Lucky day

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(This Is My) Lucky Day is a song written by Ray Henderson (music), Buddy DeSylva and Lew Brown (lyrics) and released in 1926.

background

The songwriting team Henderson, DeSylva and Brown wrote Lucky Day for the revue George White's Scandals of 1926 , which premiered at New York's Apollo Theater on June 14, 1926. The song was presented there by Harry Richman and Chorus. The song, written in C major in the form AA'BA , has a simple, march-like and easy-to-remember melody formed around the notes E, D, and C. The refrain is: Oh boy I'm lucky Oh, say I'm lucky This is my lucky day! . In London the song was presented by Billy Milton in the revue Shake Your Feet . In later years, Lucky Day was the theme song in the USon the radio show Your Hit Parade sponsored by Lucky Strike .

First recordings

Irving Kaufman around 1919

The song became popular in the United States primarily through the recordings of George Olsen ( Victor ), the orchestra of Phil Ohman and Victor Arden (Brunswick), and Howard Lanin with singer Irving Kaufman ( Columbia ). The orchestra Jay C. Flippen ( Perfect ), Evelyn Preer ( Banner ) and the vocal ensemble The Revelers (Victor), in London Edythe Baker (Columbia), Chas Remue and Jack were among the first musicians to record the song from mid-1926 Hylton , in Berlin Bernard Etté .

Later cover versions

The discographer Tom Lord lists a total of 46 (as of 2015) cover versions in the field of jazz , u. a. by David Allyn , Ruby Braff , Maynard Ferguson , Benny Goodman , Wycliffe Gordon , Barry Harris , Rebecca Kilgore , Billy May , Dave McKenna , Tony Pastor , Sid Phillips , Ruth Olay , Sonny Rollins and Annie Ross . The song was also used in several films; Maurice Chevalier sang him in the comedy The Big Pond (1930), Dan Dailey in the biography of Henderson, DeSylva and Brown, Fanfares der Freude (The Best Things in Life Are Free) (1956, directed by Michael Curtiz ).

Notes and individual references

  1. ^ A b c d Marvin E. Paymer, Don E. Post: Sentimental Journey: Intimate Portraits of America's Great Popular Songs . 1999, p. 96
  2. ↑ Charlie pickle: Babe & the Kid: The Legendary Story of Babe Ruth and Johnny Sylvester . 2011, p. 81.
  3. ^ Stanley Green: Encyclopedia of the Musical Theater . 2009, p. 265.
  4. ↑ Singing: Bob Borger, Fran Frey and Bob Rice.
  5. ^ David A. Jansen, A Century of American Popular Music . 2013, p. 125.
  6. ↑ a b Tom Lord: Jazz discography (online)