Lazy (Irving Berlin song)
Lazy is a song that Irving Berlin wrote and published in 1924.
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Irving Berlin came up with the idea for Lazy while on vacation in Florida, which like few of his songs reflected his personal situation, “in its calm thoughtfulness, its clarity about the mood of the character and its deepened sense of the past in the second verse that begins with Life is short / and getting shorter , which makes him melancholy enough to think of the great kitsch ballads ( sob ballads ) of Berlin from the 1920s, like What'll I Do, Remember, How About Me? and All Alone . ”The lyrics were a tribute from Berlin to his fellow songwriters George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly, who had written songs for the unsuccessful piece The Deep Tangled Wildwood in 1923 ; Berlin's line of text To peep / Through the deep / Tangled wildwood refers to the poem The Old Oaken Bucket (1818) by Samuel Woodworth (1784–1842).
First recordings and later cover versions
Among the musicians who recorded the song from 1924 in the United States were Al Jolson himself, who was successful with the record in the US charts, as well as Blossom Seeley , Paul Whiteman , Roy B. Carson and the Brox Sisters (Victor 19298 ), Martha Pryor, the California Ramblers , Bailey's Lucky Seven (a Gennett studio band around Phil Napoleon , Miff Mole , Frank Signorelli ), Vincent Lopez , in Berlin the Alex Hyde New York Orchestra. The discographer Tom Lord lists a total of 46 (as of 2015) cover versions in the field of jazz , u. a. by Bob Crosby , Bing Crosby , Peanuts Hucko , Ella Fitzgerald , Helen Ward , Peanuts Hucko, Dave McKenna , Ruby Braff , George Chisholm , Sy Oliver , Kenny Davern and Dick Hyman . Marilyn Monroe interpreted him in the 1954 film There's No Business Like Show Business .
Notes and individual references
- ↑ a b c Michael Lasser: America's Songs II: Songs from the 1890s to the Post-War Years . New York, London: Routledge, 2014.
- ↑ With The Georgians, a studio band consisting of Frank Guarente (tp, ldr), Ray Stilwell (tb), Johnny O'Donnell (cl, b-cl, as), Harold Saliers (cl, as, ts), Arthur Schutt (p), Russell Deppe (bj), Chauncey Morehouse (dr)
- ↑ Tom Lord: Jazz discography (online)