1. Friendly Warning
Test # 2 follows completion of Chapter 4: Thursday: 5 March 2015
covers Chapters 2, 3 & 4
Review Sheets for 2 & 3 now on Course Website (4 in near future)
Includes Listening Examples 1 1

2. “I Got Rhythm” : The Golden Age of Tin Pan Alley Song, 1920s and 1930s
CHAPTER 4
“I Got Rhythm” : The Golden Age of Tin Pan Alley Song, 1920s and 1930s

3. Chapter 4 (outline) Tin Pan Alley Song Form
What Were Tin Pan Alley Songs About?
What Makes a Song a “Standard”?
Tin Pan Alley and Broadway

4. Irving Berlin ( )
Russian (Jewish) immigrant - father was a cantor - family to NYC in 1893
Saloon singer, song plugger
“Alexander’s Ragtime Band” (1911)
Watch Your Step (1914) - “syncopated musical” w/ the Castles
Publisher, Producer, Theater Owner
Untutored in music or lyric writing - “does not believe in inspiration” (it’s a job) - plays “by ear” (uses copyist/arranger) - “If I don’t know the rules, I don’t have to follow them”
Aims for the “average American”
1,500 songs (!)

5. Irving Berlin – Music Examples
“Alexander’s Ragtime Band” (1911) - Alexander's Ragtime Band Columbia A YouTube
“Blue Skies” (1926) - Blue Skies - Al Jolson – YouTube (from The Jazz Singer) - Willie Nelson - Blue Skies – YouTube (1978)
“Puttin’ On the Ritz” (1930) - Fred Astaire. Put it on the Ritz. (1930?) - Gene Wilder - Young Frankenstein (1974) - Puttin' on the Ritz (1974)
“God Bless America” (1938) - God Bless America, First Radio performance, Armistice Day November 10, 1938, Kate Smith - YouTube
“White Christmas” (1942) - Bing Crosby & Martha Mears - White Christmas (1942)
“Irving Berlin is the greatest songwriter who has ever lived.” - George Gershwin
“Irving Berlin has no place in American music—he is American music.” - Jerome Kern

6. “April Showers” Buddy DeSylva (lyrics) & Louis Silvers (music)
MUH 2019 (FALL 2014)
4/20/2017
“April Showers”
Buddy DeSylva (lyrics) & Louis Silvers (music)
Premiered in Bombo 1921
Al Jolson – pre-microphone era singer
Exs – TEXTBOOK, p
1921 (Acoustic) : Al Jolson, April Showers (1921)
1932 (Electric) : April Showers - Al Jolson (1921) (mislabeled in YouTube!)
Day Feb 15 6

7. “How Deep Is the Ocean” Textbook, p. 116-117
MUH 2019 (FALL 2015)
4/20/2017
“How Deep Is the Ocean”
Textbook, p
Irving Berlin (words & music) – 1932
‘Paul Whiteman (original, 1932) - Paul Whiteman Jack Fulton - How Deep Is the Ocean (1932) Irving Berlin
Bing Crosby (cover, 1933), “crooner” - How deep is the ocean. Bing Crosby with Orchestra. 78rpm. Columbia wmv - YouTube
Day Feb 15

8. George Gershwin (1898-1937) Son of Russian immigrants - “Gershovitz”
Piano lessons at home - Charles Hambitzer - European classical training
Tin Pan Alley - song plugger for Remick (1914) - “Swanee” (1919) – 1st hit
Broadway Shows (1920s)
Rhapsody in Blue (1924) - “Experiment in Modern Music” - Whiteman’s Band, Grofé arranged
Porgy and Bess (opera, 1935)
Jazz meets classical

