My Sweetie Went Away

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My Sweetie Went Away (She Didn't Say Where, When or Why) is a song written by Lou Handman (music) and Roy Turk (lyrics) and released in 1923.

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Billy Murray 1911

My Sweetie Went Away was featured in the duet of Billy Murray and Ed Smalle in 1923 ; Dolly Kay's version (Columbia 3955) was also successful in the United States .

First recordings and cover versions

The first recordings of the song were made in 1923 alongside the version by Billy Murray and Ed Smalle (Victor 19144) by Howard Lanin's Arcadia Orchestra ( Gennett , with Red Nichols , Phil Napoleon , Jimmy Lytell and the singer Smith Ballew ), Joseph Samuels and His Orchestra ( Apex , with singer Ernest Hare ), Fletcher Henderson , The Cotton Pickers, Charlie Kerr , Ben Bernie , California Ramblers , Arthur Lange's Orchestra and Bessie Smith .

The librettist Wilhelm Sterk wrote a German lyrics in 1923 ( Mein Liebling goes over ). The German jazz pioneer Eric Borchard played the title as “Mein Liebchen wants weg. Türk & Handman ”[sic] and his band in May 1924 in Berlin for“ Grammophon ”.

My Sweetie Went Away was later often associated with Lester Young , who knew Bessie Smith's version of the song and used it to process phrases in his version of Sometimes I'm Happy (1943, among others). There are also similarities to Gerry Mulligan's composition Jeru , apart from the bridge . The discographer Tom Lord lists a total of 53 (as of 2015) cover versions in the field of jazz , u. a. in later years by Red Nichols , Harry Roy , The Rhythm Rascals , Sid Phillips , Ziggy Elman , The Temperance Seven , Tommy Dorsey , Manny Albam , Kenny Baker , Maynard Ferguson , Marty Grosz , Susannah McCorkle , Mel Tormé and Freddie Hubbard . Even Johnny Maddox played the song for Dot Records a. Even Teresa Brewer recorded the song (Coral 61286).

The music magazine Variety took My Sweetie Went Away as an outstanding song of the year 1923 in their list Hit Parade of a Half-Century on.

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Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ a b c Don Tyler: Hit Songs, 1900-1955: American Popular Music of the Pre-Rock Era . 2007, p. 129.
  2. ^ Entry in the Library of Congress
  3. ↑ a b Tom Lord: Jazz discography (online)
  4. ↑ Cameo 379
  5. ↑ cf. Discography of Austrian popular music p. 27: Mein Liebling geht über (= My sweetie went away) Col D-30 734 (WA 8431) Charleston Serenaders, Otto Neuman voc., Vienna 1929 [1] (PDF; 1.0 MB)
  6. ↑ Record “Grammophon” 14 834, Matr. 1378 ax (cf. Horst J. Bergmeier, Rainer E. Lotz: Eric Borchard Story. Edition “der Jazzfreund”, Menden 1988 (= Jazzfreund-Publication No. 35) p. 14, Horst Heinz Lange: The German '78 discography of hot dance and jazz music 1903 - 1958, Colloquium Verlag, Berlin 1966, p. 150)
  7. ↑ Dave Gelly, Being Prez: The Life and Music of Lester Young - 2007
  8. ↑ Doug Ramsey: Getting Happy With Lester Young in Rifftides (2015)
  9. ^ A b Will Friedwald , Mulligan's Travels (2005)
  10. ↑ http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-jazz-greats-of-our-time-vol-1-mw0000313439
  11. ↑ Will Friedwald: Forever Young — A Centennial Tribute (2009) in Wall Street Journal