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The Music of Great Depression Tuesday, May 19Th at 10 Am John Clark and his Great American Music Experience presents The Music of Great Depression Tuesday, May 19 th at 10 am Through the Miracle of Zoom The Stock Market Crash of 1929 plunged this country into an economic depression that lasted about ten years. During that time popular songwriters and singers responded in many different ways. Happy Days Are Here Again was the first of many attempts to cheer up a devastated citizenry, followed by Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries, Let’s Have Another Cup of Coffee and a string of overly optimistic hits by Ted Lewis. Woody Guthrie’s Dust Bowl Ballads and A Shanty in Old Shanty Town offered commiseration to the thousands of Americans who were forced to give up their homes from the big cities to the Great Plains. Brother Can You Spare a Dime and My Forgotten Man went so far as to chide our government for its lack of response. In the spirit of what he would call the New Deal, Franklin Roosevelt’s first presidential campaign slogan/song was Happy Days Are Here Again . Even the lyrics of Disney cartoon song Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf and Harold Arlen’s Stormy Weather became symbolic commentaries on the circumstances of this national calamity. Also featuring songs by Al Jolson, Bing Crosby and Rudy Vallee. GREAT DEPRESSION LYRICS 1929 HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN (Milton Ager (music) and Jack Yellen (lyrics) Recorded by Leo Reisman & His Orchestra So long sad times Go long bad times We are rid of you at last Howdy gay times Cloudy gray times You are now a thing of the past Happy days are here again The skies above are clear again So let's sing a song of cheer again Happy days are here again Altogether shout it now There's no one who can doubt it now So let's tell the world about it now Happy days are here again Your cares and troubles are gone There'll be no more from now on Happy days are here again The skies above are so clear again So, let's sing a song of cheer again Happy times Happy nights Happy days Are here again 1932 HEADIN' FOR BETTER TIMES (Charles Tobias / Murray Mencher) Ted Lewis & His Band All aboard for the Sunshine Special This train is headed for better times, all aboard..... Put a coat of joy right on In a minute we'll be gone On a choo-choo, choo-choo headin' for better times Mister Gloom won't be allowed In an optimistic crowd On a choo-choo, choo-choo headin' for better times Don't take a trunk of junk filled with yesterdays Tomorrow we're gonna see sunshine As we go from state to state We'll be shouting, "Things are great!" On a choo-choo, choo-choo headin' for better times Hey, put a coat of joy right on Yes sir, in a minute, in a minute we're goin', boy We're goin' on a choo-choo headed for better times First stop on the way It’s a town called Happy Day Next stop, yessiree What you call Prosperity What's this town we're in? That's called Work Begins Last stop, can't you guess? 1930 ON THE SUNNY SIDE OF THE STREET (Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Fields) Recorded by Ted Lewis & His Band Grab your coat and get your hat Leave your worry on the doorstep Just direct your feet To the sunny side of the street Can't you hear a pitter-pat And that happy tune is your step Life can be so sweet On the sunny side of the street I used to walk in the shade With those blues on parade But now I'm not afraid This rover crossed over If I'd never have a cent I'd be rich as Rockefeller Going to set my feet On the sunny side of the street 1931 LIFE IS JUST A BOWL OF CHERRIES Ray Henderson & Lew Brown) Recorded by Ethel Merman; Rudy Vallee & His Connecticut Yankees People are queer, they're always crowing, scrambling and rushing about Why don't they stop someday, address themselves this way? Why are we here? Where are we going? It's time that we found out We're not here to stay; we're on a short holiday Life is just a bowl of cherries Don't take it serious, it's too mysterious You work, you save, you worry so But you can't take your dough when you go, go, go So keep repeating it's the berries The strongest oak must fall The sweet things in life, to you were just loaned So how can you lose what you've never owned? Life is just a bowl of cherries So live and laugh at it all At eight each morning I have got a date To take my plunge 'round the Empire State You'll admit it's not the berries In a building that's so tall There's a guy in the show, the girls love to kiss Get thousands a week just for crooning like this 1931 HALLELUJAH, I’M A BUM (Authorship unknown) Recorded by Al Jolson Rockefeller's busy giving dough away; Chevrolet is busy making cars; Hobo, you keep busy when they throw away Slightly used cigars. Hobo, you've no time to shirk. You're busy keeping far away from work. The weather' s getting fine. The coffee tastes like wine. You happy hobo, sing, "Hallelujah, I'm a bum again!" Why work away for wealth When you can travel for your health? It' s spring, you hobo, sing, "Hallelujah, I'm a bum again!" Your home is always near; The moon's your chandelier; Your ceiling is the sky, Way up high. The road is your estate, The earth your little dinner plate; It's spring, you hobo, sing, "Hallelujah, I'm a bum again!" 1932 Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (Jay Gorney & Yip Harburg) Recorded by Bing Crosby They used to tell me I was building a dream And so I followed the mob When there was earth to plow or guns to bear I was always there right on the job They used to tell me I was building a dream With peace and glory ahead Why should I be standing in line Just waiting for bread Once I built a railroad, I made it run Made it race against time Once I built a railroad, now it's done Brother, can you spare a dime Once I built a tower up to the sun Brick and rivet and lime Once I built a tower, now it's done Brother, can you spare a dime? Once in khaki suits, gee we looked swell Full of that Yankee-Doodley-dum Half a million boots went slogging through Hell And I was the kid with the drum Say, don't you remember, they called me "Al" It was "Al" all the time Why don't you remember, I'm your pal Say buddy, can you spare a dime 1932 IN A SHANTY IN OLD SHANTY TOWN (Ira Schuster, Jack Little & Joe Young) Recorded by Ted Black & His Orchestra I'm up in the world, But I'd give the world to be where I used to be, A heavenly nest, Where I rest the best, Means more than the world to me. It's only a shanty In old Shanty Town The roof is so slanty it touches the ground. But my tumbled down shack by an old railroad track, Like a millionaire's mansion is calling me back. I'd give up a palace if I were a king. It's more than a palace, it's my everything. There's a queen waiting there with a silvery crown In a shanty in old Shanty Town. LET’S HAVE ANOTHER CUP OF COFFEE (AND LET’S HAVE ANOTHER PIECE OF PIE (Irving Berlin) Recorded by Fred Waring & His Pennsylvanians Why worry when skies are gray Why should we complain Let's laugh at the cloudy day Let's sing in the rain Songwriters say the storm quickly passes That's their philosophy They see the world through rose-colored glasses Why shouldn't we? Just around the corner There's a rainbow in the sky So let's have another cup o' coffee And let's have another piece o' pie! Trouble's just a bubble And the clouds will soon roll by So let's have another cup o' coffee And let's have another piece o' pie Let a smile be your umbrella For it's just an April shower Even John D. Rockefeller Is looking for the silver lining Mister Herbert Hoover Says that now's the time to buy So let's have another cup o' coffee And let's have another piece o' pie! WE’RE IN THE MONEY (THE GOLD DIGGER’S SONG) (Al Dubin & Harry Warren) Performed by Ginger Rogers, Ruby Keeler,Joan Blondell, Aline MacMahon in the musical Gold Diggers of 1933 We're in the money. We're in the money. We've got a lot of what it takes to get along. We're in the money. The skies are sunny. Old man Depression, you are through. You've done us wrong. We never see a headline about a breadline today. And when we see the landlord, we can look that guy right in the eye. We're in the money.
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