For reasons of nostalgia I hope someone can help me find the lyrics to a waltz from the period indicated.
I believe the title was.“My wonderful one”
There was a Glenn Miller instrumental of the song in the WW2 era.
And,if I can be greedy, does anyone recall the lyrics to “I’m through with love”
It’s a 20s/30s torch song.
Thank you
Try this site.
Bing Crosby had a hit with it in 1931 (the site calls it a “pitiful song.” Written by Gus Kahn.
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To Pesch.
Thank you----and you’re right----the song is no knee slapper
If ya want, I can get you endless Victorian/Edwardian song lyrics, I love 'em! I highly recommend the Web site http://www.tinfoil.com and the other muscal links therein, for reissues of original recordings (1890s–1940s) on cassette and CD.
—The Gibson Girl
For Pesch and Eve.
Back in the days when family entertainment was exactly that,and even radios were only one or two to a neighborhood, i was the family “boy soprano”.
Every once in a while an old refrain or parts of an old lyric attack me and I have to have an answer.
This is one of those times-----and I thank you for your interest and your help.
Ezstrete
Ezstrete—I was never even a “girl soprano,” but I am continually beseiged (mentally, at least) by such tunes as “If You Don’t Kiss a Girl in the Summertime,” “Waltz Me Around Again, Willie” and “The Bird on Nellie’s Hat.”
—They just don’t write 'em like that anymore [sez Eve, whistling “Farewell, My Lady Love” as she exits]
For Eve-----I recall them all ,and smile as I doff my hat
Just for Ezstrete—[in my Gibson Girl bathing costume, perched on a swing, swooping out over the audience; in my best Ada Jones voice]:
“If you can’t get a girl in the summertime, you’ll never get a girl at all!
Peaches are ripe in the summertime, and that’s the time they fall!
At the beaches—there’s a raft of them!
Lovely peaches—go right after them!
You’ll hear the wild waves saying, ‘go get them! go pet them!’
Don’t miss a kiss in the summertime, or you’ll never kiss a miss in the fall—
If you can’t get a girl in the summertime, you’ll never get a girl at all!”