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Music, 1927
Popular songs: "Black and Tan Fantasy" by Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington, 28, (who begins a 5-year engagement at New York’s Cotton Club) lyrics by "Bubber" Miller; "Me and My Shadow" by Al Jolson and pianist Dave Dreyer, 33, lyrics by Billy Rose; "Chloe" by Neil
Moret, lyrics by Gus Kahn; "Diane" by Irving Rapee, lyrics by Lew Pollack to exploit the film
Seventh Heaven; "Girl of My Dreams" by Sunny Clapp; "Ain’t She Sweet" by Milton
Ager, lyrics by Jack Yellen; "I’m Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover" by Harry Woods, lyrics by Mort Dixon; "Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella" by composer Sammy Fain, 25, lyrics by Irving Kahal, Francis Wheeler; "My Blue Heaven" by Walter Donaldson, lyrics by George Whiting, 43; "’S Wonderful" and "Strike Up the Band" by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin; "Mississippi Mud" by Harry Barris of the Rhythm Boys (Barris, Al
Rinker, and "crooner" Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby, 26) who sing with Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra, lyrics by James Cavanaugh; "The Song Is Ended But the Melody Lingers On" by Irving Berlin.
- "My Blue Heaven" was introduced
two years earlier in vaudeville by George Whiting, but it was not until
Eddie Cantor interpolated it in the stage musical "Ziegfeld Follies
of 1927" that it attained popularity. Gene Austin's recording
Victor sold over five million copies and was the all-time best seller
until Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" fifteen years later. It
was sung by Frances Langford in the motion picture "Never a Dull
Moment" in 1943; heard in the motion picture "Moon Over Las
Vegas" in 1944; sung as the title song in the motion picture "My
Blue Heaven" by Betty Grable and Dan Dailey in 1950; heard in the
background in the Ruth Etting Story "Love Me or Leave Me" in
1955; Bob Crosby sang it in the motion picture "The Five
Pennies" in 1959; and Fats Domino had a hit record for Imperial in
1956.
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