9. George Gershwin – Music Examples
“Fascinating Rhythm,” Lady Be Good (1924) - Fred & Adele Astaire -- Fascinating Rhythm, 1926/Gershwin on Piano - YouTube
“Someone to Watch Over Me,” Oh Kay! (1926) - Amy Winehouse - Someone to watch over me - YouTube
“Embraceable You,” Girl Crazy (1930) - Embraceable You Gershwin Original Orchestration - YouTube
“I Got Rhythm,” Girl Crazy (1930) TEXTBOOK, p I Got Rhythm 〜Ethel Merman with Jay Blackton's Orchestra〜 - Ethel Merman I Got Rhythm (HQ) – YouTube (Listening Guide)
“Summertime,” Porgy and Bess (1935) - Porgy & Bess "Summertime" - YouTube

10. Jerome Kern ( )
NYC native - Jewish family - middle class upbringing
New York College of Music - classical training - study in Europe
Song plugger, rehearsal pianist
“Interpolations” into UK shows
Princess Theatre ( )
Showboat (1927) - Ex. Paul Robeson - Ol' Man River (Showboat ) J.Kern O. Hammerstein II - YouTube
“All the Things You Are” (1939) - Carly Simon - All the Things You Are - YouTube
700 songs

11. Richard Rodgers (1902-1979) German-Jewish family Columbia U
Teams w/ Hart (1919)
Garrick Gaieties (1925)
Broadway & London
Hollywood –
Broadway ( )
Hart – difficult co-worker (alcoholic & homosexual)
Use of internal rhyme, enjambment, etc.
Songs for “adults”
Rodgers (at the piano) teamed with Lorenz (“Larry”) Hart [ ] in the years

12. Rodgers & Hart Songs
“Manhattan” (Garrick Gaieties, 1925) - I'll Take Manhattan 1929 song from Rodgers and Hart - YouTube
“Blue Moon” (for MGM, 1934) - Blue Moon - original version from the movie Manhattan Melodrama – YouTube - Elvis Presley Blue Moon
“My Funny Valentine” (Babes in Arms, 1937) - Ella Fitzgerald - My Funny Valentine - High Quality jazz - xxx - YouTube

13. Cole Porter (1891-1964) Wealthy Indiana family
Yale (English & music minor)
Harvard Law School
Paris ( ) - War & relief work - classical music
Broadway, from Paris (1928) - 1st hit - Anything Goes ( ) - Kiss Me, Kate ( )
Words & Music
Sophisticated, Witty & Adult
Not yet covered in class. Will be covered on Thursday, 26 February 2015.
Cover of Time (31 January 1949)

14. Cole Porter Songs
“Let’s Do It, Let’s Fall In Love,” Paris (1928) - Bing Crosby-"Let's Do It, Let's Fall In Love" - YouTube
“Anything Goes,” Anything Goes (1934) - Anything Goes performance on the 2011 Tony Awards - YouTube
“You’re The Top,” Anything Goes (1934) - Cole Porter - You're The Top – YouTube (CP sings)
“Brush Up Your Shakespeare,” Kiss Me Kate (1948) - Kiss Me Kate-Brush Up Your Shakespeare – YouTube - Lyrics: Brush up Your Shakespeare Lyrics

15. What’s a Standard? Some covers of “My Blue Heaven”
Glenn Miller (1940s Big Band) - MY BLUE HEAVEN Glenn Miller Version The Swing ERA
Frank Sinatra (1960s Las Vegas) - ♥ "My Blue Heaven" ♫ Frank Sinatra - YouTube
Leon Redbone (recreates 1920s Vaudeville) - My Blue Heaven — Leon Redbone – YouTube
Fats Domino (1950s R&B) - Fats Domino - My Blue Heaven – YouTube
The Platters (1950s Doo Wop) - The Platters - My Blue Heaven (1959)
Crystal Gayle (1980s Country) - Crystal Gayle ~ My Blue Heaven
Smashing Pumpkins (Alt Rock) - Smashing Pumpkins - My Blue Heaven
Norah Jones (Adult Contemporary) - Norah Jones - My Blue Heaven - Virgin Sounds
Cha Cha Cha (just plain weird 1950s?) - EDUARDO FERNANDEZ * * MY BLUE HEAVEN CHA CHA CHA

16. Test # 2 Materials end here
Anything on the following slides will be included on Test # 3