You Oughta Be in Pictures
You Oughta Be in Pictures is a song written by Nadine Dana Duesse (music) and Edward Heyman (lyrics) and released in 1934. It is considered an unofficial anthem for the American film industry .
background
You Oughta Be in Pictures was the first song that the young musician and songwriter Dana Suesse (1909–1987) wrote with Edward Heyman. The song My Silent Love emerged from the cooperation . Suesse, whose other hit was The Night Is Young and You're So Beautiful , is considered one of the few songwriters of the Tin Pan Alley era.
The first recordings of the song were made by Rudy Vallée (Victor 24580) and by Arthur Nichols and His Orchestra; Chick Bullock recorded the song for Banner Records in 1934 , accompanied by Sterling Bose , Tommy Dorsey , Jimmy Dorsey , Joe Venuti and Artie Bernstein , as well as Ray Noble / Al Bowlly , The Boswell Sisters and Bert Ambrose . In the following years he was also played by Johnny Mercer , Bobby Hackett , Benny Goodman , Mel Tormé /Page Cavanaugh , Bernie Leighton / Jackie Gleason Orchestra, George Siravo and André Previn , most recently in 1997 John Sheridan and His Dream Band (with Dan Barrett, among others ).
The song was used in over forty Hollywood films; Jane Froman introduced You Oughta Be in Pictures in Ziegfeld Follies of 1934 . In the arrangement by Carl Stalling , it was the theme song of the Looney Tunes cartoon of the same name by the Warner Brothers (1940); It was also used in the Oscar-nominated short film So You Want to Be in Pictures (1947). A German version ( Are you now in the picture ) was published by Brunswick Records (A 9553).
Web links
- Inclusion in the catalog of the German National Library: DNB 380908840
Individual evidence
- ↑ Philip Furia, Michael L. Lasser: America's Songs: The Stories Behind the Songs of Broadway, Hollywood, and Tin Pan Alley . 2006
- ↑ Dana sweetness, Peter Mintun: Jazz Nocturne and Other Piano Music with Selected songs . 2012, p. 12
- ^ William Zinsser: Easy to Remember: The Great American Songwriters and Their Songs . 2006, p. 109
- ^ Adam Harvey: The Soundtracks of Woody Allen: A Complete Guide to the Songs and Music in Every Film, 1969-2005 . 2007, p. 38.
- ^ Virginia L. Grattan: American Women Songwriters: A Biographical Dictionary . 1993
- ↑ HMV B-6477
- ↑ On the album Johnny Mercer the Man from Georgia
- ↑ Harold Jones: Bobby Hackett: A Bio-discography . 1999
- ↑ Tom Lord : Jazz Discography (online)
- ↑ Michael Whorf: American Popular Song Composers: Oral Histories, 1920s-1950s , 2012, p. 197
- ↑ Don Tyler: Hit Songs, 1900-1955: American Popular Music of the Pre-Rock Era . 2007