Tuck Me to Sleep (in My Old 'Tucky Home)

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Tuck Me to Sleep (in My Old 'Tucky Home) (also Tuck Me to Sleep in My Old Kentucky Home ) is a song written by George W. Meyer (music) and Sam M. Lewis and Joe Young (lyrics) 1921 in the publishing house of Irving Berlin was published.

background

Tuck Me to Sleep was one of the most important songs by the composer George W. Meyer (1884–1959); in the lyrics of Sam M. Lewis and Joe Young - similar to songs of that time like Swanee , Way Down Yonder in New Orleans , Georgia on My Mind , Lovin 'Sam (The Sheik of Alabam) or Wabash Blues - the longing for the Home in the American southern states conjured up:

Tuck me to sleep in my old 'Tucky home,
I cover me with Dixie skies and leave me there alone.
I just let the sun kiss my checks ev'ry morn '
I like the kissin 'I've been missin'
From my mummy since 'm gone .

In America, Tuck Me to Sleep was one of the so-called Southern tunes like Alabamy Bound and Georgia Camp Meeting , which were still rooted in the vaudeville and blackface tradition of the late 19th century.

First recordings

Vernon Dalhart

From mid-1921 the Benson Orchestra of Chicago (by Roy Bargy , Victor 18820), Sam Moore , Milo Rega and The Columbians Dance Orchestra (Columbia A3497) recorded Tuck Me to Sleep ; Vernon Dalhart's version with the Criterion Trio from 1922 was commercially successful . Ernest Hare and Billy Jones also played the title successfully during this time. Tuck Me to Sleep was also released as a piano roll , interpreted by Doris Goodwin (Voco 5454) and Pete Wendling (QS 1684).

Later cover versions

In later years the song was also recorded by Ken Colyer , Firehouse Five plus Two, Captain John Handy , Kid Howard , Rod Mason , Punch Miller , Sammy Rimington , Doc Souchon , Lawrence Welk, and Chester Zardis ; Disko Graf Tom Lord lists in the field of jazz total of 43 (as of 2015) cover versions . Country musicians Kennedy Jones, Rex Allen and Merle Travis also interpreted the song. Humorist, activist and songwriter T-Bone Slim wrote a parody ( A Worker's Plea ) of the Tin Pan Alley song. Music magazine Variety added the song to their Hit Parade of a Half-Century list , even though it no longer retains its former popularity.

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ Entry at worldcat.org
  2. ↑ a b c d Don Tyler: Hit Songs, 1900-1955: American Popular Music of the Pre-Rock Era . 2007, p. 125.
  3. ^ Lawrence R. Broer, John Daniel Walther: Dancing Fools and Weary Blues: The Great Escape of the Twenties .
  4. ↑ Kerry D. Soper. We Go Pogo: Walt Kelly, Politics, and American Satire . 2012, page 141.
  5. ↑ a b c Tom Lord: Jazz discography (online)
  6. ^ Charles K. Wolfe: Kentucky Country: Folk and Country Music of Kentucky . 2015, p. 114.
  7. ↑ http://www.kampflieder.de/liedtext.php?id=10431