You've Got to See Mamma Ev'ry Night
You've Got to See Mamma Ev'ry Night (Or You Can't See Mamma at All) is a pop song written by Conrad (music) and Billy Rose (lyrics) and released in 1924.
background
Rose and Conrad wrote You've Got to See Mamma Ev'ry Night for Sophie Tucker , who popularized the song in the United States as Last of the Red Hot Mamas . the first verse of the lyrics begins with mom speaking to her daddy , she feels sad because she gets to see him so rarely. She goes on to say that she does not want to dictate to him; In the chorus, however, she asks him to be with her every night, to kiss her and to treat her properly, otherwise she will not be at home when he calls her:
- You gotta see your mamma every night,
- Or you can't see your mamma at all!
- You've got to kiss your mamma, treat her right,
- Or I won't be home when you call!
First recordings and later cover versions
The musicians who covered the song from 1923 onwards included Sophie Tucker Dolly Kay / Frank Westphal , the singer Aileen Stanley in a duet with Billy Murray ( Victor 19027), Gene Fosdick 's Hoosiers (Vocalion B 14496), Vincent Lopez & His Hotel Pennsylvania Orchestra, Arthur Hall, Charles Rosoff ( Welte Mignon Roll 6457), the Hollywood Dance Orchestra (with Hugh Latimer , Pathé Actuelle 020902) and Mamie Smith & Her Jazz Hounds (with Coleman Hawkins ; Okeh 4781). In later years, Roy Acuff , Georgia Gibbs , Firehouse Five Plus Two, Joe Fingers Carr , Carol Channing and Liza Minnelli also covered the song for the Boardwalk Empire soundtrack .
Web links
- Inclusion in the catalog of the German National Library: DNB 382506154