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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWhat's your favorite song from 1937?
Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing) Benny Goodman
MiltonBrown
(322 posts)Ptah
(33,033 posts)There's a lot of fun music from the 20s 30s and 40s
Glorfindel
(9,732 posts)Nelson Eddy and Jeannette McDonald
Ptah
(33,033 posts)Glorfindel
(9,732 posts)But evidently the sheet music reached the UK before any recordings of it, so at first, having nothing to go by, the British performers sang it as: "When I'm calling you..double O, double O..."
I hope it's true!
Generic Brad
(14,275 posts)By far, that is the best song of 1937. It has held up all these years.
Ptah
(33,033 posts)was a smashing success. At the beginning, the audience was skeptical, but by the middle, became enthusiastic.
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...Berigan was a terrific singer, and a great trumpet player. Probably the best jazz trumpeter of the Swing Era, except for Armstrong--duh!--and Roy Eldridge...
LeftInTX
(25,464 posts)Ranks up there as one of my all time favorites.
red dog 1
(27,837 posts)Leith
(7,813 posts)I grew up listening to my mother's old 78s. I knew all the words to every song that had words and every instrument's part of the whole piece.