The Gold Diggers' Song (We're in the Money)
The Gold Diggers' Song (We're in the Money) is a pop song written by Harry Warren (music) and Al Dubin (lyrics) and released in 1933.
background
The songwriting team Dubin-Warren wrote the lively dance number We're in the Money as the title track for the musical film Gold Diggers of 1933 (directed by Mervyn LeRoy ), in which the song was introduced by Ginger Rogers . The song and film should celebrate the end of the Great Depression with optimism . However, the song also has an ironic undertone, because after Rogers and other choir girls have performed the song in the film, the bailiff suddenly appears and seizes items in their bankrupt musical theater.
The first verse of the song reads:
We're in the money, we're in the money;
We've got a lot of what it takes to get along!
We're in the money, that sky is sunny,
Old Man Depression you are through, you done us wrong.
We never see a headline about breadlines today.
And when we see the landlord we can look that guy right in the eye
We're in the money, come on, my honey,
Let's lend it, spend it, send it rolling along!
First recordings and later cover versions
Musicians who covered the song from 1933 included Dick Powell (Perfect), The Boswell Sisters (Brunswick), Leo Reisman (Victor), Gene Kardos (Banner), Ted Lewis (Columbia) and Benny Morton (Columbia, with Red Allen , vocals), in Great Britain Jack Hylton & His Orchestra.
The discographer Tom Lord lists a total of 48 (as of 2016) cover versions in the field of jazz , u. a. from 1940 Bob Crosby , Buck Clayton , Charlie Barnet , Pee Wee Russell , Dick Hyman , Rosemary Clooney , Dave Pell , Matty Matlock , Mel Tormé , Dave McKenna and Dick Wellstood / Marty Grosz as well as the Pasadena Roof Orchestra . We're in the Money was also covered by Fred Astaire .
Web links
- Inclusion in the catalog of the German National Library: DNB 380820722
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Songs of the Great Depression
- ↑ Gold digger from 1933 in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ↑ Philip Furia, Michael L. Lasser: America's Songs: The Stories Behind the Songs of Broadway, Hollywood, and Tin Pan Alley . 2006, p. 114
- ↑ a b Tom Lord: The Jazz Discography (online)