That Old Gang of Mine
That Old Gang of Mine is a song written by Ray Henderson (music), Mort Dixon and Billy Rose (lyrics) and released in 1923.
background
The songwriting team Henderson and Dixon wrote That Old Gang of Mine , which music publisher Billy Rose eventually took over. Thematically, the song deals with the nostalgic feelings of Americans who have moved from the country and small towns to large metropolises like New York City and who nostalgically remember their origins and their comrades from their youth, for whose amusement also singing in the Barbershop Quartet counted. Related are the songs "(The Gang That Sang) 'Heart of My Heart'" (1926) by Ben Ryan and "Wedding Bells (Are Breaking Up That Old Gang of Mine)" (1929) by Irving Kahal , Willie Ruskin and Sammy Fain .
First recordings and later cover versions
Among the musicians who recorded That Old Gang Of Mine from 1923 onwards were the Criterion Male Quartette (Vocalion 14646), Bennie Krueger (Brunswick 2485), Lewis James (Okeh 4952), Arthur Lange's Orchestra (Cameo 423), Billy Murray / Ed Smalle (Victor 19095), Ollie Powers (Paramount), the California Ramblers (Columbia), Charlie Straight (Paramount) covered.
The song was recorded in Berlin in the spring of 1924 by the band of the German jazz pioneer Eric Borchard .
In later years u. a. and Mitch Miller , The Ravens and Ted Weems the title. The discographer Tom Lord lists a total of 37 (as of 2015) cover versions in the field of jazz , u. a. by Beryl Booker , Les Brown , Kenny Davern / Humphrey Lyttelton , Tommy Dorsey , Frank Froeba , Urbie Green , Bobby Hackett , Armand Hug , Keith Ingham , George Masso , Teddy Powell , Bob Wilber and Gerald Wiggins .
Notes and individual references
- ↑ Michael Lasser: America's Songs II: Songs from the 1890s to the Post-War Years . New York, London: Routledge, 2014.
- ↑ a b Tom Lord: Jazz discography (online)
- ↑ Record “Grammophon” 14 812 (mx. 1334 ax), put up. Berlin c. February 1924. Bergmeier-Lotz (p. 12) already noticed the mistranslation “My old favorite path” on the label of the “Grammophon”. See Horst JP Bergmeier, Rainer E. Lotz: Eric Borchard Story. Jazzfreund-Publication No. 35, Menden, 1988.