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Show Millard County Chronicle Thursday, March 20, 1958 Published Every Thursday at Delta, Utah By CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY R. H. (Bob) RIDING OWNER-PUBLISHER Entered as Second Clas9 matter at the Postoffice at Delta, Utah, under the Act of Congress, March 3, 1879. Subscription Rate: $3.50 a year in advance; Six months, 52.00 Advertising Rates on Request NATIONAL EDITORIAL ,oc!raN mxHWmmmsoakim e t A i A I I V I - GIVING OUR WORLD THE Once Over By Dick Morrison Old Tunes You and I are getting, not old, exactly. We're about as chipper as we ever were. It's just that we can remember things that happened a long time ago. That's what gives us an advantage over the younger generation: a sort of feeling of superiority. We have lived through all the things they have lived through and a lot more besides. We knew times, both good and bad, that they have had to learn of second hand, because we were there, while they weren't even born then. And I know you agree with me in this, that we wouldn't trade our times for theirs. Take this stack of old sheet music of mine. It's about a foot high, and there's hardly a number In it that could be called any- ten OWS'fc.y THE SMOOTHER BOURBON FT 1 THE MILDER BOURBON THE LIGHTER BOURBON IF YOU CAII FIND A BETTER BOURBGN...BUY IT! .a 2 I bourbon thing like new. Most of them are dog-eared. But when I bought them, each one was just about the latest thing out. They have been played with dance bands, and as aocompaniments for singers, and at home on the piano and organ just for my own amazement, as we amateur musicians used to put it when we were playing just to hear ourselves. . I formed the habit of writing my name, the place, and the date on each one when I bought it, so they make something like a personal per-sonal history. But they do more than that. They form a history of an era. They cover most of the first half of the twentieth century, cen-tury, and that means they took in the first war, and up to now. And they show it. The songs changed with the times. Nothing can bring "back memories mem-ories of old time friends, and places, and associations, like old songs. Now just look at a few of them. I'll play a few snatches from them on the piano, and you can fill in the words. They may not bring exactly the same memories back to both of us, but they'll come close. The earliest, or close to it, is an old Irving Berlin number, When I Leave This World Behind. It was new in 1915, and it expresses a most ingratiating sentiment, of universal appeal. Somehow I missed miss-ed owning a copy of "Alexander," though heaven knows I've played it enough times for other people to dance to, but Iriving Berlin is represented in the collection with At Peace With The World, which carries the notation, "Hollywood, 1927;" What'll I Do; What Does It Matter; Always; All Alone; and How Many Times? this being his only "hot" number in the group; Kntuekjf Straight Bourbon Whiskey 6 Trs. Old $6 Proof (Ancient Age Dist. Co., FranVfort, Ky. (STONY) Expert Painting Body and Fender Work FREE ESTIMATES Latest Up-to-date Front End Alignment Wheel Balancing Tractor S Farm Machinery Overhauled Engine Tune-up and Overhaul BEST EQUIPPED SHOP Best Coverage of Parts for STUDEBAKER over any other make oi car in Millard County LABOR $3 per hour straight time vans Motor Delta, Utah and finally, that ever-delSghtful Easter Parade. The first world war is represented represent-ed with the Gus Kahn and Walter Donaldson number, "My Buddy," as introduced by Al Jolson, whose picture is on the cover. How young and boyish he looked then! The other great song of the time, "There's a Long, Long Tradl a-Winding" a-Winding" is here, too" If two better bet-ter songs, came out of that war, I can't think of them at the moment. mo-ment. Of Kahn and Donaldson, more later. Speaking of youthful singers, here's a picture of Sophie Tucker on the cover of "Somebody's Wrong," bought in April, 1924. This was a great semi-torch song by Marshall, Egan and Whiting. And Sophie "was actual! young and slim in those days ! Here, dated 1922 ,is that romantic roman-tic ballad with the south-sea tang, Ka-lu-a, the music by Jerome Kern. "From the new musical comedy, Good Morning Dearies," states the cover. It was on that same day, August 22, 1922, that I bought another an-other superb number, Three O'clock O'-clock In The Morning one of the greatest waltz-songs of all time, I had the piano at a dance in the Marsoni Hall. one night, and after the number Mr. Dorlus came up and said, "How did you play those chimes? I couldn't believe they were 'played on the piano.". I showed him. They were simply the five-note chords of the score, by Julian Robledo. Very easy to play,. Want to hear them? Here's a great song of 1919 Let The Rest Of The World Go By, by Ernest R. Ball. Another, Say You'll Be Mine, by Alice Nadlne Morrison;, a 1925 "number by Kahn and Donaldson, Yes Sir! That's My Baby; and a. real ketchy one, Levin' Lev-in' Sam, whch was put out by the firm of Ager, Yellen & Bornstein. Quite recently, a girl friend of one of our daughters came In when I was playing the piano, and she asked, "What's the name dJ that tune?" arid I said, "That's Dar-danella." Dar-danella." She hadn't ever heard it 'before, and she liked it. Who wouldn't like' Dardanella, that big hit of 1919 and several years thereafter? there-after? . , My high . school days started a-bout a-bout the time pf When The Leaves Come Tumbling Down, in 1922, and ended when She Was Just A Sailor's Sail-or's Sweetheart . became -popular, This latter is inscribed, "'May 14, 1926, High School Day." That is the day the U. of U. Invited us HS seniors up for high school day, and some time during the- day I took time to buy- that number from Daynes-Beebe Music Co. In between be-tween there were songs like Sleepy Time Gal, another number dream-' ed up by Raymond B. Egan and Richard A. Whiting, this time with Joe R. Alden and Ange Lorenzo as co-lyricist , and composer. A great number. So was I Wonder What's Become of Sally, another one by Jack Yellen and Milton Ager. That really brings back some memories, to me. It was the school play and the girl who played the part of Sally ... . And others. When the depression hit, some songs were written on . themes of the times. There was "Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?"; for one. The . great Warner Bros, movie, Gold Diggers of 1933, brought the world several swell songs by Al Dubin and Harry Warren. Among these were the Shadow Waltz, I've got To Sing A Torch Song, and Remember My Forgotten Man, another an-other on a "depression" theme. Starred in that musical movie, if you recall, were Warren William, Joan Blondell, Aline McMahon, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Guy Kib-bee, Kib-bee, and Ginger Rogers. Depression Depres-sion or no depression, they put out some grand musical shows then!! Of the decade of the thirties, we find a song sung by Mae West in the movie, I'm No Angel. The title, I Want You, I Need You! the authors Ben Ellison and Harvey Brooks. This title antedated by a good many years the recent Pres ley song of the same name, but of different tune. Well, take your choice: Mae West' or Elvis Presley. Pres-ley. Also present is a catchy old tune, We Just Couldn't Say Good bye, by Harry Woods, and again, Let's Put Out The Lights And Go To Sleep, written by Herman Hup- held, and introduced by Rudy Val lee, who also appears on the cover of The Man On The Flying Trapeze, Trap-eze, the old Walter O'Keefe tune. I first heard Stormy Weather on the radio, and knew it was good, and bought the copy in 1934. Ted Koehler and Harold Arlen wrote it, for the Cotton Club Parade. That song belongs to Lena Home, just as much as Silent Night 'belonged t o Ernestine Schumann - Heink. Hrre's Orchids In The Moonlight, by Gus Kahn, Edward Eliscu, and Vincent Youmans, from the 1933 RUSSIANS don't have private property to insure but Americans do and that's what keeps the Central Utah Insurance Co.. First Security Bank Bldg. business. We try to in SELL people on the idea of letting us handle all their insurance needs because we honestly believe our IR01I determination to do a good job will be worth money to our clients. We try to stand between them and financial loss like a protective CURTAIN! movie, Flying Down To Rio another an-other musical that turned out a whole hit parade all by iUou. To go back to the twentie's here's Byron Gay's prohibition song "Just A Little Drink a song with a kick." Kahn and Donaldson turn up a- gain with their Sing Me A Baby Song, which is in my opinion the best one they ever wrote, I don't care what anybody says. I bought it Oct. 7, 1927, at a little music store on South Vermont, in L. A., while wating for a streetcar. Gus Kahn is right here again with the lyrics 'for Isham Jones' I'll See You In My Dreams. He surely turned out a lot of good lyrics, but there's one he shouldn't have done a set of words for Liebestraum, a copy of which I bought only last year, in 1957. Gus should never have declared himself in on Franz Liszt's act, The words are terrible. When I heard his Sing Me A Baby Song sung by a sultry dame on the stage at Grauman's Egyptian in 1927, I knew it was something. When I read his lyric for Liszt's Dream Of Love, I knew it wasn't. De Sylva, Brown and Henderson just naturally belong in an old collection like mine, and they are here, represented by an almost forgotten tune named It All Depends De-pends On You; and another that won't be so easy to forget, Just A Memory, They turned out plenty of others in their heyday, some of which are still buried in this stack. Rudolph Friml is here, too, all the way from his old charmer, Sympathy, Sym-pathy, to the Song Of The Vagabonds; Vaga-bonds; Only A Rose; Huguette Waltz, and