Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away)
Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams (And Dream Your Troubles Away) is a pop song from 1931 that was composed by Harry Barris (1895–1962) to a text by Ted Koehler and Billy Moll . The song became a popular hit and became the jazz standard .
History of origin
Harry Barris, who formed the vocal trio Rhythm Boys with Bing Crosby and Al Rinker and sang with Paul Whiteman from 1926 to 1930 , was trained as a pianist and successfully tried his hand at songwriting. He not only wrote Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams for Crosby, but also other numbers such as Music Hath Charms (1930) and At Your Command (1931). The composition has 32 bars and is played at a moderate tempo. It is built in the song form A'A "BA", with the A parts all in C major ; the B part is partly in minor .
The text of the song that prompts you to wrap their own problems in dreams and dream away the worries, reflects the days of the Great Depression resist: "If the skies are cloudy and gray." At some point will the sun shine again; good weather always follows rain. That "was exactly the encouragement America needed in the early 1930s."
Bing Crosby, who until then sang with the Rhythm Boys , was the first to record the song. On the recording for Victor Records , Crosby was accompanied by members of the Gus Arnheim orchestra . "The original version of Crosby begins with a sweet violin tone," in which he also whistled. "With Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams, Crosby reached fourth place in the American hit parade and used the song at times as a theme song for his radio show.
Other versions
In the same year u. a. versions of swing musicians such as Louis Armstrong , McKinney's Cotton Pickers with Benny Carter, and the Will Osborne Orchestra, then Harry James (with the arrangement by Jimmy Mundy ), and Woody Herman (1946). In 1939 Crosby played a remake of the song; he recorded it several times in the course of his career, including in his film debut One More Chance (1931). When the song became topical again through the film musical Top Man / Man of the Family , Erskine Hawkins (with his orchestra and singing alto saxophonist Jimmy Mitchell ) came with the song in June 1942 at # 23 on the US charts. Interpretations by June Christy , Doris Day , Frank Sinatra (1955) and Dean Martin (1959) followed in the 1950s . Now Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams also made a career as a jazz instrumental. The most important interpreters of those years include Stan Getz , Don Byas , Art Tatum , Roy Eldridge and Hampton Hawes / Harold Land ( For Real 1958). Charles Mingus interpreted the song during his 1960 session with mainstream "veterans" Roy Eldridge, Tommy Flanagan and Jo Jones ; the pianist Bill Evans had just as much in his repertoire for his interplay session in 1962 as in 1967 at the Village Vanguard .
The version of Howard Alden and Bucky Pizzarelli used Woody Allen in his feature film Sweet and Lowdown (1999).
When Bobby McFerrin recorded Don't Worry, Be Happy in 1988 , he was criticized for being an apolitical song like Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams . Pete Seeger, on the other hand, described the song as one of the political songs he knows.
Song of the same name by Lou Reed
The title line, wrapping your own problems in dreams, provoked another song in the 1960s with melody and lyrics by Lou Reed , in which it ironically says: "I keep dreaming of better days." The song was by Velvet Underground , but also by Nico (on her debut Chelsea Girl , 1967) and interpreted by Bauhaus (with Nico).
literature
- Carlo Bohländer , Karl Heinz Holler, Christian Pfarr: Reclam's Jazz Guide . 4th, revised and supplemented edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-15-010355-X .
- Hans-Jürgen Schaal (Ed.): Jazz standards. The encyclopedia. 3rd, revised edition. Bärenreiter, Kassel u. a. 2004, ISBN 3-7618-1414-3 .