The music was written by Edward Farley and Mike Riley, the lyrics by Red Hodgson, and was published in 1935. The song was recorded by Tommy Dorsey and became a hit in 1936. The song was the musical interlude for the Columbia movie The Music Goes Round in 1936.
The New York Times wrote: "If we really wanted to be nasty about it, we could say that this Farley-Riley sequence is the best thing in the new picture. At least it makes no pretense of being anything but a musical interlude dragged in by the scruff of its neck to illustrate the devastating effect upon the public of some anonymous young busybody's question about the workings of a three-valve sax horn. Like the 'March of Time,' it preserves in film the stark record of a social phenomenon—in this case, the conversion of a song hit into a plague, like Japanese beetles or chain letters." (Wikipedia)
Thank you, for this post. I love this song. You give a history from the 1930's,concerning this song, that I find interesting.
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Doug Archer, San Diego
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Thank you, for this post. I love this song. You give a history from the 1930's,concerning this song, that I find interesting.
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Doug Archer, San Diego
marston5000@yahoo.com
What a wonderfully fun song...can hear in their voices the joy they were experiencing while recording this number!!
ReplyDeleteOnce I discovered "The Music Goes Round and Around" it's been going round and around in my head. This rendition by Tommy Dorsey and Edythe Wright is a classic - it's the epitome of this number. Wow, what music and what sound.
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