1931 Smith Ballew (as ‘Buddy Blue’) - I Found A Million Dollar Baby (In A Five And Ten Cent Store)
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- Опубліковано 13 вер 2024
- The familiar 1931 song hit was written for “Billy Rose’s Crazy Quilt,” a 79-performance 1931 revue that featured Fanny Brice, Phil Baker, and Ted Healy among the cast. See also my posts of the song by:
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Transferred from 78rpm Crown 3149 - I Found A Million Dollar Baby (In A Five And Ten Cent Store) (Rose-Dixon-Warren) by Buddy Blue and His Texans (Smith Ballew), recorded in NYC May 1931 .
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When i got married for the first time in 1931....they sang that song for me and my old lady...
Wow!
If you don't mind my asking, how many years have you lived? Or when were you born?
Wow!! Never heard this version. It's my favorite now.
🙂really wish we still had public singsongs, tea dances, dances at the end of the piers, pianos in pubs etc, the old vaudeville i suppose. Just as antidote to C20th. Properly feel good factor from this song. Thank you.
A real Great Depression song!
I've gotta say, this part at 0:35 with the accordion is my favourite part in this song,
Great song
Wonderful version! Thank you for posting.
My pleasure! Glad that you like it.
My favorite take is The Bozzies' and then Bing's, but Smith, too, makes a charming dime store patron. With his good looks, we can imagine that he would have caught the eye of many a saleslady -- even before she'd heard his clear and earnest tones. Nice bass clarinet here, too.
My favourite is also the Bozzies take. I do wish they'd been given more than just the one chorus, though. This is rather charming, too. I like the more relaxed tempo compared to Al Bowlly's version with Roy Fox, which swings joyously, but just lacks the intimacy of this, and the Sisters treatment. Agree about the bass clarinet-a much underused instrument.
@@Phaaschh Yes, I like the Fox take too, but I do believe that Al, despite his fine interpretation and phrasing, is somewhat hampered by that brisk tempo. ... Also, yes, one chorus limited the Bozzies' ability to "mess around," as the hep folks say.
A 33rpm album came out in 1988 to commemorate Irving Berlin's 100th birthday. The Boswell Sisters' version of this song was one included on one of the tracks. A local AM radio station in our town, which used to play music on a morning news-weather-sports-information program, for an entire month featured a song off the album every day. Now that station is just talk, talk, talk all day and night every single day. So tired of that format. I grew up listening to great radio when most stations had "block programming". And listeners could phone the station, speak to the person in charge playing music, and request a certain song be played (which usually got air play soon after the request was made). The 2nd half of the last century was a great time to be young.
Splendid!
I LOVE THIS RECORD! The first version I ever heard of this AWESOME Song was by Victor Young`s Orchestra with the Boswell Sisters on the vocal, Then Bing Crosby`s GREAT Version, Both on Brunswick Records, CROWN Records have a sound all their own, And A GREAT Sound at that!
Love it!
Very rare recording. In great shape. Thank you so well for preserving the record.
Great!
Thanks for posting this. One of my favorite songs from the 1930's. I play all your postings on my Sony BRAVIA Smart TV stereo system. And enjoy all of your uploads.
My pleasure. So glad that you're enjoying the music!
Please, keep posting more Smith Ballew, many people are unaware of his great work! He became a singing cowboy in motion picture, if I’m not mistaken.?.?
By the mid-1930's, he was in Hollywood, appearing in "B" westerns.
Didn't RUDY VALEE also do this song? RIght up his alley....
Well! A lot of pluses for this one. No frills arrangement. Great solo use of bass clarinet (one of my horns). Good, straight vocal by SB. During my collecting days, Crowns were very scarce Any idea how were they sold in retail?
Does anybody else hate Grammerly?
Shakespeare also hates Grammarly too.
Super tune by Mr Smith & His Texana, excellent sound quality, thank you for sharing & for keeping the music alive. I appreciate the effort you take to add these amazing tunes to UA-cam.
Our pleasure! Thanks for listening.