Collegiate
Collegiate is a song written by Moe Jaffe and Nat Bonx and released in 1925.
background
The song Collegiate , written as a moderate novelty song in F major , has the form AAA '; it is considered typical of the flapper songs of the Roaring Twenties . He was introduced to college by Fred Waring 's Pennsylvanians; but he only achieved greater notoriety when he was featured in the revue Gay Paree , which premiered on August 18, 1925 at the New Yotker Shubert Theater.
The lyrics, typical of the 1920s, work with allusions typical of the time ; in the lyrics the Greek letters alpha, beta, delta (as names of student associations ) and names of American universities (Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Cornell, Virginia) are used; In addition, there are nonsense words such as milkshake, S'lami, P'strami, B'loni . An integral part of the song are contractions ; so the first word of the refrain is c'llegiate . In contrast to this torrent of words, the music of the song is simply structured; each A section begins with an F major chord followed by a dominant seventh chord .
First recordings
The Carl Fenton Orchestra, Ben Selvin , the California Ramblers , Carlyle Stevenson , in London Jean Wiener & Clément Ducet were among the first musicians to record the song from 1925 . A German-language version ( Robes-Modes ) recorded the Odeon Tanz-Orchester (Dobbri Saxophone Orchestra) around 1925.
Later cover versions and use in films
The discographer Tom Lord lists a total of 75 (2015) cover versions in the field of jazz . a. by George Lewis , Pete Kelly , Marty Grosz , Sid Phillips , Kid Howard , Sammy Rimington , Phil Mason and various European and American revival bands.
The song was used in several early sound films , such as The Time, the Place and the Girl (directed by Howard Bretherton , 1929) and in the Marx Brothers film Blooming Nonsense (1932), where it was interpreted by Chico Marx .
Web links
- Inclusion in the catalog of the German National Library: DNB 380166755