The Man from the South

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The Man from the South (with a Big Cigar in His Mouth) is a pop song written by Rube Bloom and Harry Woods . They registered the copyright of the song, published in 1928, in February 1930.

background

The singer and pianist Rube Bloom was a member of Joe Venuti 's Blue Four in the late 1920s (with Don Murray , Eddie Lang and drummer Justin Ring, alternating with Paul Graselli). For the band Bloom wrote the rhythmically lively up-tempo number The Man from the South with Harry Woods .

First recordings and later cover versions

Venuti and his band recorded the song on June 14, 1928 in New York City for Okeh Records . Ted Weems and his orchestra were successful in the United States with his version of the pop song created in December 1929 in 1930; his band singers were Art Jarrett and Parker Gibbs . On January 16, 1930 Bloom recorded his song again, this time for Columbia under the band name Rube Bloom and His Bayou Boys with Mannie Klein , Tommy Dorsey , Benny Goodman , Adrian Rollini , Stan King and the second singer Roy Evans .

The musicians who covered the song from 1930 onwards included Julie Wintz (Harmony), Adrian Schubert And His Salon Orchestra (Perfect), in London Percival Mackey , Spike Hughes (Decca), Harry Hudson (EBR) and Jack Payne (Columbia) , in Russia Alexander Tsfasman and his orchestra. The discographer Tom Lord lists a total of 24 (as of 2015) cover versions in the field of jazz , u. a. from 1936 by Nat Gonella , Kay Kyser , Terry Waldo and the Pasadena Roof Orchestra .

The song was used in the Pathé music film Pardon My Gun (directed by Robert De Lacey ) from 1930, played here by Abe Lyman's band .

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ Also He's a Big, Big Man from the South ; see. Ken Bloom: American Song: The Complete Musical Theater Companion . 1996 and in the Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series , 1957, p. 158.
  2. ↑ a b c Don Tyler: Hit Songs, 1900-1955: American Popular Music of the Pre-Rock Era . Jefferson, North Carolina & London, McFarland, 2007
  3. ^ Library of Congress . Copyright Office Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series Washington, p. 635
  4. ↑ Rube Bloom and His Bayou Boys at RedHotJazz
  5. ↑ a b Tom Lord: Jazz discography (online)
  6. ^ Edwin M. Bradley The First Hollywood Musicals: A Critical Filmography of 171 Features . 2004, p. 173.