No, no, Nora

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No, No, Nora (also No! No! Nora! ) Is a pop song that Ted Fiorito , Ernie Erdman (music) and Gus Kahn (text) wrote and published in 1923.

background

No! No! Nora! was first introduced by co-author Ted Fiorito and his orchestra. There are different editions of the sheet music of the song with different dots .

Ben Turpin in A Blonde's Revenge (1926)

Gus Kahn's lyrics describe a woman trying to stop her husband from wandering around by hiring a detective. The lyrics compare the man with the then famous film actor Douglas Fairbanks , but also with the popular film comedian Ben Turpin .

First recordings and later cover versions

Eddie Cantor (Columbia A3964) was successful with the song in the US charts in 1923 ; Among the musicians who covered the song from 1923 on were Abe Lyman / Charles Kaley & his California Ambassador Hotel Orchestra (Brunswick 2476), The Benson Orchestra of Chicago (Victor 19121), Albert E. Short & his Tivoli Syncopaters, California Ramblers , Bailey's Lucky Seven (Gennett, with Irving Kaufman , vocals), Vincent Lopez & his Hotel Pennsylvania Orchestra (OKeh), George Perry with Max Terr & His Orchestra and Ruth Etting , in Germany Dajos Béla under his name and as “Kapelle Sándor Józsi” with Odeon and Eric Borchards Atlantic Jazz Band (Polyphon / Grammophon 14 814). The pianist Max Kortlander wrote an arrangement of the song for piano roll (QRS 2398 / Folkways).

The discographer Tom Lord lists a total of ten (as of 2016) cover versions in the field of jazz , including a. by Jimmy Joy , Claude Hopkins , Buster Wilson , Cliff Edwards & The Wonderland Jazz Band and Paul Strandberg . Using found No! No! Nora! in the Gus Kahn biopic I'll See You in My Deams , presented by Doris Day . Music magazine Variety included the song in their Hit Parade of a Half-Century list .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Don Tyler: Hit Songs, 1900-1955: American Popular Music of the Pre-Rock Era . Jefferson, North Carolina & London, McFarland, 2007, p. 129
  2. ^ Diane Holloway: American History in Song: Lyrics from 1900 to 1945 . 2001, p. 217 f.
  3. ↑ No, no, Nora! : Shimmy blues (Ted Fiorito and Ernie Erdman). Odeon O-3053 / A 44 521 (Matr. Be 4383) Chapel Sándor Jozsi; Odeon AA 50244 (Matr. XxBo 8423) Dajos Béla, violin primate. Up. Berlin, November 29, 1924.
  4. ↑ a b Tom Lord: Jazz discography (online)
  5. ^ David A. Jasen Tin Pan Alley : An Encyclopedia of the Golden Age of American Song . 2004, p. 1946