Let the Rest of the World Go By

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Let the Rest of the World Go By is a pop song written by Ernest R. Ball (music) and J. Keirn Brennan (lyrics) and released in 1919.

background

The Irish-born, Cleveland- based Ernest Ball (1878-1927) was a songwriter , vaudeville pianist and worked for the music publisher M. Witmark & ​​Sons . With sentimental songs like Mother Machree, When Irish Eyes Are Smiling , Good-Bye, Good Luck, God Bless You and Let the Rest of the World Go By , Ball was one of the successful song composers of the first two decades of the 20th century. J. Keirn Brennan's text from Let the Rest of the World Go By nostalgically describes the American settler mentality . The first verse of the song reads:

Ernest R. Ball
With someone like you, a pal good and true,
I'd like to leave it all behind and go and find
Some place that's known to God alone,
Just a spot to call our own,
We'll find perfect peace,
Where joys never cease
Out there beneath a kindly sky,
We'll build a sweet little nest somewhere in the west
And let the rest of the world go by.

First recordings and later cover versions

The musicians who successfully covered the song in the United States from 1920 included Henry Burr and the vocal duo of Elizabeth Spencer and Charles Hart (Victor 18638). In Germany in 1920 Kapellmeister Stern and his artist band from the Hotel Adlon Berlin played the song instrumentally with the Leipziger Polyphon. The discographer Tom Lord lists a total of 23 (as of 2015) cover versions in the field of jazz , u. a. by Lizzie Miles , Bob Scobey , Terry Lightfoot 's New Orleans Jazzmen, William Bolcom , Lasse Samuelson / Lena Ericsson / Georgie Fame (1985), Louis Nelson 's New Orleans Jazz Band, Ian Whitcomb and His Bungalow Boys, Bob Schulz and His Frisco Jazz Band and the Maryland Jazz Band of Cologne . The song was also used in several films; Dick Haymes sang it in When Irish Eyes Are Smiling (1944). The Chordettes (Columbia 39253; 1951), Sunny Gale , Connie Francis (1961), Ringo Starr ( Sentimental Journey ), John Barry (Soundtrack from Out of Africa , 1985), Pat Boone and Max Bygraves covered the song.

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ a b c Michael Lasser: America's Songs II: Songs from the 1890s to the Post-War Years . 2014, p. 67
  2. ^ Billboard, 1949, Volume 61, p. 38.
  3. ↑ James Patrick Byrne, Philip Coleman, Jason Francis King Ireland and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History . 2008
  4. ^ Billboard, May 14, 1949
  5. ↑ Sing Out !: All Time and Old Time Favorites by Alfred Publishing
  6. ^ David A. Jasen: Tin Pan Alley : An Encyclopedia of the Golden Age of American Song. 2004, page 22.
  7. ↑ Polyphon 50 220 / 100.362, mx. 175 av
  8. ↑ Tom Lord: Jazz discography (online)
  9. ^ Bill Harry The Ringo Starr Encyclopedia . 2012