“Just Awearyin' for You”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

"Just Awearyin' for You" is a parlor song, one of that genre's all-time hits.

The lyrics were written by Frank Lebby Stanton and published in his Songs of the Soil (1894). The tune was composed by Carrie Jacobs-Bond and published as part of Seven Songs as Unpretentious as the Wild Rose in 1901. Harry T. Burleigh also composed a tune (copyrighted in 1906),^[1] but it never approached the popularity of the Jacobs-Bond tune. Although Stanton originally wrote the lyrics in dialect ("Jes' a-wearyin' fer you") for a column in the Atlanta Constitution, the song has generally circulated with the more mainstreamed diction of the Jacobs-Bond version.^[2]

Sentimental yet artful,^[3] "Just Awearyin' for You" has been recorded by numerous performers, including Elizabeth Spencer (see inset), Evan Williams (see inset), Anna Case,^[4] Sophie Braslau,^[5] Eleanor Steber,^[6] Gladys Swarthout,^[7] Thomas Allen and Malcolm Martineau (piano),^[8] Johnny Hartman,^[9] John Arwyn Davies,^[10] Jane Morgan,^[11] Peggy Balensuela (mezzo soprano) and William Hughes (piano),^[12] Bing Crosby (1934 and 1945)^[13] and, perhaps most famously, Paul Robeson.^[14] In 1934 Jay Wilbur and his band did a foxtrot rendition.^[15] The QRS Records company produced a "Just Awearyin' for You" piano roll for Heintzman player piano.^[16]

Set to the key of C, "Just Awearyin' for You" appears in Mel Bay's Modern Guitar Method Grade 6.^[17]

Along with "I Love You Truly" and "A Perfect Day", "Just Awearyin' for You" forms the triumvirate of works for which Jacobs-Bond is remembered. A dedicatory phrase "To F. B." atop the musical score (on p. 3 of the sheet music) refers to her second husband, Frederic Bond.^[18]

Prior to publication with her tune, Jacobs-Bond was unaware that the lyrics were written by Stanton; she thought them anonymous as indicated in the Chicago newspaper from which she took them. Once the oversight became apparent, Jacobs-Bond resolved the situation amicably with D. Appleton & Company, which had published Stanton's Songs of the Soil, thus providing Stanton with a royalty stream that by his own admission brought him more revenue than everything else in Songs of the Soil combined.^[19] "Linger Not" and "Until God's Day" are two other songs on which Stanton and Jacobs-Bond collaborated.^[20]

References

1. ^See Professor De Lerma's essay Henry "Harry" T. Burleigh (1866-1949): African American Composer, Arranger & Baritone" which notes the tune for "Just Awearyin' for You" by African-American composer Harry T. Burleigh: ::Just a-wearying for you, for medium voice and piano. New York: William Maxwell, 1906. 6p. Text: Frank L. Stanton. Library: Library of Congress.
2. ^For sources see the article on Frank Lebby Stanton.
3. ^The sentimentality of the lyrics has occasionally become an interest of analogists and parodists, as in Mark Steyn's 2007 May 9 commentary on Barack Obama titled "Just a-wearyin' for you" in National Review and {{YouTube|ePnUfnmIzGA|Bobskins imitation of Robeson}}. In a more serious direction Arthur and Rosalind Eedle have undertaken to revise the lyrics to cause "Just Awearyin' for You" to become a hymn welcoming Jesus Christ ("Just a Wearyin' for You" in Prophetic Telegraph, No. 99 [June 1997]).
4. ^{{YouTube|It2ysYBLrKU|Anna Case rendition}} (accessed 2010 February 11), distinguished by Case's special attention to trilling the "r"s.
5. ^{{YouTube|l8hkxCNW-x4|Sophie Braslau rendition}} (recorded by Columbia Records in 1928 June).
6. ^{{YouTube|PBHhb3ROy3k|Steber rendition}} (accessed 2010 February 11).
7. ^[https://www.youtube.com/videos?ytsession=uH-agNs9WnMg0xtADBqq3vnuSafwCs8NouU6jvY0wynATe_SQXJ-87jz7mWkEJpfoGCKo_cP9w9sqpwDmWpK33EEvaXaR_Sh8gKWwOkmpKupvirq0HX1gqTuzHaSODXvXcJDfrl5_r0ml0M50x8l_h5vDkT3XjW3EWKJG8shF_poEl1L9SyhbJDQlre-5S-cQclBhGlHa76sFFxj9FEiw9tj5eYA-gR5qWhqo2DL8eGhOXVMFZDQ_jeLzXo78L7oA3FeM8qYobr_58DFiz4-GENwrL9uGLAk-sDsOKfaJ3VvE-JAjK5HqmFdaMpS2bOYOHb1CNlMn_H5WGmdhZQ9PBJqGt3Xr_0Lu0xbancLuYHE2oSD6FhVPw Swarthout rendition removed from YouTube.]
8. ^Allen and Martineau rendition (accessed 2010 February 11). See also Hyperion version with commentary by Andrew Lamb (writer) (accessed 2010 February 17).
9. ^{{YouTube|IMLp0SsRveg|Hartman rendition}} (accessed 2010 February 11).
10. ^{{YouTube|N3p4PYidn1U|Davies rendition}} (accessed 2010 February 11).
11. ^Jane Morgan rendition.
12. ^[https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000QWSGXK Songs my grandmother taught me: Songs of Carrie Jacobs-Bond] (Albany, NY: Albany Records, 2001), ASIN B000QWU5PW.
13. ^{{cite web|title=A Bing Crosby Discography|url=http://www.bingmagazine.co.uk/bingmagazine/crosby1bDecca.html|website=BING magazine|publisher=International Club Crosby|accessdate=July 28, 2017}}
14. ^{{YouTube|02wdY6p9CSs|Robeson rendition}} (accessed 2010 February 11).
15. ^{{YouTube|9yOcViKRUKE|Jay Wilbur foxtrot rendition}} (accessed 2011-04-04).
16. ^{{YouTube|4G_38EO__Og|QRS Blue Bird Ballad 128}} (accessed 2011-04-04). Cf. the live [organ rendition and interpretation] (accessed 2011-04-04).
17. ^{{cite news |first = Mel|last = Bay|year = 2005|title = Modern Guitar Method Grade 6|edition = Expanded|place = Pacific, Missouri|publisher = Mel Bay Publications|page = 7|isbn = 978-0-7866-7760-3 }}
18. ^For further information see the article on Carrie Jacobs-Bond.
19. ^Max Morath, I Love You Truly: A Biographical Novel Based on the Life of Carrie Jacobs-Bond (New York: iUniverse, 2008), {{ISBN|978-0-595-53017-5}}, pp. 14-17. Stanton's name is absent from the frontispiece of the first edition (inset), but was later added above the score on page 3 of the sheet music.
20. ^{{cite news| url = http://www.pdmusic.org/bond.html | title = The music of Carrie Jacobs-Bond (1861–1946) | accessdate = 2012-07-17 | date = 1999-12-13 | first = Benjamin Robert | last = Tubb| magazine = PDMusic}}