical films, as in the Vitaphone productions Nightclub Revels (1931) and Sky High (1931, u. A. With Larry Adler ). radio host Little Jack Little was nicknamed radio's cheerful little earful .

Web links

  • Inclusion in the catalog of the German National Library: DNB 38019032X

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Lasser: America's Songs II: Songs from the 1890s to the Post-War Years . 2014, p. 126.
  2. ^ Arnold Shaw: The Jazz Age: Popular Music in the 1920's . 1987, p. 340
  3. ^ Sweet and Low in the Internet Broadway Database
  4. ^ Paul Garner and Sharon F. Mrotek Kissane: Mousie Garner: Autobiography of a Vaudeville Stooge , Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company 1999. ISBN 0-7864-0581-3 , p. 34
  5. ^ Marvin E. Paymer, Don E. Post: Sentimental Journey: Intimate Portraits of America's Great Popular Songs . 1999, page 183.
  6. ↑ With Andy Sannella (as), Joe Venuti (from left), Charlie Magnante (accor), probably Frank Signorelli (p), Eddie Lang and Irving Kaufman (from left)
  7. ↑ With Smith Ballew , the Dorsey Brothers, Joe Venuti, and Eddie Lang
  8. ↑ a b Tom Lord: Jazz discography (online)
  9. ^ Roy Liebman: Vitaphone Films: A Catalog of the Features and Shorts . 2003, p. 68.
  10. ^ Edwin M. Bradley, The First Hollywood Sound Shorts, 1926-1931-2005 , p. 441.
  11. ^ Dan Jenkins Fast Copy: A Novel . 2001, page 125