Author: Source Wikipedia
Publisher: University-Press.org
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 24
ISBN-13: 9781230506739
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Pages: 22. Chapters: A Ship Without a Sail, Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered, Blue Moon (song), Blue Room (song), Dancing on the Ceiling (song), Ev'rything I've Got, Falling in Love with Love, Give it Back to the Indians, Glad to Be Unhappy, Have You Met Miss Jones?, Here in My Arms, He Was Too Good to Me, I'll Tell the Man in the Street, I've Got Five Dollars, Isn't It Romantic?, It's Easy to Remember (And So Hard to Forget), It Never Entered My Mind, I Could Write a Book, I Didn't Know What Time It Was, I Like to Recognize the Tune, I Wish I Were in Love Again, Johnny One Note, Little Girl Blue (song), Lover (song), Manhattan (song), Mimi (song), Mountain Greenery, My Funny Valentine, My Heart Stood Still, My Romance (song), Sing for Your Supper, Spring Is Here, Ten Cents a Dance, There's a Small Hotel, The Lady Is a Tramp, The Most Beautiful Girl in the World (1935 song), This Can't Be Love (song), Thou Swell, To Keep My Love Alive, Wait till You See Her, Where or When, With a Song in My Heart (song), You're Nearer, You Took Advantage of Me. Excerpt: "The Lady Is a Tramp" is a show tune from the 1937 Rodgers and Hart musical Babes in Arms in which it was introduced by former child star Mitzi Green. This song is a spoof of New York high society and its strict etiquette (the first line of the verse is "I get too hungry for dinner at eight..."). It has become a popular standard. Early recordings from 1937 include one by Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra, (featuring Edythe Wright on vocals), Midge Williams and Her Jazz Jesters, Sophie Tucker, and Bernie Cummins on the Vocalion records label (#3714). Lena Horne recorded the song with the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio Orchestra on March 30, 1948. Her performance appeared in the film, Words and Music, a fictionalized biography of the partnership of...