| 词条 | My Melancholy Baby |
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| filename = My Melancholy Baby - Walter Van Brunt.ogg | title = My Melancholy Baby | description = Sung by Walter Van Brunt in 1915. (Edison Blue Amberol 2542) | format = Ogg }}"My Melancholy Baby" is a popular song published in 1912 and first sung publicly by William Frawley. The music was written by Ernie Burnett (1884–1959), the lyrics by George A. Norton (1880–1923).[1] BackgroundErnie Burnett, who composed the music, was wounded fighting in the First World War, and he lost his memory and his identity dog tags. While recuperating in hospital, a pianist entertained the patients with popular tunes including "Melancholy Baby". Burnett rose from his sickbed and exclaimed, "That's my song!" He had regained his memory.[2] William Frawley versionWilliam Frawley, who played Fred Mertz on I Love Lucy, stated that he was the first person to perform the song publicly, in 1912 in the Mozart Cafe at 1647 Curtis Street in Denver, Colorado. Frawley revealed this during a May 3, 1965, appearance on the TV game show I've Got a Secret.[3]In 1958, Frawley performed the song again on the Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour on the episode "Lucy Goes to Sun Valley". Frawley, as Fred Mertz, was asked by Ricky to perform "an old-fashioned ballad" for his band's appearance on a TV show. Mertz sang the song in the rehearsal scene for the musical number.[4] Other performancesThe song was recorded by Walter Van Brunt (1915), Gene Austin (1928), Jane Froman for Decca (1934), Al Bowlly (1935), and Teddy Wilson.[5] The song can be heard often throughout the 1939 Warner Brothers gangster movie The Roaring Twenties, where a vocal rendition of the song is performed by costar Priscilla Lane.[6] Bing Crosby recorded the song for Decca Records on December 12, 1938[7] and it reached number 14 in the charts of the day.[5] Crosby sang the song in the 1941 Oscar-nominated movie Birth of the Blues.[8]Harry James recorded a version in 1941 on Columbia.[9]In the 1942 film Johnny Eager, the song was played during the opening and closing credits, as background music throughout the film, and as dance music by the band at Tony Luce's place. It was not credited. The song appears both incidentally and in thematic background variations in the musical score of Fritz Lang's 1945 film Scarlet Street starring Joan Bennett and Edward G. Robinson. Judy Garland sang it during the "Born in a Trunk" sequence in the 1954 movie A Star Is Born after a drunken man persistently shouted, "Sing 'Melancholy Baby'!" In the same year John Serry Sr. arranged and recorded the song for his swing jazz accordion ensemble for radio broadcasts on NBC. Tommy Edwards' version of the song, from his album For Young Lovers,[10] reached No. 15 in the U.S. Music Vendor charts in 1959. External links
References1. ^My Melancholy Baby. Library of Congress. Retrieved on 2010-12-06. 2. ^{{cite book|last1=Furia|first1=Philip|last2=Lasser|first2=Michael|title=America's Songs: The Stories Behind the Songs of Broadway, Hollywood, and Tin Pan Alley|date=2006|publisher=Routledge|location=New York|isbn=0-415-97246-9|page=8}} 3. ^{{cite web |editor-last=Kerr |editor-first=Grady |url=http://spebsqsa.s3.amazonaws.com/Preservation%20January%202011%20FINAL.pdf |title=William Frawley's Got A Secret |magazine=Preservation - The Official Publication of the Barbershop Harmony Society's Historical Archives |publisher=Barbershop Harmony Society |date=January 2011 |volume=2 |issue=1 |page=2 |accessdate=October 10, 2018 |deadurl=no }} 4. ^{{Cite episode |title= Lucy Goes to Sun Valley |episodelink= List_of_The_Lucy–Desi_Comedy_Hour_episodes#The_Lucy.E2.80.93Desi_Comedy_Hour_episodes |series= Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour |serieslink= |credits= Madelyn Pugh, Bob Carroll, Jr., Bob Schiller, Bob Weiskopf |network= CBS|airdate= 1958-04-14 |season= 7 |number= 5 |minutes= 30:02 }} 5. ^1 {{cite book|last1=Whitburn|first1=Joel|title=Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories, 1890–1954|date=1986 | publisher=Record Research|location=Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin|isbn=0-89820-083-0|page=555}} 6. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.filmsite.org/roar2.html |title=The Roaring Twenties (1939) - Filmsite.org |publisher=Filmsite.org |accessdate=October 25, 2018 |deadurl=no }} 7. ^{{cite web|title=A Bing Crosby Discography|url=http://www.bingmagazine.co.uk/bingmagazine/crosby1bDecca.html|website=BING magazine|accessdate=April 2, 2017}} 8. ^{{cite web |last=Crowther |first=Bosley |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1941/12/11/archives/birth-of-the-blues-film-mostly-old-songs-seen-at-paramount-cadet.html |title='Birth of the Blues' Film, Mostly Old Songs, Seen at Paramount -- 'Cadet Girl' Presented at the Palace |newspaper=The New York Times |date=December 11, 1941 |accessdate=November 1, 2018 |deadurl=no }} 9. ^{{cite web|title=allmusic.com|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/1941-1942-mw0000111996|website=allmusic.com|accessdate=April 2, 2017}} 10. ^{{cite web |last=Adams |first=Greg |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/for-young-lovers-mw0000855457 |title= Tommy Edwards - For Young Lovers |publisher=Allmusic |accessdate=November 4, 2018 |deadurl=no }} 6 : 1912 songs|Barbra Streisand songs|Trini Lopez songs|Ella Fitzgerald songs|Mildred Bailey songs|Al Bowlly songs |
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