Grace Hayes - I Must Have That Man (1928)
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- I Must Have That Man
Words by Dorothy Fields, music by Jimmy McHugh
Vocal by Grace Hayes
Orchestra conducted by Nathaniel Shilkret
Recorded August 6, 1928
Victor 21571
American singer/actress Grace Hayes (1895-1989) was a popular chanteuse and vaudeville performer during the 1920s and 1930s. She started her film career in 1930 appearing opposite Paul Whiteman in The King of Jazz. She appeared occasionally in films after that through 1950. As a singer, some of her better known songs include "I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby" and "Sunny Side of the Street." In the 1940s, she established the star-studded San Fernando Valley hot-spot-- the Grace Hayes Lodge-- where she also performed.
"I Must Have That Man" was written by the prolific song-writing team of Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Fields for the Broadway musical "Blackbirds of 1928." Blackbirds was the title of a series of musicals with all-black performers, produced and directed by Lew Leslie, a former vaudevillian. The shows were presented from the late 1920s through the 1930s. The most successful of Leslie's productions , Blackbirds of 1928, starred Adelaide Hall and featured Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, whose dancing was a hit with audiences and critics alike. Other famous songs included "Diga Diga Do" and "I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby"
Now THAT'S a torch song...
she had a wonderful voice and never got the recognition she deserved. Most people have never heard of her. What a pity. Wish she recorded a lot more in the late 1920s and early 1930's.
By the time she got popular, she went into radio, after 1930, Victor, Columbia and Brunswick had cleared their rosters of their highest paid performers. She was born in 1895 and died in 1989. She was the mother of Peter Lind Hayes, born 1916.
She has a new fan tonight.... what a beautiful voice she had.
That's the clearest recording I've heard of this particular recording.
It shows that electric phonographs do wonders for Orthophonic recordings.
OH! She is SWEET! I LOVE THIS!!! I LOVE Your AWESOME Uploads! Indeed among the very top`s!
Still kicking myself I let this record go.
She's crazy, but love her anyway. Fine performance.
Very interesting. Nice version. First time I have run into this artist who had a complex life and career. I remember seeing her son, Peter Lind Hayes alot on television in the 1950s early 1960s. The most memorable versions of this song for me were Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald in the swing era along with the Adelaide Hall Duke Ellington version from 1933. Grace's version hasn't made it into Second hand Songs. They have at least 2 versions per decade from the 1920s to the 2010s. Does that make it a 2 hit standard?
I've got a Duke Ellington instrumental version from 1928. ua-cam.com/video/T0FDymSl4aw/v-deo.html
It should be in Second Hand songs.
It was really bad when her number was cut out in the king of Jazz, I think there were two numbers.She was relegated to be a character in the movie.