Alice Faye - "Wake Up and Live" (1937)
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- Опубліковано 15 сер 2009
- Alice Faye was one of the most popular musical stars in the golden era of Hollywood.
From the late 1930s to the mid-1940s she was a top box- office attraction in such films as Alexander's Ragtime Band and That Night in Rio, and composers Jule Styne and Irving Berlin were among those who praised her melodic distinctively throaty crooning style. Among the songs she introduced on screen was the 1944 Oscar-winner "You'll Never Know" which became permanently identified with her.
Alice Faye Personal Quote:
"Six films I made with Don Ameche and, in every one of them, my voice was deeper than the plot."
Alice was the first female crooner in the movies and led the way for women to sell the popular song on screen.
She also changed the image of the leading lady in the movie musical and introduced a depth and sincerity in her roles which shown through.
At her best she could break one's heart singing in beautifully lit giant close-ups which helped her become one of the major Hollywood stars.
Alice Faye (May 5, 1915 - May 9, 1998) US actress and singer. She was born Alice Jeane Leppert in New York City and made her entertainment debut as a chorus girl on Vaudeville, moving on to Broadway in the George White Scandals.
Adopting her stage name, Faye came to prominence on radio in The Fleischmann Hour (1932-1934) with Rudy Vallee and his Connecticut Yankees. Vallee had also appeared in the George White Scandals of 1931.
Tribute to Alice Faye
SONGBIRD
When a songbird is released
from her cage to fly away,
We are sad, because we are left
with an emptiness
And we deeply miss
her lovely, cheerful song.
But think of the bird!
The bird is free!
And she still sings.
--Father Bob Curtis
I just started to listen 🎶 to her first time ever heard of her. Great singer.
Alice Faye has been among my favourite singers since I heard her rendition of "You'll Never Know".
She was just great.
This is a wonderful post, and I thank you for sharing.
One of the most gorgeous and talented singers ever. Have been trying to get a copy of a movie about air racers, (tailspin) that I saw when I was a kid.
I've really never heard a better singer (and can't imagine one either)!
i love this song :). i'm young, but this is amazing
This is on one of the first film compilation LP's I bought in the 60's- great song & lovely lady.
One of the finest movie musicals ever made. Tops on my list!
She was my favorite when I saw her in Shirley Temple's Poor Little Rich Girl! :) I'm currently obsessed with her songs from this movie.
Cole Porter praised Faye as the best female singer of the 30's and Irving Berlin said her singing ensured the success of any song. Harry Revel and Mack Gordon composed the score for this movie. There are about a dozen songs. Faye's rendition of "The Lull in My Life" is outstanding.
I really like this upbeat song, I;m glad you put this up. The 1930's was before my time, but is my favorite era of music. I think the 1930's had a style and sound all of it's own. I also like a lot of the late 1920's.
Great favorite of the RAF even before the war began.
Great happy song..Rememer those..
yes, I agree, any other like this you recommend?
So cheerful I love it
This musical is based on Dorothea Brande's book Wake Up and Live (Success book). I'm hoping to find more here on youtube. The internet is AMAZING I tell ya!
A rousing song anticipating the Swing era. Remarkable how young people then could sing such songs not rock and roll, blues, or country yet so-o timeless!
Love it!!
Thank you so much for posting Alice (whom I adore) and other great moments with other stars. I wish there was a library of all her performances.
i love the film this comes from
Thank you SO MUCH! I have been looking for this song for years and never knew the title. You made my day, thank you! Sucha wonderful message.
@Jeano1965 I couldnt agree more! I also wish i had a time machine to go back and steal her away from Phil Harris! Ha! Im only 33 so wasnt around for the golden era of hollywood. Thanks to posts like this i can see all i missed.
Alice Faye's singing is tremendously underrated; she really was great.
I'm sort of surprised that after she quit films she didn't make for more of a singing career; we'd have more of a legacy of her this way.
Roberta Peters sang this on the Tonight Show. .Faye works it nicely. .
reply to Debi Scott ..... I ordered a copy of the film from "Loving the Classics" .... I believe this is the only song that Alice sings in that film. I was quite disappointed in that as I, too, love her singing.....
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Is there ANY WAY I can get to see this movie??? Seems the movie is as rare as "hens teeth"!! Can't even get the sheet music for this song, as I understand it is NOT YET in the public domain!! Thanks for posting this great song!
I'll give a dollar to anyone who figures out the chords
Despite being married, she was a homosexual. Loved pussy.
I just wanted to say that Rose of Washington Square still haunts me. Horrible, horrible rendition she did in that movie. Cute girl, but folks, she could not sing. Period.
Was very rough trade, too.
lol!