June Night

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June Night (Just Give Me a June Night, the Moonlight and You) is a pop song written by Abel Baer (music) and Cliff Friend (lyrics) and released in 1924.

meaning

The song June Night by Abel Baer (1893-1976) and Cliff Friend (1893-1974) was a hit 1924 for Ted Lewis (Columbia 157-D; # 2); and Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians (Victor 19380) came with their version of the song at # 7 on the US charts. As a proxy for 1924, music magazine Variety added June Night to its Hit Parade of a Half Century list . In later years, Jimmy Dorsey (on Fraternity Records ) had success with the song when it reached # 21 on the Billboard Hot 100 in August 1957.

First recordings and later cover versions

Other musicians besides Ted Lewis who covered the song from May 1924 included Vincent Lopez (Okeh), Cliff Edwards ( Pathé Actuelle 032074), Sam Lanin 's Arcadians ( Perfect 14295) and Bennie Krueger ' s Orchestra (Brunswick 2642- B), in London Hal Kemp's Carolina Club Orchestra (Columbia) and in Berlin Eric Borchard (gramophone) and Arpad Varosz ( homocord ). The discographer Tom Lord lists a total of 134 (as of 2016) cover versions in the field of jazz , u. a. from 1937 by Claude Hopkins , Svend Asmussen , Will Bradley , Rusty Dedrick , George Wettling , Wynton Kelly , Jimmy Rushing and Bill Henderson with the Count Basie Orchestra , Bob Wilber , Alex Welsh , Jonah Jones , Damita Jo , Buddy Tate , Bob Haggart , Jaki Byard , Kid Thomas Valentine and the Maryland Jazz Band of Cologne . The song was used in the musical Somebody Loves Me (1952, directed by Irving Brecher ). Pop singers and bands like Ray Conniff , Betty Everett , Gloria Lynne , The McGuire Sisters , Jack Cookerly and The Bell Sisters also recorded the song.

Notes and individual references

  1. ^ A b Don Tyler: Hit Songs, 1900-1955: American Popular Music of the Pre-Rock Era . Jefferson, North Carolina & London, McFarland, 2007, p. 134
  2. ↑ Abel Baer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  3. ↑ Cliff Friend in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  4. ↑ a b Tom Lord: Jazz discography (online)
  5. ↑ The McGuire Sisters * - Do You Remember When? Retrieved November 3, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Jack Cookerly - June Night. Retrieved November 3, 2017 .
  7. ↑ The Bell Sisters with Henri René and His Orchestra - Bermuda at Discogs