1930 Index Golfer's Blues – Alice Keating Howlett, Will
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1 1930 Index Golfer’s Blues – Alice Keating Howlett, Will Riverman - 2 Zonky Blues – Duke Ellington – Instr. - 4 Old Man Blues – Duke Ellington, Irving Mills - 5 St. Louis Ain’t Got the Blues –Lynn Cowan - 6 Banish the Budget Blues – Jack Lumsdaine - 7 Blue Again – Jimmy McHugh, Dorothy Fields – 13-14 Deserted Blues – Claud Garner - 18 Fraternity Blues – Kay Kyser, Spencer Murphy - 19 Rabbit Foot Blues – Blind Lemon Jefferson - 22 Ring Out the Blues - E. Y. Harburg, Clay Gorney - 23 Those Hysterical Blues – Alono Hanagan, Harold Goodling - 27 That Too, Do Blues – Benny Moten, Eddie Durham, Count Basie - 28 Pontchartrain Blues – Jelly Roll Morton – instr. - 29 I’ll be Blue Thinking of You – Pete Wendling, George Whiting - 30 Brown’s Ferry Blues – Alton Delmore - 33 Forget the Blues – Alfred Jarvis - 35 Born to be Blue – Al Hoffman, Abner Silver, May Singh Breen - 39 Blues Before Sunrise – Leroy Carr - 43 Got Dem Blues – Wilbur Sweatman - 45 When a Black Man’s Blue – George Little, Art Sizemore & Ed Nelson - 46 Who’s Blue – Will Gould & Jimmy Rule - 47 Worried Man Blues – Traditional - 48 Alabama Bound – Ledbetter - 49 Backwater Blues – Bessie Smith - 50 Big Road Blues – Robert Johnson - 51 Catfish Blues – Muddy Waters - 52 Chicago Blues – Lonnie Johnson - 54 Crazy Blues – Perry Bradford - 55 Drunken Hearted Man – Robert Johnson - 57 Empty Bed Blues – Traditional - 58 Foolish Man Blues – Bessie Smith - 59 Gulf Coast Blues – Clarence Williams - 60 Hesitation Blues – Billy Smythe, J Scott Middleton - 61 In the House Blues – Bessie Smith - 62 Kindhearted Woman – Robert Johnson - 63 Love in Vain – Robert Johnson - 64 New Stranger Blues - Tampa Red - 65 Lonesome Home Blues – Tommy Johnson - 66 List of songs with the use of the word ‘Blues’ in the lyrics Wasting My Love on You – Edgar Leslie & Harry Waren Dancing With Tears in My Eye – Al Dubin & Joe Burke 2 Golfer’s Blues – Alice Keating Howlett & Will Livernash 3 A-8+8, B-8, C-8, D.S-8 4 Zonky Blues – ‘Duke’ Ellington A-12 (blues), B-16 (AABA) 5 Old Man Blues – ‘Duke’ Ellington & Irving Mills A-16, B-8, C-10 6 St. Louis Ain’t Got the Blues - Lynn Cowan (1888-1973) Cowan was born in Iowa Falls, Iowa and educated at Iowa State College with a degree in civil engineering Appeared in vaudeville and movies and wrote background music for sound films. He was in the Corp of Engineers in World War II as Lt. Col and received the Legion of Merit. He was a talented man being an actor, composer, pianist, director and singer. A-8, B-16, D.S.-16 7 Banish the Budget Blues –Jack Lumsdaine Jack Limsdaine (1895-1948 He received early training in piano and singing from his mother, a music teacher. He was a chorister when attending St. Andrew’s Cathedral school in Sydney, Australia and also studied piano and organ at the school. He was in the military service in World War I serving in France and while there was exposed to gas that harmed his health and voice. He was sent to England to work as a paymaster and unofficial entertainer for the troops. After marrying the couple returned to Australia and Limsdaine worked for a publishing house He was hired to influence public taste and advise companies on suitable music from overseas for publication. He toured theatres promoting these works in Australia and New Zealand. He also did work as a composer, arranger and performer on Australia’s vaudeville circuit. In 1926 he had a radio program called ‘Music while you wait on 2FC’. Listeners phoned in to suggest song titles. He then took the titles and created words and music and performed them within half an hour. His popular songs upheld popular myths about Australia and its way of life, about Towns, war, landscapes and domestic themes (as the tune ‘Banish the Budget Blues’) written about the policies of the Prime Minister. Jack Limsdaine 8 9 10 11 12 Intro-4, A1-8, A2-8, B-8, C1-8, C2-8, D-8, E-8, F-8, D.C-(chorus)-16 13 Blue Again – Jimmy McHugh & Dorothy Fields Dorothy Fields Jimmy McHugh 14 Dorothy Fields – 1905-1974 Born in Allenhurst, New Jersey Fields was one of the most prolific and popular lyricist, her father was the famous vaudevillian Lew fields. She collaborated with most of the ‘big’ composers of her era – Jimmy McHugh, Fritz Kreisler, Sigmund Romberg, Morton Gould, Burton Lane, and Jerome Kern. She was the first woman to be in the Songwriters Hall of Fame. She collaborated with Jimmy McHugh, in 1928, to write ‘I can’t give you anything