I'll never smile again
I'll Never Smile Again is a composition by Ruth Lowe . The song was written in 1939 and recorded and published by Tommy Dorsey and Frank Sinatra in 1940 .
Origin of the song
The young Canadian Ruth Lowe, who was the pianist with Ira Rae Hutton , wrote “I'll Never Smile Again” in memory of her deceased husband. When the Tommy Dorsey Band was in Toronto in the summer of 1939 , performing at the Canadian National Exhibition, Ruth Lowe came to the stage area every night to meet Tommy Dorsey. You would have a demo; the song would go well with his band, she told the band members. Eventually, Carmen Mastren , the band's pianist and arranger, took pity on the demo, but couldn't get Dorsey to listen to it. Eventually the song, which had since been sold, ended up with Glenn Miller , who recorded it with moderate success. Eight months after the Toronto appearances, Dorsey decided to record the song on May 23, 1940 with Frank Sinatra ; it became one of his greatest hits. The listeners of the later wartime interpreted the lyrics as an expression of their own loneliness.
"I'll Never Smile Again" was the first # 1 hit on the Billboard weekly chart of best-selling singles. After that the song was interpreted by many artists of popular music such as jazz ; the early versions, etc. a. by Django Reinhardt / Hubert Rostaing in 1947 made it a jazz standard at their Blue Star Session , which was then played by Johnny Otis , Bill Evans , Dave Brubeck , George Shearing , Teddy Stauffer , Oscar Peterson and many others.
Others
The title of the song in 1941 for the short film I'll Never Heil Again the Three Stooges parodies; "salvation" in the title refers to the satirized in the movie National Socialism .
literature
- Ken Bloom: The American Songbook - The Singers, the Songwriters, and the Songs - . New York City, Black Dog & Leventhal, 2005 ISBN 1-57912-448-8 )
- Bielefeld Jazz Catalog, 1988 and 2002
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Bloom, p. 170