Oh! By Jingo!

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Music sheet from Oh! By Jingo! (1919)
Shellac record from Oh! By Jingo! , sung by Billy Murray (1920)

Oh! By Jingo! (Oh By Gee, You're the Only Girl for Me) is a pop song written by Albert von Tilzer (music) and Lew Brown and released in 1919.

background

Tilzer and Brown wrote Oh! By Jingo! (Oh By Gee, You're the Only Girl for Me) for the Oliver Morosco- produced musical Linger Longer Letty , in which the song was presented by Charlotte Greenwood. The Tin Pan Alley Song, popular in the United States in the early 1920s , which played with exotic elements both in the text and in the music, was one of the young Leonard Bernstein's favorite songs .

First recordings and later cover versions

Musicians who interpreted the song from 1920 onwards included the American Quartet ( Edison Blue Amberol 4041), Harry A. Yerkes ( Vocalion ), Ted Lewis ( Columbia ), Billy Murray (Lyric Records 5218), Nora Bayes , Frank Crumit ( Columbia A2935), the Rega Dance Orchestra ( Okeh ) and Margaret Young ( Victor 18666).

In Germany, the jazz pioneer Eric Borchard performed as “Eric Concerto's Yankee Jazz Band” Oh! By Jingo! at Polyphon. The pianist Adam Gelbtrunk recorded the title as “Joe Yellowstone” for Vox. “Romanoffs Jazzband”, directed by Boris Romanoff , recorded the title in April 1922 at Vox in Berlin .

The discographer Tom Lord lists a total of 53 (as of 2016) cover versions in the field of jazz , u. a. from 1933 by The Three Keys , Gene Kardos , Clancy Hayes , Eddie DeLange , Ella Logan , Arthur Young , Lu Watters , Cy Watts , Frank Froeba , Eddie Condon , Benny Goodman , Billy May , Bobby Hackett / Vic Dickenson , Jacques Gauthé , Bill Allred , Keith Ingham and numerous Dixieland , Hillbilly , Country and String bands . Was used Oh! My Jingo! u. a. in the feature film Incendiary Blonde (1945, directed by George Marshall ), where he was interpreted by Betty Hutton . Also, Chet Atkins and Burl Ives coverten the pop song.

Notes and individual references

  1. ^ Marvin E. Paymer: Facts behind the Songs: A Handbook of American Popular Music from the Nineties to the '90s . Garland Pub., 1993
  2. ↑ David A. Jasen: A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody ": And Other Favorite Song Hits, 1918-1919 . 1997, p. VII.
  3. ^ Susan Goldman Rubin, Jill Rubalcaba: Music Was IT: Young Leonard Bernstein . 2011.
  4. ↑ a b Tom Lord: Jazz discography (online)
  5. ^ Ross Laird, Brian AL Rust : Discography of OKeh Records, 1918-1934 . 2004, page 65
  6. ↑ Oh! By Jingo! One-step. Polyphon Record 50 196 / 100.335-2 (Matr. 142 av) [30 cm], attach. Berlin, October 1920, cf. Horst JP Bergmeier, Rainer E. Lotz: Eric Borchard Story. Menden, 1988 (= Jazzfreund-Publication No. 35), p. 2
  7. ↑ Oh! By Jingo! Two-Step (M: A. von Tilzer), Joe Yellowstone, piano [= Adam Gelbtrunk], Vox 6139 (Matr. 1846 B), cf. dismarc.org and Lotz-Gallenmiller: Vox-Künstler-Diskografie , p. 205; Vox recording book , p. 240; on yellow drink (1898 Warsaw - 1969 New York) cf. Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich, Stowarzyszenie Żydowski Instytut Historyczny w Polsce at wirtualny sztetl ( Memento of the original from November 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sztetl.org.pl
  8. ↑ Oh! By Jingo! One-step (M: A. von Tilzer), Romanoffs Jazzband, Vox 1151 (Matr. 649 B), approx. 04.1922, cf. dismarc.org and Vox recording book , p. 103
  9. ↑ A trio of George Tunnell (vcl), Bob Pease (p) and Slim Furness (git)
  10. ^ Robert Rawlins: The Real Dixieland Book Songbook: B-Flat Instruments . Hal Leonard Corp., 2014
  11. ^ Cary Ginell: The Decca Hillbilly Discography, 1927-1945 1989, p. 175
  12. ^ Cary Ginell, Kevin Coffey Discography of Western Swing and Hot String Bands, 1928–1942 . 2011.
  13. ↑ imdb.com soundtrack
  14. ^ Mark S. Reinhart: Chet Atkins: The Greatest Songs of Mister Guitar . 2014