but Love,’ a song appearing in the Broadway show ‘Blackbirds of 1928’. Other songs by Fields – ‘Diga, Diga Doo,’ ‘Sunny Side of the Street,’ and ‘Exactly Like You'. In 1930 in the show ‘Vanderbilt Revue‘, came the song ‘Blue Again’. In 1933 her song ‘Don’t Blame Me’ appeared in the film ‘Dancing Lady’. The film ’Every Night’ at eight featured the song ‘I’m in the Mood for Love’. She was the lyricist for Jerome Kern’s Oscar winning song. ’The Way You Look Tonight’ and the song ‘A Fine romance’. With Sigmund Romberg she wrote ‘Close as Pages in a Book’. One of her final hits was ’Hey big Spender’ With Cy Coleman. A-8, B-8 15 16 17 Intro-8, A1-8, A2-8, B1-8, B2-8 18 Deserted Blues – Claud Wilton Garner (1891-1978) A-8, B-8, C-16, D-8, E-12 19 Claud Garner (1891-1978) Born in Hope, Arkansas (I wonder if he knew Clinton) with 3 sisters and 1 brother. He graduated from Hop High School in 1906 at age 15 and entered Ouachita Baptist University (the Ouachita College) While in college he sang (a baritone) at a silent movie house. With his success there he did not return to college but joined the Jack Raymon traveling tent show. While in Mississippi he met and married Geraldine Blackmore in 1907. The money was not enough for a married man so the couple returned to Arkansas to work in his father’s mercantile store. He was an activist for the fruit growers and became a field man for the American Fruit Growers Assoc. in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas. Divorcing his first wife he married again in 1935 he became part owner of a 1,600 –acre orchard. He became interested in the Mexican aliens while there and this became the basis for his first novel ‘Wetback.’ Garner was a man of many talents and interest, Musician, composing a number of pieces, a merchant, an advocate for farmers, an avid hunter and a writer of fiction novels. 20 Fraternity Blues – Spencer Murphy & Kay Kyser A1-8, A2-8, B-8 Kay Kyser Kollege of Musical Knowledge 21 Kay Kyser (1905-1985) Kyser was born in Rocky Mount, N.C. and attended the Univ. of North Carolina at chapel Hill, working his way through school by leading a student band. He was an avid fan of his University UNC. He formed his band at Chicago’s Blackhawk Restaurant and began in radio in 1933. I n1938 he hit the big time with his weekly musical quiz program ‘Kay Kyser’s Kollege of Musical Knowledge. He dressed in a scholarly robe and was called ‘the old perfessor.’ Some of his ‘gang’ was ‘Ginny Simms and Merwyn A. Bogue, aka ‘Ish Kabibble.’ He and his band did a number of movies and were in a picture that included the only teaming of: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi and Peter Lorre. When he married Georgia Carroll he moved his show to TV and the featured singer was Mike Douglas (of TV talk show fame) His goal was to retire when he made a million bucks and did just that I 1950. He returned to Chapel Hill and was active in the Christian Science movement. ‘Ish Kabibble’ Mike Douglas Ginny Simms Kay Kyser 22 Rabbit Foot Blues – Blind Lemon Jefferson 14 bars 23 Ring Out the Blues - E Y Harburg & Clay Gorney Jay Gorney 24 Jay Gorney (1896-1990) Gorney was born in Bialystok, Russia on Dec. 12, 1896. When only ten he can to the United States. He grew up and was educated in Detroit and earned several degrees on the University of Michigan. While in college he composed a number of student musicals. In the early 1920s he began writing musicals beginning with the ‘Greenwich village Follies’ in 1924. His first success was ‘What wouldn’t I do for That Man’ with lyrics by E Y Harburg. HelenMorgan recorded his song ‘Glorifying the American Girl’ and the song was recorded by the Frankie Trumbauer group and the ‘Charleston chasers’ that featured Phil napoleon, Miff Mole and a young Benny Goodman. Thee song he is remembered for is the classic ‘Brother can you Spare a Dime’. Gorney never equaled his fame for that song but continued to write popular songs. He died in New York City on June 14, 1990. Harburg 25 Ring Out the Blues – E Y Harburb & Clay Gorney A1-8, A2-8, B1-8, B2-8, DS al coda-16 E. Y. Harburg (Isidore Hochberg) (1898 -1981) Born in New York City, his nickname was ‘Yipsel’ (Yiddish for squirrel) because of his constant clowning and endless energy. He worked at various jobs while a youngster – he had a job of putting pickles in jars, selling newspapers, lighting street lamps along the docks of the East River. He attended an experimental school for talented children and graduated from City College of New York in 1921.