Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody

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Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody is a pop song written by Jean Schwartz (music), Joe Young and Sam M. Lewis (lyrics) and released in 1918.

background

Schwartz wrote the song Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody with Joe Young and Sam Lewis for the Broadway musical Sinbad , which premiered in 1918. Al Jolson played Rock-A-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody on March 13, 1918 and came in August 1918 with this recording (Columbia A2560) at position 1 in the charts, Arthur Fields also in August 1918 at # 9. Other early musicians to record the song in the United States included Vernon Dalhart (Edison Blue Amberol 3586) and Wilbur Sweatman (Columbia). In 1933 Jolson recorded the song again (Brunswick 6508), successfully doing himself as a crooner tried.

From the 1950s, the song made a comeback and was u. a. sung by Sammy Davis junior , Judy Garland , Brenda Lee ( Grandma, What Great Songs You Sang!, 1959), Jerry Lewis (# 10, 1956) and Aretha Franklin (1961). Sonny Rollins recorded him in 1958 ( Sonny Rollins and the Contemporary Leaders ), as well as Ray Brown , Jerzy Matuszkiewicz , Earl Hines , Woody Herman and His Orchestra , Charles Earland , Masayuki Takayanagi and Yuzuru Sera . The discographer Tom Lord lists a total of 28 (as of 2016) cover versions in the field of jazz , the song was used in the films Rose of Washington Square (1939, directed by Gregory Ratoff ) and in the musical tragic comedy The Merry Monahans by Charles Lamont from 1944 , and in the biography The Jazzsinger (OT: The Al Jolson Story , 1946).

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ a b c Michael Lasser: America's Songs II: Songs from the 1890s to the Post-War Years . 2014, p. 64
  2. ↑ a b Tom Lord: Jazz discography (online)
  3. ↑ Colin Bratkovich: Just Remember This , 2004, p. 468
  4. ↑ Jerry Lewis, James Kaplan Dean and Me: (A Love Story) : 2007
  5. ↑ : Sonny Rollins with Hampton Hawes (p), Barney Kessel (git), Leroy Vinnegar (kb) and Shelly Manne (dr).
  6. ^ John Reid: Hollywood Classic Movies 1: New Light on Movie Bests . 2004, p. 92.