Henry Burr - Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland (1910)
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- Опубліковано 19 гру 2010
- Charted at #1 in November 1910. The song was introduced by Reine Davies, who is pictured on the sheet music. She was known as "The New American Beauty". Among her friends, her nickname was "The True Blue" girl. The song was sung by Judy Garland in the 1949 movie, "In the Good Old Summertime". Written by Beth Slater Whitson and Leo Friedman.
I'm astounded now to find that I'm seven decades into life, with childhood just yesterday in the land of dreams. When you recorded that lovely song my father was not yet born, and all this was yet to be. The sentiments are still as fresh as in the day of your singing, and, one assumes, will still be a century more. Something of us doesn't die then, does it, Henry? It remains forever in dreamland.
That's a lovely thing to think about Nona. I hope you're still around and healthy. :)
The way you word things is truly beautiful. It flows like a river, you should write a book.
I think that Luna Park was built where Dreamland was. I went to PS 100 in Coney Island in 1925. Henry Burr is my idol. I listen over and over and think fond memories now that I am 93.
Wow. That is so inspiring, Sir. What magnificent stories of the good days you must have. Have a wonderful day. :)
It is really great music, I hope you’re still here Robert.
How lucky you got to live through these grand time's, I envy you sir
Robert are you still Alive?
Adan A. I wouldn’t think so. Maybe. As of now he’d be pulling 97 or 98.
It’s 2020 & I’m listening to a 1910 recording by Henry Burr! Ain’t technology grand?
And it sounds like it's on a phonograph ...
2021
2022
It's amazing to me how far music has come and expanded in a little over 100 years. I should clarify I mean recorded music because music itself has been around a lot longer.
Underrated comment 😭💀
My Dad was two years old when this was recorded. My parents and relatives and friends would sing at get togetherd. Iv heard them sing this song many times as a kid.
Wow sounds like good times this song came out when my great grandpa was 10 years old
My soul is resting in peace finally...
Finely, I found it! This was a song my grandmother (1909 - 2008) played on her organ and I have a recording, I always wondered what the name was and what the words were, this was one of my favorites. I thought the name of it was "why don 't you call me sweetheart".
She probably mixed this song with another song called "Let me call you sweetheart (Im in love with you)" sung by Henry Burr and played by the Peerless Quartet it was charted at #1 in November 1911. Written by Leo Friedman and Beth Slater Whitson. That song quickly became a standard and has been recorded by hundreds of artists. You can find titles on both 4 minute Edison's and Victor. Edit: both songs do sound similar
It's so pretty song!
Wow your bloodline could last to 99yrs old, my ancestors never even got to the age of 65
I know it's seven years later, but would you mind posting it? I'd love to hear!
@@firenzeval I have already bought a tape to digital deck and put it on my files, I just don't have it on this computer right now but I guess I could get around to it. It's on my old Mac and that thing freezes up if left on more than 10 minutes, it's as creepy as an abandoned house.
Hi all!
My great grandmother Gladys Earlcott was a chorine in THE WIZARD OF OZ in 1905. During the time she was in the show, Reine Davies was one of the performers who played Dorothy. I love learning this stuff and I'm so please to hear this recording. Thank you for posting this song!
😊 😊 I'm very pls to know I'm not the only one that loves😍 👆 the song but when last did you play it 💖
Meet me tonight in Dreamland
Under the silv'ry moon
Meet me tonight in Dreamland
Where love's sweet roses bloom
Come with the love light gleaming
In your dear eyes of blue
Meet me in Dreamland,
Sweet Dreamy Dreamland
There let my dreams come true
Again.......
Meet me tonight in Dreamland
Under the silv'ry moon
Meet me tonight in Dreamland
Where love's sweet roses bloom
Come with the love light gleaming
In your dear eyes of blue
Meet me in Dreamland,
Sweet Dreamy Dreamland
There let my dreams come true
Just sit back and listen,
One time through.
Let your memories
Take you back
When times were gentler.
OK Let's all sing again.
One last time.
Meet me tonight in Dreamland
Under the silv'ry moon
Meet me tonight in Dreamland
Where love's sweet roses bloom
Come with the love light gleaming
In your dear eyes of blue
Meet me in Dreamland,
Sweet Dreamy Dreamland
There let my dreams come true
Now, that's an oldie but a goodie! I always liked this song. I was born in the wrong time.
My father had a barbershop quartet in the 60s and they did a beautiful rendition full of harmonies
Henry Burr is awesome, he does this song and that intro song to Public Enemy, I'm always blowing bubbles.
Put yourself back into that time, a time when Coney Island's Dreamland existed. Imagine just how astonishing the sight was when you first entered the park under the nighttime skies, a sea of electric lights that could be viewed for miles. Dreamland was the pinnacle, the forefather of the theme park -- even before Disneyland.
