I'm goin 'south
I'm Goin 'South is a pop song written by Abner Silver and Harry MacGregor Woods and released in 1924. In the same year Al Jolson was successful with the song in the American charts.
background
The songwriting team Silver & Woods wrote I'm Goin 'South for the musical Bombo , which also performed the song California Here I Come by Joseph Meyer and Buddy DeSylva . Al Jolson introduced the song, accompanied by the Isham Jones Orchestra. Eddie Cantor then took over the song in the musical Kid Boots .
First recordings and later cover versions
The musicians who covered the song alongside Al Jolson from late 1923 included the studio formations Bailey's Lucky Seven (Gennett), The Kentucky Colonels (Vocalion), The Jazz-O-Harmonists (Edison) and The Virginians (Victor, with Henry among others Busse , Ferde Grofé and Georgie Price , vocals), as well as the orchestras of Paul Whiteman , Paul Specht (Columbia) and Ray Miller (Brunswick). In Berlin he was covered by Arno Lewitsch's dance orchestra , the Alex Hyde New York Orchestra, Béla Dajos (as Clive Williams Original Jazzband , Odeon) and the pianist Mischa Spoliansky . The discographer Tom Lord lists a total of 13 (as of 2016) cover versions in the field of jazz , including a. by Dick Cathcart (soundtrack to Pete Kelly's Blues , 1959)
Notes and individual references
- ^ A b Don Tyler: Hit Songs, 1900-1955: American Popular Music of the Pre-Rock Era . Jefferson, North Carolina & London, McFarland, 2007, p. 131
- ↑ Colin Bratkovich Just Remember This . 2014, page 466
- ^ Show Music - Volume 17, 2001, page 73
- ↑ I'm Goin 'South at the Library of Congress
- ↑ a b Tom Lord: Jazz discography (online)