COMIN' IN ON A WING AND A PRAYER

Created on 20/12/2005
Latest update on 17/11/2023

Artist: Song Spinners
Author: Jimmy McHugh/Harold Adamson
Label: Decca
Year: 1943

Air Force hit unaffected by the musicians' strike of that year; The Song Spinners were a vocal group and sang it a cappella. That's exactly what happened to an airforce pilot and friend of the author, hit by the Germans, making a save return with one wing partly blown away. McHugh also wrote On The Sunny Side Of The Street, I'm In The Mood For Love and is sometimes credited for I Can't Give You Anything But Love (see there).

Covers:

1943:

Eddie Cantor

1943:

Andrews Sisters

1943:

Organ, The Dance Band & Me [organist Robinson Cleaver, Geraldo's Dance Band and singer Helen Clare]

1943:

Four Vagabonds [for Bluebird]

1945:

Ambrose

1958:

Joseph Spence

1972:

Ry Cooder [who knew it through Joseph Spence]

1980:

Muckram Wakes

1994:

Vera Lynn [in medley on cd The Songs That Won World War 2]

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