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America’s Songs II

August 27, 2013 ypadmin

Michael Lasser. America’s Songs II: Songs from the 1890s to the Postwar Years. Routledge, 2013. The second volume in the series, containing material on “Buds Won’t Bud,” “Down with Love,” “Last Night When We Were Young,” “In the Shade of the New Apple Tree” and “Fun to Be Fooled,” the latter lyric written with Ira Gershwin.

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A thousand a week will start Ruth Etting
Imbibing tears and fretting
That life’s the bunk, there ain’t no love!

Miss Morgan’s lachrymose ways
Pay all her bills at Cartier’s.

And tho’ she can’t control men,
The livid Libby Holman

Controls the rolls you’re dreaming of.

There’s milk and honey in every cloud,
When you get money for cryin’ out loud,
So let your lucky saint know
You’re tickled pink,
There ain’t no love.

Lyric excerpt: “There Ain’t No Love”
words by Yip Harburg, music by Vernon Duke
from The Garrick Gaieties (1930)
This sendup of the era’s torch songs and the female singers who popularized them (namely, Ruth Etting, Helen Morgan and Libby Holman) was introduced by an ensemble featuring Rosalind Russell and Imogene Coca before they became household names via movies and television.

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