Song

Here is a selection of likely pieces to have been included at a concert given during the early 1900s by the band of John Philip Sousa, easily the most famous musical group of its day. Typically these concerts included arrangements of popular operatic and symphonic airs, original marches penned byContinue Reading

Songs popular during the Easter Rising all over Ireland Youtube Playlist (click top right icon for songtitles)  Continue Reading

Alec Wilder in his book American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950 says, “‘This Can’t Be Love’ is a splendid song, a great illustration of control, direction, choice, and what I might call essence…. The song has that glow about it which suggests great fun in the writing of it.”Continue Reading

Sentimental Journey” is a popular song, published in 1944. The music was written by Les Brown and Ben Homer, and the lyrics were written by Bud Green. Les Brown and His Band of Renown had been performing the song, but were unable to record it because of the 1942–44 musicians’Continue Reading

Like virtually all of Harry Warren’s songs, “There Will Never Be Another You” was written for a motion picture, in this case for Iceland (1942), a forgettable movie that featured ice skating star Sonja Henie. In the movie, Joan Merrill renders the song twice in a nightclub scene, once inContinue Reading

This famous song Fascinating Rhythm comes from Lady, Be Good!, the equally famous show of 1924, starring Fred Astaire and his sister, Adele, which opened on Broadway right in the middle of the post–World War I period. Among the events on the international scene in 1924: Stalin’s ascendance to power;Continue Reading

Chas. K. Harris. Copyrighted Nov. 12, 1892/ by Chas. K. Harris & Co., Milwaukee, Wis. First edition: Front cover has a drawing of sunbursts and leaves and is purple, red and white. No photograph on the front cover, which is completely different from subsequent covers; the front cover of theContinue Reading

This song was composed for a smoking concert at Trinity College, Dublin, in 1877.  The song was first published by the author and Archie West, a college friend, in Dublin in 1877 under the above title, but no trace of this edition has been found. The song was not copyrightedContinue Reading

Alec Wilder in his book American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900-1950 says, “‘This Can’t Be Love’ is a splendid song, a great illustration of control, direction, choice, and what I might call essence…. The song has that glow about it which suggests great fun in the writing of it.” HeContinue Reading