LET ME CALL YOU SWEETHEART

Created on 16/02/2006
Latest update on 15/02/2024

Artist: Peerless Quartet
Author: Beth Slater/Leo Friedman
Label: Columbia
Year: 1911

Influential pre WW I barbershop quartet with Henry Burr and Albert Campbell. Introduced in 1910 by Mac Curtis, who's picture adorns the original sheetmusic. No relationship with the 1904 Let Me Call You Sweetheart Once Again (Smith/Lamb).

Covers:

1926:

Shannon Quartet

1934:

Bing Crosby

1938:

Oliver Hardy [with Stan Laurel on tuba in film Swiss Miss]

1959:

Mills Brothers

1961:

Mitch Miller

1962:

Timi Yuro

1965:

Arthur Prysock

1979:

Bette Midler [in film The Rose]

Enumeration of all song titles the Peerless Quartet cut between 1914 and 1918 is a shocking lesson in mass perception versus war, the longer you get involved in it. From out and out anti to blindly pro: I Didn't Raise My Boy To Be A Soldier ('15), Don't Take My Darling Boy Away ('15), I Think We've Got Another Washington (Wilson Is His Name) ('16), America Here's My Boy ('17), For Your Country And My Country ('17), Over There ('17), Goodbye Broadway, Hello France ('17), Somewhere In France Is Daddy ('17), We're Going Over ('17), Say A Prayer For The Boys Out There ('18), Liberty Bell (It's Time To Ring Again) ('18), Au Revoir But Not Goodbye, Soldier Boy ('18), Just Like Washington Crossed The Delaware, General Pershing Will Cross The Rhine ('18), I May Stay Away A Little Longer ('18), I'm Gonna Pin My Medal On The Girl I Left Behind ('18), The Yanks Are At It Again ('18). Courtesy to Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954 (Record Research).

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