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The Great Year of Musical Movies
The genre had been since a moment shunned by the public when was released 42nd Street. Warner Brothers which didn’t stop to get over a rough patch, banked their last dollars on this new musical. Bingo! This time, the bet was won. The movie attracted crowds of enthusiastic viewers excited by its "nonconformism" and audacity. It asserted itself as the unavoidable "musical movie" of the year while in another range, the audience shuddered for Fay Wray in King Kong's gigantic hand.
The success of 42nd Street acted as an cure to keep in good spirits at a time when everyone was down in the dumps. A new wind blew finally on a kind of movies from which the Great Depression had rather stayed away. Despite differences with producer Darryl Zanuck, the Warner studios wanted to take advantage of the craze generated by 42nd Street to insist by releasing simultaneously two new musicals conceived in the same spirit, The Gold Diggers of 1933 and Footlight Parade. Both would soon be tremendous hits.
Born respectively in 1904 and 1905 in a mining town deep in Virginia, Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey had ahead the way their father drew with a merciless rigor. Both musician and conductor, this one wanted to make his two sons recognized cornetists and kept them under his rule until these decide to emencipate and choose their own instrument. Jimmy turned to the clarinet and Tommy opted for the trombone. They knew already enough at age 17 to go and provide their services to the local radio stations. They so had their first hits from the late 20s due not only to their virtuosity but also their creativity.
Attracted by jazz, they joined in 1924 the New-York based California Ramblers and made in 1928 their first recordings, leaving the long over-subtle improvisations for a more structured, both tonic and melodic, seminal of swing.
Playing together led however to a relentless competition. Both perfectionists, it gradually became obvious that each one needed to impose his own mark on the group and that they would accordingly end up separating. This is what had to happen.
(Harry Revel Mack Gordon)
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The Boswell Sisters
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Coffee In The Morning And Kisses In The Night
(Harry Warren/Al Dubin)
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3
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Bing Crosby & The Dorsey Brothers
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4
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Cab Calloway
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Zah Zuh Zah
(Cab Calloway/Harry White)
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The Dorsey Brothers
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Stay On The Right Side Of The Road feat. Bing Crosby
(Arlen Koehler/Rube Bloom))
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6
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Chick Bullock
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(When It's) Darkness On The Delta
(Marty Simes/A.J. Neuberg/Jerry Levinson)
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7
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Bing Crosby
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Temptation
(Arthur Freed/Nacio Herb Brown)
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Benny Goodman
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Your Mother's Son-In- Law feat. Billie Holiday
(Alberta Nichols/Man Holiner)
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Ethel Waters & The Dorsey Brothers
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Stormy Weather
(Harold Arlen/Ted Koehler)
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Dick Powell & Ruby Keeler
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42nd Street
(Harry Warren/Al Dubin)
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Lee Wiley with Victor Young Orchestra
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I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues
(Harold Arlen/Ted Koehler)
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12
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Louis Armstrong
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Hobo, You Can't Ride This Train
(Louis Armstrong)
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Joan Blondell & Etta Moten
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Remember My Forgotten Man
(Harry Warren/Al Dubin)
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14
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Guy Lombardo & His Orchestra
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Young And Healthy feat. Bing Crosby
(Harry Warren/Al Dubin)
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15
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Don Bestor
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Who's Afraid Of The Big Bad Wolf
(Frank Churchill/Ann Rondell)
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Benny Goodman
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Riffin' The Scotch feat. Billie Holiday
(Johnny Mercer/Donald McDunnough)
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17
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Ruth Etting
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Close Your Eyes
(Bernice Petkere)
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18
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Cab Calloway
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Little Town Gal
(G.W. Wash-Burns/Jeanne Burns)
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19
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Glen Gray & The Casa Loma Orchestra
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Heatwave feat. Mildred Bailey
(Irving Berlin)
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20
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Ted Weems & His Orchestra
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The Boulevard OF Broken Dreams feat. Elmo Tanner
(Harry Warren/Al Dubin)
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21
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Glen Gray & The Casa Loma Orchestra
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Under A Blanket Of Blue feat. Kenny Sargent
(Marty Simes/A.J. Neuberg/Jerry Levinson)
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Rudy Vallee & His Connecticut Yankees
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Orchids In The Moonlight
(Edward Ilescu/Gus Kahn/Vincent Youmans)
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Don Bestor
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I've Got To Pass Your House feat. Neil Buckley
(Lew Brown)
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24
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The Mills Blue Rhythm Band
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Reaching For The Cotton Moon feat. Sally Gooding
(Green/Sam Step)
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25
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Ted Fio Rito
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Fly Away To Ioway feat. Bill Carey & The Debutantes
(LorenzHart/Richard Rodgers)
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26
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Guy Lombardo
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You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me feat. Bing Crosby
(Harry Warren/Al Dubin)
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27
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Freddy Martin
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Beautiful Girl feat. Tom Shand
(Arthur Freed/Nacio Herb Brown)
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28
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Leo Reisman
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Honeymoon Hotel feat. Frank Luther
(Harry Warren/Al Dubin)
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29
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The Mills Blue Rhythm Band
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Love's Serenade
(Bill Hayes/Irving Mills)
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30
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The Dorsey Brothers
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(I Can Make Most Anything But) I Can't Make A Man feat. Mildred Bailey
(Rube Bloom/Trummy Young)
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Louis Armstrong
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I Gotta Right Right To Sing The Blues
(Harold AZrlen/Ted Koehler)
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Duke Ellington
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Happy As The Day Is Long
(Harold Arlen/Ted Koehler)
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The Dorsey Brothers
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Mood Indigo feat. The Boswell Sisters
(Duke Ellington/Barney Bigard/Irving Mills)
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34
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Paul Whiteman
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Turn Back The Clock feat. Ramona Davies
(Mitchell Parish/Frank Perkins)
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35
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The Mills Brothers
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Smoke Rings
(Gene Gifford/Ned Washington)
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Ray Noble
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Dinner At Eight feat. Al Bowlly
(Dorothy Fields/Jimmy McHugh)
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Lee Wiley with Victor Young & His Serenaders
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You're An Old Smoothie
(Buddy DeSilva/Nacio Herb Brown/Richard A. Whiting)
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38
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Louis Armstrong
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I've Got The World On A String
(Harold Arlen/Ted Koehler)
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Mae West
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I Want You, I Need You
(Harry Brooks/Alain Dubois/Ben Harrison)
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The Dorsey Brothers
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Lazy Bones feat. Mildred Bailey
(Johnny Mercer/Hoagy Carmichael)
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