LULLABY OF BROADWAY

Created on 19/02/2006
Latest update on 23/02/2024

Artist: Winifred Shaw & Dick Powell
Author: Harry Warren/Al Dubin
Label: Saville
Year: 1935

In film Gold Diggers Of 1935; Academy Award for Best Song, Harry Warren's first of three. The other two were You'll Never Know and On The Atchison, Topeka And The Santa Fe. No connection with the Gold Diggers Of Broadway film made in 1929. See: Tiptoe Through The Tulips.

Covers:

1935:

Dorsey Brothers [n°1 US]

1935:

Hal Kemp

1935:

Boswell Sisters

1935:

Jimmy Noone

1935:

Ray Noble [vocal: Al Bowlly]

1948:

Andrews Sisters

1948:

Peggy Lee

1951:

Doris Day [in film Lullaby Of Broadway]

1952:

André Previn

1957:

Tony Bennett [and in '06 with The Dixie Chicks]

1959:

Oscar Peterson

1959:

Ella Fitzgerald

1973:

Bette Midler

1973:

Bram Tchaikovski

2024:

Rod Stewart with Jools Holland

Based on a theme from Brahms' Hungarian Dances and on the Barcarolle from Les Contes d'Hoffmann (see there).

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