One might wonder what a 21st century Dreamland would look like. Planet Coaster, anyone? lol
It took me a long time to realize the song was about the long-gone amusement park and not about sleep!
Henry Burr had a great voice. I love his records. One of the best is "Always". He made so many wonderful records.
I love Henry Burr's voice and records!
Why does he roll his "r's"? I assume that was taught in formal voice lessons but I don't know why that pronunciation was favored then.
@@karenryder6317 it's because he had two "rr"s in his last name
@@karenryder6317probably a combination of tradition and practicality. Europe was still considered the center of the musical world at the time, so their pronunciation and accent would’ve been taught in voice lessons. But also some of it just came down to the limits of technology at the time. Emphasizing and rolling the R’s probably made it come through clearer on those tinny sounding Victrola’s.
this song refers to dreamland in coney island. it was an amazing amusement park with a million light bulbs. the next year in 1911 the night before opening day it burned down and was never rebuilt. :(
This is a common misunderstanding. This song was introduced in 1903, seven or eight years before the opening of Dreamland in Coney Island, one of the most beautiful amusement parks ever built. Those who saw it all lit up say there was never anything like it again. See the article in wikipedia about the song.
a-ha thanks for the clarification. perhaps the amusement park even named itself dreamland because of the song then. i know dreamland burned down in 1911, but when did it open?
dream land burned down in 1911. not opened. check your research and get back to me
According to Wikipedia, Dreamland opened in 1904. It was being renovated for the 1911 season when it burned down. Thanks, though, for the information. I hadn't heard of the park before
Aben Rudy
Coney between 1905 and 1910 was the most incredible place on the entire world. I'm in a constant day dream of imagining I was alive in the 1910's and all the incredible stories lost in the winds of time forever. It's almost like it never existed now, and we're barely a hundred years in the future.
Tonight I feel as though I went back 110 years and only 1thing is for sure, love us all we have
This seemed very similar to "Let Me Call you Sweetheart" and so I learned that the music was written by the same composer.
It was also used as background music for the 1953 movie, "Houdini" with Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh.
Yes. I just got the DVD the other day. That's why I'm here. I wanted to know the exact title of the song.
I just got this sheetmusic and framed it, I had no idea it sounded so beautiful! I love the static sound.
Love the crusty sound through out it!
109 years from now
Whitson and Friedman collaborated on this and the publishers screwed them out of every cent! They got even a year or so later with "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" the smash hit again and rode into immortality. Two blockbusters in 3 years. Whew!!
Snarky FourSeven - to expand slightly, according to an old songbook I have, yes, they sold rights to this song cheap. When they wrote “Sweetheart” a year later, they’d gotten wise and contracted for royalties. 5 million or so copies sold, so they did okay in the end!
very good
I found an American Victorian Era music with this as the first song, what a nice find! Now I'm ready to start on my new copy of Gone with the wind
So agree with the liner notes here...I always remember the Judy Garland movie: "In the Good Old Summertime" :---)
2020 he still lives on
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Believe Luna Park opened about 1904, different from Dreamland. Never knew about Dreamland's unfortunate fate (?). My grandfather was a musician in the 20s & played gigs at Luna Park. Talked about it constantly. Great song. Classic.
Handsome... i miss this year
Namiss kaba??
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Dreamland burned, as Jack from Manhattan says, opening day of 1911, but Luna park lasted until 1944 when it burned--Steeplechase park (named for the scary mechanical horse ride) lasted until the mid-60's when it was torn down--the face shown on Jack from Manhattan's postings is the cartoon face logo of Steeplechase Park, supposedly based on the owner, George C. Tilyou
I love this playlist. How lucky I am to be able to listen to its contents
That was wonderful, JavonnasMarie. We are, in our emotions, keeping an eternal present.
Judy Garland sings this song in the 1949 MGM film In The Good Old Summertime.
Henry go burr😂
“It was the same walk night after night-a long, long walk to Cora’s house on Devoe Street and then home. I never stopped to ring the door bell and have a chat with her. I was content to merely walk slowly past her home in the hope of seeing her shadow in the parlor window. I never did, not once in the three or four years during which I performed this crazy ritual.”
Henry Miller used to play this song on piano thinking of his first love...
"Dreaming of yoooou, That's all I dooooo..."
😊 😊 I'm very pls to know I'm not the only one that loves😍 👆 the song but when last did you play it 💖
The vinyl is louder than the recording ... lol
I honestly love that! It makes it more vintage sounding. I'm 29 years old, but I love anything vintage, whether it be books, films, clothes, music, etc...
Awesome!
Oh my God, you are old
Thumbs up if it's already 2013! ;)
2020 now and this music still rocks!
@EdisonSquirrel One of my favorite songs from 1910.
Ooo my jam
One of the songs played by the band on the Titanic.
titanic museum brought me here .. this song was on the original track list of the band that played on the titanic ..
