I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles

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I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles is a popular song that premiered in 1918 and was released in 1919.

history

Emergence

The music was composed by John Kellette . The lyrics come from "Jaan Kenbrovin", a name that is a collective pseudonym for the lyricists James Kendis , James Brockman and Nat Vincent . In the Broadway musical The Passing Show of 1918 , the piece was premiered by Helen Carrington.

The publishing rights to "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" originally belonged to Kendis-Brockman Music Co. Inc. in 1919 . However, it was already taken over by Jerome H. Remick & Co. of New York and Detroit in the same year . At the time the song was written, James Kendis, James Brockman, and Nat Vincent had individual contracts with publishers that allowed them to use the name "Jaan Kenbrovin" for marketing. James Kendis and James Brockman were also partners in the Kendis-Brockman Music Company .

success

The waltz was a major Tin Pan Alley hit performed and recorded by many major singers and musical groups in the late 1910s and early 1920s.

Lyricist Ring Lardner parodied the lyrics during the Black Sox scandal of 1919, when some Chicago White Sox (a baseball team from the United States) played badly in the MLB World Series Finals and lost to the Cincinnati Reds . His version started with: "I'm forever blowing ballgames."

“I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles” also became a hit with audiences in British theaters and vaudeville audiences in the early 1920s . It was also the theme tune of the British comedian "Professor" Jimmy Edwards - played on a trombone . Additionally, the I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles melody is also often played in cartoons when air bubbles are visible. The song was used in the hit 1931 gangster film The Public Enemy starring James Cagney .

The song is known in the UK as the club anthem of the London football club West Ham United . In this context, it was used in the films Hooligans (2005) and Hooligans 3 - Never Back Down (2013), which thematize West Ham United's hooligans.

In Norway the song is known as the club anthem of the Sarpsborg ice hockey club Sparta Warriors . The Norwegian version, rewritten and presented by Kai Robert Johansen, is called “Blå Bobler”.

song lyrics

The original lyrics:

Verse 1

I'm dreaming dreams ,
I'm scheming schemes ,
I'm building castles high .
They're born anew ,
Their days are few ,
Just like a sweet butterfly .
And as the daylight is dawning ,
They come again in the morning .

refrain

I'm forever blowing bubbles ,
Pretty bubbles in the air ,
They fly so high ,
Nearly reach the sky ,
Then like my dreams ,
They fade and die .
Fortune's always hiding ,
I've looked everywhere ,
I'm forever blowing bubbles ,
Pretty bubbles in the air .

Verse 2

When cattle creep ,
When I'm asleep ,
To lands of hope I stray .
Then at daybreak ,
When I awake ,
My bluebird flutters away .
Happiness new seemed so near me ,
Happiness come forth and heal me .

refrain

I'm forever blowing bubbles ,
Pretty bubbles in the air .
They fly so high ,
Nearly reach the sky ,
Then like my dreams ,
They fade and die .
Fortune's always hiding ,
I've looked everywhere ,
I'm forever blowing bubbles ,
Pretty bubbles in the air .

Recordings worth mentioning

  • Albert C. Campbell & Henry Burr
    • Columbia A-2701 (matrix: 78263-1)
    • Recorded: January 22nd, 1919
  • Helen Clark & ​​George Wilton Ballard
  • Ben Selvin & his Novelty Orchestra
    • Victor 18603 (matrix: 22966-6)
    • Recorded: July 31, 1919

Single chart success

I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles
Cockney rejects
publication 1980
length 3:32
Genre (s) punk
text John Kellette , James Kendis , James Brockman , Nat Vincent
music Chris Briggs
Publisher (s) Zonophone
Label EMI Records (UK)

Versions of the song appeared twice in the UK singles charts ; both times at the same time as West Ham United reached the FA Cup final . On May 10, 1975, a version on the occasion of the FA Cup final in 1975 made it into the singles charts, but could only stay in the top 40 for one week. Before the FA Cup final in 1980, the version of Cockney Rejects made it into the singles charts. On May 31, 1980, it was in 35th place, but was again only in the top 40 for one week.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry for Ring Lardner at the Baseball Library. (No longer available online.) Baseballlibrary.com, archived from the original on May 28, 2007 ; Retrieved August 14, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.baseballlibrary.com
  2. ^ UK Singles Chart 10th May 1975. Theofficialcharts.com, May 10, 1975, accessed August 14, 2011 .
  3. ^ UK Singles Chart 31st May 1980. theofficialcharts.com, 31 May 1980, accessed 14 August 2011 .

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