Indian Love Call. So is Sigmunid Romberg, with his Lover Come Back To Me; Stout Hearted Men; and Softly, as In A Morning Sunrise all 'from that big hit of 1928, The New Moon. Rodgers and Hart, with their With A Song In My Heart one that is still good and will be for a long time to come. Cole Porter, with his haunting Night And Day, and I Get Along Without You Very Well. Jerome Kern, with his music for Show Boat 01' Man River, Why Do I Love You, and so on. Vincent Youmans Without A Song. Harold Arlen Over The Rainbow. Harbach and Kern two songs from Roberta. These, and dozens of others. Do they bring back something some-thing to you? I'll bet they do. Records. "' We are . on music today, and we aren't going to change the sub ject. 1 Pleas Under Way For Annual Junior Fat Stock Show Officials of the Intermountain Junior Fat Stock Show are beginning be-ginning to formulate plans for the annual event which will be June 4-5 at the North Salt Lake Union Stockyards. This is the 22ni annual exibi-tion exibi-tion of fat livestock to be held in Salt Lake City, according to show officials, and it is hoped that it will be the 'biggest and best yet. "With livestock prices holding up the way they have been, and with the conlnied jpoi moisture tae fountain West lias receiveu, we should have a show without parallel." says Merril Parkin, Show Manager. May 19 has been chosen as the date when the junior exibitors must indicate to their supervisors that they will attend and exhibit at the final event of the spring junior livestock show season. William ,D. Backman, Show Secretary, Sec-retary, 'believes that the entry number should exceed the 350 youngsters who trekked from a four-state area last year to show their prize animals. In 1957 the young stockmen came from every section of Utah, Southern and Southeastern Idaho, Western Mrs. Clara Killpack has returned I to Delta from a visit of three weeks ..i i.'jj v.ty, vtiu., with her daughter and husband, Evelyn and Jack Howarth, and children, Allen, Allison, and the new arrival, Lorl Ann, born Feb. 23. Barbara Wright Morgan sent ver a couple of interesting records, rec-ords, one with the request that we olay it only once, because it would be difficult or impossible to replace re-place it. It is a record of foreign make, which she bought in India. The two selections are native east Indian music, quite weird to our -vestern ears, yet fascinating. One number is a song of a street foeg-nar, foeg-nar, the other of a snake charmer, f I grasped the idea. They are nteresting presentations of an ex-Dtic ex-Dtic type of music, well recorded. The other is not quite so exclusive, exclu-sive, though it is decidedly "different." "dif-ferent." It is the Goofing-Off Suite, a , selection of numbers arranged and played by Peter Seeger on the 3-string banjo, mandolin, chalil, and guitar. It is produced by Folkways Folk-ways Records and Service Corp., 117 W. 46th St., New York. I don't know the price. The record number is FA 2045. The recording artist, Peter Seeder, See-der, runs the gamut from the three TVs (Bach, Berlin and Beethoven) to. Grieg and folk music on this record, all by himself, with his strange array of instruments. The result is excellent. It is at once amusing and charming to hear. His folk songs include Time's A-Getting A-Getting Hard; Sally My Dear; Oh! Lize, Poor Gal; Cindy; and Blue Skies. At the other end of the scale are excerpts from Bach's Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring; two Beethoven Symphonies, and Ani-tra's Ani-tra's Dance, which last leads Into Brandy, Leave Me Alone. The record is fine Hi-Fi, and it has that quality known as Presence. Pres-ence. The feeling of intimacy is such that you might as well be right there with Peter Seeger, "Goofing-Off," sitting maybe on the edge of the manger in the barn, while he plays his guitar, banjo, or mandolin and hums, sings, or whistles as suits his mood. His handling of part of Beethoven's Beet-hoven's 7th symphony on the mandolin man-dolin is not as outlandish as you might think provided you will be content with charm in place of authenticity. He whistles the chorale chor-ale of the same composer's 9th, while accompanying himself on the banjo. It's much nicer than a stuffy rendition by a sleepy orchestra. or-chestra. He renders Sally My Dear on the Chalil, which is a shrill, piping sort ot instrument. With only one "multiple dub" on the record, he usually puts over two parts 'banjo and whistle, guitar and vocal, either humming or "verbalizing," "ver-balizing," and so on. A very nice item of an unusual sort for record collectors. Kentucky Straight Bourbon wniskey 6 Yrs. Old 86Proof Ancient AgeDist.Co.,Frankfort,Ky. Visiting Mr. and Mrs. Wells Wood over the weekend, were their son Larry and wife, Sherry, from Long Beach, Calif., and their daughter, Raelene, from Salt Lake City. Wyoming, and Eastern Nevada. 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