#al dubin

[petaltexturedskies]

Al Dubin, from "September in The Rain" in Big Hits

[kdo-three]

The Flamingos - I Only Have Eyes for You (Stereo) (1958) Harry Warren / Al Dubin from: "I Only Have Eyes for You" / "Goodnight, Sweetheart" (Single)

Doo-Wop | Pop | Proto-Dream Pop

FLACFile @Archive (left click = play) (756kbps) (Size: 18.4MB)

Personnel: Nate Nelson: Lead Vocals Terry Johnson: 1st Tenor / Guitar Zeke Carey: Tenor Tommy Hunt Tenor Paul Wilson: Baritone Jacob "Jake" Carey: Bass

Arranged by Terry Johnson Engineered by Allen Weintraub Produced by George Goldner

Recorded: @ The Bell Sound Studios in New York City, New York USA on October 31, 1958

Released: April, 1959 End Records Reo Records (Canada)

The Flamingos' 1959 version of "I Only Have Eyes for You" is a defining track in the Doo-Wop genre. Often considered one of Doo-Wop's finest recordings.

The Flamingos' recording is considered a key precursor to the dream pop genre. Although it came well before the 1980s emergence of dream pop, the song has several features that are similar to the that genre. Ethereal Vocals and Dreamy Atmosphere: The use of reverb and other effects to create a unique soundscape that focuses on atmosphere over standard pop structures. - Wikipedia | Google AI

Ranked #158 on Rolling Stone Magazine's list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time"

[krisrowland]

Iconic dance routines and shots -  42nd Street is a 1933 American pre-Code musical film directed by Lloyd Bacon, and a script by Rian James and James Seymour (plus uncredited contributions by Whitney Bolton), adapted from the 1932 novel of the same name by Bradford Ropes. Starring an ensemble cast of Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell and Ginger Rogers, the film revolved around the rehearsals of a Broadway show at the height of the Great Depression, and its cast and crew. The film was choreographed by Busby Berkeley, with music by Harry Warren and lyrics by Al Dubin.

[fromthedust]

Winifred ‘Wini’ Shaw 

Lullaby of Broadway

Gold Diggers of 1935

directed by Busby Berkeley

composed by Harry Warren with lyricist Al Dubin

I remember the first time I saw a festival of Busby Berkeley films and was blown-away by his huge stage production numbers. But this thirteen minute long movie-within-a-movie was the most striking of all. 

Berkeley begins this number with a dark screen with a long tracking shot toward a small spot of light that turns into Winifred Shaw’s face. The camera slowly tracks closer while we listen to Shaw’s throaty voice belting out the lyrics. Slowly coming out of the shadows we see her face and look straight into her eyes. From out of the numerous rows of chorus girls in Berkeley’s world he here focuses for us on one girl’s story — a party girl who lives for the shadowed glamour of the city between dusk and dawn. After the initial shadowed dark performance Shaw turns her head which is then shown upside-down, taking a drag on a cigarette. As the tempo of the music changes her face dissolves into an aerial view of the Manhattan which the camera then pans into. After a riotous montage of the city’s day beginning and as the chorus sing ‘Goodnight, baby, goodnight, the milkman’s on his way’, Shaw goes up to her apartment, feeds her little cat, and sleeps through till early evening. But then things take a sinister turn as she and her partner are the only two in an expressionist night club — a single table high on a dias — and as the pair sip drinks they look down upon the dancers below.  An incredible thunderous tap dance production number scene follows and Dick Powell and the chorus sings out, “Come and dance!  Come and dance!” with Shaw’s taunting response, “Why don’t you come and get me?”  And they do . . . and the chorus sings again over a shot of her little cat waiting by the door with a milkless-saucer. As chorus fades the dark screen returns and Shaw ends the number by reprising her lullaby, slowly fading into the shadow.

For several different reviews: 

https://grandoldmovies.wordpress.com/2013/09/01/in-the-end-she-dies/

http://www.weirdwildrealm.com/f-golddiggers1935.html

https://www.classicmoviefavorites.com/julie-reviews-busby-berkeleys-gold-diggers-of-1935-1935/

[thebristolboard]

Original one-page adaptation by Leslie Cabarga of Al Dubin's and Harry Warren's classic Depression-era song, "With Plenty of Money & You," recorded by Count Basie and Tony Bennet, from Lean Years, published by the Cartoonists Co-op Press, May 1974.

[undiaungato]

42nd Street (1933) · Lloyd Bacon & Busby Berkeley

[petaltexturedskies]

My daydreams lie buried in autumn leaves, they're covered with autumn rain. The time is sweet September,

Al Dubin, from Big Bits "September in the rain" written c. 1960

[krisrowland]

Gold Digger (1933) explainer - including a man who voiced Disney’s Winnie the Pooh, Joan Blondell who cameoed in Grease, we’re in the Money and some great context to it’s poltical crtiique of unpaid world war soliders.

Gold Diggers of 1933 is a pre-Code Warner Bros. musical film directed by Mervyn LeRoy with songs by Harry Warren (music) and Al Dubin (lyrics), staged and choreographed by Busby Berkeley. It stars Warren William, Joan Blondell, Aline MacMahon, Ruby Keeler, and Dick Powell, and features Guy Kibbee, Ned Sparks and Ginger Rogers.