Im making a steampunk radio so I can carry it when Im in EPCON (El Paso Comic Con) Im going to have Henry Burr music playing threw it. I cant wait.
Before the microphone allowed ordinary speech to be clearly understood in all corners of a theater, enunciation like this was required. The mechanical recordings of the 10 and 20's were not capable of reproducing tones of the normal voice. Once electrical recording was created, singers like Bing Crosby began singing with normal enunciation but even his early records have some of this old technique. Then Frank Sinatra came along and perfected "natural' pronouncing and changed popular singing.
Imagine if this guy knew this music would be received by people in this way in the year 2024, he probably would have shat himself
If you are wondering,this song was played every night in Coney Island,just as the original Dreamland Park was about to close
i needed this for my OCE:/
I'm using this for a school project
Thanks to Tiny Tim for mentioning this great song.
Billy Murray fan learn how to spell and how to talk, then get back to me
Billy Murray fan his music is like wine. Some people just can't stand it while others enjoy it occasionally
love this song. That's really when music was music. Is this where they got the name for that secret base in Nevada?
Then wasn't it at the end of the '11 season, it buned to the ground? :( :( I have vague memories of Astroland..NOT the same, but at least I rode the Wonder Wheel and Cyclone in my life. The NY Aquarium now occupies the dreamland site. :)
That was beautiful! Where did you find that?
@Kittielips You're very welcome!
You can't beat Judy's
I say my dear fellows. Has anyone seen a man called Jim The Vampire? You best steer clear of that man.
Attention, everyone on this thread: Despite what you have read, this beauiful song DID NOT "CHART!" There was no such thing as "charting" this far back in the record industry! The technology for charting didn't even exist at the time! The man who wrote a book (under two different titles!) in which he listed "chartings" for thousands of records was probably accurate for the listings from about 1935 on (IIRC), but for records made before that, he made up the fake charts based somewhat on other sources which did not make any mention of comparison charting!
I know this from decades of record research and from consulting with other experts on the subject. We were / ARE all in agreement that the so-called "chart" references for the early years shown in these books are FAKE! Again, the "charts" didn't EXIST back then!!!
@frsdonahue The year I use in the title, and for all my postings, refers to the date of the recording, or the year that the recording was a hit. Often both.
EATEOT with voices brought me here
What?
Tiny Tim referred me here.
Cats , where can I find the complete lyrics for meet me tonight in Dreamland?
I've also paired this song with a song that wasn' t used in the Disney film Sleeping Beauty.. ( Go To Sleep).
@Cybergamer57 Glad I could be of assistance!
You can tell where Tiny Tim got his feel and style. A tenor though. lol
Creepy good!
mmmh
Oh, Mr. Cat Pj, I will be in Dream Land TOOooo!!! With you, if your dance card is not filled up...Aaaahhh,,, the vapours....
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It almost sounds like Homer Simpson with a singing voice. I mean that respectfully
Well, Cats . . . are you saying that Billboard magazine was "charting" record sales as far back as 1910? I'd like to hear some facts to back-up this assertion.
And Janet . . . do you have the "vapours" because some "masher" was "PITCHING WOO?" That's the CAT'S MEOOW! 23 SKIDOO! Hello Central, get me DR. JAZZ!
Gary in Arizona
What accent is this?
It is called a Trans Atlantic or Mid Atlantic accent. It was used by performers on both sides of the Atlantic to accentuate sound so they could be understood by more people. It was introduced into schools as well to create a more polished class of upward movers. There is a Wikipedia page about it. We had presidents that used it.
I believe he was Canadian
Did Al Jolson do this song?
I don't remember him doing it. It's possible he did it on a radio broadcast at some point, but he never recorded it.
does anyone have a better recording?
What are you talking about, this is fantastic..the static is what makes it great
@@enrique88005exactly man. it’s such a comfortable feeling characteristic in music.
Everywhere at the end of time be like
It isn’t the same song. The song sampled for Everywhere at the End of Time is called Heartaches, not sure which recording he used though. While it’s great you seem to appreciate the music older folk might be angry at older music being associated with modern media.
@@MWM499 because of Modern Media, I found beautiful songs that I had never heard before, and wouldn’t even search for before the caretaker’s album
@@Niiiko895 That’s great to hear, I love that more people are discovering older music because of samples being used in more modern songs.
@@MWM499 there's an E.A.T.E.O.T Fan project that used this track , it came from Dante Timberwolf's E.A.T.E.O.T With voices (the old version) .
Robert Hirsch! I'd love to chat with you!
Hey Hollywood! I want to hear this in a horror movie. Call it "Dream Land" a place we all love and fear. No happy ending please. No horror movie should ever have a happy ending. Blood, extreme gore and fear. 3 things everyone should experience in a horror film. If possible it should give even the strongest of people nightmares. Fuck, I should make movies.
Jonah Hill
Why does this man sound like Sacha Baron Cohen to me?