1940 Songs

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Pages: 27. Chapters: How High the Moon, Key to the Highway, Blueberry Hill, Imagination, It Hurts Me Too, New San Antonio Rose, Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered, B same Mucho, When You Wish upon a Star, A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square, By the Sleepy Lagoon, It's a Great Day for the Irish, Down the Road a Piece, Let There Be Love, Rose, Rose, I Love You, Scrub Me Mama with a Boogie Beat, Don't You Lie to Me, Min soldat, Taking a Chance on Love, Mar chal, nous voil !, Because of You, The Breeze and I, Don't Get Around Much Anymore, You Stepped Out of a Dream, It Never Entered My Mind, Union Maid, Frenesi, Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar, Fools Rush In, Cotton Tail, There'll Always Be an England, Playmates, After Hours, I've Got No Strings, The Last Time I Saw Paris, I Concentrate on You, If I Could Tell You, Only Forever, This Is My Country, Song of Liberty, May the Good Lord Bless and Keep You, Disseram que Voltei Americanizada, Everything Happens to Me, I Could Write a Book, Polka Dots and Moonbeams, Happiness is a Thing Called Joe, Remind Me, All Too Soon, The Woodpecker Song, I Hear Music, Angel in Disguise. Excerpt: "How High the Moon" is a jazz standard with lyrics by Nancy Hamilton and music by Morgan Lewis. It was first featured in the 1940 Broadway revue Two for the Show, where it was sung by Alfred Drake and Frances Comstock. In "Two for the Show," this was a rare serious moment in an otherwise humorous revue. The song was sung, in a slow fox trot tempo, by a group of evening-dressed people walking along a London street. At the end, they all looked at the sky, and cowered, obviously terrified: quick curtain. It was 1940, and the time of the London blitz: a clear night meant "bomber's moon." The earliest recorded hit version was by Benny Goodman & His Orchestra. It was recorded...