Did You Ever See a Dream Walking?

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Did You Ever See a Dream Walking? is a pop song written by Harry Revel (music) and Mack Gordon (text) and released in 1933.

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The songwriting team Revel-Gordon wrote Did You Ever See a Dream Walking? for the Paramount sound film Sitting Pretty (1933, directed by Harry Joe Brown ), with Jack Oakie , Jack Haley and Ginger Rogers in the lead roles. The song was presented by Ginger Rogers and Art Jarrett . It is a romantic ballad with the theme of the love dream ( Did you ever find heaven right in your arms, saying I love you, I do )

First recordings and later cover versions

The musicians who covered the song from late 1933 onward included the vocal trio The Pickens Sisters (Victor), Adrian Rollini (Banner), Hal Kemp , Meyer Davis (Columbia 2852, with Three Rascals, vocals), Eddy Duchin , Tom Coakley ( Victor 24473), Lillian Roth , in London Ray Noble / Al Bowlly (HMV), Henry Hall and his BBC Dance Orchestra and in Paris the studio band Le Jazz du Poste Parisien ( Pathé , including with Alix Combelle , Stéphane Grappelli , Michel Warlop ).

Became known Did You Ever See a Dream Walking? 1933 in the United States mainly through the versions of Gene Austin , Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians (Brunswick 6713), Rudy Vallée and Bing Crosby . The discographer Tom Lord lists a total of 22 (as of 2015) additional cover versions in the field of jazz , including a. from 1935 by The Ink Spots , David Allyn / Paul Smith , Henry Jerome , Les Brown , ohnny Guarnieri , Billy Butterfield , George Barnes , Ted Heath , Jackie Davis , Ruby Braff , Barbara Carroll , Harry James . Did You Ever See a Dream Walking? was also covered by pop and R&B musicians such as Snooky Lanson (1949), and in the 1960s by Frankie Avalon , Fats Domino and Sunny Gale . Gene Austin's recording of the song was used in the soundtrack of the feature film The Green Mile (1999).

Web links

  • Inclusion in the catalog of the German National Library: DNB 380463296

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Michael Lasser: America's Songs II: Songs from the 1890s to the Post-War Years . 2014, p. 127
  2. ↑ Nicholas E. Tawa, Supremely American: Popular Song in the 20th Century . 2005, p. 95.
  3. ↑ The Vokaltio was the Victor label's answer to the women's band The Boswell Sisters, which was successfully marketed by Brunswick Records . From the beginning of 1932 to the end of 1934 the trio recorded a total of 25 pages for Victor.
  4. ↑ a b Tom Lord: Jazz discography (online)