I Wonder What's Become of Sally

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I Wonder What's Become of Sally is a pop song written by Milton Ager (music) and Jack Yellen (lyrics) and released in 1924.

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I Wonder What's Become of Sally as Brunswick shellac record by the Bennie Krueger's Orchestra

The songwriting team Ager-Yellen wrote the foxtrot I Wonder What's Become of Sally as a reminiscence of the barbershop quartet singing at the turn of the century. The reciting singer wistfully remembers his girlfriend Sally and wonders where she is; he asks everyone he knows about her in the hope that she would return to him ( my Sally, that old gal of mine ). The first verses of the song are:

Old time pals and old time gals,
Where are your smiles today?
Friends of old with hearts of gold:
Where have you drifted away?
Where is Johnny, and Mary, and all the rest?
And where is the one I love best?

First recordings and later cover versions

In the United States, the song became popular mainly through the version of Al Jolson ; accompanied by the Carl Fenton Orchestra, he recorded the song for Brunswick on August 6, 1924 (# 2671). The waltz was one of the great hits of 1924. Other musicians who covered the song from 1924 included Irving Kaufman ( Vocalion B-14842), Cliff Edwards ( Perfect 12158), William Robyn ( Cameo 1051), Sammy Burton ( HMV ) , Cyril Newton ( Columbia 3499), also the blues singer Josephine Jones, the vocal ensembles The Troubadours ( Victor 19487-B), The Vagabonds ( Gennett ), The Two Gilberts ( Regal ) and the vocal duo Gus Van and Joe Schenck. Also the orchestras of Ted Lewis (Columbia 157-D) and Bennie Krueger (Brunswick 2682-A), the Lido Venice Dance Orchestra ( Pathé ), the Clarence Sherman's Dance Orchestra (Domino 381), The Savoy Orphans (Columbia 3495), The Broadway Dance Orchestra (Edison, 51419), pianist Edgar Fairchild (Ampico 205191-E) and the piano duo Frank Milne & Jack Wehrlen (Aeolian 173016) covered the song in the mid-1920s.

The discographer Tom Lord lists a total of 22 (as of 2016) cover versions in the field of jazz , including a. from 1938 by Dick Robertson , Charlie Spivak , Herb Jeffries , Ray Anthony , Frank Froeba , Percy Humphrey , Sammy Benskin , Syd Lawrence and Lionel Ferbos & Dennis Brown . The song was used in the Vitaphone film Born and Lawrence in "The Aristocrats" (1928) and, surprisingly, in the Cole Porter biography Night and Day (1946, directed by Michael Curtiz ). Pop vocalists like Bing Crosby , Perry Como , The Jack Halloran Singers and Dick Todd (Bluebird B-11212) also covered the song.

Web links

  • Inclusion in the catalog of the German National Library: DNB 38119342X

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Don Tyler: Hit Songs, 1900–1955: American Popular Music of the Pre-Rock Era . Jefferson, North Carolina & London, McFarland, 2007, p. 133
  2. ↑ David A. Jasen, Gene Jones: Spreadin 'Rhythm Around: Black Popular Songwriters, 1880-1930 . 2013
  3. ↑ Female Blues Singers, Vol. 7 Document Records
  4. ^ B-side of the '78 Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra - All Alone .
  5. ↑ a b Tom Lord: The Jazz Discography (online)
  6. ^ Roy Liebman Vitaphone Films: A Catalog of the Features and Shorts . 2003, p. 193
  7. ^ Billboard Feb. 20, 1943
  8. ↑ Malcolm Macfarlane, Ken Crossland Perry Como: A Biography and Complete Career Record . 2012, p. 197