Name That Tune

[Fletch]

Liz does it again...and with lagniappe! (I can promise you Bernie's name didn't appear on Jones' record. I don't think it did on Roger Wolfe Kahn's, either...)

I'll hold off on another lyric till someone gets the dog & cat one.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Ah, I seem to have Stumped The Experts. What do I win?

The correct answer is "I'm Sure Of Everything But You," by Pete Wendling, Charles O'Flynn, and George Meyer. A big hit in the winter of 1932, with maybe the best record made by Annette Hanshaw. The complete lyric:

I just picked out a cottage and it’s by a waterfall
There’s lilacs in the springtime, and the roses stay till fall,
There’s “Welcome” on the doorstep, “Home Sweet Home” upon the wall,
I’m sure of everything but you.

I bought a bowl of goldfish and they swim and everything,
Canaries in their cages, say you oughta hear them sing,
The telephone’s installed and I’m just waiting for your ring,
I’m sure of everything but you.

The dog and cat — they don’t know where they’re at
They’re yearing for your company
The cat bow-wows, the little dog meows,
Without you pet, they’re all upset
The same as me,

I thought about a cradle, dear, but that would never do,
‘Cause when you think of cradles, you know that’s a thought for two
Now everything looks rosy, and still everything looks blue,
I’m sure of everything but you.

 

[Fletch]

Oh dang. I even own the original Ted Lewis Blue Columbia 78 and I still didn't get that one. I only remembered the don't-know-where-they're-at line!

(Y'know, I had a phonographic memory once. Then the needle started to skip. )

 

[Cousin Hepcat]

Ah, I seem to have Stumped The Experts. What do I win?

The correct answer is "I'm Sure Of Everything But You," by Pete Wendling, Charles O'Flynn, and George Meyer. A big hit in the winter of 1932

You won the last one, so you get to pose the next question lol Hey with 5000+ 78s, and more CD/Lp reissues, I thought I knew a thing or two about 30s-40s songs but I've been stumped on almost every one so far...

- C H

 

[HadleyH]

I thought I knew a thing or two about 30s-40s songs but I've been stumped on almost every one so far...

- C H

Me too. [huh]

 

[LizzieMaine]

OK, here's one that should be a bit easier -- it's from the verse of a very popular song of 1931:

"Love comes along,
Like a popular song,
Any time or anywhere at all...
Rain or sunshine, spring or fall..."

 

[Fletch]

Oh mama. I ought to know this.
It must be a verse, the strain where you never heard the lyric.

I'm gonna guess.

I Found A Million Dollar Baby (In A Five and Ten Cent Store) ???

 

[HadleyH]

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I Found A Million Dollar Baby (In A Five and Ten Cent Store) ???

Like Fletch says. He always get the tune right!

 

[LizzieMaine]

And a shiny silver dollar to the fellow in the snappy lid. That's absolutely correct -- a very fine Harry Warren-Mort Dixon-Billy Rose tune. Bing Crosby's recording of it is worth looking up -- it sounds like Bing was suffering from a bad flareup of laryngitis when he went before the mike!

The floor is open to the next challenge...

 

[HadleyH]

An easy one:

From being merely
A necessary luxury
And someone sympathetic to have about,
Why, now you're nearly
A luxurious necessity
I couldn't imagine ever living without...

From one of my favorite composers ,circa 1935.

 

[HadleyH]

An easy one:

From being merely
A necessary luxury
And someone sympathetic to have about,
Why, now you're nearly
A luxurious necessity
I couldn't imagine ever living without...

From one of my favorite composers ,circa 1935.

"I suppose I could somehow struggle through
but I'd hate to picture myself without you"

" A Picture Of Me Without You" that's the name of the song
And a very nice song it is too!
There I answered myself.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Ah! I love that song -- but I'd never heard the verse before. Very tricky!

OK, having stumped the panel, you get to try again...

 

[Fletch]

May I have this dance?

Try this one:

They'll be in the gravy when you're in the grave

...not-so-well-known song from a well-known movie musical.

 

[Cousin Hepcat]

Try this one:

They'll be in the gravy when you're in the grave

...not-so-well-known song from a well-known movie musical.

"Oh, Those Pesky Pork-Chops", by King Mutt and his Tennessee Thumpers, on Gennett Electrobeam royal blue series?

So what's your next tune HadleyH?

-- edit --
Since we're all throwing our hats in the ring, here's mine, an audio sample w/ title edited out: And since we've probably scared off anyone from the thread except the experts in early- to mid-30s stuff...

MP3 Sample, 30 seconds (partial credit if you can guess the artist(s))

- C H

 

[jitterbugdoll]

"We Couldn't Say Goodbye" by The Boswell Sisters.

 

[Cousin Hepcat]

"We Couldn't Say Goodbye" by The Boswell Sisters.

Right! Now you get to toss your hat in with a tune.

Here's the rest (MP3), for anyone who needs closure...

(doesn't that conjure up a roomfull of early-30s felix-the-cat-type dancing cartoon furniture )

- C H

 

[Fletch]

"Oh, Those Pesky Pork-Chops", by King Mutt and his Tennessee Thumpers, on Gennett Electrobeam royal blue series?

Nope, but you get an honorary No-Prize for the most amusing and creative (and so far the only) response.

Another hint: the song is a march, sung by a hall full of conventioneers.

They'll be in the gravy when you're in the grave

Someone at least identify the movie title (hint: it had a year in it) and the singer-star.

 

[jitterbugdoll]

Right! Now you get to toss your hat in with a tune.

Okay, here's my selection:

We'll have a time and we'll cut some rug
While we dig those tunes like they should be dug

 

[topcat]

"It's a real homecoming for all those cats ,just trillin down the path of a welcome mat, fall in there , and we'll see some sights,
At the house ,-THE HOUSE OF BLUE LIGHTS"........Miss Ella Mae Morse
ever so hep-tly put........One solid line you laid down there, JB doll........

 

[jitterbugdoll]

"It's a real homecoming for all those cats ,just trillin down the path of a welcome mat, fall in there , and we'll see some sights,
At the house ,-THE HOUSE OF BLUE LIGHTS"........Miss Ella Mae Morse
ever so hep-tly put........One solid line you laid down there, JB doll........

That's it! Now it's your turn.