Make Believe (song)
Make Believe is a pop song released in 1927 by Jerome Kern (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics).
Origin and first performance
Core and Hammerstein wrote the song in 1927 for the Broadway - musical Show Boat , which in the theater of Florenz Ziegfeld premiered. In the play, the song was sung in a duet between the characters Gaylord Ravenal , a player on steamships, and the teenage Magnolia Hawks , the daughter of the Show Boat captain, after they met in the first act. In the second act, Ravenal sings it to his little daughter Kim, just before he leaves her and Magnolia because of his passion for gambling.
The song was sung by Norma Terris and Howard Marsh when the musical premiered on December 27, 1927 . He was not included in the first film version from 1939; however, he was sung in the 1936 film version by Irene Dunne and Allan Jones . In 1946 he was sung in the core biopic Till the Clouds Roll By by Tony Martin and Kathryn Grayson , in 1951 by Howard Keel and Kathryn Grayson in a new film version of Show Boat .
Cover versions
Make Believe's early recordings included the 1928 version of Bing Crosby with the Paul Whiteman Orchestra. The song became a pop and jazz standard in the years that followed ; he was interpreted u. a. by Frank Sinatra , Jo Stafford , Peggy Lee and Barbra Streisand . In the field of swing and jazz he became known through versions by Buddy DeFranco , Kenny Dorham , Ella Fitzgerald , Benny Goodman , Coleman Hawkins / Teddy Wilson (1944), Earl Hines , Glenn Miller and Art Tatum . Franz Koglmann created a new instrumental version on the album of the same name ( between the lines , 1998) with Tony Coe , Tom Varner , Brad Shepik and Peter Herbert .
The musical song is not to be confused with the Benny Davis / Jack Shilkret song Make Believe (You Are Glad When You're Sorry) from 1921, which u. a. was recorded by Paul Whiteman , Isham Jones and Ben Selvin and sung by Sarah Vaughan in 1949 , nor with the compositions of the same name by Charles Mingus / Jackie Paris (1952) and Dave Holland ( Prime Directive , ECM 1998).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Show Boat (1951) - (Movie Clip) Make Believe
- ↑ Don Tyler: Hit Songs, 1900-1955: American Popular Music of the Pre-Rock Era