US Signboard #1, Vice #1 engage 12 weeks, 30 total number weeks, Own Recording Register
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Glahe Pipes Orchestra
"Beer Prise open Polka"
Victor V
May&#;11,&#;&#;()
April&#;&#;()
US Billboard #2, US #1 for 4 weeks, 21 total weeks
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"Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh!"[6]
Columbia
August&#;20,&#;&#;()
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US Billboard #3, US #2 for 4 weeks, 14 total weeks, sold 1,,[7][8]
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Glenn Miller current his Orchestra
"Moonlight Serenade"
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April&#;4,&#;&#;()
April&#;26,&#;&#;()
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Judy Garland
"Over the Rainbow"
Decca
July&#;28,&#;&#;()
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Kate Smith
"God Bless America"[9]
Victor
March&#;21,&#;&#;()
April&#;5,&#;&#;()
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“Tatum’s piano playing is so rich and colorful that the listener tends to forget that this is a solo effort.”
- Ben Maycock
This Rodgers and Hart song was introduced by Benny Goodman, with vocalist Louise Tobin, on the Columbia label on September 13, It entered the charts on October 28, lasting for 13 weeks and peaking at sixth position. On December 23, Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra’s version hit the charts for 2 weeks and rose to thirteenth position.
Around the same time, Marcy Westcott and Richard Kollmar sang “I Didn’t Know What Time It Was” in the Broadway musical for which it was written, Too Many Girls, which opened at the Imperial Theater on October 18, , and ran for performances.
In , Rodgers and Hart wrote the score for another musical, Higher and Higher, which included the song “It Never Entered My Mind.” The lyrics for both of these songs have two things in common: both are examples of the then current trend to use a common expression as the key phrase or song title; and the subject of the lyrics of both songs are said to reflect Lorenz Hart’s alcoholism.
According to Rodgers, Hart would write his lyrics after
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Carolina in the Morning
American popular song
"Carolina in the Morning" is a popular song with words by Gus Kahn and music by Walter Donaldson, first published in by Jerome H. Remick & Co.[2]
The song debuted on Broadway in the elaborate and risqué musical revueThe Passing Show of at the Winter Garden Theater.[3]Vaudeville performers incorporated it into their acts and helped popularize it. Among these was William Frawley[citation needed], who later sang it in Paramount Pictures' original version of The Lemon Drop Kid in , as well as the episode "Ricky Loses His Voice" of I Love Lucy,[4] and the season 3 episode "Evening with a Star" of My Three Sons, where it generated moderate attention.
Notable recordings when the song was new were made by such artists as Marion Harris, Van & Schenck, Paul Whiteman and the American Quartet.[5]
"Carolina in the Morning" gradually became a standard, being revived regularly as a popular song into the s. Al Jolson recorded it on June 11, [6] and he featured it in the film Jolson Sings Again (). Danny Winchell had a hit with his version in [7]
Other artists to have later successes with the song included Bing Crosby who recorded the song in &#