Cuddle Up a Little Closer, Lovely Mine
Cuddle Up a Little Closer, Lovely Mine is a pop song written by Karl Hoschna (music) and Otto Harbach (text) and published in 1908.
background
Hoschna and Harbach wrote a number of songs, including Cuddle Up a Little Closer, Lovely Mine , for the revue The Three Twins , which had great success on New York's Broadway and popularized the song in the United States.
First recordings and later cover versions
Musicians who covered the song included Ada Jones / Billy Murray (1909) and Frank Milne; Josephine Bradley (Decca MW 184) and Edna Brown and James F. Harrison (1913, Victor 17267); in the 1920s he was also recorded by The Ambassadors (Vocalion, with Phil Napoleon ) and Horace Heidt (Victor).
The discographer Tom Lord lists a total of 17 (as of 2015) cover versions in the field of jazz , u. a. by Ben Pollack , Jack Teagarden (as part of the soundtrack to the Paramount musical film Birth Of The Blues ), Charlie Spivak , Les Elgart , Maxwell Davis , Eddy Howard , Ted Lewis , Dick Hyman , Bill Carrothers and Julie London / Jimmy Rowles . Cuddle Up a Little Closer, Lovely Mine was also used in the dance film The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle and the cartoon Knighty Knight Bugs (1958), as well as in several feature films; Betty Grable sang him in the film musical Coney Island (1943); Betty Grable, accompanied by the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra in the soundtrack of Four Jills and a Jeep (1944, directed by William A. Seiter ). Anthony Perkins and Jane Fonda interpreted him in Tall Story (1960, directed by Joshua Logan ). Even Sherman Hayes (Aristocrat 769), Paul Weston , Teddy Tucker, Kay arms (Decca 18568), Sammy Kaye and Doris Day played a the pop song.
Notes and individual references
- ↑ Michael Lasser: America's Songs II: Songs from the 1890s to the Post-War Years .
- ^ Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates. United States. Congress - 1963
- ^ David Ewen American Songwriters: An HW Wilson Biographical Dictionary . 1987
- ↑ Edison Gold Molded Record 9950
- ↑ QRS Piano Roll 7909
- ↑ a b Tom Lord: Jazz discography (online)
- ^ Lesley Stern The Scorsese Connection . 1995, p. 128
- ^ Billboard 1944
- ^ Billboard April 7, 1945, recording April 19, 1945, Birds Eye Open House radio program, orchestra conducted by Robert Emmett Dolan.
- ^ Billboard December 3, 1955
- ↑ Columbia 3389