My Melancholy BabyPub Date : 2021-06-28DOI: 10.14325/mississippi/9781496834294.003.0006
Michael G. Garber
{"title":"“Let Me Call You Sweetheart” and Competition-as-Muse","authors":"Michael G. Garber","doi":"10.14325/mississippi/9781496834294.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496834294.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"This is the fourth of six chapters tracing how waltzes often became performed as duple-meter tunes, inflected with jazz style, via the collective innovation of the performance tradition. A concluding subsection explores the link between these songs and the lullaby, homecoming, and images of the torch and lovelight. Tennessee poet Beth Slater Whitson and Illinois composer Leo Friedman were cheated by Chicago publisher Will Rossiter; and therefore instead took “Let Me Call You Sweetheart” (1910) to Harold Rossiter, thus becoming part of a bitter brotherly feud. It sold six-million sheet music copies; endures as a singalong and Valentine’s Day favorite; became associated with the blues; and, analyzed here, is a pure love waltz sometimes converted into a swing tune by bands, crooners, and rock-and-rollers. Whitson’s fully personal lyric contributed to an increased intimacy in the genre. The discussion analyzes its use in movies, including Barney’s Big Adventure and The Rose.","PeriodicalId":247541,"journal":{"name":"My Melancholy Baby","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122017956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“KISS ME AGAIN” AND THE WISDOM OF WITMARK","authors":"Michael G. Garber","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1s5nx5h.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1s5nx5h.9","url":null,"abstract":"This is the second of six chapters tracing how waltzes often became performed as duple-meter tunes, inflected with jazz style, via the collective innovation of performance tradition. The operetta composer Victor Herbert, with lyricist Henry Blossom, wrote “Kiss Me Again” as the “sensuous waltz” to climax multiple refrains within “If I Were on the Stage” (from Mlle. Modiste, 1905). Herbert takes his initial motif from “Córdoba” (1898) by Isaac Albéniz—another example of collective innovation. The tune is a harbinger of many later arching melodies; and the lyric, of other, later, importunate romantic pleas. The song became widely popular once the publisher (another collaborative force) made its writers create a verse about lost love. The number is primarily done by operatic singers, but also by crooners, commented on here, including Frank Sinatra. The chapter analyzes the four uses of the song in the 1931 movie musical Kiss Me Again.","PeriodicalId":247541,"journal":{"name":"My Melancholy Baby","volume":"192 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114205607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“THE SWEETHEART OF SIGMA CHI” AND THE POWER OF A SUBCULTURE","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1s5nx5h.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1s5nx5h.13","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":247541,"journal":{"name":"My Melancholy Baby","volume":"353 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116889177","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“LET ME CALL YOU CALL YOU SWEETHEART” AND COMPETITION-AS-MUSE","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1s5nx5h.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1s5nx5h.11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":247541,"journal":{"name":"My Melancholy Baby","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133001055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
My Melancholy BabyPub Date : 2021-06-28DOI: 10.14325/mississippi/9781496834294.003.0011
Michael G. Garber
{"title":"“You Made Me Love You”","authors":"Michael G. Garber","doi":"10.14325/mississippi/9781496834294.003.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496834294.003.0011","url":null,"abstract":"“You Made Me Love You” (1913) became indelibly associated with three performers. Clarified is its chronology in Al Jolson’s repertoire and his influence on how it was performed and printed. In 1937, it launched Judy Garland’s fame, with an introduction addressed to “Dear Mr. Gable” that made the song about the relationship of performer and audience. This manifests in its use in films (Love Me or Leave Me; Xanadu) and the work of performance artist David Hoyle. In 1941, it boosted trumpeter Harry James to stardom. Through reception studies, the song’s place in individual lives is explored, illuminating a novel by Joanna Goodman and autobiography of Shirley Cunningham. The work’s elements are analyzed, emphasizing their ambiguous depiction of mixed emotions, sexual desire, and humor. Fleshed out is the song’s place in the careers of composer Jimmy Monaco and lyricist Joseph McCarthy – and in the development of chansons-realiste and torch songs.","PeriodicalId":247541,"journal":{"name":"My Melancholy Baby","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114389445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“WHEN I LOST YOU” AND THE MUSE OF FRIENDSHIP","authors":"Michael G. Garber","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1s5nx5h.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1s5nx5h.15","url":null,"abstract":"This concludes the series of six chapters tracing how waltzes often became performed as duple-meter tunes, inflected with jazz style, via the collective innovation of performance tradition. Irving Berlin wrote “When I Lost You” (1912) after his first wife’s death, encouraged by his brother-in-law, E. Ray Goetz. This chapter clarifies the chronology of that year’s events and refutes claims about the song’s uniqueness in Berlin’s early career. The tune foreshadowed his famous series of 1920s waltzes starting with “What’ll I Do,” also written while vacationing with Goetz. These, with their intensified intimacy and ready adaptation to four-four jazzy treatment, in turn foreshadowed the famous later waltzes of Richard Rodgers and the modern jazz era. This discussion analyzes the song’s elements, the influences on Berlin, and how his waltz melodies often start with upward moving intervals. One, “Always” (1925) is analyzed as used in the film noir Christmas Holiday (1944).","PeriodicalId":247541,"journal":{"name":"My Melancholy Baby","volume":"193 S1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120842751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
My Melancholy BabyPub Date : 2021-06-28DOI: 10.14325/mississippi/9781496834294.003.0007
Michael G. Garber
{"title":"“Some of These Days”","authors":"Michael G. Garber","doi":"10.14325/mississippi/9781496834294.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496834294.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter focuses on “Some of These Days” (1910), an American songwriting landmark. Its accepted origin story is refuted. In an example of collective innovation, performer-composer-lyricist Shelton Brooks (a Canadian Native American and African American) borrowed his initial motif and words from “Some o’ Dese Days” (1905), by Frank Williams.The lifelong theme of Sophie Tucker, the song is a jazz standard, notably revived by Bobby Darin. It contributed to the evolution of the genre by depicting internal conflict. Analysis of its elements reveals the piece’s complexity; this is also explored in a reception study. Print and performance tradition variants are detailed. Both in Jean-Paul Sartre’s novel Nausea and in movies (Rose-Marie; Only Angels Have Wings; All That Jazz; Beyond the Sea), it is imbued with symbolic importance, explored further in a conclusion drawing on poetry and philosophy.","PeriodicalId":247541,"journal":{"name":"My Melancholy Baby","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124981728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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