Oh! You beautiful doll

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Oh! You Beautiful Doll is a pop song written by Nat D. Ayer (music) and A. Seymour Brown (lyrics) and released in 1911.

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Music sheet from Oh! You beautiful doll

The lyrics of the Novelty Song , the first verse of which is a twelve-measure blues, referred to the then popular Grizzly Bear dance; Oh! You Beautiful Doll also refers to the earlier Irving Berlin song Oh, That Beautiful Rag , which also featured dance, fiddle music and ragtime . The refrain of Oh! You Beautiful Doll reads:

Oh! You beautiful doll, You great big beautiful doll!
Let me put my arms about you, I could never live without you.
Oh! You beautiful doll, You great big beautiful doll!
If you ever leave me how my heart will ache, I want to hug you but I fear you'd break.

First recordings and later cover versions

Musicians who covered the song in 1911/12 included Billy Murray and the American Quartet (Victor 16979), who recorded the song on September 29, 1911, as well as Arthur Pryor , Alf Campbell & Arthur Collins (Zonophone 870) and The Peerless Orchestra (Zonophone 887).

The discographer Tom Lord lists a total of 63 (as of 2016) cover versions in the field of jazz , u. a. from 1942 by The Squadronaires , Tiny Hill , Claude Thornhill , Bunk Johnson , Harry Gold , Earle Spencer , Mel Tormé / Frank DeVol . Papa Jack Laine , Frank Froeba , Kenny Baker , Meg Myles / Jimmy Rowles , Gerald Wiggins , Ken Colyer , Mick Mulligan , Terry Lightfoot , Rod Levitt , Chris Barber , Albert Nicholas , Clancy Hayes Max Collie and Johnny Wiggs . Oh! You Beautiful Doll was also designed by Bob Wills (1938), Rosemary Clooney , Donnie Brooks (1952), Tony Martin / The Pied Pipers (1949), Al Jolson , John Serry senior for RCA Records (RCA Thesaurus, 1954) Reg Owen (1959 ), Jerry Murad's Harmonicats and Nancy Sinatra (1967) and found u. a. Used in the film of the same name from 1949 (directed by John M. Stahl ), in the cartoon series Looney Tunes in the cartoon of the same name by Max Fleischer , also in For Me and My Gal (by Judy Garland ), The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle , The Eddie Cantor Story and The Taming of the Shrew .

Web links

  • Inclusion in the catalog of the German National Library: DNB 1003975135

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nathaniel Davis Ayer
  2. ^ A b Don Tyler Hit Songs, 1900-1955: American Popular Music of the Pre-Rock Era . 2007, page 58
  3. ↑ Davis, The History of the Blues , p. 59: " But in a sense, the very first blues was the twelve-bar opening verse to the pop song" Oh, You Beautiful Doll ", which was published in 1911. "
  4. ↑ Eden Elizabeth Kainer: Vocal racial crossover in the song performance of three iconic American vocalists: Sophie Tucker (1884-1966), Elsie Janis (1889-1956) and Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996). Dissertation, Madison 2008, p. 141, online , accessed December 31, 2015
  5. ↑ Ronald Herder 500 Best-Loved Song Lyrics . 2013, page 255
  6. ↑ a b Tom Lord: Jazz discography (online)
  7. ^ Who Is Who in Music International 1958 . Publisher: Who Is Who In Music International, Chicago, Il, USA. Biographical File # B11719 for John Serry. Current publisher: International Biographical Center, Cambridgeshire, UK
  8. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041712/
  9. ^ Bradford Keeney: The Flying Drum: The Mojo Doctor's Guide to Creating Magic in Your Life . 2011