The Girl Friend (song)
The Girl Friend is a pop song written by Richard Rodgers (music) and Lorenz Hart (lyrics) and released in 1926.
background
The song by the songwriting team Rodgers and Hart was featured as the theme song of the musical comedy The Girl Friend , which premiered on March 17, 1926 at the Vanderbilt Theater in New York . Was presented Blue Room of Eva Puck and Sammy White.
In the song written in C major in the form AABA , Rodgers used the backbeat rhythms that have been popular since the song Charleston (1923) and Back Bottom . The song has two song verses and two refrains, for "Er" ( He ) and "Sie" ( She ). the song verse moves from C major to E major , with lots of dotted eighth and sixteenth notes. The chorus emphasizes almost every third beat, Charleston style . Lorenz Hart 's lyric poetry is outstanding in the use of inner rhymes , as in She's gentle and mentally nearly complete or A look at this vision will cause a collision .
First recordings and later cover versions
Arnold Brilhart (Pathé), the California Ramblers (Columbia) and in London Chick Endor (Brunswick) were among the first musicians to record the song from 1926 . George Olsen was successful with his version for Victor Records in the US charts. In the following years he u. a. also Paul Whiteman , Bobby Sherwood , Tommy Dorsey , Hazel Scott , Harry Babasin , Bobby Troup , Gene Harris , Ruby Braff , Shelly Manne , Barbara Carroll , Bob Scobey , Shorty Rogers , Yank Lawson , Bud Freeman , George Barnes and Benny Goodman . The discographer Tom Lord lists a total of 34 (as of 2015) cover versions in the field of jazz .