Lee Morse - Moonlight On The River 1932 Bud Green Songs

Columbia (2705-D) Song written by Bud Green. Flipside to "Something In The Night". (Rare Lee Morse Songs)
Lena Corinne "Lee" Morse (née Taylor; November 30, 1897 - December 16, 1954) was an American jazz and blues singer-songwriter, composer, guitarist, and actress. Morse's greatest popularity was in the 1920s and early 1930s as a torch singer, although her career began around 1917 and continued until her death in 1954.
Morse was known for her strong, deep singing voice and vocal range, which often belied her petite frame. She possessed a contralto vocal range, and one of her trademarks was her unique style of yodeling. Recording over 200 songs over her career, Morse was one of the most recorded female singers of the 1920s. She was also moderately successful as an actress on the Broadway stage. Her life and career, however, were marred by alcoholism. Morse's' group the Blue Grass Boys had no relation neither to their later namesake of Bill Monroe nor bluegrass music.
Although Morse's Broadway prospects had dimmed by the 1930s, she could still be seen in a number of musical film shorts, including A Million Me's (Paramount, April 25, 1930), The Music Racket (Vitaphone, June 30, 1930), and Song Service (Paramount, October 24, 1930).
Morse was born Lena Corinne Taylor on November 30, 1897 in Cove, Oregon.
Morse died on December 16, 1954 in Rochester while visiting a neighbor. She was 57 years old. She is interred at the Riverside Cemetery.
Bud Green (born Moses David Green: 19 November 1897 - 2 January 1981) was an American songwriter.
In his early career, he wrote material for vaudevilles. He was a staff writer for music publishers and wrote Broadway stage scores as well as songs for other musicals.
By 1928, he had written "Alabamy Bound" and "That's My Weakness Now", which became a huge hit for Ukulele Ike and Helen Kane. (Both of these songs are on my channel as well.)
He also wrote:
"Do Something"
"Good Little, Bad Little You"
"Oh Boy, What a Girl"
"Dream Sweetheart"
At 21, Bud Green married a girl from the Ziegfeld Follies, Nan Hinken, they were together until her death in the early 1960s. After selling his company, Green moved his family to Yonkers, New York, where he lived the rest of his life commuting to NYC every day.
Green died in Yonkers, New York, in 1981.
Lyrics:
I still remember a ling'ring kiss
A night divine
I sill remember a moment's bliss
And you all mine
Though only mem'ries remain
I live them over again
Moonlight on the river
Starlight in the sky
You and I in heaven
Then a parting sigh
Though our dreams are over
Dreams that were to be
Moonlight on the river
Brings you back to me
Lah-dah-dah-lah-dah-dah-dah-dah
Lah-dah-dah-dah-dah
Lah-dah-dah-lah-dah-dah-dah-dah
Lah-dah-dah-lah-dah-dah
Though our dreams are over
Dreams that were to be
Moonlight on the river
Brings you back to me

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So dreamy & romantic in a sad sort of way. Love the way she sings.

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Another "thank you" to warholsoup100. Keep it up!

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Damn, as if I didn’t already have a reason to be depressed

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Us south Florida people prefer Moon Over Miami.. No rivers close by