Little Pal
Little Pal is a pop song written by Ray Henderson (music), Lew Brown and Buddy DeSylva (lyrics) and released in 1929.
background
The songwriting team Henderson, DeSylva and Brown wrote the song Little Pal for the film musical Say It with Songs (1929). With the sentimental ballad Little Pal , the three songwriters and Al Jolson hoped to build on the success of Sonny Boy , but Little Pal's record had a similar sales success (# 1), but not nearly the same appeal. Nevertheless, Gene Austin / Nat Shilkret Orchestra (Victor 21952, # 7) and Paul Whiteman / Bing Crosby (# 9) managed to get into the US charts with the song.
First recordings and later cover versions
Other musicians who covered the song from 1929 included Joe Venuti and His New Yorkers (OKeh, with Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey , Arthur Schutt , Eddie Lang and singer Smith Ballew ), and Béla Dajos (Odeon) in Berlin the tenor John McCormack (HMV). Paul O'Montis recorded a German version of Little Pal . In 1936, Willy Jensen recorded a Swedish version ( Lille Kammerat , Columbia GD-93) with Kai Julian's Strygeensemble . The song was used u. a. in one of the Fleischer Studios talk cartoons , in Betty Boop's Little Pal (1934).
The discographer Tom Lord lists a total of ten (as of 2016) cover versions in the field of jazz , including a. by Svend Asmussen , Clinton Ford / Alan Elsdon , Eli Newberger / Jimmy Mazzy / Butch Thompson and Gary Lucas / Sarah Stiles ( Music from Max Fleischer Cartoons ).
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. 163
- ↑ a b Tom Lord: Jazz discography (online)
- ↑ . “Song from the Al Jolson sound film. Say it with songs. “Odeon O-11219-a / Be 8794-2, Berlin, January 1930.
- ↑ Little Pal in the Internet Movie Database (English)